Thomas Yeo was baptised at Bideford in 1789 to parents John Yeo and Catherine Ash. He married Mary Woolacott at Bideford in 1825. Mary died in 1823, and Thomas married Elizabeth Hodge at Fremington three years later. Thomas, a former saddler, died in Bideford in 1861 [note 1].
Thomas and Mary had three children:
– Thomas Yeo (see below)
– John Woolacott Yeo (see The White Rabbit)
– Francis Ash Yeo (see Frank Ash Yeo MP).
Thomas and Elizabeth had two children [note 2]:
– Mary Jane Yeo (1837–1861)
– William Yeo (1839–1841).
Thomas Yeo (1827–1890, son of Thomas Yeo and Mary Woolacott) was baptised at Bideford. He married Selina Allen Phillips in 1853; they had four children:
– Thomas Winter Yeo (1854–1900, married Frances David, three children)
– Frank Woollacott Yeo (see below)
– Selina Mary Yeo (born 1859, died as an infant)
– Selina Mary Yeo (1861–1885, married William Matthews).
Frank Woollacott Yeo (1856–1918, son of Thomas Yeo and Selina Allen Phillips) married Mary Ann Mois Smith in 1880. They had three children:
– Selina Mary Yeo (born 1886 in Cardiff)
– Frank Thomas Yeo (see below)
– Bretta Marian Yeo (1882–1975, married Bert Stanley Cording in 1912).
Frank Thomas Yeo (born 1888, son of Frank Woollacott Yeo and Mary Ann Mois Smith) married Lucy Turner in 1914. They had two children:
– William Francis Yeo (born 1915, married Doris Williams in Lancashire in 1942)
– Lawrence Sylvester Yeo (1918–1982, married Joan Murray).
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Notes
1. His death certificate gives his place of death as ‘High Street’; his age is recorded as 73, though he was probably 72.
2. The 1851 census for Bideford records Thomas at 1 Allhalland Street, a master saddler aged 61, with his wife Elizabeth (54), son Francis Ash Yeo (18, an attorney’s writing clerk) and daughter Mary Jane Yeo (14).