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William Yeo (1734–1786) was baptised at Lyneham, Witshire to parents Daniel Yeo and Elizabeth Townsend. He married Jane Andrews at Malmesbury in 1763; they had nine children, of whom Jane and Daniel were baptised at Malmesbury and the other seven children at Christian Malford:
– William Yeo (see below)
– Elizabeth Yeo (baptised 1765, married John Herring)
– Jane Andrews Yeo (baptised 1767)
– Thomas Yeo (baptised 1769, died as an infant)
– Thomas Yeo (see below)
– Daniel Yeo (baptised 1772, had two children with his wife Mary)
– Joseph Yeo (baptised 1774, died as an infant)
– Jacob Yeo (1778–1813)
– James Yeo (baptised 1781).
William Yeo (baptised 1764 at Christian Malford, son of William Yeo and Jane Andrews) married Sarah Salmon at Christian Malford in 1787. They baptised ten children there:
– Jane Yeo (baptised 1787, son George Yeo)
– Ann Yeo (1789–1807)
– William Yeo (baptised 1793)
– Elizabeth Yeo (baptised 1793)
– Daniel Yeo (baptised 1799, died as an infant)
– Joseph Yeo (see below)
– James Yeo (see below)
– Mary Yeo (baptised 1805)
– Ann Yeo (baptised 1808)
– Jacob Yeo (1811–1885).
Thomas Yeo (baptised 1771 at Christian Malford, son of William Yeo and Jane Andrews) married Jane Radcliff at Malmesbury in 1806. They had three children:
– Joseph Yeo (1806–1873, married Helen Elizabeth Ratcliffe, three sons)
– Daniel Yeo (see below)
– Jane Yeo (baptised 1817 at Malmesbury).
Joseph Yeo (baptised 1799 at Christian Malford, son of William Yeo and Sarah Salmon) married Elizabeth Baker. They had five children, including:
– Mary Anne Yeo (1833–1903, married William Tanner) [note 1]
– Emma Yeo (baptised 1837 at Christian Malford).
James Yeo (1799–1877, son of William Yeo and Sarah Salmon) was baptised at Christian Malford. He married Fanny Alexander in 1828; they had three children:
– Amelia Yeo (1829–1895, married Henry Gingell)
– John James Yeo
– William Alexander Yeo (see below).
Daniel Yeo (1812–1890, son of Thomas Yeo and Jane Radcliff) married Mary Ann Woolf in London in 1844. They had six children:
– Thomas Yeo (born 1845, married Mary Margaret Jackson) [note 2]
– Helen Elizabeth Yeo (1847–1938, married Richard Manning)
– Mary Ann Celia Yeo (1849–1853)
– Joseph George Yeo (1851–1853)
– Daniel Yeo (1853–1931)
– Joseph Yeo (1856–1927, married Amelia Stobie).
William Alexander Yeo (1835–1877, son of James Yeo and Fanny Alexander) moved to London, where he married Frances Esther Hubbard. They had nine children:
– William Richard Yeo (see below)
– James Yeo (1860–1910, married Marian Evelina Ridout)
– John Alexander Yeo (1862–1918)
– Fanny Amelia Yeo (1864–1866)
– Annie Yeo (1866–1958, married James John Whiting, died in Canada)
– Henry Frederick Yeo (1869–1927, emigrated to Canada, married Flossie Louisa Jordan [note 3]
– Ernest Yeo (1871–1959, married Jane Elizabeth Holness, two children)
– Frank Yeo
– Frances Maud Yeo (1877–1919).
William Richard Yeo (1858–1927, son of William Alexander Yeo and Frances Esther Hubbard) married Annie Elizabeth Sexton. They had six children:
– William John Yeo (see below)
– Ethel Louise Yeo (born 1882, married William Theodore Noakes)
– Annie Elizabeth Yeo (1885–1971, married William Henry Pratt) [note 4]
– Helena Frances Yeo (1888–1892)
– Frederick Arthur Yeo (1890–1976, died in Paris) [note 5]
– Florence Eva Yeo (1893–1988, married Frank Gilbert).
William John Yeo (1881–1908, son of William Richard Yeo and Annie Elizabeth Sexton) was born in Notting Hill. He married fellow Londoner Florence Benton [note 6] there in 1902. They appear to have been part of a local Primitive Methodist congregation, as their daughter Dorothy was baptised at a Primitive Methodist ceremony. They had two daughters:
– Florence Nellie Yeo (1902–1933, emigrated to Canada with her mother, married Howard Otto Haggberg in the United States and died there)
– Dorothy Ethel Yeo (1905–2004, emigrated to Canada with her mother, married Joseph Lindholm in the United States and died there).
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Notes
1. The 1881 census records William and Mary Anne in Christian Malford, where William is a shopkeeper. They have four children.
2. No record of Thomas’s death has been found. His Irish-born wife Mary died in London in 1917.
3. 1878–1956, later married Charles Rolfe.
4. The 1939 Register lists 53-year-old boot repairer William H. Pratt at 5 Sandrock, a street in Haslemere, Surrey. Listed with William are his wife Annie E. Pratt, also aged 53, and 28-year-old Evelyn M. Ramplin.
5. Sheila Yeo looked into Frederick’s line of descent in 1991, but was unable to contact any members of his family. She traced his line back to Daniel Yeo and Barbara Easton, providing a framework for the pedigree set out on this page.
6. Following William’s death, Florence emigrated to Canada with her daughters in 1910. She married Peter Anderson in Winnipeg in 1911 and had four further children with him. She died in 1919.