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John Yeo (1801–1898, son of Thomas Yeo and Mary Heal) married Sarah Kelly at Marwood in 1822; their nine children were born there:
– Henry Yeo (see below)
– John Yeo (see below)
– Thomas Yeo (see below)
– George Yeo (1829–1866)
– William Yeo (see below)
– Sarah Yeo (born 1834)
– Mary Yeo (1836–1906, married John Balch and James Richards)
– Samuel Yeo (see below)
– Elizabeth Heal Yeo (1842–1862).
Henry Yeo (1823–1908, son of John Yeo and Sarah Kelly) lived at West Down near Ilfracombe and died in Cardiff in 1908. He married Rebecca Shambrook [note 1] at West Down in 1853; they had seven children:
– William Henry Yeo (see below)
– Eliza Yeo (see below)
– Mary Ann Yeo (born 1858)
– Henry Yeo
– James Yeo
– Elizabeth Yeo (1864–1940, married Henry Wensley)
– George Yeo (see below).
John Yeo (1824–1903, son of John Yeo and Sarah Kelly) married Ann Lovering at Marwood in 1851. They had six children:
– Mary Ann Yeo (see below)
– Sarah Yeo (1853–1932, married William Henry Manning)
– William Yeo (1855–1941, married Eliza Mayne) [note 2]
– Henry Lovering Yeo (1857–1935, married Ellen Harris)
– John Yeo (1859–1933)
– George Yeo (1862–1917, married Elizabeth Woolacott).
Thomas Yeo (1827–1872, son of John Yeo and Sarah Kelly) married Mary Ann Kelly. They lived at Marwood, where they had seven children:
– Thomas Yeo (1860–1860)
– John Yeo (born 1861)
– William Yeo (born 1862, married Lydia Smith, daughter Lydia Yeo born 1892)
– Eliza Yeo (1865–1950, married John Geen)
– James Yeo (see below)
– Alfred Yeo (1870–1870)
– Alfred Yeo (1872–1872).
William Yeo (1832–1894, son of John Yeo and Sarah Kelly) was baptised at Marwood. He married Sarah Laramy at Marwood in 1854 and their eight children were born there:
– John Yeo (see below)
– Thomas Yeo (see below)
– William Yeo (see below)
– Henry Yeo (see below)
– Mary Elizabeth Yeo (1866–1941, married Ernest Howard)
– Emily Yeo (born 1868)
– James Yeo (1869–1952, married Mary Auger, son William Richard Yeo, 1895–1917) [note 3]
– Samuel Yeo (1872–1908) [note 4].
Samuel Yeo (1839–1912, son of John Yeo and Sarah Kelly) married Ann Thorne. They had three children before moving with them to south Wales:
– Sarah Jane Yeo (1863–1945, married Frederick Thomas Farrell)
– James Yeo (born 1867) [note 5]
– Annie Thorne Yeo (1869–1906, married Richard Jones).
Mary Ann Yeo (1851–1933, daughter of John Yeo and Ann Lovering) had three children:
– William Henry Yeo (1873–1943)
– Frederick Yeo (1880–1941)
– Ellen Yeo (1890–1972, married William Watts)
before marrying John Prance in 1895.
William Henry Yeo (1854–1883, son of Henry Yeo and Rebecca Shambrook) married Mary Vanstone in 1874. They had three children before emigrating:
– Mary Rebecca Yeo (born 1877, died as a child)
– William Henry Yeo (1879–1926, married Rose Annie Newman and emigrated to South Africa, three children)
– Beatrice Elizabeth Yeo (born 1881)
and a fourth in Queensland:
– Albert John Yeo (see below).
John Yeo (1855–1932, son of William Yeo and Sarah Laramy) moved to South Molton and married Jane Hoile. They had nine children:
– Thomas Yeo (see below)
– Mary Elizabeth Yeo (1897–1971, married John George Harris)
– William Yeo (see below)
– Harriet Ann Yeo (1883–c1908) [note 6]
– Ellen Yeo (1888–1960, married William John Kift)
– Emily Yeo (1890–1966 [note 7], married William Moule)
– George Henry Yeo (1894–1980)
– James Yeo (1896–1984, married Louisa Mary Trigger)
– Minnie Yeo (1898–1993, married Charles Slee).
Eliza Yeo (1857–1937, daughter of Henry Yeo and Rebecca Shambrook) married John Comer at Swansea in 1876. They had at least eight children, including:
– Thomas Yeo Comer (1880–1946, married Maria Pearce and Clara May Guard née Wyllis [note 8])
Thomas Yeo (1857–1933, son of William Yeo and Sarah Laramy) was born at Marwood. He married Mary Jane Huxtable at Loxhore in 1883 [note 9]; they had eight children, including:
– William Yeo (see below)
– George Henry Yeo (see below)
– Minnie Blanch Yeo (1896–1996, married Kingsley Barlow)
– Frank Yeo (1898–1923, married his first cousin Mary Jane Yeo (see below), three children).
John Yeo (1859–1933, son of John Yeo and Ann Lovering) married Bessie Ann Blackmore [note 10]. They had six children:
– John Yeo
– Eliza Ann Yeo (1892–1973, married Christopher Charles Brook)
– Lilian Susan Yeo (1894–1977, married Wilfred George Vesse)
– Albert Harry Victor Yeo (1897–1929)
– Winifred Bessie Yeo (1899–1973, married William Ernest Orman).
William Yeo (born 1860, son of William Yeo and Sarah Laramy) married Jane Holmes at Georgeham in 1883. They had 12 children, who all appear to have been born in Barnstaple [note 11]:
– Nelly Yeo (born 1885)
– William Yeo (see below)
– Samuel Yeo (born 1887)
– James Yeo (born 1889)
– Frederick Yeo (1891–1892)
– Frederick Yeo (see below)
– Robert Yeo (1894–1916, died in France, see War deaths)
– Mary Elizabeth Yeo (born 1895)
– John Yeo (born 1897)
– Edith Yeo (born 1899)
– Stanley Yeo (1901–1921)
– Edwin George Yeo (1903–1939 [note 12], married Alice Mary Rich),
Henry Yeo (1863–1954, son of William Yeo and Sarah Laramy) married Annie Maria Chichester. They lived at Instow, where their seven children were born:
– Walter Henry Yeo (born 1892)
– Edward William Yeo (1894–1987, married Alice Kathleen Glover and Lorna Ann Dean)
– George Yeo (1895–1978)
– Henry Yeo (1896–1985) [note 13]
– Annie Yeo (1898–1905)
– Emily Charlotte Yeo (1903–1954, married Alfred Benjamin Welch)
– John Yeo (1905–1906).
George Yeo (born 1867, son of Henry Yeo and Rebecca Shambrook) married Mary Elizabeth Ridd and moved to Worcestershire. Their two sons were born at Stourbridge [note 14]:
– George Spencer Yeo (born 1897, married Gertrude Whitehouse, one daughter)
– William Ewart Yeo (born 1899, married Frances Hutchinson, son William George Leo Yeo, 1926–1990).
James Yeo (1868–1938, son of Thomas Yeo and Mary Ann Kelly) moved to south Wales and married Elizabeth Jane Jones. The births of their six children were registered as Merthyr Tydfil:
– Elizabeth Ann Yeo (1889–1955, married David Thomas Morgan)
– Winifred Sarah Yeo (1891–1966, married James Evans and Lewis Roberts)
– Thomas George Yeo (1894–1964, married Annie Sophia Jones) [note 15]
– Robert James Yeo (1897–1965, married Nellie Maud Redding)
– Gertrude Mary Yeo (1902–1930, married Samuel Charles Foster)
– Kate Myfanwy Yeo (1904–1981, married Cyril Bailey).
Thomas Yeo (born 1877, son of John Yeo and Jane Hoile) married Jessie Ellen Shapland in 1899 at the Independent Chapel in South Molton. They had five children:
– William John Yeo (1899–1978)
– Margaret Elizabeth Yeo (1902–1986, married Daniel Henry Dart)
– Mary Jane Yeo (1904–1981, married her first cousin Frank Yeo, see above)
– Annie Lilian Yeo (1905–2000, married William Pile)
– Frederick Thomas Yeo.
William Yeo (1881–1969, son of John Yeo and Jane Hoile) married Jane Harding. They had three children:
– William John Yeo (1909–1979, married Dora Gulley, two children)
– Mary Elizabeth Yeo (1911–1994, married John Charles Richard Gammin and Samuel George Luxton)
– Arthur James Yeo (1912–1978, married Grace Robbins).
Albert John Yeo (1884–1959, son of William Henry Yeo and Mary Vanstone) returned to England from Queensland and married Violet Gray in 1909. They had two sons:
– Leslie John Yeo (1914–1984, married Dorothy Tryphena Perry, two sons)
– Douglas Henry Yeo (born 1921, died in 1942 while serving with the Royal Air Force, commemorated on the war memorial at Runnymede).
William Yeo (born 1886, son of William Yeo and Jane Holmes) married Alice Mary Norma Jones. They had three children, including:
– William Robert James Yeo (1916–2011, married Marie Larsen in 1939)
– Alice Edith Mary Yeo (1918–2005, married Frank James Gill in 1939).
William Yeo (1887–1984, son of Thomas Yeo and Mary Jane Huxtable) married Annie Lock [note 16]. They had two children, and emigrated with them to Canada:
– Winifred Annie Yeo (1910–1956, married Maurice Herniman)
– William John Yeo (1912–2001, married Jessie Fern Whitney).
George Henry Yeo (1888–1953, son of Thomas Yeo and Mary Jane Huxtable) was born at Loxhore but moved to Cardiff as a young man. He married Elizabeth Davies there in 1912 and their four children were born there:
– Edith Christine Yeo (born 1912)
– Daisy Margaret Yeo (1913–2003, married William Henry Smith)
– William David Yeo (1915–1959, married Rose Emily Warner, four children)
– Reginald John Yeo (1917–1980, married Margaret G. Colclough in Glasgow in 1944, died in Glasgow).
Frederick Yeo (born 1892, son of William Yeo and Jane Holmes) married Louie Smalldon née Taylor in 1911. Their three children were born at Marwood:
– Ellen Joan Yeo (1914–1915)
– Frederick John Yeo (1915–2004, married Ada Eva Gosling née Istead [note 17] in 1947)
– William John Yeo (born 1921).
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Notes
1. Rebecca was a daughter of William and Ann Shambroke of West Down. Her surname is spelt Shambroke on her marriage certificate but most other records of the family have the spelling Shambrook.
2. Son William John Yeo (1893–1969, married Gertrude Sophia Symons).
3. William died in France while serving with the Royal Engineers. He is commemorated on his parents’ headstone at Pilton.
4. Samuel died at the age of 35 and was buried at Stoke Climsland. His age was inaccurately recorded as 42 when his death was registered.
5. Was it James or his cousin James Yeo (son of his uncle Thomas Yeo) who married Elizabeth Jane Jones in 1888?
6. Did Harriet marry and did she emigrate to the United States?
7. Birth registered as Emma Yeo.
8. Widow of William George Guard.
9. Thomas worked as a labourer. Another Thomas Yeo, a farmer, married Agnes Ann Ridge at Loxhore in 1891.
10. Use the Index to find other Yeo–Blackmore marriages.
11. William and Jane are recorded at Hawley Cottage, Barnstaple in the 1911 census; William is working as a domestic gardener. Four of their children are listed, all born at Barnstaple: Frederick (age 19), Robert (17), Stanley (10) and Edward George (8).
12. Also recorded as Edward George Yeo. The Western Morning News for 18 July 1939 reported his death by drowning at Widmouth Bay two days earlier.
13. Henry has been confused by some researchers with Henry Yeo (1896–1989), son of Samuel Yeo and Martha Bull.
14. Did George and Mary also have a daughter Frances Yeo?
15. Thomas and Annie had a daughter in 1931. Their marriage appears to have been dissolved, as Annie married William Stanners in 1934 before Thomas died. She later married Charles Bertie Collier and lived until 1968.
16. 1884–1945.
17. Widow of Christopher Gosling.