27. Susannah Sarah Sykes

Susannah Sarah Swain, nee Sykes was my great-great grandfather, and mother of Madeleine Charlotte Swain.

According to her birth certificate, she was born on 21 July 1847 at 172 Eastfield Street, Limehouse, in the registration dstrict of Stepney in the county of Middlesex. Her father was Robert Henry Sykes, a hairdresser. Her mother was Elizabeth Sarah Sykes, formerly Bell.

BTW, according to an LDS ancestral record, Susan Sarah [sic] Sykes was born c. 1846 and died before 1916.

According to their marriage certificate, she married William Henry Swain in the parish church of St Pauls, Bow Common in the County of Middlesex on 31 July 1864. They were both resident at Bow Common Lane. She was 17 years old, and a factory hand. Her father was Robert Henry Sykes, a barber (deceased).

I tried looking for the Swains at Bow Common Lane in the 1871 census but it was too big.

She bore Madeline Charlotte Swain on 18 April 1874, in Poplar in the sub-district of Bow in the County of Middlesex. She was the informant, made her mark, and gave her address as 6 Sherwood Street, Bromley (presumably Bromley by Bow).

At the time of the 1891 census she was 43 and living with hew family at 130 Bow Common Lane, where she was still living at the time of the 1901 Census when she was 54.

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