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John Yeo (1792–1896) was baptised at St Breward to parents Richard and Mary Yeo [note 1]. He married Eleanor May at Blisland in 1813; they baptised three sons there:
– John Yeo (see below)
– Richard Yeo
– William Yeo (1819–1891).
The 1851 census records John and Eleanor at Mennabroom in the parish of St Neot, where John is a farm bailiff; their seven-year-old grandson Richard Yeo (the second son of their son John) is listed with them. The 1881 census for St Cleer records John and Eleanor’s son William Yeo, a copper miner.
John Yeo (1813–1845, son of John Yeo and Eleanor May) married Martha Bennett. Their four sons were born at St Neot:
– William Yeo (born c1840)
– Richard Yeo (see below)
– John Yeo (see below)
– Charles Heard Yeo (see below).
Martha, who lived until 1890, re-married after John’s death. She married widower Richard Wilton at Liskeard Register Office in 1857.
Richard Yeo (1843–1933, son of John Yeo and Martha Bennett) married Elizabeth Mary Wilton at St Neot in 1864. They had eight children before emigrating to New South Wales [note 2]:
– John Yeo (see below)
– William Yeo (1867–1905, married Mary Smith, died in Queensland) [note 3]
– Richard Yeo (1869–1949)
– Theodora Yeo (1871–1874)
– Moses Yeo (1873–1957, married Florence Ethel Lake)
– Martha Eleanor Yeo (1875–1875)
– Aaron Yeo (1877–1886)
– Alonzo Yeo (1879–1907, married Gertrude Elizabeth Berghofer).
John Yeo (1846–1874 [note 4], son of John Yeo and Martha Bennett) married Emma Jane [note 5] in 1866. They had four children in Cornwall:
– William John Yeo (1867–1868)
– Martha Ann Yeo (1868–1921, married Alfred Long and William Thomas Rayner)
– Bessie Yeo (1870–1933, married William Ruddick)
– Amelia Jane Yeo (1872–1922, married Timothy Armstrong 1893) [note 6]
before moving to County Durham, where they had another daughter:
– Polly Yeo (1874–1940, married William Robert Fletcher).
Charles Heard Yeo (1855–1920, son of John Yeo and Martha Bennett) married Susan Stannaway at St Cleer in 1876. They emigrated to Australia, where they had ten children:
– Joseph John Yeo (1880–1882)
– Eveline Yeo (1882–1883)
– Susan Yeo (1883–1883)
– Edith Maud Yeo (1884–1963, married George Boyt)
– Florence Bertha Yeo (1885–1968, married David Griffiths)
– Lilian Yeo (1887–1888)
– Charles Leslie Yeo (1890–1963, married Lilian Preston Green, son Maurice Leslie Yeo, 1917–1989)
– Albert Yeo (1891–1974, married Ida Florence Friend)
– Elsie Yeo (1895–1895)
– Vera Beatrice Yeo (1906–1975, married Gilbert Smith).
John Yeo (1865–1939, son of Richard Yeo and Elizabeth Wilton) emigrated to New South Wales as a young man [note 7]. He married Hannah Maria Hillard at Burwood, New South Wales in 1887. They had five children [note 8]:
– Lucy Yeo (1888–1950, married Walter Edward Youall)
– Arthur Yeo (see below)
– Percy Yeo (see below)
– Ettie Yeo (1893–1991, married Frederick Arnold Matthews)
– William John Yeo (1904–1963, married Marion Elizabeth Glew).
Arthur Yeo (1889–1953, son of John Yeo and Hannah Maria Hillard) married Lilley Dugmore. They had two children:
– Aubrey Richard John Yeo (1914–1977)
– Edna M. Yeo (born 1917).
Percy Yeo (1891–1947, son of John Yeo and Hannah Maria Hillard) married Violet Winifred Cook in 1918. There is no record of children from this marriage, and Violet died the following year. In 1921 Percy married Euphemia Catherine Lilian Weldon, with whom he had two children.
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Notes
1. Can anyone identify Richard and Mary? They appear to have been descendants of cordwainer Walter Yeo of Stratton, via Walter’s grandson Richard Yeo who married Katherine Prout in 1745.
2. They emigrated about 1890 with four of their surviving children. Their eldest son John had already emigrated.
3. William and Mary had three daughters: Ethel Mary Yeo (1895–1984), Olive Muriel Yeo (1896–1993), Jessie Vera Yeo (1901–1986).
4. John has also been recorded as John George Yeo.
5. 1847–1878 (Jane was her surname). She re-married in 1876, to John Coram.
6. Timothy and Amelia’s youngest son James William Armstrong (1904–1978) is recorded in the 1911 census living with his aunt Martha Ann Rayner née Yeo.
7. The Sydney Morning Herald reported on 25 August 1885 the arrival that day of the SS Abergeldie, which had sailed from Plymouth. The passenger list included 20-year-old Cornishman John Yeo, occupation miner.
8. As researched by Sheila Yeo.