ABSTRACT
Jessie Coleridge-Taylor died in London on 8 January 1962. Her remains were cremated at her request. Her sister’s American-born children have descendents in the US. When staying with the Sykes in America Jessie was advised not to tell people that she had been married to a black man. There are Holmans living in Kent, and as Sarah Toye (née Holmans) may have had eleven children, that branch of the family must have living relatives too. In Edenbridge, Kent, the house that as Eden House Young Ladies School had seen Jessie, Ada, Leila and Edith Walmisley named in the 1881 census, has ‘Ada W’ scratched onto a windowpane.
