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The 1911 census for Horwood, a village a short distance east of Bideford, records 33-year-old farmer and dealer William Yeo and his 33-year-old wife Emily Ethel Yeo, with their children Ethel Olive Grace Yeo (age 12) and William Robert Cawsey Yeo (5). Also listed in the household are a governess and a domestic servant.
William Yeo (1876–1949) had been born at Newton Tracey near Barnstaple to parents William Yeo and Grace Clark Youatt. He married Emily Ethel Cawsey at the parish church in nearby Alverdiscott in 1897.
William and Emily had two children, as listed in the 1911 census:
– Ethel Olive Grace Yeo (1899–1953, married Frank John Holland)
– William Robert Cawsey Yeo (1905–1963, married Doris Holland).
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