George Yeo was baptised in 1803, the eldest of three sons of George Yeo and Mary Sharland, who had married at nearby Denbury the previous year. He died in Torquay in 1884.
Percy Yeo corresponded with Sheila 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.
In summary, George Yeo married Elizabeth Nickells Dreaton in 1830 and Elizabeth Fletcher in 1834. There were two children from his first marriage:
– Elizabeth Yeo (baptised 1831, married Richard Northcott)
– Mary Yeo (baptised 1832)
and seven from his second:
– George Yeo (see below)
– William Fletcher Yeo (see William Fletcher Yeo and Elizabeth Churchward)
– Richard Fletcher Yeo (see 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 (born 1849 in Torquay, married Elizabeth Palk in 1874, four children including Roland Yeo)
– 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 in Heathcote, Victoria in 1862. They had a daughter:
– Emma Yeo (1861–1940, married James Lawton) [note 1].
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, married Emma Johnson) [note 2]
– Emily Elizabeth Yeo (born 1870)
– George Yeo (born 1871)
– William Fletcher Yeo (1873–1958, married Jessie May Fensom) [note 3]
– 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 three further children:
– Elizabeth Fletcher Yeo (1877–1960, married George Maller)
– Stanley Palk Yeo (1882–1974, married Elizabeth Maller, two children) [note 4]
– Elsie Palk Yeo (1886–1951, married Albert Hewitt).
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Notes
1. Born before George and Mary Jane married; assumed to be their daughter. There is no record of Emma’s return to England with her father; she married and died in Australia.
2. Birth registered as Alfred Yeo. He and Emma had a daughter Marjory Hazel May Yeo in 1916 (married surname Duus).
3. William and Jessie had a son Harry George Yeo (1898–1864).
4. Stanley and Eizabeth’s son Percy Stanley Yeo (1924–2015) helped Sheila with the original work on this pedigree – see the second paragraph above.