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Henry Yeo (1829–1910, son of Thomas Yeo and Mary Elliot) was baptised at Milton Damerel in north Devon and died in Camborne in west Cornwall. He married Jane Dunn at Milton Damerel in 1851; they had three children there:
– Thirza Yeo (1851–1923, married William Coombes)
– John Yeo
– Mary Grace Yeo (1856–1947, married Henry Vivian, nine children)
and nine more children after moving to Camborne:
– William James Yeo
– Thomas Henry Yeo (1860–1887)
– Elizabeth Jane Yeo (1863–1864)
– Frederick Richard Yeo (1865–1892) [note 1]
– Elias Yeo (see below)
– Samuel Yeo (see below)
– Lewis Yeo (see below)
– Edith Jane Yeo (1872–1897, married John Sanders)
– Henry Yeo (1876–1877).
Henry and Jane are recorded in Camborne in the 1871 census (Henry was not a miner, as might be expected in the area, but a farm labourer). Henry’s occupation later changed, as the 1891 census for Camborne records him and two of his sons as tin miners.
Elias Yeo (1867–1936, son of Henry Yeo and Jane Dunn) married Esther Ann Williams in Camborne in 1891. They had four children:
– Charles Yeo (1895–1915 [note 2], married Edith Williams, daughter Caroline Yeo born 1915)
– Laura Yeo (born 1897)
– Thomas Henry Yeo (see below)
– Edith Jane (born 1906).
Samuel Yeo (born 1868, son of Henry Yeo and Jane Dunn) married Sarah Glanville in 1892. They had eight children before emigrating to Ontario, where they both died in 1943 [note 3]:
– George Henry Yeo (see below)
– Ethel Maud Yeo (1893–1895)
– Nora Yeo (1895–1979, married Frederick Thomas Hancock) [note 4]
– Sarah Yeo (born 1898)
– Samuel John Yeo (1901–1955, married Winifred Phillips)
– Annie Jane Yeo (born 1904) [note 5]
– Gladys Yeo (born 1905)
– William Yeo (born 1908).
Lewis Yeo (1869–1956 [note 6], son of Henry Yeo and Jane Dunn) married Eliza Craze. They had eight children [note 7]:
– Beatrice Violet Yeo (1890–1974, married Sidney Gilbert Wales, died in the United States)
– Ethel Maud Yeo (1891–1976, married Charles Percival Gill)
– May Yeo (born 1893)
– William Telfer Yeo (1894–1967 [note 8], married Ruth Jane Hardy [note 9])
– Owen Stanley Yeo
– Leonard Yeo (1898–1965, emigrated to the United States, married Annie Priscilla Prisk) [note 10]
– Hettie Yeo (1900–1993, married Richard John Hawes and Alfred Hampton)
– Mabel Yeo (1903–1995, married Herbert Trewren).
George Henry Yeo (1892–1967, son of Samuel Yeo and Sarah Glanville) [note 11] married Eliza Copelin in Cornwall in 1914. They had four children before emigrating to the United States:
– George Copelin Yeo (1914–1946, died in Michigan) [note 12]
– Margaret Annie Yeo (1915–1918)
– Phyllis May Yeo (born 1920)
– Ruth Yeo (born 1921).
Thomas Henry Yeo (1903–1937, son of Elias Yeo and Esther Ann Williams) was born in Camborne. He married Gladys Roberts in 1921; they had three children:
– Sylvia Mary Yeo (born 1922, married Delmore Williams)
– Gwendoline Yeo (born 1925, married Thomas Kane)
– Walter John Yeo (born 1929).
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Notes
1. Frederick died in Burma while serving with the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry.
2. Charles died at Hyderabad in India in 1915 while serving with the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry. He is commemorated on the war memorial at Karachi (now in Pakistan).
3. Samuel died at St Thomas, Ontario. His death certificate shows several incorrect details, presumably because his daughter Annie (named on the certificate) gave them inaccurately: his birthplace is shown as Devon rather than Cornwall, his late wife as Sarah Jane rather than Sarah, and his father as John rather than Henry. Annie was also named on her mother’s death certificate from earlier the same year; she was unmarried and gave the same address as her parents.
4. Nora is recorded on a passenger list for the SS Minnedosa in 1923, sailing to Canada to join Frederick, who appears to have emigrated earlier – so perhaps she did not emigrate with her parents. She died in Michigan.
5. A 1921 passenger list for the SS Meganic records Annie (a 17-year-old factory hand) travelling to Canada, accompanied by her father Samuel Yeo (a farmer aged 60). It is not known why Samuel had returned to England.
6. Also recorded as Louis.
7. The family is listed in Camborne in the 1901 census, with Lewis’s occupation recorded as a tin dresser.
8. William emigrated to the United States and married there. He served in the army during both World Wars; his First World War draft registration record decribes him as a miner.
9. 1905–1988, later married Harley Delbert Kidd.
10. Leonard served with the U.S. Army during the Second World War.
11. George served with the U.S. Army during the Second World War.
12. George served with the U.S. Army in during Second World War; his draft registration record gives his employer as the Buick Division of General Motors.