Joseph Hussey Yeo and Jane Matthews

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Joseph Hussey Yeo [note 1] and Jane Matthews married in Bristol in 1870. They lived in the Clifton area of the city, and had eight children there:
– William Joseph Hussey-Yeo (see below) [note 2]
– Charles Robert Hussey-Yeo (1874–1884)
– Kate Louisa Hussey-Yeo (1875–1948)
– Ada Hussey-Yeo (1876–1948)
– Frederick Hussey-Yeo (1878–1918, married Sarah Elizabeth Nicholls and Rosina Elizabeth Rose, emigrated to Australia) [notes 3, 4]
– Beatrice Hussey-Yeo (1878–1947, married Percy Bertram Punter)
– Ernest Phillip Hussey-Yeo (born 1881, married Lilian Grace Stone)
– Thomas Hussey-Yeo (1882–1883).

William Joseph Hussey-Yeo (1872–1939, son of Joseph Hussey Yeo and Jane Matthews) lived in Bristol and married twice. He married Rose Tesdale in 1902; they had four children:
– Laura Edith Hussey-Yeo (born 1903)
– William Joseph Hussey-Yeo (1904–1982, married Ellen Tovey) [note 5]
– Albert Ernest Hussey-Yeo (born 1906)
– Edgar Frederick Hussey-Yeo (born 1908).
Rose died in 1909; William married Annie Morgan the following year [note 6]. They had eleven children, including:
– Arthur Leonard Hussey-Yeo (1910–1939, died while serving in the Royal Navy)
– Arthur Cyril Hussey-Yeo (1912–1981)
– Beatrice May Hussey-Yeo (1913–1993, married Vincent Edward Momber)
– Leslie David Hussey-Yeo (1915–1943, married Olive Lilian Canning, died while serving in the Royal Navy)
– Dorothy Evelyn Hussey-Yeo (1917–2003, married Cecil Wallace Knight)
– Wilfred Stanley Hussey-Yeo (1919–1924)
– Ronald Clifford Hussey-Yeo (1920–2010, married Esme Joyce Hall, one daughter)
– Ivor Percy Hussey-Yeo (1923–1983, married Elsie Collins)
– Sidney Brian Hussey-Yeo (1928–2005, married Jean Helen Moulding).

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Notes
1. Born about 1842 (birth registration not found) and recorded by some researchers as Joseph Greek Yeo. See note 4 to Robert Yeo and Jane Paddon and Ancestors and Descendants of Robert Yeaw and Joan Treble by Mike Darch and David Yaw.
2. William’s surname – and those of his siblings and children – is sometimes recorded as Hussey Yeo (without the hyphen) and Hussey is sometimes shown as a forename.
3. Son from first marriage, born in England: Frederick James Hussey-Yeo (1904–1976, married Nellie Eileen Pike).
4. Daughter from second marriage, born in England: Olive May Hussey-Yeo (1907–1982, married Arthur Edward Chilcott).
5. William and Ellen married in 1937 and had a daughter in 1938.
6. The 1911 census for Bristol records William, a 38-year-old ‘dock gate man’, his 22-year-old wife Annie and their son Arthur (0) at 8 Dock Cottages. Also in the household are William’s children Laura (age 7), William (6) and Edgar (3) from his first marriage.

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