Grewelthorpe

Vayro family

Details of the Vayro family living in the Grewelthorpe area of North Yorkshire.
In 1891 there were 43 Vayro families living in Yorkshire. Three quarters of all the Vayro families in the UK.

Name Origin Research of York suggest that the surname Vayro may well be of early medieval English origin, and a late variant of the more familiar name Farrar an “occupational” surname for a blacksmith or ironworker.
Last update June 2025.


ALICE VAYRO Born 1744 Coverham. Died 1798. Dau of Richard & Jane Horner. Married 1769 William Horner.
ALICE VAYRO Born 1785 Coverham. Died 1872 Stockton. Dau of John & Eliz Bland. Married 1825 to Richard Pearson.
ALICE ANN VAYRO [nee Hare] Born 19.4.1870 Snape. Died 24.2.1961. Married to John. A widow in 1921 in West Tanfield.
ALICE ANN VAYRO Born C1879. Died 21.9.1896.Wensley. Dau of William & Jane Robinson.
ALICE VAYRO Born C1916 West Tanfield. Dau of Thomas [joiner] & Mary Elizabeth.
ANN VAYRO Born C1858 Dau of William & Esther.
DOROTHY VAYRO Born C1849 East Witton. Dau of Richard.
DOROTHY VAYRO Born 5.5.1912 West Tanfield. Died 22.5.2001. Dau of John & Alice Ann Hare. Dressmaker.
EDITH VAYRO Born Sept.1906 Bedale. Dau. of Robert & Mary Jane Sturdy. Married ? Nicholson. in 1949.
ELIZABETH VAYRO Born 1782 Coverham. Died 1855. Dau of John & Eliz. Bland. Married 1804 to John Winsby.
ELIZABETH VAYRO Born C1863 East Witton. Dau of William & Jane Robinson Married in 1885 to*Mark Craggs* of Fearby. Widow in 1911.
ELIZABETH VAYRO Born C1872 Bedale. Dau of Thomas & Sarah.
ELIZABETH VAYRO Born C1896 Bedale. Dau of Robert & Mary Jane Sturdy. Possibly a servant in Ripon in 1921.
ELLEN VAYRO Born C1854 East Witton. Dau of Richard.
ELLEN VAYRO Born C1870 Ellingstring. Dau of William & Jane Robinson
ELLEN VAYRO Born C1875 Bedale. Dau of Thomas & Sarah.
EMILY VAYRO Born 1904. Dau of Robert & Mary Jane Sturdy
ESTHER VAYRO Born C1840. Masham. Dau of Richard & Mary.
ESTHER VAYRO Bap 1854 Grewelthorpe. Dau of William & Esther of Glenn Cottage.
GEORGE VAYRO Born C1859 Tranmire Farm East Witton. Died April 1950. Son of James. Married to Elizabeth Graham of Healey. Farmer. Angram Cote Masham in 1921. [See photo of farm]. For many years he served on Leyburn Rural Council. He was a follower of the Bedale hunt. And a good shot.
GEORGE VAYRO Born 1.8.1920 West Tanfield. Died 30.1.1978. Son of Thomas [joiner] & Mary Elizabeth. Married to Emmaline May. He was a joiner.
HANNAH VAYRO Born C1877 Bedale. Dau of Thomas & Sarah.
HENRY VAYRO Born 1909. Died 9.10.1977 Northallerton. Worked at timber merchants in Northallerton. He was a keen gardener.
ISABEL VAYRO Born 1776.Coverham. Died 1839. Dau of John & Elizabeth Bland. Married Richard Horner.
JAMES VAYRO. Born 1795 East Witton. Died 4.7.1863. Angram Cote. Married Mary Walker.
JAMES VAYRO. Bap.17.6.1853 East Witton. Died 4.9.1966. Married Ethel Poole.
JAMES VAYRO Bap. 1856 Grewelthorpe. Son of William & Esther.
JAMES VAYRO Born 3.6.1868 Ellingstring Angram Cote. Died 17.8.1957 Australia. In 1895 Married Sarah Holmes.

Angram Cote. Ellingstring near Masham. Home of the Vayro family.


JAMES VAYRO Born C1869 East Witton. Son of William & Jane Robinson
JAMES VAYRO Born C1880 Bedale. Son of Thomas & Sarah.
JAMES VAYRO Born C1905 Bedale. Son of Robert & Mary Jane Sturdy
JANE VAYRO Born 1785 Coverham. Died 1855 Bury Lancs. Dau of John & Eliz Bland. Married Christopher Pearson in 1816.
JANE VAYRO Born C1852 East Witton. Dau of Richard.
JOHN VAYRO Born 1745. Died 1827. Son of Richard & Jane Horner Married 1774 to Eliz. Bland.
JOHN VAYRO Born C1857 East Witton. Son of Richard.
JOHN VAYRO Born 1872. Died 5.4.1915 West Tanfield. Married Alice Ann Hare of Snape. A Joiner.
JOHN VAYRO Born C1903 Bedale. Son of Robert & Mary Jane Sturdy
JOYCE VAYRO Born 1930. Dau of Robert & Mary Jane Sturdy Married ? Bailey in 1954.
LOUIE VAYRO Born C1895. Ellingstring. Died 1971. Dau of George & Elizabeth. Married In 1920 to John Wm Croft. Lived Angram Cote. Ellingstring. [see Photo above].
MARGARET [PEGGY]VAYRO Born 1783 Coverham. Died 1808. Dau of John & Eliz Bland. Married 1804 to Dawson Bowes.
MARTHA VAYRO Born 7.8.1878 Bedale. Died 11.4.1950. Dau of Thomas & Sarah Todd. Married Robert Weatherill in 1900.

Martha Vayro 1878-1950.


MARY VAYRO Born 1731 Coverham. Died 1813. Dau of Richard & Jane Horner. Married 1760 William Barker.
MARY VAYRO Born C1865 Ellingstring. Dau of William & Jane Robinson
MARY ISABEL VAYRO Born 16.11.1903 Manchester. Died 1983. Dau of John & Alice Ann Hare. She was a flour miller’s clerk. Married in 1943 to Arthur Geldart.
PERCY VAYRO Born 6.4.1915. Died 26.1.2012. Horseman at Clifton Grange Bedale in 1939. Married in 1946 to Muriel Eveline Minnie Hudson.

Percy Vayro of Clifton Grange Bedale.


RICHARD VAYRO Born C1710. Married Jane Horner in 1729.
RICHARD VAYRO Born C1809 East Witton. Possibly married to Mary.
ROBERT VAYRO Born C1868 Bedale. Died 1951 Masham. Son of Thomas & Sarah. Horseman. married Mary Jane Sturdy of Masham in 1894.
SARAH ANN VAYRO Bap 1857 Grewelthorpe. Dau of William & Esther.
SARAH A.VAYRO Born C1869 Bedale. Dau of Thomas & Sarah
SARAH ANN VAYRO Born C1898 Bedale. Dau of Robert & Mary Jane Sturdy
STEPHEN VAYRO Born C 1833 Ellingstring. a relation of William [platelayer]. A Railway signalman in Darlington in 1861.
THOMAS VAYRO Born C1836 Angram Cote Ellingstring.[See photo above]. son of Richard & Mary Busfield. Carter. Married Sarah Todd. of Brompton.
THOMAS VAYRO Born C1867 Ellingstring. Died aged 17. 18.1.1884. Son of William & Jane Robinson.
THOMAS VAYRO Born 24.8.1883. Died 4.9.1966. Married Ethel Poole.
THOMAS VAYRO Born 28.10.1890 Bedale. Died 21.6.1977. Married to Mary Elizabeth Robinson of Durham. Mary was a widow [Bolton] when she married Thomas in 1915. He was a Joiner for Chandler’s of West Tanfield in 1921.
THOMAS VAYRO Born C1901 Bedale. Son of Robert & Mary Jane Sturdy
THOMAS VAYRO Born April 1905 Bedale. Died 30.6.1970.Australia Son of James & Francis Fawbert. Married Ellen [Nell] Mason.

Thomas Vayro 1905-1970.


WILLIAM VAYRO Born 1736.Coverham. Died 1823. Son of Richard & Jane Horner. Married 1764 to Grace Hardcastle.
WILLIAM VAYRO. Born 1768 Coverham. Died 27.12.1826. East Witton. Married Esther Lye.
WILLIAM VAYRO Bap Sept 1825. Angram Cote. Died 26.1.1907.Leeds. Son of James. Married Elizabeth Berry.
WILLIAM VAYRO Born 1834 Ellingstring. Died 19.1.1922. Son of Richard & Mary. Married 1861 to Jane Robinson of East Witton. Widower in 1911.
WILLIAM VAYRO Of Ellingstring. Married in 1879 Mary Ann Kettlewell of Londonderry.
WILLIAM VAYRO Born C 1829 Ellingstring. Married Esther. In 1861 he was a plate layer in Darlington but 4 of his 5 children had been born in Grewelthorpe.
WILLIAM VAYRO Bap 1852 Grewelthorpe. Died 1871 Darlington. Son of William & Esther.
WILLIAM VAYRO Born 2.3.1909. Bedale son of Robert & Mary Jane Sturdy. Smallholder & estate lab. Bedale. Married 1936 to Christiania May Hudson.