Charles Henry John Yeo (1884–1945) was born in Plymouth in 1864 to parents John Yeo and Charlotte Widger. He married Frances Elizabeth Baker in Kent in 1891.
Charles and Frances had six children:
– Alice Lilian Yeo (1893–1976, married Albert Charles Tilley)
– Charles Sidney Yeo (see below)
– Grace Ivy Florence Yeo (1903–1977, married Horace Henry Jones and Charles Alfred William Burrows)
– Clara Yeo (1907–2000, married Ernest Frederick Smith and William Frank Ekers)
– Violet May Yeo (1916–1916)
– Percival Kitchener Yeo (1916–1918)
The 1911 census records the family at 10 Temple Street in Strood; Charles is a 46-year-old house painter; his wife, recorded as Elizabeth, is 39 and children Alice age (18), Charles (14, an ‘errand boy’), Gracie (8) and Clara (3) are also listed.
By 1921 they have moved to Rochester. The census of that year lists them at 13 Bardell Terrace. Charles H.J. Yeo is a 56-year-old painter and decorator; he works for local firm Austen & Son. Also listed are Charles’s 51-year-old wife Frances E. Yeo, his 13-year-old daughter Clara Yeo, his 18-year old daughter Grace I.J. Jones and her husband Horace Jones [note 1], and his 28-year-old daughter Alice L. Tilley and her three children [note 2].
The 1939 Register records Charles and Frances, who are still at at 13 Bardell Terrace. Nearby at 15 Bardell Terrace are Winifred Harbour and her husband Robert Harbour, a retired railway porter.
Frances died in 1941, and Charles married Winifred Harbour [note 3] the following year. He died in Kent three years later.
Charles Sidney Yeo (1896–1941, son of Charles Henry John Yeo and Frances Elizabeth Baker) moved to Lancashire, where he married Margery Lyon at the parish church in Crosby in 1926 [note 4]. They had four children:
– Marjorie Yeo (1916–1991, married George Manship Morris)
– Kenneth Yeo (1919–1980, emigrated to South Africa and married Mildred Emily Jones [note 5]).
– Molly Frances Yeo (1921–1998, married John Richard Mountain and Thomas Smith)
– Charles Peter Yeo (1931–1965, married in 1951).
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Notes
1. Horace is a Private in the Royal Marine Light Infantry, based at HMS Erin in Sheerness.
2. Albert Tilley (age 9), Lilly Tilley (5) and Pearl Tilley (1).
3. Winifred Emily Jane Rose Harbour née Fathers, 1870–1950.
4. The 1939 Register records them at 1 Warwick Avenue in Crosby. Charles is working as the caretaker of a drill hall.
5. Did Kenneth also marry Barbara Rosemary Atter née Straker? This marriage is not included in records for England and Wales.