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William Thomas Yeo (1863–1942) was a grandson of English emigrants Thomas Yeo and Elizabeth Ann Hockridge. He married Katherine Maude Arbing (known to family as Katie) in 1890 in Prince Edward Island, where they remained for the rest of their lives. They had 13 children:
– William Thomas Yeo (born 1891)
– Russell Yeo (see below)
– Winnifred Yeo (see below)
– John Howard Yeo (see below)
– Susan Belle Yeo (1899–1931, married Charles Allen Moore)
– James Stanley Yeo (1900–1966, moved to Maine, married Marion Gertrude Folsom, five children)
– Margaret Blye Yeo (1902–1985, marred Charles Gordon Enman)
– Annie Louise Yeo (1904–1985, married Charles Baglole)
– Roy Yeo (1906–1908)
– William Keir Yeo (see below)
– Nettie May Yeo (1910–1985)
– Frederick Yeo (see below)
– Ada Maud Yeo (1914–1980, married Edward MacKinnon).
Russell Yeo (1893–1958, son of William Thomas Yeo and Katherine Maude Arbing), remained in Prince Edward Island. He married Lillian Winifred Baglole and had eight children:
– Hazel Blanche Yeo (1915–1993, married surname Ramsay)
– Leila Glenn Yeo (1917–1992, married Leland Ellis)
– Katie Maude Yeo (1922–1972, married Stanley Francis Theriaut)
– Lester Russell Yeo (born 1923, married Blanche Ballum, five children)
– Carl David Yeo (1926–1975, married Lucy Gladys Campbell, 13 children)
– Charles Herman Yeo (1930–2000, married Lorna Olive Grigg, eight children)
– John Frank Yeo (1931–1932)
– Emmett Thyne Yeo (1939–2022, married twice) [note 1].
Winnifred Yeo (1895–1969, daughter of William Thomas Yeo and Katherine Maude Arbing), also remained in Prince Edward Island. In 1910 she married David Enman; they had three children, including:
– Roy Yeo Enman (1911–1988, married Pearl Susan Enman, one son)
– Florence Yeo Enman (1913–1991).
John Howard Yeo (1897–1962, son of William Thomas Yeo and Katherine Maude Arbing) married Elizabeth Enman. They had ten children, including:
– Eileen Ada Yeo (1923–2017, married David McCue, died in Maine)
– Bertram Howard Yeo (1924–1986, died in Florida)
– John Clinton Yeo (1926–1994, married Jean Jacqueline Lander 1948 in Maine and Gloria Gallagher 1966 in Connecticut)
– Lawrence Yeo (1933–2015, married and died in Maine).
William Keir Yeo (1908–1987, son of William Thomas Yeo and Katherine Maude Arbing) married Helen Campbell in 1933 [note 2]. They had a son and a daughter:
– Sherman Carroll Yeo (1933–1991)
– Shirley Glen Yeo (1935–2023, married Reuben Charles Enman).
Frederick Yeo (1911–1994, son of William Thomas Yeo and Katherine Maude Arbing) moved to Maine and married Mary Katherine Fraser; they had two children:
– Mary Regina Yeo (1936–2000, married Humbert Raymond Raposa)
– Charles Leo Yeo (1937–2012, married Carolyn J. Walton, three children).
The 1940 census for Penobscot, Maine records the family at 342 Congress Street: Fred Yeo is a 27-year-old rigger, his wife Catherine is 30 and their children are Mary Jean (age 3) and Charles L. (2).
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Notee
1. Also recorded as Emmett Thane Yeo. Son from first marriage: David Blake Yeo (1961–1962).
2. Married at the United Church Parsonage in Queen Street, Moncton, New Brunswick. The groom is recorded as Keir Yeo.