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William Yeo was baptised at Bradworthy in 1798 and started farming there. His family has been studied by Mary Yeo, Cecil Collacott, Humphrey Toms and Reg Walter, and by several of Sheila’s correspondents.
William married Mary Routley at Sutcombe in 1824. They had six children at Bradworthy:
– Ann Yeo (1825–1866, married Richard Hodge Beckly)
– Grace Yeo (1826–1892, married Richard Fulford)
– Sophia Yeo (1829–1905, married Stephen Nosworthy)
– William Yeo (see William Yeo and Caroline Fry)
– Benjamin Yeo (1833–1887)
and eight further children after moving to Henscott in the nearby parish of Bradford:
– Thomas Yeo (see Thomas Yeo and Matilda Brimacombe Daniel)
– Mary Jane Yeo (1837–1908, married Robert Harris)
– Elizabeth Yeo (1839–1905, married Robert Daniel)
– John Yeo (see John Yeo and Julia Longley)
– Barnabas Yeo (see below)
– Matthew Yeo (1846–1923)
– Emma Nora Yeo (1847–1891, married Samuel Trible)
– unnamed daughter (born 1848, died as an infant).
William died in 1872 and Mary survived him by eleven years. An extra daughter has incorrectly been assigned to their family by some researchers, see A woman who never existed – Jane Leonora Yeo.
Barnabas Yeo (1844–1907, son of William Yeo and Mary Routley) married Sarah James Edmonds. They had nine children:
– Mary Ellen Yeo (1866–1962, married William Henry May)
– William Edmonds Yeo (see below)
– John Yeo (1869–1935 [note 1], married Mary Jane Hotten [note 2], four children)
– Thomas Owen Yeo (1871–1935, married Laura Boles and Dorothy Emily McKenzie Clelland, six children)
– Laura Yeo (1873–1950 [note 3], married Charles Shepherd)
– Samuel Norman Yeo (1875–1880)
– Amelia Yeo (1878–1958)
– Emily Hetty Yeo (1881–1963)
– Matthew Herbert Yeo (1885–1967, married Maud Jones and Esther Jane Mansell [note 4], four children from first marriage).
William Edmonds Yeo (1868–1949, son of Barnabas Yeo and Sarah Jane Edmonds) emigrated to Queensland in 1888 [note 5] ). He married Louise Heinemann [note 6]; they had nine children:
– Alfred William Yeo (1897–1930)
– Walter Henry Yeo (1898–1974, married Grace Lilian Langdon, three children)
– Winifred Annie Yeo (1900–1930, married Patrick James Lindsay)
– Harold Wilmot Yeo (1902–1977)
– Wilfred Edmonds Yeo (1904–1985, married Lorna Frances Davies, two children)
– Hilda Louise Yeo (1905–1989, married Alexander John MacLennan)
– Herbert Edward Yeo (1907–1908)
– James Alexander Yeo (1909–1980)
– Emily Yeo (1910–1986, married Jack Sainsbury McKell).
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Notes
1. Emigrated to Queensland 1894/5 – see Emigrants to Australia.
2. Née Heard, 1865–1930, widow of James Hotten.
3. Laura had a son John Yeo (1900–1974, emigrated to Western Australia 1922 – see Emigrants to Australia).
4. Née Martin, 1884–1972, widow of Thomas Cyril Mansell.
5. See Emigrants to Australia.
6. A daughter of emigrants from Prussia; also recorded as Louisa.