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.comThe 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.netwww.skidmoregenealogy.comTel 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