_Alexander SKINNER _
_John SKINNER __|
| |_Margaret WARREN ___
|
|--Thomas SKINNER
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| ____________________
|_Ann WESTACOTT _|
|____________________
Line 3395 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: _FA1 DATE 1800-1815
Line 3396 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: _FA1 PLAC Tennant Farmer at Hobbs's Bradbury
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Line 3398 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: _FA2 DATE 1816-1835
Line 3399 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: _FA2 PLAC Tennant Farmer at Mockham
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Line 3401 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: _FA3 DATE 1800-1835
Line 3402 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: _FA3 PLAC Tennant farmer for Sir Hugh, Earl Fortescue
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Line 3404 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: _FA4 DATE 1821-1835
Line 3405 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: _FA4 PLAC Churchwarden at Charles Parish
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Line 3410 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Thomas was the fourth, and only surviving son of John and Ann
Line 3411 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Skinner. He was born June 10, 1777 at the same time the American
Line 3412 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Colonies were struggling to win their independence.
Line 3413 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT Thomas was also a farmer like his father. He grew up on the farm and
Line 3414 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC married a local girl by the name of Jenny "Grace" Barrow in 1795. In the
Line 3415 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC same year they gave birth to their first child a daughter.
Line 3416 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT In 1793 the French Revolution poured out of the French border and
Line 3417 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC England soon found itself at war with France. As a Yeoman Thomas was
Line 3418 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC above being pressed into service as a private soldier but would probably
Line 3419 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC have been hard pressed to buy an officer's commision (Hobb's Bradbury was
Line 3420 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC on the small side of farms in those parts). However, many volunteer
Line 3421 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC units were formed and Thomas was probably in the Royal Devonshire
Line 3422 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Yeomanry, a volunteer cavalry unit. These units were not expected to
Line 3423 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC serve outside of England and only met about once a week, they were very
Line 3424 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC much a social club and drafted strict rules. By 1801 Thomas was
Line 3425 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC listed as the primary renter of Hobb's Bradbury. He continued on with
Line 3426 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC this status until 1815. Thomas was not content with farming a small
Line 3427 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC farm, he dreamed of something bigger. In that year he moved his family,
Line 3428 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC several miles away, to Charles Parish and farmed one of Sir Hugh's
Line 3429 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC largest farms, Mockhom.
Line 3430 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT Thomas did very well at Mockhom and soon became a well known man in
Line 3431 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Charles Parish. From 1821 until 1835 he served as a Church Warden.
Line 3432 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Mockhom was a fairly large farm, at one time employing eight laborurs and
Line 3433 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC servants in addition to the family. In 1832, when his wife Grace died,
Line 3434 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC he erected a monument in the church cemetery for her.
Line 3435 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT The exact date of Thomas' death is unknown as of now, but it was
Line 3436 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC betwen the years of 1835-1841.
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