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Richard Yeo (1770–1810, son of Thomas Yeo and Thomazine Gale) was baptised at Inwardleigh [note 1]. He married Catherine Luxon at Northew in 1776. They had three children:
– John Yeo (see below)
– Thomasine Yeo (baptised 1803 at Lifton)
– William Yeo (see below)
– Ann Yeo (baptised 1808 at Lifton)
– Sarah Yeo (1808–1832).
John Yeo (baptised in 1797 at Northlew, son of Richard Yeo and Catherine Luxon) married Drew Ann Smale at Beaworthy in 1829. They moved to Plymstock, where they had six children:
– William Yeo (baptised 1830, married Hannah Burnell, one daughter)
– Hannah Yeo (baptised 1832, married Thomas Neale)
– John Nannivil Yeo (baptised 1834, married Maria Ash, three children)
– Harriett Yeo (born 1838)
– Emanuel Smale Yeo (1840–1879, married Elizabeth Palmer at Stoke Damerel in 1867, no recorded children)
– Henry Dovell Yeo (see below).
William Yeo (baptised 1805 at Lifton, son of Richard Yeo and Catherine Luxon) married Sarah Milford at Lifton in 1827. They baptised three children at nearby Stowford:
– Richard Yeo (baptised 1829, married Ellen Carter)
– Henry Yeo
– Charlotte Yeo (1833–1838).
Sarah died in 1837. William married Sarah Morgan in 1840 [note 2]. There were ten children from this second marriage:
– Elizabeth Jane Yeo (1843–1922, married Thomas Saville 1872 in London)
– Ann Ellen Yeo (1845–1896, married Augustus Hutt Crabbe)
– Mary Maria Yeo (1847–1911)
– Eliza Charlotte Yeo (1849–1914, married James Peake)
– Sarah Selina Yeo (1854–1855)
– Sarah Selina Yeo (1856–1859)
– Esther Anna Yeo (1858–1933 [note 3], married John Bickle)
– Josephus Yeo (1860–1912, emigrated to the United States, married Lou Ella Patterson)
– Sarah Selina Yeo (1863–1952, married Charles Thompson)
– Michael Yeo (1866–1946, married Elizabeth Ann Brimacombe).
Henry Dovell Yeo (1843–1899, son of John Yeo and Drew Ann Smale) married Elizabeth Ann Buchannan at East Meon in Hampshire in 1866. They had three children:
– Alfred Dovell Yeo (1867–1925, emigrated to the United States, married Theresa Kassel in New York in 1890, ten children including Vincent Henry Yeo, 1891–1953)
– Emma Jessie Yeo (born 1870, married Thomas Joseph Cafferky in Stafordshire in 1898)
– Henry Thomas Dovell Yeo (1872–1952).
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Notes
1. For Richard’s younger brother Isaac Yeo, see Isaac Yeo and Elizabeth Upright.
2. Married at the parish church in Merstham, Surrey. Some researchers record their emigration to Australia on the SS Lincolnshire in 1863, but this appears to be inaccurate.
3. Death registered as Hannah Bickle.