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English emigrants Robert Yea [note 1] and Catherine Cumming Wootton married in the Australian state of Victoria in 1857. They had six children:
– Alice Elizabeth Yea (1858–1930, married Joseph Croucher)
– John William Yea (see below)
– Catherine Wootton Yea (1863–1907, married James Henry Bradley) [note 2]
– Eleanor Parnell Yea (1866–1892, married William Robert Ward)
– Robert Yea (1868–1931)
– Harriet Anna Yea (1874–1943, married Henry George Ward).
John William Yea (1860–1940, son of Robert Yea and Catherine Cumming Wootton) married Rebecca Jane Fitzgerald. They had five children:
– Alice May Yea (1888–1968, married Thomas Hodgkin) [note 3]
– John William Yea (see below)
– Catherine Jane Yea (1889–1971, married James Isaac Larsen)
– Thomas Charles Yea (1894–1962, married Florence Annie Mealing, five children)
– Eliza Ellen Yea (1901–1901).
John William Yea (1890–1959, son of John William Yea and Rebecca Jane Fitzgerald) married Anna Bertha Muhlhauser. They had three children:
– Alice Mary Yea (1917–2017)
– Glenda Lillian Yea (1918–1976, married Alfred Norman Hensler)
– Geoffrey William Yea (1921–2006, married Jean Catherine Swasbrick).
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Notes
1. 1824–1894, born in Torquay to parents William Yea and Eleanor Parnell. For more information about this family, see the researched pedigree Descendants of William Yeo and Agnes Savery by Mike Darch and David Yaw.
2. Administration of the estate of licensed victualler Catherine Wootton Bradley of the Panton Hill Hotel at Panton Hill, Victoria was granted to her husband James Henry Bradley. The grant, issued on 20 August 1907 by the Supreme Court of Victoria, was accompanied by an inventory that showed little detail of the estate, and valued it at £155. Catherine had died without leaving a valid will. The date of her marriage to James is not known.
3. Did Alice also marry Percy Leonard Towl?