YATES, Saul
b. Liverpool, 1791–1867
1847; Free.
Married; Solicitor; 9 children.
Saul was the grandson of Rabbi Benjamin Ben Eliyakim Goetz of Strelizt. His father was sometimes referred to as ‘the first rabbi of Liverpool’ and earned his living as a seal engraver and was the city's ‘Jews’ High Priest’. Saul married Sarah Isaacs in London and their daughter Emily was born in London in 1840. The family is thought to have arrived in Australia around 1847. They settled in Goulburn. Saul Yates died in Goulburn 6 July 1867. Sarah died 1 August 1872 in Auckland. They had nine children: Alfred (1825), Julia and Samuel (1829), Rebecca and Edward (1833), Flora (1836), Leopold (1837), Emily (1840) and Benjamin (1843).
Saul Yates ‘late of London; solicitor’ was buried in the Goulburn Jewish Cemetery on 7 June 1860. Saul and Sarah's daughter, Emily, married Jacob Alexander (q.v.) of Goulburn. A son, Leopold, served as police magistrate in Yass and in 1860 presided at the opening of the Yass Court House. Leopold was appointed senior magistrate in Armidale, New South Wales in 1882.
YOULET, Abraham (Youler)
b. London, 1770–1842
Royal Admiral, 1792; Convict; Sentenced to 7 years, Old Bailey, 1791.
Single; Porter.
Abraham Youlet, aged twenty-one, was indicted at the Old Bailey for having stolen 149 pairs of stockings, silk cotton valued at £3 3s 6d, cotton night caps valued at twelve shillings and 12 000 pins, the goods of Thomas Flint. The goods were in a bag carried on the head of a boy servant. Youlet picked up the bag when it was dropped. The boy had been distracted because he was watching a public execution of eight prisoners outside the Old Bailey. Youlet produced character evidence from Isaac Phillips, who said that Youlet was his porter and was ‘very honest’. Solomon Moses and John Tanner also appeared as character witnesses.
A letter written aboard the Royal Admiral at Cape of Good Hope dated 19 August 1792 by James Lacey tells the story of
a Jew convict, who from his former bad conduct to his associates, met with continued taunts, and not having any other mode of revenge, informed Cap'n Bond that there had a plan been concerted on board of the hulks for the convicts to gain possession of the vessel, and in consequence eight men intirely [sic] innocent of that crime suffered a very severe punishment, but in a very short time he was detected, through the penetration of Mr Thompson, who fills the joint offices of gunner and inspector of the convicts, and in him the Jew underwent a descriptive in itself very severe, yet not anyways adequate to his deserts. The Jew had formerly been admitted on evidence, and on his depositions, several were transported, whom his dread of meeting in the settlement, as is supposed, and the aforementioned desire of revenge, actuated him to make the report of a fictitious meeting.
Youlet settled on the Hawkesbury, having arrived in New South Wales on 7 October 1792. On 15 April 1803 the Colonial Secretary included his name on the list of grants and leases registered by the administration and this registration was repeated on 6 September 1809. Youlet signed a petition to Governor Bligh. In the Bigge Appendix, ‘Youler’ was mentioned as being owed £72 1s 8d by the officers and settlers. On the map of the old Jewish Cemetery at Devonshire Street, which is held at Sydney's Great Synagogue, there is a note about Youlet's grave: ‘Abraham Youel [sic], brother to Levey, Navy Agent Mount Terrace, London. Arrived Sydney by the Second Fleet and lived to upwards of ninety years of age. Died 2 August 1842’.
OBSP, 1791, no. 293, p. 435f.; HRNSW, vol. 2, p. 479f.; 9/2731, pp. 128, 188; Bigge Appendix, BT Box 12, p. 58.
YOUNG, George
Free; Tailor.
On 16 January 1845 George Young advertised that he was the agent for the intercolonial ship the Dorset. On 13 October 1847 ‘Young and Abrahams, Milliners and Dress Makers’, advertised that they were in business opposite Mr William Samson's Auction Mart in Rundle Street.
South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register, 16 January 1845, 13 October 1847.