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William Yeo (baptised c1720) [note 1] married Mary Reyland [note 2] at St Marychurch in 1754. They baptised a daughter in the same parish:
– Mary Yeo (1755–1780).
William’s wife Mary appears to have died soon after giving birth [note 3]. He re-married in 1860 at St Marychurch and had twelve children with his second wife Mary Waymouth [note 4]:
– Rebecca Yeo (1764–1767)
– John Yeo (1768–1835)
– James Yeo (1770–1812)
– Elizabeth Yeo (1772–1772)
– David Yeo (1772–1772)
– George Yeo (see below)
– Christopher Yeo (baptised 1773)
– David Yeo (1778–1778)
– Ann Yeo (baptised 1782)
– Mary Yeo (baptised 1783)
– Sarah Yeo (buried 1781)
– Susanna Yeo (baptised 1789).
William was buried at St Marychurch in 1797.
George Yeo (1773–1833, son of William Yeo and Mary Waymouth) married Mary Sharland at Denbury in 1802. They had three sons:
– George Yeo
– John Yeo (see below)
– William Yeo (see below).
John Yeo (baptised 1815 at Combeinteighhead [note 5], son of George Yeo and Mary Sharland) married Mary Ann Warren. They lived at Ipplepen, where their four children were born:
– John Yeo
– Susan Yeo (born 1844, married John Oxenham) [note 6]
– Margaret Yeo (born 1845)
– Martha Mary Yeo (1846–1924, married Samuel Blatchford).
No death has been recorded for John [note 7]. Mary Ann died in 1903 aged 81, and was buried at Torquay.
William Yeo (1816–1862, youngest son of George Yeo and Mary Sharland) [note 8] emigrated to the United States with his future wife Mary Ann Stephens and their son Samuel Yeo [note 9]. William and Mary Ann married in Philadelphia in 1843; their children were:
– Samuel Yeo (see below)
– Mary Jane Yeo (1843–1873, married Edward Hicks Lukens)
– Rebecca Yeo (1844–1921, married Henry Turner)
– John Yeo (see below)
– Sarah Jane Yeo (1848–1920, married Arthur Morley)
– Maria Yeo (1850–1916, married Henry Duffield)
– Jacob Yeo (see below)
– Emma Yeo (1865–1874).
Samuel Yeo (1839–1906 [note 10], son of William Yeo and Mary Ann Stephens) married Sarah Miller Giberson in Philadelphia in 1866. They had five children:
– William S. Yeo (1867–1901, married Margaret M. Howard)
– George Stevenson Yeo (1869–1945, married Emily Augusta Fredericka Miller)
– Joanna M. Yeo (1871–1965, married Samuel Renwick Boggs)
– Edwin Arthur Yeo (1877–1957, married Blanche Edna Wilkins)
– Samuel Pleis Yeo (1879–1956, married Abigail L. Sailer, children John Sailer Yeo born 1908 and Sarah Elizabeth Yeo born 1916).
John Yeo (1846–1909, son of William Yeo and Mary Ann Stephens) married Sophia Zent. They had five children:
– Mary Magdaline Yeo (c1867–1874)
– Richard Batt Yeo (born 1868)
– Edna Mae Yeo (born 1869)
– Samuel Yeo (born 1870)
– Louise Yeo (born 1872).
Jacob Yeo (1853–1895, son of William Yeo and Mary Ann Stephens) married Catherine Emma Wolfinger. They had three children:
– Albert Yeo (1878–1948)
– Samuel Roy Yeo (1881–1920)
– Mary Wilhelmina Yeo (born 1883).
Notes
1. William’s baptism record has not been found and his mother has not been identified. He is described in his 1754 marriage record as the son of William Yeo of Combeinteignead, a parish a some six miles north of St Marychurch. He is described as a sojourner in his 1760 marriage record, so perhaps he and his young daughter had returned to Combeinteignead. Sheila Yeo identified William’s parents as William Yeo and Mary Ralfe, who in 1721 baptised a son William in the Cornish parish of St Blazey (about 65 miles west of St Marychurch); she did not provide any evidence to support the connection.
2. Mary was buried in 1755, just over a fortnight before her daughter Mary’s baptism.
3. These baptisms and burials are shown in the St Marychurch parish register with the surname spelt Yaw, Yeo or Yow.
4. Surname also recorded as Weymouth.
5. Confirmation of place of baptism needed; John might have been baptised at Ipplepen.
6. Confirmation of marriage needed.
7. Did John Yeo emigrate to the United States to join his son John?
8. Research by David Yaw suggests the line of descendancy shown.
9. William, Mary Ann and Samuel sailed from Liverpool on the SS Charles, arriving in New York on 5 July 1842.
10. Baptised at St Andrew, Plymouth as Samuel Mew; no matching birth registration found. Samuel’s death certificate records his date of birth as 2 December 1839.