Henry Vivian Yeo and Mary Katherine Seymour

The 1911 census for Dublin records 67-year-old widower Henry Vivian Yeo at 78 Merrion Road in the south east of the city. Henry is a judge – his occupation is noted as ‘Barrister at law not practising. Registrar King’s Bench Divn. Ireland’ – and his 26-year-old unmarried daughter Emily Alice Yeo is recorded with him. Also present are visitors Kathleen Yeo (age 53, a widow born in Co. Monaghan) and Olive Mary Yeo (30, single, born in Co. Dublin) [note 1] and two servants. According to the return, Henry and Emily were born in Dublin.

Henry Vivian Yeo  (1843–1925, son of Henry Yeo and Jane Ann Ferns) had married Mary Katherine Seymour in London in 1870. They had at least three children:
– Henry Gerald Yeo (1872–1962, trained a a doctor, married Ethel Ellen Cole, no recorded children)
– Charles Arthur Vivian Yeo (born 1875)
– Emily Alice Yeo (born 1885).

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Note:
1. Can anyone identify Kathleen Yeo and Olive Mary Yeo, who might have been mother and daughter?


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