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William James Yeo was born at Treswithan, Camborne in 1858, the fourth of twelve children of Henry Yeo and Jane Dunn. He died in Ontario in 1952.
William married Louise Stoddern in 1883. They emigrated to Ontario, where they had seven children over a span of eighteen years [note 1]:
– Earl William Yeo (born 1884–1948, married Myrtle Tansley)
– Elias Yeo (see below)
– Eliza Jane Yeo (1887–1962, married Hudson Leslie Parker)
– Frederick Yeo (1889–1971, married Lottie Trickett) [note 1]
– John Yeo (see below)
– Louis Yeo (1895–1975, married Mary Helen Roche) [note 2]
– Dorothy Louise Yeo (born 1906, married Joseph Wilfred Vincent).
Elias Yeo (1885–1965, son of William James Yeo and Louise Stoddern) was born in Southwold. Ontario. He married Marjorie Jackson at Windsor, Ontario in 1911; they had at least eleven children [note 3]:
– William Ernest Yeo (born 1912, died as child)
– Huldah Edith Yeo (1913–2009, married Freeman Shingler)
– Bernice Yeo (1914–1975, married Charles Ross)
– Martha Louise Yeo (1915–2009, married Charles Thomas McMillan)
– Delphine Yeo (1917–1954, married John Douglas McFarlane)
– Clifford Hilton James Yeo (1917–1968, married Mary Ellen Caswell, two children)
– Searles Franklin Yeo (1919–1964 [note 4], married Hilda Noble, four children)
– Mary Franklin Yeo (1921–1994, married her brother-in-law John Douglas McFarlane)
– Lawrence Steven Dunning Yeo (1926–1992, married Shirley Elaine Karl)
– Donald Yeo (1927–1979)
– Everett Henry Yeo (born 1928, died as a child).
John Yeo (1891–1966, son of William James Yeo and Louise Stoddern) married Laura Maude Stanley. They had six children:
– Claude Yeo (1915–1993, married Kathleen Mary Freeman, two children) [note 5]
– Vivian Yeo (1915–1915)
– Floyd Yeo (1917–1917)
– Helen Irene Yeo (1920–1998, married John Richmond Waite)
– Russell Francis Yeo (1926–1978)
– Donald Yeo (1927–1979).
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Notes
1. Son Frederick Le Roy Yeo (born 1925, married Marjorie May Brook, two children).
2. Known as Ellen. Sheila Yeo recorded Louis Yeo’s wife as Clara Merle Smith – did he marry twice?
3. The information on this family and their descendants is based on research by Sheila Yeo. Some of it is queried in her records, and might therefore not be accurate.
4. Known as Frank.
5. Claude’s role in the Canadian army in the Second World War is documented at Vol XI, p.393 of the Military Service Recognition Book, published by the Ontario Command of the Royal Canadian Legion.