Descendants
of Richard Yeo and Susanna Spry
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Richard
was born in Morwenstowe, Cornwall, the son of Robert and
Elizabeth Elliot. Robert's father was Phillip born 1670
Stratton, and married to Margaret Bonet. Phillip was the
son of John Yeo and Martha Hambly.
Richard,
son of Richard & Susannah Spry was born in Boyton, Cornwall
and moved to Ide, Nr Exeter, Devon in the early 1800's.
From his first marriage to Elizabeth Caseley he had eight
children, sons - Robert, Richard, Samuel, William and John
- daughters, Ann, Susanna and Julia. By his second marriage
to Elizabeth Wills he had six children, sons - Thomas and
Philip, daughters - Elizabeth, Martha, Ann and Maria. The
eldest five sons all moved to London in the 1840's and the
two eldest brothers Robert and Richard were builders. They
built many houses in the Hampstead area and secured leases
on these which made them extremely rich. (See Robert's Will)
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Tanya's
Tree
John
Robert Harris, son of Elizabeth Yeo
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Richard Yeo 1749 -
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.. +Susanna Spry
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.. 2 Richard Yeo 1775 -
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....... +Elizabeth Wills 1788 -
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3 Elizabeth Yeo 1820 - 1900
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+John Harris 1816 -
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4 John (Jack) Robert Harris 1850 - 1911
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+Mary Magdalene Sophia Lausen 1863 - 1937
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............... 5 Ruby Elizabeth Harris 1894 - 1985
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+John Edward Elgin, Sr. 1889 - 1938
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.................... 6 Dorothy Alice Elgin 1918 - 1996
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+George Amador Rohde 1901 - 1974
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7 Sandra Kay Rohde 1945 -
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............................. +Gale Eugene Kloesel 1943
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............................. 8 Tanya Gayle Kloesel 1969
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Gravestone
for Richard, Elizabeth Caseley, Elizabeth Wills
and daughter Susanna in Ide Churchyard
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Inscription
on Gravestone of Richard Yeo, Elizabeth Casely Yeo and
Elizabeth Wills Yeo and Susanna Shareman
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IN
MEMORY OF ELIZABETH THE BELOVED WIFE OF RICHARD
YEO, MASON,
WHO
DIED DEC 16th 18 AGED 33 YEARS
ALSO OF THE ABOVE RICHARD YEO WHO DIED JAN 15th
1859 AGED 84 YEARS
AND OF ELIZABETH THE 2nd WIFE OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED APRIL 1st 1856 AGED 68 YEARS
ALSO OF SUSANNA SHAREMAN DAUGHTER OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED MAR 20th 1872 AGED 64 YEARS
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Ide,
Exeter St Thomas, Devon
In
1841 Richard and Elizabeth were living in Ide,
he was a mason
1851
census Ide, Malthouse
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Some gems on Elizabeth
Yeo Harris and her family by Tanya
Obituary
for John Robert Harris
Copied
from The Galveston Daily News, Friday, April 7, 1911
(Tanya's
Great, Great Grandfather and son of Elizabeth Yeo)
After
an illness covering a period of more than five years,
John R. Harris , a dairyman, residing at 4418 Avenue S
1/2, died Thursday morning at 5:30 o'clock at John Sealy
Hospital. Mr. Harris was one of the best known dairymen
on the island. He had been a resident of Galveston for
forty years, during which time he conducted a dairy. Surviving
are his widow, Mrs. Mary Harris and the following children:
Misses Katie, Mamie and Ruby Harris and Walter, Albert,
Jack, Roy and Rodney Harris. The funeral is to take place
this afternoon at 2 o'clock from the late residence, 4418
Avenue S 1/2. The deceased was born in Chudleigh, Devonshire,
England, on July 10, 1851. He shipped on a sailing vessel,
coming to Galveston in 1871. He went into the dairy business,
prospered, and sent for his people in England. His mother
and father and brother joined him here. The mother and
father were lost in the storm of 1900. The only relative
in Galveston, beside the immediate family, is Judge John
Harris, justice of the peace, Precinct 2, who resides
about seven miles down the island.
The
attachment I am sending you is the obituary for John (Jack)
R. Harris. A few things though - 1. The daughter that
is listed as Katie is a mistake. It should be Hattie.
Her name was Henrietta Harris Dean, but everyone called
her Hattie. 2. Both of John's parents did not die in the
1900 Storm, just his mom, Elizabeth YEO HARRIS. His father
died sometime after he immigrated, but before 1900. Am
still trying to find the exact year. 3. His mother, father
and brother did immigrate, but they were not the only
members of his immediate family that did. His sister,
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Harris Jewell and her husband, Joseph,
also immigrated. I believe another brother, Thomas, also
immigrated and possible another sister. Am still looking
into that. 4. The farm that allowed him to make the money
to send for his family was washed away in the Storm. They
took what they could on their wagon and left. Everything
that was left behind, that they couldn't take, was destroyed.
After the Storm, John recieved $75.00 from the Central
Relief Committee, which had $350,000 to give to the island
farmers who suffered damages and loss. With their farm
washed away and nothing to go back to, and since the Jewells
and their children died in the Storm, they ended up at
the Jewell home and that was were he was living when he
died and where his wife would die many years later, in
the 1930s. What I am sending you is the way it was printed
up in the newspaper.
Hi Sheila!
Am sending along a wee piece of family history trivia
as well as an attachment  of
Mary Magdalene Sophia LAUSEN HARRIS, the wife of John
(Jack) Robert HARRIS, my great-great-grandpa, not Judge
John R. Harris, his nephew. Each December when the holidays
rolled around, Mary tried to add some British touches
to Christmas for her husband, John HARRIS aka Jack, the
first of the HARRIS branch of the family to immigrate.
Goose, not turkey, was served along with suet pudding.
From time to time she would also fix him pickled herring.
Mary was the oldest child of Prussian immigrants - from
Schleswig-Holstein - Christian Heinrich LAUSEN and Dorothea
Marie SONN LAUSEN. Am not sure the exact year of this
picture, but it would have been around 1880, the year
she married John R. Harris. By the way, did they really
used to have goose instead of turkey? On a British movie
I was watching they were eating turkey during their holiday...Would
sure appreciate it if you could clear this up for me...
Oh, and one last thing - let me know if this doesn't come
through okay and will send my USPS (snail mail)! More
later! Best, Tanya
Comments
from Tanya
 Also,
from a book on Ide that (one of) my wonderful Devon cousin(s)
sent me: (You may already have this. The book is called
"A HISTORY of the PEOPLE and PARISH of IDE," and it is
by Donald Burnett.) At the same time the farmers in the
parish had to enforce the early Poor Laws. It had been
laid down as long ago as the 16th century that, generally,
the poor could only claim relief from the parish where
they had been born. This law had not been used for a long
time as it was difficult to administer. Parishes like
Ide were vulnerable to claimants coming in from outside
so the Vestry tried to get rid of non-Ideites from the
parish if they had no employment. In January 1827 a meeting
of the vestry considered how to convey Richard Yeo, a
mason, and his family back to Calstock in Cornwall where
Richard had been born and where the parish had a duty
to support him. The Land Tax records show that he had
been living at the Malt House from 1809 to 1826 so he
could hardly have been regarded as a newcomer to the parish.
We do not know the outcome of the meeting but it must
have been decided to let the family stay as the 1841 census
shows that 14 years later Richard and his wife were still
living in the village. His daughter, Mary, was apprenticed
to George Dicker at Trennicks Farm and his son, Thomas,
was working at Pynes. Richard died in 1859 at the age
of 84, still in Ide. The graves of Richard and his wife
can be seen on the left-hand side of the churchyard path.
The gravestone seems to be leaning over towards the side
of the churchyard where many of the farmers who wanted
to evict him in 1827 are buried, as if Richard is informing
them that he is now in Ide, as they are, permanently.
He is also listed on the Land Tax Returns for 1815
as an occupier
at the Malt House.
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Tim's
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Tim
Yeo, Conservative Member of Parliament for South Suffolk
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John Yeo 1647 - 1691/92
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.. 2 Philip Yeo 1670 -
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3 Robert Yeo 1717 -
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+Elizabeth Elliot
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........... 4 Richard Yeo 1749 -
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+Susanna Spry
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............... 5 Richard Yeo 1775 -
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+Elizabeth Caseley 1785 - 1818
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.................... 6 John Yeo 1818 - 1882
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......................... +Mary Ann Williams 1819 - 1892
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........................ 7 Alfred William Yeo 1855 - 1947
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+Emily Simpson
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............................. 8 Kenneth John Yeo 1889
- 1979
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.................................. +Norah M Richardson
1917 - 1990
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................................. 9 Timothy Stephen
K Yeo 1945 -
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About
Tim
Tim
was born in 1945.
He
is married with two children. He was educated at Charterhouse
and Emmanuel College, Cambridge (MA in History).
Tim's
Political Experience
Tim
contested Bedwellty (against Neil Kinnock) in February
1974 and was elected as Member of Parliament for South
Suffolk at the General Election of June 1983. He is
a former Personal Assistant to The Rt Hon Peter Walker
(1974) and to The Rt Hon Patrick Jenkin (1979). He
has been Joint Secretary of the Conservative Party
Backbench Finance Committee 1984-1987, a member of
the Social Services Select Committee 1985-1988 and
was responsible for the Commons stages of the Charities
Bill in 1985. He was a member of the Employment Select
Committee from 1994-1997. He served on the Standing
Committee of the Finance Bill in 1985 and 1986. In
1983 his pamphlet "Public Accountability and Regulation
of Charities" was published. Tim was Parliamentary
Private Secretary to the Rt Hon Douglas Hurd MP, 1988-90
and Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Department
of the Environment, 1990-92. In April 1992 he was
made Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the
Department of Health. Mr Yeo was Minister for Environment
and Countryside at the Department of the Environment
from May 1993 until he resigned in January 1994. In
June 1997 he was appointed Opposition Front Bench
Spokesman for the Environment, Transport and the Regions,
a position he held until he became Shadow Secretary
of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in August
1998. From June to August 1998 he was a Vice-Chairman
of the Conservative Party with special responsibility
for local government. In September 2001, he was appointed
Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport,
and in July 2002 was appointed Shadow Secretary of
State for Trade & Industry.
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Tim's
wife Diane is also well known for her active voluntary
work. Recently she has become involved in RefAid,
a charity to help genuine refugees
The
trauma of September 11 and its aftermath affected
people in many ways. "Oddly enough, I was in bed,
not very well," Diane Yeo recalls. "I don't know whether
that had a profound influence, but I was very affected
by the events of that day and could clearly see the
ripple effect across the world as I watched it all
unfolding day after day. I thought of the hardship
that would result from war, especially the huge movement
of people fleeing Afghanistan. And I came out thinking
that refugees would be a good cause I could look at
next."
Diane
has just stepped down after six years as chief
executive of Sargent Cancer Care for Children
to join a little known refugee charity, RefAid. "Some
of my friends think I'm very strange going to another
small charity," she says. "But I enjoy picking up
something small and making it into something bigger."
Yeo trebled Sargent's income to £7m and widened its
focus to provide emotional and psychological support
to adolescents and their families. She now hopes to
shine the spotlight on refugee issues with the help
of celebrities and friends in high places. "Asylum
seeker has become a pejorative term to mean economic
migrant, which is quite different from people at risk
because of race, politics or religion," she says.
"If it was clear what asylum seekers are, then there
would be much more compassion. "I'm very open to having
VIPs associated with the issues. They raise the profile,
get people along to events and are very encouraging
to the troops." RefAid is the only British
charity affiliated to the United Nations refugee agency,
UNHCR. Set up in 1996, it exists to raise awareness
of the needs of refugees and UNHCR programmes around
the world, and to raise funds - from companies and
grantmakers - to support those programmes. It is a
difficult concept to grasp because, with the exception
of the children's agency, Unicef, UN bodies are for
the most part government funded. But Diane relishes
the challenge she officially takes up next April,
when she joins RefAid's existing complement of two
fundraisers and a public relations officer. "Refugee
issues are very significant at this point in time
and not much has been done to mobilise companies and
grantmakers," she says. "There are great possibilities.
We've got to make the issue relevant to people. Pakistan
is carrying an enormous burden which can destabilise
the country. We need to demonstrate how that affects
all of us - not just the refugees." RefAid's current
annual income is £500,000, most of it coming from
corporate supporters such as drugs company Glaxo Wellcome
(now GlaxoSmithKline), which funded 10 health centres
for some of the 5m Afghan refugees who had fled to
Pakistan over the 20 years before the latest conflict
brought tens of thousands more.
Diane,
56, has empathy with, and understanding of, cancer
- born from personal experience. Her daughter, Elizabeth,
was diagnosed with brain cancer, aged 15, and a few
years later her elder child, Jonathan - now a celebrated
portrait painter - contracted Hodgkin's disease, a
form of lymph cancer, while at university. Both recovered,
although her daughter has little use of her left arm.
"I
took the Sargent job because I wanted to provide for
others either the good things we'd experienced or
the good things we would have found helpful - like
having a dedicated person for the family and child
all the way through the treatment, and the need for
a social worker in each cancer team," she says. Her
refugee credentials are less emotive, although she
is descended from refugee Huguenot stock and was a
volunteer roving ambassador for Save the Children,
visiting camps in South Africa, Mozambique, Hong Kong
and the West Bank while on overseas visits with her
husband, Conservative frontbencher Tim Yeo, when he
was in government. Diane Yeo fell into fundraising
while working for the Africa Educational Trust,
after beginning her career at the BBC. From there
she went on to the Girl Guides and the YWCA, before
setting up the Institute of Charity Fundraising
Managers and becoming its first director. Six
years as a charity commissioner followed. As she looks
forward to yet another change, she jokes: "I joined
the voluntary
sector for an easy life."
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Jonathan,
(in the middle) with Charles Kennedy, leader of the Liberals
& William Hague, ex leader of the Conservatives. In
the background are samples of his portraits which include
in the centre, Tony Blair.
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son, Jonathan, is a talented artist and
has recently been named as the
UK's
first ever official election artist. Chosen by a committee
of MPs, Mr Yeo will be expected to leave his father's
political allegiance behind when he follows the three
main party leaders on the campaign trail. The artist
is perhaps best known for painting fashion designer
Ozwald Boateng - reputedly his fee for that job was
a wardrobe of new suits. The idea for an election artist
was dreamt up by former sports minister Tony Banks,
and Mr Yeo was always a frontrunner. As chairman of
the House of Commons Works of Art Committee, Mr Banks
announced their final choice on Tuesday night. He told
BBC News Online they wanted someone with the ability
to capture his subjects on the move. "He is also a very
fine photographer," Mr Banks said. Mr Yeo, who until
recently had a studio above Marco Pierre White's Quo
Vadis restaurant in London's Dean Street, has drawn
his subjects from politics, media and sport. Katy Letman,
commissions consultant for the Royal Society of Portrait
Members, described him as "a fantastic painter who produces
very good likenesses but also captures the essential
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