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Jill Yeo and Percy Yeo investigated this line and sent information to Sheila Yeo in the 1990s.
Samuel Yeo (1762–1834, son of John Yeo and Joan Busthon) was baptised at Swimbridge. He married Joan Leworthy at Stoke Rivers in 1791; they remained in the parish and had nine children [note 1]:
– Samuel Yeo (c1791–1814)
– Joan Yeo (1792–1852, married Thomas Rowcliff at West Buckland in 1816) [note 2]
– Mary Yeo (baptised 1795)
– Elizabeth Yeo (1798–1799)
– Elizabeth Yeo (see below)
– Jenny Yeo (1805–1892 [note 3], married John Incledon at Lohore in 1829)
– Henry Yeo (1805–1871)
– William Yeo (see below)
– Charity Yeo (1810–1833).
Elizabeth Yeo (1802–1883, daughter of Samuel Yeo and Joan Leworthy) baptised two illegitimate children at East Buckland:
– Prudence Yeo (1822–1908, married William Henry Cockrem)
– John Yeo (1827–1837)
Elizabeth later married James Kingdon at Landkey in 1830 [note 4].
William Yeo (baptised at Stoke Rivers in 1808, son of Samuel Yeo and Joan Leworthy) married Joanna Squire [note 5] at Monkokehampton in 1837 and moved to Cardiff. They had three children there:
– Jane Yeo (1838–1917, married Abel Uglow, died in Ontario)
– Mary Yeo (1839–1901, died in Wisconsin)
– William Yeo (see below).
William and Joanna emigrated to the United States and settled at Bunker Hill, Illinois, where they had another daughter:
– Nellie Ellen Maria Yeo (1848–1944, married William Richard Waters).
William’s wife Joanna died about 1850. William re-married in Illinois in 1851 and had three children with his second wife, English emigrant Mary Ann Sanders[note 6]. The first two were born at Bunker Hill:
– Maria Isabel Yeo (1852–1886)
– George Edward Yeo (1856–1857)
followed by the birth of a son after they moved to Wisconsin:
– Albert Hyde Yeo (see below).
William Yeo (1841–1922, son of William Yeo and Joanna Squire) emigrated to the United States with his parents, and married Helen Louisa Sampson [note 7]. They had two children:
– William Sampson Yeo (see below)
– Grace Helen Yeo (1880–1976, married John Alvin Parks).
Albert Hyde Yeo (1859–1945, son of William Yeo and Mary Ann Sanders) married Laura Rachel Pope in 1883. They had two children:
– Elmer Durwood Yeo (1888–1963, married Grace Babcock c1910)
– Helen Frances Yeo (1895–1979, married Luke William Hutcheson c1918).
William Sampson Yeo (1871–1952, son of William Yeo and Helen Louisa Sampson) married twice. With his first wife Grace Anderson he had two sons, both born in Wisconsin:
– Ralph Anderson Yeo (born 1898)
– William Allan Yeo (born 1899).
With his second wife Jane Harriet Pickering, William had a third son:
– Robert Pickering Yeo (1935–2016).
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Notes
1. Samuel was buried at Stoke Rivers. Joan lived until 1861 and was buried at Loxhore.
2. Death registered as Joanna Routliffe; burial at Swimbridge recorded as Johanna Rowcliffe.
3. Death registered as Jane Incledon.
4. Correspondents Keith Rees and Ian Thwaites have kindly provided details of James and Elizabeth’s descendants. See also the unrelated line of James Yeo and Mary Ann Kingdon.
5. Recorded as Joan Squire by Sheila Yeo and by other researchers. The birth certificate of her son William shows her as Joanna Esquire.
6. 1828–1888, born in Devon.
7. Based on research published by Samuel G. Webber in 1905.