Chichacott Cross is on the former A30 main road, to the north east of Okehampton and to the south of Sampford Courtenay. The 1871 census records George Yeo living there, with his wife Ann and five children.
George is recorded as a quarryman and probably worked at the quarry to the west of Chichacott Cross, close to the River Oakment. There were several quarries in the Okehampton area, worked for stone for building. The census return gives George’s birthplace as North Down – he had been baptised there in 1834 to parents Thomas Yeo and Mary Manning.
George had married Ann Gliddon in 1863. Their children were:
– Thomas Yeo (see below)
– Mary Gliddon Yeo (born 1864 [note 1], married Edwin Thomas Higerty)
– Emily Ann Yeo (1866–1872)
– Annie Yeo (see below)
– Ellen Yeo (1869–1937)
– Harriet Yeo (1872–1893).
George died in 1873.
Thomas Yeo (1863–1904, son of George Yeo and Ann Gliddon) married Elizabeth Ann Vallance in 1866. They had at least five sons [note 2]:
– Edgar Yeo (1886–1894)
– Leon Thomas Yeo (1889–1972, married Elizabeth Ann Daniel, daughter Vera Elizabeth Yeo, 1915–1992)
– Evelyn Stanley Yeo (1891–1978) [note 3]
– William Wallace Yeo (1893–1917) [note 4]
– Cecil Yeo (1896–1981, married Elsie May Doreen Cuddiford).
Elizabeth died in 1901 and Thomas survived her by three years [note 5].
Annie Yeo (1868–1948, daughter of George Yeo and Ann Gliddon) had two children:
– Alberta Florence Worth Yeo (born 1888, married William G. Matthews)
– Archibald John Wheaton Yeo (1893–1896)
before marrying Mark Sandford, with whom she had two children, including:
– Barbara May Yeo Sandford (1912–1927).
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Notes
1. Also recorded as Mary Ann Yeo.
2. Sheila’s records include a son Charley Yeo, born in 1891, but this information appears to be inaccurate. Elizabeth had a son Edgar Yeo Vallance (1886–1894) before she married.
3. Recorded in Eastbourne in the 1939 Register, working as a chauffeur.
4. William died in Belgium while serving with the Royal Marine Light Infantry, see War deaths.
5. Thomas’s death in a road accident was reported in the Western Times on 3 August 1904. From the 1911 census for Northlew it appears that his surviving sons were brought up by their maternal grandparents Thomas and Selina Vallance.