William Henry Yeo and Elizabeth Welsford

William Henry Yeo (1844–1905, son of William Yeo and Grace Cooke) was born at Great Torrington. He married Elizabeth Welsford in 1873; their eight children were born at Appledore:
– Grace Maud Yeo (1873–1952, married George Edward Staines)
– Henry Welsford Yeo (born 1875, married Alice England Andrews [note 1], no recorded children)
– Bessie Ann Yeo (1877–1941, married William Bissett)
– John Yeo (see below)
– Emmeline Yeo (1882–1929) [note 2]
– Thomasine Lily Yeo (1887–1918, married Reginald Frederick Hearn)
– Edwin Yeo (1890–1959, married Emma Folley, eleven children)
– Beatrice Anne Yeo (1894–1976, married Thomas Kelly and Thomas Taylor).

John Yeo (1879–1920, son of William Henry Yeo and Elizabeth Welsford) married Mabel Susan Martin in 1906. They lived at Appledore, where they had two children:
John William Thomas Yeo
– Gladys Mabel Yeo (1916–1994, married Richard George Elston) [note 3].

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Notes
1. Marriage registered at Bideford in 1915 (Alice had been born at Appledore in 1867). Harry’s year of death not known.
2. Emmeline had daughters Dorothy Smallridge Yeo (1905–1985, married Frederick William Hockaday) and Vera Beatrice Yeo (1909–1918) before marrying Harold Francis William Wilson in 1915.
3. Richard was a widower, previously married to Edith Mary Daniels.


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