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Sykes family of Sledmere
Family in Yorkshire, England
The Sykes family of Sledmere own Sledmere House in Yorkshire, England.
Family history
The Sykes family settled in Sykes Dyke near Carlisle in Cumberland during the Middle Ages.
The earliest correspondence in the Sykes archives relates to Richard Sykes (–), from his factors in Danzig and local gentry. William Sykes (–), migrated to the West Riding of Yorkshire, settling near Leeds, and he and his son became wealthy cloth traders.
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Daniel Sykes (born ) was the first member of the family to begin trading in Hull and amassed a fortune from shipping and finance. Richard Sykes (–) diversified further, concentrating on the flourishing Baltic trade in bar iron, and the wealth of the family was built on this in the first half of the eighteenth century.
He married Mary Kirkby, co-heiress to the Sledmere estates of Mark Kirkby, and, secondly, Martha Donkin. Two of his sons, Joseph Sykes (–) and Richard Sykes (–), managed the f