Census returns
Susan Yeo is recorded at 4 Nelson Street, West Greenock in the 1881 census, working as a sewing teacher. Her birthplace is given as Dartmouth, Devon, she is a widow aged 57 and the only person in the household [note 1].
In censuses for Scotland taken between 1891 and 1921, 20 people with the surname Yea are recorded.
The following numbers of people with the surname Yeo are recorded in censuses for Scotland:
– 1841, 0
– 1851, 1
– 1861, 3 (including Doctor Daniel Yeo)
– 1871, 2 (Hamil and Susan Yeo, see above)
– 1881, 1 (Susan Yeo, see above)
– 1891, 7 (including John Shapland Yeo)
– 1901, 5 (including John Shapland Yeo)
– 1911, 6
– 1921, 6.
Births, marriages and deaths
These births are recorded in Scotland between 1883 and 1960:
– Barbara Leah Yea (Melrose, 1883) [notes 2, 3]
– James Albert Yea (Melrose, 1884) [note 2]
– Charles William Yea (Melrose, 1892) [note 2]
– Alfred Edward Yeo (Maryhill, Edinburgh 1904) [note 4]
– Dorothy May Yeo (Maryhill, Edinburgh 1906) [note 4]
– Patricia Clair Yeo (Newington, 1933)
– Elizabeth Watson Yeo (Stirling, 1941)
– Brian Yeo (Dunfermline, 1944)
– Jack Moran Yeo (Canongate, Edinburgh, 1944)
– Penelope Sarah Yeo (Broughty Ferry, 1945)
– Jane Stewart Yeo (Dalry, Ayrshire 1945)
– James John Yeo (Inverness, 1946)
– Peter John Yeo (Haymarket, Edinburgh, 1946)
– Ronald Yeo (Dunfermline, 1946)
– Sheena Mary Yeo (Paisley, Glasgow, 1947)
– Leonard Robert Yeo (Haymarket, Edinburgh, 1949)
– Robert Leslie Yeo (St Quivox, Ayrshire, 1952)
– Elizabeth Yeo (St Quivox, Ayrshire, 1953)
– Mamie Louisa G. Yeo (Dunfermline, 1954)
– Agnes Kelly Yeo (Ayr, 1956)
These marriages are recorded in Scotland between 1882 and 1960:
– William James Yea and Ellen Donaldson (Eddleston, Dumfriesshire, 1882)
– James Albert Yea and Mary Marshall (St George, Edinburgh, 1913)
– William Lockie and Barbara Leah Yea (Melrose, Fife, 1913)
– Robert Lawrie and Rebecca Ann Yeo (St Andrew, Edinburgh 1914)
– Charles William Yea and Euphemia Galbraith Bowie (Isle of Rothesay, 1915)
– Arthur Frederick Tippett and Dorothy Yeo (Dunfermline, 1917)
– Francis Gourlay and Annie Yeo (St Giles, Edinburgh, 1919)
– Charles William Yea and Margaret Ogilvie (St Andrew, Edinburgh, 1930)
– Douglas Yeo and Florrie Watson Wilson (Stirling, 1941)
– John William Thomas Yeo and Doris Violet Ling (Dunfermline, 1941)
– Alexander Cochrane and Marjorie Ellen Yea (Edinburgh, 1942)
– Daniel Yeo and Sheila Catherine Martin (Haymarket, Edinburgh, 1943)
– Leonard Yeo and Margaret Connel McIntosh (Dalry, Ayrshire, 1946)
– Russell Ernest Yeo and Janet Walls Cameron (Uphall, Midlothian 1946)
– John Chalmers and Phyllis May Yeo Falkirk, 1948)
– Charles William Yeo and Sarah McGhee Kelly (Ayr, 1951)
– Samuel Swaby Hodson and Patricia Claire Yeo (Haymarket, Edinburgh, 1952)
– George Arthur White and Shirley Ann Yeo (Gretna, 1956)
– David Honeyman and Elizabeth Watson Yeo (Stirling, 1960).
These deaths are recorded in Scotland between 1871 and 1980:
– Doctor Daniel Yeo, age 59 (Greenock, 1871)
– Susan Yeo née Weyman, age 84 (Greenock, 1902)
– John Shapland Yeo, age 44 (St George, Edinburgh, 1904)
– James F.J. Yeo (1917) [note 5]
– Ellen Yeo, age 77 (Hillhead, 1936)
– Emily Yeo, age 63 (Newington, 1953)
– Albert Tom Yeo, age 60 (Dennistoun, 1961)
– Elizabeth Annie Yeo, age 82 (Windygates, 1963)
– Emma Yeo, age 87 (Busby, 1963)
– Frances Clair Yeo, age 61 (Haymarket, Edimburgh 1965)
– Irene Ivy Yeo, age 53 (Localsh, 1965)
– Ellen Veronica Yeo née McSweeny, age 59 (Melrose, 1980)
– Evelina Maud Yeo née Underwood, age 90 (Newington, 1980)
– Reginald John Yeo, age 62 (Park Circus, Glasgow 1980)
– Janet Elizabeth Yeo née Wells, age 49 (Inverness, 1980)
Other records
Francis Yeo, a ‘reed maker’ from High Calton in Edinburgh, was prosecuted for theft in 1820.
Aileen Mary Yeo was recorded as an inmate of The Crichton Royal Asylum in Dumfries in 1890.
George C. Yeo is recorded in the 1905/06 valuation roll for Dunfermline as the owner of a house and garden at Highfield, 61 Rose Street, North Side.
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Notes:
1. Susan was living in West Greenock with her husband Hamil Yeo in 1871.
2. Mother’s maiden name recorded as Donaldson.
3. Barbara married in 1913 (see list above).
4. Mother’s maiden name recorded as McLoughlin.
5. No age or district recorded; apparently from a military record.