John Yeo and Susan Ridgway

This couple married in Devon in 1884. They had fourteen children [note 1]:
– Ellen Yeo (born 1885)
– John Yeo (born 1887)
– William Yeo (1889–1916 [note 2], married Catherine Elizabeth Evans, son William Idris Yeo, 1910–1915)
– Ernest Thomas Yeo (1890–1907)
– Samuel Yeo (1892–1964)
– James Yeo (born 1893)
– Amy Yeo (born 1895)
– Elsie Yeo (born 1897, married Ernest Oliver Golding)
– Alice Yeo (born 1898, married Frederick Thomas Amos)
– Lily Yeo (born 1900, married Tudor Clifford Morgan)
– Ada Yeo (born 1902)
– Edward Yeo (born 1903)
– Frederick Arthur Yeo (1905–1965)
– Albert Victor Yeo (1908–1963).

Susan is recorded in Dorset in the 1939 Register, a 72-year-old widow living at 212A High Street, Poole. Her sons Edward and Victor are listed with her.

For more information see Descendants of Thomas Yea of Yea, Wiveliscombe by Mike Darch and David Yaw.

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Notes
1. All their children were born in Devon but in 1908 or 1909 moved to south Wales with their parents, where some of them married and died. The family surname is sometimes recorded as Yaw.
2. William died in France while serving with the Royal Field Artillery.


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