Brief Life History of Heber Brown
When Heber Brown Sykes was born on 18 March 1858, in Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Walker Sykes, was 30 and his mother, Caroline Brown, was 25. He married Mary Jane Adamson on 10 September 1886. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1861. He died on 27 May 1900, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 42, and was buried in American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Healz Sykes in household of John Sykes, "England and Wales Census, 1861"
- Legacy NFS Source: Heber Brown Sykes - birth: 18 November 1858;
- Henry Sykes, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · Lendal Bridge Opened
The Lendal Bridge was opened in 1863, after a previous failed attempt at building it Thomas Page was brought in to design it. It is an iron bridge styled with the gothic style popular in England. When it was first opened, it was a toll bridge but in 1894, it accepted it’s last toll.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): topographic name for someone who lived near a small watercourse, especially one flowing through flat or marshy ground, or near a gully, dip, or hollow, from Middle English sik(e) ‘stream, ditch’ (Old Norse sík). Early and later examples of the surname occur in alternate singular and plural forms. It is the plural or -s form that has become the general usage as a surname, perhaps reinforced by the common practice in the post-medieval period of adding excrescent -s to topographic surnames with an original singular form. By the 16th century the name had spread by migration into the North Midlands. Elsewhere, only Norfolk seems to have produced this name independently, but its survival into the present day is uncertain. Compare Sitch , which once flourished in the West Midlands, and derives from an equivalent word, Middle English sich, of Old English origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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