William Henry Yapp
William Henry Yapp was my Great Grandfather. He was born in 1867 in Rochford, Worcestershire. He married in Pittsburgh in 1891 before moving back to England sometime around 1895. Pittsburgh was steel city and he was a gardener.
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This is the early days of a one name study into the surname Yapp. It is my maternal grandmother's surname.
The name appears to come from around the Ludlow area of Shropshire
Sir Stan Yapp
Sir Stanley Graham Yapp 30 June 1933 – 1 April 2012 was a Labour politician in Birmingham, England, who became the first leader of the West Midlands County Council. He worked as a tool maker for GEC at their Witton, Birmingham, factory and entered politics after becoming active in the Amalgamated Engineering Union.