- Volume 3 Number 1
- Winter 1986
- American Ethnicity
- Ancient Skinner Lines
- Myrtle S. Bohme Lineage
- Clan MacGregor
- Cook Co., IL Census
- Cook Co., IL Wills
- Thelma C. (Browning) Dalberg Lineage
- Dead Briton - KGB
- Debrett Update
- Elephant two-step
- Guild of One Name Studies
- History of Eugene, Oregon (Chapter 1)
- Letter From the Editor
- Medical Quirks
- miscSKlNNERlaneous
- New Jersey Settlers
- New Jersey Update
- Off Broadway
- Passages
- Queries
- Resources
- Skinner-Hope Family Record
- Jane Skinner Obituary
- John Skinner of Woodbridge
- Josiah Skinner Will
- Robert Skinner Line
- William Skinner Lineage
- Skinner Places
- Skinner Variants
- Skinner's a hit
- Vision Quest
- Worshipful Company of Skinners
- Winter 1986
Thanks to William Weiler for transcription of this article.
from Matthews' American Armory and Blue Book
contributed by Fran McKay
The Skinner line of John Skinner of Woodbridge (incorrectly printed as "Hoodbridge"), NJ to the 6th generation - Henry Whipple Skinner - who according to Matthews American Armory (page 222) was given the right to use the Scottish Skinner Coat of Arms that my Skinner line claimed to be theirs, and that the descendants of Robert Skinner (see above), an early Maryland settler with Leonard Calvert, had engraved on all their antique silver as well.
If we and they are descended from the father of BOTH Thomas of Malden and John of Essex (provided he is also this John of Woodbridge, NJ), then all descendants of Thomas and John will be able to prove OUR right to this coat of arms as well as to the fact that our ancestors were the Scotch Clansmen my family insisted they were.
This line from John Skinner of Woodbridge, NJ (John of Essex?) is as follows:
1. John Skinner of Woodbridge, NJ c1600's. (Is he John of Essex and Brother of Thomas of Malden?) (Highly improbable, see editor's note, below.)
2. (prob) Richard Skinner - b c1705 d 1772 NJ.
- 3. Daniel Skinner - b c1759
- m 1789 Elizabeth Todd.
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- 4. Richard Skinner of Ohio b c1790
- m c1818 Catherin C. Hurin.
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- 5. Lieut. Edwin A. Skinner - 1822-1876 - Lieutennant and Quartermaster, 10th Michigan Infantry Regt;
- m c1850 Catherine S. 1830-1881 daughter of Major John Whipple.
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- 6. Henry Whipple Skinner of Detroit NI- b 8 June 1852;
- m 25 June 1892, Henrietta C., daughter of Richard H. Dana of Boston, MA.
7. Richard Dana Skinner b 21 April 1893, Detroit, MI.
Editor's note:
The above information supplied by Fran McKay was obtained from Matthews' American Armory. Mrs. McKay believes the second line, that of John Skinner of Woodbridge, (Woodbridge may be incorrectly listed by Matthews as Woodbridge) may be of the line of John of Essex, and that 1 John is possibly the brother of Thomas of Malden.
Based on the birth date given by Matthews of 2 Richard - 1705, It is highly inconceivable that 1 John was born c1600. I believe that 1 John's birthdate would be closer to 1680. If this is the case, then there exists the possibility that this I John may be the son of Richard Skinner and Susannah Poulain. Can anyone prove or disprove this theory? (E85.1231.02)