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John Yeo (1836–1919, son of Thomas Yeo and Grace Knill) was born in Ilfracombe but spent most of his life in nearby Mortehoe. He lived at Warcombe on high ground overlooking the sea and worked as a labourer.
John married Eliza Ashford at Mortehoe in 1856. Eliza was prominent locally; as well as looking after her large family she ran a café, and with her son Alfred ran a pony-and-trap service bringing holidaymakers from Woolacombe. Ivor Gammon has researched Eliza’s life.
The 1911 census records John and Eliza at Sea View Cottage, Mortehoe. John is 64 and a general labourer for a golf club; Eliza is 71. With them are their unmarried sons Sidney (35, a general labourer) and Alfred (32, a cab driver) and 19-year-old Eliza Ellis, daughter of their daughter Mary Eliza.
John and Eliza had seventeen children:
– William Yeo (1855–1855)
– James Yeo (1856–1858)
– Elizabeth Yeo (1856–1858, twin sister of James)
– Thomas Yeo
– William John Yeo (1861–1862)
– Eliza Ann Yeo (1857–1858)
– Samuel John Yeo (see below)
– Hannah Jane Yeo (born 1864)
– Sarah Jane Yeo (1865–1943, married Frederick Smith)
– Edith Ellen Yeo (born 1868, married William Henry Watts)
– Rhoda Evangeline Yeo (1870–1951, married Francis Henry Davis)
– Mary Eliza Yeo (1872–1951, married George Ellis and Alfred George Gammon)
– Frederick George Yeo
– Sidney William Yeo
– Alfred Yeo (1879–1959, married Clarissa Elizabeth Ockenden, son Alfred Charles Yeo, see below)
– Bertha Florence Yeo (1881–1982, married Edward Sefton Carroll)
– Alice Harriet Yeo (1883–1975, married Edmond Ernest Coles).
Samuel John Yeo (1863–1954, son of John Yeo and Eliza Ashford) married Eliza Ann Conibear. They had two sons:
– Albert George Yeo (married Evelyn Kate Coles) [note 1]
– David Yeo (1901–1950).
Alfred Charles Yeo (1925–1983, son of Alfred Yeo and Clarissa Elizabeth Ockenden) married in 1947 and had a son in 1949.
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Note
1. Albert and Evelyn’s daughter Mildred May Yeo married Cuthbert George Yeo in 1932.