Sophia Yeo died in Plymouth in March 1923. Her death certificate records her as the 82-year-old widow of William John Yeo; the informant was her son Henry F. Yeo, present at her death at 8 York Street.
The 1921 census for Plymouth records Sophia at 8 York Street, an 80-year-old widow born at Hartland [note 1]. Listed with her are her 55-year-old unmarried daughter Sophia Frances Yeo and her 53-year-old son Henry Franklyn Yeo. Shown as boarders in the same house are Sophia’s 44-year-old son Percy Alfred Yeo and his 38-year-old wife Elsie Marie Yeo.
The 1861 census for Devonport records William and Sophia as a married couple, living at 79 Union Street with their four eldest children.
Despite the above, no record of William and Sophia’s marriage has been found. While it is possible that they married at a nonconformist ceremony in Plymouth or Hartland, it seems more likely that they never married.
William John Yeo (1836–1919, son of John Williams Yeo and Constantia Powell Moore) and Sophia Johns had seven children:
– William John Moore Yeo (1864–1890, married Sarah Margaret Bull, no recorded children)
– Sophia Frances Yeo (1866–1927)
– Henry Franklyn Yeo (1867–1931, married Lucy Annetta Parsons) [note 2]
– Edwin Richie Yeo (1869–1939, emigrated to Canada, married May Elizabeth Robillard in Ottawa in 1920, died in the United States)
– Creemer Lee Amer Yeo (1872–1945, married Blanche Louisa Tolman in 1906 and Margerita Elizabeth Myers in 1939) [note 3]
– Percy Alfred Yeo (1876–1937, married Elsie Marie Hodge in 1910) [note 4]
– Annie Winifred Alice Yeo (1882–1955, married Ellison Milner).
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Notes
1. Sophia’s age appears to match a birth registered at Bideford in the fourth quarter of 1840 of a daughter of Thomas Johns and Mary Vanstone.
2. Henry was recorded in 1916 as a teacher in Plymouth, at Regent Street Intermediate School. Lucy re-married in 1933 (to Samuel Ernest Markey Venn) and she lived until 1979.
3. Daughter Emily Maud Yeo, 1908–1977.
4. Elsie married William Henry Hambly the year after Percy’s death; she died in 1965.