Wills represent an invaluable resource for the genealogist, as do the following similar types of document:
– Grants or bonds of administration (which confer the right to administer the estate of the deceased, usually where there was no valid will or no surviving executor; in some cases the administration is carried out with reference to a will that was not valid for minor technical reasons)
– Inquisitions post mortem (legal enquiries into the death, estate and heir of the deceased if they held royal property or tenancies; such enquiries were held whether or not the deceased left a will)
– Inventories (lists of the deceased’s property, usually compiled by the executors or by someone appointed in the will)
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- India and Persia
- St Veep and St Cleer
- Bristol
- In the Clergy
- On the James Baines
- On the Amelia Thompson
- Newfoundland
- Morwenstow to Montreal
- Stoke Damerel, Exeter, London and Australia
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- Mexico
- Yeos in Plymouth in 1890
- Yeos in Fullarton, Ontario
- Surname distribution – England and Wales
- Pedigrees and images on commercial web sites
- Pedigrees and individuals researched by Sheila Yeo
- Other researched pedigrees
- Pedigrees currently under research
- Research by Mike Darch and David Yaw
- Research by Angela Morgan
- Research by Eve McLaughlin
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- Families (1)
- Humphrey Yeo and Jame Hambley
- William Yeo and Mary Deyman
- John Yeo and Katherine Harris
- Henry and Jane Yeo of Camborne
- Descendants and ancestors of Thomas Martin and Joanna Yeo
- Sophia Yeo Marks, Sophia Yeo Dunn and Sophia Yeo Scott
- John Yeo and Charlotte Widger
- Thomas Yeo Bartlett and Anne Mary Colyer – married twice?
- Joseph Yeo and Ann Voysey
- Richard Yeo and Catherine Moyse
- John Yeo and Jane Windsor
- John Yeo and Rebecca Rolle – a marriage that joined two Yeo lines
- Descendants of John Yeo and Frances Holman
- Luxmoore Yeos
- Thomas Yeo and Dorothy Heard
- Robert Yeo and Sarah Leworthy
- Henry Yeo and Martha Byrne
- William Yeo and Jane Fanson
- Samuel Yeo and Elizabeth Widlake
- William Yeo and Margery Rowell
- John Yeo and Mary Jane Curtis
- William Greenwood and Susannah Yeo
- William Westaway and Elizabeth Yeo
- James Yeo and Eliza Coleman
- George Yeo and Ann Gliddon
- Thomas Yeo and Agnes Ridge
- William Yeo and Ellen Tucker
- Philip Yeo and Elizabeth Higgins
- Families (2)
- John Yeo and Ann Weare
- Philip and Mary Ann Yeo of Cardiff
- Frank Alonzo Johnson and Nancy Martha Yeo
- Richard Yeo – absent father
- John Yeo and Grace Banbury
- William Yeo and Bridget Rundle
- John Yeo and Emma Allamby
- Yeos in Malmesbury and Christian Malford
- Sydney Yeo and Lily Trace
- John Yeo and Catherine Lee
- A Yeo near Okehampton
- John Yeo and Penelope Sarah Collingwood, and ‘The White Rabbit’
- Richard Allin and Ann Yeo
- The wrong son recorded?
- Did they marry?
- Claude Yeo and Kathleen Mary Freeman
- Henry Hagner Steiner and Susanna Yohe
- John Edward Yeo and Charlotte Emma Allam
- John Gist and Elizabeth Yeo
- Claude Yeo and Kathleen Mary Freeman
- William Yeo and Mary Ann Spears
- George William Yeo and Eda Anna Stocking
- John Spiring Ashton and Grace Yeo Westaway
- John Yeo and Mary Jearn
- Philip Yeo and Elizabeth Hallett
- William Henry Yeo and Elizabeth Mary Shutts
- George Yeo and Catherine Toms
- John Yeo and Margaret Gist
- Robert Marshall and Margaret Yeo
- Richard Yeo and Elizabeth Penfound
- William Yeo and Mary Grace Grigg
- Individuals (1)
- A wealthy servant
- A butcher from Hill Head?
- A puzzle from Polperro
- A Yeo who was not a Yeo – Henry Albert Dunning (1843–1914)
- A woman who never existed – Jane Leonora Yeo
- Samuel Yeo of Peters Marland
- Rebecca Celia Yeo
- Creek or Greek?
- Morwenstow to Montreal
- Leslie A. Yeo – a case of mistaken identity?
- Richard Piper Yeo – artist and photographer
- Richard Yeo – Chief Engraver at the Tower of London
- Leonard Yeo Provo
- John Yeo or John E. Yeo?
- James Yeo of Kilkhampton and Prince Edward Island
- Individuals (2)
- William Yendle Yeo
- James Yeo of Rochester
- Thomas James Yohe
- James Yeo – from rags to riches
- Henry Yeo – journalist, insurance agent and coal dealer
- Richard Yeo of Drayton House, Ealing
- Sir James Lucas Yeo
- Daniel Yeo Bruton
- William Yeo Payne
- John Fullerton Yeo
- Isaac Burney Yeo
- Thomas Yeaw and early London records
- Richard Yeo at Okehampton Grammar School
- Sir James Lucas Yeo
- Yeos in New York
- Yeos in Ohio
- Yeos in Plymouth in 1890
- Harry Leworthy Yeo
- Leslie Frank Stoyle or Leslie Frank Yeo?
- Emma Eliza Yeo of Withycombe Raleigh
- William Joseph Spry Yeo
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- Finding people in censuses
- Overlap between parish registers and civil registration records
- Parishes with the same name
- The Visitations of Devon and Cornwall
- Protestation returns
- Other notes
- The past is a foreign country
- The origin of the surname
- Further surname variants
- Mothers’ maiden names
- Divided by a common language?
- DNA testing
- Or was she called Ellen?
- Realignment of the border between Cornwall and Devon
- Otherwise known as …
- Apprenticeships in England
- The ‘fifth son’ and the Shebbear line
- Westaway connections
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