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Philip Yeo was baptised at Stratton in 1744 to parents Robert Yeo and Elizabeth Elliot. He married Elizabeth Higgins at Stratton in 1777 and they baptised three children there:
– William Yeo (see below)
– Mary Yeo (1781)
– Richard Yeo (1787).
William Yeo (baptised 1779 at Stratton, son of Philip Yeo and Elizabeth Higgins) married Elizabeth Hopgood at Hartland in 1806. They had eight children, the eldest of whom was:
– Richard Yeo (see below).
Richard Yeo, son of William Yeo and Elizabeth Hopgood, was baptised at Stratton in 1807 and became a shoemaker. He first married Ann Saunders at Stratton in 1827; they had eight children [notes 1, 2], including:
– Thomas Yeo (see below)
– Richard Yeo (see Richard Yeo and Elizabeth Penfound)
– Mary Yeo (1842–1871, daughter Ellen Saunders Yeo born 1865)
– William Yeo (see below)
– Charles Yeo.
Thomas Yeo (baptised 1832, son of Richard Yeo and Ann Saunders) married Ann Gist. They lived at Kilkhampton and had four children there:
– John Yeo (1854–1908, married Drusilla Tarrant, five children [note 3])
– Mary Jane Yeo (born 1864)
– Thomas Yeo
– Charles Yeo.
William Yeo (1843–1910, son of Richard Yeo and Ann Saunders) married Mary Ann Wyatt in 1867 [note 4]. They had twelve children:
– Harry Treble Yeo (see below)
– Margaret Minnie Yeo (1870–1956, married Henry Hayward)
– Louisa Mary Yeo (1871–1948)
– William Yeo (1873–1929, married Alice Maud Symons, three children)
– Frank Yeo (1874–1948, married Emma Grace Everson, two children)
– Crispin Yeo (see Lawrence David Yeo of New York City)
– Claude Yeo (1876–1916, married Ray Davies) [note 5]
– Ella Yeo (1879–1900)
– Donald Yeo (1881–1907)
– Sidney Yeo (1883–1950, married Mary Ellen Blake)
– Alice Mary Yeo (1884–1961, married Henry Vivian)
– Annie Yeo (1886–1963, married Reynolds Harry Wood).
Harry Treble Yeo (1869–1919, son of William Yeo and Ann Saunders) married Annie Maria Cater in 1893. They had five children, including:
– Hubert Claud Cater Yeo (1895–1917) [note 6].
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Notes
1. No children are recorded from Richard’s second marriage to Sarah Folley (who survived Richard and died in 1902 at the age of 80).
2. Richard died at Stratton in 1889. Can anyone identify his second wife?
3. Mira Drusilla Yeo (1877–1884), Abery Theophilus Yeo (1879–1901), Beatrice Maud Yeo (1882–1946, married Herbert Edward Sharp), Oliver Evan Yeo (1887–1948, married Beryl Kathleen Nixon) and Florence Mira Yeo (1892–1914).
4. The 1891 census records William and Mary Ann living in Bridge Street, Stratton with ten children; William is a boot and shoe maker.
5. Birth registered as Claud Yeo. He died at the Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916, while serving on H.M.S. Indefatigable.
6. Died while serving in France with the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry.