James Lashbrook Yeo (1816–1864) was born in Morwenstow, the third of six children of Richard Yeo and Grace Lashbrook. He emigrated to Prince Edward with his parents, and married Mary Hardy at Charlottetown in 1838. Their twelve children were born in Prince Edward Island:
– John Hardy Yeo (1839–1840)
– George Hardy Yeo (1845–1933, married Margaret Caroline Sellick, six children)
– Bethesda Yeo (born 1845, married William Arthur)
– William Lashbrook Yeo (1847–1930, had eight children [note 1] from his marriage to Caroline Wyland and three children from his marriage to Matilda Wyland)
– Maria Yeo (1849–1946, married Samuel Sellick)
– Mary Jane Yeo (born 1851) [note 2]
– Lydia Yeo (born 1854, married Humphrey Arthur)
– Charles Yeo (born 1846)
– James Yeo (1860–1926, died in British Columbia)
– Thomas Harrison Yeo (1862–1941, three children) [note 3]
– Cephas Yeo (born 1863)
– Matilda Yeo (born 1863).
If you can add to or correct the information shown, please use the Contact Us page.
Notes
1. including Herbert William Yeo (1890–1950).
2. Mary Jane did not marry; she died in Prince Edward Island in 1915. Some researchers have confused her with a Mary Jane Yeo (daughter of John Yeo and Mary Ann Shortridge) who was born in Ontario in 1843 and married John Henry Conklin there in 1871.
3. Also recorded as Thomas Hardy Yeo.