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William Yeo (1808–1857, fourth son of Isaac Yeo and Mary Hammett) was bsptised at Inwardleigh and married Mary Ann Spear there in 1832. They had four children:
– Samuel Spear Yeo (see below)
– Thomas Yeo (baptised 1835) [note 1]
– John Yeo (born 1841)
– Mary Jane Yeo (1845–1876, married William Please Honeywill in 1865)
– William Henry Yeo (see below).
The 1851 census for Exeter records William running the Blackmoor Head public house in West Street, Exeter. Mary Ann is listed with him, as are their four children.
The 1861 census records William’s widow Mary Ann Yeo running the Blackmoor Head, with the same four children listed [note 2].
Samuel Spear Yeo (1832–1914) appears to have followed his father’s occupation and to have become a publican [note 3]. He married Jane Raddon Tucker in 1862; they had six children:
– Bessie Yeo (1864–1934, married Edwin Glade in 1884)
– William Spear Yeo (1865–1866)
– Mary Ann Yeo (1867–1867)
– Mary Jane Yeo (1868–1869)
– Jane Yeo (1870–1870)
– Alice Maud Yeo (1873–1952, married Sydney Walter Lee in 1897, son Gerald Sydney Yeo Lee, 1899–1969, married Esther Mabel Andrews).
Samuel’s wife Jane died in 1880, and four years later he married Matilda Milford (née Short, widow of Samuel James Milford). They had three sons:
– Samuel Arthur Spear Yeo (see below)
– Bretton Hall Spear Yeo (1886–1886)
– Stephen John Spear Yeo.
William Henry Yeo (1848–1922, son of William Yeo and Mary Ann Spear) married Elizabeth Augusta Coleman Syms at Exeter in 1868. They had a daughter there:
– Sarah Ann Yeo (born 1868)
before moving to Okehampton. They had six further children there:
– Eliza Jane Yeo (1871–1951, married Archie Lane Mitchell 1893)
– William Henry Yeo (see below)
– Amy Maud Yeo (born 1878)
– Frances Bessie Yeo (1881–1969)
– Samuel Arthur Yeo (1885–1950, married Nellie May Hole at Broadwoodwidger in 1911)
– Gertrude Alice Yeo (1887–1963, married Walter Heywood Webb in 1913) [note 4].
William Henry Yeo (1875–1947, son of William Henry Yeo and Elizabeth Augusta Coleman Syms) married Annie Worden Bray. They had two children:
– Dorothy Bray Yeo (born 1904, married William Alec Bray Walke)
– William Harry Yeo (1905–1979, married Queenie Alexandra Hermann).
Samuel Arthur Spear Yeo (1885–1966, son of Samuel Spear Yeo and Matilda Milford) married Hilda Mary Charity at Kew, Surrey in 1915. They had three children:
– Phyllis Mary Yeo (1916–1987, married Thomas Reginald Mitchell in 1951)
– Wilfred Samuel Spear Yeo (1919–2010, married Daffodil Lesley Carlton Gosney at the parish church of St Peter, Croydon in 1958)
– Marjory Hilda Yeo (1921–2015).
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Notes
1. Place of baptism not confirmed. See Thomas and Jane Yeo of Plymouth for a possible match. He was of a similar age to Thomas, son of John Yaw and Sarah Mogford, who married Sarah Rose in 1860 and Jane Holland in 1874.
2. A receipt dated 2 March 1877 is held at the Devon Heritage Centre (under ref. D71174/11) for an item or items on account for John, William and Samuel Spear Yeo, ‘sons of Mrs Mary Yeo’.
3. The 1871 and 1881 censuses for Exeter record him in Quay Lane, occupation licensed victualler. Samuel’s wife Jane is recorded in 1871 but had died by 1881. His daughter Bessie Yeo is recorded in both years.
4. The 1939 Register lists Walter and Gertude at 19 Holt Road, Wembley (Gertrude is recorded as Mary and her date of birth is incorrect). Also listed is their son Deryck H. Webb, recorded by some researchers as Deryck Heywood Yeo Webb.