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The Yeo One-name Study
About the Study
About Us
The origin of the surname
Further surname variants
Acknowledgements
Research notes . . .
How these notes might help
Apprenticeships in England
Dates . . .
What’s in a date?
Dates in genealogy
Dates before 1751
Divided by a common language?
DNA testing
Overlap between parish registers and civil registration records
Photographs
The established church and nonconformism
The ‘fifth son’ and the Shebbear line
Or was she called Ellen?
The Great Storm
The Huish Diary
The past is a foreign country
Finding people in censuses
In memoriam
Intellectual property and copyright
Land tenure
Latin words and phrases
Parishes with the same name
Photographs
Mothers’ maiden names
Realignment of the border between Cornwall and Devon
Otherwise known as …
Unrecorded events
Friends of the study . . .
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Pedigrees
Yeo and variant pedigrees
Research by Angela Morgan . . .
Beaple Yeo and the Morgan family
Research by C.A. Phillips and the Yaw-Yeaw Family Society
Research by Eve McLaughlin . . .
The Yeo Family
Research by Mike Darch and David Yaw . . .
Introduction to research by Mike Darch and David Yaw
Important notes for the linked PDF files
Previous researchers
A Yeo Family of Ireland
Descendants of William Yeo and Agnes Savery
Descendants of Thomas Yea of Yea, Wiveliscombe
Descendants of Richard Yea of Oakhampton, Wiveliscombe
Yeo and variant lines in (1) . . .
Australia
Bradworthy
Bristol
In the Clergy
Fullarton, Ontario
Guernsey
Exeter
Gibraltar
France
Germany?
India
Ireland
Kilkhampton
Malmesbury and Christian Malford
Mexico
Newfoundland
New Zealand
New York
North America
Northern Ireland
Yeo and variant lines in (2) . . .
Ohio
On the Amelia Thompson
On the James Baines
Ontario
Pennsylvania
Plymouth in 1890
Prince Edward Island
St Veep and St Cleer
Scotland
South Africa
Stoke Damerel, Exeter, London and Australia
Stratton
The 1921 census for England and Wales
The Inner Temple and the Middle Temple
The Medical Profession
Virginia
Research by Sheila Yeo
Pedigrees currently under research
Other researched pedigrees
Pedigrees and images on commercial web sites
Surname distribution – England and Wales
Related families . . .
Crocker
Fortescue
Gist
Marshall
Shapland
Westaway
Families
About this section
Index
Families (1) to (6)
Families (1) . . .
Humphrey Yeo and Jane Hambley
Thomas Martin and Joanna Yeo
William Yeo and Margaret Smyth
John Yeo and Katherine Harris
Henry Yeo and Jane Dunn
Sophia Yeo Marks, Sophia Yeo Dunn and Sophia Yeo Scott
John Yeo and Charlotte Widger
Thomas Yeo Bartlett and Anne Mary Colyer – married twice?
Joseph Yeo and Ann Veysey
John Yeo and Rebecca Rolle – a marriage that joined two Yeo lines
Descendants of John Yeo and Frances Holman
Luxmoore Yeos
Thomas Yeo and Dorothy Heard
William Yeo and Susan Coates
Henry Yeo and Martha Byrne
William Yeo and Jane Fanson
Samuel Yeo and Elizabeth Widlake
William Yeo and Margery Rowell
John Yeo and Mary Jane Curtis
William Greenwood and Susannah Yeo
William Westaway and Elizabeth Yeo
James Yeo and Eliza Coleman
George Yeo and Ann Gliddon
Thomas Yeo and Agnes Ridge
William Yeo and Ellen Tucker
Philip Yeo and Elizabeth Higgins
John Yeo and Ann Weare
Frank Alonzo Johnson and Nancy Martha Yeo
John Yeo and Grace Banbury
William Yeo and Bridget Rundle
John Yeo and Emma Allamby
John Yeo and Catherine Lee
William Yeo and Mary Ann Spears
Families (2) . . .
Richard Allin and Ann Yeo
The wrong son recorded?
John Yeo and Penelope Sarah Collingwood, and ‘The White Rabbit’
Did they marry?
Henry Hagner Steiner and Susanna Yohe
John Edward Yeo and Charlotte Emma Allam
John Gist and Elizabeth Yeo
George William Yeo and Eda Anna Stocking
John Spiring Ashton and Grace Yeo Westaway
John Yeo and Mary Jearn
Philip Yeo and Elizabeth Hallett
William Henry Yeo and Elizabeth Mary Shutts
John Yeo and Margaret Gist
Robert Marshall and Margaret Yeo
Richard Yeo and Elizabeth Penfound
William Yeo and Mary Grace Grigg
Richard Spear and Elizabeth Yeo
Clayton Jack Yeo and Dale Yeo
John Yeo and Sarah Jopson
William Glover and Mary Yeo
Walter Herbert Yeo and Mary Ann Brooks
Owen George Yeo and Annie Balsom
Joseph James Amico and Theresa Yea
John Yeo and Alice Jane Bull
George Shapland Yeo and Elizabeth Pender
Joseph Yeo and Sarah Thomas
Edwin Prouse Hawton and Sarah Yeo
Arthur H. Yeo and Marie-Louise Carson
Sydney Yeo and Lily Trace
John Charles Yeo and Eliza Ann Hickox
Emery Yaw and Ruth Ferman
Robert Yeo and Joan Norris
Families (3) . . .
Thomas Yeo and Elizabeth Shapland
John Yeo and Alice Jeue
John Yeo and Elizabeth Fortescue
John Yaw and Elizabeth Richards
Sydney George Yeo and Elsie Elizabeth Long
Thomas Yeo and Sarah Phippen
Frederick Yea and Lucy Cordelia Dedman
Benjamin Wellington Yeo and Margaret Clark Morgan
James Yeo and Mary Ann Mitchell
James Yeo and Elizabeth Smith
Ezra Winslow Patterson and Albina Prowse Yeo
Robert Yeo and Ann Syms
William Yeo and Esther Bird – married in Cheshire
George Johnson and Emma Yeo
Charles Henry Basting and Eliza Yeo
John Yeo and Sarah Kelly
James Yeo and Susannah Poole
John Triplett and Joan Yeo
John Yeo and Emma Selwood
Benjamin Yeo and Ann McBain
Herbert William Freshwater and Florence Yeo Hardaway
George Cecil Yeo and Muriel Olton
Frederick Yeo and Harriette Archer
William Henry Baker Yeo and Mary Ann Peabody
Edward Robert Yeo and Nellie Irene Thomson
Thomas Yeo and Elizabeth Drake
Alfred Yoe and Harriet Elizabeth Feild
Russell James Yeo and Winona Irene Berry
Thomas Lyde Gale and Prudence Ann Yeo
John Edwin Yeo and Mary Jane Mackay
John Yeo and Ellen Walters
Families (4) . . .
Sydney Ellis Yeo and Hilda Beatrice Crossman
Philip Joseph Yeo and Janet Graham McLachlan
Albert James Richard Yeo and Harriet Emma Dean
Richard Yeo and Catherine Moyse
Richard Yeo and Isabel Dayman
William Yeo and Ann Glover
William Yeo and Margaret Smyth
William Yeo and Sarah Heathman
Bartholomew Yeo and Margaret Ackland
Henry Yeo and Susannah Barrow
John Yeo and Jane Yeo Philpot
Henry Yeo and Elizabeth Aurther
Isaac Yeo and Mary Hammett
Thomas Yeo and Elizabeth Hancock
John Yeo and Elizabeth Reed
Isaac Yeo and Elizabeth Upright
George Yeo and Catherine Toms
John Henson Pickenee and Catherine Yoe
Thomas Yeo and Mary Elliot
James Yeo and Elizabeth Braund
Roger Yeo and Maria Pinsent
Thomas Yeo and Elizabeth Mason
Amos Yaw and Alma Davis
John Yeo and Ann Ellis
Edwin John Yeo and Sarah Ann Silcocks
Francis Joseph Yea and Philemonia Boyer
Samuel Yeo and Elizabeth Johns
John Yeo and Elizabeth Brace
Thomas Yeo and Mary Davis
Families (5) . . .
James Yeo and Elizabeth Yeo of Swimbridge
Bartholomew Yeo and Zenobia Halse
Humphrey Yeo and Agnes Wheeler
James Tinson and Mary Yeo
Arthur George Yeo and Ada Eliza Painter
Robert Yeo and Jane Thorne
Joseph Yeo and Jane Giffard
Robert Yeo and Mary Ann Fulford
John Yeo and Elizabeth Harvey
Richard Yeo and Petronella Tossell
William Yea and Jane Facey
George Yeo and Hannah Pierce
William John Yaw and Emma Alderman
William Yeo and Rosamond Green
Joseph Yeo and Ann Gillard
William Yeo and Caroline Fry
Daniel Yeo and Barbara Easton
Daniel Yeo and Maria Kinsman
Joseph Yeo and Ann Westcott
Thomas Yeo and Grace Ashton
Thomas Yeo and Mary Cole
Samuel Yeo and Mary Jane Hutchings
John Yeo and Ann Vrain
Richard Yeo and Grace Symons
Samuel Yeo and Joan Leworthy
Isaac Yeo and Mary Carey
Henry Robert Yeo and Sultana Piper
John Yeo and Mary Ann Tucker
George William Yeo and Beatrice Mary Hall
Families (6) . . .
William Fletcher Yeo and Elizabeth Churchward
Richard Evans and Frances Yeo
George Yeo and Elizabeth Fletcher
Richard Soper Yeo and Esther Todd
Richard Yeo and Loveday Turner
John Yeo and Joanna Keenor
William Yeo and Grace Soper
Jacob Yeo and Ann Reader
John Thomas Scown and Susan Yeo
Thomas Yeo and Jane Courtis
Henry Yeo and Elizabeth Blackmore
Richard and Alice Yea of Wiveliscombe
Robert Yeo and Susanna Webber
Robert Yeo and Elizabeth Westaway
Richard Yeo and Susanna Spry
Samuel Yeo and Nancy Prowse
William Yeo and Mary Fairchild
Thomas Yeo and Grace Glover
Simon Yeo and Agnes Prout
James Yeo and Elizabeth Vincent
James Yeo and Eliza Ann Nichols
Lawrence Yeo and Margaret Jane Harkness
James Henry Yeo and Ruhaniah Eggleston
John Yeo and Mary Stilson
John Yeo and Hannah Hardy
Families (7) to (12)
Families (7) . . .
William Yeo and Adeliza Gallifant
George Yeo and Rose Emily Marshment
James Yeo and Honor Cornish
George Yeo and Mary Day
Alfred Yea and Catherine Margaret Ashton
Thomas Yeo and Matilda Brimacombe Daniel
William Yeo and Joan Fulford
John Yeo and Eliza Ashford
Robert Yeo and Rose Cory
Thomas Yeo and Elizabeth Gist
John Cole and Grace Yeo
John Ashton and Ann Yeo Westaway
John Pippy and Elizabeth Yeo
Thomas Yeo and Grace Walter Yeo
John Yeo and Ann Honeychurch
Frisby Yeo and Rachel Prouse
John Yeo and Julia Longley
James Yeo and Sarah Parcels
John Williams Yoe and Mahala Eugenia Holt
Thomas Frederick Yeo and Catherine Henry
William John Berriman Yeo and Agnes Aletha Clary
Edmond Gore Yeo and Emily Louisa Kermode
Robert Newbery and Ann Yeaw
George Yeaw and Mary Fleetwood
Thomas Yeaw and Sarah Suppel
Richard Yeo and Ann Prowse
William James Yeo and Louise Stodden
Thomas Frederick Yeo and Matilda Dorcas Douglas
John Yeo and Mary Ann Harmer
John Westaway and Ann Yeo
John Thomas Yeo and Amelia Cooper
Families (8) . . .
William Yeo and Mary Routley
James Yeo and Elizabeth Upham
Thomas and Mary Yeo of Woolfardisworthy
Alfred Yeo and Sarah Ann Caroline Burtenshaw
William Thomas Archibald Yeo and Emily Mary Welfare
Thomas Yeo and Elizabeth Hill
John Yeo and Margery Stacey
Samuel Yeo and Emma Ridgway
Andrew Yeo and Jane Burrows
Charles Henry John Yeo and Frances Elizabeth Baker
Richard Yeo and Elizabeth Manning
William Towell and Elizabeth Yeo
John Yeo and Em Bant
Gordon Charles Yeo and Lois Eleanora Bishop
Ernest Thomas Yeo and Anna Lydia Inder
Alfred Yeo and Sarah Elenor Halls
Henry Yeo and Jane Lee
Frederick Yeo and Ethel Mary Knight
Thomas Yeo and Mary Smitheram
Henry Yoe and Catharine Wymer
William Yeo and Ann Hancock
William Yeo and Anna Maria Pontet
David Yeo and Eliza Bevan
William Thomas Yeo and Katherine Maude Arbing
Richard Yeo and Catherine Luxon
William Yeo and Ann Coath
Jonas W. Yeo and Emily Platt Robinson
Two Philadelphia marriages
Henry Thomas Freemantle and Emma Yeo
William Ernest Surtees and Sophia Yeo Lynn Briggs
William Yeo and Mary Freeman
Families (9) . . .
Joshua Yoe and Alley Duffey
Henry Walter and Emm Yeo
George Henry Clapp Yea and Isabella Murdoch
Peter Yoe and Mary Secrist
Ralph Yeo Sketch and Margaret Gladys Martin
Charles William Yea and Margaret Ogilvie Baird Nicol
Benjamin Yeo and Mary Wade
John Yeo and Mary Furse
Henry Vivian Yeo and Mary Katherine Seymour
Thomas Yeo and Mary Ann Burrows
Daniel Yeo and Elizabeth Coombe
John Yeo and Elizabeth Wallish
William Yaw and Betty Galsworthy
John Yeo and Eleanor May
Roger Yeo and Margaret Cowell
William Yeo and Mary Ralfe
Samuel Yeo and Margaret Thompson
Charles Yeo and Jane Phillips
William Yeo and Susanna Davey
Robert Yeo and Elizabeth Elliot
Amos Yaw and Mercy Franklin
Thomas Yeo and Ellen Flynn
James Yeo and Martha Thomas
Richard Yeo and Honor Bynes
Joseph Sewell Yeo and Isabella Holehouse
Frank Yeo and Emily Mary Ann Davey
Samuel Burgess Yeo and Mary Burgess
Henry Yeo and Ann Flowers Burchett
George Yeo and Margery Cook
Philip Yeo and Hannah Martin
Joseph Greek Yeo and Jane Matthews
Alfred James Yeo and Gwladus Jane Harries – married twice?
Families (10) . . .
The Yea family of Pyrland, Somerset
William Yaw and Cateren Michelmore
Henry Yeo and Elizabeth Vicary
Francis Yeo and Ann Brooking
William Thomas Yeo and Ellen Amelia Mutton
Henry Yeo and Catherine Ann Spencer Beare
Richard Yeo and Mary Ann Cann
Walter Weeks and Dorothy Yeo
John and Grace Yow of St Cleer
John Yeo and Jane Thomas
Francis Leonard Herbert Hearn and Winifred Ada Yeo
William Yeo and Susan Wonnacott
Nicholas Yeo and Agnes South
Frederick James Yeo and Dora Adelaide Hoskin
George Josse Yeo and Alice Brinton
William Henry Yeo and Elizabeth Welsford
Thomas Charles Yeo and Zeolina Pearl Harris
Frederick Yeo and Betty Hollinghurst
William Yeo and Jane Andrews
John Yeo and Thomasyne Witheridge
Thomas Yeo and Mary Radford
Philip Yeo and Catherine Bagland
Families (11) . . .
John and Elizabeth Yawe of Cannington
Jonathan Yaw and Mary Wildor
Paul Yeo and Elizabeth Yeo
Arthur James Yeo and Alice Lisle Walter
David Yea and Mary Hobbes
Thomas Yeo and Mary Woolacott
Thomas Yeo and Hannah Maria Job
James Yeo and Eleanor Charlton
John William Yaw and Charity Davis
William Yeo and Jean Dimond
David Slocombe and Alice Yea of Wiveliscombe
James Peake Yeo and Thomazin Hillman Williams
Families (12) . . .
Owen Stanley Yeo and Grace Johns
Edmund Leighton Yeo and Diana Mary Reid
William Yeo and Mary Row
Lewis Holman and Joan Yeo
Welcome Yeaw and Mary Chaffee
William Yeo and Margaret Marshall
Charles Woodhead and Hannah Yeo
Frank Atyeo and Virtue Anna Richards
John Payne and Elizabeth Yeo
Joseph Yeaw and Martha Thornton
James Yeo and Mary Ellen Shapland Yeo
Daniel Ross Yeo and Charlotte Brown
John Thomas Hicks and Harriet Elizabeth Yeo
David and Jane Yaw of Marblehead, Massachusetts
Clayton Thomas Yeo and Ruth Marian Stevenson
Sydney James Yeo and Eliza Donley
Thomas Yeo and Elizabeth Parkins
James Henry Bradley and Catherine Wootton Yea
Thomas Atyeo and Hilda Shattock
Ernest Edward Bailey and Agnes Elsie Yeo
John Leslie Yeo and Helen Gavel
Thomas Isaac Yeo and Sarah Cohen
William Henry Cleave Yea and Martha Ann Davey
James Yeo and Mary Ann Kingdon
Frederick Charles Yeo and Emily Hill
Daniel Parnell Yea and Margaret Howe
Individuals
Individuals (1) . . .
A wealthy servant
A butcher from Hill Head?
A puzzle from Polperro
A Yeo who was not a Yeo – Henry Albert Dunning (1843–1914)
A woman who never existed – Jane Leonora Yeo
Rebecca Celia Yeo
Creek or Greek?
Morwenstow to Montreal
A Yeo near Okehampton
Leslie A. Yeo – a case of mistaken identity?
Thomas Yeo of Woolfardisworthy
Richard Piper Yeo – artist and photographer
Leonard Yeo Provo
John Yeo or John E. Yeo?
Richard Yeo – Chief Engraver at the Tower of London
James Yeo of Kilkhampton and Prince Edward Island
William Yendle Yeo
James Yeo of Rochester
Thomas James Yohe
James Yeo – from rags to riches
Henry Yeo and Mary Buckingham
Richard Yeo of Drayton House, Ealing
Sir James Lucas Yeo
Daniel Yeo Bruton
John Fullerton Yeo
Dr Isaac Burney Yeo
Thomas Yeaw and early London records
Richard Yeo at Okehampton Grammar School
Harry Leworthy Yeo
Individuals (2) . . .
Leslie Frank Stoyle or Leslie Frank Yeo?
William Yeo of Teignmouth
Emma Eliza Yeo of Withycombe Raleigh
George Knowlson Yeo
William Yeo – failed prosecution for libel
William Joseph Spry Yeo
Martha Yendle Yeo
Catharine Mary Yeo and Earnest Yeo of Gloversville
William H. Yeo, chauffeur
Melvyn Hanawalt Yeo
Dr William Burdin Yeo
Charlotte Ellen Yeo
Charles Perry or Yeo?
Robert James Yeo, lighthouse keeper in Jamaica
Grace Yeo Harding
Dr Richard Tubb Yoe
James Alfred Yeo Bulley
William Boyd Yeo
James Yeo, 1774 emigrant
James Knox Yaw
Grace Yeo – transcription error
Porter Howard Yeo
John Edward Broderick Yeo
John Yeo Rood
Llewellyn Yeo
Frederick Arthur Yeo
Sybil Larna Muriel Yeo
William Yaw of the Royal Field Artillery
Wolston Yeo of Southwark
Richard Percy Yeo Cross
George Yeo, Clerk of Christ’s Hospital
William Yeo of Fulham
Henry Vivian Yeo
Individuals (5) . . .
Thomas Brown or Yeo
Robert Yeo and the wreck of the barque Josepha
Mary Yea – emigrant to the United States
Samuel John Yeo
A Yeo by adoption – Scott Connor Yeo
Lulu Holland Burns née Yoe – holographic will
Herbert Yeo of East Molesey
Gwendolen Frances Yeo
George Yeo of St Giles in the Wood
Isabella Yeah in Aberdeen
Muriel Yaw – baptised as an adult
Honnor Yaw in St Martin
John Yeo Way
George Yeo of Bleadon
Kenneth John Yeo
Daniel Yeo
Frederick Charles Yeo
Roland Yeo – Chief Clerk in Malta
Individuals (3) . . .
Leonard Yeo of Huish
Leonard Yeo of North Petherwin
Hugh Yeo of Fairlinch, Braunton
Richard Yea of Oakhampton, Wiveliscombe
Richard Yeo – absent father
Alfred Yeo of Looe
Henry Ellis Yeo White
Walter George Yeo
William Sanders Yeo, coastguard in Ireland
John Shapland Yeo – scholar and teacher
Lawrence David Yeo of New York City
Mary Yeo née Stonelake
Thomas Yeo’s three marriages
Thomas Yeaw of Hammersmith
Wilfred Yeo Mountain
Amery Yeo Evans
John Yea of Cannington
Sir William Yea
John Yeo of Centerville, Iowa
James Albert Yea
Elizabeth Yeaw
John Yeo, coastguard in Ireland
Rupert Cholmeley Yea Dering
Franklin M. Yaw’s three marriages
Thomas Yaw of Morebath
Hannah Yeo of Maitland, New South Wales
John Yeo – the first Anglican minister in Maryland
William Yeo Harvey
Gordon Arthur Yeo
Maude Yea of Shobrooke
Charlotte Marcella Yeo
Richard Yeo Brooks
Nora Ann Yeo Westaway
Individuals (4) . . .
Morwenstow to Montreal
David Yeo Bartholomew Tanqueray
Edmund Yeo of Chittlehampton
Leslie James Yeo
Richard Fletcher Yeo
Georgina Yeo in 1939
John Lewis Yeo – U.S. citizen
Joseph Wildblood Yeo
John Yeo of the Devonshire Regiment
Harry Peachey (formerly Yewes) of the Lancashire Fusiliers
Sir Alfred William Yeo, MP for Poplar
Betsey Yeo Matthias
Frederick Cecil Yeo, designer and art teacher
John Archibald Yeo
William Yeo in the Royal Household
Edgar Thomas Yea
Minnie Ada Yeo
Charles Henry Yeo
Arthur Thomas Yeo
Ann Yeo in Mile End
William David Yeo
George Yew
Arthur James Yeo
Roger Yeo – insolvency and theft
Thomas Yewe of Exminster
William Thomas Yeo
James Yaw
Leslie William Yea
Isabell or Elizabeth Yeo
Agnes Yaw on the Dunedin
Frank Yeo of St Veep
Francis Yeo of Northam
Births, marriages, deaths
About these records
List of records
Birth and baptism records . . .
Births – Australia
Births – Canada
Baptisms – England and Wales
Birth registrations – England and Wales
Baptisms – Ireland
Birth registrations – Ireland
Births – New Zealand
Birth registrations – Northern Ireland
Baptisms – Scotland
Birth registrations – Scotland
Births – United States
Births – Other countries
Marriage records . . .
Marriages – Australia
Marriages – Canada
Marriages – England and Wales
Marriage registrations – England and Wales
Marriages – Ireland
Marriage registrations – Ireland
Marriages – New Zealand
Marriage registrations – Northern Ireland
Marriages – Scotland
Marriage registrations – Scotland
Marriages – United States
Marriages – Other countries
Death and burial records . . .
Deaths – Australia
Deaths – Canada
Burials – England and Wales
Death registrations – England and Wales
Burials – Ireland
Death registrations – Ireland
Deaths – New Zealand
Death registrations – Northern lreland
Burials – Scotland
Death registrations – Scotland
Deaths – United States
Deaths – Other countries
Other records
Apprenticeship indentures
Birth, marriage and death certificates
Catholic records
Clandestine marriages
Consular registrations
Court records and land transfers
Early references in London and South East England
Emigration . . .
Emigration diaries and stories
Emigration ships
Extraparochial marriages
Feet of fines
Freemen of the City of Dublin
Irish records
Marriages at Gretna Green
Military and war records . . .
Army registrations
War deaths
Private baptisms
Protestation returns
Quaker records
The Visitations of Devon and Cornwall
Wills and administrations . . .
List of wills and administrations
Wills and the genealogist
Lost wills
Wills of married women
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