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Richard Yeo (1770–1811, son of Thomas Yeo and Thomazin Gale) was baptised at Inwardleigh [note 1]. He married Catherine Luxon at Northlew in 1776. They had five children:
– John Yeo (see below)
– Thomasine Yeo (baptised 1803 at Lifton)
– William Yeo (see below)
– Ann Yeo (baptised 1808 at Lifton)
– Sarah Yeo (1811–1866, married Joseph Pyatt) [note 2].
John Yeo (baptised in 1797 at Northlew, son of Richard Yeo and Catherine Luxon) married Drew Ann Smale [note 3] at Beaworthy in 1829. They had six children [note 4]:
– William Yeo
– Hannah Yeo (1831–1889, married Thomas Neate)
– John Emmanuel Yeo (see below)
– Harriet Yeo (1837–1882, married Cornelius Bacon)
– Emanuel Smale Yeo (1840–1879, married Elizabeth Palmer at Stoke Damerel in 1867)
– Henry Dovell Yeo (see below).
William Yeo (1805–1876, son of Richard Yeo and Catherine Luxon) was baptised at Lifton and married Sarah Milford [note 5] at Lifton in 1827. They baptised three children at nearby Stowford:
– Richard Yeo (baptised 1829) [note 6]
– Henry Yeo
– Charlotte Yeo (1833–1838).
After Sarah’s death, William married Sarah Morgan at Merstham, Surrey in 1840; there were 11 children from this marriage:
– Michael Yeo (see below)
– Elizabeth Jane Yeo (1843–1922, married Thomas Saville in London in 1872)
– Ann Ellen Yeo (1845–1896, married Augustus Hutt Crabbe in London in 1878)
– Mary Maria Yeo (1847–1911)
– Eliza Charlotte Yeo (1849–1914, married James Peake in London in 1871)
– Sarah Selina Yeo (1854–1855)
– Sarah Selina Yeo (1856–1859)
– Esther Anna Yeo (1858–1933 [note 6], married John Bickle in 1880)
– Josephus Yeo (1860–1912, emigrated to the United States, married Lou Ella Patterson in Ohio in 1885)
– Sarah Selina Yeo (1863–1952, married Charles Thompson in London in 1903)
– Michael Yeo (1866–1946, married Elizabeth Brimacombe in 1892).
The 1861 census records William and his second wife in the Devon village of Stowford. Some researchers show their emigration to Australia on the SS Lincolnshire in 1863, but this is incorrect as the birth of their youngest son was registered in England. William also died in England.
John Emmanuel Yeo (1834–1868 [note 8], son of John Yeo and Drew Ann Smale) married Maria Ash [note 9] at the parish church of Charles the Martyr, Plymouth in 1855. They had four children:
– Emily Ellen Yeo (1856–1867)
– John Emmanuel Yeo (see below)
– William Henry Yeo (born 1862)
– Henry Dovel Smale Yeo (born 1864).
Michael Yeo (1841–1866, son of William Yeo and Sarah Morgan) married Millicent Doidge in 1861. They had a daughter:
– Mary Hannah Doidge Yeo (1866–1933, emigrated to New Zealand, married James Roil in 1886).
Henry Dovell Yeo (1843–1899, son of John Yeo and Drew Ann Smale) married Elizabeth Ann Buchannan at East Meon in Hampshire in 1866. They had three children:
– Alfred Dovell Yeo (1867–1925, emigrated to the United States, married Theresa Kassel in New York in 1890, ten children including Vincent Henry Yeo, 1891–1953)
– Emma Jessie Yeo (born 1870, married Thomas Joseph Cafferky in Staffordshire in 1898)
– Henry Thomas Dovell Yeo (1872–1952).
John Emmanuel Yeo (1858–1933, son of John Emmanuel Yeo and Maria Ash) married Martha Lucretia Gordon Hall. The births of their three children were registered at East Stonehouse:
– Emily Helen Yeo (1879–1970, married Samuel Macey)
– Harold Henry Yeo (1881–1885)
– Samuel John Yeo (1883–1968, married Kara Chubb).
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Notes
1. For Richard’s younger brother Isaac Yeo, see Isaac Yeo and Elizabeth Upright.
2 Joseph Pyatt and Sarah Yeo married in 1856 and had moved to Cornwall by 1850, when the birth of their daughter Maria Emma Pyatt was registered. The 1861 census for Kenwyn, a village a short distance north west of Truro, lists 40-year-old Joseph Pyatt, whose occupation is recorded as brush maker and who was born at Lifton in Devon. Listed with Joseph are his 47-year-old wife Sarah, also born at Lifton, and three daughters who were born at Kenwyn.
3. 1809–1860; forenames recorded with various spellings.
4. Research is required to confirm this list of children. William’s baptism record has not been found, and he might not be part of this family – see the notes at the page linked to. Hannah and her brother John were baptised at Plymstock. The births of Harriet, Emmanuel and Henry were registered at Plymouth.
5. 1806–1837.
6. A pedigree by Sheila Yeo included Ellen Carter as Richard’s wife, but no record of the marriage has been found.
7. Death registered as Hannah Bickle.
8. John’s name is shown as John Nannivill Yeo in his baptism record.
9. Maria later married Thomas Cole at Charles the Martyr, Plymouth in 1880.