This couple married in Bristol in 1918, at the parish church of St Clement. Ernest is recorded as an 18-year-old bachelor, a Private in the 52nd Battalion the Hampshire Regiment and ‘on active service’, son of chemist Joseph William Yeo. Caroline is recorded as a 17-year-old spinster of 13 Dale Street, daughter of labourer John Thomas Pateman. They were married by licence.
Ernest and Caroline had six children, including:
– Ernest Percival Joseph Yeo (1918–1969, married Brenda Edith Budding)
– William Hector John Yeo (1922–1943, married Winifred May Portch; died while serving as a Flying Officer with the Royal Air Force)
– Frederick George Wilson Yeo, (1925–1944, who died while serving in the Netherlands as a driver with the Royal Army Service Corps)
– Ronald Victor Yeo (1928–1959, married Margaret Diane Farleigh)
The 1939 register records the family at 49 Lockleaze Road in the Horfield area of Bristol. Ernest is a 30-year-old aero fitter and labourer, his wife Caroline is the same age, and their children include William H.J. Yeo (age 17, working for an engineer) and Hugh I. Yeo (age 8). Also in the household is Ernest’s 66-year-old mother-in-law Caroline Pateman.
Ernest died in 1969; Caroline lived until 1979. For more information about this family see Descendants of Richard Yea of Oakhampton, Wiveliscombe.
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