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Sheila Yeo was sent details of this London marriage by a correspondent; she was unable to find a record of the bride’s birth and appears not to have identified her, not surprising given the misleading information on her marriage certificate.
Herbert Thomas Wass and Emily Vivian Yeo Fraser married at the parish church of St Augustine, Kilburn in 1899. Herbert is recorded as a 25-year-old bachelor, a grocer of 4 Kilburn Park Road, son of painter Alfred Wass. Emily is recorded as a 20-year-old spinster of 20A Auckland Terrace, West Norwood, daughter of mason George Fraser, who signed as a witness. The marriage took place after the reading of banns.
George Fraser was not Emily’s father; he was her stepfather. She was born Emily Vivian Yeo in 1878 and baptised the same year. Her parents William Yeo and Mary Jane Vivian [note 1] had married in London in 1873 [note 2]; they had two other children:
– William John Yeo (born 1875)
– Edith Louisa Vivian Yeo (1877–1966, married John Mills in 1897) [notes 3, 4].
Emily was also widowed – her husband Herbert died in 1912 and she emigrated to New South Wales [note 5], where she married Robert Francis Brooks in 1919. She lived until 1937.
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Notes
1. William’s identity requires confirmation; he has been incorrectly identified by some researchers as a son of William Yeo and Maria Fisher. Mary Jane was born in Cornwall in 1847, her birth registered at St Columb. William Yeo in 1880 and Mary Jane re-married, to George Fraser in 1883 (registered as Mary Ellen Yeo); no record of her death has been found.
2. Married by banns at the parish church of St Stephen, Westminster. William is recorded as a 22-year-old bachelor, a soldier in the Coldstream Guards. Mary Jane (who was 26) is recorded as a 21-year-old spinster.
3. Edith’s birth was registered as Edith Louisa Vivian Yeo Fraser, also taking the surname of her stepfather.
4. The 1911 census records 39-year-old grocery shop assistant John Mills at 23 High Street, Southend-on-Sea; listed with him are his 33-year-old wife Edith Louise Mills, their 2-year-old son Jack Mills, a domestic servant and five boarders.
5. Did her brother William and her mother Mary also emigrate?