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Samuel Yeo (1811–1874), was baptised at Kilkhampton by his parents James Yeo and Grace Francis. He married Nancy Prowse at East Stonehouse in 1834 and in due course emigrated to Prince Edward Island. They had 16 children; their first six were born in England:
– Mary Jane Yeo (died as a child)
– Alice Yeo (died as a child)
– Ann Yeo (1835–1835)
– James Yeo (1836–1916, married Catherine McDonald, four children including Howard Sprague Yeo, 1863–1906)
– William Hamlin Yeo (see below)
– John Yeo (see below)
and the other ten in Prince Edward Island:
– Thomas Charles Prowse Yeo (1844–1918, married Rosamund Julia Doble and Eliza Ann Newson)
– Angelina Yeo (1844–1927, married Daniel Richard Cornish Boundy)
– Laurence Yeo (see below)
– Titus Loman Yeo (1850–1923, married Harriet Sharpe, two children; daughter Nancy Martha Yeo
– Jabez Yeo (see below)
– Richard Henry Yeo (1854–1929, married Sarah Lydia Farrow, ten children including William Loman Yeo, 1897–1963)
– Lewis Albert Yeo (1855–1928, married Jane Hodgson)
– Caroline Alice Yeo (1858–1913, married William Robert Best)
– George Yeo (1859–1923, married Mary Ann Gillis, seven children)
– Mary Jane Yeo (1863–1954, married Donald Nicholson Forbes).
William Hamlin Yeo (1839–1895, son of Samuel Yeo and Nancy Prowse) remained in Prince Edward Island and married Annabella Hacker [note 1]. Their five children were born there:
– Stutley Wentworth Yeo (1869–1942)
– Jane Winnifred Yeo (1874–1962, married Benjamin Darby Cairns)
– William Bradford Yeo (1878–1946, married Bertha Belle MacArthur)
– Mary Isabella Sanding Yeo (1881–1922)
– Wyman Prowse Yeo (1833–1954, married Ninah Muncey and Kathleen Margaret Campbell).
John Yeo (1841–1918, son of Samuel Yeo and Nancy Prowse) married Harriet Ann Ford. They had ten children:
– Margaret Yeo (born c1870)
– Angelina Kezia Clemens Yeo (1871–1907, moved to Maine, married Frank P. Burnham)
– Samuel Edward Brewer Yeo (see below)
– Thursa Yeo (1875–1921 [note 2], married Duncan Henry Thompson)
– Isabella Saunders Yeo (1877–1969, married Charles Hubert Monkley)
– Robert Albert Yeo (born 1878, married Daisy Monkley, five children)
– Gretha or Isa Yeo (1884–1952, married Sterling Tucker)
– William Prouse Yeo (1886–1961, married Catherine Morrison)
– John Earle Yeo (1893–1975, married Mary Julia Forbes)
– Mildred Effy Yeo (born 1894).
Burnham at Portland, Maine in 1895.
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Laurence Yeo (1848–1920, son of Samuel Yeo and Nancy Prowse) married Sarah Jane Birch. Their nine children were born in Prince Edward Island:
– Franklin Freeman Yeo (1875–1937, married Sarah Catherine Lyle 1906 in Prince Edward Island and Pearl Margaret Wright née Clark 1911 in Prince Edward Island)
– Eva Lauretta Yeo (1876–1967, married Leonard James Pickering)
– Edmund Henry Yeo (1878–1977 [note 3], married Lauretta Jane Yeo)
– Robert Garfield Yeo (1879–1969, married Campsie Glen MacLaurin)
– Lewis William Birch Yeo (1881–1883)
– Irene Turner Louise Yeo (1884–1915, married George Thomas 1903 in New Brunswick)
– Henry Birchfield Swabey Yeo (1886–1966, married Annie Inez Monkley 1913 in Prince Edward Island, three children)
– Jennie Blanche Yeo (1891–1916)
– Muriel Helena Blanche Yeo (1896–1980, married Ralph Edmund Compton 1916 in Prince Edward Island).
Jabez Yeo (1852–1935, son of Samuel Yeo and Nancy Prowse) married Sarah Jane Large in Prince Edward Island in 1915. They had eight children:
– Samuel Henry Yeo (1874–1929, married Rebecca Gillespie, 11 children [note 4])
– Franklin Freeman Yeo (1876–1958, married Sarah Catherine Lyle)
– Eva Lauretta Yeo (1876–1967, married Leonard James Pickering)
– John Wesley Yeo (1877–1968)
– Harriet Annie Yeo (1880–1958)
– Louisa Irina Yeo (1884–1915)
– Jennie Blanche Yeo (1891–1894)
– Muriel Helena Blanche Yeo (1896–1980, married Ralph Edmund Compton).
Samuel Edward Brewer Yeo (1874–1922, son of John Yeo and Harriet Ann Ford) moved south to Maine, where he married Jennie McCornell Rood in 1901. They had three sons:
– Wilbur Earl Yeo (born 1906, married Harriet McUrry, four children)
– John Wendell Yeo (1908–1981, married Ruth Gabel, three children)
– Warren Whitman Yeo (born 1913, married Margaret Claudine Morrison, two sons).
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Notes
1. Married by licence in Prince Edward Island at a Wesleyan Methodist ceremony in 1868; recorded as William H. Yeo and Annabel Hacker. Witnessed by Lawrence Yeo and Harriet Ford.
2. Birth recorded as Theresa Ford Yeo.
3. Recorded by Sheila Yeo as Edmund J. Henry Yeo.
4. Including John Alton Yeo (1919–2009), father of Ronald Bruce Yeo, who has contacted the Yeo One-name Study.