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‎Between 3 May and 8 Oct 1866;

Richard Yealland was recorded as "HMS Active"

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No. of families2146
Most children13
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man William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury‏‎ 1)
Born ‎± 1176
Died ‎7 Mar 1226‎, approximately 50 years

Notes: William Longespee is tradtionally held (e.g. see Complete Peerage) to have two daughters named Ida Longespee - one who marries William Beauchamp, and one who marries Walter FitzRobert. That seems very unlikely.

Married ‎before 1196 2) (at least 30 years married)
to:

woman Ela of Salisbury‏‎ 1)
Died ‎after 1230 1)

Children:

1.
woman Ida Longespée‏
Died ‎before 1270 Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
2.
man Stephen Longespée, Sir‏
Died ‎1260

Sources

1) Source: Court of Wards and Liveries: Deeds and Evidences "Letters patent by which Ela [Longespée], countess of Salisbury grants in her widowhood and liege power, for her soul and that of William Longespée (Lungespeie), her husband, their ancestors, and of William Longespée (Lungespeie), her son, and of all of her other children and heirs, to St Mary and St Bernard and the nuns at Lacock". Date: 1230. External Link
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4453660. Reference: WARD 2/28/94E/24 (Data from direct source)
2) Source: Chronica Magistri Rogeri de Houdene "In the same year [1196] died William, earl of Salisbury, son of earl Patrick, whose daughter and heiress Richard, king of England, gave to wife, together with the earldom of Salisbury, to William, his bastard brother."
3) Source: Chancery: Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series I, Henry III "James de Aldithele alias de Audithele...on the complaint of Ella, late the wife of the said James, that the escheator had taken into the king's hand the manors of Stratton and Wechewik, which were of her free marriage of the gift of her father William Lungespei... James his son, aged 22 and more, is his heir." Date: 1272. External Link
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol1/pp261-273. Reference: C 132/41/1 (Data from direct source)