John Yeo and Mary Furse

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John Yeo (baptised 1781 at Tetcott, son of Thomas Yeo and Grace Lane) married Mary Furse at Clawton in 1803. They lived at Milton Damerel and baptised seven children there:
– John Yeo (see below)
– Thomas Yeo (see below)
– Mary Yeo (baptised 1808)
– Grace Yeo (baptised 1811)
– William Yeo (see below)
– Ann Yeo (baptised 1816)
– Sarah Yeo (baptised 1818).

John Yeo (1804–1862, son of John Yeo and Mary Furse) worked as a blacksmith. He married Elizabeth Allin [note 1] at Milton Damerel in 1830; they had ten children:
– Thomas Yeo (see below)
– Susan Yeo (born 1833)
– Fanny Yeo (1836–1916, married Francis Fishleigh)
– John Yeo (1838–1842)
– Mary Susan Yeo (born 1841)
– Sarah Yeo (born 1843)
– Ann Yeo (born 1846)
– John Yeo (see below)
– William Yeo (born 1852)
– Francis Yeo (born 1855).

Thomas Yeo (c1806–1882 [note 1], son of John Yeo and Mary Furse) had nine children with his wife Mary Gilbert [note 2]:
– Dorothy Yeo (1828–1875, married Lewis Sanders)
– Ann Yeo (1830–1923, married George Gorrell)
– Mary Yeo (baptised Thornbury 1833)
– John Yeo (baptised Thornbury 1835, married Ann Short)
– Thomas Yeo (baptised Thornbury 1837, married Elizabeth Jane Lang)
– William Yeo (see below)
– Samuel Yeo (born Thornbury 1842)
– Richard Yeo (see below)
– Mary Grace Yeo (1849–1876, married William Mason).

Thomas Yeo (baptised 1831 at Thornbury, son of John Yeo and Elizabeth Allin) married Agnes Nichols in 1859. Their four children were born at Pyworthy:
– Elizabeth Anne Yeo (born 1860)
– William Yeo (1862–1930, married Victoria Tremeer, daughter Ada Agnes Yeo born 1903)
– Francis Yeo (born 1863)
– Mary Maria Yeo (1865–1936, married Thomas Newberry).

William Yeo (1813–1896, son of John Yeo and Mary Furse) married Grace Allin [note 3] at Sutcombe in 1836. Their children included:
– Mary Grace Yeo (1837–1902, baptised at the Bible Christian chapel at Shebbear.).

William Yeo (1839–1931, son of Thomas Yeo and Mary Gilbert née Skinner) married twice. He had four children with his first wife Mary Grace Grigg:
– Mary Ellen Yeo (born 1875, married Thomas Boulton)
– Thomas Edward Yeo (born 1876)
– Gertrude Annie Yeo (1878–1961, married Robert James Brown and Henry Watts)
– William John Yeo (born 1878)
Mary Grace died in 1882; William married Mary Hannah Hole née Curtis [note 4] three years later.

Richard Yeo (1845–1936, son of Thomas Yeo and Mary Gilbert née Skinner) moved to south Wales, where he married Caroline Freeman in 1876. They had three sons:
– Samuel Thomas Yeo (1877–1967)
– William Albert Yeo
– John Richard Yeo (1886–1961, married Meiriona Bowen).

John Yeo (born 1849, son of John Yeo and Elizabeth Allen) married Hannah Maria Folley in 1871. They had six children, including:
– William Thomas Yeo (born 1871, moved to Wales, married Elizabeth Rowe in 1892, son John Yeo born 1895 at Swansea)
– Frederick John Yeo (born 1874)
– Emily Yeo (born 1875)
– Francis Yeo (1877–1907, married Alice Edith White, daughter Eva Emily Yeo born 1906)
– Henry Yeo (see below)
– Archibald Yeo (see Archibald Yeo and Maude Evelyn Janaway).

Francis Yeo (born 1863 at Pyworthy, son of Thomas Yeo and Agnes Nicholls) married Lucy Heard in 1886. They had one son:
– Arthur Thomas Yeo (1889–1917) [note 5].

Henry Yeo (born at Halwill in 1879, son of John Yeo and Hannah Maria Folley) married Eva Ann Chidley in 1899. They farmed at Pancrasweek and had five children:
– William Henry Yeo (1902–1968, married Margaret Mary Slee, two daughters)
– Gladys Annie Yeo (born 1905)
– Frances May Yeo (born 1913, married Finnimore John Davis Jewell)
– Archibald Richard Chidley Yeo (1915–1980, known as Richard)
– Kenneth John Yeo (1919–1990, married Eunice Jane Leach, three children).

This line of descent is based on research carried out by Sheila Yeo in 2009, and has since been extended with information from several correspondents. Please Contact Us if you can add to or correct the information shown.

Notes
1. Baptism record not found. Date of death subject to confirmation. See also the second note against Thomas Yeo in the pedigree for William Yeo and Ann Hancock.
2. Née Skinner, married Thomas Yeo at Tetcott in 1827. No record of Mary’s first marriage has been found, but the birth registrations of the children she had with Thomas after 1837 show her birth surname as Skinner. Further research is required.
3. Surname also recorded as Allen.
4. 1854–1931, previously married to Thomas Salisbury Hole.
5. Arthur died on active service with the London Regiment, and was buried at Cement House Cemetery in Belgium.