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== Marriage and children ==

[[File:The North Family at Glemham, Glemham Hall, by Peter Vanderbank.jpg|thumb|Catherine Yale with her husband [[Dudley North (politician, born 1684)|Dudley North]], at their family seat, [[Glemham Hall]], by artist [[Peter Vanderbank]] c. 1715]]{{sfn|Scarisbrick|2014|p=52}}]]]]

In 1680 Yale married Catherine Elford, widow of Joseph Hynmers, [[second-in-command]] of [[Fort St. George, India|Fort St George, India]] as [[Deputy Governor]] for the [[East India Company]].<ref>Marriage Records, Joseph Hynmers and Catherine Elford, , St. Botolph’s Church, Aldgate, 6th November 1669</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X0HRAAAAMAAJ&dq=joseph+hynmers+govenor+east+india&pg=PA544|title = Vestiges of Old Madras, 1640-1800: Traced from the East India Company's Records Preserved at Fort St. George and the India Office, and from Other Sources|last1 = Love|first1 = Henry Davison|year = 1913}}</ref> Her father was wealthy [[Levant Company|Levant]] merchant Walter Elford, son of Turkey merchant Walter Sr., the step-nephew of Admiral [[Sir Francis Drake]] of [[Buckland Abbey]], the explorer, and the half-brother of [[Sir Francis Drake, 1st Baronet|Sir Francis Drake]], the MP.<ref>Walter Elford, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"</ref><ref>[https://www.forgottenbooks.com/en/download/TheFamilyandHeirsofSirFrancisDrake_10667547.pdf The Family and Heirs of Sir Francis Drake], Lady Eliott-Drake, Vol. I, London, 1911, p. 29-161</ref><ref>[https://archive.org/details/visitationofcoun00sain/page/66/mode/2up?q=elford+drake The Visitation of the County of Cornwall, in the year 1620], Sir Henry Saint-George, Americana, London, p. 66</ref>