William Yeo was baptised at Chittlehampton in 1688 to parents William Yeo and Susanna Davey. He married Mary Fairchild at Landkey in 1708. Their children were baptised at East or West Buckland from 1711; the details, and one of the daughters, require confirmation:
– Fairchild Yeo (1711–1786, married Amy Thorne, no recorded children)
– Joan Yeo (1712–1731) might have been part of this family
– Margaret Yeo (baptised 1713, married Daniel Delve)
– John Yeo (see below)
– Mary Yeo (baptised 1723).
John Yeo (1719–1792, son of William Yeo and Mary Fairchild) married Joan Busthon [note 1] at West Buckland in 1744. They had eleven children:
– John Yeo (1744–1810, married Mary Goad, two daughters)
– Mary Yeo (baptised 1745)
– James Yeo (baptised 1746)
– Jane Yeo (baptised 1748)
– Elizabeth Yeo (baptised 1750, married John Tucker)
– Amy Yeo (baptised 1752, died as an infant)
– William Yeo (see below)
– Joan Yeo (see below)
– Margaret Yeo (baptised 1757, died as a child)
– Henry Yeo (see Henry Yeo and Elizabeth Blackmore)
– Samuel Yeo (see Samuel Yeo and Joan Leworthy).
William Yeo (1753–1854, son of John Yeo and Joan Busthon) married Ann Courtier at Stoke Rivers in 1776, They had seven children:
– William Yeo (1777–1854)
– John Yeo (1779–1865, married Susanna Carter, five children)
– Henry Yeo (1781–1818, married Ann Lewis, four children)
– Thomas Yeo (1784–1831, married Mary Webber, three children)
– Charity Yeo (see below)
– James Yeo (1790–1816, married Mary Chapple, nine children including William Yeo, see below)
– George Yeo (see below).
Joan Yeo (baptised 1754 at West Buckland, daughter of John Yeo and Joan Busthon) married Henry Philpot at West Buckland in 1774 and had one daughter:
– Jane Yeo Philpot.
Charity Yeo (1786–1824, daughter of William Yeo and Ann Courtier) baptised an illegitimate daughter Elizabeth Yeo in 1810 at Peters Marland. The following year, Charity married Samuel Hutchings.
George Yeo (1792–1875, son of William Yeo and Ann Courtier) married Ann Squire [note 2] at Swimbridge in 1818. They had seven children:
– William Yeo (baptised 1819 at Swimbridge, married Maria White, eight children)
– George Yeo (1821–1843)
– Mary Ann Yeo (baptised 1824 at Swimbridge, married James Harris)
– John Yeo (baptised 1832 at Swimbridge, married Mary Jane Curtis, five children)
– Maria Yeo (born c1834)
– Thomas Yeo (see below)
– Henry Yeo (born 1841).
William Yeo (baptised 1831 at West Buckland, son of William Yeo and Ann Courtier) married Susan Dobbs at Tawstock in 1861. They are recorded in the 1871 census with their son Henry Yeo.
Thomas Yeo (1839–1918, son of George Yeo and Ann Squire) married Mary Hancock and Mary Uglow Worth. The differing places of birth of the ten children from his first marriage reflect how Thomas moved with his work on the railways [note 3]:
– William Thomas Yeo (1863–1863)
– Mary Jane Yeo (1866–1937, born at Chertsey, married Richard Curtis)
– William Thomas Yeo (1868–1923, born at Whitton, Middlesex, married Kate Ellen Oatway) [note 4]
– Charles Henry Yeo (1870–1956, born at Hounslow, married Wilmot Bowden, two sons)
– Elizabeth Ann Yeo (1872–1960, born at Hounslow, married John Thomas Veale Luxmoore)
– Albert Ernest Yeo (1874–1940, born at Steventon, Hampshire, married Frances Louise Penberthy, two sons)
– Alfred James Yeo (1877–1960, married Ethel Mary Lightfoot, two daughters)
– John Yeo (1879–1879)
– Alice Maud Yeo (1881–1885)
– Walter Edward Yeo (1886–1886).
There were no children from Thomas’s second marriage.
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Notes
1. Also recorded as Joan Basthon.
2. Also known as Nancy.
3. The 1871 census records Thomas as a 33-year-old pointsman, living in a railway lodge in Twickenham with his 31-year-old wife Mary Yeo, his children Mary J. Yeo (age 5), William T. Yeo (2) and Charles H. Yeo (5 months), and lodger John Hiscock (age 33, born in Croydon).
4. Eight children, including: William Thomas Yeo (1892–1933, married Ivy Amelia Stevens), Mabel Annie Yeo (1895–1969, married Charles Andrew Underhill) and Vera Phyllis Olivia Yeo (1900–1960, married Harold Lewis White).