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Henry Yeo [note 1] and Maria Scourfield [note 2] baptised seven children at Corsham in Wiltshire [note 3]; they both died in 1853 [note 4]:
– Mary Anne Yeo (1820–1900, married John Franklin)
– Catherine Yeo (1821–1875, married Robert Newman)
– Charlotte Yeo (baptised 1823)
– William Yeo (see below)
– Henry Yeo
– Edward Yeo (see below)
– Anna Maria Yeo (1838–1857).
William Yeo (1825–1901, son of Henry and Anna Maria Yeo) married Elizabeth Milford at Melksham in 1848. The births of their ten children were registered at Frome:
– William Henry Yeo (see below)
– Henry Yeo (see below)
– Elizabeth Yeo (1852–1859)
– Anna Maria Yeo (1855–1889, married William Frederick Batt 1876 in Staffordshire)
– Charles Yeo (1857–1939, married Mary Kinton, two children including William Edward Yeo)
– Edward Yeo (see below)
– Albert James Yeo (see below)
– John Yeo (born 1864)
– Rowland Yeo (1866–1933)
– Walter Yeo (1869–1944, married Beatrice Mary Crocker 1941).
Edward Yeo (1832–1898, son of Henry and Anna Maria Yeo) married Charlotte Orchard in 1853 [note 5]. They had twelve children:
– George Yeo (born 1854)
– Sarah Anna Maria Yeo (1856–1917, married William Titchener)
– Henry Yeo (born 1858)
– Frederick Edwin Yeo (see below)
– Clara Yeo (1862–1875)
– John Archer Yeo (1863–1869)
– Harry Yeo (1866–1938, married Annie Martha Hill)
– Ellen Yeo (1868–1923, married Francis Robert Paul)
– Albert Yeo (1870–1875)
– Edward Richard Yeo (1872–1874)
– Charlotte Yeo (born 1874)
– Charles Yeo (1877–1908, married Mabel Mary Davis).
William Henry Yeo (1849–1874, son of William Yeo and Elizabeth Milford) married Elizabeth Sainsbury. They had two sons:
– William Henry Yeo (born 1871)
– Samuel Walter Yeo (1874–1920, emigrated to the United States, married Mary Allen Trevethan, two children).
Henry Yeo (1850–1934, son of William Yeo and Elizabeth Milford) had four children with Maria Elliott [note 6]:
– Henry John Yeo (1877–1941)
– Elizabeth Yeo (1877–1877)
– James Yeo (born 1882)
– Edwin Yeo (1883–1884).
Edward Yeo (1859–1931, son of William Yeo and Elizabeth Milford) married Helena Holden [note 7]. They had seven children:
– Ethel Bertha Yeo (1886–1985, married Henry George Allen Clark)
– Eva Beatrice Yeo (born 1888)
– Winifred May Yeo (born 1890)
– Daisy Mildred Yeo (1892–1980, married Harold Richard King)
– Walter Edward Charles Russell Yeo (1895–1918)
– Gladys Agatha Yeo (1897–1977, married Ernest Fred Adams)
– Frances Kathleen Yeo (1898–1970, married Harry Ernest James Williams).
Frederick Edwin Yeo (1860–1917, son of Edward Yeo and Charlotte Orchard) married Sarah Ann Fell in 1882. They had eight children, including:
– Lottie Lavinia Yeo (1885–1956, married Frederick McKee)
– Henry Edwin Yeo (see below)
– Frederick Charles Yeo (see below)
– Edward Yeo
– Percy Thomas Yeo (1903–1992, married Nora Hunt).
Albert James Yeo (born 1862, son of William Yeo and Elizabeth Milford) moved to south Wales, where he married Clementine Williams in 1884. They appear to have emigrated to South Africa after having eleven children in Wales:
– Henry Yeo (born 1880 as Henry Williams)
– Nellie Yeo (born 1885)
– William Albert Yeo (born 1886)
– Arthur James Yeo (1888–1949, died in South Africa)
– Charles Yeo (born 1889)
– Albert Frederick Yeo (born 1891)
– Bertha May Yeo (born 1892)
– Percival Walter Yeo (born 1894, married Evelyn Constance Kirkwood in Johannesburg in 1921, four children)
– Archibald Edward Yeo (born 1896)
– Doris Mabel Yeo (born 1898)
– Gladys Mabel Yeo (born 1900).
Henry Edwin Yeo (born 1887, son of Frederick Edwin Yeo and Sarah Ann Fell) married Alice Mary Georgina Emond at the parish church of St Mark, Swindon in 1905. They had five children:
– Edwin Robert William George Yeo (1905–1984, married Dorothy Rose Tattam) [note 8]
– Albert Henry Yeo (born 1909)
– Henry John Yeo (born 1912, married Grace Marian Pincher)
– Sidney Arthur Yeo (1919–1992, married Gwynneth Esther George, one son)
– Ronald Percy Yeo (1924–1988, married Doris Fribbins, two children).
Frederick Charles Yeo (1893–1965, son of Frederick Edwin Yeo and Sarah Ann Fell) married Clara Annie Gardner in Swindon in 1919. They had three sons, including:
– Alan Arthur Yeo (1925–2017).
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Notes
1. c1790–1853, born at Wincanton in Somerset, youngest son of Thomas Yeo and Mary Radford. Birthplace from the 1851 census return quoted below; a baptism record should confirm his parents.
2. c1790–1853, also recorded as Anna Maria. No baptism or marriage record found in Wiltshire or Somerset.
3. The 1851 census for Corsham records Henry living in Porkridge, his occupation carpenter and wheeler. His age is recorded as 62 and his birthplace as Wincanton; listed with him are his wife Anna Maria Yeo (age 60), son Edward Yeo (19) and daughter Anna Maria Yeo (13). The 1841 census for Corsham includes his son William and records his wife’s name as Maria.
4. Inquests were held at Corsham on 14 June 1853 into the death of Henry and Maria Yeo, as reported in the Salisbury and Winchester Journal the following Saturday, 18 June: ‘Inquests were held by Mr. Kemm, on Tuesday last, on Henry and Maria Yeo, of Puckeridge. The man, a carpenter, was found about 12 o’clock in the day in a well in his garden, by his wife, who called a young man named Barton, working in the same garden, to help her lift him out. The feet of the poor man were resting on the boards at the top of the well, the rest of his body being under water, his head downwards. The woman and Barton each took hold of a leg, but while in the act of raising him, the poor woman fell to the ground dead. The young man not being strong enough to hold him up alone, was obliged to let go his hold and get further assistance. Three or four men ran from the large stone works near, and in a few minutes he was taken out, and laid on his stomach on the ground, with his head hanging over the well. One of the persons present said he seemed to breathe after he was lifted out, once or twice; but shortly after Mr. Washbourne, surgeon came to the spot, and found both husband and wife quite dead.’
5. Married at St Swithin, Walcot. Charlotte’s surname has also been recorded as Archer; this spelling is used in the second forename of her son John. She later married James Selwood in 1902.
6. Marriage record not found – perhaps they did not marry? The 1901 census records Henry, a railway worker, and his wife Maria with their son James (age 19) in Keyford Street, Frome.
7. Married at Batcombe, Somerset in 1884. Helena’s surname was recorded as Olding on the birth certificate of her daughter Eva.
8. Son John Edward Yeo (1933–2018, married 1959).