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The Sikes / Sykes Families Association was formed August 10, 1991, at a meeting in Suffield, CT. to benefit anyone with an interest in the surnames Sikes or Sykes. Twenty-one people gathered for the purpose of establishing a family organization. Most of the organizers were direct descendants of Richard Sikes and his wife, Phebe of first Roxbury and later Springfield, MA. Richard was born ca 1600, England; and died 16 Mar 1676, Springfield, MA.
The Association operates under Bylaws adopted in 1993 and revised at the 2004 Regular Meeting of the Association. A long
range goal is to include information on the genealogy and family
history of the descendants of Richard and Phebe within these
pages. Many of our members are avid genealogist who are seeking
additional data
and who want to meet new cousins. To accommodate Sikes and Sykes families who are
not descendants of Richard and Phebe, we are including information for
Southern Lineages, and will soon be expanding to add Pennsylvania and
New Jersey data as well as some from England. All are
welcome here, and we hope you will give serious consideration to
becoming a member of this Association. Please see
the links to more of our pages below.
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The purpose of the Sikes / Sykes Families Association shall be to encourage members to work together in securing and preserving for posterity, historical and genealogical data pertaining to these families. One of our goals is to continue our growth through the discovery of new found cousins. We encourage those of you who have any interest in our surnames to contact us. It is always fun to meet someone new and discover you have a common interest -- an you wouldn't be reading these pages if you were not interested in some aspect of genealogy and family. Any person
who desires to become a
part of the Association will certainly be welcomed. We are a non-profit
group of fun loving ancestor hunters. We have a lot to share and are
waiting to share it with you.
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OFFICERS President: C. David
"Dave" Sykes, 373 Sunset Drive,
Livingston, TX 77351-2497 dsykes@eastex.net |
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ORIGIN OF OUR NAME Several good
books on surname origins describe our name as
being associated with water. One of these is Dictionary of
English & Welch Surnames with Special American Instances by
Vardsley and published by the Genealogical Publishing Company, London
and Baltimore, 1901/1967. The definition in this book reads as
follows: SYKES, SIKES: Local "at the syke" from residence beside a sike, i.e., a stream. One of the greatest of Yorkshire surnames. It has remified in a marvellous manner. "Sike, a gutter, a stream. North England" (Halliwell) In his book, Richard
Sikes and His Descendants, the First Seven
Generations, Art Sikes, Jr. writes, "The name Sykes or
Sikes is derived from the Anglo-Saxon word interpreted as "sulcus
aquarius", a water-course, or a water-furrow, or a small rill without
sand or gravel running
out of a quagmire." A portion of this book
has been posted on our web site.
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COAT of ARMS and FAMILY CREST |
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We accept e-mail at ArtSikes@aol.com
or dscannell@satx.rr.com
