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Family of Fred Willie SYKES and Ethel BRADLEY

Husband: Fred Willie SYKES

  • Name:

  • Fred Willie SYKES2,3

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • Walter Edwin SYKES (c. 1862-1935)

  • Mother:

  • Emma CHARLESWORTH (1863- )

  • Birth:

  • 25 Feb 1889

  • Stocksbridge, Yorkshire2,4,5

  • Baptism:

  • 1 Aug 1889 (age 0)

  • Bolsterstone, Yorkshire5

  •  

  • Address: St Mary's

  • Residence:

  • 1891 (age 1-2)

  • Bradfield, Yorkshire2

  •  

  • Address: Button Row, Victoria Street

     

     

  • Occupation:

  • 1901 (age 11-12)

  • Umbrella Frame Fitter6

  • Residence:

  • btw 1901 and 1919 (age 11-30)

  • Deepcar, Yorkshire6,7

  •  

  • Address: 10 Heywood Park

  • Occupation:

  • 1911 (age 21-22)

  • Coal Miner (Hewer)8

  • Residence:

  • btw 1920 and 1931 (age 30-42)

  • Penistone, Yorkshire9

  •  

  • Address: Bower Row

  • Physical Description:

  • 1939 (age 49-50)

  • Incapacitated through Illness10

  • Residence:

  • 1939 (age 49-50)

  • Stocksbridge, Yorkshire10

  •  

  • Address: 14 Shay Road

  • Death:

  • Q3 1944 (age 55)

  • Sheffield, Yorkshire11

Wife: Ethel BRADLEY

  • Name:

  • Ethel BRADLEY3

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Birth:

  • 25 Jan 1895

  •  

  • Residence:

  • 1939 (age 43-44)

  • Stocksbridge, Yorkshire10

  •  

  • Address: 14 Shay Road

Child 1: Kenneth Willie SYKES

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Kenneth Willie Sykes Source: EMANDGLEN1, Ancestory.com

  • Name:

  • Kenneth Willie SYKES3

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Birth:

  • 28 May 1918

  • Macclesfield, Cheshire4

  • Occupation:

  • 1939 (age 20-21)

  • Student10

  • Residence:

  • 1939 (age 20-21)

  • Stocksbridge, Yorkshire10

  •  

  • Address: 14 Shay Road

Child 2: Muriel SYKES

  • Name:

  • Muriel SYKES3

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Spouse:

  • ? HOYLE ( - )

  • Birth:

  • 11 Jul 1920

  •  

  • Occupation:

  • 1939 (age 18-19)

  • Umbrella Maker10

  • Residence:

  • 1939 (age 18-19)

  • Stocksbridge, Yorkshire10

  •  

  • Address: 14 Shay Road

Child 3: Brenda SYKES

  • Name:

  • Brenda SYKES3

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Birth:

  • Q1 1922

  • Wortley, Yorkshire4

Child 4: Gwenneth Sheila SYKES

  • Name:

  • Gwenneth Sheila SYKES3

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Birth:

  • 21 May 1925

  • Wortley, Yorkshire4,11

  • Residence:

  • 1939 (age 13-14)

  • Stocksbridge, Yorkshire10

  •  

  • Address: 14 Shay Road

  • Death:

  • Q2 2003 (age 77-78)

  • Barnsley, Yorkshire11

Note on Husband: Fred Willie SYKES - shared note

Umbrella Making

 

Samuel Fox founded Fox Umbrella Frames Ltd in 1842 in Stocksbridge. Fox Umbrella Company started with a rain umbrella product. Samuel Fox is the first inventor of the U-shape ribs (called "Paragon"). William Hoyland, assistant of Samuel Fox, built his own company William Hoyland Ltd in 1875. Hoyland and Fox’s Chief engineer Joseph Hayward set up business to produce the patented "Flexus" frame as an alternative to Fox' "Paragon" frame. The "Flexus" frame is built up of solid ribs with flat spring stretchers coupled in pairs and in such a manner that all the stretchers were under tension when the frame was in any position except when fully closed.

Samual Fox became the largest umbrella frame manufacturer in the world around the turn of last century. The company went on to be one of the largest steel makers in UK before being nationalised by British Steel. In late 1987, Readicut International bought William Hoyland and Co. Ltd from local owners. One year later, Hoyland acquired Fox Umbrella Frames Ltd and established the present company Hoyland Fox Limited.

The Activa Group acquired Hoyland Fox Ltd in 2008 and transferred the brand name, patents, technology, tools and machinery to its China factory ending 166 years of Sheffield tradition.8

 

Sources

1.

Family Search International, England Marriages. Cit. Date: Q3 1917. Family Search Inc.

2.

RG12, 1891 Census England and Wales, (5 Apr 1891). The National Archives.

3.

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4.

England and Wales Birth Registration Index, General Registrar's Office.

5.

Church of England, Yorkshire Parish Records. PR 53/6, Page 236. Cit. Date: 1 August 1889. Borthwick Institute for Archives, The University of York.

6.

RG13, 1901 Census England and Wales, (31 Mar 1901). The National Archives.

7.

England and Wales Electoral Registers. West Yorkshire, England, Electoral Registrars. Cit. Date: 1919. The British Library.

8.

RG14, 1911 Census England and Wales, (2 Apr 1911). The National Archives.

9.

England and Wales Electoral Registers. West Yorkshire, England, Electoral Registers. Cit. Date: between 1920 and 1931. The British Library.

10.

1939 Register, (29 Sep 1939). The National Archives.

11.

England and Wales Death Registration Index, General Registrar's Office.