MEMOIR OF WILLIAM YARRELL. vil 



mother, though he never married, must have had the 

 depths of his sensitive nature often stirred by the breaches 

 made by death in the circle of his relatives and friends, 

 even should no tenderer tie have been untimely snapt 

 asunder. That such was the case may be inferred 

 from the feeling which only two years before his death 

 prompted him to transfer to the album of his relatives, 

 the Misses Pallett of Dover, the subjoined lines from 

 Wordsworth : 



' ' first and last, 



The earliest summoned and the longest spared, 

 Are here deposited." 



The following is the marriage certificate of his pa- 

 rents : 



" At Bermondsey Parish Church, Surrey, Francis 

 Yerrall, of this Parish, Bachelor, to Sarah Blane, of this 

 Parish, Spinster. By Banns, 26 June, 1772. 



Present, William Hawkins, 

 John Beszant." 



Subsequently his father transposed the e and a in 

 writing his surname, as appears by this register of 

 birth : 



" St. James's, Westminster, June 7, 1784. William 

 Yarrell, son of Francis and Sarah, born June 3rd." 



Of his father's origin, except that he was born the 

 10th of February, 1749, married the 26th of June, 1772, 

 died the 25th of March, 1794, was the eldest of seven 

 brothers and sisters, the children of Francis Yer- 

 rall, born in 1727, died the 5th of January, 1786, and 

 of Sarah his wife, born in 1719, died the 12th of Decem- 

 ber, 1800, nothing can now be ascertained ; and it is 

 believed that the son never knew his father's native 

 place exactly, though he used to think that he came 

 from Bedfordshire, where the surname is a common 



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