The passenger list for the Orient Company liner Osterley, which docked in London on 3 September 1920 having sailed there from Brisbane, includes 35-year-old Samuel T.P. Yeo, a Royal Navy Lieutenant. Listed with Samuel are his wife Georgina (also 35) and their children Alice M (age 12), William P (8), Mavis A (6) and Roland J (2). Their destination is recorded as Plymouth.
Samuel Thomas Percy Yeo had been born in 1884, the eldest son of William Yeo and Mary Martha Smith – he and Georgina had married in Plymouth in 1908, and Samuel’s posting had kept him in Australia for several years as their two youngest children had been born there.
Samuel and Mary had five children:
– Alice Mary Yeo (born 1909, married Ernest Arnold Beatty)
– Winifred Ina Yeo (1910–1911)
– William Percy Yeo (born 1912, married Olga Margaret Greig)
– Mavis Annie Yeo (born 1914 in Australia, married Walter Francis Gerard Heath, died 2006)
– Roland J Yeo (born 1918 in Australia, married Betty Bennett).
Samuel and Georgina both died in south-east London – Georgina in 1920 and Samuel in 1941.
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