John Yeo was baptised at Werrington in 1770, the only son of Thomas Yeo and Elizabeth Hill [note 1]. He married Ann Ellis at the parish church in East Stonehouse in 1800 and they had eight children:
– Mary Yeo (baptised 1800)
– Henry Yeo (baptised 1802)
– John Yeo (baptised at St Andrew, Plymouth 1804 [note 2])
– Thomas Bailey Yeo (baptised 1811)
– William Joseph Spry Yeo
– Thomasine Bailey Yeo (baptised at St Andrew, Plymouth 1816)
– George Yeo (baptised at St Andrew, Plymouth 1820)
– Harriett Yeo (baptised at St Andrew, Plymouth 1822)
– Samuel Yeo (see below).
Samuel Yeo (1825–1860, son of John Yeo and Ann Ellis [note 3]) married Adelaide O’Neill in Plymouth in 1850. They moved to Calstock and had two children:
– Elizabeth Yeo (born 1855)
– Francis Frederick Yeo (see below).
Francis Frederick Yeo (1857–1890, son of Samuel Yeo and Adelaide O’Neill) married Rhoda Sarah Jarman in Plymouth in 1879. They had four children:
– Frederick Henry Yeo (born 1886 in Plymouth, moved to Hampshire, married Violet May Talbot, three children)
– Adelaide Maud Yeo (born 1887 in Plymouth)
– Elsie Elizabeth Yeo (born 1889 in Plymouth)
– Walter Ernest O’Neill Yeo (see below)
Walter Ernest O’Neill Yeo (1890–1960 [note 4], son of Frederick Henry Yeo and Rhoda Sarah Jarman) married Irish-born Ada Evelyn Edwards in Plymouth in 1914. They had two daughters:
– Lilian Evelyn Yeo (1914–1993, married Noel Lewis)
– Doreen Yvonne Yeo (born 1919, married Sydney Hookway) [note 5].
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Notes:
1. An alternative line explored by Sheila suggested that the John Yeo who married Ann Ellis was a son of Thomas Yeo and Mary Featherstone of Launceston.
2. Possible son John Yeo (1835–1902).
3. Francis died while serving with the Royal Navy as a petty officer on the cruiser HMS Serpent, which struck rocks near Cape Villan on the north-west coast of Spain. The South Wales Echo for 14 November 1890 reported that the ship sank with the loss of 173 lives.
4. Sheila wrote in detail about Walter after being contacted by artist Paddy Hartley in 2008. He suffered disfiguring facial burns in 1916 while serving on HMS Warspite at the Battle of Jutland and was subsequently one of the first recipients of plastic surgery.
5. Doreen’s surname was recorded as Price when she registered her mother’s death in 1994.