The 1921 census records Albert and Ada Yeo at 13 and 14 North Street, Exeter. Albert is a caretaker at the offices of the Ministry of Pensions; 13 and 14 North Street is also shown as his place of work.
Listed with them in the census return are their daughters Nancy and Alvena and three visitors: Albert’s sister-in-law Norah Yeo and his nephews William and Leonard Yeo.
Albert Yeo had married Ada Wakeham at the parish church of St David, Exeter in 1914. Their children were:
– Nancy Louvain Yeo (1915–2004, married Francis William Vosper)
– Alvena Ada Lorraine Yeo (1916–1998, married Jack Gordon Isaac)
– Frederick James Yeo (1927–1970).
Albert was the fourth son of George Yeo and Elizabeth Woollacott, who married at Marwood in 1885; their other children were:
– Edith Ellen Yeo (1885–1968, married William Henry Norman)
– George Yeo (see below)
– Ernest Yeo (1892–1990, married Mabel Kathleen Cooke, one daughter)
– Harry Yeo (1894–1978, married Martha Ellen Gould, three children)
– John Yeo (1898–1916)
– Alice Emily Yeo (1899–1983, married George Murton)
– Lilian Mary Yeo (born 1902 at Marwood, married William Thomas Adams)
– William Frank Yeo (1907–1970, married Iris Terry, two children).
George Yeo (1888–1966, son of George Yeo and Elizabeth Woolacott) married Glasgow-born Norah Charteris (1895–1968) in Devon in 1920. They had four children:
– William Percival McLauchlan Yeo (1918–1999, married Mabel Dorothy Sandford, one son) [notes 1, 2]
– Leonard George Yeo (1920–1996, married Diana Meg Foote, two children)
– Robert Ian Yeo (1924–2013, married Pensa Ann Chard, two children)
– Samuel Norman Yeo (1931–2018, married Megan Phillips and Gillian Mary Axon, two children).
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Notes
1. William’s age was recorded as 2 years 10 months in the 1921 census and his place of birth as Broxburn, Linlithgowshire. He was not George’s son but might have been Norah’s (although family recollection is that he was adopted).
2. William and his wife Dorothy are buried at Exwick.