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Sheila Yeo researched this line after contacting Robert and Susanna’s great x3 grandson Ramon Yeo, a former mayor of Exeter.
Robert Yeo (1758–1834) was the third son of Robert Yeo and Jane Hurchill of South Tawton. He was baptised at South Tawton, and married Susanna Webber there in 1787; he and Susanna baptised seven children at South Tawton:
– William Yeo (see below)
– Mary Yeo (1792–1815)
– Jane Yeo (baptised 1794, married James Redstone)
– Susanna Yeo (baptised 1798, married John Coombe)
– John Yeo (see below)
– Robert Yeo (see Robert Yeo and Ann Syms)
– Joseph Yeo (see below).
William Yeo (1788–1839, son of Robert Yeo and Susanna Webber) married Jane Lee at South Tawton in 1814. They remained in the parish and baptised their six children there:
– John Yeo (see below)
– William Yeo (see William Yeo and Rosamond Green)
– Joseph Yeo (1818–1889, married Ann Gerry, no recorded children)
– Elizabeth Yeo (see John Payne and Elizabeth Yeo)
– Ann Yeo (baptised 1822, married James Trace)
– Robert Yeo (baptised 1825, died as a child).
John Yeo (1799–1850, son of Robert Yeo and Susanna Webber) married Jemima Way. They had four children:
– James Yeo (1824–1897, married Elizabeth Stanbury, six children)
– Mary Ann Yeo (1826–1903, married James Crocker)
– John Yeo (baptised 1831 at South Tawton)
– William Yeo (1841–1896, married Sarah Hucker, three children).
Joseph Yeo (1805–1867, son of Robert Yeo and Susanna Webber) married twice: he first married Elizabeth Nott at South Tawton in 1826; they had one daughter:
– Ann Yeo (baptised 1826 at South Tawton, died as a child)
For Joseph’s second marriage see Joseph Yeo and Ann Westcott.
John Yeo (1814–1886, son of William Yeo and Jane Lee) married twice. His first marriage was to Eliza Curtis at the parish church of St Andrew, Plymouth in 1839; they had six children:
– William Richard Yeo (1843–1844)
– Elizabeth Jane Yeo (1845–1902, married George Trace)
– John Yeo (see below)
– Richard Curtis Yeo (1852–1903, emigrated to Australia in 1891, married Elizabeth Julia Wurm, three children [note 1])
– William Curtis Yeo (1854–1854)
– Eliza Ann Edgcumb Yeo (born 1857 in Yeovil, married George Allen Cook)
By 1860, John and Eliza had moved to Haydon, near Sherborne in Dorset, where they had three further children:
– Constance Amelia Yeo (1860–1880)
– Horatio James Yeo (1862–1935, moved to London and married Fanny Waldron, six children)
– Ada Yeo (1866–1866).
Eliza died at Haydon in 1876. John married Sarah Bowles two years later; there were no children from this marriage. He died at Sherborne, where he had worked on the Haydon estate.
John Yeo (born 1848, son of John Yeo and Eliza Curtis) married Marie Julia Meinen at Haydon in 1877; they had no children and Marie died the following year. In 1883, John married Annie Rodwell at Burton on Trent, Staffordshire; they had a son:
– Moritz Rodwell Yeo (see below).
Moritz Rodwell Yeo (1884–1971, son of John Yeo and Annie Rodwell) [note 2] married Flora Irma Macfarlane, with whom he had a son:
– John Maurice Macfarlane Yeo (1916–1944) [note 3].
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Notes
1. Including Walter Lindley Yeo, who married Nellie Mabel Dormer in Lancashire in 1916 while serving with the Australian army.
2. Moritz was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal in 1935, when he was recorded as a Lieutenant in the Royal Marines.
3. Died in Belgium while serving with the Royal Armoured Corps. See War deaths.