Tuesday 30 June 2020

Great x3 Aunt Emily Ann Yeo

My Great x3 Aunt Emily Ann (1867 - 1872) was the older sister of my Great Great Grandmother Annie Sandford (nee Yeo) (1868 - 1948).



Emily Ann was born in Jan/Feb/Mar 1867 in the district of Okehampton, Devon, to George Yeo (33), an agricultural and quarry labourer, and Ann Yeo (nee Gliddon) (about 27), a housewife.

Emily was the third of six children (one son and five daughters):

  • Thomas 'Tom'  1863 - 1904  (40 or 41 years old)
  • Mary 'Mary Anne' Gliddon  1864 - 1941  (76 years old)
  • Emily Ann  1867 - 1872  (5 years old)
  • Annie  1868 - 1948  (80 years old)
  • Ellen  1869 - 1937  (68 years old)
  • Harriet  1872 - 1893 (21 years old)

Emily Ann also had an older half brother, Joseph Gliddon (1860 - 1928) (67 years old), her mother Ann's illegitimate son born before her marriage. Joseph lived with his maternal grandparents.

Emily Ann and her siblings grew up around Meldon, just outside Okehampton.

1871 Census:


In October or early November 1872, Emily Ann passed away, aged only five years old, in Okehampton. She was buried on 8th November 1872, in Okehampton.

About three months later, Emily Ann's father George passed away, aged thirty-nine, in 1873, in Okehampton. He was buried on 30th January 1873, in Okehampton.

And about three months after that, Emily Ann's mother also passed away, aged thirty-three or thirty-four. She was buried on 30th April 1873, in Okehampton.

I wonder if daughter and parents all succumbed to the same disease.

Unless relatives took them in, Emily Ann's surviving siblings (aged zero to nine) would likely have ended up in the workhouse. Indeed, in the next census (1881 Census), Emily Ann's youngest sisters Ellen (11) and Harriet (9) can be found living in the Union Workhouse in Okehampton. I wonder if the older siblings also entered the workhouse after their parents' early deaths, but by thirteen years old were deemed old enough to go out and work.

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