The 1921 census for the Berkshire village of Winkfield records 37-year-old widow Elsie Yeo living at Holly Cottage. Listed in her household are her children Ethel Elsie Yeo (age 13), William C. Yeo (5), Roland A. Yeo (3) and Thora Yeo (5 months). She is also looking after a relative’s 13-month-old son Gordon R. Cousins and has visitors Emanuel Jennings and Alice Jennings.
Elsie Holliday had married William Edward Yeo [note 1] in 1907. They had four children before William’s death in 1918 [note 2]:
– Ethel Elsie Yeo (1907–1952, married Roland Arthur Clarke)
– Rose Eva Yeo (1910–1915)
– William Charles Yeo (1915–1972, married Margaret Catherine Collyer)
– Roland Austin Yeo (1917–1996, married Ida Muriel McNulty)
and Elsie later had a daughter:
– Thora Yeo (1920–2009, married William Charles Clifford).
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Notes
1. Born in Somerset in 1884 to parents Charles Yeo and Mary Kinton.
2. William died in Iraq while serving with the Royal Engineers.