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This line of descent is based on research carried out by Sheila in 2009, and has since been extended with information from several correspondents who used the Contact Us page.
John Yeo (baptised at Tetcott in 1710 to parents Thomas and Mary Yeo) married Ann Austin at Tetcott in 1748. They baptised three sons at Tetcott:
– John Yeo (baptised 1750)
– Thomas Yeo (see below)
– Christopher Yeo (baptised 1757).
Thomas Yeo (baptised 1754 at Tetcott, son of John Yeo and Ann Austin) married Grace Lane at Tetcott in 1777. Their six children were baptised at Tetcott:
– Ann (baptised 1778)
– John Yeo (see below)
– Susanna Yeo (baptised 1784)
– Sarah Yeo (1787–1866, married William Gilbert
– Mary Yeo (baptised 1790, married William Jeffrey)
– Thomas Yeo (baptised 1794, married Mary Smitheram, six children).
John Yeo (baptised 1781 at Tetcott, son of Thomas Yeo and Grace Lane) married Mary Furse at Clawton in 1803. They had seven children:
– John Yeo (see below)
– Thomas Yeo (see below)
– Mary Yeo (baptised Milton Damerel 1808)
– Grace Yeo (baptised Milton Damerel 1811)
– William Yeo (baptised Milton Damerel 1813, married Grace Allen) [note 1]
– Ann Yeo (baptised Milton Damerel 1816)
– Sarah Yeo (baptised Milton Damerel 1818).
John Yeo (1804–1862, son of John Yeo and Mary Furse) worked as a blacksmith. He married Elizabeth Allin at Milton Damerel in 1830; they had ten children:
– Thomas Yeo (see below)
– Susan Yeo (born 1833)
– Fanny Yeo (1836–1916, married Francis Fishleigh)
– John Yeo (1838–1842)
– Mary Susan Yeo (born 1841)
– Sarah Yeo (born 1843)
– Ann Yeo (born 1846)
– John Yeo (see below)
– William Yeo (born 1852)
– Francis Yeo (born 1855).
Thomas Yeo (baptised Thornbury 1806, son of John Yeo and Mary Furse) had nine children with his wife Mary Gilbert:
– Dorothy Yeo (baptised Milton Damerel 1828)
– Ann Yeo (baptised Thornbury 1830, married George Gorrell)
– Mary Yeo (baptised Thornbury 1833)
– John Yeo (baptised Thornbury 1835, married Ann Short)
– Thomas Yeo (baptised Thornbury 1837, married Elizabeth Jane Lang)
– William Yeo (1839–1931, married Mary Grace Grigg and Mary Hannah Hole)
– Samuel Yeo (born Thornbury 1843)
– Richard Yeo (see below)
– Mary Grace Yeo (born Thornbury 1845).
Thomas Yeo (baptised 1831 at Thornbury, son of John Yeo and Elizabeth Allin) married Agnes Nichols in 1859. Their four children were born at Pyworthy:
– Elizabeth Anne Yeo (born 1860)
– William Yeo (1862–1930, married Victoria Tremeer, daughter Ada Agnes Yeo born 1903)
– Francis Yeo (born 1863, married Lucy Heard)
– Mary Maria Yeo (1865–1936, married Thomas Newberry).
Richard Yeo (1845–1936, son of Thomas Yeo and Mary Gilbert) moved to south Wales, where he married Caroline Freeman in 1876. They had three sons:
– Samuel Thomas Yeo (1877–1967)
– William Albert Yeo (1879–1980, married Gertrude Lucy Williams and Emily Brownscombe) [note 2]
– John Richard Yeo (1886–1961, married Meiriona Bowen).
John Yeo (born 1849, son of John Yeo and Elizabeth Allen) married Hannah Maria Folley in 1871. They had six children, including:
– William Thomas Yeo (born 1871, moved to Wales, married Elizabeth Rowe in 1892, son John Yeo born 1895 at Swansea)
– Frederick John Yeo (born 1874)
– Emily Yeo (born 1875)
– Francis Yeo (1877–1907, married Alice Edith White, daughter Eva Emily Yeo born 1906)
– Henry Yeo (see below)
– Archibald Yeo (see Archibald Yeo and Maude Evelyn Janaway).
Henry Yeo (born at Halwill in 1879, son of John Yeo and Hannah Maria Folley) married Eva Ann Chidley in 1899. They farmed at Pancrasweek and had five children:
– William Henry Yeo (1902–1868, married Margaret Mary Slee, two daughters)
– Gladys Annie Yeo (born 1905)
– Frances May Yeo (born 1913, married Finnimore John Davis Jewell)
– Archibald Richard Chidley Yeo (1915–1980, known as Richard)
– Kenneth John Yeo (1919–1990, married Eunice Jane Leach, three children).
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Notes
1. Daughter Mary Grace Allen Yeo, baptised 1837 at the Bible Christian chapel at Shebbear.
2. Son from first marriage: Richard Lewis Yeo (1907–1993, married Lilian Thomas). See also William Albert Yeo and Gertrude Lucy Williams.