Roger Yeo (1708–1771, a grandson of Roger Yeo and Grace Gould) married Margaret Cowell at Swimbridge. They remained in the parish and baptised five children there:
– John Yeo (baptised 1752, married Mary Husband, no recorded children)
– Elizabeth Yeo (baptised 1754, married Joseph Powell)
– Michael Yeo (1756–1824, married Elizabeth Waldron and lived at Bishop’s Tawton, seven children)
– James Yeo (see below)
– Thomas Yeo (baptised 1761, married Mary Moule, one daughter).
James Yeo (1758–1816, son of Roger Yeo and Margaret Cowell) married Elizabeth Chapple at Swimbridge in 1785. They baptised seven children at Swimbridge:
– Roger Yeo (see Roger Yeo and Maria Pinsent)
– James Yeo (see below)
– Thomas Yeo (baptised 1791, married Mary Southcombe, four children)
– John Yeo (1793–1812)
– Mary Yeo (1798–1876, married Christopher Antisell)
– Grace Yeo (1799–1853, married Henry Gaydon)
– Elizabeth Yeo (baptised 1802).
James Yeo (1788–1875, son of James Yeo and Elizabeth Chapple) married Elizabeth Shapland at Swimbridge in 1815. Their ten children were baptised at Swimbridge:
– James Yeo (see James Yeo and Elizabeth Yeo)
– Elizabeth Yeo (1818–1902, married Alfred East)
– Hannah Shapland Yeo (1820–1897)
– Mary Shapland Yeo (1823–1909, married Joseph Watts, emigrated to the United States)
– John Yeo (see below)
– Thomas Yeo (1827–1886, married Elizabeth Richards, eight children including James Yeo)
– Christopher Yeo (baptised 1829 at Swimbridge, died as an infant)
– Eleanor Yeo (baptised 1830 at Swimbridge, died as an infant)
– George Shapland Yeo (see George Shapland Yeo and Elizabeth Pender)
– Ellen Margaret Yeo (1835–1850).
John Yeo (1825–1880, son of James Yeo and Elizabeth Shapland) moved to Gloucestershire, where he married Emma Matilda Spearing. They had seven children:
– George Christopher Yeo (1852–1940, married Emma Mary Perry, two children)
– Elizabeth Ann Yeo (1856–1933, married Percy Alexander Robertson, died in South Africa)
– Florence Fanny Yeo (1858–1937, married George Spearing Damsell [note 1])
– John Shapland Yeo (see John Shapland Yeo – scholar and teacher)
– Sydney James Yeo (see below)
– Edwin William Yeo (see below)
– Frank Gardiner Yeo (1868–1962).
Sydney James Yeo (1862–1943, son of John Yeo and Emma Matilda Spearing) emigrated to Australia, where he married Eliza Donley [note 2]. Their three children were born at Kalgoorlie in Western Australia:
– Florence Ethel Yeo (born 1898, married George North)
– John Spearing Yeo (born 1904, married Florence Wertheimer, one son)
– Sydney Francis Yeo (born 1905, married Dorothy Forbes, two children).
Edwin William Yeo (1864–1918, son of John Yeo and Emma Matilda Spearing) married Frances Mary Chandler in India in 1902. Their two daughters were born in India but returned to England with them before 1918 [note 3]:
– Elsie Shapland Yeo (1904–1982) [note 4]
– Mary Betty Yeo (1909–2003, married Harry Hartley).
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Notes
1. Their son Percy Yeo Damsell (1889–1940) married Mathilde Adora Fenard.
2. Sydney is understood to have financed exploration in Western Australia carried out by Frank Hugh Hann, which led to several geographical features in Western Australia being named after Sydney or his wife (including Yeo Lake, Yeo Hills, Sydney Yeo Chasm, Sydney Yeo Ranges, Mount Eliza and Eliza Rocks). Can anyone confirm the accuracy of this information?
3. Edwin’s death was recorded in Gloucestershire in that year.
4. The 1939 Register records Elsie living in Cheltenham with her widowed mother Frances M. Yeo. Elsie worked as a teacher and did not marry.