Joseph Wildblood Yeo was born in 1891 at Houghton le Spring in County Durham to parents Thomas Yeo and Elizabeth Ann Wildblood.
Joseph married Ethel Nearey in Durham in 1914. They had eight children [note 1]. The 1939 Register records the family at Houghton le Spring, where 41-year-old Joseph is working as a coal miner:
– John William Yeo (born 1913)
– Joseph Wildblood Yeo (1915–1916)
– George Henry Yeo (1917–1976, married Muriel Dawson, three children)
– Ellen Yeo (born 1919)
– Mary Elizabeth Yeo (1921–1990, married William Berry Hayes)
– Ethel Yeo (1924–1924)
– Thomas Yeo (1925–1925)
– Grace Yeo (1930–2018, married Ernest Edward Swinbank).
The Sunderland Echo for 4 February 1957 published an announcement of Joseph’s death two days previously at the age of 65. He was buried at Houghton Cemetery.
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Note
1. Andrew Jordan Yeo and Thomas Henry Yeo, both born in 1917, have been linked to this family but appear to have been sons of John William Yeo and Margaret Neary.