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Robert Yeo (1781–1842) was a great grandson of Robert Yeo and Margaret Brown of Merton. He married Elizabeth Westaway, a great granddaughter of John Westaway and Joan Battishall of South Tawton.
Robert and Elizabeth married at South Tawton in 1803 and baptised their first son there:
– John Yeo (baptised 1801, died as a child)
before moving to Stoke Damerel. Their other eight children were:
– John Yeo)
– Betty Yeo (baptised 1808)
– Ann Yeo (baptised 1811)
– William Yeo (see below)
– Robert Yeo (baptised 1816)
– George Yeo (1819–1832)
– Eliza Yeo (1820–1822)
– Eliza Yeo (1823–1834).
William Yeo (1813–1876, son of Robert Yeo and Elizabeth Westaway) married Elizabeth Fullerton at Antony in 1836. They had eleven children:
– William James Yeo (1837–1891, married Emma Adelaide Trout née Trigger in 1871) [note 1]
– Mary Yeo (born 1839)
– John Fullerton Yeo (1840–1912, married Ann Coffin née Smith in 1886) [note 2]
– George Yeo (1842–1876)
– Frederick Fullerton Yeo (1844–1920, married Mary Jane Lock, six children)
– Emma Yeo (born 1846)
– Amelia Fullerton Yeo (born 1848)
– Charles Yeo (see below)
– Mary Ann Yeo (1854–1873, married Lawrence Augustus Loving)
– Bessie Yeo (1857–1825, married Arthur John Fowell)
– Emma Yeo (1859–1907, married Thomas Gillard).
Charles Yeo (1851–1912, son of William Yeo and Elizabeth Fullerton) married Ellen Florence Pearce at the parish church of St Mary, Devonport in 1879. They had five children:
– Ernest Charles Yeo (1880–1948, married Emma Bowhay Westcott and Amy Florence Holman)
– Ada Mary Yeo
– Hilda May Yeo (1884–1949, married Charles William Pethick)
– William Stanley Yeo (1887–1948, married Rosa Sarah Duncan and Rosalie Marion Kate Sowden) [note 3]
– Violet Florence Yeo (1896–1942, married Thomas George Jeffery).
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Notes
1. Emma had previously married John James Trout in 1852, but on her 1871 marriage certificate she is recorded as a spinster. Her daughters Emma Trout and Mary Jane Trout from her first marriage are listed with William and Emma at 102 Fore Street, Stoke Damerel in the 1881 census.
2. Ann was the widow of John Coffin, who she married at Portsmouth in 1853.
3. Daughter from first marriage: Irene Lilian Yeo (1913–1987, married Robert Silcock and Spencer Ashley Edwards).