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Sheila Yeo’s correspondent Vivian Skipper supplied information about this family in 2001.
William Yeo (1763–1831, son of Thomas Yeo and Mary Fetherstone) was baptised at the parish church in St Stephen, a short distance north of Launceston. He worked as a cordwainer, making and repairing leather boots and shoes.
From a transcription made by Humphrey Toms during a visit to England in 1973, we know of the marriage of William Yeo and Margery Rowell at Milton Damerel in 1791. The groom is recorded in the parish register as a labourer – so did the officiating minister not know that he had a trade? – and the bride as a spinster. This record, with less detail, also appears in the IGI.
There were four sons from William’s two marriages. From his marriage to Margery Rowell there were three and the only record of their baptisms is from a bishop’s transcript of the parish register:
– John Yeo, baptised at Holsworthy in 1794
– William Yeo
– Thomas Yeo, baptised at Holsworthy in 1800 [note 1].
William’s wife Margery was buried at Milton Damerel in 1809. His second marriage was to Elizabeth Beckley at Pancrasweek in 1811. They had a son:
– Henry Yeo (see below).
William was buried at Milton Damerel.
Henry Yeo (1811–1884, son of William Yeo and Elizabeth Beckley) was baptised at Pancrasweek. He emigrated to Canada, where he married Mary Cornforth Dobson. Their five children were born in Ontario:
– William Yeo (1849–1925, moved to Iowa, married Rachel Ward, five children)
– Henry Yeo (1854–1917, married Jane Elizabeth Wright, three children)
– John Cornforth Yeo (see below)
– Thomas Yeo (see below)
– Ruth Elizabeth Yeo (1860–1944)
Henry and Mary lived in Molesworth, Ontario and are buried at Molesworth Cemetery. Sheila Yeo studied a line of descent through their son Henry Yeo, their grandson Percy Armstrong Yeo and their great grandson Floyd Yeo.
Thomas Yeo (1858–1931, son of Henry Yeo and Mary Cornforth Dobson) moved to the United States, where he married twice. His first marriage was to Mattie Bowland [note 2] in Kansas in 1879; they had five children:
– Hettie Elizabeth Yeo (1879–1950, married Victor Ray Putnam)
– Annie Belle Yeo (1883–1904, married Charles Stuart Garner)
– Lawrence U. Yeo (1884–1919)
– William Henry Yeo (1886–1959, married Ellen Louisa Freeberg in 1909)
– John Wesley Yeo (1890–1891).
Thomas married his second wife Cynthia Ellen Victoria Skyhock née Cox at Dayton, Washington in 1898. They had four children:
– Hazel Yeo (1899–1976, married Clyde Presnall)
– Lillie Thelma Yeo (1901–2000, married Harry Reddick)
– Lora Madeleine Yeo (1905–1995, married Walter Kirschner)
– Helen Louise Yeo (born 1911).
John Cornforth Yeo (1856–1937, son of Henry Yeo and Mary Cornforth Dobson, married twice. His first marriage was to Jennie Moore in 1885; Jennie died the following year, four months after giving birth to their daughter:
– Gertrude Aletta Yeo (1886–1918, married William John Johnston)
John’s second marriage was to Regina Ruth Yeo in 1895; they had two children:
– Minnie Freida Yeo (1897–1976, marred Hector McPhail)
– Clifford Nelson Yeo (1903–1974, married Mary Isabelle Potter).
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Notes
1. A bishop’s transcript of this record shows Thomas’s mother as Margaret. He was buried at Pancrasweek in 1818.
2. Surname also recorded as Bollling, She died in 1894 aged 35.