SYKES OF HOLBECK
There are multiple baptisms
which could relate to the Joseph Sykes who married Martha Holmes in 1818, and his
parentage is not yet clear. The use of the names Edwin and Emma among the
children of Joseph and Martha is suggestive of a connection with John and Sarah
(Mitchell) Sykes of Holbeck, married in 1831, whose children also included an
Edwin and an Emma. One of the witnesses at the marriage of John and Sarah was a
Frederick Sykes, who was probably the Frederick born in 1802, son of James and
Elizabeth Sykes of Holbeck.
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SYKES
JOSEPH
SYKES of Holbeck, Yorkshire, clothier, was born ca 1793 and died on 8 January
1848 at Holbeck.[1] He
married on 2 September 1818 at St Peter, Leeds, MARTHA HOLMES,[2]
daughter of Joseph and Ann (Fisher) Holmes (see here). Martha was
born ca 1800 at Beeston and died on 28 March 1861 at Holbeck.
Children
of Joseph and Martha (Holmes) Sykes:
i JOHN SYKES of Holbeck, police
officer, b 8 May 1820, Holbeck,[3]
d 22 Jul 1909, Holbeck;[4]
m 18 May 1850, St Peter, Leeds, SARAH POE.[5]
ii JAMES
SYKES of Holbeck, mechanic, b 24 Sep 1821, Holbeck,[6]
d 2 Feb 1870, Hunslet;[7]
m 22 Jul 1849, Kirkstall, ESTHER SPURR.[8]
iii JOSEPH
HOLMES SYKES of Holbeck and Leeds, cloth miller, b 31 Oct 1823, Holbeck,[9]
d 1 May 1904, Leeds;[10]
m 1850, St Peter, Leeds, ANN BEST.[11]
iv EDWIN
SYKES of Chicago, machinist, b 14 Oct 1827, Holbeck,[12]
d 24 Apr 1914, Waukegan, Illinois;[13]
m SUSAN.[14]
v EMMA
SYKES, b 29 Mar 1830, Holbeck,[15]
d 4 Nov 1905, Armley;[16]
m 13 Feb 1865, St Peter, Leeds, JOHN WILLIAMSON[17]
(see here).
vi MARTHA
SYKES, b 22 Oct 1834, bap 23 Nov 1834, St Peter, Leeds,[18]
bur 22 Oct 1848, Holbeck.[19]
vii SARAH
SYKES, b 10 Apr 1837, Holbeck,[20]
d 24 Jan 1914, Leeds;[21]
m 24 Dec 1859, St Peter, Leeds, JOSEPH BLACKBURN.[22]
viii ANN
SYKES, b 20 Feb 1842, Holbeck,[23]
d 14 Jun 1904, bur 17 Jun 1904, Leeds;[24]
m 8 Mar 1862, St Peter, Leeds, JOHN RODGERS.[25]
[1] Death certificate.
[2] St Peter, Leeds, parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).
[3] St Peter, Leeds, parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com); 1851 census returns, Holbeck (National Archives, HO 107/2317, fol. 470).
[4] Grant of probate (will dated 28 Sep 1897, proved 9 Oct 1909).
[5] St Peter, Leeds, parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).
[6] St Peter, Leeds, parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com); 1851 census returns, Holbeck (National Archives, HO 107/2317, fol. 529).
[7] National probate calendars.
[8] Kirkstall parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).
[9] St Peter, Leeds, parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com); 1851 census returns, Holbeck (National Archives, HO 107/2317, fol. 418).
[10] The Leeds & Yorkshire Mercury, 2 May 1904.
[11] Yorkshire BMD (www.yorkshirebmd.org.uk).
[12] St Peter, Leeds, parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com); 1851 census returns, Holbeck (National Archives, HO 107/2317, fol. 495).
[13] Monumental inscription at Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum, Chicago (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/162625881/edwin-sykes); Lake County Independent, 1 May 1914.
[14] Monumental inscription at Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum, Chicago (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/162625881/edwin-sykes); Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1871-1998 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N7N3-YJ8); 1880 census, Chicago (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GYYK-9B64).
[15] St Peter, Leeds, parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com); 1871 census returns, Holbeck (National Archives, RG 10/4524, fol. 28).
[16] Death certificate. Emma’s monumental inscription at Armley Hill Top Cemetery (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/194616451/john-williamson) gives her date of death as 5 Nov 1905. However, her death certificate and a notice in The Yorkshire Evening Post, 6 Nov 1905, both state that she died on 4 Nov.
[17] St Peter, Leeds, parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).
[18] St Peter, Leeds, parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).
[19] Holbeck parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).
[20] St Peter, Leeds, parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com); 1851 census returns, Holbeck (National Archives, HO 107/2317, fol. 495).
[21] Death certificate.
[22] St Peter, Leeds, parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).
[23] Birth certificate.
[24] The Leeds & Yorkshire Mercury, 17 Jun 1904; registers of Beckett Street Cemetery, Leeds (online at www.ancestry.com).
[25] St Peter, Leeds, parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).