The 1939 Register for Exeter lists this couple at 9 Codrington Street [note 1]. Charles Yeo (recorded as Charley) is 70 years old, an ‘old age pensioner’. Alice Maud Yeo is 64, her occupation recorded as ‘house duties’. Listed with them are their children Stanley Reginald Yeo (age 30, press stamp operator), Norman Yeo (also a press stamp operator), Beatrice Maud Yeo (32, brewery worker) and Florence Mary Yeo (27, mineral water factory worker).
Charles Yeo (1877–1945) [note 2] and Alice Maud Southard had eight children [note 3]:
– Charles Thomas Yeo (1901–1958 [note 4], married Rose Stoodley)
– Beatrice Maud Yeo (1907–1972)
– Stanley Reginald Yeo (1909–1979, married Eluned Jones)
– Norman Jesse Yeo (1910–1976, married Edna Florence Edith Mary Bassett)
– Walter Yeo (born 1911, died as an infant)
– Florence May Yeo (1912–1947, married Edwin Turner)
– Percy Yeo (born 1914) [note 5]
– Elsie Yeo (born 1916, died as an infant).
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Notes
1. This section of the 1939 Register is unusual in that the handwriting is clear and elegant, and second forenames are given in full. Despite this careful attention to detail, Norman’s date of birth is recorded inaccurately, making his age 34 whereas we was only 29). One other person is listed, 43-year-old Alexander Leslie, a railway porter – he may have been a lodger; nothing further is known about him.
2. Born at Kilkhampton to parents Thomas Yeo and Ann Gist. Recorded as a fish dealer in the 1911 census, living with Alice and three children in North Road, Holsworthy.
3. The births of these children were registered in three different districts, which might be due to he family moving in connection with Charles’s work.
4. Not listed with his parents in the 1911 census.
5. No other records have been found for Percy, who might have emigrated. Can anyone shed light on this? Might he have been the Percy Yeo who married Nora Salter in 1938? See Percy Yeo and Nora Winifred French Salter.