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Francis Yeo was baptised at North Hill, Cornwall in 1769 to parents John Yeo and Elizabeth Harvey. He died in Plymouth in 1858.
Francis married Elizabeth Barnes at the parish church of Charles, Plymouth in 1791. They had three sons:
– Thomas Barber Yeo (baptised 1793 at Charles, Plymouth)
– Francis Yeo (baptised 1796 at Charles, Plymouth)
– John Yeo (see below).
Francis re-married after Elizabeth’s death. He had eleven children with his second wife Ann Brooking [notes 1, 2]:
– Elizabeth Yeo (baptised 1817 at Plymstock)
– Francis Yeo (see below)
– John William Yeo (baptised 1824 at Stoke Damerel, recorded as John Yeo in 1871)
– William Henry Yeo (1827–1885, married Caroline Ellen Bulley)
– Ann Yeo (1829–1904, married William Ferraro) [note 3]
– James Sanders Yeo (baptised 1830) [note 4]
– Edward Yeo (born 1833, recorded as Edwin Yeo in 1871)
– Jane Yeo (baptised 1837, married John Thomas Kemp)
– Edwin Yeo (see below)
– Emma Yeo (1838–1896, married Adonijah Vosper, died in Belfast)
– Charlotte Ellen Yeo.
John Yeo (baptised 1811 at Stoke Damerel, son of Francis Yeo and Elizabeth Barnes) married Eliza Saunders. Their two children were born in Plymouth:
– Elizabeth Jane Yeo (born 1845)
– John Yeo (born 1848).
Francis Yeo (1818–1849, son of Francis Yeo and Ann Brooking) married Caroline George [note 5]. They had five children:
– Richard Francis Yeo (1840–1911, emigrated to New South Wales, married Elizabeth Mary Agnes Blue, four children)
– William Henry Yeo
– Ann Yeo (born 1842, married George Henry Brown)
– Caroline Yeo (1845–1889, married John Rundle)
– John Yeo (born 1849).
Francis and Caroline later emigrated to Quebec with their son John. Their married daughter Ann might have emigrated too, as there appears to be no record of her death or re-marriage in England.
Edwin Yeo (1838–1898, son of Francis Yeo and Ann Brooking) moved to North Shields and then to Liverpool. Edwin and his wife Mary Brown had five children:
– Elizabeth Jane Yeo (1869–1913, married Albert John Bruce) [note 6]
– Mary Frances Ann Yeo
– Albert Edwin Yeo (1889–1889)
– Ethel Maud Yeo (1890–1978, married Richard Paul Waring)
– Theresa Alberta Bruce Yeo (1893–1893).
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Notes
1. Married at the parish church of St Andrew, Plymouth in 1817.
2. The 1871 census for Stoke Damerel lists 76-year-old widow Ann Yeo at 66 James Street, her occupation recorded as ‘supported by her children’. Living with Ann are her widowed son John Yeo (age 46, a waterman), her widowed son William Yeo (age 44, a naval pensioner), her unmarried son Edwin Yeo (age 32, a naval pensioner), her widowed granddaughter Elizabeth Ford (age 46, a laundress), her granddaughter Emma Kemp (age 10) and her great granddaughter Bessie Ford (age 4). It raises various queries and some of the details might be innacurate:
– The entry for Edwin Yeo appears to be wrong. Ann’s son Edwin had married and moved away from Plymouth by 1871, so it might have referred to her son Edward Yeo, who would have been about 38 years old.
– Elizabeth Ford has not been identified. She might have been Ann’s daughter Elizabeth Yeo, but no matching marriage has been found and Elizabeth would have been about 54 years old.
– Emma Kemp’s 1860 birth registration records her as Emma Jane Kemp; her mother was Ann’s daughter Jane Kemp née Yeo. Emma married Samuel Edwin Davis in 1887 and died in Hampshire in 1943.
– Bessie Ford has not been identified. Her 1866 birth registration records her mother’s birth surname as Crispin.
3. Ann’s baptism is likely to have taken place at the parish church of Charles, Plymouth but no record has been found.
4. Baptised at the parish church of Charles, Plymouth.
5. Married at the parish church of Charles, Plymouth in 1840. Francis has also been recorded as Francis George Richard Yeo.
6. Elizabeth was born at North Shields, but there appears to be no matching birth registration in the Tynemouth registration district. Was she born before her parents married, or was Mary Brown not her mother?