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Skydmore/ Scudamore Families of Thruxton, Abenhall, Hentland 1400-1915 Skidmore/ Scudamore One-Name Study 2015

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SKYDMORES/ SCUDAMORES OF THRUXTON,

ABENHALL, HENTLAND (HEREFORDSHIRE),

& INCLUDING GALLATIN CO., ILLINOIS, &

also PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND,

1400-1915

edited by Linda Moffatt © from the original work of Warren Skidmore

Preface This work was originally published in book form as part of Thirty Generations of The Scudamore/Skidmore Family in England and America by Warren Skidmore, and revised and sold on CD in 2006 The original text and format used by Warren Skidmore has been retained, apart from

the addition of code numbers assigned to each male head of household, allowing cross-reference to other information in the databases of the Skidmore/ Scudamore One-Name Study,

In line with the policy of the Skidmore/ Scudamore One-Name Study, details of individuals born within approximately the last 100 years are not placed on the Internet without express permission of descendants. Hence, recent descendants who appeared in the original Thirty Generations book do not appear here. I am happy, however, to include in subsequent revisions any biographical detail with permission of descendants, who may contact me at the email address below.

I have used italics where I have made additions or alterations to Warren Skidmore's text.

Linda Moffatt, July 2015 www.skidmorefamilyhistory.com [email protected]

Contents Thruxton, Herefordshire p.2 Fernhurst, Sussex p.8 Prince George's County, Maryland p.9 Abenhall, Herefordshire p.19 Hentland, Herefordshire p.32 Gallatin County, Illinois p.42



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THRUXTON, HEREFORDSHIRE

John (Jenkin) Skydmore, of KENTCHURCH, HEREFORDSHIRE, (ROW [6], noticed elsewhere1), was living in

1405 and possibly as late as 6 July 1407. His heir was Sir John Skydmore, Knight, of Kentchurch (ROW [10]), who

in 1431 held (among other lands) 1/4 of a knight’s fee in Thruxton which in time past had belonged to Amicia

Bluet, and 1/8 of a fee in Kingstone. After his death in or about 1435 his lands went to his heir, another Sir John

Skydmore, of Kentchurch (ROW [15]), who held several manors and land in Herefordshire and Gloucestershire. He

died before 3 May 1475 devising by his will (now lost) Thruxton and Brytt (now Bridge) Court in Kingstone to

his youngest son Richard Skydmore.

TXN [1]. RICHARD SKYDMORE (SCUDAMORE), of the Grove near Lower Hergest and Thruxton

(the youngest son of Sir John Skydmore of Kentchurch by his wife Blanche ap Harry), is first noticed on 29

May 1460 as Richard Skydmore, of Grove, when he and Richard Acton, of Crowle, Worcestershire, stood surety

for Thomas Fitz Harry who had been granted custodianship of Marden (“Mawerden”) manor which had been

lately forfeited by Richard, duke of York, through high treason, insurrection and rebellion. On 22 September

1461 Richard Scudamore and Thomas Bromwich, as feoffees of the lord of How Caple, presented John ap

Howell to the benefice there. He inherited Thruxton and Bridge Court by the will of his father in 1475, and was

in all probability living in 1489. He married (according to the Llyfr Baglan, and another traditional pedigree)

Jane, daughter of Richard Monington of Brinsop, Herefordshire, and had issue,

2. 1. RICHARD, his heir, of whom further.

1. (perhaps) Blanche, who married (his 1st wife) John ap William Vaughan (living

1517-8), of Llanrothal [She may have been the daughter of Richard Scudamore, the younger].

The son,

TXN [2]. RICHARD SCUDAMORE, of Thruxton, called “the younger” when on 14 October 1489 he

was appointed to fill out the unexpired term of his uncle, Henry Scudamore, as High Sheriff of Herefordshire

who had just died. He is doubtless the man of his name who was Mayor of Hereford in 1499. He married 1stly

Maud, the daughter of David Allen, and 2ndly Cecelia (who survived him), the widow of Philip Vaughan, of

Tyle-glas, Newton, Breconshire, and daughter of Jevan Gam, of Newton (in Welsh Trenewith) near Brecon. He

died on 26 January 1510/11, seized of Thruxton valued at £10 by the year, and Bridge (Brytt) Court. Henry

Monington, doubtless a kinsman, was first among the jurors at the inquest post mortem taken at Hereford on 25

October 1511. Had issue by his first wife,

3. 1. JOHN, his heir, of whom further.

4. 2. HENRY, his eventual heir, of Huntsham in Goodrich, of whom later.

1. Catherine, who married John ap Howell Tomlin, of Garway.

2. Joan, who married before 11 November 1511 Philip ap Rees (Philpot Price), of

Old Court, Orcop. She is almost certainly to be identified as Jonette Scudamore, of Orcop,

whose will is dated 29 October 1550. In her will she leaves bequests to her grandsons Roger

Pye and Lewis Gilbert, each of whom she calls her nephew (common usage for grandson in

that period), as well as to other members of the Pye and Gilbert families. She appointed

Thomas Gilbert (her son-in-law) her executor. Among the witnesses are Walter Pye,

gentleman (also her son-in-law), and Philip Scudamore, a distant kinsman. She died shortly

afterwards leaving issue,

1. Margaret Price, who married Walter Pye of the Mynde (died

November 1575). She was living at Orcop on 25 May 1584.

2. Anne Price, who married Thomas Gilbert, of Ewyas Harold. She

was living at Orcop on 25 May 1584 and was a recusant there in 1592.

The elder son,

1 See The Scudamores of Upton Scudamore: A Knightly Family in Medieval Wiltshire, 1086-1382 by Warren Skidmore,

271 p. 3rd Ed. 2006, at www.skidmorefamilyhistory.com

and

The Skydemores / Scudamores, Lords of Rowlestone, Herefordshire, 1307-1922, and some of their Younger Sons, by

Warren Skidmore, 2011. (LM).



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TXN [3]. JOHN SCUDAMORE, of Thruxton, was born about 1480 (aged 30 or more at his father’s

death). He was one of the jurors at the inquest post mortem held at Hereford on 26 October 1523 of Richard

Monington of Westhide who had died the year before. In 1532 (or the following year) he sued Monnington’s

son and heir, Richard, for the detention of deeds of the manor of Thruxton and 400 acres of meadow and pasture

at Bridge Court in Kingstone. He contributed a harness [body armour] for one man at the muster of

Herefordshire in 1539. He married 1stly ________ ________, and 2ndly Anne (living his widow at Hereford in

1559), daughter of John Bygges, and died shortly after 1 October 1557 having had issue by his first wife,

5. 1. WILLIAM, his heir, of whom further.

1. Alice, who married ________ Forest, and was living a widow in 1558.

2. Anne, who married Thomas Scudamore, of the Helme, EWYAS HAROLD (ROW

[42], noticed elsewhere2). He was a distant kinsman, the great-grandson of Nicholas

Scudamore, of Rowlstone (ROW [14]). Their posterity seems to have been the eventual heirs to

Thruxton.

3. Blanche who married ________ Price. They were both living in 1558.

The son,

TXN [5], WILLIAM SCUDAMORE, of Thruxton, is mentioned in the will of Richard Monington, of

Westhide, dated 8 August 1551 (who leaves him a cow and 26sh 8d in money). He married, probably in or after

June 1557 (post nuptial settlement dated 1 October 1557), Jane (died about March 1558), daughter of John

Harford, of Bosbury. His will, dated 16 September (proved 12 December) 1558, mentions, among others, his

step-mother Anne, his sisters Alice, Anne, and Blanche, and his “base” brother William. He died on 21

September 1558 leaving issue an only son,

JOHN SCUDAMORE, of Thruxton, born in March 1558 (aged 9 months on 4 January 1558/9 when

an inquest post mortem was taken on his father’s lands). The inquest mentions a number of details that

shed light on the events that befell the Thruxton family at this time. The presence of John Scudamore

of Kentchurch and John Scudamore (of Holme Lacy presumably) among those who were appointed to

hold the enquiry perhaps reflects their interest for the welfare of their less fortunate kin. At some

unspecified date John Scudamore leased Thruxton and other lands to Anthony Harford and Thomas

Cave, of Mathern, Monmouthshire. He married Mary (who survived him and married 2ndly James

Garnon, and 3rdly William Parry), daughter of James Baskerville, of Kyre Park, Worcestershire. He

died without issue, an intestate, at Thruxton and was buried there on 20 February 1590/1 (admons of

his estate was granted to his widow on 25 February of that year).

2 ibid.

Some thirty or so years after the death of John Scudamore, Thruxton passed to the Gunter family, possibly

through Humphrey Scudamore (ROW [55] died 1617) of EWYAS HAROLD (noticed elsewhere). Humphrey, as a

son of William Scudamore’s sister Anne, was John’s first cousin. Humphrey Scudamore died without issue and

Lewis Gunter of Howton, his cousin, was the executor and largest beneficiary of his will. On 28 July 1591,

following the death of John Scudamore, Humphrey was granted the administration of the estate of William

Scudamore on the grounds that he was his nearest kin and that the original executor, John Harford (who died on

30 August 1559), had not fully administered. Gunter, an attorney and of Breconshire stock, is still called “of

Howton” in 1621 but was in possession of Thruxton at his death in 1630.

Following the death of John Scudamore in 1591 the representation of the family passed to the posterity of,

TXN [4]. HENRY SCUDAMORE, of Huntsham (in Goodrich), the 2nd son of Richard Scudamore

by his wife Maud Allen. He was adult by 12 July 1504 when he and John ap Harry were given a power of

attorney by Sir George Neville, lord of Ewyas Harold, to deliver seisin of lands in Kentchurch to his kinsman

James Scudamore. On 7 October 1527 Henry Scudamore and Lewis ap Jenkin of Ross had a grant of a holding

called Knappes Messuage and a parcel of land called Bedowas in Orcop from Henry’s brother-in-law, Philip ap

Rees. He had settled in Huntsham by 1543, or perhaps earlier, where he acquired extensive lands held by

copyhold from the Earl of Shrewsbury. On 29 January 1549/50 Thomas Philpot appeared at the manorial court

at Goodrich and testified that Henry Scudamore was old and infirm and that he ought to be essoined; whereupon

his son Thomas pledged himself and was put in his place. His will dated 18 April 1552 mentions his wife Jane,



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his sons Thomas and William, and his daughters Joan and Margaret. He died before 23 July of that year (the

date of the admons on his estate), leaving issue,

7. 1. John, of Bagwy Llydiart, in Orcop. He may have been the man of his name

(called “of Orcop”) whose association in 1524 and 1527 with Katherine, daughter of Richard

ap Jenkyn of Orcop, is recorded in the Court Books of the Bishops of Hereford. In the muster

of 1542 he is recorded as an able man fit to make an archer for the defence of the county. He

is mentioned from 1541 to 1543 in the Court Rolls of Goodrich, and he may possibly have

been living as late as November 1578 when a John Scudamore of Bagalidiatt is named in the

will of Richard Roberts of Altlbough. He had issue according to a traditional pedigree in the

Llyfr Baglan,

1. William, of Orcop, who was living in 1570-1 when he and Barbara

________ arementioned in the Consistory Court Books.

10. 2. Watkin (Walter). He settled at FERNHURST, SUSSEX (q.v.)

where he left posterity there. See p.9.

8. 2. THOMAS GWATKYN, of whom further.

3. William, of Goodrich. In 1542 he is noticed in the muster of the county as an able

man fit to make a billman. He was living in 1552 when he is devised a barn lying at the end of

the chapel in Huntsham and a sum of money in his father’s will.

1. Joan, living in 1552.

2. Margaret, living a spinster at Goodrich as late as 1 September 1582 according to

the Court Rolls of that place.

The 2nd son,

TXN [8]. THOMAS GWATKYN SCUDAMORE, of Huntsham, married Mary (or Marian)

________ and died soon after his father and before 1 December 1557 when it was found at a court held for

Goodrich that a heriot of a bay horse and a red bullock (worth 20sh each) was owed at his death to the lord of

the manor. On 28 August 1559 his widow settled all her lands in Huntsham on Thomas Philpot of Marstow (and

his son John) for the benefit of her three minor children. Had issue,

11. 1. LEWIS, his heir, of whom further.

2. John (Reverend), who was presented as Rector of Tretire in 1586 [a living then in

the gift of James Scudamore (died 1597) of that place, his kinsman]. On 2 June 1562 he had

certain lands in Llangarron by a fine from Richard Taylor and his wife Jane and was buried at

Tretire on 8 March 1600/1. His will, dated 26 October 1600, nominates his brothers Lewis and

Richard as his executors and co-heirs.

3. Richard, of Tretire and Everston in Peterstow. His name appears on the lists of

jurors at the courts held for Goodrich from 1579. He appears as an attorney at the courts to at

least 1613. On 20 October 1596 he had a grant of two messuages at Everston and Lower

House (at The Common) in Peterstow from Richard Vaughan the elder, of Ruxton, and his

two sons. It is not presently known when he died, but he may have died before his brother

Lewis.

1. Joan, born before 15 April 1552 when she is mentioned in the will of her grand-

father. She married at Goodrich on 11 February 1576/7 William Boughan (died in January

1619/20) and may have been the lady of her name who was buried at Goodrich on 24

February 1625/6.

2. (perhaps) Margaret, who married, at Goodrich on 3 May 1591, Richard Were, and

was buried there on 14 November 1624.

The eldest son,

TXN [11]. LEWIS SCUDAMORE, of Huntsham, born about 1540. He married at Goodrich on 27 June

1575, Alice Hannis (buried his widow at Goodrich on 2 March 1632/3). On 16 January 1586/7, Lewis and Alice

Scudamore (then called of Kentchurch) granted to Thomas Coningsby and Thomas Lyngen (both of Hampton

Court) a messuage (or manor) called Worrothe Court (perhaps now known as White Rocks) in Kentchurch and

Garway. On 26 March 1599 George Scudamore, of Bolston near Holme Lacy (a distant kinsman) leased lands

lying between Staunton, Gloucestershire, and Huntsham to Lewis. He was buried at Goodrich on 6 January



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1612/3, having had issue,

15. 1. THOMAS, his heir, of whom further.

1. Margaret, baptized at Goodrich 17 June 1582.

2. Sibyl, baptized at Tretire 18 October 1591, her uncle the Reverend John

Scudamore performing the ceremony.

The son,

TXN [15]. THOMAS SCUDAMORE, of Peterstow and Huntsham. He married (pre-nuptial

settlement dated 10 April 1604) Margaret (buried 5 March 1659/60 at Goodrich), a daughter of John and Bridget

Wyllym of Lyston in Llanwarne. On 31 August 1613, Thomas and Margaret Scudamore (already called “of

Huntsham”) leased their lands at Everston and elsewhere in Peterstow to the Powells of Pengethley. Thomas is

mentioned regularly in the court rolls of Goodrich from 1613 and thereafter. He died at Huntsham at an

advanced age and was buried at Goodrich on 28 March 1670, having had issue,

1. Henry (a twin), baptized at Peterstow on 19 July 1606, buried there on 2 August

of the same year.

2. John (a twin), baptized at Peterstow on 19 July 1606, buried there on 2 August of

the same year.

18. 3. RICHARD, his heir, of whom further.

4. John, baptized at Peterstow on 16 November 1613, who died without issue.

5. George, baptized at Goodrich on 17 February 1618/9.

1. Bridget, baptized at Peterstow on 23 August 1607. She married Philip Davis at

Goodrich on 12 May 1649.

2. Alice, baptized at Goodrich on 2 April 1616.

The eldest surviving son,

TXN [18]. RICHARD SCUDAMORE, of Huntsham, baptized 7 March 1609/10 at Peterstow. He

married 5 August 1632, at Goodrich, Eleanor (buried there on 11 January 1686/7), a daughter of Roger and

Eleanor White, of Goodrich. He was assessed at Huntsham (with his father) in 1663 and taxed on two hearths in

1665. He was a churchwarden at Goodrich in 1670, and left a will dated 6 February 1686/7. He was buried at

Goodrich on 20 February 1689/90, having had issue (baptized at Goodrich with perhaps the exception of his

youngest son),

20. 1. John, of Huntsham, baptized at Goodrich 13 October 1633. On 13 May 1683 he

was presented before the Consistory Court of the Bishop of Hereford as an “obstinate

Quaker”. He married, 29 March 1687, at the Ross Monthly Meeting, Mary (who survived him

and married 2ndly on 6 February 1710/11 at Bosbury Philip Wanklyn who was a churchwar-

den at Goodrich in 1721), daughter of William Fisher of Ross-on-Wye. On 14 November

1705 (the same day that he signed his will) he made a separate settlement on Nicholas Fisher

and Joseph Cowles for the benefit of his minor son John. His will of that day confirms

Huntsham to his son and gives legacies of £80 each to his four daughters as they came of age.

He was buried at Ross-on-Wye on 11 February 1705/6 having had issue,

1. William, born 28 November 1687, who died on 12 May 1688.

2. John, the only surviving son, born 31 March 1695, who was buried at

Ross-on-Wye on 11 November 1709.

1. Mary, born 25 February 1689, married (by 1715) William Meende, of

Ross-on-Wye, a barber. She was living his widow in 1759.

2. Margaret, born 25 November 1690. She married (licence 14

August 1721) at St. Bartholomew-the-Less, London, Edward Ball, of Soho,

a staymaker. [See also Hannah, below.]

3. Sarah, born 25 November 1692, who married Robert Marsh, of St.

Giles-in-the-Fields, London, a coachmaker.

4. Hannah, born about 1698. She married ________ Poulton, of St.

James’, Garlickhithe, London. She was living his widow in 1759. [Margaret

and Hannah Scudamore were baptized at Goodrich on 25 January 1712/3,

presumably indicating their allegiance to the Church of England from that



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time.]

The family estate in Huntsham later passed to the Vaughans of Courtfield in Welsh Bicknor presumably by

purchase.

21. 2. Roger, baptized 1 April 1638, who married Elizabeth Mildmay at Monmouth on

27 July 1668. He possibly became a Quaker as did his elder brother, John. He is not

remembered in his father’s will and may have died before him, although elsewhere it is said

that he died in Ireland about 1695. Had issue,

1. Richard, born 1669, who, with his brother and sisters, is named in

the will of their grandfather who left them £10 each. It is presumed that he

died before 1710.

24. 2. James, of Huntsham, born 7 January 1674. He married in 1700, or

thereabouts, Catherine ________. The transcripts of the registers of

Goodrich record his baptism on 20 September 1701, from which it may be

inferred that he left the Quakers. About 1711 James entered into a law suit

against his aunt Mary Wanklyn (and her daughters) about the right of

inheritance to his grandfather’s estate. He claimed that he was the surviving

male heir and that his grandfather had entailed the estate on the male line.

The suit continued in Chancery for several years and clearly must have

proved costly. (The outcome, one would assume, did not go in his favor.)

Had issue, the six eldest children christened at Goodrich,

1. Thomas, baptized 8 August 1703, buried 12 August.

2. James, baptized 7 January 1704/5.

3. Richard, baptized 2 November 1712.

4. John, baptized at St. Weonards, 30 January 1714/5.

1. Eleanor, baptized 31 December 1700.

2. Mary, baptized 29 June 1707.

3. Elizabeth, baptized 24 December 1710.

1. Elizabeth, born 13 November 1670, at Monmouth.

2. Jane, born 23 May 1672.

ABL 1. 3. JAMES, of English Bicknor, Gloucestershire, of whom further. See p.19.

23. 4. Thomas, of Ross-on-Wye, baptized 2 March 1643/4. He married 1stly Martha

________ (buried at Ross-on-Wye on 8 February 1681/2), by whom he had issue (baptized at

Goodrich and named in their grandfather’s will),

1. John, baptized 20 April 1671.

2. Richard, baptized 31 March 1674.

1. Martha, baptized 5 October 1672.

Thomas Scudamore married 2ndly at Ross-on-Wye on 17 April 1683 Sarah Maddocks (buried

there on 13 November 1701). He was buried at Ross-on-Wye on 28 November 1709, having

had issue by her (christened at Ross-on-Wye),

26. 3. William, of Ross-on-Wye, baptized 4 May 1684, who was also

named in his grandfather’s will. He married 1stly on 4 November 1703 at

Ross-on-Wye, Eleanor Bennet (buried there on 24 June 1714), by whom he

had issue (christened at Ross-on-Wye),

29. 1. William, baptized 9 September 1711. He married

1stly at Ross-on-Wye on 13 February 1737/8, Emelia

Bumford, by whom he had issue a son,

William, baptized at Ross-on-Wye 11

November 1739.

He married 2ndly on 24 May 1748 at Ross-on-Wye, Sarah

Keyse. It is possible that he and Sarah moved from Ross-

on-Wye to live elsewhere (perhaps to Hereford?).

1. Elizabeth, baptized 1 October 1704.



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2. Sarah, baptized 8 December 1706. She married

Thomas Palmer on 18 November 1733 at Ross-on-Wye.

3. Mary, baptized 12 December 1708.

4. Grace, baptized 30 August 1713. She married

Robert Morgan at Ross-on-Wye on 25 June 1737.

William Scudamore married 2ndly on 5 August 1714, Elizabeth Merrick

(buried at Ross-on-Wye on 7 January 1720/1), by whom he had issue, a

daughter,

5. Ann, baptized at Ross-on-Wye 14 August 1715.

William Scudamore married 3rdly at Ross-on-Wye on 15 June 1721, Mary

Price (buried at Ross-on-Wye on 21 December 1737). He died and was

buried at Ross-on-Wye on 22 April 1761.

4. Thomas, baptized 10 February 1688/9.

2. Grace, baptized 7 March 1685/6, who died young and was buried

at Ross-on-Wye on 24 Mary 1690.

3. Grace, baptized 8 January 1692/3.

5. William, of Goodrich, born about 1650. He was churchwarden at Goodrich with

Peter Pridmore (1684) and with John Miles (1694). He was joint executor with his sister Mary

of his father’s will. Unmarried, he was buried at Goodrich on 16 February 1715/6.

1. Mary, baptized 22 December 1635, who never married and was buried at

Goodrich on 20 April 1713.

2. Eleanor, baptized 25 May 1654. She was left a legacy of £30 in her father’s will

in 1687. It appears that she was unmarried and may have been the lady of her name who was

buried at Ross-on-Wye on 31 March 1742.



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FERNHURST, SUSSEX

This family, substantial yeomen in Sussex, has recently been found to have come out of out of one of the

families descended from Thruxton, Herefordshire (q.v.).

TXN [10] WALTER SKIDMORE, was born in the 1540's at Orcop, Herefordshire and was later a

yeoman at Fernhurst, Sussex. He was a son of John Skydmore (TXN [7]) of Bagwy Llydiart in Orcop,

Herefordshire. He was living as late as 30 May 1604 when he was a juror at the Assizes sitting at Eastbourne,

Sussex. He married 1stly _______ _______ by whom he had issue,

1. Robert, eldest son, baptized 5 November 1569, a yeoman at Midhurst, Sussex,

where he had the lease of certain chantry lands at Goldhorde in 1611. He married Anne

Albury (who survived him). His will is dated 10 August 1621 (proved 22 October 1621 at

Prerogative Court of Canterbury) and remembers his two brothers and two sisters (and their

families) and left benefactions to the churches of Midhurst, Fernhurst, and Cocking in Sussex,

and Haslemere and Thursley in Surrey. No issue.

12. 2. THOMAS, of whom further.

13. 3. Richard, baptized 28 December 1576. He is probably the man of his name who

had five children baptized at Fareham, Hampshire.

1. William, baptized 13 October 1605.

2. Richard, baptized 24 January 1620/1.

1. Ellen, baptized 24 May 1607.

2. Anne, baptized 24 August 1609.

3. Anne, baptized 3 December 1618.

14. 4. JOHN, of whom further.

1. Joan, baptized 2 February 1577/8. She married Thomas Heather on 6 November

1603 at Clanfield, Hampshire, and was living in 1621 when she is remembered in the will of

her brother Robert.

2. Alice, baptized 19 April 1582. She was living unmarried in 1621 when she had

the profits from lands at Goldhorde (in Midhurst) according to the terms of the will of her

brother Robert.

Mr. Skidmore married 2ndly Alice Chalcroft on 2 July 1582 at Lodsworth, Sussex, by whom he had,

3. Elizabeth, baptized 4 July 1585 at Fernhurst.

4. Joan, baptized 24 March 1587/8.

5. Ellen, baptized 10 July 1590.

He married 3rdly Agnes Hartley in 1596 at Fernhurst.

The 2nd son,

TXN [12]. THOMAS SKIDMORE baptized 1 December 1573 at Fernhurst. He married Joan Broman

on 21 October 1599 at Clanfield, Hampshire. He was living in 1621 when he is named in he will of his brother

Robert. He had three children christened at Fernhurst, but the birth of his older children will probably be found

elsewhere. Had issue, probably with others,

1. Hugh, baptized 14 June 1610.

2. George, baptized 3 May 1615.

3. Anthony, baptized 26 September 1621.

The 4th son of Walter Skidmore by an unknown wife,

TXN [14] JOHN SKIDMORE, baptized 5 August 1580. He married Joan Hartley on 22 July 1606 at

Fernhurst. He had his brother Robert's lands at Haslemere and Thursely subject to an annuity to be paid to his

sister-in-law Anne during her lifetime. Had issue,

1. Thomas baptized 26 April 1609 at Haslemere, Surrey. Probably died young.

1. Agnes, baptized 6 September 1607 at Fernhurst. She was living, a minor, in 1621

when she was an heir to certain rents at Midhurst in the will of her uncle Robert. She married



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Laurence Gibbens in 1627 at Fernhurst.

2. (probably) Mary, baptized 26 June 1614 at Fareham, Hampshire.

NOTES

JOHN SKIDMORE was a customary tenant in 1543 at Reigate, Surrey, where he held four acres of meadow

called Ashtread Mead worth 8sh 4d by the year. [Rent Roll from the Ashtead Manor Accounts.]

TXN [16]. THOMAS SKIDMORE, a blacksmith, married Joan Collins on 3 October 1624 at Fernhurst

and was living at that place at the time of the Protestation Return of 1642. He died in 1670 (will dated 25

August, proved 8 September) and his widow Joan a little later in the same year (will dated 5 December, proved

14 January 1670/1). Had issue, perhaps with others, christened at Fernhurst,

1. Joan, baptized 3 June 1625. She married William Osborne on 7 January 1646 at

Fernhurst.

2. Mary, baptized 21 May 1630. She married Edward Lindley in 1622 at St. Mary

Stoke Newington, London and was remembered (with her sons Thomas and Edward Lingley)

in her father's will dated 25 August 1670.

3. Elizabeth, baptized 7 September 1642. She married 1stly William Tribe on 10

November 1666 at Fernhurst and was named executrix and residuary heir of her mother on 5

December 1670.

TXN [17]. JOHN SKIDMORE married Elizabeth _______. He was a churchwarden at Fernhurst in 1642.

He had died before 1 January 1659/60 at Fernhurst, the day that his widow married 2ndly Nicholas Swann. The

admons on his estate was granted in 1662 the Consistory Court at Chichester to Elizabeth Swann alias

Skidmore. The following, christened at Haslemere, Surrey, may be part of his issue,

1. Thomas, baptized 25 March 1629/30.

1. Dorothy, baptized 25 February 1624/5.

ELIZABETH, daughter of JOHN and ELIZABETH SKIDMORE, was baptized 4 May 1646 at Fernhurst.

JANE SKIDMORE married Henry Stouall on 17 October 1664 at Thursley, Surrey.

PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND

Baldwin Skidmore, the ancestor of a large family found later at Alexandria, Virginia and in the District of

Columbia, was born on 2 June 1721 and baptized on 16 June in London as the son of Edward and Elizabeth

(_______) Skidmore at St. James, Westminster. While the immediate ancestry of his father Edward is unknown,

a DNA sample submitted by a descendant shows that this family came anciently out of Thruxton, Herefordshire

possibly with a longer interlude in London or one of the home counties.

TXN [30]. BALDWIN SKIDMORE, born on 2 June 1719 in London, came as an indentured servant

to Maryland. His master William Beall of Prince George's County, advertised for him as runaway English

servant aged about 27 years old in the Maryland Gazette dated 29 April 1746. He married Elizabeth _______

(who may have been living his widow in Fairfax County, Virginia, in 1782) by whom he had several children,

partly christened at the St John's Parish Church in Prince George's County. He is last noticed on 9 December

1765 when he had been jailed for debt. Baldwin Skidmore was then one of several prisoners languishing in jail

who agreed to surrender their estates, goods, and effects of any kind (excepting only the necessary wearing

apparel of themselves, their wives and children). They were also permitted to keep their working tools, and then



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after five days the sheriff of the county was ordered to discharge the prisoners and suffer them to go at large. In

addition to the children mentioned below a Melinda, Elizabeth and Ann Skidmore appear on the tax list of 1782

in Fairfax County, Virginia (together with Edward Skidmore), and they may also be part of his posterity. Had

issue,

31. 1. EDWARD, of whom further.

32. 2. Samuel, born 12 October 1763 according to the register of St. John's Parish. He

appears on the tax list of 1787 in Fairfax Parish, Fairfax County, Virginia, living close to his

older brother Edward. He appears to have had at least one son,

37. 1. Samuel, born 1800. He married lstly Julia Ann Cassin of

Alexandria on 14 August 1822 at Washington, D. C., and 2ndly Martha Ann

Soper (born 1813), a widow, on 12 September 1849 at Washington. He is

probably the man of his name who served in Company A of Hughes'

Regiment of the Maryland and District of Columbia Volunteers in the

Mexican War. He was living in the Sixth Ward of the District of Columbia

in 1850 (with his two Soper stepchildren). He was a wheelwright by trade

and died in September 1879 aged 80 in the District of Columbia. [His will

dated 9 January 1873, proved 21 November 1879, has not been seen.] Had

issue, as known,

1. Samuel, born 1857.

2. Martha E., born 1852. She married Wilbur Eglin of

the Metropolitan Police Force.

33. 3. (probably) William, born before 1770. He is first noticed at Alexandria, Virginia,

on 9 April 1803 when he was a bondsman at the marriage of Peter Chase and Eleanor

Smallwood. He married Catherine Robinson on 15 April 1814 at Alexandria; Jesse Robinson

was his bondsman. She was living, his widow, in 1840. Had issue, as known,

38. 1. Samuel Skidmore, born December 1815. He married Louisa (born

1818 in Wurtemburg, Germany) and they were living in 1850 at Alexandria.

He was a lock keeper there in 1860. In 1880 they are found at 1433 Ohio

Avenue in the District of Columbia. He died 23 July 1900 in Van Buren

Township, Monroe County, Indiana, aged 85. Had issue, five daughters; he

was also survived by two grandchildren Samuel Batt and Louisa Batt,

1. Mary A., born 1843.

2 Julia, born 1845. She married _______ Creamer.

3. Catherine, born 1848.

4. Henrietta, born 1850. She married Frank Jacobs.

5. Virginia, born 1852. She married John Scufferly.

39. 2. Washington, born 1815-20. He married Ann Paradise on 8 January

1835 at Washington, D. C. He was head of a family in the 1840 census close

to Catherine Skidmore (perhaps a widow and his mother).

1. A son, born 1820-25.

1. A daughter, born 1815-20.

2. A daughter, born 1825-30.

1. Verlinda, born 4 August 1757 according to the register at St. John's.

2. (perhaps) Melinda.

3. (perhaps) Elizabeth.

4. (perhaps) Ann.

The son,

TXN [31] EDWARD SKIDMORE was born in 1759 in southern Maryland according to his

descendants. He married Lydia Hall (who was born in 1760 and died in August or September 1814) and they

were living by 1782 in Fairfax County, Virginia where he was a carpenter. In the same year a Melinda,

Elizabeth and Ann Skidmore also appear on the same tax list, but not thereafter. In 1787 Edward Skidmore was

taxed on two horses and three cattle in Fairfax Parish; Samuel Skidmore (presumably his younger brother) was



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living nearby. On 28 February 1792 William Carlin and his wife Elizabeth granted to Edward and Lydia

Skidmore for 5 shillings, a tract of land Gerlying near Four Mile Run for an annual rent of £6 due yearly on the

1st of January in either gold or silver. Edward Skidmore was the head of a family in the 1820 census of

Alexandria (then a part of the District of Columbia), and died there on I February 1828 aged 69. His will (dated

30 December 1827 “in my usual, but delicate health”) mentions his sons Gerard, John, Lewis, Jesse, and Isaac,

and his daughters Ann Harris, Letitia Carlin, and Amelia Skidmore. It was witnessed by Wesley Carlin, Richard

Kirby, and John Gladen. The estate was settled in April 1828 and John Skidmore paid legacies to all of his

brothers and sisters except Isaac and Amelia. He also paid $15.00 to Harrison Bradley for the expenses of the

funeral. Had issue,

34. 1. Gerard (Jared), born about 1784. He married Mariah Richard on 27 April 1810.

Gerard Skidmore served as a private in the 57th Regiment of Virginia Militia in the War of

1812. They were living at Alexandria in 1820 (where he was head of a household joining his

brother Jesse) and again in 1830. In 1840 he was enumerated in Fairfax County, but was dead

before 12 October 1849 when Samuel Birch, Benjamin F. Shreve and S. L. Simmers were

appointed to appraise his estate. Had issue, as known,

1. William W., born 1821. He married Mary E. Howard (who was

still living his widow with her children in 1870 in Washington, D. C.). He

was a huckster in 1860 in Washington.

2. A son, born 1825.

1. Ann M., born 1811. She married William Tucker (born 1798) on I

December 1833. They were living in Alexandria in 1850; when he is noticed

as blind.

2. A daughter, born 1813.

3. A daughter, born 1815.

4. Mary E., born 1817. She was a teacher in the common schools at

Washington, D.C., in 1860 living at 518 8th Street West.

5. Sarah, born 1823. Living at home in Alexandria in 1850.

6. Octavia, born 1830. She married lstly Emanuel H. Boswell on 2

July 1858, and 2ndly (by 1870) D. C. Talbert, huckster in Washington, D. C.

2. John, born 1786. On 10 May 1833 he purchased 84 acres of land in Fairfax

County on the north side of the Middle Turnpike Road and the old Leesburg Road from John

Allison. This tract was part of a larger tract called Washington Forest and on 24 March 1837 it

was confirmed to him by another deed from George Washington Parke Custis; this deed was

witnessed by Samuel Skidmore and Tench Ringold. John Skidmore died in 1847; his will

dated 27 February divided his land on both sides of Middle Turnpike between his sister Milly

(Amelia) and his brother Isaac. Isaac Skidmore served as executor and the will was recorded

on 17 May 1847 in Fairfax County.

35. 3. Lewis (Reverend), born 1789. With the advice and consent of his father he

voluntarily put himself apprentice for four years to Lewis Piles on I 1 June 1805 to learn "the

Art, Trade and Mystery of a Blacksmith" promising that he would not haunt ale houses,

taverns, or playhouses, fornicate, or play at dice or cards. According to an autobiographical

statement in his will he was “born of His spirit in 1807” and became a preacher in the

Methodist denomination in 1812. He was the compiler of A choice of the latest social and

camp meeting hymns and spiritual songs published at Baltimore in 1825. He married Drucilla

W. Fennell (previously the widow of Edwin H. Pette or Petty) on 3 October 1831 in Charlotte

County, Virginia. He wrote from Mossingford, Virginia on 8 June 1853 to Dr. F. T. Stribling

at Staunton “& I have made arrangements for Mr. Tinsley to visit my dear son John, & if his

condition will justify, to try an excursion through the mountains.” He died in Charlotte

County on 8 October 1857 “aged 80”according to an obituary in the Western Democrat

survived by his widow and a son and daughter. A codicil to his will (dated 8 September 1857)

also left $500.00 to his stepson Dr. R. J. F. Pette, M.D., who was to serve as guardian to his

children and was to have his bay mare Topaz. Dr. Pette and his brother Isaac Skidmore were



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to serve as executors. Had issue,

1. John Fennell, born 1834. He was a patient in the Western State

Asylum at Staunton in Augusta County, Virginia, where he had died before

16 June 1859. On this date his mother Mrs. D. W. Skidmore testified that

her older son Dr. Peete had occasion to visit him twice “last fall” in his last

illness. M. B. Skidmore inherited her brother's interest in her father's estate;

a third of this was paid to D. W. Skidmore and the remaining two thirds

went to M. B. Skidmore.

1. Margaret Bedford, born 1840. She married Thomas A. Proctor on I

October 1859 in Charlotte County.

2. Lydia A., born 1845. She died in childhood.

36. 4. JESSE, of whom further.

5. Isaac., born 1796. He married Mary E. ________ (born 1822, died I June 1862 in

her 40th year). He was a fanner in 1850 in Fairfax County, and died (apparently without issue)

on I May 1883 in his 87th year. Tombstones were put up over his grave and the grave of his

wife by his niece Ann E. A. Carlin as directed by her will in 1892; they are buried in the Ball-

Carlin Cemetery at South Kensington and Third Streets in Arlington, Virginia.

1. Ann, eldest daughter, born 1792. She married William A. Harris on 8 May 1809

at Alexandria. They sold property to Jesse Skidmore on 4 February 1824 at Alexandria.

2. Letitia Margetta (Titia), born 1798. She married James Harvey Carlin (died 1845)

of Alexandria on 21 November 1821. [He was a son of George Washington’s tailor.] She died

on 5 March 1866 and they are buried (with several of their children) in Ball-Carlin Cemetery

in Arlington.

3. Amelia, born 1810. She was living unmarried at Alexandria in 1860 with her

widowed sister Letitia Carlin. She cared for her father in his old age, and was his principal

beneficiary. She died on 27 January 1867.

The 3rd son,

TXN [36]. JESSE SKIDMORE, born 19 February 1790. He married Sarah Boyd (born 20 July 1789,

died 10 June 1864) on 19 October 1815. They lived at Alexandria where he was a house carpenter. He was a

director of the King Street Fire Company from 1823 to 1827. He built a new house for himself at what is now

1024 Queen Street, and he is shown in the 1830 census as the head of a household of 14 people including four

young apprentices and three slaves. Jesse Skidmore was engaged by Major Lawrence Lewis to build a wall

about the vault where President George Washington is buried and to make other repairs at Mount Vernon. [His

letter about this contract is in the Manuscripts Division of the Library of Congress.] He signed a petition in 1848

against the building of a new courthouse on the grounds that it was not needed. His eldest six children

(including the twins Andrew F. and Emily C.) were all christened soon by their uncle Reverend Lewis

Skidmore. He died 23 December 1854 of paralysis and they are buried (with several of their children) in the

First Presbytertian Cemetery in Alexandria. His will left 10 parcels of real estate to his wife and children. Sarah

Skidmore left a will proved 5 March 1866 dividing her estate (including the family home near the southeast

comer of Queen and Henry Streets in Alexandria) between her two unmarried daughters Emily C. (the

executrix) and Maria L. Skidmore. Emily C. Skidmore bought the family home at auction, and left it at her death

to her nephew William Allen. With additions, it still stands and was renovated in 2005.

42. 1. JOHN WILLIAM, of whom further.

2. Lewis Edward, born 20 May 1823. He married Ann Elizabeth (born May 1828).

He is listed in the city directory of Washington, D. C., in 1860 at 675 12th West, but is not

enumerated there in the 1860 census. They were living at 1011 Cameron Street, Alexandria, in

1900. He died there on 24 July 1900, leaving no issue.

3. Andrew Fletcher, born 16 November 1826. He was a Third Corporal in the 175th

Regiment of Mount Vernon Guards (Captain William Smith's Company), and then in

Company E, 17th Regiment of Virginia Infantry (Corse's Brigade). Distinguished for gallantry

on the field, he was lolled at Yorktown on 2 May 1862.

4. Isaac P., born 16 January 1830. He died 17 April 1830, an infant.



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1. Ann Eliza, born 16 August 1816. She died 16 September 1827.

2. Maria L., born 17 September 1820. She died 6 September 1893 of consumption

and is buried with her parents in the First Presbyterian Cemetery in Alexandria.

3. Emily Charlotte, born February 1828. She never married and was living in 1900

at 204 Columbus Street, Alexandria, with her niece Mary D. Allen. She died 3 August 1911.

4. Mary Drucella, born 15 October 1831. She married William H. Allen on 1

October 1850 in the District of Columbia. She died on 8 March 1914 at Alexandria.

The eldest son,

TXN [42]. JOHN WILLIAM SKIDMORE, born 6 September 1818. He married on 4 February 1845

Mary Agnes (born 1825), daughter of Samuel Wimsatt (performed by Reverend Father Mathews). He was a

house carpenter at Alexandria in 1850 and died on 16 December 1865 “of drunkenness.” His widow survived

him for many years and was living in 1880 age 56, a teacher, in Washington, D.C. In 1900 she was at 213 Shore

Street, Petersburg, Dinwiddie County, Virginia living with her son-in-law Michael Gary. Had issue,

45. 1. John Samuel [alias Boyd Skidmore], born 8 December 1845. He was raised as a

Catholic and was a student in 1860 at St. Joseph's College at Reading, Perry County, Ohio.

Most of the students were from the south; it closed its doors in 1861 at the start of the Civil

War and John S. Skidmore returned to Alexandria where he enlisted in Company H, 6th

Regiment of Virginia Cavalry. He later became a Methodist and married Anna Amelia

Wilkins at Alexandria on 5 January 1873. An architect, he went soon after his marriage to

Williston, Fayette County, Tennessee (where he was living in 1880). He died 7 April 1890 at

Fort Smith, Arkansas, a suicide by morphine. His wife died soon after on 3 March 1891, aged

44. They had issue,

1. John Emil, born February 1876. He was living with his brother-in-

law James Rutledge in 1900 at Fort Smith. He married Katherine Mae

Faucette on 19 December 1901. She died in 1922 and he was killed in his

drugstore at Pensacola, Florida on 28 December 1937.

1. Mary Boyd, born 20 February 1874. She married James Allen Rutledge of

Fort Smith.

2. Jessica Steadman, born 28 March 1878. She was living with her brother- in-

law in 1900, but married 1stly Wallace Gill, and 2ndly William Lewie Foster in 1910.

She died 6 May 1958 at Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas.

NOTES

The unpublished records in Alexandria, the District of Columbia, and elsewhere, have not been seen.

TXN [40]. JOHN W. SKIDMORE, born 1780-90, was the head of a family in Fairfax County in 1820

living close to William Skidmore next above. He was a bondsman on 21 November 1821 at Alexandria at the

marriage of John D. Harrison and Elizabeth Carlin. He married (born about 1790) who was living recently

widowed at Alexandria in 1830. They appear to have had seven children born from about 1808 to 1830 in

Alexandria.

MELINDA, ELIZABETH and ANN SKIDMORE all appear on the 1782 tax list of Fairfax County. They are

not found thereafter.

JOHN W. SKIDMORE, born in May 1823. He married Mary E. Lightner on 5 March 1847 in the District of

Columbia. They were living there in 1900 at 120 Virginia Avenue, S.E. He was, no doubt, a son of the elder

John W. Skidmore noticed above.

TXN [43]. GEORGE SKIDMORE, born 1826 in the District of Columbia. He was probably a son of

the George Skidmore who married Sarah Gardner (noticed below); they had an older son not identified who was

born about 1824. George Skidmore, Jr., went to Ohio as a young man. He enlisted there for one year in

Company F, 2nd Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry on 3 June 1846 for service in the Mexican War. George



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Skidmore, a shoemaker, was living in 1850 in Jackson Township, Coshocton County, Ohio, in the household of

Samuel Gardner who was probably a kinsman. He married Eliza Simmons on I October 1854 in Athens County,

and they were living in 1860 at Savannah (post office Guysville) in Rome Township. George Skidmore, age 35,

enlisted as a Second Lieutenant on 19 August 1861 for three years at Athens, Athens County, Ohio, in Company

C, 18th Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry and was discharged on 3 January 1865 at Camp Chase for wounds

received at Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia. They had moved by 1880 to the village of Watkins, Mill Creek

Township, Union County, Ohio, where he was a shoe and bootmaker. (In 1880 he stated that his father was born

in Maryland and his mother in the District of Columbia.) He died 9 June 1881 and is buried in the Watkins

cemetery in Mill Creek Township. Had issue,

46. 1. John, born September 1855. He married Lydia J. Shoby and was living in 1900 in

Darby Township, Madison County, Ohio, and on Post Road in that county in 1920 and with a

son-in-law in 1930.

47. 2. George E., born August 1862. He married Alice R. in 1888. They were living in

1900 in Walnut Township, Pickaway County, Ohio, and in 1910 at Lithopolis, Bloom

Township, Fairfield County, Ohio, and on Marcy Road in that county in 1920.

48. 3. Emory, born November 1865. He married Viola R. Davis in 1891 and they were

living at Continental, Monroe Township, Putnam County, Ohio, in 1900.

4. Dawson, born 1873.

1. Sophia, born 1857.

2. Amanda, born 1859.

3. Helen, born 1868.

JOSHUA L. SKIDMORE, born 1827 in Virginia. He served in Company C of Watson’s Battalion of the

Maryland and District of Columbia Infantry in the Mexican War. He was living in the Fourth Ward of

Washington in 1850, unmarried and a carpenter by trade.

GEORGE W. SKIDMORE, born 10 August 1836 in Fairfax County. He was living in 1850 in the household of

James Danford (born 1791) and his wife Am (born 1797). This household was very close to that of JOHN W.

SKIDMORE (born May 1823) noticed above. In 1860 George Skidmore was employed as an engineer at the

Government Hospital for the Insane in Washington, and was working there in 1900 with his wife Josephine

according to the census.

The following persons married in the District of Columbia are unidentified. It is likely that a part of them belong

tothe family found earlier in STAFFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA (q.v.).

ANN SKIDMORE married Jacob Groves on 18 April 1850.

CATHERINE SKIDMORE married Arhot Croft on 29 August 1839.

COLUMBIA SKIDMORE married Washington Berry on 7 December 1854 according to the Planter’s Advocate

published at Upper Marlboro, Maryland.

TXN [41]. GEORGE SKIDMORE married Sarah Gardner on 23 September 1822. They are

probably parents of the GEORGE SKIDMORE of Athens County, Ohio, noticed above.

HENRY SKIDMORE, born 1820 in Virginia. He served in the District of Columbia Volunteers in the Seminole

War in Florida as a private, and later filed an invalid's certificate when he applied for a pension. He married

Matilda Smith on 17 April 1840. They were living in 1860 in the First Ward where he was a paperhanger.

JANE E. SKIDMORE married William L. Reese on 22 October 1839.

MARGARET SKIDMORE married Oxford Boucher on 27 July 1857. She was living, the head of a family, in

1860 in the Third Ward of Georgetown, D.C.

NANCY SKIDMORE married Rezin P. Taylor on 3 June 1851.

44. RAYMOND SKIDMORE was born in 1834 in the District of Columbia and married Mary Ann

Caulk (1838-1904) on 22 March 1855. He is not found in the 1850 census but in 1860 he and his wife Mary Ann



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were living at Lawrenceville, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, where he was a blacksmith. In 1861 they were

back in Washington, D. C., living at 488 E Street, South. They moved soon after to Parkersburg, Wood County,

West Virginia, where they lived for the rest of their lives. Raymond Skidmore had died before 11 January 1900

when the admons on his estate was appointed. He had a brother George Skidmore (of Athens County, Ohio?)

who served as a trustee for the two children of Raymond Skidmore on 22 November 1866 (abode unstated) in

Parkersburg.

REBECCA SKIDMORE married Henry Davis on 8 April 1815.

REBECCA SKIDMORE married Sanford Bayliss on 23 February 1830. See Sarah Skidmore, perhaps a sister.

SAMUEL SKIDMORE married Julia Ann Causine on 14 August 1822. She was a daughter of John Coseen of

Alexandria who remembers her in his will dated 29 August 1833.

SARAH SKIDMORE married Collin Bayliss on 6 August 1833. See Rebecca Skidmore, perhaps a sister.

WILLIAM SKIDMORE married Penelope Farr on 26 September 1812. He was presumably dead by 16

November 1820 when a Penelope Skidmore married Benjamin Crupper.

VIRGINIA F. SKIDMORE married John T. Burke on 16 December 1856. She is not found in the 1850 census.

Other unidentified Skidmores in Virginia:

JANE FRANCES SKIDMORE and James Donaldson, both of Fairfax, were married 19 September 1839.

SAMUEL SKIDMORE once owned lot E68 in the Union Cemetery of the Methodist Episcopal Church South in

Alexandria, Virginia. There are no stones on the lot.

In the absence of information regarding the descendants of his elder brother, Roger Scudamore, the

representation of the family is presumed to have passed to the posterity of the 3rd son of Richard Scudamore

(TXN [18], see p.7) by his wife Eleanor White,

ABL [1]. JAMES SCUDAMORE, of English Bicknor, Gloucestershire, baptized at Goodrich 3

October 1641. He married at English Bicknor on 10 April 1684 Mary (born 1657, buried there on 26 December

1707), a daughter of John and Mary Godwin of that place. On 13 April 1687 James Scudamore of English

Bicknor, and his younger brothers, Thomas and William, came to a court held for Goodrich and released their

interest in Huntsham, by an indenture, to John and Mary Scudamore and two other trustees. James was buried at

English Bicknor on 3 April 1726, having had issue (christened there),

2. 1. GODWIN, of English Bicknor and Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire, his heir, of

whom further.

2. Richard, baptized 17 March 1695, who died young and was buried at English

Bicknor on 17 April 1713.

1. Eleanor, baptized 26 April 1685.

2. Mary, baptized 21 September 1686, married at Walford on 6 August 1706 James

Jones and had issue.

The elder son,

ABL [2]. GODWIN SCUDAMORE, of English Bicknor and Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire, baptized

23 September 1690. He married at English Bicknor on 22 May 1727 Elizabeth Potter (born 1701, buried at

Abenhall, Gloucestershire, on 29 March 1774). On 2 February 1753 Godwin and Elizabeth Scudamore

purchased a messuage and half an acre of land in Mitcheldean called Cawnedge or Scult’s House (probably in

the vicinity of the present Cornage Farm), adjoining Lining Wood just within the parish of East Dean, from

William Philips of The Lea, Herefordshire. On 12 December 1754 they purchased a small holding of about 13

acres near Sollers Hope, Herefordshire, from Mark Watkins of Longhope. Mr. Scudamore died on 12 March

1778 aged 87 (although the inscription on the family tomb in Abenhall churchyard states that he was aged 93)

and was buried at Abenhall two days later. Had issue,

3. 1. JOHN, of Mitcheldean and Abenhall, his heir,

ancestor to the family at ABENHALL, GLOUCESTERSHIRE (see p.23).

4. 2. RICHARD, of Longhope, of whom further.



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The younger son,

ABL [4]. RICHARD SCUDAMORE, of Longhope, Gloucestershire, baptized 2 February 1731/2. He

married at Brockhampton in Woolhope, Herefordshire, on 21 June 1770 Ann Legeyt (who survived her husband

and married 2ndly (licence) at Abenhall on 14 July 1776 John Knight Hayward). Mr. Scudamore died when he

was only 40 years old and was buried at Longhope on 6 September 1772. In his will, dated 16 May (proved 22

September) 1772, he gives bequests to his brother John and to his nephews John and Richard Scudamore, and

leaves his real and personal estate, including land, barns and premises called Leynes (probably the present

Laine’s Farm near Lea Line) to his wife. He appoints his brother John the guardian of his child (or children)

should his wife marry again. It appears that Richard Scudamore had an only son,

7. 1. RICHARD SCUDAMORE, baptized at Longhope 28 May 1771. He married

(licence) at Abenhall on 20 June 1795 Lettice (baptized at Linton, near Ross-on-Wye, 10

August 1772), daughter of John and Sarah Bonnor of Linton. It seems likely that Richard and

Lettice moved from the Forest of Dean and probably settled in Cardiff where their posterity

eventually resided. Had issue,

1. John, baptized at Mitcheldean 27 September 1801. Mr. Scudamore

married although the name of his wife is not presently known. He was a

widower in April 1851 (called John Skidmore (LM)) when the census

returns for that year were taken; he was then living with his brother-in-law

and sister, Bartholomew and Sarah McLeod and their family, at 68 Great

Frederick Street, Cardiff. In the return Mr. Scudamore is stated as being a

coach painter. He may have been the man of his name who was accidentally

drowned by falling into the West Beck Docks, Cardiff, on 4 November 1858

described as a Dock Constable. It is not known if John Scudamore had

children.

15. 2. RICHARD, of Cardiff, of whom further.

1. Anne Hayward, baptized at Abenhall 18 May 1796.

2. Sarah, baptized at Mitcheldean 7 October 1803, married

Bartholomew McLeod, a tailor, on 4 May 1829 at Bedminster, Bristol. Mr.

and Mrs. McLeod were living with their four children in Great Frederick

Street, Cardiff, in 1851.

The younger son,

ABL [15]. RICHARD SCUDAMORE, of Cardiff, Glamorgan, baptized at Mitcheldean 21 July 1805.

He married Mary Emanuel (born 1805, who survived her husband and died in 1882) on 8 June 1828 at St.

Paul’s, Bristol.. Mr. Scudamore was a pilot based at the Bute Dock. He died at Cardiff on 8 May 1879, admons

being granted to his son John Bonnor Scudamore on 3 August 1883. Had issue (born at Cardiff),

35. 1. Richard, of Cardiff, born 1835. He married at Swansea parish church, 2 June

1857, Harriet (who survived her husband and married 2ndly at Cardiff on 21 May 1866 John

Louis Heins, a widower and shipping agent), a daughter of James Harris. Mr. Scudamore, a

mariner and pilot, died in his father’s lifetime on 19 February 1862, admons being granted to

his widow on 8 March of that year. Had issue,

1. Richard, born 1858, who died in infancy the following year.

2. John, born 1860, who died in infancy the same year.

3. Richard Roberts, born 1861, who died in infancy the following

year.

2. John, born 1837, who died an infant on 3 March 1840.

36. 3. JOHN BONNOR, of Cardiff, of whom further.

4. William Hayward, born 1845, who died in infancy the following year.

1. Lettice, born 1830. She married David Roberts in 1848.

2. Mary Ann, born 1833. She married Samuel Sage (born 1838), a master mariner, at

St. Mary’s, Cardiff, on 11 November 1863.

3. Sarah, born 1839, who died in infancy in 1841.

4. Louisa, born 1841. She married John Wedge in 1864.



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5. Mary, born 1847, who died in infancy in 1849.

The 3rd son,

ABL [36]. JOHN BONNOR SCUDAMORE, of Cardiff, born 1 March 1843. He was married at

Brislington, Somerset, (near Bristol) in 1869 to Sarah Jane Baker (born 1845, who survived her husband and

died in 1930). Mr. and Mrs. Scudamore were living at 5 South William Street, Cardiff, with their family in

1881. Mr. Scudamore, an accountant, died in 1914, having had issue,

1. John Wedge (a twin), born 1869, who appears not to have married and who died

at Carmarthen in 1908.

2. Richard (a twin), born 1869, who died in infancy in 1871.

80. 3. RUPERT STANHOPE, of Cardiff, of whom further.

4. Richard Edgar, born 1872, who died in infancy the following year.

81. 5. Richard Edgar, born 1878. He married at Cardiff on 3 January 1903 to Martha

(born 1882, who died in 1914), daughter of William Edward Kenny. Mr. Scudamore died in

1951, having had issue,

1. Doris Martha, born 3 April 1903. She was married in 1952 to

Gilbert Sefton.

2. Mary Agnes, born 12 May 1904, who died in infancy the same

year.

82. 6. Ralph Roberts, of Pontypridd, Glamorgan, born 1883. He married in 1911 at

Cardiff, Lucy M. B. Randall (who survived her husband and married 2ndly in 1928, Robert H.

Pritchard). Mr. Scudamore died in 1926, leaving issue,

126. 1. John Bonnor, born 1914. He married in 1936, Doris D. Price (who

survived her husband and married 2ndly in 1945, Harry Hargreaves). He

served with a Parachute Regiment in World War II. Shortly after the end of

the war, in 1945, he was training a squad of young men when his parachute

failed to open and he was killed. Had issue, two sons.

127. 2. Roy William, of Rugby, South Africa, born 1918. His enjoyment

of music led him to join the Royal Naval School of Music at the age of 14,

in 1932. He served for 16 years with the Band of the Royal Marines. After

his discharge, in 1948, he entered the civil service at Llanishen, South

Glamorgan, where he stayed for 18 years before being transferred to Slough,

Berkshire. In 1972 he and his wife and son emigrated to South Africa. He

married 1stly on 30 April 1942 Noreen Gough (who died in 1948), and

2ndly in 1949 Anastasia _____ by whom he has issue a son.

7. Mary Louise, born 1873. Unmarried in 1901.

8. Florence May, born 1876. She married Arthur Edwin Gulston, a tailor (born

1874/5 in Ireland) in Cardiff in 1899 and was living at 26 Hanover Street, Canton, Cardiff in

1901.

The 3rd son,

ABL [80]. RUPERT STANHOPE SCUDAMORE, of Cardiff, born 1871. He married at Keynsham,

Somerset, in 1903, Margaret Gardner (born April 1879, who survived her husband and died at Cardiff in 1967).

Mr. Scudamore died in 1920, having had issue,

125. 1. RUPERT KENNETH, of whom further.

1. Margaret May, born 26 March 1904, who died unmarried in 1980.

2. Ethel Frances, born 1905. She married in 1934.

3. Constance Madge, of Rumney, Cardiff, born 1915. She married 1stly in 1941

Laurence G. Watkins, and 2ndly in 1950 John G. Cattley (both marriages were dissolved). She

died on 15 June 1986.

The only son,

ABL [125]. RUPERT KENNETH SCUDAMORE, born 1908. He married in 1939 Marjorie Edith Curle

(born 6 June 1913, died in 1985) by whom he had issue, 3 sons.



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NOTES

The admons of RICHARD SKIDMORE of Hentland, Herefordshire, was given at the Prerogative Court of

Canterbury on 2 August 1660 to LODOVICK (LEWIS) SKIDMORE, his brother. Lewis Skidmore was not

assessed in Herefordshire in 1663 and perhaps lived elsewhere.

SIBYL SCUDAMORE was buried 4 February 1681/2 at Goodrich, Herefordshire.



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ABENHALL, GLOUCESTERSHIRE

The ancestors of the family at Abenhall will be found earlier at THRUXTON, HEREFORDSHIRE (noticed

elsewhere), a branch of the family anciently at Kentchurch.

ABL [3]. JOHN SCUDAMORE, of Mitcheldean and Abenhall (elder son of Godwin Scudamore

(ABL [2], see p.19) by his wife Elizabeth Potter), was baptized on 10 October 1729 at English Bicknor,

Gloucestershire. He married 1stly on 15 December 1749 at St. Nicholas’ Church, Gloucester, Anne Wellington

of Lea, Herefordshire (who was buried at Lea on 25 August 1750). He married 2ndly (licence) at Abenhall on 5

January 1750/1 Elizabeth Voyce of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, who was born about 1722. (She survived him

and was buried at Abenhall on 7 January 1808 aged 86 according to the inscription on the family tomb in the

churchyard). On 16 November 1770 he purchased a cottage with a garden and stables at the corner of the lane

leading to the Forest of Dean at Abenhall from William Vaughan (and William his son) which had formerly

belonged to Charles Walding. Mr. Scudamore died at Abenhall on 6 April 1796 and was buried there three days

later, having had issue,

5. 1. JOHN, of Flaxley, of whom further.

6. 2. RICHARD, of Abenhall, to whom we will return.

1. Elizabeth, baptized at Mitcheldean 20 September 1752.

2. Mary, baptized at Abenhall 8 December 1760. She married at Mitcheldean on 13

May 1789, Thomas Harris, of Longhope, Gloucestershire.

3. Hannah, baptized at Abenhall 26 February 1765. She married at English Bicknor

in August 1786, Joseph Young.

4. Sarah, baptized at Abenhall 9 March 1771. She married (licence) at Mitcheldean

on 15 August 1788, William Mayo.

The elder son,

ABL [5]. JOHN SCUDAMORE, of Flaxley and Boxbush Farm, Longhope, baptized at Mitcheldean

1 May 1754. He married (licence) at Flaxley on 6 January 1785, Mary, the daughter of George and Mary Martin

of Flaxley (baptized at Flaxley 16 August 1763, who survived her husband and died 5 January 1852 and was

buried at Longhope five days later). In her will dated 23 August 1850 (proved 28 July 1852) she directs that her

property at Ruardean and Mitcheldean be sold and that the proceeds be divided among her five children. Mr.

Scudamore died on 7 May 1840 and was buried five days later at Longhope. In his will, dated 23 August 1839

(proved 30 May 1840), he leaves his freehold farm at Boxbush of 47 acres to his son, Richard.

8. 1. JOHN, of Flaxley, of whom further.

9. 2. Richard, of Upper Boxbush Farm, Longhope, baptized at Flaxley 10 February

1793. He married (licence) at Abenhall 7 June 1820, his cousin Charlotte, the youngest

daughter of Richard and Sarah Scudamore of Abenhall (who survived her husband and was

buried aged 88 at Abenhall on 25 February 1887). Mr. Scudamore died on 16 May 1879 (will

dated 4 June 1878, proved 4 July 1879), and was buried four days later at Longhope. Had

issue, christened at Longhope,

19. 1. George of Bradley House Farm, Longhope, baptized 26 November

1820. He married in 1847, Martha, daughter of John and Anne Drinkwater

(born about 1821, who survived him and died at Newent on 24 August

1881, buried at Longhope seven days later). In her will dated 11 July 1877

(proved 30 September 1881) she left her estate to her three surviving child-

ren, the eldest of whom she appoints executrix. Mr. Scudamore died in his

father’s lifetime on 10 November 1871 and was buried at Longhope five

days later. In his will, dated 26 October 1866 (proved 9 January 1872) he

leaves his estate to his wife, who he appoints executrix. Had issue,

1. Charlotte Ann, baptized at Longhope 15 April 1849.

She married in September 1881 Frank Robert Savidge.

2. Martha, baptized at Longhope 22 May 1851. She



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died in infancy and was buried at Abenhall on 5

September 1854.

3. Sarah Ann, baptized at Longhope 6 March 1853.

She married in 1871 William Dodds of Tibberton,

Gloucestershire.

4. Martha Ann, born 1855. She married on 12 April

1881 at Longhope George William Crook, a farmer of

Newent.

2. Richard, baptized 24 July 1831. He was unmarried and died in

1869.

1. Anne, baptized 6 October 1822. She married (licence) at Longhope

on 18 June 1849, Thomas Drinkwater, of Lea, Herefordshire.

2. Charlotte, baptized 22 June 1828. She married in 1855 Alfred

William Kitsell, of Gloucester (who died in 1899). Mrs. Kitsell was buried

at Longhope on 27 September 1886.

3. Sarah, baptized 17 October 1834. She died in infancy and was

buried at Abenhall on 22 October of the same year.

1. Sarah, baptized at Flaxley 16 January 1789. She married (licence dated 11 April

1812) Robert Crook of Huntley.

2. Mary, baptized at Flaxley 4 December 1796. She married Samuel Smith and was

living his widow in 1850.

3. Ann, baptized at Longhope 8 June 1806. She married (licence 9 July 1853) Harry

Greens, of Newent, Gloucestershire.

The elder son,

ABL [8]. JOHN SCUDAMORE, of Moors Farm, Flaxley, baptized at Flaxley 14 August 1786. He

married Sarah ________ (born 1789, she survived him and died 21 January 1866). In her will dated 18 January

(proved 18 May) 1866 she leaves her small holding at Lea Bailey for the benefit (after sale) of four of her

children (named), and nominated her brother-in-law Harry Greens as her executor. Mr. Scudamore in his will

dated 6 October 1853 (proved 25 March 1854) left his freehold property at Green Bottom in East Dean

Township to his second son John, and his freehold and leasehold property at Lea Line within the manor of

Longhope to his youngest son Richard. He also devises to his same two sons his small holdings at Mill Green in

East Dean to be held in trust for his married daughters Mary Wintle and Sarah Ann Smith and their

grandchildren. He appoints his wife Sarah his executrix, and left her his farm and associated property called The

Moors in Flaxley. After her death The Moors was to go to his six children (named) subject to the payment of

£100 to his son John. Mr. Scudamore died on 10 October 1853 and was buried at Flaxley four days later, having

had issue,

17. 1. GEORGE, of Barrow-in-Furness, of whom further.

18. 2. JOHN, of Littledean and Lea Bailey (in East Dean), of whom presently.

3. Richard, of Hazelhurst Farm, Walford, Herefordshire, baptized at Littledean 13

July 1828. He married 1stly in 1859 Mary Ann Merrett (born 1825 at Abenhall, and buried

there on 31 January 1868). He married 2ndly in 1869 Margaret Smith (born 1833, a widow

with children by her previous marriage, who survived her husband and died on 20 July 1893).

Her will (dated 7 July, proved 10 November 1893) names her daughter Hilda Margaretta Read

and her niece Martha Ann Read to whom she makes bequests. Mr. Scudamore died

(presumably without issue) on 28 August 1887. In his will (dated 14 August 1875, proved 24

February 1888) he leaves his freehold and copyhold property to his wife Margaret, and then in

default of issue to his brothers and sisters (named) and to his niece Martha Ann Drinkwater.

4. Joseph, baptized at Littledean on 29 August 1830. He died in infancy and was

buried at Flaxley on 1 September 1830.

1. Sarah Ann, baptized at Lea on 26 May 1822. She married (licence) on 29

September 1846, at Lea, William Smith of Westbury Grove.

2. Hannah, born 1823. She married at Flaxley on 11 August 1840 John Merrett of



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Arlingham, Gloucestershire.

3. Mary, born about 1827. She married (licence) on 4 May 1848 at Flaxley Thomas

Wintle of Taynton, Gloucestershire.

The eldest son,

ABL [17]. GEORGE SCUDAMORE, of Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire, baptized at Longhope 6

August 1820. He married (licence) on 10 November 1854 at St. Nicholas’ church, Gloucester, Mary Bamford of

Newnham, Gloucestershire, (born 1837, who survived her husband and died at Barrow-in-Furness in 1899). Mr.

Scudamore (who worked on the railways) was living in Penrith Street, Barrow, in 1881, and at 10 Glasgow

Street at his death on 30 January 1886. (His admons granted on 16 September 1901 to his son John Thomas

Scudamore because the widow Mary had died without administering her late husband’s personal estate.) Had

issue,

37. 1. JOHN THOMAS, of Barrow, of whom further.

2. Joseph, of Preston, Lancashire, born 1859. He married at Lytham, Lancashire, on

21 October 1895 Margaret (born 1844 who survived him and died in 1925), the widow of

_______ Wilding and a daughter of George Langton. Mr. Scudamore died in 1916 without

issue.

3. George, of Barrow, born 1864. Presumably unmarried, he died in 1945.

4. Richard, born 1867. He died in 1877.

1. Sarah Ann, born 1861. She died unmarried at Barrow in 1953.

2. Mary (Polly), born 1869. She married on 15 June 1889 John Taylor.

The eldest son,

ABL [37]. JOHN THOMAS SCUDAMORE, of Barrow-in-Furness, born 1856. He married on 11

August 1877 Harriet Jones (born 1859 and died in 1892). Mr. Scudamore died in 1929 having had issue,

1. John William, born at Barrow in 1878. He died in infancy in 1882.

83. 2. RICHARD, of Bootle, of whom further.

1. Louisa, born 1883. She married in 1910 Arthur Allen and was living in 1957 at

Dale Bank, Barrow.

2. Hannah, born 1884. She married on 24 December 1910 Frederick Colin Banks.

3. Harriet, born 1892. She married in 1913 John Wadeson.

4. Doris, born 1894. She died unmarried on 4 March 1957, admons being granted to

her sister Louisa Allen on 17 May of that year.

The surviving son,

ABL [83]. RICHARD SCUDAMORE, of Bootle near Barrow, born 1882. He married in 1903 Emily

Moss (born 1883 who survived her husband and died in 1943). Mr. Scudamore died in 1928, having had issue,

1. William, born 1903. He died in infancy the same year.

128. 2. JOHN THOMAS, of whom further.

129. 3. Joseph, born 1908. He married in 1931 Margaret Standing. He died in 1952

leaving issue, an only son.

130. 4. John, of Barrow, born 27 May 1912. He married in 1936 Alice Bradley and died

in 1978 leaving issue, 2 sons and a daughter.

131. 5. Richard, born 1 February 1915. He married in 1947 Mary V. Queen and died in

1978 having had issue, a daughter.

6. George, born 1920. He died in infancy the following year.

7. Norris, born 1924.

1. Mary, born 1904. She married in 1923 Francis Cloudsdale.

2. Emily, born 1918. She married in 1937 Albert Helling.

The eldest surviving son,

ABL [128]. JOHN THOMAS SCUDAMORE, of Bootle and Barrow, born 1906. He married in 1929

Lily M. Whitten. Mr. Scudamore died in 1954 having had issue, 3 sons and 5 daughters.

The 2nd son of John Scudamore (ABL [8]) of Moors Farm by his wife Sarah,

ABL [18]. JOHN SCUDAMORE, of Littledean and Lea Bailey (in East Dean), Gloucestershire,



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baptized 4 August 1825 at Lea. He married in the 1840s Mary Ann (born 1823/4, who died in 1902), daughter of

Thomas Gibbs, of Littledean. Mr. Scudamore, a farmer, died 25 January 1907. His will is dated 12 December

1902 (proved 7 August 1907) and left his estate to his son Richard and legacies to four of his other children

(named). Had issue,

1. John Gibbs, born at Littledean about 1845. He was aged 16 in 1861 when the

census return for that year was taken.

38. 2. Thomas Walter, baptized at Abenhall 24 July 1853. He married Mary Jamieson

Murray at Bathwick, Bath, Somerset, on 25 September 1873. He was a member of the staff of

the Grand Pump Hotel in Bath in 1881, and later kept a lodging house at Bathwick. He died at

Ross-on-Wye in 1937. Had issue,

1. John William Murray, born at Bath on 8 July 1874.

1. Beatrice, born at Bathwick on 15 February 1882.

3. George, of Lea Bailey, baptized at Abenhall 14 November 1855. He married on

29 August 1898 at Hereford Elizabeth Davies (died 25 December 1937). In her will (dated 9

December 1937, proved 3 March 1938) she gave legacies to her married nieces Beatrice

Campbell and Elizabeth Baldwin. Mr. Scudamore died without issue on 5 January 1938

(admons granted to his niece, Beatrice Campbell, on 17 February of that year).

39. 4. JOSEPH, of Cardiff, Glamorgan, of whom further.

40. 5. Richard, of Lea Bailey, born at Lea Hamlet in 1867. He married on 5 March 1898

at St. Paul’s Church, Gloucester, Emma (born 1864, who died in 1921), a daughter of John

Waite. Mr. Scudamore died 22 September 1934. His will (dated 31 July 1930, proved 9

October 1934) left his real and personal estate to his elder daughter Margaret Charlotte

Bennett and legacies to his younger daughter Dorothy Sarah (then unmarried) and to his

grand-daughter Edith Sarah Bennett. Had issue,

1. Margaret Charlotte, born 1899. She married in 1924 Alfred G.

Bennett.

2. Dorothy Sarah, born 1902. She married in 1930 George H. Russell.

1. Mary, baptized at Littledean 27 May 1852. She died in infancy the same year.

2. Sarah, baptized at Abenhall 24 July 1853. She married at St. Paul’s, Gloucester,

27 October 1903 Charles Rudge.

3. Mary Ann, baptized at Abenhall on 25 April 1858. She married William Parry (a

widower) in December 1893 at Lea. She was living in 1902 when she is named in her father’s

will.

The 4th son,

ABL [39]. JOSEPH SCUDAMORE, of Cardiff, Glamorgan, baptized at Abenhall 4 October 1861,

married at Cardiff on 12 July 1888 Mary Rebecca Read (born 1869, died 1960), a daughter of John Bass, of

Roath, Cardiff. Mr. Scudamore, who worked for the railway, retired to live at Pen-y-coedcae (near Pontypridd)

and died on 14 March 1944. In his will (dated 20 July 1936, proved 16 Mary 1944) he leaves his estate to his

wife and appoints his daughter, Louisa, sole executrix. Had issue born at Cardiff,

84. 1. JOSEPH WILLIAM, of Cardiff and Pontypridd, of whom further.

85. 2. Richard George, of Pontypridd, born 8 August 1897. He married in 1926

Margaret Bullivant. Mr. Scudamore died in 1972 having had issue, 2 sons and 2 daughters.

86. 3. Thomas Ivor, of Pontypridd, born 13 March 1899. He married in 1921 Margaret

E. Watts (born 6 October 1899, died 1977). Mr. Scudamore died on 18 September 1978

having had issue an only son.

87. 4. John Edward Victor, of Tynant (near Pontypridd), born 1 February 1901. He

married in 1936 Madge Walkerly (born 1900, who died in 1937). Mr. Scudamore died on 7

July 1980, leaving issue an only son.

88. 5. Hubert Norman, of Pontypridd and Beddau, Glamorgan, born 25 October 1906.

He married in 1934 Gwen Maher and has issue, 2 sons.

1. Mary Ann, born 1890. She died in infancy the following year.

2. Alice Beatrice, born 1891.



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3. Lillian, born 1893. She married in 1935 Arthur S. Wilson.

4. Susannah, born 1895. She married in 1935 John J. Craigie.

5. Louisa (a twin), born 10 April 1904. She married on 8 September 1945 John

Dennis Griffiths.

6. Olive (a twin), born 10 April 1904. She died in infancy in 1905.

The eldest son,

ABL [84]. JOSEPH WILLIAM SCUDAMORE, of Cardiff and Pontypridd, born 4 September 1888.

He married in 1916 Sarah M. Owens (born 1891 who died in 1967). Mr. Scudamore died in 1958 having had

issue, 6 sons and 2 daughters.

For the descent of the family at Abenhall, Hentland, Herefordshire, and subsequently of Gallatin County,

Illinois, it is necessary to return to,

ABL [6]. RICHARD SCUDAMORE, of Abenhall (the 2nd son of John Scudamore (ABL [3]) of

Mitcheldean and Abenhall by his wife Elizabeth Voyce) baptized at Mitcheldean 24 January 1758. He married

at Abenhall on 13 February 1784 Sarah Nelmes (born about 1766, who survived her husband and died on 25

November 1843 and was buried at Abenhall four days later). Mr. Scudamore died on 19 May 1829 and was

buried three days later at Abenhall. In his will (dated 7 April 1827, proved 11 July 1829) it appears that he

acquired by inheritance, and also doubtless by purchase, several small holdings within the parishes of

Mitcheldean and Abenhall (or vicinity). He devises these properties to his wife and children and he appoints his

wife and his son Joseph as executors. The family grave at Abenhall, adjacent to that of his grandparents, has

memorials inscribed to his wife and himself on the south-facing panel. Had issue, christened at Abenhall,

1. Richard, of Westbury-on-Severn and Abenhall, baptized 30 August 1789. His

father, in his will, left him a small holding in Mitcheldan parish called Skult’s House (a

property acquired by his great-grandfather, Godwin Scudamore, in 1753), as well as a legacy

of £40 and some of his father’s personal effects, including two hogsheads, a barrel and a

kilderkin. His father made a provision in his will that should Richard not have children then

Skult’s House is to go to his brother Joseph. Richard Scudamore did not marry; he died on 4

March 1860 and was buried at Abenhall four days later.

10. 2. JOHN, of Abenhall, of whom later.

3. Thomas, of Vandalia, Gallatin County, Illinois, baptized 12 May 1793. In 1819 he

and his brothers George and Philip emigrated to the United States, embarking in the spring of

that year. Thomas Scudamore died unmarried of fever at Vandalia on 10 September 1820. He

and his brother Philip are remembered in an inscription incised on the west-facing side of their

father’s tomb at Abenhall in the churchyard.

11. 4. JOSEPH, of Pengethley, Herefordshire, baptized 5 July 1795. He was the

ancestor to the family at HENTLAND, HEREFORDSHIRE (see p.38).

12. 5. GEORGE, of Gallatin County, Illinois, baptized 15 October 1797. He

emigrated (with his brothers Thomas and Philip) to the United States in 1819. In a letter

(written on 29 April 1823 in Gallatin County) to his brother John at Abenhall he breaks the

news of the deaths of their brother Thomas from fever and of the loss of their married brother

Philip from the same complaint. George says of himself that he had suffered two bouts of

fever from which he thought that he would not recover, but he has not written any of this to

his parents so as not to distress them. He ends by saying that he expects to see his brother John

in 12 months time. George’s father in his will leaves him a legacy of £40 with the proviso that

if he pre-deceases his mother or does not return to England within three years of her death

then the legacy is to be paid to the testator’s grandson, John Scudamore son of Ann

Drinkwater. Mr. Scudamore died on 27 November 1841 leaving issue four sons and three

daughters in GALLATIN COUNTY, ILLINOIS (see p.50).

13. 6. Philip, of Albion, Edwards County, Illinois, baptized 29 March 1800. A black-

smith, he emigrated to the United States with his brothers Thomas and George in 1819 and

settled in the English settlement at Albion. He married on 8 February 1820 Ann Drinkwater (a

native of Lincolnshire) who was brought to Albion by Mr. Flower who founded the English



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colony there. She was previously the widow of _______ Stone and married 3rdly Moses

Smith (born 1795, died 1854) of Albion on 16 December 1822 in Edwards County by whom

she had other children; she died 6 December 1859. Philip died of fever on 1 May 1822,

leaving (according to the admons on his estate) an acre lot in Albion where he had his smithy

and a small amount of personal property. Had issue an only son,

34. 1. Thomas E., of Princeton, Gibson County, Indiana, born 4

December 1820. He married on 25 April 1843 Jane Pickford (who is noted

in the 1870 census as born in England and aged 46). He was a harness

maker by trade and had died before 15 September 1856 when the

guardianship of his four minor children was given to their grandmother and

step-grandfather. Had issue (the three eldest born at Albion),

1. George, born 1848. He was living at Princeton,

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