Charles Yeo was born at Lawitton to parents Thomas Yeo and Margery Creeper Lane [note 1].
He appears to have taken leave from the Royal Marines [note 2] to marry Lucy Ann Wyatt [note 3] at Plymouth Register Office in 1892 – or perhaps he was stationed at Plymouth. He would have needed permission from his commanding officer to marry.
Charles and Lucy had seven children:
– William Yeo (1892–1892)
– Elsie Jane Yeo (born 1893)
– William Alfred Wyatt Yeo (1895–1964, married Rose Amy Pike, five children)
– Frederick Leonard Yeo (1897–1902)
– Edward James Noah Yeo (1902–1982, married Alice Mary Gibbs, three children)
– Margery Eveline Elizabeth Yeo (1904–1977, married George William Bell)
– Kathleen Annie Yeo (1906–1994, married Archibald Gorman).
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Notes
1. Married at Lawhitton in 1857. Charles was born on 22 December 1864 (his service record states the year inaccurately as 1865) and lived until 1952.
2. According to his service record, Charles enlisted at Plymouth in October 1898, re-enlisted in April 1910, was discharged in March 1920, and received a pension. His civilian trade is recorded as a tailor. National Archives ref ADM 159/75/8998.
3. Recorded as Annie in Charles’s service record; her address in 1910 is given as 20 Neswick Street, Plymouth. She died in 1963.