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 13 children [note 1]:
– Betsy Maria Yeo (1815–1897, married Joseph Matthews)
– Thomas Yeo (1817–1899 [note 2], married Maria Bartlett Sherwell in London in 1844, at the parish church of St Mary, Newington)
– John Yeo (1819–1829)
– Caroline Yeo (1820–1839)
– James Yeo (see below)
– William Yeo (see below)
– 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 Amelia Thompson with their children William, Mary Elizabeth, Maria and Hannah, and settled at Bathurst in New South Wales; their sons Christopher and John emigrated later). Roger’s wife Maria died at Bathurst in 1864. Roger survived her by eight years and is buried at Wellington, some 75 miles to the north, where his son Christopher had settled.
James Yeo (1822–1879, son of Roger Yeo and Maria Pinsent) emigrated with his parents [note 3]. 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).
William Yeo (1824–1895, son of Roger Yeo and Maria Pinsent) emigrated with his parents. He married Isabella Harriet Leitch at Bathurst, New South Wales in 1859; they had eight children:
– Ernest Frank M. Yeo (1860–1943, married Prudence Smith)
– Evelyn Mary Jane Yeo (1862–1921, married Angelos Pholeros)
– Frances M. Yeo (1863–1864)
– Alice Florence Yeo (1865–1945, married John Weeks McCarthy)
– Arthur Plane Yeo (1867–1953, married Louisa Mary Curry, four children including William Yeo)
– Gertrude Agnes Yeo (1868–1963, married Richard Henry Bennett)
– Bertie Eugene Yeo (see below)
– Lily Blanch Yeo (born 1873).
Bertie Eugene Yeo (1870–1938, son of William Yeo and Isabella Harriet Leitch) married Mary Campbell [note 4]. They had five children:
– Maud Gwendoline Yeo (1896–1973, married Norman Harold Alfred Doyle)
– Marcia Campbell Yeo (1897–1972, married Harold Ernest Wren Bentley)
– Alma Eileen Yeo (c1899–1984, married George Raymond Marston)
– Jack Yeo (1900–1962, married in 1936)
– Kathleen Yeo (1907–1995, married William Francis Oldridge).
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Notes
1. Betsy Maria was baptised at Wolborough; Thomas in Bristol; Caroline, Mary Elizabeth and Eleanor at Tawstock; and the other children at Swimbridge.
2. Death registered as Thomas Roger Yeo.
3. Details of James’s family are based on research by Sheila Yeo. Some of the details require confirmation.
4. 1868–1945, known as Minnie.