This couple married at Kilkhampton in 1717. John Yeo’s parents have been the subject of much speculation, but recent research identifies them as Francis Yeo [note 1] and Joyce Kestle.
Margaret Gist appears to have been related to the Elizabeth Gist who married Thomas Yeo at Kilkhampton in 1699. She was baptised at Kilkhampton in 1681 (her parents Edward Gist and Mary Bray had married in the same parish in 1679) and the parish register for Stratton records her burial in 1733.
John and Margaret had two children:
– John Yeo (see below)
– Mary Yeo (baptised at Kilkhampton in 1721) [note 2].
Margaret’s husband John Yeo married twice again after her death [note 3].
John Yeo (baptised 1718, son of John Yeo and Margaret Gist) married Grace Payne at Stratton in 1739 and farmed at Howard, just south of Stratton on the road to Morwenstow. He and Grace baptised ten children at Stratton, including:
– John Yeo (born 1739, married Elizabeth Dennis, four children)
– Hugh Yeo (1741–1741)
– Hugh Yeo (1742–1742)
– James Yeo (1744–1798, married Catherine Clase and Jane Ash, no recorded children)
– Grace Yeo (baptised 1745) [note 4]
– Mary Yeo (baptised 1748, married John Parsons)
– Margaret Yeo (see Robert Marshall and Margaret Yeo).
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Notes
1. Francis Yeo, baptised at Morwenstow in 1639 as Francis Tuck, was an illegitimate half brother of William Yeo of Morwenstow, who married Margaret Holman in 1676. The Holman family was researched by Humphrey Toms and Reg Walter.
2. Mary died at the age of 20 without marrying or apparently having children.
3. There were no children from John’s later marriages, to Mary Richards at Kilkhampton in 1736 and to Elizabeth Hobbs at Stratton in 1757.
4. Grace appears to have married Sylvester Heale.