Sydney Stokes, b: -

^{1914 - 1918 World War I}
^{1922 USSR formed by Soviet states}
^{1939 - 1945 World War II}
^{1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima)}
^{1950 Korean War begins}

^{1871 Franco - Prussian War}
^{1895 Marconi invents wireless telegraphy}
^{1899 Boer War begins}
^{1903 Wright brothers 1st plane flight}
^{1912 Titanic sinks on maiden voyage}

^{1815 Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon defeat}
^{1830 French Revolution}
^{1837 Queen Victoria assumes throne}
^{1854 Crimean War with Russia}
^{1869 Opening of Suez Canal}


			^John Stokes^{b.1818 England d.}

		^{William Stokes}^{b.1858 Gerald, Western Australia d.1946 Subiac, Western Australia}	^{Jane Rowland}^{b.1831 Peninsula d.1919}

^{Sydney Benjamin Stokes}^{b. d.}	^{Sydney Stokes}^{b. d.}		^{Thomas Ottway}^{b. d.}

^Ruth Stokes^{b. d.}		^{Mary Anne Ottway}^{b.1857 d.1893}

^Joan Stokes^{b. d.}

^{Isabelle Stokes}^{b. d.}

^{Bernard Stokes}^{b. d.}	^{Elsie Sweetman}^{b. d.}

^{Margaret Stokes}^{b. d.}