The 1939 register for Devonport lists 55-year-old Thomas H. Yeo at 21 Fore Street. He is the fourth member of the household of 62-year-old widow Edith Friend, whose sons Leonard H. Friend (age 25, a boilermaker’s labourer) and Frank E. Friend (21, an electrical fitter) are also living there.
Thomas, who was born in 1884 and is described in the register as an ‘iron shipwright’, appears to have been working at nearby Devonport Dockyard. He was the youngest son of Frederick Yeo and Mary Jane Lock and remained a bachelor until the age of 64, when he and Edith married [note 1]. Thomas lived until 1963.
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1. Edith Friend née Bartlett (1877–1958). Married John Edward Hugoe Friend in 1902; married Thomas Henry Yeo in 1949.