Rebecca Celia Yeo

Rebecca Celia Yeo was born in Devonport in 1838; her birth was registered at Stoke Damerel in the third quarter of that year. She married Anthony Porter Self in Plymouth in 1860 and emigrated to the United States three years later with him and their two children. Anthony died on board ship, and Rebecca apparently had a hard life in her newly adopted country. She eventually moved to Salt Lake City and married William Henry Solomon there in 1869.

Rebecca lived until 1923 and is buried at Salt Lake City. Please use the Contact Us page if you can provide any further information about her or can answer any of these questions:
– Was Rebecca a daughter of James Frederick Yeo and a granddaughter of Charles Yeo, both from the Plymouth area, and were they descended from John Yeo and Ann Vrain? See A family in Launceston, Stoke Damerel, Exeter and London.
– Did she have a third child from her first marriage, on board ship or before before she emigrated?
– Did she have children with her second husband?
– Did she marry a third time?


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