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William Joseph Spry Yeo (1813–1897) was baptised at the parish church of St Andrew, Plymouth to parents John Yeo and Ann Ellis.
William became a shoemaker, and married Elizabeth Nicholson (1813–1900) at Stoke Damerel in 1840. They moved to Guernsey, where their four sons were born:
– James William Yeo (see below)
– John Thomas Yeo
– George Henry Yeo (see below)
– Frederick Francis Yeo (1845–1851) [note 1]
The 1841 census for Guernsey records William in prison [note 2]. The 1851 census records William and Elizabeth in Millbrook, Hampshire with their four sons. William and and Elizabeth later moved to London; the 1881 census records them in Battersea.
James William Yeo (1839–1910, son of William Joseph Spry Yeo and Elizabeth Nicholson) moved to London with his parents and married Harriet Rich in 1858. Their births of their eight children were registered at Lambeth:
– Harriet Yeo (1859–1860)
– James William Yeo (1861–1928, married Emma Webb Freeland)
– George Henry Yeo (1863–1888)
– Thomas Edward Yeo (see below)
– Alfred Edward Yeo
– Francis Frederick Yeo (1869–1870)
– Harriet Yeo (1870–1957, married Thomas Francis Quelch)
– Richard Yeo (1872–1873).
Harriet died in 1872, and James re-married the following year. With his second wife Mary Jane Petrie he had five children:
– Ada Elizabeth Yeo (1874–1955, married George Quinlan)
– Frederick Richard Yeo (1878–1948, married Florence Matilda Finch, five children including Douglas Raymond Yeo, 1917–1984)
– Walter Douglas Yeo (1881–1927, married Daisy Florence Cumerford, two children)
– Alice Emma Yeo (1884–1954, married Matthew Cotter)
– Florence Jane Yeo (1887–1955, married Henry John Dent and Charles A. Painter).
George Henry Yeo (1843–1911, son of William Joseph Fry Yeo and Elizabeth Nicholson), moved to London with his parents, where he married Sarah Holland in 1869. They had ten children:
– James Alfred Yeo (1870–1909, married Amy Adams, two daughters)
– Elizabeth Charlotte Yeo (1872–1953, married Francis William Riches)
– Maud Eliza Yeo (1874–1950, married George Frederick Jones)
– George Henry Yeo (1876–1941), married Ellen Caroline Musto, five children)
– William Yeo (1879–1944, emigrated to Canada and married Elizabeth Hughes)
– Annie Yeo (1881–1885)
– Arthur Richard Yeo (1883–1961, married Emma Martha Poole, three children including Edward George Yeo, 1917–1987) [note 3]
– Francis Frederick Yeo (1885–1947, married Alice Ethel Bone, four children including William Lionel Yeo)
– Walter Yeo (1887–1956, married Beatrice Wilson, emigrated to Canada, son Walter George Roy Yeo, 1917–1996)
– Annie Yeo (1890–1978, married James Henry Sears).
Thomas Richard Yeo (1864–1924 [note 4], son of James William Yeo and Harriet Rich) married Mary Ann Elizabeth Condon. They had six children:
– Harriet Ada Yeo (1899–1906)
– Lilian Emma Yeo (1891–1984, married Francis David Alexander)
– Thomas Edward Yeo (born 1894, died in Canada)
– James William Yeo (1896–1973, married Kathleen May Adams)
– William Ernest George Yeo (1899–1964, married Louisa Catherine Goddard)
– Violet Alexandra Yeo (1902–1988, married George Robert Ewington)
and an unnamed son who died as an infant in 1909.
George Henry Yeo (1876–1941, son of George Henry Yeo and Sarah Holland) married Ellen Caroline Musto in 1897. They had five children:
– George Henry Yeo (1897–1918)
– James Frederick Yeo (1899–1973, married Alice Lilian Arthur, two children)
– Ellen Alice Yeo (1901–1988, married Henry Thomas Van Dyck)
– Francis William Yeo (see below)
– Sidney Albert Yeo (1909–2000).
Francis William Yeo (1903–1991, son of George Henry Yeo and Ellen Caroline Musto) married Elizabeth Harriet Nightingale. They had two children, including:
– Francis George Yeo (1924–2006, married in 1946).
This pedigree is based on research by Sheila Yeo, supplemented by more recent findings. Additional information has kindly been supplied by Elaine Brooke, a descendant of this line.
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Notes
1. Baptised at St Stephen, Devonport in 1850 as Frederick Yeo. Died in Hampshire.
2. Does anyone know more about William, or the reason for his imprisonment?
3. The 1939 Register for Poplar lists Arthur and Emma and their son Edward at 25 McCullum Road. Arthur is recorded as a printer’s cutter and Edward as a printer’s assistant.
4. Inaccurately recorded as Thomas Edward Yeo by some researchers, who might be confusing him with his eldest son.