♂ Richard Skidmore

1580 - 1606

Richard Skidmore
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Thomas Skidmore
Thomas Skidmore
1605 - 1684

He was a carpenter and a stonemason.

1604


Sep 4
Age: 24y

marriage


Anne Agnes Lawrence
Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, England ⇓
They were married at the Holy 
Trinity Church in Westbury-on-Trym. The first church on the site was established in the 8th century, and construction of the present building was in the thirteenth century. It has been rebuilt several times since.
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1604 • Before 1 October, Huntingdon Beaumont completes the Wollaton Waggonway, built to transport coal from the mines at Strelley to Wollaton just west of Nottingham, England, the world's oldest wagonway with provenance.The exact date is unknown, but a surviving account book for the year ended September 30 1604 proves it was built within the preceding 12 months.

1605


Age: 25y
1605 • The Priory of St. Gregory's is founded at Douai, Flanders, at this time in the Spanish Netherlands, by its first prior, John Roberts, and other exiles, thus becoming the first English Benedictine house to renew conventual life after the English Reformation. More than two centuries later the community will establish Downside Abbey back in England.

1606


Nov 25
Age: 26y

death


Thomas Skidmore
England ⇓
Probably after an accident as his will states that he was "broke in the body"
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1606 Peace of Zsitvatorok between the Ottoman and Holy Roman Empires. The independence of Transylvania is recognized by both sides and Austria's annual tribute to the Ottomans is abolished.

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