Eileen Nanciebel (Sykes) Tozer (1897 - 1958)

Born 13 Jan 1897 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of William Tozer CBE TD — married 31 Jul 1919 in St Stephen's, Lindley, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England

Descendants

Died 3 Apr 1958 at age 61 in Uckfield, West Sussex, England

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Biography

Eileen Sykes was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire in 1897, daughter of Lieut.-Colonel Herbert Higginson Sykes, VD, of Briar Court, Lindley, Huddersfield. She married William TOZER in 1919 and they had two children, Gordon, born in 1921 and Pauline TOZER in 1922.

After their marriage, William and Eileen lived at Grange Cliffe, Eccleshall, Sheffield, 1919-34, and then Sugworth Hall, Bradfield Dale, near Sheffield, 1934-9. When war started in 1939, they took a lease on Totley Hall, Totley, near Sheffield. After the war they moved again to Burr Hill, East Grinstead, West Sussex. Eileen died of cancer in 1958, aged 61, and was buried in Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey.

Sources

• 1901 England Census: Eileen N. SYKES, age 4, born about 1897, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, daughter of Herbert H. and Eliza A. Sykes, living at Lindley, Huddersfield. Piece 4110, folio 141, p. 1.

• England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1916-2005:
  Mar Q 1923 Eccleshall Bierlow 9c 759 TOZER Nanciebel P A
  

• England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007: Apr Q 1958, Eileen N. TOZER, age 61, Uckfield, Sussex, 5h, 479.

• The History of the Tozer Family, edited by William Tozer, 1940, pp. 131-2.