Eorth-Burgh = Gereburg = Jardeburg = Yarb(o)rough — WHAT??

Yarborough Camp is a hill fort. It is hidden away discretely in woodland, but can be appreciated in the winter, when the undergrowth has died back. The exact date is unknown as there has not been a recent excavation. It gives its name to the Yarborough Wapentake, a nd was a muster point in Anglo-Saxon times. It is the kind of place that might have been used to launch an attack on the invading Saxons as it is almost certainly predates them. (Its Old English name suggests that it was a preexisting fortification in the anglo-Saxon period.)

Family researchers should never restrict their searches to a single spelling of the Yarbrough surname. Until the early 1900s, a majority of the population had little to no formal education. Thus, when a document was prepared, the scribe may have phonetically spelled the name (or, perhaps, imaginatively spelled would be more descriptive). In other cases, transcribers of old documents used their best guesstimate as to the scribbled name. Add to this the early untranslated church and parish records, and the opportunity for erroneous spellings multiply. For example, the Diocese records of New Orleans have been alternatively kept in Latin, Spanish, Portuguese, French and English. Though the following spellings are from many sources, each is a spelling variation of Yarbrough, and the list is probably not exhaustive.