Richard Yeo and Loveday Turner

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Richard Yeo (1812–1863, son of Isaac Yeo and Mary Hammett) married Loveday Turner at the parish church of St Mary Steps, Exeter in 1836. They lived at Inwardleigh, where their 11 children were born:
– Elizabeth Yeo (1836–1925, married John Slee)
– Richard Yeo (1838–1915, married Maria Mugridge, son Frederick William Yeo, 1864–1913)
– Mary Ann Yeo (1839–1909, married Henry Hortop in 1865) [note 1]
– Loveday Yeo (1841–1842)
– Isaac Yeo (1843–1857)
– Thomas Yeo (see below)
– William Yeo (1847–1858)
– Emma Yeo (1850–1868)
– Loveday Yeo (1852–1914, married Samuel James Mingo and John Mortimore, died in Ontario)
– Kitty Yeo (see below)
– Mary Ann Yeo (1857–1876).

Thomas Yeo (1845–1920, son of Richard Yeo and Loveday Turner, married Emma Speare [note 2] at Inwardleigh in 1867. They had eight children:
– Isaac Yeo (see below)
– Sarah Ann Yeo (1871–1918, married Lewis Lobb)
– Richard Yeo (see below)
– Thomas Yeo (see below)
– William Yeo (see below)
– Fred Yeo (1882–1970, moved to Surrey and married Ada Annie Burt in 1906, four children)
– Herbert Yeo (1886–1966, married Lucy Ann Friendship)
– Rose Emma Yeo (see below).

Kitty Yeo (1854–1919, daughter of Richard Yeo and Loveday Turner, had two children before marrying John Kingdon in 1879:
– Lucy Ann Yeo (1872–1962, married William Parvin at Okehampton in 1896)
– Emma Yeo (1875–1936).

Isaac Yeo (1868–1922, son of Thomas Yeo and Emma Speare) married Alice Dennis. They had five children:
– Frederick Thomas Yeo (see below)
– Gladys Emma Yeo (1904–2000, married Reginald Bastin)
– Harold Isaac Yeo (1906–1994, married Elsie Ellen Sanders)
– Margaret Alice Yeo (1909–1980, married Nicholas Keating)
– Jack Yeo.

Richard Yeo (1873–1978, son of Thomas Yeo and Ellen Speare) married Edith Ellen Clark. They had four sons:
– Sidney Herbert Richard Yeo (1904–1986, married Ethel Grace Turner)
– Archibald Richard Yeo (1908–1983, married Winifred Clara Parish, daughter Isabel Vivienne Yeo, 1940–1994)
– Leslie Thomas Yeo (1908–1980, married Ena Florence Ley, son Peter Richard Charles Yeo, 1936–2006)
– Norman Jesse Yeo (born 1913).

Thomas Yeo (born 1877, son of Thomas Yeo and Emma Speare) married Eliza Pike. They had a son:
– Thomas Arthur Yeo (see below)

William Yeo (1880–1952, son of Thomas Yeo and Emma Speare) married Annie Friendship in 1902. They had three children:
– Daisy Rosalind Susan Yeo
– Winifred Emma Yeo (1906–2003, married Raymond Ward Tancock).
– Stanley William Herbert Yeo (1916–1977, married Ida May Hedderly).

Fred Yeo (1882–1970, son of Thomas Yeo and Emma Speare) moved to Surrey and married Ada Annie Blunt in 1906. They had four children:
– Marjorie Emma Yeo (1909–1969, married Sidney Frank Biden)
– Hilda Ada Yeo (1912–1924)
– Phyllis Violet Yeo (1919–1990, married Thomas Arthur Watson)
– Thomas Reginald Herbert Yeo (1922–1989, married Iris Beryl Rogers née Wiltshire, two sons).

Rose Emma Yeo (1887–1973, daughter of Thomas Yeo and Emma Speare) married Frederick Venton at Okehampton in 1911. They had one daughter:
– Vera Yeo Venton (1916–2000).

Frederick Thomas Yeo (1903–1967 [note 3], son of Isaac Yeo and Alice Dennis) married Elsie May Simons [note 4]. They had a daughter:
– Alice Mary Yeo (1928–2007, married Redvers George Seatherton).

Thomas Arthur Yeo (1906–1986, son of Thomas Yeo and Eliza Pike) married Marion Brinley Richards. They had a son:
– Robert Brinley Yeo (1934–2001, married Beryl Mary Pugsley).

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Notes
1. Some researchers have incorrectly recorded that Mary Ann had a son James Palmer Yeo. His parents were James Yeo and Mary Ann Palmer.
2. Surname incorrectly recorded as Spence by some researchers, which might be a transcription error.
3. Frederick is recorded in the 1939 Register as a farm foreman and police reservist. He is living near the hamlet of Seven Ash, some eight miles north west of Taunton; his wife Elsie and daughter Alice are listed with him.
4. 1900–1983, confused by some researchers with artist Elsie May Yeo.

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