MY FAMILY HISTORY GABBY MYERS 01/06/2015. LOCATION The United States is located in North America. It is located south of Canada and north of Mexico (with.

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MY FAMILY HISTORY GABBY MYERS 01/06/2015

LOCATION The United States is located in North America. It is located south of Canada and north of Mexico (with the exception of the states of Alaska and Hawaii). The Atlantic ocean borders the east coast and the Pacific ocean borders our west coast.

MOTHER: SKIDMORE NATIONALITY: ENGLISH FATHER: MYERS NATIONALITY: ENGLISH IN OLD ENGLISH THE NAME WAS “SKYDMERE” IT WAS CHANGED WHEN MY ANCESTORS ARRIVED HERE FROM ENGLAND IN THE 1660’S SKYDMERE MEANS “PEOPLE WHO LIVE ON THE MUDDY LANE” IT WAS BELIEVED IN ENGLAND THE CORRECT SPELLING OF MYERS WAS “MYER”, BUT WHEN THEY CAME TO AMERICA IN THE 1700’S FROM ENGLAND AN “S” WAS ADDED ON THE DOCUMENT “SKIDMORE” IS A SURNAME WHICH ORIGINATED IN ENGLAND IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES THE MEANING OF MYERS IS A “BAILIFF” OR COURT OFFICERS WHEN MYERS ARRIVED IN AMERICA THEY MOSTLY SETTLED IN NEW YORK AND MARYLAND NO ONE IN MY FAMILY SPEAKS SOMETHING OTHER THEN ENGLISH AS THEIR NATIVE TOUNGE, BUT HOWEVER MY MOM CAN SPEAK A LITTLE BIT OF FRENCH, AND MY AUNT HAS STUDIED SPANISH FOR HER JOB

ORIGINS OF SKIDMORE… BEGINNING IN THE YEARS OF THE NORMAN CONQUEST IN ENGLAND UNTIL ROUGHLY TUDOR TIMES, SCUDAMORE/SCUDEMORE WAS THE SURNAME (WHICH SKIDIMORE IS A VERSION OF) ASSOCIATED WITH SOME ARISTOCRATIC FAMILIES THERE IS ALSO DOCUMENTATION OF ANCESTORS FROM ENGLAND INCLUDING WALTER DE SCUDAMORE IN 1316, WALTER DE SKYDEMORE IN 1319, AND WALTER DE SKIDMORE IN 1321 THERE IS RECORDS OF THE EARLIEST OF ANCESTOR IN ENGLAND INCLUDING PETRUS DE SKIDMORE AND GODFREY DE SKIDMORE, BOTH OF WILTSHIRE IN THE HUNDRED ROLLS OF 1273 IN THE 13 TH CENTURY, THE LOCAL ORIGIN WAS FOUND IN SOMERSET, WILTSHIRE AND CAMBRIDGE, BY THE 19 TH CENTURY INSTANCES OF THE SURNAME WERE IN DERBYSHIRE DERBYSHIRE

CAMBRIDGE WILTSHIRE SOMERET

SKIDMORE BROTHERS… HENRY AND THOMAS SKIDMORE WERE BROTHERS FROM RICKMANSWORTH, HERTFORDSHIRE WHO CAME TOGETHER TO KENT COUNTY, DELAWARE IN 1668 RICKMANSWORTH, HERTFORDSHIRE THE SKIDMORES WERE A POOR FAMILY, THEY DIDN’T HAVE ANY MONEY TO COME OVER ON A SHIP AS REGULAR PASSENGERS, SO THEY CAME OVER ON A SHIP AS SLAVES, OR SERVANTS, AND ONCE THEY ARRIVED THEY CONTINUED THEIR LIFE AS LOWER CLASS CITIZENS KENT COUNTY THE DECENDANTS OF THE SKIDMORE BROTHERS MOSTLY LIVED AND STAYED IN NEW JERSEY, NORTH CAROLINA, TENNESSE, AND SOME IN THE WEST WE DON’T REALLY KNOW WHAT THE SKIDMORES LEFT BEHIND WHEN THEY LEFT ENGLAND, BUT THEY WERE A POOR FAMILY SO I ASSUME THEY LEFT BEHIND NOTHING MORE THAN FRIENDS AND FAMILY

GASTON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA GREAT-GREAT-GREAT GRANDFATHER WILLIAM MONROE SKIDMORE MARRIED: KATHERINE (POLLY) ABERNATHY CHILDREN: 15 (10 SONS, 5 GRILS) ON MAY 1 ST, 1861 HE AND HIS BROTHER JAMES ENLISTED IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY AS PRIVATES AND SERVED ON COMPANY M OF THE NORTH CAROLINA 16 TH INFANTRY EIGHT OF THEIR CHILDREN 62 GRANDCHILDREN MOUNT HOLLY, NC

GREAT-GREAT GRANDFATHER SIDNEY JEREMIAH “JACK” SKIDMORE MARRIED: DORCUS ANNE HOLOBAUGH CHILDREN: 9 (5 BOYS, 4 GIRLS) 2 ND MARRIAGE: LILLEY FLORENCE COOLEY PALMER CHILDREN: 5 (ALL GIRLS) GRANDCHILDREN JACK’S HOUSE IN MOUNT HOLLY, NC JACK’S HOUSE ABOUT 7 YEARS AGO

GREAT GRANDFATHER JOHN WILLIAM SKIDMORE MARRIED: STELLA LEONA HOOVER CHILDREN: 10 (7 BOYS, 3 GIRLS, 1 SET OF TWINS) JOHN WAS SHOT AND KILLED ON OCTOBER 16, 1922 AT THE AGE OF 41 BY ONE OF HIS FRIENDS, CHARLES M. KIMBRELL KIMBRELL STATED HE HAD NO MEMORY OF THE SHOOTING AS HE WAS TOO DRUNK TO REMEMBER, HE PLED TO 2 ND DEGREE MURDER, HE RECEIVED A SENTENCE OF 18 YEARS BUT ONLY SERVED 8, GETTING RELEASED ON AUGUST 14, THREE KIDS ARE NOT PHOTOGRAPHED JOHNS HOUSE IN MOUNT HOLLY, NC 26 GRANDCHILDREN MOUNT HOLLY, NC

MY GRANDFATHER JACK HOOVER SKIDMORE MARRIED: MARY CATHERINE HUNTLEY CHILDREN: NONE 2 ND MARRIAGE: NANCY LUCILLE FORD CHILDREN: 2 (1 BOY, 1 GIRL) FRATERNAL TWIN OF JENNIE S. SKIDMORE JACK WAS A PARATROOPER IN THE 82 ND AIRBORNE AND JUMPED INTO NORMANDY ON D-DAY IN 1944, DURING WWII HE DIED IN 1985, AT THE AGE OF 68 DUE TO BONE CANCER, HIS WIFE NANCY DIED IN JACK AND JENNIE WIFE OF JACK NANCY SON JACK JR. DAUGHTER NANCY

LOOK BACK IN THE PAST JACK AND HIS MOTHER STELLA JACK’S HOUSE FROM 1960 TO HIS PASSING IN 1985, HIS CHILDREN JACK & NANCY SOLD THE HOUSE IN 1993 SILVER SPRING, MD NORTH CAROLINA BIRTH INDEX JACK AND HIS TWIN SISTER JENNIE’S RECORD OF THEIR BIRTH IN MOUNT HOLLY, NC JACK IN UNIFORM

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