John Yeo (c1839–1876) [note 1] married Ellen Walters at Lochinvar, New South Wales in 1862.
John and Ellen settled at Elong Elong and had seven children:
– John Walters Yeo (see John Leslie Yeo and Helen Gavel)
– James Alfred Yeo (see below)
– Hannah Elizabeth Yeo (1866–1935, married Arthur James Richardson)
– Ellen Ada Yeo (1868–1895, married Charles R. Richardson)
– William Hamilton Yeo (see below)
– Ernest Thomas Yeo (see Ernest Thomas Yeo and Anna Lydia Inder)
– Amelia Ada Yeo (1875–1952).
William Hamilton Yeo (1871–1931, third son of John Yeo and Ellen Walters) married Ettie Jane Gordon [note 2] at Narromine, New South Wales in 1905. Their nine children were born at Narromine:
– Gordon Hamilton Yeo (born 1906, married Mary Elizabeth Orr, daughter Reccia Yeo born 1937)
– Isabel Ada Ellen Yeo (1906–1988, married Frank Wigglesworth – see photograph above)
– Florant George Yeo (1908–1929)
– Muriel Yeo (born 1910, married Francis Kelly)
– Keith Alfred Yeo (born 1912)
– Heather Jean Yeo (1913–1959, married Arthur Michael Rupert Astill)
– Clarence Charles Yeo (1915–1978, married Dulcie Sylvia Graves)
– Eileen Margery Yeo (born 1919, married Ronald Murphy)
– Nellie Yeo (born 1923, died as an infant).
James Alfred Yeo (1864–1934, son of John Yeo and Ellen Walters, married Letitia May Bradley at Dubbo, New South Wales in 1896 and had ten children, including:
– James Hamilton Bradley Yeo (1905–1945, married Madeline McCleod, three children)
– William John Brennan Yeo (1907–1981, married René French, one daughter)
– Winston Stansbury Yeo (1917–1994, married Grace Gertrude Phelan, five children).
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Notes
1. John might have been the eldest son of Richard Yeo and Petronella Tossell. Confirmation required, including confirmation of his year of birth.
2. 1875–1948, daughter of Scottish emigrants George William Gordon and Jane Smith.