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John Yaw (1751–1824) was baptised at Templeton in Somerset, the second of three sons of Joseph Yea and Mary Stone, who had married there in 1749. John married Elizabeth Richards at Washfield in 1784. They had six children, including:
– William Yaw (1791–1836)
– John Yaw (see below)
– Sarah Yaw (born 1803, married Joseph Warren).
John Yaw (1793–1865, son of John Yaw and Elizabeth Richards) married Sarah Mogford at Bampton [note 1] and had at least twelve children, including:
– William Yaw (1819–1891, married Ann How)
– John Yaw (c1821–1882, married Sarah Ann Bowden)
– Samuel Yaw (see below)
– Thomas Yaw (see below)
– Elizabeth Yaw (see below)
– Mary Yaw (1839–1919, married James Grabham and William Woodbury) [note 2]
– David Yaw (born 1842).
Samuel Yaw (1828–1897, son of John Yaw and Sarah Mogford) married Eliza Atkins at Bampton in 1859. They had ten children [note 3]:
– John Yaw (born 1860, died as an infant)
– John Yaw
– Samuel Yaw (born 1863)
– George Yaw (1866–1870)
– Thomas Yaw (1868–1928, married Eliza Collard)
– Elizabeth Yaw (1870–1876)
– James Yaw (1871–1939)
– Mary Ann Yaw (1874–1950, married Elijah Thomas Brewer)
– Lucy Ellen Yaw (1876–1947, married Mark Westcott)
– Bessie Yaw (1879–1958, married Frederick George Thompson).
Thomas Yaw (c1832–1901, son of John Yaw and Sarah Mogford) married twice. He first married Sarah Rose at Bampton in 1860; they had eight children:
– John Yaw (born 1861, married Susan Ridgway, ten children)
– Helen Yaw (1863–1864) [note 4]
– Emma Yaw (1866–1908) [note 5]
– Sarah Yaw (born 1867)
– William Yaw (born 1867)
– Elizabeth Yaw (born 1870)
– Thomas Yaw (1872–1873)
– Robert Yaw (born 1877).
After the death of his wife Sarah, Thomas married Jane Holland in 1874. They had a son:
– Thomas Yeo.
Elizabeth Yaw (1837–1908, daughter of John Yaw and Sarah Mogford) had a son:
– George Yaw (see below)
before marrying Henry Chapple at North Molton in 1862.
George Yaw (c1856–1938, son of Elizabeth Yaw) married Sarah Dunn at Bampton in 1878. Their eight children, born in Somerset and in Glamorganshire, included:
– James Yaw (1886–1956, moved to Monmouthshire, married Alma Elizabeth Worgan in 1911, two children)
– Isabella Yaw (born 1888, married William Parsons)
– Jane Yaw (born 1893, married Ernest Warren).
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For more information about this family, see the report Descendants of Thomas Yea of Wiveliscombe by Mike Darch and David Yaw.
Notes
1. Marriage record not found. Sarah’s surname is from the registration of the birth of their son David.
2. Mary’s surname is recorded as Woodberry in the 1891 and 1901 censuses.
3. Births registered with the surname Yaw; marriages and deaths mainly registered as Yeo. Some of the details for this family require confirmation.
4. Baptised as Ellen Yaw.
5. Daughter Winifred Bessie Montgomery Yeo (1894–1961, married George Beresford Labrum, died in New Zealand).