Roger Yeo (1786–1872, son of James Yeo and Elizabeth Chapple) married Maria Pinsent at the parish church of St Mary, Wolborough in 1814. Their marriage record shows that they were both previously unmarried and that Roger was not resident in the parish, but was ‘of the Castle Precincts [parish] in the City of Bristol’. The bride was fifteen years old and needed the permission of her father Thomas Pinsent to marry.
Roger and Maria had thirteen children. Betsy Maria was baptised at Wolborough, Thomas Roger in Bristol, Caroline, Mary Elizabeth and Eleanor at Tawstock, and the other children at Swimbridge:
– Betsy Maria Yeo (1815–1897, married Joseph Matthews)
– Thomas Roger Yeo (1817–1899, married Maria Bartlett Sherwell in London in 1844, no recorded children)
– John Yeo (1819–1829)
– Caroline Yeo (1820–1839)
– James Yeo (see below)
– William Yeo (1824–1895, married Isabella Harriet Leitch, eight children)
– Mary Elizabeth Yeo (1826–1922, married Alfred Allen at Bathurst, New South Wales in 1854)
– Eleanor Yeo (baptised 1828, died as an infant)
– Christopher Antisell Yeo
– John Yeo (1831–1877, married Elizabeth Bradurst, one daughter)
– Maria Yeo (1833–1895, married James Burnside)
– George Pinsent Yeo (1836–1841)
– Hannah Yeo (1837–1893)
– Emma Yeo (1838–1927, married James Ingram Burfitt).
Roger and Maria emigrated to Australia in 1839 on the SS Ameila Thompson with their children William, Mary Elizabeth, Maria and Hannah, and settled at Bathurst in New South Wales. Their sons Christopher Antisell Yeo and John Yeo emigrated later.
Maria Yeo died at Bathurst in 1864. Roger Yeo survived her by eight years and is buried at Wellington, some 75 miles to the north, where his son Christopher Antisell Yeo had settled.
James Yeo (1822–1879, son of Roger Yeo and Maria Pinsent) emigrated with his parents [note 1]. In Australia, he married Eliza Bashill, with whom he had six children:
– George Yeo (born 1848, died as an infant)
– James Edwin Yeo (born 1849, married Catherine Owen, seven children including Edward James Yeo and Horace Osmond James Yeo)
– Thomas Yeo (1853–1855)
– John Yeo (1858–1858)
– Christopher J. Yeo (1858–1859)
– Charles A. Yeo (1859–1860).
James then married Eliza Burfiitt. They had seven children:
– Edgar Eastman Yeo (1862–1962, married Elizabeth Jane Waddell, one daughter)
– Charles R. Yeo (1863–1863)
– Ernest James Yeo (1865–1948, married Hannah Elizabeth McIntyre, twelve children)
– Mary Yeo (1867–1948)
– Alfred George Yeo (1868–1956, married Gertrude Ann Mitchell, two daughters)
– Fanny M. Yeo (1870–1871)
– William Walter Yeo (1874–1941, married Frances Waddell).
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Note
1. Details of James’s family are based on research by Sheila. Some of the details require confirmation.