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Octavian Margaret Dykes

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Pauline

Pauline Report 17 Sep 2017 06:27

Hello
Coud anyone find where Octavian was living between 1911..1943 in 1911 was living in Leeds
She was a widow in 1924
Thank you

Chris Ho :)

Chris Ho :) Report 17 Sep 2017 07:06

Presuming this is her?...

Chris :)

Deaths Sep 1943 (>99%)
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DYKES Octavia M 77 Ulverston 8e 736


1911 (Find My Past)
Ernest Huntington Dykes H - Male Clergyman Established Church 59 1852 Durham S Oswalds Parish
Victoria (Octavia on image) Margaret Dykes Wife - Female - 45 1866 Ulverston Manchester
John Edward Henry Dykes Son - Male - 6 1905 Leeds S Georges
Laurence Gregson Fell Dykes Son - Male - 4 1907 Leeds S Georges
Frederick Ernest Black Dykes Son - Male - 4 1907 Leeds S Georges
Alexina Margaret Dykes Servant - Female - 2 1909 Leeds S Georges
Victoria Flord Servant Single Female Domestic Servant 23 1888 Dalton in Furness Lancashire
Frances Geates Servant Single Female Domestic Servant 23 1888 Leeds Armley Hall
Edith May Hill Servant Single Female Domestic Servant 26 1885 Bishop Aukland Durham
Clara Geavill Servant - Female Domestic Servant 14 1897 Ritheram Yorks
Bertha Roberts Servant - Female Domestic Servant 13 1898 Leeds Allyorks
Elizabeth Agnes Greg Visitor Single Female Private Means 43 1868 Bollington Cheshire
Address 38 Hyde Terrace Leeds
Census reference RG14 PN27042 RG78 PN1548B RD500 SD3 ED61 SN152


29 July 1943 - Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Leeds, West Yorkshire

Death
DYKES - JuIy 22nd at Cartmel Vicarage, Lancs. OCTAVIA MARGARET, widow of the Rev Ernest Huntington DYKES, formerly Vicar of Holy Trinity Church Leeds. Funeral Ulverston today (Thursday) July 29.

(also small snippet on Death, "at Cartmel Vicarage, Grange over Sands")


04 June 1941 - Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Leeds, West Yorkshire

Leeds Grammar School boy, the son of a former Vicar Holy Trinity. Leeds, the late Rev. E. H. Dykes and of Mrs. Dykes, of Cartmel Vicarage. After leaving school went farming In Australia for time, and on his return home entered the Church. For two-and-a-half...

(on Marriage of Son, the Rev. Lawrence Gregson Fell Dykes)


Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900 (Ancestry)

Name: Ernest Huntingdon. Dykes
College: JESUS
Entered: Michs. 1871
BORN: 1852
Died: 11 Oct 1924
More Information:
Adm. pens. (age 20) at JESUS, Oct. 1, 1871. S. of John Bacchus (1843), clerk. B. 1852, at Durham. School, Durham Grammar (Rev. H. Holden). Matric. Michs. 1871, as E. Huntingdon; B.A. 1875; M.A. 1879. Ord. deacon, 1877; priest (Ripon) 1878; C. of Stanningley, Yorks., 1877-81. C. of Leeds, 1881-5. V. of St James's, Barrow-in-Furness, 1885-98. Rural Dean, 1898. P.C. of Oulton, Yorks., 1898-1903. V. of Holy Trinity with St Paul's, Leeds, 1903-22. Lived latterly at Newlyn, Ulverston. Died there Oct. 11, 1924. (Durham Sch. Reg.; Scott, MSS.; Crockford; The Times, Oct. 14, 1924.)

greyghost

greyghost Report 17 Sep 2017 07:39

1939 register

Dykes Household (3 People)
Homeplace Lansdowne Road , Worthing R.D., Sussex, England

FIRST NAME(S) LAST NAME(S) DOB SEX OCCUPATION MARITAL STATUS SCHEDULE SCHEDULE SUB NUMBER
Octavia M Dykes 15 Jul 1867 Female Unpaid Domestic Duties Widowed 69 1
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greyghost

greyghost Report 17 Sep 2017 07:42

It may be a coincidence, but on the same 1939 register page is -

Dykes Household (6 People)
Gratwicke Lansdowne Road , Worthing R.D., Sussex, England

FIRST NAME(S) LAST NAME(S) DOB SEX OCCUPATION MARITAL STATUS SCHEDULE SCHEDULE SUB NUMBER
Mary A Dykes 30 Jul 1906 Female Private Means Married 64 1
Janet B Spark 30 Apr 1908 Female Private Means Married 64 2
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Emily E Bastable (Collins) 31 Mar 1914 Female Domestic Servant Single 64 5
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Pauline

Pauline Report 17 Sep 2017 08:09

Thank you very much

rootgatherer

rootgatherer Report 17 Sep 2017 09:38

In case it is relevant

Marriages Dec 1933 (>99%)

Dykes John E H Handcock Westminster 1a 1150
Handcock Mary A Dykes Westminster 1a 1150


MARY ALLISON
Last name DYKES
Gender Female
Birth day 30
Birth month 7
Birth year 1906
Age -
Death quarter 4
Death year 2000
District Kings Lynn
District number 6371A
Register number 59A
Entry number 277
Date of registration mm/yy 1100
County Norfolk
Country England
Record set England & Wales Deaths 1837-2007
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Subcategory Civil Deaths & Burials
Collections from Great Britain, England
© Findmypast

rootgatherer

rootgatherer Report 17 Sep 2017 09:43


First name(s) JOHN EDWARD H
Last name DYKES
Gender Male
Birth day 18
Birth month 9
Birth year 1904
Age -
Death quarter 2
Death year 2000
District East Dereham
District number 6341
Register number 28B
Entry number 163
Date of registration mm/yy 0400
County Norfolk
Country England
Record set England & Wales Deaths 1837-2007
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Subcategory Civil Deaths & Burials
Collections from Great Britain, England
© Findmypast

rootgatherer

rootgatherer Report 17 Sep 2017 09:53

Janet B Spark with Mary A Dykes in 1939 appears to be her sister



1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription
Woodland Rectory Road Penarth, Penarth, Glamorganshire, Wales

Henry Harrison Handcock Head Married Male Solicitor 41 1870 Falmouth Cornwall
Dorothy Handcock Wife Married Female - 35 1876 Wakefield Yorkshire
Mary Allison Handcock Daughter Single Female - 4 1907 Penarth Glamorgan
Janet Barbara Handcock Daughter Single Female - 2 1909 Penarth Glamorgan
Lillian Loveday Wills Servant Single Female Servant 26 1885 Kingskerswell Devon
Kate Dramond Servant Single Female Servant 38 1873 Chawherne Somerset
Florence Mary Gray Servant Single Female Servant 17 1894 Llanelly Carmarthen