About Me
Charles Yarbrough
This is my personal blog, you will find random information about things I hear about and things in my life.
Ultimately I will write a life story (self biography) that probably won’t be worth reading, but in my eyes will be the best book ever written and will have everyone I have been fortunate enough to remember.
Background:
Charles Yarbrough was born in Port Townsend Washington in 1975. After only four years of age due to a Divorce he was moved to Napa, California where he was raised mostly by his mother while his father was a great role model and was always around for parental support. From a young age Charles had a natural curiosity for how things work, one of his most entertained hobbies was taking a part electrical devices like radios and TV’s. He was also very into sports playing Tball, soccer for 4 years once being player of the year, then switching to Little League Baseball. From Age 8 Charles was more into Music then Sports but still maintained them both. Starting his first band at age 11 with Kendall, a Drummer, and Kody on bass. Charles learned music from Childhood Piano Lessons and still plays piano well to date. While in High School his band changed to Frank, Gil, and Mike Faver where they played about 50 shows including being the house band for the Rocky Horror Picture Show and where fortunate to personaly meet Other music professionals like Steve Miller, Santana, Primus, Metallica, among others.. After High School Charles studied deeply into Philosophy and Ethnic Culture while Playing Basketball at Napa Valley College and still playing in his band then called Mellow Fellow (A play off on lounge music and nomads). After reading most of the books written by Freud he studied history and the events that predominantly shaped modern society.
For work purposes Charles changed his major to Wine Making and after receiving his Wine Making certificate from NVC he transfered to Davis’s world renown viticulture division to pursue his Bachelors in their Wine Making program.
After a year of studying wine, working at a winery, and personally making wine, Charles decided to once again change his major to business. This was due to realizing that making wine would rarely if ever lead him to working out of Napa. And that owning his own business was a childhood dream.
After leaving the wine program he shortly studied at the Sonoma state’s business program where he got a offer from a friend to stay in Ilsa Vista by UCSB.
After leaving Sonoma with a business degree he moved to SB to be with a good friend and explore a new community.
After a year of living in SB he rented a room in the Mesa by downtown SB. Then about 6 months later for personal reasons got a house in Goleta and rented the rooms out.
After 4 total years in SB Charles then moved to Huntington Beach. The move was a decision to start over in a new place that was known for great surf and a closer location to DWHS Inc. which is located in Downtown LA.
At this point Charles perused a stronger position with the DWHS family. After 4 years with DWHS he was offered a chance to invest in DWHS and become a partner in the corporation. After excepting the job, DWHS seen it’s biggest years exponentially since then.
Charles after 3 years moved to Hollywood to experience what he has always heard of being a very liberal open minded place to have fun and socialize.
After one year of enjoying Hollywood, circumstances led Charles back to Orange County we he resided we he lived for about an other year. Charles was never very happy with the area and lifestyle in Orange County, Huntington Beach particularly so he sold his house and moved to the West side of LA where he currently lives in a Apartment with Bernard (his dog).
- Name: Yarb(o)rough (It’s funny but the (o) was added later as a separation of religious beliefs within the forefathers family’s.
- Record: 18792
- Wilmsby, Lincolnshire., England.
- Arms: Per pale argent and azure, a chevron between three chaplets all
- counterchanged.
- Crest: A falcon close or, belled gold, preying on a cock pheasant (or duck) proper.
- Motto: Non est sine pulvere palma. (”The prize is not won without dust.”)
- Alternate Motto: Nocte Volamus. (”Who dares wins.”)
There is many history variations, my gather on it is that we where Vikings a the earliest stage and lost a war possibly to greece then flad to Germany and Europe.
I did meet a Indian once who looked up Yarbrough in some old book and it said I was a Rabbit hunter from the strawberry patch. Doesn’t sound as tough as I was hoping for.


































about 8 months ago
I have been searching through websites looking at crests and heraldry for the Yarborough family, but I keep finding minute discrepancies among them. When doing your research, what did you make of that, and how did you finally decide which was probably the most accurate?
Also, are you still in the wine industry? I currently sell wine; just thought it was an amusing coincidence.
Thanks for any information you can give me.
Best Regards,
Angel
about 7 months ago
I find it funny that i googled my name and this came up
about 5 months ago
Hi Charles,
Thought it might amuse you to get a mail from an inhabitant of Yarburgh, near Louth, Lincolnshire.
As to its history, it’s supposed to mean a settlement surrounded by earthworks. The heritage people have come up with evidence of a medieval or post medieval settlement near Grange Farm, Yarburgh, but we do not know if this was the original settlement (they think it may have been a monastery). You can clearly see the mark on aerial photos on Google Earth. For details of their findings see: http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=1060912&sort=4&search=all&criteria=yarburgh&rational=q&recordsperpage=10#aRt
There are more details of the village on the site too.
However, the main Yarborough connection in this area is Lord Yarborough of Brocklesby, near Grimsby, Lincolnshire, who lives in a big old country mansion in multiple acres of parkland. He even has an estate of houses names after him in Grimsby. Believe me, they are nowhere near as posh as his own house! There is also a school and other stuff named after him.
As to the Roman fort of Yarborough camp, that is somewhere else again, near Kirmington, not far from Lord Yarborough’s house.
Any more local info, just send me a mail.
Chris
about 4 months ago
Sent from Douglas thanks!
“Hello Charles, i just wanted to thank you for your site i never knew there where so many Yarbrough’s in this world. I’m not sure if we are related or not but it seams our families are from the same part of the country Georgia that is. My grandfathers name was William my father’s name was Melton he was 1 of 9 kids that William raised in Mauk Georgia. If you like you can e-mail me anytime and we can compare notes i do not have alot of info but if you would like to know i\I’d be happy to share it with you. Oh yeah i also have a nephew named Charles Yarbrough.”
about 4 months ago
Sent from Charles Yarborough
“Hello,
I was sitting at my computer at three thirty this morning and, in an un-guardedly maudlin moment, typed in, “Who is Charles Yarborough?”…and instead of finding myself I found you. I like your blog and especially enjoyed the recent bit about the writing students. Just my humor.
Best,
Charles Yarborough
My reply was…
“Thanks for the email, I heard yarborough with the “o” after the b was the original name and my family about a hundred years ago removed the “o” to rebel against the religion forced by Yarborough lol basically we are ancient religious enemies.
Thanks again for the email.
Have a good one.
Charles “