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James Yeo (1736–1805, son of James Yeo and Honor Cornish) married Elizabeth Vincent at Kilkhampton in 1803 and baptised six children at Kilkhampton:
– Ann Yeo (1759–1760)
– Honour Yeo (baptised 1762, married Thomas Burnard)
– James Yeo (see below)
– Chamond Yeo (see below)
– Thomas Yeo (1767–1830 [note 1], son Thomas Yeo, see below)
– Elizabeth Yeo (baptised 1776, married William Westaway).
James Yeo (c1765–1840, son of James Yeo and Elizabeth Vincent) worked as a shoemaker at Kilkhampton. He married twice. With his first wife Ann Osborn he baptised six children at Kilkhampton:
– James Yeo (baptised 1790, married Mary Francis, three children)
– Ann Yeo (baptised 1792, married William Haywood)
– William Yeo (1793–1818)
– Mary Yeo (1796–1882, married John Thomas Hopgood, died in Prince Edward Island)
– John Yeo (1803–1804)
– John Yeo (1806–1888, married Caroline Taylor, 13 children, died in Prince Edward Island).
With his second wife Grace Francis, James baptised a further nine children at Kilkhampton:
– Anna Maria Yeo (1808–1861, married Samuel Rodd at Kilkhampton in 1828 and emigrated to Prince Edward Island)
– Samuel Yeo
– Thomas Yeo (see below)
– Lawrence Yeo (see below)
– Barbara Yeo (1817–1867, married William Maynard) [note 2]
– Grace Yeo (1818–1880, married Henry Adams at Kilkhampton in 1835 and emigrated to Prince Edward Island)
– Joseph Yeo (1820–1820)
– Mary Yeo (1820–1820)
– William Yeo (1824–1824).
Chamond Yeo (1767–1839, son of James Yeo and Elizabeth Vincent) married Margaret Sharsell at Kilkhampton in 1799. Their first son was baptised at Launcells:
– Philip Yeo (see below)
after which they moved to Plymouth and baptised three children at Stoke Damerel:
– Thomas Yeo (see below)
– Mary Ann Yeo (baptised 1806, died as an infant)
– William Yeo (see below).
After moving to Stratton and baptising another son there,
– James Yeo (see below)
they returned to Launcells and baptised four more children [note 3]:
– Daniel Yeo (see Daniel Yeo and Maria Kinsman)
– Jane Yeo (1817–1900, married John Brimacombe 1843 in Prince Edward Island, died in Ontario)
– Samuel Yeo (1820–1894, six children, died in Illinois) [note 4]
– Chamond Yeo (1822–1907, married twice, died in Vancouver) [note 5].
Philip Yeo (1800–1876, son of Chamond Yeo and Margaret Sharsell [note 6]) married Ann Cook [note 7]. They had three children:
– John Cook Yeo (see below)
– Elizabeth Yeo (c1837–1888, married Robert Johnson in 1858 at Hartland) [note 8]
– Thomas Yeo (1844–1847).
Thomas Yeo (baptised 1804 at Stoke Damerel, son of Chamond Yeo and Margaret Sharsell) worked as a mason. He married Maria Vinson [note 9] at Stratton in 1833; they had seven children:
– Phillippa Yeo Vinson (baptised 1829 at Morwenstow)
– Mary Ann Yeo (baptised 1833 at Morwenstow)
– William Yeo (baptised 1835 at Launcells)
– Margaret Yeo (1836–1843)
– Jane Yeo (born 1838)
– Thomas Yeo (1841–1843)
– Daniel Yeo.
William Yeo (baptised 1811 at Stoke Damerel, son of Chamond Yeo and Margaret Sharsell) married Mary Bickel [note 10] at Marhamchurch in 1837. They had three children [note 11]:
– Ann Yeo (1839–1910) [note 12]
– William Yeo (1842–1910) [note 13]
– James Yeo.
James Yeo (1812–1894, son of Chamond Yeo and Margaret Sharsell) married twice. The two children from his first marriage, to Martha Short, were baptised in the parish church at Bude:
– James Yeo (1839–1916, married Clara Wesley)
– Ann Yeo (1841–1929, married John Cook).
After Martha’s death in 1843, James married Jane Skitch and had two more children:
– Samuel Channon Yeo
– William Robert Yeo (see below)
before emigrating to Ontario with Jane and having two more:
– Honor Yeo (1857–1857)
– Mary Jane Yeo (1857–1928, married Joseph Neville).
Thomas Yeo (1813–1862, son of James Yeo and Grace Francis) was baptised at Kilkhampton. He married Elizabeth Ann Hockridge at Kilkhampton in 1839. They had two children:
– Lawrence Yeo
– James Yeo (1845–1891, married Ann Gillis, nine children)
before emigrating to Prince Edward Island, where they had five further children:
– Thomas Frederick Yeo
– John Hockridge Yeo (see below)
– Jane Isabella Yeo (1860–1929, married John Key)
– William Thomas Yeo
– Caroline Alice Yeo (1863–1903, married John Maynard).
Thomas’s wife Elizabeth Ann was also recorded as Betsey. She later married her brother-in-law William Maynard.
Lawrence Yeo (1815–1907, son of James Yeo and Grace Francis) was baptised at Kilkhampton. He emigrated to Prince Edward Island, where he married Catherine McIntosh in 1840. They had nine children, including:
– Daniel Yeo (see below)
– Susan Maria Yeo (1851–1918, married Thomas Adams)
– James Harrison Yeo (1856–1948, married Elizabeth Ann Stuart)
– Thomas Archibald Yeo (1864–1923, married Sarah Jane Barker Ladner).
Thomas Yeo (1819–1905, son of Thomas Yeo and grandson of James Yeo and Elizabeth Vincent) married Mary Ann Burrow at Morwenstow in 1840. They emigrated to Prince Edward Island and had ten children [note 14], four of whom did not survive infancy:
– Elizabeth Alice Yeo (1841–1905, married Gustavus Hannaford Dammarell)
– William Yeo (1842–1848)
– Sarah Yeo (1845–1848)
– John Yeo (1846–1848)
– William Yeo (born 1849, married Elizabeth Macdonald)
– Thomas Yeo (1852–1929, married Louisa Moreside, 13 children)
– Mary Ann Yeo (1854–1933, married John Frederick Scott)
– Sarah Yeo (1857–1859)
– John Yeo (1859–1942, married Catherine MacPhall, four children)
– Henry Alfred Yeo (born 1862).
John Cook Yeo (1834–1921, son of Philip Yeo and Ann Cook [note 15]) married Mary Ann Lewis. They had two children:
– William Yeo (see below)
– John Lewis Yeo.
John and Ann emigrated to the United States with their two sons. They both died in Wisconsin.
Daniel Yeo (1845–1922, son of Lawrence Yeo and Catherine McIntosh) married Annie Murray. They had nine children:
– Albert Yeo (1875–1933)
– Mary Jane Yeo
– Henry Yeo (see below)
– Major Yeo (born 1882, married Christina May Campbell 1912 in Manitoba)
– William John Yeo (1885–1925)
– Sarah Belle Yeo (1887–1981, married Thomas William Chisholm)
– Edwin Yeo (1889–1966)
– Catherine Yeo (born 1892)
– Helena E. Yeo (born 1898).
William Robert Yeo (1849–1933, son of James Yeo and Jane Skitch) married Margaret Westaway Dyer at Port Hope, Ontario in 1869. They had five children:
– William Frederick Yeo (born 1871, died as an infant)
– Frederick Westaway Yeo (1873–1894)
– Stanley Dyer Yeo (see below)
– Norman Carder Yeo (1877–1947, married Florence McKnight)
– Harvey Robert Yeo (1883–1966, married Eva Elena Bassett at Durham, Ontario in 1905, two children).
William Yeo (1855–1923, son of John Cook Yeo and Mary Ann Lewis) was born at West Putford. He emigrated to Wisconsin with his parents, and married Scottish-born Mary Agness there in 1886. They had four children:
– Gertrude Yeo (born 1884)
– Forrest Lewis Yeo (1886–1965)
– John Hugh Yeo (c1888–1967, married Christine Esperseth Jensen)
– Gwendoline Yeo (born 1891).
John Hockridge Yeo (1855–1924 [note 16], son of Thomas Yeo and Elizabeth Ann Hockridge) married Clarissa Ramsay. Their nine children [note 17] were born in Prince Edward Island:
– Hannah Penrose Yeo (1883–1974, married Alexander Fieldings Murray)
– Alice Elizabeth Yeo (born 1885, married Joseph Naugler)
– John Ellsworth Yeo (see below)
– Lulu Maud Yeo (1889–1959, married John Russell Key)
– Beatrice Clarissa Yeo (born 1891, married David Dickie)
– Lauretta Jane Yeo (1892–1977, married Edmund Henry Yeo)
– Thomas Bayfield Yeo (1896–1950, married Agnes Harris)
– Ethel May Yeo (1901–1998, married Lionel Albert Cahill 1924) [note 18]
– Gertrude Bell Yeo (1905–1955, married Lawrence Percy Yeo).
Stanley Dyer Yeo (1874–1947, son of William Robert Yeo and Margaret Westaway Dyer) married Margaret Johnston. They had three sons:
– Stanley Johnston Yeo (1898–1967 [note 19], married Mary Jean Milligan)
– Lyle Westaway Yeo (1900–1966, married Anna M. Hie in Rochester, New York in 1917 and Hazel Bernice Cook in Ontario in 1925)
– William Frederick Yeo (1904–1982, married Mary Margarite Farrow).
Henry Yeo (1879–1955, son of Daniel Yeo and Annie Murray) married Grace Evelyn Montgomery in 1925. They had four children:
– Marjorie Evelyn Yeo (1926–1999)
– William John Yeo (1927–1976)
– Carol Joyce Yeo (1933–1936)
– Janice Minnie Yeo (1937–1946).
John Ellsworth Yeo (1887–1950 [note 20], son of John Hockridge Yeo and Clarissa Ramsay) married Edith Maud Nisbet. They had nine children:
– Helen Yeo (1913–1963, married Clyde Burbank Kelton 1940 in Massachusetts) [note 21]
– Clayton Alvin Yeo (1915–1986, married Bertha Adelaide Enman, two sons)
– Gladys Thelma Yeo (1917–1973, married Herbert Stanley Hodgson, died in Florida)
– Beatrice Clarissa Yeo (1919–1966, married John Burton Ballum)
– Eva Blanche Yeo (1922–1986, married Norman Clayton Ballum)
– Florence Yeo (1925–2003, married John Steele)
– Rosalie Alice Yeo (1926–2014, married Alexander Ladner, died in Ontario)
– Dorothy Mae Yeo (1929–2014, married Richmond Dudley Wright and Ira Leslie Enman)
– Kenneth George Yeo (1932–1993, died in Toronto).
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Notes
1. No marriage record found. Line of descent from research by Sheila Yeo.
2. William re-married in 1869. His second wife was his sister-in-law Elizabeth Ann Yeo née Hockridge, widow of Barbara’s brother Thomas Yeo.
3. A correspondent of Sheila Yeo suggested a further daughter Margaret Yeo (c1828–c1851). Sheila did not include Margaret in any of her pedigrees of the family; there is no matching baptism at Launcells, Stoke Damerel or Stratton, and no matching marriage or death registration.
4. The 1861 census for Toronto records Samuel as a horse-drawn cab driver, with his Irish-born wife Anna and children Anna Jane (age 9), Elizabeth (5) and Samuel John (3).
5. The 1901 census records Chamond in Ottawa working as a tailor, with his wife Matilda. He might have had a previous wife called Ellen.
6. 1777–1828, daughter of John Sharsell and Elizabeth Metherall.
7. 1812–1845, daughter of Robert and Bridget Cook.
8. The 1861, 1871 and 1881 censuses record Robert and Elizabeth at Stoke Damerel, where Robert is working as a shipwright.
9. Surname recorded as Vincent when the births of her children Jane, Thomas and Daniel were registered.
10. Surname also recorded as Bicknell.
11. The family is recorded at Underwood, Launcells in the 1851 census. William is a 40-year-old agricultural labourer, his wife Mary is 36 and was born at Week St Mary, and his children – all born at Stratton – are Ann (age 10), William (8) and James (6).
12. Ann did not marry, as confirmed by her probate record. Some researchers have shown her marrying Salathiel Braunde in London in 1848, which is clearly inaccurate as she would have been only nine years old in 1848.
13. Sheila Yeo recorded that William had a wife called Ellen, but no matching marriage registration has been found and his probate record makes no reference to next of kin.
14. It is not clear whether their first daughter Elizabeth Alice was born in England, during their emigration or in Prince Edward Island.
15. No baptism record has been found for John or for his sister Elizabeth; their brother Thomas Yeo was baptised at Hartland. The 1841 census for Hartland records John (age 6) living in Pound Street, Hartland with his parents and his sister Elizabeth (age 4).
16. Second forename also recorded as Hockeridge.
17. Based on research by Sheila Yeo, who also recorded a child born in 1898 who died shortly after birth and was not given a name.
18. Married and died in Massachusetts.
19. Also recorded as Stanley Johnstone Yeo.
20. Second forename also recorded as Ellesworth.
21. The obituary of Helen’s sister Dorothy Enman refers to her being pre-deceased by her sister Helen Swindell, so is this an error or did Helen marry twice?