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James Yeo (1799–1867) was baptised at Atherington, the third son of John Yeo and Elizabeth Punchard. He married Elizabeth Smith [note 1] at Marwood in 1827. They baptised four children at Marwood:
– Thomas Yeo (baptised 1828)
– James Yeo (see below)
– John Yeo (baptised 1834)
– Eliza Yeo (1835–1850).
James Yeo (1830–1887, son of James Yeo and Elizabeth Smith) married Betsey Laramy [note 2] in 1856. They had ten children:
– Eliza Alice Yeo (1857–1926, married John Coats in 1895)
– Ann Elizabeth Yeo (1858–1885)
– James Yeo
– John Yeo (born 1860, appears to have died as a child)
– Alfred Yeo (see below)
– Thomas Yeo (1863–1894)
– George Yeo (1865–1882)
– Emily Yeo (1868–1940)
– Gertrude Yeo (1870–1941, married Herbert William Pooley in 1901)
– Herbert William Yeo (see below).
Alfred Yeo (1861–1934, son of James Yeo and Betsey Laramy) married Louisa Jackson at Tuckingmill, Cornwall in 1883. Their six children were born in various places in England:
– Annie Priscilla Yeo (1884–1927, married James Wilson Dott at Johannesburg in 1915, died in South Africa)
– Alfred James Yeo (see below)
– John Laramy Yeo (1887–1954, married Denise Speer at Kilkarra, New South Wales in 1910, died in Australia)
– Herbert Jackson Yeo (1888–1917) [note 3]
– Reginald Stanley Yeo (1891–1892)
– Sydney Thomas Yeo (1894–1895).
Alfred and Louisa emigrated to South Africa about 1905 [note 4] with their four surviving children; they moved to Australia in 1907, and both died in New South Wales.
Herbert William Yeo (1872–1938, son of James Yeo and Betsey Laramy) married Harriet Florence Gay at Holy Trinity, Barnstaple in 1901. They had two children:
– Florence Yeo (born 1901)
– James Yeo (born 1906).
Alfred James Yeo (1885–1971, son of Alfred Yeo and Louisa Jackson) married Kathleen Mary Flynn in New South Wales in 1946. They had a son:
– Reginald Stanley Yeo (1922–2015, married Joan Bernadette Tyler [note 5] in 1945 and Doreen May Harris née Keft [note 6] in 1979).
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Notes
1. 1800–1878.
2. 1831–1908. It is not known where in north Devon she and James married.
3. Herbert died in Belgium while serving with the Australian Infantry. See War deaths.
4. This information appears to be contradicted by an 1911 census return, which records Alfred and Louisa at Dursley in Gloucestershire, both aged 49. Alfred is working as a tailor’s cutter; four boarders are listed with them, but no children. Further research is required.
5. One son from this marriage, born 1948.
6. Widow of Sidney Edward Harris.