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The SYKES FAMILIES of POULTON and LIVERPOOL
By the turn of the eighteenth century there were no Lewtas families living elsewhere in Fylde villages other than Over Wyre and Poulton. John and Nancy Lewtas moved across the River Wyre after the brth of their son James in 1792, to settle in Poulton.James was to marry Ellen Porter the daughter of James Porter, a husbandman of Todderstaff, at Kirkham in 1816.
By 1851 James Lewtas, now 58 was farming 120 acres at Singleton Lodge with his wife Ellen 61. With them was their son James, 19 and daughter Ellen 17. Their eldest son John, now aged 30, had married Eleanor Embury and had set up as a wine and sprit merchant in Liverpool. Nancy married James Sykes and lived at Breck House in Poulton. Another son Thomas married Isabella - about them little is yet known.
Their youngest son James died aged only 25 in 1857 by which time James and Ellen had left Singleton Lodge and moved to Old Whinney Heys Layton, now part of Blackpool, living in a property described as ˜an old mansion ... on rising ground south east of Layton, built in the time of Elizabeth I'.
Ellen died in 1864 and James moved to Preston to live with his daughter Ellen now the wife of Henry Seed. He died in 1870 and both he and his wife Ellen are buried at St Chad's.
James Sykes, a manufacturing merchant, and his wife Nancy, James and Ellen's daughter, were living in Breck House Poulton. The Sykes family obviously had connections with Pilling as there is a large monument in the churchyard of Pilling old church commemorating them. On it is recorded the death of James Sykes of Breck House Poulton-le-Fylde and Liverpool in 1880; his wife Nancy died in 1878 aged 61. Most of their children had by now moved to Liverpool where they are recorded in the census of 1871. Their descendants moved to Liverpool and Cheshire and their success in business is well documented.
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