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Yourdon Family

Updated October 28, 2010

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The name Yordon or Yerdon is said to be of Dutch abstraction, and all those persons with the name Yerden, Yerdan, Yerdan, Yorden, Yordon, etc., in Central NY State at an early date appear to descend from this Montgomery County Family. The original source of the name is from the river Jordan in the Holy Land.

According to Yerdon Family history compiled by Miss Lucille Yerdon and her mother Mrs. William Yerdon, there were three brothers from Holland that went from Hannover, Germany to New York and settled in the Mohawk Valley- John Casper Yerdon came to Freysbush (in Minden Township), Nicholas to Muttonville (now Marshville, in Canajoharie Township), and John (Hon) Peter to Wilsey Hill (between there and Brookman Corners, Town of Minden).

The family arrived in the Mohawk valley about 1755, and various members of the family were naturalized 1759-1761. The ancestorial home appears to be Hannover, Germany.

Note: Extracted from research document authored by Stephen L. Winter of Hawthorne, NJ dated January 1993.

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Charles Yourdon
cyourdon@yahoo.com

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