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 (baptised 1806, married Mary Gilbert, nine children)
– 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 (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 1] at Sutcombe in 1836. Their children included:
– Mary Grace Yeo (1837–1902, baptised at the Bible Christian chapel at Shebbear.).

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 2].

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).

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Notes
1. Surname also recorded as Allen.
2. Arthur died on active service with the London Regiment, and was buried at Cement House Cemetery in Belgium.