William Henry Yeo (1844–1905) was born at Great Torrington. He married Elizabeth Welsford in 1873; their ten children [note 1] were born at Appledore:
– Grace Maud Yeo (1873–1952, married George Staines)
– Henry Welsford Yeo (1875–1920, married Alice England Andrews [note 2], no recorded children)
– Bessie Ann Yeo (1877–1941, married William Bissett)
– John Yeo (see below)
– Emmeline Yeo (1882–1929, daughter Vera Beatrice Yeo, 1909–1918)
– James Yeo (1885–1946, married Florence Annie Burrow, no recorded children)
– Thomasine Lily Yeo (1887–1918, married Reginald Frederick Hearn)
– Edwin Yeo (1890–1959, married Emma Folley, eleven children)
– Beatrice Ann Yeo (1894–1976, married Thomas Kelly).
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 (born 1916).
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Notes
1. The birth of Dorothy Smallridge Yeo was registered at Bideford in the third quarter of 1905. She married Frederick William Hockaday in 1929, they had two daughters and she died in 1985. Was Dorothy related to this family? She might have been their youngest daughter, or their granddaughter (a daughter of their daughter Emmeline).
2. Marriage registered at Bideford in 1915. Alice had been born at Appledore in 1867. Harry’s year of death not confirmed.