Can Anyone Help Me Find More Information On This Person

[avm228]

Mother’s maiden name is Sackett on the 1905 birth reg of Sylvester Emmanuel Ohene Kwamina Wilkes.

Thomas Henry Wilkes had married Sarah Anne Sackett, Mar qtr 1886 Lambeth.

[dawnsh]

Thomas Henry Wilkes died March 1/4 1898 before the birth of Thomas Henry jnr in June 1/4 1898 leaving Sarah Ann a widow with 6 children and no occupation on the 1901 census

[sarah]

message from Leith Lass


"Thank you again for taking the time to reply. I have a copy of the register of deaths for Manor Park Cemetry and his last address is recorded as 52 Friern Barnet Road N11. I have looked this up on google maps but nothing is there now except I do believe that something was built on the grounds of the hospital was it Park Manor or something of that ilk. Perhaps 52 Friern Barnet Road was the hospital. If it was there he had a sorryful life. Again sorry to be so vague I am quite new at this and not familiar with areas of London old and new.
May be you would know"

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Regards

Sarah

[Leith Lass]

I would like to thank everyone for their updates and I think there is a lot of useful information which I will follow through. I do think it is odd re the registering of the birth and it could have been a liaison. The passenger list is also something to look at. 

All in all I feel it has been a very sad life for Sylvester and as the first record I have of him is age 6 then again in the 1939 census, I wonder at what age he was admitted and why. One for another day maybe but once again thank you all.

Lorna x

[Leith Lass]

I have a relative in my husbands tree who was born 20 Nov 1904 - First came across him on the 1911 Census as a 6 year old boy born in Africa. This turned out to be a lie as I found that the head of the family in 1911 was Sarah Wilkes and it was noted on the census that he was adopted. I later found the birth certificate showing that at the date of his birth Sarah was shown as his mother. Sarah was a widow at this time so either she had an affair or the child may have been that of her elder daughter. The boy's name at the date of registration was Sylvester Emmanuel Ohene Kwamina Quarde Wilkes. I believe the middle four names may relate to his father and Sarah named him Sylvester Wilkes.

Anyway l could find no further information on the boy until the 1939 Census where he was in Friern Barnet. His name was down as Sylvester O Quards [Schedule No. 2 Sub No. 154].  He died in Friern Barnet on 30 Sept 1981 [Sylvester Ohene Quardo - another misspelling] and buried at Newham in Oct 1981.

I know nothing more about him and would love to know how I can go about getting his hospital records. Hopefully I can find out when he was admitted and what for and why he was in there for so long. I feel that he probably had no life at all and it is quite sad.

Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you.

[Jebber]

I doubt you will have any success, Hospital records are usually closed under the 100 year rule.

[CaroleW]

You are probably already aware that this was a psychiatric hospital which would account for the length of time he was there

https://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/friern.html

[Mabel Bagshawe]

The death cert may have  information which gives some insight

[jonw65]

Previous thread on Sylvester/Friern from 2018, includes a post on Friern Hospital records by the great Bookbox
topics now merged