Bratton Fleming is a small parish in north Devon, six miles north east of Barnstaple. Thomas Yeo was baptised there in 1861, the seventh of eight children of William Yeo, a local tenant farmer. The 1851 census return for Bratton Fleming records William [note 1] with his wife Mary and daughter Elizabeth. The 1861 and 1871 censuses also record William farming in Bratton Fleming. The 1891 census records William farming in Loxhore.
Thomas Yeo was living with his parents in Bratton Fleming in 1871. He married Agnes Ann Ridge at Loxhore in 1891 and the census of that year records him farming at nearby Roborough. His widowed mother-in-law Mary Ann Ridge is living with them.
Thomas and Agnes later moved to Shirwell. A headstone in the parish churchyard at Shirwell records that Thomas Yeo of Town Farm died in 1926 and his wife Agnes in 1935.
Thomas and Agnes had at least seven children:
– George Henry Yeo (born 1888)
– Elizabeth Ann Yeo (born 1892)
– Mary Edith Yeo (born 1894)
– William Henry Yeo (born 1896)
– Ida Helen Yeo (born 1901)
– Thomas Austen Yeo (born 1906).
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Note
1. William’s birthplace is given as Swimbridge – is he related to one of the many Yeo families from that village?