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Percy Yeo corresponded with Sheila Yeo and was able to provide her with information about this line. It has since been investigated by Mike Darch and David Yaw, and is included in their pedigree Descendants of William Yeo and Agnes Savery.
George Yeo (1803–1884), the eldest of three sons of George Yeo and Mary Sharland) was baptised at Abbotskerswell. He married Elizabeth Nickells Dreaton in 1830 [note 1] and Elizabeth Fletcher in 1834 [note 2]. There were two children from the first marriage:
– Elizabeth Yeo (baptised 1831, married Richard Northcott)
– Mary Yeo (baptised 1832)
and seven from the second:
– George Yeo (see below)
– William Fletcher Yeo
– Richard Fletcher Yeo
– Charles Henry Fletcher Yeo (1845–1898, married Eliza Jane Reed and emigrated to Queensland in 1875, one daughter)
– Mary Grace Yeo (born 1848 in Torquay, married Robert Callard)
– Samuel Yeo (see below)
– Edward Yeo (born 1851 in Torquay, died as an infant).
George Yeo (1836–1915, son of George Yeo and Elizabeth Fletcher) was born in Torquay. He emigrated to Australia, and married Mary Jane Manley at Heathcote, Victoria in 1862. They had a daughter:
– Emma Yeo (1861–1940, married James Lawton) [note 3].
Mary Jane died in 1864. George Yeo returned to England, and married Mary Grace Palk at Ashburton in 1865. Their first five children were born in Devon:
– Alfred Palk Yeo (1868–1957, emigrated to Queensland, married Sarah Elizabeth Kitson and Emma Johnson) [note 4]
– Emily Elizabeth Yeo (born 1870)
– George Yeo (born 1871)
– William Fletcher Yeo
– Emma Palk Yeo (1875–1875).
George and Mary Grace returned to Australia in 1875 with their four surviving children. They settled in Queensland and had four further children:
– Elizabeth Fletcher Yeo (1877–1960, married George Maller)
– Emma Yeo (1881–1881)
– Stanley Palk Yeo (see below)
– Elsie Palk Yeo (1886–1951, married Albert Hewitt).
Samuel Yeo (born 1849 in Torquay, son of George Yeo and Elizabeth Fletcher) married Elizabeth Palk in Devon in 1874. They had three children:
– Emma Palk Yeo (1875–1875)
– Ella Yeo (1877–1955)
– Amy Yeo (1878–1965)
before moving to south Wales, where they had four further children:
– Sydney Yeo (1881–1881)
– Herbert Yeo (1883–1883)
– Jessie Yeo (1885–1970)
– Roland Yeo.
Elizabeth died in 1889, and Samuel later moved to west London: the 1901 census records him at 11 Dean Road, Isleworth [note 5] with his daughter Jessie and son Roland.
Stanley Palk Yeo (1882–1974, son of George Yeo and Mary Grace Palk) married Elizabeth Maller. They had two children:
– Violet Mary Yeo (1913–1993, married Alexander Troup Cormack)
– Percy Stanley Yeo (1924–2015 [note 6], married Dorothy May Hargans [note 7])
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Notes
1. Married at St Marychurch. Elizabeth was baptised in 1803; her surname is also recorded as Drayton.
2. Married at Ipplepen. Elizabeth was baptised in 1811 and died in 1876 (some researchers incorrectly show her year of death as 1900).
3. Born before George and Mary Jane married, and assumed to be their daughter. There is no record of Emma’s return to England with her father – she married and died in Australia.
4. Recorded as Alfred Yeo. He and his second wife Emma had a daughter Marjory Hazel May Yeo (born 1916, married Vivian Seddon Duus).
5. Samuel is 57 and the return shows a 50-year-old wife Tita Yeo – there is no record of the marriage taking place.
6. Percy helped Sheila Yeo with the original work on this pedigree, as noted at the start of this page.
7. Née Treble, widow of Gordon L. Hargans.