William John Yaw and Emma Alderman

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William John Yaw, a great grandson of John Yaw and Sarah Richards of Washfield, near Tiverton, was born in Somerset at North Petherton in 1868. He married Emma Alderman; they lived at Bampton and had four children there [note 1], whose births were all registered with the surname Yeo:
– Robert James Yeo (1894–1960, married Bessie Clarke, one son)
– William Yeo (1895–1919)
– Joseph Yeo (1897–1897)
– Frederick Yeo (see Frederick Yeo and Ethel Mary Knight)
before moving to Hampshire and having five more children:
– John Yeo (1900–1970)
– Dorothy Emma Yeo (1902–1937)
– Emily Yeo (born 1904)
– Edward Yeo (1906–1906)
– Bessie Yeo (1910–1982, married Harold Arthur Wilmer and Edwin Bradbury Allen).

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Note
1. Mike Darch and David Yaw’s pedigree of this family in Descendants of Thomas Yea of Yea, Wiveliscombe records an additional daughter Emma Yeo (death registered at Basingstoke 1906, age 1).

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