Skydmore/ Scudamore Families of Thruxton, Abenhall, Hentland 1400-1915 Skidmore/ Scudamore One-Name Study 2015 www.skidmorefamilyhistory.com [email protected] SKYDMORES/ SCUDAMORES OF THRUXTON, ABENHALL, HENTLAND (HEREFORDSHIRE), & INCLUDING GALLATIN CO., ILLINOIS, & also PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND, 1400-1915 edited by Linda Moffatt © from the original work of Warren Skidmore Preface This work was originally published in book form as part of Thirty Generations of The Scudamore/Skidmore Family in England and America by Warren Skidmore, and revised and sold on CD in 2006 The original text and format used by Warren Skidmore has been retained, apart from the addition of code numbers assigned to each male head of household, allowing cross-reference to other information in the databases of the Skidmore/ Scudamore One-Name Study, In line with the policy of the Skidmore/ Scudamore One-Name Study, details of individuals born within approximately the last 100 years are not placed on the Internet without express permission of descendants. Hence, recent descendants who appeared in the original Thirty Generations book do not appear here. I am happy, however, to include in subsequent revisions any biographical detail with permission of descendants, who may contact me at the email address below. I have used italics where I have made additions or alterations to Warren Skidmore's text. Linda Moffatt, July 2015 www.skidmorefamilyhistory.com [email protected] Contents Thruxton, Herefordshire p.2 Fernhurst, Sussex p.8 Prince George's County, Maryland p.9 Abenhall, Herefordshire p.19 Hentland, Herefordshire p.32 Gallatin County, Illinois p.42 1 Skydmore/ Scudamore Families of Thruxton, Abenhall, Hentland 1400-1915 Skidmore/ Scudamore One-Name Study 2015 www.skidmorefamilyhistory.com [email protected] THRUXTON, HEREFORDSHIRE 1 John (Jenkin) Skydmore, of KENTCHURCH, HEREFORDSHIRE, (ROW [6], noticed elsewhere ), was living in 1405 and possibly as late as 6 July 1407. His heir was Sir John Skydmore, Knight, of Kentchurch (ROW [10]), who in 1431 held (among other lands) 1/4 of a knight’s fee in Thruxton which in time past had belonged to Amicia Bluet, and 1/8 of a fee in Kingstone. After his death in or about 1435 his lands went to his heir, another Sir John Skydmore, of Kentchurch (ROW [15]), who held several manors and land in Herefordshire and Gloucestershire. He died before 3 May 1475 devising by his will (now lost) Thruxton and Brytt (now Bridge) Court in Kingstone to his youngest son Richard Skydmore. TXN [1]. RICHARD SKYDMORE (SCUDAMORE), of the Grove near Lower Hergest and Thruxton (the youngest son of Sir John Skydmore of Kentchurch by his wife Blanche ap Harry), is first noticed on 29 May 1460 as Richard Skydmore, of Grove, when he and Richard Acton, of Crowle, Worcestershire, stood surety for Thomas Fitz Harry who had been granted custodianship of Marden (“Mawerden”) manor which had been lately forfeited by Richard, duke of York, through high treason, insurrection and rebellion. On 22 September 1461 Richard Scudamore and Thomas Bromwich, as feoffees of the lord of How Caple, presented John ap Howell to the benefice there. He inherited Thruxton and Bridge Court by the will of his father in 1475, and was in all probability living in 1489. He married (according to the Llyfr Baglan, and another traditional pedigree) Jane, daughter of Richard Monington of Brinsop, Herefordshire, and had issue, 2. 1. RICHARD, his heir, of whom further. 1. (perhaps) Blanche, who married (his 1st wife) John ap William Vaughan (living 1517-8), of Llanrothal [She may have been the daughter of Richard Scudamore, the younger]. The son, TXN [2]. RICHARD SCUDAMORE, of Thruxton, called “the younger” when on 14 October 1489 he was appointed to fill out the unexpired term of his uncle, Henry Scudamore, as High Sheriff of Herefordshire who had just died. He is doubtless the man of his name who was Mayor of Hereford in 1499. He married 1stly Maud, the daughter of David Allen, and 2ndly Cecelia (who survived him), the widow of Philip Vaughan, of Tyle-glas, Newton, Breconshire, and daughter of Jevan Gam, of Newton (in Welsh Trenewith) near Brecon. He died on 26 January 1510/11, seized of Thruxton valued at £10 by the year, and Bridge (Brytt) Court. Henry Monington, doubtless a kinsman, was first among the jurors at the inquest post mortem taken at Hereford on 25 October 1511. Had issue by his first wife, 3. 1. JOHN, his heir, of whom further. 4. 2. HENRY, his eventual heir, of Huntsham in Goodrich, of whom later. 1. Catherine, who married John ap Howell Tomlin, of Garway. 2. Joan, who married before 11 November 1511 Philip ap Rees (Philpot Price), of Old Court, Orcop. She is almost certainly to be identified as Jonette Scudamore, of Orcop, whose will is dated 29 October 1550. In her will she leaves bequests to her grandsons Roger Pye and Lewis Gilbert, each of whom she calls her nephew (common usage for grandson in that period), as well as to other members of the Pye and Gilbert families. She appointed Thomas Gilbert (her son-in-law) her executor. Among the witnesses are Walter Pye, gentleman (also her son-in-law), and Philip Scudamore, a distant kinsman. She died shortly afterwards leaving issue, 1. Margaret Price, who married Walter Pye of the Mynde (died November 1575). She was living at Orcop on 25 May 1584. 2. Anne Price, who married Thomas Gilbert, of Ewyas Harold. She was living at Orcop on 25 May 1584 and was a recusant there in 1592. The elder son, 1 See The Scudamores of Upton Scudamore: A Knightly Family in Medieval Wiltshire, 1086-1382 by Warren Skidmore, 271 p. 3rd Ed. 2006, at www.skidmorefamilyhistory.com and The Skydemores / Scudamores, Lords of Rowlestone, Herefordshire, 1307-1922, and some of their Younger Sons, by Warren Skidmore, 2011. (LM). 2 Skydmore/ Scudamore Families of Thruxton, Abenhall, Hentland 1400-1915 Skidmore/ Scudamore One-Name Study 2015 www.skidmorefamilyhistory.com [email protected] TXN [3]. JOHN SCUDAMORE, of Thruxton, was born about 1480 (aged 30 or more at his father’s death). He was one of the jurors at the inquest post mortem held at Hereford on 26 October 1523 of Richard Monington of Westhide who had died the year before. In 1532 (or the following year) he sued Monnington’s son and heir, Richard, for the detention of deeds of the manor of Thruxton and 400 acres of meadow and pasture at Bridge Court in Kingstone. He contributed a harness [body armour] for one man at the muster of Herefordshire in 1539. He married 1stly ________ ________, and 2ndly Anne (living his widow at Hereford in 1559), daughter of John Bygges, and died shortly after 1 October 1557 having had issue by his first wife, 5. 1. WILLIAM, his heir, of whom further. 1. Alice, who married ________ Forest, and was living a widow in 1558. 2. Anne, who married Thomas Scudamore, of the Helme, EWYAS HAROLD (ROW 2 [42], noticed elsewhere ). He was a distant kinsman, the great-grandson of Nicholas Scudamore, of Rowlstone (ROW [14]). Their posterity seems to have been the eventual heirs to Thruxton. 3. Blanche who married ________ Price. They were both living in 1558. The son, TXN [5], WILLIAM SCUDAMORE, of Thruxton, is mentioned in the will of Richard Monington, of Westhide, dated 8 August 1551 (who leaves him a cow and 26sh 8d in money). He married, probably in or after June 1557 (post nuptial settlement dated 1 October 1557), Jane (died about March 1558), daughter of John Harford, of Bosbury. His will, dated 16 September (proved 12 December) 1558, mentions, among others, his step-mother Anne, his sisters Alice, Anne, and Blanche, and his “base” brother William. He died on 21 September 1558 leaving issue an only son, JOHN SCUDAMORE, of Thruxton, born in March 1558 (aged 9 months on 4 January 1558/9 when an inquest post mortem was taken on his father’s lands). The inquest mentions a number of details that shed light on the events that befell the Thruxton family at this time. The presence of John Scudamore of Kentchurch and John Scudamore (of Holme Lacy presumably) among those who were appointed to hold the enquiry perhaps reflects their interest for the welfare of their less fortunate kin. At some unspecified date John Scudamore leased Thruxton and other lands to Anthony Harford and Thomas Cave, of Mathern, Monmouthshire. He married Mary (who survived him and married 2ndly James Garnon, and 3rdly William Parry), daughter of James Baskerville, of Kyre Park, Worcestershire. He died without issue, an intestate, at Thruxton and was buried there on 20 February 1590/1 (admons of his estate was granted to his widow on 25 February of that year). 2 ibid. Some thirty or so years after the death of John Scudamore, Thruxton passed to the Gunter family, possibly through Humphrey Scudamore (ROW [55] died 1617) of EWYAS HAROLD (noticed elsewhere). Humphrey, as a son of William Scudamore’s sister Anne, was John’s first cousin. Humphrey Scudamore died without issue and Lewis Gunter of Howton, his cousin, was the executor and largest beneficiary of his will. On 28 July 1591, following the death of John Scudamore, Humphrey was granted the administration of the estate of William Scudamore on the grounds that he was his nearest kin and that the original executor, John Harford (who died on 30 August 1559), had not fully administered. Gunter, an attorney and of Breconshire stock, is still called “of Howton” in 1621 but was in possession of Thruxton at his death in 1630. Following the death of John Scudamore in 1591 the representation of the family passed to the posterity of, TXN [4].