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George Josse Yeo, son of James Yeo and Ann Counter, married Alice Brinton at the parish church in Alton, Hampshire in 1876 [note 1]. They appear to have recently returned from Shanghai.
George and Alice’s two children were born in Shanghai:
– Alice Margaret Yeo (c1877–1905) [notes 2, 3]
– George Brinton Yeo (c1879–1895).
George Josse Yeo was an engineer; he died in Shanghai in 1886 [note 4].
The 1891 census for Bedford records George’s 39-year-old widow Alice Yeo at 138 Foster Hill Road with her 13-year-old daughter Alice M. Yeo and 11-year-old son George B. Yeo.
The 1901 census for Croydon census records Alice Yeo at 32 St Paul’s Road with her daughter Alice M. Yeo. Alice died at Hastings in 1933.
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Notes
1. The wedding was reported in the Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser on 25 November: ‘November 23rd, at the Parish Church, Alton, by the Rev. J.P. Yeo, vicar of Edenfield, Lancashire, brother of the bridegroom, assisted by the Rev. W. Durst, Vicar of Alton, George J. Yeo, C.E., of Shanghai, China to Alice, second daughter of the late George S. Brinton, J.P., of Southampton’.
2. Birth registered as Alise Margaret Yeo at the British Consulate in Shanghai.
3. Alice died in Paignton at the age of 25 and was buried at Littlehampton Cemetery in Sussex.
4. His obituary from the Worcestershire Chronicle for 4 September 1886 describes him as an engineer, and secretary of the Shanghai Gas Company.