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Sheila worked on this pedigree with correspondents Carl Pontifex and Marion McQuay in 1995.
They established that William Yeo [note 1] had married Jane Fanson at Pancrasweek in 1824. They had three children there before emigrating with them to Ontario:
– Thomas Yeo (see below)
– William Yeo (see William Yeo and Susan Wonnacott)
– John Yeo (born 1831)
and four further children after the family emigrated:
– Mary Jane Yeo (1834–1907, married James Moore)
– Elizabeth Yeo (1836–1912, married Richard Docking)
– Samuel Yeo (born 1839)
– James Henry Yeo (see below).
Thomas Yeo (1824–1907, son of William Yeo and Jane Fanson) emigrated to Ontario with his parents, where he married Elizabeth Ann Babb in 1846. They had ten children:
– John Henry Yeo (see below)
– Elizabeth Ann Yeo (1848–1890, married Henry Lisk)
– Samuel Yeo (see below)
– William Yeo (1852–1925)
– James Yeo (1853–1935)
– Thomas Albert Yeo (see below)
– Henry Yeo (1856–1935, married Elizabeth Hambley) [note 2]
– Richard Babb Yeo (see below)
– Albert Allen Yeo (1863–1951)
– Benjamin Wesley Yeo (1868–1965, married his first cousin’s daughter Ida Priscilla Ann Yeo (see below) [note 3], ten children).
James Henry Yeo (1841–1914), married Mary Ann Jewell in Mitchell, Ontario in 1868. They had seven children:
– Albert Ernest Yeo (1869–1949)
– Mary Elizabeth Yeo (1871–1892)
– William Franklin Yeo (1873–1945, married Violet Mabel Bishop, son Melvin Stanley Yeo born 1909)
– Alfred Edward Yeo (1875–1910)
– Walter James Yeo (born 1878, died as a child)
– Ida Jane Yeo (1880–1968, married James Stanley Farquharson)
– John Wesley Yeo (1882–1967, married Minnie Lashbrook, no recorded children).
John Henry Yeo (1847–1907, son of Thomas Yeo and Elizabeth Ann Babb) married Mary Jemima Lambkin in Hepworth, Ontario in 1869. They had six children:
– Mary Anne Yeo (1870–1953, married Richard Albert Hopkins)
– Thomas Henry Yeo (1873–1951, married Eliza Hackett Randle, twelve children including John Isaac Yeo)
– Leonard James Yeo (see below)
– Emily Jane Yeo (1878–1977, married Roderick Brian Reid)
– John Wesley Yeo (born 1881)
– Sarah Alice Yeo (1885–1955, married Charles Walter Cropley).
Samuel Yeo (1850–1933, son of Thomas Yeo and Elizabeth Ann Babb) married Mary Jane Hambley in Hepworth, Ontario in 1871. Their nine children included:
– Alice Sophia Yeo (1873–1951, married Valentine Kilscher)
– Thomas Albert Yeo (1875–1950, married Annie May Yates, eight children)
– Samuel William Yeo (see below)
– James Edwin Yeo (see Russell Frederick Hambley and Mildred Aileen Yeo)
– Maggie Etta Leticia Yeo (1887–1975, married Charles Levi Hunt).
Thomas Albert Yeo (1854–1932, son of Thomas Yeo and Elizabeth Ann Babb) married Rebecca Jane Noble. They had twelve children:
– James Wesley Yeo (born 1879)
– Ida Priscilla Anne Yeo (1881–1955, married her father’s first cousin Benjamin Wesley Yeo, see above)
– Elizabeth Janet Yeo (1884–1971, married David Kinsley)
– Jasper Earl Yeo (born 1884, appears to have died as an infant)
– Margaret Lucinda Pearl Yeo (1887–1939, married John James Butt)
– Thomas Oliver Noble Yeo (1889–1969, married Annie Norstrum)
– Mary Georgina Ethel Yeo (1892–1956, married her first cousin Leonard Augustus Benjamin Yeo, see below)
– Jasper Earl Yeo (1894–1954, married Harriet Elizabeth Orchard, six children)
– William Wellington Yeo (1896–1971, married Nancy Bishop)
– Lawrence Jacob Yeo (1898–1986, married Sarah Besse Bridal)
– Amanda Beatrice Yeo (1901–1905)
– Manfred Edmond Yeo (1903–1991, married Florence Margaret Campbell, three children).
Richard Babb Yeo (1860–1951, son of Thomas Yeo and Elizabeth Ann Babb) married Sarah Jane Lambkin at Owen Sound, Ontario in 1880. They had eight children:
– Arthur Yeo (1881–1959, married Martha Watson)
– Leonard Augustus Benjamin Yeo (see below)
– Albert Sylvester Yeo (1887–1971, married Clara Louisa Schmidt, five children)
– Melissa Adeline Jane Yeo (1890–1952, married Ezra William Howes)
– Thomas Herman Yeo (1892–1983, moved to Utah, married Harriet Edna Willets in 1945, one son)
– Emma Rebecca Yeo (1897–1982, married George Ross Woolger)
– James Richard Yeo (1899–1979, married Florence Dormer)
– Mary Ann Yeo (1901–1990, married Gordon Brooks).
Richard Babb Yeo, by then a widower, is listed at Mills, Ontario in the 1931 census. He is a farmer aged 70; with him are his son Thomas Herman Yeo (37, a farm labourer) and his sister-in-law Charlotte Biender [note 4].
Leonard James Yeo (1875–1965, son of John Henry Yeo and Mary Jemima Lambkin) moved to Swan Lake, Manitoba. He married Alice Mary Maud Clifton in 1912; they had seven children:
– Douglas James Yeo (born 1910, married Mildred Kathleen Sholdice, five children)
– Beatrice May Yeo (1912–1980, married Roy Johnson Hughson)
– Harold John Yeo (1914–1998, married Nellie Dean, three children)
– Leonard Hugh Yeo (1916–2000, married Marjorie Jean Mason, five children)
– Earl Clifton Yeo (1917–1971) [note 5]
– Wilbert Keith Yeo (born 1922, married Joan Elmes, three children)
– Kenneth George Yeo (born 1926, married Beverley Marilyn Smith, four children).
Samuel William Yeo (1879–1962, son of Samuel Yeo and Mary Jane Hambley) married Emily Gresley [note 6] in Yorkton, Saskatchewan in 1904. They had six children:
– Harold Yeo (1904–1904)
– Norma Mildred Tamar Yeo (1908–1999, married John Samuel Boyd and Thomas Rowe)
– Earnest Earl Yeo (1912–1985, married Isabella Margaret Fae Shaw, three children)
– Samuel John Yeo (1914–1983, married Cecilia Wardle, three children)
– Frederick Cecil Yeo
– Irving Franklin Yeo (1924–1998, married Margaret Elizabeth Stevens, three children).
Leonard Augustus Benjamin Yeo (1883–1980, son of Richard Babb Yeo and Sarah Jane Lambkin) married his first cousin Mary Georgina Ethel Yeo (see above) at Cypress River, Manitoba in 1909. They had three children:
– Beatrice Evelyn Melissa Yeo (1911–1955, married Lewis Clark)
– Alvin Richard Thomas Yeo (1915–1995)
– Bernice Dorothy Helen Yeo (1918–1995, married George Russell Butt).
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Notes
1. 1794–1874, baptised at Holsworthy on the same day as his brother John. Son of William Yeo and Margery Rowell and a grandson of Thomas Yeo (1746–1823) and Mary Fetherstone.
2. Henry and Elizabeth are buried at Boyd’s Cemetery near Keppel, Ontario. Their headstone also commemorates ‘Ann Bable, wife of Thomas Yeo’ – presumably Henry’s mother Elizabeth Ann Yeo née Babb.
3. Married at Louise, Manitoba in 1898.
4. The relationship between Richard and Charlotte is unclear: she was not married to one of his brothers, nor does she appear to have been his step sister.
5. Earl was in Scotland in the 1940s. He married Joyce Mackay Mathieson at Dornock, Sutherland in 1943 and they had a son in 1947 before returning to Manitoba, where they had a daughter in 1951.
6. 1881–1964, born in Leicestershire; birth registered as Emily Gresley. Surname recorded by some researchers as Cresley.