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The details below are from research that Sheila Yeo carried out in 2004 with a correspondent in Australia. It is likely that some parts of this line need further research.
Thomas Yeo (1772–1837) was the only son of John Yeo and Elizabeth Philp of Werrington. He married Elizabeth Mason at Boyton in 1793; they baptised ten children at Werrington:
– Elizabeth Yeo (baptised 1794, married William Stanbury) [note 1]
– John Yeo (see below)
– Thomas Yeo (baptised 1801, married Jane Crocker [note 2], son Charles Yeo, see below)
– Joanna Yeo (baptised 1803)
– Mary Yeo (baptised 1805, married Arthur Way)
– Susanna Yeo (see John Thomas Scown and Susan Yeo)
– William Yeo (see below)
– Charles Yeo (1812–1923, married Mary Goodman at North Petherwin in 1866, three children, emigrated to the United States)
– Thomazine Yeo (1815–1858).
John Yeo (baptised 1796, son of Thomas Yeo and Elizabeth Mason) married Maria Mason in 1825. They had six children, including:
– William Mason Yeo (baptised at Werrington 1826, buried at Boyton 1828)
– William Yeo (baptised at Tetcott 1831, married Mary Ann Neale at St Giles on the Heath in 1857, eight children including Charles Yeo).
Charles Yeo (baptised in the parish of St Stephen, near Launceston in 1828, son of Thomas Yeo and Jane Crocker) emigrated to Australia. He married Mary Schooling in 1853 and had three sons before Mary’s death in 1886:
– Charles Henry Yeo (see below)
– Thomas Yeo (1857–1919, married Dinah Hart, three children)
– William Yeo (1860–1937, married Elizabeth Bell Laughlin, five children).
Charles then married Georgina Everist in Melbourne in 1888. They had one daughter:
– Florence Everist Yeo (1889–1965).
William Yeo (1809–1884, son of Thomas Yeo and Elizabeth Mason) married twice. He had three children with his first wife Ann Bassett [note 3]:
– Thomas Yeo (see below)
– Elizabeth Anne Yeo (born 1838 at Bridgerule)
– Nicholas William Bassett Yeo (born 1843 at Bridgerule).
Ann died in 1867; William re-married the following year. He had two children with his second wife Mary Ann Bartlett:
– Bessy Ann Yeo (born 1870)
– William John Yeo.
Thomas Yeo (baptised 1835 at Bridgerule, son of William Yeo and Ann Bassett) married Margery Creeper Lane at Lawhitton in 1857 [note 4]. They had four children:
– William Noah Yeo (1862–1925, married Clara Rundle)
– Charles Yeo
– Elizabeth Ann Yeo (born 1868)
– Thomas Yeo (born 1871).
Charles Henry Yeo (1855–1937, son of Charles Yeo and Mary Schooling) married Elizabeth Jane Garden in Cohuna, Victoria and moved with her to New Zealand, where he died. They had seven children:
– John Charles Yeo (see John Charles Yeo and Elizabeth Hickox)
– Frank Yeo (1879–1943, moved to New Zealand, married Edith Cocks, no recorded children)
– Thomas Douglas Yeo (see below)
– William Elphinstone Yeo (1883–1963)
– Frederick Gordon Yeo (1885–1968, married Kathleen Margaret Flynn)
– Elsie Jane Schooling Yeo (1888–1966)
– Doris Winifred Yeo (1891–1963, moved to New Zealand, married Hubert Hutton).
Thomas Douglas Yeo (1881–1962, son of Charles Henry Yeo and Elizabeth Jane Garden) married Susan Eliza Dhu at Perth in Western Australia in 1910. They had five children:
– Charles Henry Yeo (born in Perth in 1912, died in 1942 while serving with the Australian army in New Guinea).
– Eva Doris Yeo (1914–2008)
– Frederick Gordon Yeo (1916–2001)
– Frank Douglas Yeo (1918–1980)
– Elsie Jean Yeo (born 1920, died as an infant).
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Notes
1. Their daughter Susan Yeo Stanbury was baptised 1836 at Werrington; she did not marry, and died in 1905.
2. Thomas had no other children from this marriage, and none from his second marriage (to Elizabeth Lillycrap). He had an apprentice John Yeo Way.
3. Married at Bridgerule in 1835.
4. The 1871 census records Thomas and Margery at Lower Banham, Lawhitton. Thomas is 36, was born at Bridgerule, and is farming 160 acres. Margery is 39 and was born at Lawitton, as were their children William N. Yeo (age 8), Charles Yeo (6), Elizabeth A. Yeo (2) and Thomas Yeo (1 month). Also in the household are Thomas’s father William Yeo (age 62, born at Werrington), his brother William’s wife Mary A. Yeo (age 30, recorded as his mother-in-law) and his first cousin Bessie A. Yeo (age 1, recorded as his sister-in-law) and 14-year-old domestic servant Susanna Gregory.