Skidmore and Scudamore

Family History



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Skidmore/Scudamore One-Name Study

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WHY CAN WE NOT LINK THESE BRANCHES TO THE WIDER FAMILY ?


After a first division very early in the 12th century the lands which descended from Reginald (in Wiltshire) and Walter (in Herefordshire) were never again shared among siblings, and went always to the eldest son and heir.  Some of the younger sons went into the church.... Others went into the army. Some might be lucky enough to find a royal or noble patron or perhaps an heiress. At a later date a younger son might be apprenticed to a wealthy London merchant or tradesman, with the expectation that this would improve his lot. But invariably the younger sons had to be content with a lower standard of living than their elder brother, and younger sons of younger sons (doubly denied) and their posterity tend to disappear from view.


Their descendants are then ‘picked up’ again when the law required parishes to keep records of their baptisms, marriages and burial. Some parish registers survive from the mid-1500s, others from around 1600.


Some family lines, eg. Kingswinford, Cornwall, Westminster, Canterbury - although we can trace their origin within the era of parish registers - nevertheless, it has proved impossible to yet discover the parents of the man who heads the line.


For some of these branches volunteers have taken part in our DNA Study. If you are a direct line male descendant, you might consider this.

Principal branches which cannot at present be linked to family lines descending from Reginald or Walter.




Code assigned by One-Name Study

PLACE OF RESIDENCE

TIME PERIOD OF RESIDENCE

STAFFORDSHIRE Kingswinford

Black Country

Large branch.

More detail.

→ LONDON,

Clerkenwell

17th-21st

KFD



→  WARWICK-SHIRE

Coventry


KFD

WORCESTERSHIRE

Bewdley



late 16th-early 17th

BWD

WARWICKSHIRE Birmingham

Scudamore



18th-19th

BGM

SHROPSHIRE

Shifnal

Scudamore

→ STAFFORDSHIRE

Walsall


18th-19th

SFL

WORCESTERSHIRE

Astley & Hartlebury



19th

WOR

CORNWALL

St Stephen in Brannel

→ VICTORIA

Moonambel,

Eaglehawk

→ NSW Lucknow


18th-19th

CON


→ NEW YORK

Haverstraw

UK

→ Swansea

→ Sheffield

→ Aberdeen


CON

KENT

Canterbury and Wye

Scudamore


East Kent

Skidmore



17th-20th




17th

CBY




EKT

NORFOLK Rockland St Peter,

Little Ellingham

SUFFOLK






Norwich

→ Woore, SHROPSHIRE



→ Nantwich, CHESHIRE







→ Askrigg → Leeds, YORKSHIRE


18th-20th

NFK



SFK



SAL

LONDON,

Westminster

Scudamore


CAMBRIDGESHIRE

Cambridge


18th-20th

WMR

STAFFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA



18th-19th

SCV

HEREFORDSHIRE,

YARPOLE

Skidmore



18th-19th

YAR

SKIDDIE OF CORK and LONDON



14th-17th

SKIDDIE

PETER SKIDMORE alias FLEET (slave)



19th


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Revised 2017