The Descendants of Richard Provost of Plymouth, England


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1. Richard Provost married Margaret Yeo in Plymouth on 6 June 1778.


2. One of their sons, unnamed, married Nancy Atkins on 29 October 1809. They had at least one child:


3. Leonard Yeo Provost, born on the island of Jersey on 15 August 1811 and died 2 November 1875 in Victoria, Australia. He married Ann Emily Jane Bartlett, in Devonport, England, on 11 December 1838. Ann was born 24 July 1821 and died 24 October 1865 in Victoria, Australia. They had four children: 


4. Clara Rosalie Provost was born in London, England, on 8 October 1843 and died in Victoria, Australia, on 2 June 1907. She married Henry Bannister in Geelong, Vic., Australia, on 9 October 1860. Henry was born in London on 4 March 1839 and died 24 April 1917 in Geelong. They had 8 children: 

After Clara Rosalie died in 1907, Henry Bannister married her sister, Claudine Bartlett, by then a widow, in the following year, apparently much to the disgust of many of the family.


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