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Henry Yeo (1739–1777) was a son of John Yeo and Elizabeth Slowley and a great great grandson of Bartholomew Yeo and Agnes Rode of Swimbridge. Sheila Yeo looked into his family after being contacted by Brian Barrow in 2004.
Henry married Susannah Barrow at Landkey in 1763. They baptised four children at Goodleigh:
– Charity Yeo (baptised 1763)
– Prudence Yeo (baptised 1766, married George Goss, one son)
– John Yeo (1768–1833, married Mary White, eight children including William Yeo, see below)
– Thomas Yeo (see below).
Thomas Yeo (1774–1857, son of Henry Yeo and Susanna Barrow), married Mary Heal at Goodleigh in 1798. They lived at Marwood and baptised seven children there:
– Elizabeth Yeo (1798–1862, married John Redmore)
– John Yeo (see John Yeo and Sarah Kelly)
– Maria Yeo (baptised 1803, married Philip Gammon)
– Mary Yeo (baptised 1806, married John Tucker)
– Susanna Yeo (baptised 1810, married John Frost)
– Thomas Yeo (1813–1894, married Ann Fairchild, no recorded children)
– Prudence Yeo (1816–1892, married John Adams and moved to Plymouth).
William Yeo (baptised 1819 at Goodleigh, son of Henry Yeo and Susannah Barrow) married Mary Goss. Their five children were born at Goodleigh:
– Elizabeth Ann Yeo (1851–1944, married George Priscott)
– William Yeo (see below)
– Thomas Yeo (born 1856)
– Mary Ann Yeo (born 1857)
– Samuel Yeo (see below).
William Yeo (1852–1930, son of William Yeo and Mary Goss) married twice. He first married Grace Clarke Youatt in Devon in 1875; they had four children before Grace’s death in 1886:
– Grace Youatt Yeo (1875–1875)
– William Yeo
– Lily Mary Yeo (1878–1946, married Ernest George Thorne)
– Daisy Annie Yeo (1880–1881).
William’s second marriage was to Sarah Jane Bull in London in 1887. Their son was born in Devon:
– Wallace Frank Yeo (see below).
Samuel Yeo (1860–1938, son of William Yeo and Mary Goss) married Martha Bull [note 1]. They had four children:
– William Yeo (1890–1964, married Emily Mabel Wyatt)
– Mary Yeo (1892–1976, married Arthur Way)
– Samuel Yeo (1894–1926)
– Henry Yeo (1896–1989, married Eva Elizabeth Gaytten) [note 2].
Wallace Frank Yeo (1891–1952 [note 3], son of William Yeo and Sarah Jane Bull) married Audrey Laura Downing. They had two daughters:
– Dorothy May Yeo (1918–1994, marred Reginald Trawin)
– Audrey Eva Yeo (1920–2018, married Charles Henry Drew).
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Notes
1. Sister of his brother William’s second wife Sarah Jane Bull. The 1939 Register records Martha living with her daughter Mary Way.
2. Henry has been confused by some researchers with Henry Yeo (1896–1985), son of Henry Yeo and Annie Maria Chichester.
3. Known as Frank.