The 1939 Register lists 75-year-old Thomas Yeo at Hele Bridge, a short distance south of the Cornish town of Stratton, living in a cottage near a canal-side iron foundry. His occupation is recorded as ‘bill poster & town crier’ and there are five other people in the household, including Thomas’s daughter Mary I. Amos-Yeo and grandson Thomas Amos-Yeo [note 1].
Thomas Yeo had been born at nearby Kilkhampton in 1864 to parents Thomas Yeo and Ann Gist. He married three times – in 1885, 1890 and 1908 – and had at least nineteen children.
With his first wife Louisa Dinner he had three sons:
– Harry Yeo Dinner (born 1884) [note 2]
– Thomas Yeo (1887–1973)
– William Yeo (1889–1946).
With his second wife Selina Gilbert he had nine children:
– William Thomas Yeo (born 1892)
– Albert Maurice Yeo (born 1893)
– Norman Lewis Yeo (1895–1985, married Isabella Taylor)
– Gwyndoline Annie Victoria Yeo (1897–1899)
– Albert Yeo (1899–1956, married Amelia Eva Burge)
– Gwyndoline Yeo (1902–1984, married John Bedwell)
– Selina Ann Yeo (1905–1983, married William Sidney Cottle)
– William Yeo Batten (1905–1983, married Amy Susanna Brent)
– Ivy Yeo (1907–1989, married William Henry Pearce).
With his third wife Sarah Ann Amos he had seven children:
– Mary Irene Amos (see below)
– Thomas Leonard Yeo (1909–1983, married Kathleen Trewin)
– George Amos Yeo (1911–1995, married Patricia O’Dwyer)
– Sarah Elizabeth Yeo (1914–1992, married Felix Elmes)
– Kenneth Edward Yeo (1917–1990, married Gertrude Williams née Ritchie and Elsie Bond)
– Beatrice Mabel Yeo (1920–2006, married William Sanders)
– Lilian Rose Yeo (1923–1984, marred Leonard Alfred Thake).
Mary Irene Amos (born 1907 [note 3]) had a son:
– Arthur Thomas Amos-Yeo (1927–2009, married Ruth Barbara Pearce, seven children).
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Notes
1. The three other members of the household cannot be identified.
2. Nothing else is known about Harry. He might later be recorded under a different name.
3. Later recorded as Mary Irene Amos-Yeo.