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The 1861 census for north Devon records 38-year-old Thomas Yeo, a builder with five employees, living in Cross Street, Northam. Listed with him are his wife Ann (also 38, born in Lambeth) and five children: Thomas (age 8), Esther Anne (7), William Henry (5), Ellen Eliza (3) and Mary Jane (10 months) [note 1].
Thomas Yeo (1823–1901, son of Thomas Yeo and Ann Cruse [note 2]) was baptised at Northam. He moved to London, where he married Ann Thatcher [note 3] in 1851. They had four children in London:
– Thomas Yeo
– Esther Ann Yeo (born 1854)
– William Henry Yeo (see below)
– Eliza Ellen Yeo (born 1858)
and three at Northam:
– Mary Jane Yeo (born 1860)
– John Archibald Yeo (born 1863)
– Ada Mary Yeo (born 1866).
William Henry Yeo (1856–1899, son of Thomas Yeo and Ann Thatcher) married Elizabeth Frances Jones. They had five children:
– Elizabeth Ada Yeo
– Hetty or Ettie Yeo (born 1883, married James Neale Tarling)
– William Henry Yeo (1885–1969, married Nan Matthews, three children)
– Bertram Yeo (1891–1945, married Rose Maria Hazell, three children).
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Notes
1. The four eldest children were born in Lambeth and Mary Jane was born at Northam, giving a good indication of when Thomas returned to his native Devon.
2. Married at Northam 1814. They baptised at least three other children there: Mary Ann Yeo (1815), William Yeo (1821) and Esther Haynes Yeo (1826).
3. Sheila Yeo inaccurately recorded Ann’s surname as Jones (a different Thomas Yeo married Ann Jones at Tawstock in 1852). The use of Thatcher as a second forename for their granddaughter Ann Thatcher Yeo provides additional evidence that Thatcher is correct.