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The 1911 census for Bow in east London records 23-year-old James George Yeo at 22 Cantrell Road, his occupation ‘jam factory’. Listed with him are his wife Maud Louisa Yeo (age 21) and his ten-year-old nephew Sidney Line [note 1].
James George Yeo (born in London in 1887, son of George Yeo and Sarah Lilian Card) married Maud Louisa Line [note 2] at the parish church of St Matthias, Poplar in 1910. Soon after the 1911 census was taken, their first child was born; she was followed by twins and another daughter:
– Maudie Annie Yeo (born 1911) [note 3]
– George Yeo (1914–1977, married Gladys Emily George in London in 1937, twin sons)
– Daisy Freda Yeo (1914–1916)
– Doris May Yeo (born 1920) [note 3]
James served in the Royal Field Artillery during the First World War.
The 1939 Register for West Ham lists James and Maud at 137 Barnwood Road – James is working as a boiler sealer. Only their son George is listed with them, his occupation recorded as ‘barge hand sugar H’.
No record of James’s death has been found. He is shown as George James Yeo in the baptism records of his second and third children, so there are several ways his name might have been recorded when he died. Did he perhaps emigrate to look for work?
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Notes
1. Sydney Charles Richard Line (1900–1957), brother of James’s wife Maud.
2. 1890–1969, daughter of William James Line and Sarah Collins.
3. No marriage or death records have been found for Maudie or Doris, and it seems likely that they both died before 1939.