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.

The composer's son's marriage to a concert pianist produced no children. He died in January 1980. His sister died in December 1998. Her grandchildren live in south-east England. The composer's mother died in 1953, having been visited by African American musicians who treasured the memory of her son and his achievements. More than forty years later his half-sister Marjorie died aged ninety-nine. A tiny woman, her furniture included a music cupboard with a brass plaque from the String Players and a grand piano. On a shelf was a ring that had once belonged to Coleridge – it too was tiny. She made it clear that he was always called Coleridge within the family. She recalled the Downings who gave her their parrot when they left London for New York, and Du Bois, Tree and Walters.