St Chad's Poulton-le-Fylde
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St James Stalmine
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St Marys Hambleton
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Holy Trinity
Freckleton
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St Michael's
Kirkham
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St John Out Rawcliffe
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The SYKES FAMILIES of
POULTON and LIVERPOOL
By
the turn of the eighteenth century there were no Lewtas families
living elsewhere in Fylde villages other than Over Wyre and Poulton. John
and Nancy Lewtas moved across the River Wyre after the brth
of their son James in 1792, to settle in Poulton.
James was to marry Ellen Porter the daughter
of James Porter, a husbandman of Todderstaff, at Kirkham
in 1816.
By 1851 James Lewtas, now 58 was farming 120 acres at Singleton
Lodge with his wife Ellen 61. With them
was their son James, 19 and daughter Ellen 17. Their eldest
son John, now aged 30, had married Eleanor Embury and had set up as
a wine and sprit merchant in Liverpool. Nancy married
James Sykes and lived at Breck House in Poulton. Another son
Thomas married Isabella - about them little is yet known.
Their youngest son James died aged only 25 in 1857 by which time James
and Ellen had left Singleton Lodge and moved to Old Whinney Heys Layton,
now part of Blackpool, living in a property described as
‘an old mansion ... on rising ground south east of Layton, built in the
time of Elizabeth I'.
Ellen died in 1864 and James moved to Preston to live with his daughter
Ellen now the wife of Henry Seed. He died in 1870 and both he and
his wife Ellen are buried at St Chad's.
James Sykes, a manufacturing merchant, and his wife
Nancy, James and Ellen's daughter, were living
in Breck House Poulton. The Sykes family obviously had
connections with Pilling as there is a large monument in the churchyard of
Pilling old church commemorating them. On it is recorded the death
of James Sykes of Breck House Poulton-le-Fylde and Liverpool in 1880;
his wife Nancy died in 1878 aged 61. Most of their children had by
now moved to Liverpool where they are recorded in the census of 1871. Their descendants
moved to Liverpool and Cheshire and their success in business is well documented.