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Thomas was born in Northumberland in 1865 to parents Thomas Yeo [note 1] and Sarah Curtis. He had a younger sister Sarah.
His birth was registered as Thomas Brown [note 2], but his surname was recorded as Yeo when he married Eliza Ann Wildblood at Sunderland in 1889. He died in 1926 [note 3].
Thomas and Eliza had nine children, five of whom died as infants:
– John William Yeo (1889–1918) [note 4]
– Joseph Wildblood Yeo
– Sarah Yeo (1894–1951, married William Tate)
– Mary Ellen Yeo (1896–1896)
– Thomas Yeo (1897–1899)
– David Thomas Yeo (1900–1900)
– Charles Yeo (1902–1902)
– Thomas Yeo (1904–1905)
– Ellen Yeo (1907–1983, marred Hector Robert Jones).
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Notes
1. Born 1837 in Pembrokeshire, son of Thomas Yeo and Maria Roberts.
2. The births of Thomas’s siblings Isabella (1863), John (1867), Maria (1871), Sarah (1874), Margaret Jane (1877) and Eliza (1880) were also registered with the surname Brown. When Isabella married Thomas Cuthbertson in 1877 her surname was registered as Yor.
3. Death registered at Sunderland as Thomas Yeo and as Thomas Brown. His burial record at Mere Knolls Cemetery also shows both surnames. The death of his widow Eliza in 1951 was registered as Elizabeth Ann Brown.
4. Died on military service in France, see War deaths.