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ID: I127927
Name: Thomas SKIDMORE
Surname: Skidmore
Given Name: Thomas
Sex: M
Birth: Apr 1605 in Mayshill, Westerleigh, Gloucester, England 1 2 3
Death: 20 Apr 1684 in Fairfield, Fairfield County, Conneticutt 1 2 3
Reference Number: 76152
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Thomas is the first of the Skidmore line to come to America. There areconflicting reports as to whether he came first to Connecticutt and thento Massachusetts or directly to Massachusetts. In any event, he settledin Massachusetts and died in Conneticutt on 31 October 1684, survivinghis children. Thomas was formally educated and then learning theblacksmithing trade from his uncles.
Thomas and Ellen had seven children: Thomas,Jedidiah, Dorothy, Richard, John, Grace, and Joseph.
THOMAS SKIDMORE, 1605-1684, OF CONNECTICUT AND NEW YORK, AND HISDESCENDANTS. THE BOOK:
Thomas Skidmore (Scudamore), 1605-1684, of Westerleigh,Gloucestershire, and Fairfield, Connecticut; his ancestors anddescendants to the ninth generation, by Warren Skidmore, (3rd edition, CDROM, 1997), 599 p., fully indexed for Acrobat Reader; 788 p., indexed bynames and places in word processor format.
There are no plans to reprint this book in hard copy.This book, the 3rd edition, is included on the Skidmore Genealogy CD.Only 250 copies of the first edition of this book were printed in 1980,and they proved completely inadequate to meet the demand. The book wasout-of-print in 90 days. A great deal of new information was contributedby persons previously unknown to me, and a second edition in 1985 of 300copies presented a complete revision of the old text. It too is nowout-of-print. This third edition is greatly enlarged in scope andincludes a complete reworking of the two earlier editions. Informationhas been added from all states of the 1920 census, and the latest editionof the International Genealogical Index (of over 200,000,000 names) andthe Ancestral File. Also added to this edition are the names (with exactdates of birth and death) of a small part of the over 4000 Skidmores, nowdeceased, who were enrolled in Social Security.
The Skidmore (Scidmore) family chronicled here werelargely Long Islanders. Well into the nineteenth century most of theposterity of Thomas Skidmore (1605-1684) lived within 50 miles ofManhattan on Long Island, in Fairfield County, Connecticut, or inDutchess County, New York. The family was in Kent County, Delaware, by1692. Joseph Skidmore (no. 22) of this branch went first to Maryland andthen in 1749 to what became Pendleton County, West Virginia, and JohnScidmore (no. 28) took his four sons by 1775 to Saratoga County, NewYork, on the northern extremity of the American frontier. Two families ofLoyalists fled to New Brunswick in 1783 but came back to the States soonafter when life there proved difficult. By and large the rest of thefamily remained to cultivate their acres in Suffolk, Queens, andFairfield Counties.
The first historian of the family was Emily C. Hawley who published her AGenealogical and Biographical Record of the Pioneer Thomas Skidmore(Scudamore) in 1911, to which she added a supplement in 1912. This wasgathered largely from hearsay evidences with some extracts from churchrecords and the occasional document. This work largely replaces it, buther book is still useful for portraits of the socially prominentSkidmores living in 1911 largely in New York City. Her notes on theBritish family are best ignored. This book and supplement (382 pages) maystill be available in a Xerox reprint from Books on Demand OrderDepartment, University Microfilms International, Box 1467, Ann Arbor,Michigan 48106, order number AG3 OP 10761. It may be possible to includethe text and photographs on a later edition of the Skidmore Genealogy CD.
There were other emigrants to the United States from England.A Richard Skidmore left posterity in Massachusetts and Maine and anEdward Skidmore was an early settler in Maryland. There were families ofuncertain ancestry in Stafford and Fairfax Counties of Virginia. TheSkidmores of Monmouth County, New Jersey, cannot be presently attached toany of the older families. To these must be added the much more prolificfamily descended from Henry Skidmore (1650-1695) of Sussex County,Delaware, who came out of Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire. His posteritywent largely to Yadkin County, North Carolina, and are now numerous inAlabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Texas, and the west. Anyone whodoes not find his family in this work might do well to write to ColonelWilliam Skidmore, USA (Retired), 267 Golf Course Lane, Winchester,Tennessee 37398. Colonel Skidmore collaborated on a book on his familyin 1983 (Skidmore, Rickmansworth, England; Delaware; North Carolina andWest, 1555-1983) with 623 pages of data on the next largest Skidmorefamily in the United States. The original edition is still available atthis time, but a second revised edition (with a new title) is in thecomputer and published on this CD.
The scope of this present work should be defined. It includesbiographical sketches of the 510 known male descendants (up from 413 inthe 2nd edition) of Thomas Skidmore who were married and heads offamilies by 31 December 1860. Colonel Skidmore has additional informationon more recent families in the whole of the United States that we will behappy to supply for the cost of photocopying. We have, for example, theSkidmores (and Scidmores, Sidmores) appearing everywhere in the censusrecords for all of 1900 and 1920 and part of 1910. This file includes(with much more) recent emigrants from England of the name. For a searchof our records it is important to supply as many names of parents andchildren living in 1920 as are remembered, as well as the states andcounties in which they lived.
Once again I must acknowledge my immense indebtedness toColonel Skidmore (and his wife Dr. Ellen Towne Skidmore) who havetransferred the whole of the second edition into the computer andproduced an every-name index to both people and places. Their text, withan enormous number of additions, is the basis of this third edition onthe present CD-ROM.
The decision was made to eliminate all documentation whichwould have added to the length and price of the book. This has meant thatI have accepted silently the contributions made by hundreds ofdescendants, writers, librarians, archivists, court officers, and localhistorians. To have acknowledged all of them by name in the appropriateplaces would have doubled or tripled the cost to the reader. Hopefullythese economies will enable all of those who would like to own a copy ofthis book to be able to afford it.
In 1980 I promised to produce a book on the Scudamore(Skydmore) family at Upton Scudamore in Wiltshire. This was done in 1982(The Scudamores of Upton Scudamore: A Knightly Family in MedievalWiltshire, 1086-1382). A second revised and enlarged edition waspublished in 1989. It is still available, hard bound, by post and shouldinterest everyone of the surname since I believe from a study of themedieval records that Skidmore was then SkidmoreÙus cousin everywhere.Ralph [de Scudemer], a Breton or Norman, came with William fitz Osbernfrom France to build castles on the Welsh frontier well before Normaninvasion. He is mentioned four times in the Domesday Book of 1086.
Another book, Thirty Generations of Scudamore/Skidmore family in Englandand America, is on this CD. It includes the principal families of thename in England, and elsewhere in the United States, Canada, India,Australia and wherever our British cousins settled.
Finally, an enormous number of copies of unpublished recordsare in my possession (chancery records, pension files, vital records,probate files, land transactions, as well as extracts from the data banksmentioned earlier) none of which are presently digitized. Given a certainamount of encouragement, good health, and time it may be possible to getsome part of this material on a later edition of this CD.
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Father: Richard SKIDMORE b: ABT. 1580 in Mayshill, Gloucestershire, England
Mother: Anne Agnes LAWRENCE b: 1583 in Mayshill, Westerleigh, Gloucester, England
Marriage 1 Ellen Pigg Or Prigg WHITEHEAD b: ABT. 1607 in Wayne Valley, Hereford, England
Married: ABT. 1627 in Church Of St. James The Great, England 1 5 6
Children
Has Children John SKIDMORE , Sr. b: 11 Apr 1643 in Cambridge, Suffolk, Ma
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