Rodney Silk sent information about this family to Sheila in 2007; the information has since been expanded with further research and details from other correspondents.
Jacob Yeo was baptised at Lydiart Millicent in Wiltshire in 1781, a great grandson of Daniel Yeo and Barbara Easton of the same parish. He moved to London and married Ann Reader in Stepney in 1807. They had eight children:
– Rachel Yeo (born 1807)
– Eleanor Yeo (born 1813)
– Mary Yeo (born 1816)
– Ann Yeo (1819–1886, married Alfred Dunn)
– Sarah Yeo (born 1818)
– Elizabeth Yeo (born 1822)
– James Yeo (see below)
– Daniel Yeo (born 1824).
Jacob Yeo died in east London in 1871.
James Yeo (1824–1880, son of Jacob Yeo and Ann Reader) married twice. He married Mary Ann Wimshurst [note 1] in Stepney in 1849. They had seven children:
– James Yeo (born 1850)
– William Jacob Yeo (see below)
– Charles Yeo (born 1854, married Emma Mumford)
– Mary Ann Yeo (born 1856)
– Henry Yeo (born 1857)
– Alfred Yeo (born 1859)
– Arthur John Yeo (born 1861).
James later married Hannah Jones in Hackney in 1880. There were no children from this marriage.
William Jacob Yeo (1852–1884, son of James Yeo and Mary Ann Wimshurst, married Helen Amata Choate [note 2] in Hackney in 1873. They had six children:
– Clara Amata Yeo (1874–1928, married Frederick John Yates)
– William Henry Yeo (see below)
– Alfred Edward Yeo (born 1878, married Caroline Clara Church, three children)
– Edith Mary Yeo (born 1879, married Thomas Futrill)
– Isabella Jessie Yeo (1881–1963, married Arthur Leonard Blowers)
– Winifred Helen Yeo (1887–1958, married Arthur Yates).
William Henry Yeo (1876–1954, son of William Jacob Yeo and Helen Amata Choate) married Alice Maud Freeman at Islington in 1902. They had five children:
– Winifred Ellen Amata Yeo (1902–1983, married Charles Hilton Byart)
– Alice Marion Yeo (1905–1986, married Frederick Charles Silk)
– Hilda Kathleen Yeo (1909–1960, married Alexander Buck)
– William Francis Yeo (1911–1981, married Barbara Robson, no recorded children)
– Leslie Alexander Yeo.
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Notes
1. 1839–1873; baptised at Rotherhide to parents William James and Mary Ann Harvey. Her surname is often incorrectly transcribed as Winshurst.
2. Helen had been born in 1849 to parents Edward Choat and Isabella Blain; her surname has been incorrectly transcribed as Chout or Choate. After William’s death she married Michael Walters in 1894; she died in 1914 at the age of 64 (her age was incorrectly recorded as 66 when her death was registered).