William and Jane Dyer are recorded in the 1911 census return for 4 Gaskell Street in Newport, Monmouthshire. William is 40, was born in Bath and works as a labourer, apparently working from home for a sheet iron manufacturer. Jane is 42, and was born in Newport. Listed with them are four of Jane’s children, recorded as unmarried stepchildren of the head of the household, and all born in Newport: William Yeo (age 20), Gladys Yeo (17), Philip Yeo (9), Edwin Yeo (6). William appears to be working with his stepfather and Gladys is described as a laundress.
Jane Dyer was born Mary Jane Gillard in 1859, and had married John Philip Yeo in 1880. The births of their eleven children were registered at Newport:
– Florence Adeline Yeo (1882–1926, married Ralph Prichard Davies)
– Robert William Yeo (born 1884)
– Thomas John Yeo (1887–1891)
– Ethel Maud Yeo (born 1889)
– William Percy Yeo (1890–1958, married Clara Walters, two sons)
– Frederick Charles Yeo (born 1891)
– Mabel Yeo (1893–1967, married George Henry Rogers)
– Gladys Yeo (1894–1967, married William Jones)
– Violet Olive Yeo (1900–1901)
– Philip Ralph Yeo (1902–1969, married Olivetta May Close, two daughters)
– Edwin Albert Yeo (1904–1976, married Annis Elizabeth Kear, son Harry John Yeo, 1935–2014).
John Philip Yeo died in 1906, and Mary Jane married William John Dyer the following year. There were no children from Mary Jane’s second marriage; she lived until 1923.
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