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This couple and their four children are included in the passenger list for the liner Canada, which left Liverpool on 3 November 1923 bound for Montreal. Archibald is described as a 41-year-old farmer [note 1], Maude is 38 and their children are Edith Marion (age 9), Sybil Irene (7), Archibald (5) and John Joseph (3) [note 2].
Archibald and his family had previously lived in Canada; this time they stayed there for only a few years, and the 1939 Register records them back in England. They are living in Stockport, Cheshire [note 3] – their daughter Edith is not listed with them and they have a further son Francis W. Yeo, born in 1924.
Archibald Yeo (1882–1951) had been born at Thornbury [note 4], the youngest of the six children of John Yeo and Hannah Maria Folley. He moved to Surrey, where he married Maude Evelyn Janaway in 1910. Their five children were:
– Edith Marion Yeo (born 1911 in Toronto)
– Sybil Irene Yeo (born 1914 in Guildford)
– Archibald Verdun Yeo (born 1917 in Guildford, married Eva Flanagan, died 1995)
– John Joseph Yeo (born 1919 in Guildford)
– Francis William Yeo (born Canada 1924, died 1980 in Greater Manchester).
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Notes
1. His ‘last address in the United Kingdom’ is recorded as 6 Stoke Terrace, Stoke Road, Guildford, which seems an unlikely place for a farmer to live. Perhaps they stayed there for a short while before emigrating.
2. The births of these four children were not registered. According to research by Sheila Yeo, they were all born in Guildford.
3. The listing for 49 Woodhall Avenue, Stockport lists bricklayer Archibald Yeo (born 1882), Maude E. Yeo (1886), Sybil I. Yeo (1914), Archibald V. Yeo (1917), John J. Yeo (1919) and Francis W. Yeo (1924).
4. The 1891 census for Thornbury, near Holsworthy records 42-year-old mason John Yeo at South Wandford with his wife Hannah (age 40), daughter Emily (16) and son Archibald (9).