When Dykes was born about 1890, in Nebraska, United States, his father, John Law Dykes Sr, was 44 and his mother, Elizabeth Jane Ross, was 43. He died in 1898, at the age of 9.
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English: variant of Dicks or Dyke with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s. Compare Dyches and Dycus .
Americanized form of Dutch Dijks (see Dyke ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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