- Volume 2 Number 3
- Summer 1985
- Letter From the Editor
- Albert C Skinner Obituary
- Debrett Ancestry Search
- Ethnic Skinners
- Gasoline Alley
- Dolorose Skinner Legutki Celebration
- miscSKINNERlaneous
- NY, Sherburne
- Summer 1985
- Christ's Church Cemetery
- PA, Mill Run
- Skinner Family
- Queries
- Resurgence
- S.A.L.E.
- Resurgence
- Skinner Allied Lines Exchange
- Scot's Skinner Reminisces
- Skinner - Davis Scrapbook
- Skinner Kinsmen Letter
- Skinner Name of Scottish Origin
- Skinner Settlement
- John Skinner's Will
- Truck Driving Granny
- Skinner - Davis Scrapbook
Thanks to William Weiler for transcription of this article.
It's done! Thanks to the perseverance of Fran McKay, we have completed the 'translation' of the will of John Skinner of Debden. You'll recall that I found an LDS listing for a birth of a Thomas Skinner 6 April 1618, son of a John Skinner of Debden, Essex, England.
In an attempt to find father John Skinner, we located a will for a John Skinner, no connection yet. A fearless team of Skinner researchers - Sande Skinner, Chicago, IL; Genevieve Copley, Tucson, AZ; Pat Nurre, Hardin, MT; and I set out to decipher the script which had been written over 350 years ago.
Most of us got past the first page - large script, but the other 4 pages were a dickens to read. Armed with what we already had, Fran McKay (Comstock Park, MI) jumped in and pulled us all through to completion.
This John did have a son Thomas, as well as a son John, 2 daughters Ann and Jane, and wife Elinor. Armed with this info, we're now In the process of searching English records for any other information.