Manufacturers
Yates and Haywood
Yates, Haywood and Co. were ironfounders, at Effingham Works, Rotherham
The Company originated in 1823 when James Yates of Carr House and Oakwood House, took over what was left of the Walkers' Foundry business and went into partnership with Charles Sandford of Northfield House, at the Phoenix Works.
In 1833 the Rotherham Foundry was taken over and in 1832 William Owen was taken into partnership. The partnership was dissolved in 1838, Sandford and Owen taking the Phoenix Works while Yates took the Rotherham Foundry which specialised in stove grate work. He also acquired the premises of the Masbrough Flax Works upon the site of which the Effingham Works was later erected.
Yates remained on his own until 1846 when George Haywood, of South Villa, and John Drabble, of Clifton Bank, were taken into partnership and the Company took the name Yates, Haywood and Co. When Drabble asked to retire in 1869 a new partnership was formed between James Yates, George Haywood, Robert Bentley Shaw (Yates's son-in-law) and George Harris Haywood.
The Company was incorporated in 1879 under the title Yates, Haywood and Co. and Rotherham Foundry Company Limited.
In 1910 they took over, Skelton, Corbitt and Co. Ltd.
The Company was put up for sale in 1911. The works and working patterns were acquired by O'Brien, Thomas and Co. of London, who continued to operate under the old name.
In 1952 the link with O'Brien, Thomas and Co. was severed and a new limited company, Yates, Haywood and Co. Ltd. was formed. The company was taken over by William Heaton, Holdings Ltd. in 1967 and closed down in 1970
James Yates a Deputy Lieutenant of the County, built Oakwood Hall, and determined to enjoy the beauties of the estate during his lifetime. To that end, instead of planting young trees which would take years to grow, he removed and planted fully-grown trees which he procured from the Grange, near Droppingwell. He married Betsey Carrington, only child of James, a hat manufacturer, and Betsey Carrington of Stockport. They had two children, the eldest, a son, was drowned during the launching of a boat at Masbrough, their daughter Elizabeth Ellen married Robert Bentley Shaw of Lockwood, Huddersfield.
Upon the marriage of Robert Bentley Shaw and Elizabeth , it was agreed that Robert would take the additional surname Yates and bear the arms of both families. They resided in Oakwood Grange, which Mr. Yates built for their use.
After Robert's death, Ellen married Wolseley Partridge Emerton.
George Haywood, partner in business, also lost a son in the boat disaster. He had three other sons, named Harris, Roger, and Willie, and several daughters.
He had Rotherstoke built. One of his daughters married Mr. Staplyton Smith, of Smith Bros., ironmongers, and another to William Oxley, the steel manufacturer.
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