Robert Yeo was baptised at Tetcott, near Holsworthy in 1697 to parents Thomas Yeo and Mary Cullacote. His father Thomas Yeo was a grandson of John Yeo and Frances Holman.
Robert married Joan Norris by licence in 1743; their only child John Yeo was born later that year.
Robert’s brother Abraham Yeo (1708–1749) married Susanna Batten at Tetcott in 1739 and had five children:
– William Yeo (1739–1740)
– Mary Yeo (born 1741, married Robert Martin)
– William Yeo (born 1743)
– John Yeo (see below)
– Thomas Yeo (see Thomas Yeo and Elizabeth Hill)
John Yeo (1745–1817, son of Abraham Yeo and Susanna Batten) married Elizabeth Philp at Werrington in 1765 [note 1]. They baptised three children at Werrington:
– Elizabeth Yeo (baptised 1767, married William Gilbert)
– Mary Yeo (baptised 1771, married Henry Toll)
– Thomas Yeo (see Thomas Yeo and Elizabeth Mason).
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Note
1. No children are recorded from John’s second marriage, to Margaret Colmer at Werrington in 1795.