There is a long history of Yeos in the city of Bristol and the area nearby, associated with shipping, commerce and various trades. Research in Bristol is complicated by its having 25 or more parishes, including three in Bedminster and four in Clifton, by the city being divided between Somerset and Gloucestershire, and by the area being covered by four or more civil registration districts, including Barton Regis, Bedminster, Bristol and Clifton.
William Mounier Yeo, a descendant of the main landed Yeo line, lived in Clifton in the late 18th century and is recorded there as an apothecary; his will was proved in 1809. William’s widow Phillis Yeo was living at Granby House, Clifton in 1836. See also ‘William Henry – the Yeo who became a Morgan’ by Angela Morgan – follow the link at Beaple Yeo and the Morgan family.
There are also these wills:
– John Yeo of Bristol (proved 1814)
– Francis Ashton Yeo of Bristol (proved 1829)
– Beaple Yeo of Clifton (proved 1837)
– George Hearder Yeo of Bristol (proved 1915).
There were stay makers called Yeo and Vine at 5 College Place in 1830, and in the same year an Elizabeth Yeo appears to have been licensee of the Horse Shoe and Talbot public house in West Street.
Henry Widger Yea is recorded in Clifton in 1881, a lodger in the household of Sylvester Dudden. Henry later emigrated to the United States, see Descendants of William Yeo and Agnes Savery by Mike Darch and David Yaw.
Robert Yeo, baptised at Barnstaple in 1805, married Jane Paddon and moved to Bristol. His brother John Leworthy Yeo (1807–1881) also moved to Bristol, and married Ann Bright in 1851.
Joseph Yeo and Lucy Butler married at St John the Baptist, Bedminster in 1809.
Ernest Joseph Wilson Yeo and Caroline Elizabeth Amelia Pateman married in Bristol in 1818.
Peter Yeo and Mary Ann Irish married at St Augustine, Bristol in 1827.
Patrick William Butler and Mary Ann Yeo married at St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol in 1838.
Thomas Yeo Bartlett and Anne Mary Colyer married in Bristol in 1842.
Joseph Yeo and Sarah Hackwell married in Bristol in 1847.
James Yeo and Harriet Peters married in Bristol in 1849.
John Mayer and Jane Horwood née Yeo married in Bristol in 1850.
Joseph Hussey Yeo and Jane Matthews married in Bristol in 1870.
James Yeo and Harriet March and Joseph Yeo and Eleanor Johnson moved to Bristol in the 1870s.
William Yeo and Martha Ann Palmer married in Bristol in 1876.
Harry Yewes was born in Bristol in 1891.
Ernest Joseph Yeo and Violet Nellie Victoria Moore married in Bristol in 1910.
Henry Yea and Bessie Ethel Dart Perry married in Bristol in 1918.
William James Yeo and Margaret Alexander married in Bristol in 1930.
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