William Yeo [notes 1, 2] was born at Bampton in north east Devon. He married Martha Ann Palmer in Bristol in 1876; they had five children:
– William Charles John Yeo (see below)
– Lavinia Yeo (1883–1885)
– Sarah Lottie Yeo (1885–1950, married Alfred Nash)
– Beatrice Lavinia Yeo (1887–1889)
– Caroline Vennia Yeo (1895–1968 [note 3], married Herbert John Spencer).
William Charles John Yeo (1881–1953, son of William Yeo and Martha Ann Palmer) married Millicent Ann Rhoda Triggs in 1906 [note 4]. They had three children:
– William Sydney Yeo (1907–1969)
– Joseph Bryen Yeo (1912–2006, married Winifred May Siniger 1939, re-married 1982, died 2006)
– Muriel Joyce Yeo (born 1920, married Arthur Lionel Harris).
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Notes
1. 1853–1924, son of William Yaw and Ann How, who also had children John Yaw (born 1847), Sarah Ann Yaw (1850–1851), Elizabeth Yawe (born 1856) and Samuel Yaw (born 1859).
2. Birth registered as Yaw; for more information see Descendants of Thomas Yea of Yea, Wiveliscombe.
3. Also recorded as Caroline Vennie Yeo.
4. The 1939 Register records the family at 51 Brecknock Road in the Knowle area of central Bristol. William C.J. Yeo is a claims assessor for an insurance company; he is listed with his wife Millicent A.R. Yeo (‘unpaid domestic duties’) and his son William S. Yeo (a drapery salesman).