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Samuel Channon Yeo (1845–1935 [note 1], son of James Yeo and Jane Skitch) emigrated to Ontario with his parents and married Elizabeth Jewell. Their seven children were born in Ontario:
– William James Yeo (1872–1890)
– Samuel Channon Yeo (see below)
– Hattie Honor Sarah Jane Yeo (1877–1880)
– Ada Maud Yeo (1880–1968, married Andrew Alexander Walls at Oshawa in 1903)
– Allen Alfred Yeo (1882–1961, married Annie Eveline Rowcliffe at Port Hope in 1906)
– Mabel Lilian Yeo (1884–1989, married Sidney Willis Wakely at Port Hope in 1905)
– Florence Elizabeth Yeo (1887–1972, married Joseph Highfield at Port Hope in 1907)
Samuel Channon Yeo (1875–1915, son of Samuel Channon Yeo and Elizabeth Jewell) married Lavinia Croft at Port Hope, Ontario in 1896. Their two children were born in Port Hope:
– George William Yeo (1897–1912)
– Ernest Harold Yeo (see below).
Lavinia, who appears also to have been known as Susie, died in 1900. Samuel married Ida Wallace Walls at Port Hope in 1904, with whom he had a further five children:
– Roy Channon Yeo (see below)
– Vera Maud Yeo (1905–1975, married Arthur Carl Burgess)
– John Melville Yeo (1908–1912)
– Samuel Malcolm Yeo (1908–1985, married Florence Irene Aldis Young at Port Hope in 1948)
– Clifford Walls Yeo (see below).
Ernest Harold Yeo (1899–1987, son of Samuel Channon Yeo and Lavinia Croft) married Maude Forbes at Haliburton, Ontario in 1920. They had two sons:
– Samuel George Edward Yeo (1921–1944, died in Italy, see War deaths)
– Leslie Floyd Yeo (1924–1934).
Harold later married Merle Avery.
Roy Channon Yeo (1905–1992, son of Samuel Channon Yeo and Ida Wallace Walls) married Edith Hall Munro at Millbrook, Ontario in 1939. They had two children:
– Peter Roy Yeo (1940–1988)
– Bonnita Yeo (1941–2012, married Gordon John Patfield at Port Hope in 1959).
Clifford Walls Yeo (1910–2004 [note 2], son of Samuel Channon Yeo and Ida Wallace Walls) married Nellie Elizabeth Franklin at Brighton, Ontario in 1932. They had six children including:
– Samuel Franklin Yeo (1933–2014, married Ainslie Elizabeth Bee 1953 and Nancy Carol Bell 1961)
– Melville Robert Yeo (1940–c2010).
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Notes
1. Second forename sometimes spelt Chammon; this variant also occurs in the names of some of his descendants.
2. Clifford’s second forename Walls is from his mother’s birth surname – it has been mis-spelt Wallis and Wallace.