Dear Marie, I suspect they're lurking in King St, Ramsgate and aren't on the census. I can normally persuade a database to give up it's secrets, but not in this case. Parts of the census for King St are damaged and sometimes people just aren't counted. My family in 1891 are not there. I have an address from a birth cert date 1891 and that address is not in the census. The SYKES family are near the Coburg Inn in 1871 and I've paged back and forth around there in 1861 and can't find them. That's how I know pages are damaged. In 1851 George SYKES and Mary STEVENS are living in the same household in Margate. Interesting she is shown as born Belgium!!! Best wishes Elizabeth On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:25 PM, A PIPER<[email protected]> wrote: > hello. i am here once again for your help. i have tried to find george and mary ann sykes in 1861 census but to no avail. they had harry s sykes, elizabeth and susannah at this time. they were from barnsley in yorkshire but lived in ramsgate for a while. mary ann (nee strevens) was from ramsgate but was born in belgium. i have looked for them all. the only thing i can think of is they were out of the country or on another planet at the time of the census!!!!! > > please can you help once again. > > marie piper > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I'm agreeing with Elizabeth on this one, but here is George's marriage. George Sykes married Mary Ann Strevens 30 October 1851   George a Confectioner    Fatherd Joseph Sykes  Henry Strevens   Fathers Professiond Manufacturer  Mariner   St John's Margate Witnesses Susannah Strevens and W Baker Mary was baptised to Henry and Ann 27 February 1831 St Johns. 1841 Census Strevens  Henry  50 - Mariner Yes  Flint Row, Margate St John The Baptist, Kent     Strevens  Ann  50 -  Yes  Flint Row, Margate St John The Baptist, Kent  Strevens  Susana  20 -  Yes  Flint Row, Margate St John The Baptist, Kent     Strevens  George  15 - Mariner No  Flint Row, Margate St John The Baptist, Kent           Strevens  Mary  10 -  Yes  Flint Row, Margate St John The Baptist, Kent           Strevens  Lydia  7 -  Yes  Flint Row, Margate St John The Baptist, Kent ----- Original Message ---- From: Elizabeth Clark <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, 31 July, 2009 5:13:56 PM Subject: Re: [Isle-of-Thanet] George SYKES Dear Marie, I suspect they're lurking in King St, Ramsgate and aren't on the census. I can normally persuade a database to give up it's secrets, but not in this case. Parts of the census for King St are damaged and sometimes people just aren't counted. My family in 1891 are not there. I have an address from a birth cert date 1891 and that address is not in the census. The SYKES family are near the Coburg Inn in 1871 and I've paged back and forth around there in 1861 and can't find them. That's how I know pages are damaged. In 1851 George SYKES and Mary STEVENS are living in the same household in Margate. Interesting she is shown as born Belgium!!! Best wishes Elizabeth On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:25 PM, A PIPER<[email protected]> wrote: > hello. i am here once again for your help. i have tried to find george and mary ann sykes in 1861 census but to no avail. they had harry s sykes, elizabeth and susannah at this time. they were from barnsley in yorkshire but lived in ramsgate for a while. mary ann (nee strevens) was from ramsgate but was born in belgium. i have looked for them all. the only thing i can think of is they were out of the country or on another planet at the time of the census!!!!! > > please can you help once again. > > marie piper