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Mary Ann (Jeffers) Skidmore

Mary Ann (Jeffers) Skidmore

Posted: 14 Oct 2001 6:40AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 17 Dec 2001 8:35PM GMT
Surnames: Jeffers and/or Skidmore
I am interested to know if there is a possible familial connection because my GR GR grandmother was Vera Jeffers (her father was Harvey Jeffers).They were from Nova Scotia, possibly Newville. Her sisters were Doris,Laurie and Violet and she had a brother named Cecil. She married my grandfather, Harry Edward Tyrrell, in Nova Scotia. My grandfather's sister, Eva Tyrrell, married a Skidmore. You can see where I am seeing a possibility. It may be a far reach but one never knows? Anything you can tell me would be appreciated.

Re: Mary Ann (Jeffers) Skidmore

Kathryn (View posts)
Posted: 14 Oct 2001 5:17PM GMT
Classification: Query
Was your Vera Jeffers born on or around 2 Oct. 1897, daughter of Harvey and Ida (Dodge) Jeffers. If so then Mary Ann (Jeffers) Skidmore will be Harvey Grandaunt. And I will be more than happy to trade information.

Re: Mary Ann (Jeffers) Skidmore

Posted: 14 Oct 2001 6:33PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 17 Dec 2001 8:35PM GMT
Surnames: Jeffers Skidmore
Thanks for your reply, Kathryn.Yes, Ida Dodge was my gr.gr.grandmother. I only have her name in information given me by my aunt, Norma (Tyrrell)Heeg. Most of the info. I have is about the Tyrrells from Newville. I'm new at this so it was exciting to get a reply .

Re: Mary Ann (Jeffers) Skidmore

Wm Frank Skidmore (View posts)
Posted: 3 Nov 2001 5:23PM GMT
Classification: Query
Below are extracts re Nova Scotia Skidmores and Eva Tyrrell. These are taken from "Thirty Generations of the Scudamore/Skidmore Family in England and America," by Warren Skidmore, (1st edition, 1997), 579 p.

This book is one of seven included on our CD which is described at www.skidmoregenealogy.com

The New York family from which this Nova Scotia family probably descends has been traced by DNA back to England and the Domesday Book in 1086.

Participation in this DNA testing by a male Skidmore from this Nova Scotia family could very well tie their ancestry to the New York family and the year 1086.

I can provide details re DNA testing by the firm we use in Houston, Texas.

Wm Frank Skidmore
267 Golf Course Lane
Winchester, TN 37398
skidwf@earthlink.net
www.skidmoregenealogy.com
Tel 931-967-2589



It is now necessary to return to the younger son of William Skidmore, Sen., by his wife Isabel Mills,
WILLIAM SKIDMORE, JR., was baptized 17 July 1803. He married Mary Ann (born about 1808, died 13 March 1886), a daughter of John Jesse Jeffers of Parrsboro (of a family formerly of Rhode Island) on 14 November 1826. He was taxed 1sh on 6 December 1827 in the Middle District at Parrsboro. He had a deed from his father in 1831 for 250 acres and lived at Sugar Hill (now Canaan Mountain) in Cumberland County where he died on 16 October 1883. Had issue,
1. WILLIAM HENRY, of whom further.
2. JOHN JESSE, to whom we will return.
3. James, born 10 December 1839. He married Anna Fife (born 1843, died 1931) on 16 June 1874. They lived at Mill Village, Canaan in 1891. He died on 27 July 1921. Had issue,
1. Frank L., born 2 August 1876. He married Lillian Leaman (born 1895, died 1939) and died on 3 November 1965.
2. Robert E., born 31 January 1878. He married 1stly Susan Smith on 30 August 1904 at Windsor, Hants County, Nova Scotia, and 2ndly Sarah McMillan (died 1964). He died in 1960.
1. Minnie M., born 23 January 1875. She married Stewart Albert Pugsley (born 1874, died 1956) on 20 June 1900. She died in 1930.
2. Lucretia Rudolphia, born 4 April 1882. She married Avery Freeman Loomer on 7 January 1903. They lived at Hedley, British Columbia, where she died in 1969.
4. Joseph, born 1 May 1842. He married Rebecca Jane Bentley (born 3 October 1842, died 1935, aged 82) on 8 August 1876. He died in 1927 and is buried at New Canaan. Had issue, several of whom were students at New Canaan school in 1901,
1. Thomas Austin, born 14 April 1880. He married Louise M. Edwards (born 1884, died 1964) and lived at Metaline Falls, Pend Oreille County Washington. He died on 22 March 1954 at Granite Falls, Snohomish County, Washington.
2. Elliot W., born 17 November 1881. He married and died at Cranbrook, British Columbia.
3. Hubert Alexander, born 25 February 1892. He married Eva Tyrrell (born 1891, died 1986). He died on 28 May 1976.
1. Hester B., born 20 September 1878. She died on 8 May 1895.
2. Ethel Myrtle, born 14 August 1883. She married _______ Isoner of Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
3. Elizabeth Margaret, born 12 November 1885. She married William Corliss McKay on 28 June 1905 and died in Nova Scotia on 23 April 1929.
4. Edith Irene, born 5 October 1887. She married John S. (Jack) Twaites (born 1889, died 1973) and lived in Saskatchewan. She died on 14 January 1973 at Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and they are buried in the Hazenmore Village Cemetery.
5. Leah M. born 4 May 1890. She married Clive Cunningham and lived at Calgary, Alberta, where

Re: Mary Ann (Jeffers) Skidmore

Wm Frank Skidmore (View posts)
Posted: 3 Nov 2001 5:25PM GMT
Classification: Query
Message length prevented the following background information on the Nova Scotia Skidmores from being included in the earlier message. This introductory information is from the same Warren Skidmore book.

Wm Frank Skidmore

William Skidmore, the first of his family in Nova Scotia, was probably born in the 1760s at Jamaica, Queens County, Long Island, a descendant of the family earlier in FAIRFIELD COUNTY, CONNECTICUT (noticed above). Whitehead Skidmore, his father, remained loyal to KING GEORGE III and went with some 25,000 other Loyalists to Canada in 1783 during the American Revolution [see Thomas Skidmore (Scudamore), 1605-1684, of Westerleigh, Gloucestershire, and Fairfield, Connecticut, his ancestors and descendants to the ninth generation, (2nd edition, 1985), page 68]. Whitehead Skidmore was still living four miles above Jemseg, Queens County, New Brunswick, in 1786 but had returned, defeated, to South Hempstead, Long Island, by 1790 when the first United States census was taken. Three of Whitehead Skidmore's older children remained in New Brunswick. Letitia (Letty) was born in 1772 and died in 1838; she married Joseph Barker (born 1761, died 1832) on 27 May 1790 at Christ Church, Maugersville, New Brunswick, and lived at Burton. Mary, was born in 1777 and died on 19 May 1856; she married Jonathan Putnam (born 1766, died 1848) on 19 August 1794 at Christ Church. The Barkers and Putnams are both buried in the Sheffield United Church Cemetery in Sudbury County, New Brunswick. WILLIAM SKIDMORE, their presumptive brother, had removed by 1788 to Parrsboro, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia. Parrsboro was also settled largely by American Loyalists from New England, New York, and New Jersey, and William was probably drawn there from his father's home on the Saint John River by some unidentified friend, kinsman or employer.


Re: Mary Ann (Jeffers) Skidmore

Posted: 23 Jul 2002 5:27AM GMT
Classification: Query
I have William Skidmore d. 1933 married to Nora Elenor Cusack b. Havelock, Kings, N.B. Mar 6, 1873 - May 24, 1926

Issue - Ada, Mary Lucretia and Grisilda

Any help here???

Re: Mary Ann (Jeffers) Skidmore

Posted: 7 Aug 2002 8:52PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 19 Apr 2003 4:37AM GMT
Surnames: JESS, JEFFERS, HANNA
Would you be able to send the remainder of Item No. 5...
"Leah M. born 4 May 1890. She married Clive Cunningham and lived at Calgary, Alberta where..."
Thank you.

Allen Jess
Sherwood Park, AB

Re: Mary Ann (Jeffers) Skidmore

Posted: 18 Jul 2013 1:37AM GMT
Classification: Query
Your grandfather and my grandfather (Frank Harold Tyrrell) were brothers of Eva Tyrrell Skidmore.

I would be interested in any information that you might have on the Tyrrell`s. I will check to see what I have on the Skidmore`s.

Re: Mary Ann (Jeffers) Skidmore

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 9:06PM GMT
Classification: Query
She is also in my family line
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