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Thomas Yeo, baptised at Littleham (near Bideford) in 1714 to Humphrey and Prudence Yeo, was a great grandson of Joseph Yeo and Jane Giffard of Shebbear.
Thomas married Jane Courtis and baptised eleven children at Littleham, including:
– John Yeo (see below)
– Humphrey Yeo (1756–1832, married Ann Darke, four children)
– William Yeo (1758–1826, married Mary Haynes, one son)
– James Yeo (see below).
John Yeo (baptised 1754, son of Thomas Yeo and Jane Courtis) married Catherine Ash. They baptised three children at Bideford:
– Jane Yeo (baptised 1784)
– John Yeo (baptised 1787, married Elizabeth Williams, two children)
– Thomas Yeo.
James Yeo (baptised 1768 at Littleham, son of Thomas Yeo and Jane Courtis) married Susannah Pryor at Stoke Damerel in 1802. They had eight children:
– James Yeo
– John Yeo (baptised St Germans 1804)
– Thomas Curtis Yeo (baptised St Germans 1806)
– Humphrey Yeo (baptised Stoke Damerel 1807)
– Richard Yeo (baptised St Germans 1809) [note 1]
– William Yeo (see below)
– Doctor Daniel Yeo [note 2] (1811–1871, married Susan Soper [note 3] )
– Prudence Ann Yeo (baptised Stoke Damerel 1814).
John Yeo (baptised 1787 at Bideford, son of John Yeo and Catherine Ash) moved to Plymouth, where he married Elizabeth Williams at the parish church of St Andrew in 1817. They baptised two children in the same church:
– Catherine Elizabeth Yeo (baptised 1823)
– Thomas Ash Yeo (1825–1896, married Rose Trevethan).
William Yeo (1810–1865, son of James Yeo and Susannah Pryor) was baptised at St Germans. He married Susan Collacott at the parish church in nearby Maker in 1832 [note 4]; they baptised three children at Stoke Damerel:
– Harriet James Yeo (baptised 1833)
– William James Yeo (baptised 1837)
– Elizabeth Maria Yeo
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Notes
1. The record is not clear – the boy’s forename might be Francis.
2. Baptised at St Germans with the forenames Doctor Daniel – there is no evidence of a medical connection; he worked as a painter and decorator. He and Susan married at Stoke Damerel in 1839, and moved to Scotland between 1861 and 1871. Recorded with Susan in Buckfastleigh in the 1841 census, in Ashburton in 1851, and in West Greenock in 1871. Died in Scotland later in 1871 (death registered at Greenock). No recorded children.
3. Susan was listed at 4 Nelson Street, West Greenock in the 1881 census, working as a sewing teacher. Recorded in West Greenock in the 1901 census as a widow – the only person in the household. Died in Scotland 1902 (death registered at Greenock West). Birthplace recorded as Dartmouth in the 1851 census.
4. Susan was recorded as Susanna Collicott. Maker was then in Devon, but was in Cornwall after the 1844 border realignment.