I have been looking on NLS maps to locate Church Lane, York House and Well Lane, Exeter which appear on a 1881 census for a Frederick Youngs WALKERLEY, his wife and 2 nieces and a nephew.
I was looking in the area of St Michaels church, Heavitree but dont know if this is the correct area and it is at the corners of 4 25,000 maps, so difficult to pinpoint York House!
He lived at York House and was a silk merchant and might also have been a diamond merchant. He was quite wealthy and had property in Brighton and Watford, and took in a neice, Alice and nephew Frederick Joseph, after their father (his brother) died, leaving the younger sibling Charles with the mother. She then died in Nottingham workhouse and Charles ended up on the North Sea trawlers at 14 living a totally different life. and spent WW1 as a PoW. Alice believed to have gone to Sorbonne and was later in Russia.
My wife was descended from Charles and has 2 3rd cousins from Frederick taken in by Youngs. We still dont know the true family story, so trying to find out more about F.Y. ! We have photos and some of the story.
