Skydmore/ Scudamore Families of Thruxton, , 1400-1915 Skidmore/ Scudamore One-Name Study 2015 www.skidmorefamilyhistory.com [email protected]

SKYDMORES/ SCUDAMORES OF THRUXTON, ABENHALL, HENTLAND (), & 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 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

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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 . 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 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 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, . 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 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).

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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, (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, . 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]. HENRY SCUDAMORE, of Huntsham (in Goodrich), the 2nd son of Richard Scudamore by his wife Maud Allen. He was adult by 12 July 1504 when he and John ap Harry were given a power of attorney by Sir George Neville, lord of Ewyas Harold, to deliver seisin of lands in Kentchurch to his kinsman James Scudamore. On 7 October 1527 Henry Scudamore and Lewis ap Jenkin of Ross had a grant of a holding called Knappes Messuage and a parcel of land called Bedowas in Orcop from Henry’s brother-in-law, Philip ap Rees. He had settled in Huntsham by 1543, or perhaps earlier, where he acquired extensive lands held by copyhold from the Earl of Shrewsbury. On 29 January 1549/50 Thomas Philpot appeared at the manorial court at Goodrich and testified that Henry Scudamore was old and infirm and that he ought to be essoined; whereupon his son Thomas pledged himself and was put in his place. His will dated 18 April 1552 mentions his wife Jane,

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his sons Thomas and William, and his daughters Joan and Margaret. He died before 23 July of that year (the date of the admons on his estate), leaving issue, 7. 1. John, of Bagwy Llydiart, in Orcop. He may have been the man of his name (called “of Orcop”) whose association in 1524 and 1527 with Katherine, daughter of Richard ap Jenkyn of Orcop, is recorded in the Court Books of the Bishops of Hereford. In the muster of 1542 he is recorded as an able man fit to make an archer for the defence of the county. He is mentioned from 1541 to 1543 in the Court Rolls of Goodrich, and he may possibly have been living as late as November 1578 when a John Scudamore of Bagalidiatt is named in the will of Richard Roberts of Altlbough. He had issue according to a traditional pedigree in the Llyfr Baglan, 1. William, of Orcop, who was living in 1570-1 when he and Barbara ______arementioned in the Consistory Court Books. 10. 2. Watkin (Walter). He settled at FERNHURST, SUSSEX (q.v.) where he left posterity there. See p.9. 8. 2. THOMAS GWATKYN, of whom further. 3. William, of Goodrich. In 1542 he is noticed in the muster of the county as an able man fit to make a billman. He was living in 1552 when he is devised a barn lying at the end of the chapel in Huntsham and a sum of money in his father’s will. 1. Joan, living in 1552. 2. Margaret, living a spinster at Goodrich as late as 1 September 1582 according to the Court Rolls of that place. The 2nd son, TXN [8]. THOMAS GWATKYN SCUDAMORE, of Huntsham, married Mary (or Marian) ______and died soon after his father and before 1 December 1557 when it was found at a court held for Goodrich that a heriot of a bay horse and a red bullock (worth 20sh each) was owed at his death to the lord of the manor. On 28 August 1559 his widow settled all her lands in Huntsham on Thomas Philpot of (and his son John) for the benefit of her three minor children. Had issue, 11. 1. LEWIS, his heir, of whom further. 2. John (Reverend), who was presented as Rector of Tretire in 1586 [a living then in the gift of James Scudamore (died 1597) of that place, his kinsman]. On 2 June 1562 he had certain lands in by a fine from Richard Taylor and his wife Jane and was buried at Tretire on 8 March 1600/1. His will, dated 26 October 1600, nominates his brothers Lewis and Richard as his executors and co-heirs. 3. Richard, of Tretire and Everston in . His name appears on the lists of jurors at the courts held for Goodrich from 1579. He appears as an attorney at the courts to at least 1613. On 20 October 1596 he had a grant of two messuages at Everston and Lower House (at The Common) in Peterstow from Richard Vaughan the elder, of Ruxton, and his two sons. It is not presently known when he died, but he may have died before his brother Lewis. 1. Joan, born before 15 April 1552 when she is mentioned in the will of her grand- father. She married at Goodrich on 11 February 1576/7 William Boughan (died in January 1619/20) and may have been the lady of her name who was buried at Goodrich on 24 February 1625/6. 2. (perhaps) Margaret, who married, at Goodrich on 3 May 1591, Richard Were, and was buried there on 14 November 1624. The eldest son, TXN [11]. LEWIS SCUDAMORE, of Huntsham, born about 1540. He married at Goodrich on 27 June 1575, Alice Hannis (buried his widow at Goodrich on 2 March 1632/3). On 16 January 1586/7, Lewis and Alice Scudamore (then called of Kentchurch) granted to Thomas Coningsby and Thomas Lyngen (both of Hampton Court) a messuage (or manor) called Worrothe Court (perhaps now known as White Rocks) in Kentchurch and Garway. On 26 March 1599 George Scudamore, of Bolston near Holme Lacy (a distant kinsman) leased lands lying between Staunton, Gloucestershire, and Huntsham to Lewis. He was buried at Goodrich on 6 January

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1612/3, having had issue, 15. 1. THOMAS, his heir, of whom further. 1. Margaret, baptized at Goodrich 17 June 1582. 2. Sibyl, baptized at Tretire 18 October 1591, her uncle the Reverend John Scudamore performing the ceremony. The son, TXN [15]. THOMAS SCUDAMORE, of Peterstow and Huntsham. He married (pre-nuptial settlement dated 10 April 1604) Margaret (buried 5 March 1659/60 at Goodrich), a daughter of John and Bridget Wyllym of Lyston in . On 31 August 1613, Thomas and Margaret Scudamore (already called “of Huntsham”) leased their lands at Everston and elsewhere in Peterstow to the Powells of Pengethley. Thomas is mentioned regularly in the court rolls of Goodrich from 1613 and thereafter. He died at Huntsham at an advanced age and was buried at Goodrich on 28 March 1670, having had issue, 1. Henry (a twin), baptized at Peterstow on 19 July 1606, buried there on 2 August of the same year. 2. John (a twin), baptized at Peterstow on 19 July 1606, buried there on 2 August of the same year. 18. 3. RICHARD, his heir, of whom further. 4. John, baptized at Peterstow on 16 November 1613, who died without issue. 5. George, baptized at Goodrich on 17 February 1618/9. 1. Bridget, baptized at Peterstow on 23 August 1607. She married Philip Davis at Goodrich on 12 May 1649. 2. Alice, baptized at Goodrich on 2 April 1616. The eldest surviving son, TXN [18]. RICHARD SCUDAMORE, of Huntsham, baptized 7 March 1609/10 at Peterstow. He married 5 August 1632, at Goodrich, Eleanor (buried there on 11 January 1686/7), a daughter of Roger and Eleanor White, of Goodrich. He was assessed at Huntsham (with his father) in 1663 and taxed on two hearths in 1665. He was a churchwarden at Goodrich in 1670, and left a will dated 6 February 1686/7. He was buried at Goodrich on 20 February 1689/90, having had issue (baptized at Goodrich with perhaps the exception of his youngest son), 20. 1. John, of Huntsham, baptized at Goodrich 13 October 1633. On 13 May 1683 he was presented before the Consistory Court of the Bishop of Hereford as an “obstinate Quaker”. He married, 29 March 1687, at the Ross Monthly Meeting, Mary (who survived him and married 2ndly on 6 February 1710/11 at Bosbury Philip Wanklyn who was a churchwar- den at Goodrich in 1721), daughter of William Fisher of Ross-on-Wye. On 14 November 1705 (the same day that he signed his will) he made a separate settlement on Nicholas Fisher and Joseph Cowles for the benefit of his minor son John. His will of that day confirms Huntsham to his son and gives legacies of £80 each to his four daughters as they came of age. He was buried at Ross-on-Wye on 11 February 1705/6 having had issue, 1. William, born 28 November 1687, who died on 12 May 1688. 2. John, the only surviving son, born 31 March 1695, who was buried at Ross-on-Wye on 11 November 1709. 1. Mary, born 25 February 1689, married (by 1715) William Meende, of Ross-on-Wye, a barber. She was living his widow in 1759. 2. Margaret, born 25 November 1690. She married (licence 14 August 1721) at St. Bartholomew-the-Less, , Edward Ball, of Soho, a staymaker. [See also Hannah, below.] 3. Sarah, born 25 November 1692, who married Robert Marsh, of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, London, a coachmaker. 4. Hannah, born about 1698. She married ______Poulton, of St. James’, Garlickhithe, London. She was living his widow in 1759. [Margaret and Hannah Scudamore were baptized at Goodrich on 25 January 1712/3, presumably indicating their allegiance to the from that

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time.] The family estate in Huntsham later passed to the Vaughans of Courtfield in Welsh Bicknor presumably by purchase. 21. 2. Roger, baptized 1 April 1638, who married Elizabeth Mildmay at on 27 July 1668. He possibly became a Quaker as did his elder brother, John. He is not remembered in his father’s will and may have died before him, although elsewhere it is said that he died in Ireland about 1695. Had issue, 1. Richard, born 1669, who, with his brother and sisters, is named in the will of their grandfather who left them £10 each. It is presumed that he died before 1710. 24. 2. James, of Huntsham, born 7 January 1674. He married in 1700, or thereabouts, Catherine ______. The transcripts of the registers of Goodrich record his baptism on 20 September 1701, from which it may be inferred that he left the Quakers. About 1711 James entered into a law suit against his aunt Mary Wanklyn (and her daughters) about the right of inheritance to his grandfather’s estate. He claimed that he was the surviving male heir and that his grandfather had entailed the estate on the male line. The suit continued in Chancery for several years and clearly must have proved costly. (The outcome, one would assume, did not go in his favor.) Had issue, the six eldest children christened at Goodrich, 1. Thomas, baptized 8 August 1703, buried 12 August. 2. James, baptized 7 January 1704/5. 3. Richard, baptized 2 November 1712. 4. John, baptized at St. Weonards, 30 January 1714/5. 1. Eleanor, baptized 31 December 1700. 2. Mary, baptized 29 June 1707. 3. Elizabeth, baptized 24 December 1710. 1. Elizabeth, born 13 November 1670, at Monmouth. 2. Jane, born 23 May 1672. ABL 1. 3. JAMES, of English Bicknor, Gloucestershire, of whom further. See p.19. 23. 4. Thomas, of Ross-on-Wye, baptized 2 March 1643/4. He married 1stly Martha ______(buried at Ross-on-Wye on 8 February 1681/2), by whom he had issue (baptized at Goodrich and named in their grandfather’s will), 1. John, baptized 20 April 1671. 2. Richard, baptized 31 March 1674. 1. Martha, baptized 5 October 1672. Thomas Scudamore married 2ndly at Ross-on-Wye on 17 April 1683 Sarah Maddocks (buried there on 13 November 1701). He was buried at Ross-on-Wye on 28 November 1709, having had issue by her (christened at Ross-on-Wye), 26. 3. William, of Ross-on-Wye, baptized 4 May 1684, who was also named in his grandfather’s will. He married 1stly on 4 November 1703 at Ross-on-Wye, Eleanor Bennet (buried there on 24 June 1714), by whom he had issue (christened at Ross-on-Wye), 29. 1. William, baptized 9 September 1711. He married 1stly at Ross-on-Wye on 13 February 1737/8, Emelia Bumford, by whom he had issue a son, William, baptized at Ross-on-Wye 11 November 1739. He married 2ndly on 24 May 1748 at Ross-on-Wye, Sarah Keyse. It is possible that he and Sarah moved from Ross- on-Wye to live elsewhere (perhaps to Hereford?). 1. Elizabeth, baptized 1 October 1704.

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2. Sarah, baptized 8 December 1706. She married Thomas Palmer on 18 November 1733 at Ross-on-Wye. 3. Mary, baptized 12 December 1708. 4. Grace, baptized 30 August 1713. She married Robert Morgan at Ross-on-Wye on 25 June 1737. William Scudamore married 2ndly on 5 August 1714, Elizabeth Merrick (buried at Ross-on-Wye on 7 January 1720/1), by whom he had issue, a daughter, 5. Ann, baptized at Ross-on-Wye 14 August 1715. William Scudamore married 3rdly at Ross-on-Wye on 15 June 1721, Mary Price (buried at Ross-on-Wye on 21 December 1737). He died and was buried at Ross-on-Wye on 22 April 1761. 4. Thomas, baptized 10 February 1688/9. 2. Grace, baptized 7 March 1685/6, who died young and was buried at Ross-on-Wye on 24 Mary 1690. 3. Grace, baptized 8 January 1692/3. 5. William, of Goodrich, born about 1650. He was churchwarden at Goodrich with Peter Pridmore (1684) and with John Miles (1694). He was joint executor with his sister Mary of his father’s will. Unmarried, he was buried at Goodrich on 16 February 1715/6. 1. Mary, baptized 22 December 1635, who never married and was buried at Goodrich on 20 April 1713. 2. Eleanor, baptized 25 May 1654. She was left a legacy of £30 in her father’s will in 1687. It appears that she was unmarried and may have been the lady of her name who was buried at Ross-on-Wye on 31 March 1742.

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FERNHURST, SUSSEX

This family, substantial yeomen in Sussex, has recently been found to have come out of out of one of the families descended from Thruxton, Herefordshire (q.v.).

TXN [10] WALTER SKIDMORE, was born in the 1540's at Orcop, Herefordshire and was later a yeoman at Fernhurst, Sussex. He was a son of John Skydmore (TXN [7]) of Bagwy Llydiart in Orcop, Herefordshire. He was living as late as 30 May 1604 when he was a juror at the Assizes sitting at Eastbourne, Sussex. He married 1stly ______by whom he had issue, 1. Robert, eldest son, baptized 5 November 1569, a yeoman at Midhurst, Sussex, where he had the lease of certain chantry lands at Goldhorde in 1611. He married Anne Albury (who survived him). His will is dated 10 August 1621 (proved 22 October 1621 at Prerogative Court of Canterbury) and remembers his two brothers and two sisters (and their families) and left benefactions to the churches of Midhurst, Fernhurst, and Cocking in Sussex, and Haslemere and Thursley in Surrey. No issue. 12. 2. THOMAS, of whom further. 13. 3. Richard, baptized 28 December 1576. He is probably the man of his name who had five children baptized at Fareham, Hampshire. 1. William, baptized 13 October 1605. 2. Richard, baptized 24 January 1620/1. 1. Ellen, baptized 24 May 1607. 2. Anne, baptized 24 August 1609. 3. Anne, baptized 3 December 1618. 14. 4. JOHN, of whom further. 1. Joan, baptized 2 February 1577/8. She married Thomas Heather on 6 November 1603 at Clanfield, Hampshire, and was living in 1621 when she is remembered in the will of her brother Robert. 2. Alice, baptized 19 April 1582. She was living unmarried in 1621 when she had the profits from lands at Goldhorde (in Midhurst) according to the terms of the will of her brother Robert. Mr. Skidmore married 2ndly Alice Chalcroft on 2 July 1582 at Lodsworth, Sussex, by whom he had, 3. Elizabeth, baptized 4 July 1585 at Fernhurst. 4. Joan, baptized 24 March 1587/8. 5. Ellen, baptized 10 July 1590. He married 3rdly Agnes Hartley in 1596 at Fernhurst. The 2nd son, TXN [12]. THOMAS SKIDMORE baptized 1 December 1573 at Fernhurst. He married Joan Broman on 21 October 1599 at Clanfield, Hampshire. He was living in 1621 when he is named in he will of his brother Robert. He had three children christened at Fernhurst, but the birth of his older children will probably be found elsewhere. Had issue, probably with others, 1. Hugh, baptized 14 June 1610. 2. George, baptized 3 May 1615. 3. Anthony, baptized 26 September 1621.

The 4th son of Walter Skidmore by an unknown wife, TXN [14] JOHN SKIDMORE, baptized 5 August 1580. He married Joan Hartley on 22 July 1606 at Fernhurst. He had his brother Robert's lands at Haslemere and Thursely subject to an annuity to be paid to his sister-in-law Anne during her lifetime. Had issue, 1. Thomas baptized 26 April 1609 at Haslemere, Surrey. Probably died young. 1. Agnes, baptized 6 September 1607 at Fernhurst. She was living, a minor, in 1621 when she was an heir to certain rents at Midhurst in the will of her uncle Robert. She married

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Laurence Gibbens in 1627 at Fernhurst. 2. (probably) Mary, baptized 26 June 1614 at Fareham, Hampshire.

NOTES

JOHN SKIDMORE was a customary tenant in 1543 at Reigate, Surrey, where he held four acres of meadow called Ashtread Mead worth 8sh 4d by the year. [Rent Roll from the Ashtead Manor Accounts.]

TXN [16]. THOMAS SKIDMORE, a blacksmith, married Joan Collins on 3 October 1624 at Fernhurst and was living at that place at the time of the Protestation Return of 1642. He died in 1670 (will dated 25 August, proved 8 September) and his widow Joan a little later in the same year (will dated 5 December, proved 14 January 1670/1). Had issue, perhaps with others, christened at Fernhurst, 1. Joan, baptized 3 June 1625. She married William Osborne on 7 January 1646 at Fernhurst. 2. Mary, baptized 21 May 1630. She married Edward Lindley in 1622 at St. Mary Stoke Newington, London and was remembered (with her sons Thomas and Edward Lingley) in her father's will dated 25 August 1670. 3. Elizabeth, baptized 7 September 1642. She married 1stly William Tribe on 10 November 1666 at Fernhurst and was named executrix and residuary heir of her mother on 5 December 1670.

TXN [17]. JOHN SKIDMORE married Elizabeth ______. He was a churchwarden at Fernhurst in 1642. He had died before 1 January 1659/60 at Fernhurst, the day that his widow married 2ndly Nicholas Swann. The admons on his estate was granted in 1662 the Consistory Court at Chichester to Elizabeth Swann alias Skidmore. The following, christened at Haslemere, Surrey, may be part of his issue, 1. Thomas, baptized 25 March 1629/30. 1. Dorothy, baptized 25 February 1624/5.

ELIZABETH, daughter of JOHN and ELIZABETH SKIDMORE, was baptized 4 May 1646 at Fernhurst.

JANE SKIDMORE married Henry Stouall on 17 October 1664 at Thursley, Surrey.

PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND

Baldwin Skidmore, the ancestor of a large family found later at Alexandria, Virginia and in the District of Columbia, was born on 2 June 1721 and baptized on 16 June in London as the son of Edward and Elizabeth (______) Skidmore at St. James, Westminster. While the immediate ancestry of his father Edward is unknown, a DNA sample submitted by a descendant shows that this family came anciently out of Thruxton, Herefordshire possibly with a longer interlude in London or one of the home counties.

TXN [30]. BALDWIN SKIDMORE, born on 2 June 1719 in London, came as an indentured servant to Maryland. His master William Beall of Prince George's County, advertised for him as runaway English servant aged about 27 years old in the Maryland Gazette dated 29 April 1746. He married Elizabeth ______(who may have been living his widow in Fairfax County, Virginia, in 1782) by whom he had several children, partly christened at the St John's Church in Prince George's County. He is last noticed on 9 December 1765 when he had been jailed for debt. Baldwin Skidmore was then one of several prisoners languishing in jail who agreed to surrender their estates, goods, and effects of any kind (excepting only the necessary wearing apparel of themselves, their wives and children). They were also permitted to keep their working tools, and then

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after five days the sheriff of the county was ordered to discharge the prisoners and suffer them to go at large. In addition to the children mentioned below a Melinda, Elizabeth and Ann Skidmore appear on the tax list of 1782 in Fairfax County, Virginia (together with Edward Skidmore), and they may also be part of his posterity. Had issue, 31. 1. EDWARD, of whom further. 32. 2. Samuel, born 12 October 1763 according to the register of St. John's Parish. He appears on the tax list of 1787 in Fairfax Parish, Fairfax County, Virginia, living close to his older brother Edward. He appears to have had at least one son, 37. 1. Samuel, born 1800. He married lstly Julia Ann Cassin of Alexandria on 14 August 1822 at Washington, D. C., and 2ndly Martha Ann Soper (born 1813), a widow, on 12 September 1849 at Washington. He is probably the man of his name who served in Company A of Hughes' Regiment of the Maryland and District of Columbia Volunteers in the Mexican War. He was living in the Sixth Ward of the District of Columbia in 1850 (with his two Soper stepchildren). He was a wheelwright by trade and died in September 1879 aged 80 in the District of Columbia. [His will dated 9 January 1873, proved 21 November 1879, has not been seen.] Had issue, as known, 1. Samuel, born 1857. 2. Martha E., born 1852. She married Wilbur Eglin of the Metropolitan Police Force. 33. 3. (probably) William, born before 1770. He is first noticed at Alexandria, Virginia, on 9 April 1803 when he was a bondsman at the marriage of Peter Chase and Eleanor Smallwood. He married Catherine Robinson on 15 April 1814 at Alexandria; Jesse Robinson was his bondsman. She was living, his widow, in 1840. Had issue, as known, 38. 1. Samuel Skidmore, born December 1815. He married Louisa (born 1818 in Wurtemburg, Germany) and they were living in 1850 at Alexandria. He was a lock keeper there in 1860. In 1880 they are found at 1433 Ohio Avenue in the District of Columbia. He died 23 July 1900 in Van Buren Township, Monroe County, Indiana, aged 85. Had issue, five daughters; he was also survived by two grandchildren Samuel Batt and Louisa Batt, 1. Mary A., born 1843. 2 Julia, born 1845. She married ______Creamer. 3. Catherine, born 1848. 4. Henrietta, born 1850. She married Frank Jacobs. 5. Virginia, born 1852. She married John Scufferly. 39. 2. Washington, born 1815-20. He married Ann Paradise on 8 January 1835 at Washington, D. C. He was head of a family in the 1840 census close to Catherine Skidmore (perhaps a widow and his mother). 1. A son, born 1820-25. 1. A daughter, born 1815-20. 2. A daughter, born 1825-30. 1. Verlinda, born 4 August 1757 according to the register at St. John's. 2. (perhaps) Melinda. 3. (perhaps) Elizabeth. 4. (perhaps) Ann. The son, TXN [31] EDWARD SKIDMORE was born in 1759 in southern Maryland according to his descendants. He married Lydia Hall (who was born in 1760 and died in August or September 1814) and they were living by 1782 in Fairfax County, Virginia where he was a carpenter. In the same year a Melinda, Elizabeth and Ann Skidmore also appear on the same tax list, but not thereafter. In 1787 Edward Skidmore was taxed on two horses and three cattle in Fairfax Parish; Samuel Skidmore (presumably his younger brother) was

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living nearby. On 28 February 1792 William Carlin and his wife Elizabeth granted to Edward and Lydia Skidmore for 5 shillings, a tract of land Gerlying near Four Mile Run for an annual rent of £6 due yearly on the 1st of January in either gold or silver. Edward Skidmore was the head of a family in the 1820 census of Alexandria (then a part of the District of Columbia), and died there on I February 1828 aged 69. His will (dated 30 December 1827 “in my usual, but delicate health”) mentions his sons Gerard, John, Lewis, Jesse, and Isaac, and his daughters Ann Harris, Letitia Carlin, and Amelia Skidmore. It was witnessed by Wesley Carlin, Richard Kirby, and John Gladen. The estate was settled in April 1828 and John Skidmore paid legacies to all of his brothers and sisters except Isaac and Amelia. He also paid $15.00 to Harrison Bradley for the expenses of the funeral. Had issue, 34. 1. Gerard (Jared), born about 1784. He married Mariah Richard on 27 April 1810. Gerard Skidmore served as a private in the 57th Regiment of Virginia Militia in the War of 1812. They were living at Alexandria in 1820 (where he was head of a household joining his brother Jesse) and again in 1830. In 1840 he was enumerated in Fairfax County, but was dead before 12 October 1849 when Samuel Birch, Benjamin F. Shreve and S. L. Simmers were appointed to appraise his estate. Had issue, as known, 1. William W., born 1821. He married Mary E. Howard (who was still living his widow with her children in 1870 in Washington, D. C.). He was a huckster in 1860 in Washington. 2. A son, born 1825. 1. Ann M., born 1811. She married William Tucker (born 1798) on I December 1833. They were living in Alexandria in 1850; when he is noticed as blind. 2. A daughter, born 1813. 3. A daughter, born 1815. 4. Mary E., born 1817. She was a teacher in the common schools at Washington, D.C., in 1860 living at 518 8th Street West. 5. Sarah, born 1823. Living at home in Alexandria in 1850. 6. Octavia, born 1830. She married lstly Emanuel H. Boswell on 2 July 1858, and 2ndly (by 1870) D. C. Talbert, huckster in Washington, D. C. 2. John, born 1786. On 10 May 1833 he purchased 84 acres of land in Fairfax County on the north side of the Middle Turnpike Road and the old Leesburg Road from John Allison. This tract was part of a larger tract called Washington Forest and on 24 March 1837 it was confirmed to him by another deed from George Washington Parke Custis; this deed was witnessed by Samuel Skidmore and Tench Ringold. John Skidmore died in 1847; his will dated 27 February divided his land on both sides of Middle Turnpike between his sister Milly (Amelia) and his brother Isaac. Isaac Skidmore served as executor and the will was recorded on 17 May 1847 in Fairfax County. 35. 3. Lewis (Reverend), born 1789. With the advice and consent of his father he voluntarily put himself apprentice for four years to Lewis Piles on I 1 June 1805 to learn "the Art, Trade and Mystery of a Blacksmith" promising that he would not haunt ale houses, taverns, or playhouses, fornicate, or play at dice or cards. According to an autobiographical statement in his will he was “born of His spirit in 1807” and became a preacher in the Methodist denomination in 1812. He was the compiler of A choice of the latest social and camp meeting hymns and spiritual songs published at Baltimore in 1825. He married Drucilla W. Fennell (previously the widow of Edwin H. Pette or Petty) on 3 October 1831 in Charlotte County, Virginia. He wrote from Mossingford, Virginia on 8 June 1853 to Dr. F. T. Stribling at Staunton “& I have made arrangements for Mr. Tinsley to visit my dear son John, & if his condition will justify, to try an excursion through the mountains.” He died in Charlotte County on 8 October 1857 “aged 80”according to an obituary in the Western Democrat survived by his widow and a son and daughter. A codicil to his will (dated 8 September 1857) also left $500.00 to his stepson Dr. R. J. F. Pette, M.D., who was to serve as guardian to his children and was to have his bay mare Topaz. Dr. Pette and his brother Isaac Skidmore were

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to serve as executors. Had issue, 1. John Fennell, born 1834. He was a patient in the Western State Asylum at Staunton in Augusta County, Virginia, where he had died before 16 June 1859. On this date his mother Mrs. D. W. Skidmore testified that her older son Dr. Peete had occasion to visit him twice “last fall” in his last illness. M. B. Skidmore inherited her brother's interest in her father's estate; a third of this was paid to D. W. Skidmore and the remaining two thirds went to M. B. Skidmore. 1. Margaret Bedford, born 1840. She married Thomas A. Proctor on I October 1859 in Charlotte County. 2. Lydia A., born 1845. She died in childhood. 36. 4. JESSE, of whom further. 5. Isaac., born 1796. He married Mary E. ______(born 1822, died I June 1862 in her 40th year). He was a fanner in 1850 in Fairfax County, and died (apparently without issue) on I May 1883 in his 87th year. Tombstones were put up over his grave and the grave of his wife by his niece Ann E. A. Carlin as directed by her will in 1892; they are buried in the Ball- Carlin Cemetery at South Kensington and Third Streets in Arlington, Virginia. 1. Ann, eldest daughter, born 1792. She married William A. Harris on 8 May 1809 at Alexandria. They sold property to Jesse Skidmore on 4 February 1824 at Alexandria. 2. Letitia Margetta (Titia), born 1798. She married James Harvey Carlin (died 1845) of Alexandria on 21 November 1821. [He was a son of George Washington’s tailor.] She died on 5 March 1866 and they are buried (with several of their children) in Ball-Carlin Cemetery in Arlington. 3. Amelia, born 1810. She was living unmarried at Alexandria in 1860 with her widowed sister Letitia Carlin. She cared for her father in his old age, and was his principal beneficiary. She died on 27 January 1867. The 3rd son, TXN [36]. JESSE SKIDMORE, born 19 February 1790. He married Sarah Boyd (born 20 July 1789, died 10 June 1864) on 19 October 1815. They lived at Alexandria where he was a house carpenter. He was a director of the King Street Fire Company from 1823 to 1827. He built a new house for himself at what is now 1024 Queen Street, and he is shown in the 1830 census as the head of a household of 14 people including four young apprentices and three slaves. Jesse Skidmore was engaged by Major Lawrence Lewis to build a wall about the vault where President George Washington is buried and to make other repairs at Mount Vernon. [His letter about this contract is in the Manuscripts Division of the Library of Congress.] He signed a petition in 1848 against the building of a new courthouse on the grounds that it was not needed. His eldest six children (including the twins Andrew F. and Emily C.) were all christened soon by their uncle Reverend Lewis Skidmore. He died 23 December 1854 of paralysis and they are buried (with several of their children) in the First Presbytertian Cemetery in Alexandria. His will left 10 parcels of real estate to his wife and children. Sarah Skidmore left a will proved 5 March 1866 dividing her estate (including the family home near the southeast comer of Queen and Henry Streets in Alexandria) between her two unmarried daughters Emily C. (the executrix) and Maria L. Skidmore. Emily C. Skidmore bought the family home at auction, and left it at her death to her nephew William Allen. With additions, it still stands and was renovated in 2005. 42. 1. JOHN WILLIAM, of whom further. 2. Lewis Edward, born 20 May 1823. He married Ann Elizabeth (born May 1828). He is listed in the city directory of Washington, D. C., in 1860 at 675 12th West, but is not enumerated there in the 1860 census. They were living at 1011 Cameron Street, Alexandria, in 1900. He died there on 24 July 1900, leaving no issue. 3. Andrew Fletcher, born 16 November 1826. He was a Third Corporal in the 175th Regiment of Mount Vernon Guards (Captain William Smith's Company), and then in Company E, 17th Regiment of Virginia Infantry (Corse's Brigade). Distinguished for gallantry on the field, he was lolled at Yorktown on 2 May 1862. 4. Isaac P., born 16 January 1830. He died 17 April 1830, an infant.

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1. Ann Eliza, born 16 August 1816. She died 16 September 1827. 2. Maria L., born 17 September 1820. She died 6 September 1893 of consumption and is buried with her parents in the First Presbyterian Cemetery in Alexandria. 3. Emily Charlotte, born February 1828. She never married and was living in 1900 at 204 Columbus Street, Alexandria, with her niece Mary D. Allen. She died 3 August 1911. 4. Mary Drucella, born 15 October 1831. She married William H. Allen on 1 October 1850 in the District of Columbia. She died on 8 March 1914 at Alexandria. The eldest son, TXN [42]. JOHN WILLIAM SKIDMORE, born 6 September 1818. He married on 4 February 1845 Mary Agnes (born 1825), daughter of Samuel Wimsatt (performed by Reverend Father Mathews). He was a house carpenter at Alexandria in 1850 and died on 16 December 1865 “of drunkenness.” His widow survived him for many years and was living in 1880 age 56, a teacher, in Washington, D.C. In 1900 she was at 213 Shore Street, Petersburg, Dinwiddie County, Virginia living with her son-in-law Michael Gary. Had issue, 45. 1. John Samuel [alias Boyd Skidmore], born 8 December 1845. He was raised as a Catholic and was a student in 1860 at St. Joseph's College at Reading, Perry County, Ohio. Most of the students were from the south; it closed its doors in 1861 at the start of the Civil War and John S. Skidmore returned to Alexandria where he enlisted in Company H, 6th Regiment of Virginia Cavalry. He later became a Methodist and married Anna Amelia Wilkins at Alexandria on 5 January 1873. An architect, he went soon after his marriage to Williston, Fayette County, Tennessee (where he was living in 1880). He died 7 April 1890 at Fort Smith, Arkansas, a suicide by morphine. His wife died soon after on 3 March 1891, aged 44. They had issue, 1. John Emil, born February 1876. He was living with his brother-in- law James Rutledge in 1900 at Fort Smith. He married Katherine Mae Faucette on 19 December 1901. She died in 1922 and he was killed in his drugstore at Pensacola, Florida on 28 December 1937. 1. Mary Boyd, born 20 February 1874. She married James Allen Rutledge of Fort Smith. 2. Jessica Steadman, born 28 March 1878. She was living with her brother- in- law in 1900, but married 1stly Wallace Gill, and 2ndly William Lewie Foster in 1910. She died 6 May 1958 at Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas.

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The unpublished records in Alexandria, the District of Columbia, and elsewhere, have not been seen.

TXN [40]. JOHN W. SKIDMORE, born 1780-90, was the head of a family in Fairfax County in 1820 living close to William Skidmore next above. He was a bondsman on 21 November 1821 at Alexandria at the marriage of John D. Harrison and Elizabeth Carlin. He married (born about 1790) who was living recently widowed at Alexandria in 1830. They appear to have had seven children born from about 1808 to 1830 in Alexandria.

MELINDA, ELIZABETH and ANN SKIDMORE all appear on the 1782 tax list of Fairfax County. They are not found thereafter.

JOHN W. SKIDMORE, born in May 1823. He married Mary E. Lightner on 5 March 1847 in the District of Columbia. They were living there in 1900 at 120 Virginia Avenue, S.E. He was, no doubt, a son of the elder John W. Skidmore noticed above.

TXN [43]. GEORGE SKIDMORE, born 1826 in the District of Columbia. He was probably a son of the George Skidmore who married Sarah Gardner (noticed below); they had an older son not identified who was born about 1824. George Skidmore, Jr., went to Ohio as a young man. He enlisted there for one year in Company F, 2nd Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry on 3 June 1846 for service in the Mexican War. George

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Skidmore, a shoemaker, was living in 1850 in Jackson Township, Coshocton County, Ohio, in the household of Samuel Gardner who was probably a kinsman. He married Eliza Simmons on I October 1854 in Athens County, and they were living in 1860 at Savannah (post office Guysville) in Rome Township. George Skidmore, age 35, enlisted as a Second Lieutenant on 19 August 1861 for three years at Athens, Athens County, Ohio, in Company C, 18th Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry and was discharged on 3 January 1865 at Camp Chase for wounds received at Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia. They had moved by 1880 to the village of Watkins, Mill Creek Township, Union County, Ohio, where he was a shoe and bootmaker. (In 1880 he stated that his father was born in Maryland and his mother in the District of Columbia.) He died 9 June 1881 and is buried in the Watkins cemetery in Mill Creek Township. Had issue, 46. 1. John, born September 1855. He married Lydia J. Shoby and was living in 1900 in Darby Township, Madison County, Ohio, and on Post Road in that county in 1920 and with a son-in-law in 1930. 47. 2. George E., born August 1862. He married Alice R. in 1888. They were living in 1900 in Walnut Township, Pickaway County, Ohio, and in 1910 at Lithopolis, Bloom Township, Fairfield County, Ohio, and on Marcy Road in that county in 1920. 48. 3. Emory, born November 1865. He married Viola R. Davis in 1891 and they were living at Continental, Monroe Township, Putnam County, Ohio, in 1900. 4. Dawson, born 1873. 1. Sophia, born 1857. 2. Amanda, born 1859. 3. Helen, born 1868.

JOSHUA L. SKIDMORE, born 1827 in Virginia. He served in Company C of Watson’s Battalion of the Maryland and District of Columbia Infantry in the Mexican War. He was living in the Fourth Ward of Washington in 1850, unmarried and a carpenter by trade.

GEORGE W. SKIDMORE, born 10 August 1836 in Fairfax County. He was living in 1850 in the household of James Danford (born 1791) and his wife Am (born 1797). This household was very close to that of JOHN W. SKIDMORE (born May 1823) noticed above. In 1860 George Skidmore was employed as an engineer at the Government Hospital for the Insane in Washington, and was working there in 1900 with his wife Josephine according to the census.

The following persons married in the District of Columbia are unidentified. It is likely that a part of them belong tothe family found earlier in STAFFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA (q.v.). ANN SKIDMORE married Jacob Groves on 18 April 1850. CATHERINE SKIDMORE married Arhot Croft on 29 August 1839. COLUMBIA SKIDMORE married Washington Berry on 7 December 1854 according to the Planter’s Advocate published at Upper Marlboro, Maryland.

TXN [41]. GEORGE SKIDMORE married Sarah Gardner on 23 September 1822. They are probably parents of the GEORGE SKIDMORE of Athens County, Ohio, noticed above.

HENRY SKIDMORE, born 1820 in Virginia. He served in the District of Columbia Volunteers in the Seminole War in Florida as a private, and later filed an invalid's certificate when he applied for a pension. He married Matilda Smith on 17 April 1840. They were living in 1860 in the First Ward where he was a paperhanger. JANE E. SKIDMORE married William L. Reese on 22 October 1839. MARGARET SKIDMORE married Oxford Boucher on 27 July 1857. She was living, the head of a family, in 1860 in the Third Ward of Georgetown, D.C. NANCY SKIDMORE married Rezin P. Taylor on 3 June 1851.

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were living at Lawrenceville, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, where he was a blacksmith. In 1861 they were back in Washington, D. C., living at 488 E Street, South. They moved soon after to Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia, where they lived for the rest of their lives. Raymond Skidmore had died before 11 January 1900 when the admons on his estate was appointed. He had a brother George Skidmore (of Athens County, Ohio?) who served as a trustee for the two children of Raymond Skidmore on 22 November 1866 (abode unstated) in Parkersburg.

REBECCA SKIDMORE married Henry Davis on 8 April 1815. REBECCA SKIDMORE married Sanford Bayliss on 23 February 1830. See Sarah Skidmore, perhaps a sister. SAMUEL SKIDMORE married Julia Ann Causine on 14 August 1822. She was a daughter of John Coseen of Alexandria who remembers her in his will dated 29 August 1833. SARAH SKIDMORE married Collin Bayliss on 6 August 1833. See Rebecca Skidmore, perhaps a sister. WILLIAM SKIDMORE married Penelope Farr on 26 September 1812. He was presumably dead by 16 November 1820 when a Penelope Skidmore married Benjamin Crupper. VIRGINIA F. SKIDMORE married John T. Burke on 16 December 1856. She is not found in the 1850 census.

Other unidentified Skidmores in Virginia: JANE FRANCES SKIDMORE and James Donaldson, both of Fairfax, were married 19 September 1839. SAMUEL SKIDMORE once owned lot E68 in the Union Cemetery of the Methodist Episcopal Church South in Alexandria, Virginia. There are no stones on the lot.

In the absence of information regarding the descendants of his elder brother, Roger Scudamore, the representation of the family is presumed to have passed to the posterity of the 3rd son of Richard Scudamore (TXN [18], see p.7) by his wife Eleanor White, ABL [1]. JAMES SCUDAMORE, of English Bicknor, Gloucestershire, baptized at Goodrich 3 October 1641. He married at English Bicknor on 10 April 1684 Mary (born 1657, buried there on 26 December 1707), a daughter of John and Mary Godwin of that place. On 13 April 1687 James Scudamore of English Bicknor, and his younger brothers, Thomas and William, came to a court held for Goodrich and released their interest in Huntsham, by an indenture, to John and Mary Scudamore and two other trustees. James was buried at English Bicknor on 3 April 1726, having had issue (christened there), 2. 1. GODWIN, of English Bicknor and , Gloucestershire, his heir, of whom further. 2. Richard, baptized 17 March 1695, who died young and was buried at English Bicknor on 17 April 1713. 1. Eleanor, baptized 26 April 1685. 2. Mary, baptized 21 September 1686, married at Walford on 6 August 1706 James Jones and had issue. The elder son, ABL [2]. GODWIN SCUDAMORE, of English Bicknor and Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire, baptized 23 September 1690. He married at English Bicknor on 22 May 1727 Elizabeth Potter (born 1701, buried at Abenhall, Gloucestershire, on 29 March 1774). On 2 February 1753 Godwin and Elizabeth Scudamore purchased a messuage and half an acre of land in Mitcheldean called Cawnedge or Scult’s House (probably in the vicinity of the present Cornage Farm), adjoining Lining Wood just within the parish of East Dean, from William Philips of The Lea, Herefordshire. On 12 December 1754 they purchased a small holding of about 13 acres near Sollers Hope, Herefordshire, from Mark Watkins of Longhope. Mr. Scudamore died on 12 March 1778 aged 87 (although the inscription on the family tomb in Abenhall churchyard states that he was aged 93) and was buried at Abenhall two days later. Had issue, 3. 1. JOHN, of Mitcheldean and Abenhall, his heir, ancestor to the family at ABENHALL, GLOUCESTERSHIRE (see p.23). 4. 2. RICHARD, of Longhope, of whom further.

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The younger son, ABL [4]. RICHARD SCUDAMORE, of Longhope, Gloucestershire, baptized 2 February 1731/2. He married at Brockhampton in Woolhope, Herefordshire, on 21 June 1770 Ann Legeyt (who survived her husband and married 2ndly (licence) at Abenhall on 14 July 1776 John Knight Hayward). Mr. Scudamore died when he was only 40 years old and was buried at Longhope on 6 September 1772. In his will, dated 16 May (proved 22 September) 1772, he gives bequests to his brother John and to his nephews John and Richard Scudamore, and leaves his real and personal estate, including land, barns and premises called Leynes (probably the present Laine’s Farm near Lea Line) to his wife. He appoints his brother John the guardian of his child (or children) should his wife marry again. It appears that Richard Scudamore had an only son, 7. 1. RICHARD SCUDAMORE, baptized at Longhope 28 May 1771. He married (licence) at Abenhall on 20 June 1795 Lettice (baptized at Linton, near Ross-on-Wye, 10 August 1772), daughter of John and Sarah Bonnor of Linton. It seems likely that Richard and Lettice moved from the and probably settled in Cardiff where their posterity eventually resided. Had issue, 1. John, baptized at Mitcheldean 27 September 1801. Mr. Scudamore married although the name of his wife is not presently known. He was a widower in April 1851 (called John Skidmore (LM)) when the census returns for that year were taken; he was then living with his brother-in-law and sister, Bartholomew and Sarah McLeod and their family, at 68 Great Frederick Street, Cardiff. In the return Mr. Scudamore is stated as being a coach painter. He may have been the man of his name who was accidentally drowned by falling into the West Beck Docks, Cardiff, on 4 November 1858 described as a Dock Constable. It is not known if John Scudamore had children. 15. 2. RICHARD, of Cardiff, of whom further. 1. Anne Hayward, baptized at Abenhall 18 May 1796. 2. Sarah, baptized at Mitcheldean 7 October 1803, married Bartholomew McLeod, a tailor, on 4 May 1829 at Bedminster, Bristol. Mr. and Mrs. McLeod were living with their four children in Great Frederick Street, Cardiff, in 1851. The younger son, ABL [15]. RICHARD SCUDAMORE, of Cardiff, Glamorgan, baptized at Mitcheldean 21 July 1805. He married Mary Emanuel (born 1805, who survived her husband and died in 1882) on 8 June 1828 at St. Paul’s, Bristol.. Mr. Scudamore was a pilot based at the Bute Dock. He died at Cardiff on 8 May 1879, admons being granted to his son John Bonnor Scudamore on 3 August 1883. Had issue (born at Cardiff), 35. 1. Richard, of Cardiff, born 1835. He married at Swansea parish church, 2 June 1857, Harriet (who survived her husband and married 2ndly at Cardiff on 21 May 1866 John Louis Heins, a widower and shipping agent), a daughter of James Harris. Mr. Scudamore, a mariner and pilot, died in his father’s lifetime on 19 February 1862, admons being granted to his widow on 8 March of that year. Had issue, 1. Richard, born 1858, who died in infancy the following year. 2. John, born 1860, who died in infancy the same year. 3. Richard Roberts, born 1861, who died in infancy the following year. 2. John, born 1837, who died an infant on 3 March 1840. 36. 3. JOHN BONNOR, of Cardiff, of whom further. 4. William Hayward, born 1845, who died in infancy the following year. 1. Lettice, born 1830. She married David Roberts in 1848. 2. Mary Ann, born 1833. She married Samuel Sage (born 1838), a master mariner, at St. Mary’s, Cardiff, on 11 November 1863. 3. Sarah, born 1839, who died in infancy in 1841. 4. Louisa, born 1841. She married John Wedge in 1864.

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5. Mary, born 1847, who died in infancy in 1849. The 3rd son, ABL [36]. JOHN BONNOR SCUDAMORE, of Cardiff, born 1 March 1843. He was married at Brislington, Somerset, (near Bristol) in 1869 to Sarah Jane Baker (born 1845, who survived her husband and died in 1930). Mr. and Mrs. Scudamore were living at 5 South William Street, Cardiff, with their family in 1881. Mr. Scudamore, an accountant, died in 1914, having had issue, 1. John Wedge (a twin), born 1869, who appears not to have married and who died at Carmarthen in 1908. 2. Richard (a twin), born 1869, who died in infancy in 1871. 80. 3. RUPERT STANHOPE, of Cardiff, of whom further. 4. Richard Edgar, born 1872, who died in infancy the following year. 81. 5. Richard Edgar, born 1878. He married at Cardiff on 3 January 1903 to Martha (born 1882, who died in 1914), daughter of William Edward Kenny. Mr. Scudamore died in 1951, having had issue, 1. Doris Martha, born 3 April 1903. She was married in 1952 to Gilbert Sefton. 2. Mary Agnes, born 12 May 1904, who died in infancy the same year. 82. 6. Ralph Roberts, of Pontypridd, Glamorgan, born 1883. He married in 1911 at Cardiff, Lucy M. B. Randall (who survived her husband and married 2ndly in 1928, Robert H. Pritchard). Mr. Scudamore died in 1926, leaving issue, 126. 1. John Bonnor, born 1914. He married in 1936, Doris D. Price (who survived her husband and married 2ndly in 1945, Harry Hargreaves). He served with a Parachute Regiment in World War II. Shortly after the end of the war, in 1945, he was training a squad of young men when his parachute failed to open and he was killed. Had issue, two sons. 127. 2. Roy William, of Rugby, South Africa, born 1918. His enjoyment of music led him to join the Royal Naval School of Music at the age of 14, in 1932. He served for 16 years with the Band of the Royal Marines. After his discharge, in 1948, he entered the civil service at Llanishen, South Glamorgan, where he stayed for 18 years before being transferred to Slough, Berkshire. In 1972 he and his wife and son emigrated to South Africa. He married 1stly on 30 April 1942 Noreen Gough (who died in 1948), and 2ndly in 1949 Anastasia _____ by whom he has issue a son. 7. Mary Louise, born 1873. Unmarried in 1901. 8. Florence May, born 1876. She married Arthur Edwin Gulston, a tailor (born 1874/5 in Ireland) in Cardiff in 1899 and was living at 26 Hanover Street, Canton, Cardiff in 1901. The 3rd son, ABL [80]. RUPERT STANHOPE SCUDAMORE, of Cardiff, born 1871. He married at Keynsham, Somerset, in 1903, Margaret Gardner (born April 1879, who survived her husband and died at Cardiff in 1967). Mr. Scudamore died in 1920, having had issue, 125. 1. RUPERT KENNETH, of whom further. 1. Margaret May, born 26 March 1904, who died unmarried in 1980. 2. Ethel Frances, born 1905. She married in 1934. 3. Constance Madge, of Rumney, Cardiff, born 1915. She married 1stly in 1941 Laurence G. Watkins, and 2ndly in 1950 John G. Cattley (both marriages were dissolved). She died on 15 June 1986. The only son, ABL [125]. RUPERT KENNETH SCUDAMORE, born 1908. He married in 1939 Marjorie Edith Curle (born 6 June 1913, died in 1985) by whom he had issue, 3 sons.

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NOTES

The admons of RICHARD SKIDMORE of Hentland, Herefordshire, was given at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury on 2 August 1660 to LODOVICK (LEWIS) SKIDMORE, his brother. Lewis Skidmore was not assessed in Herefordshire in 1663 and perhaps lived elsewhere.

SIBYL SCUDAMORE was buried 4 February 1681/2 at Goodrich, Herefordshire.

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ABENHALL, GLOUCESTERSHIRE

The ancestors of the family at Abenhall will be found earlier at THRUXTON, HEREFORDSHIRE (noticed elsewhere), a branch of the family anciently at Kentchurch.

ABL [3]. JOHN SCUDAMORE, of Mitcheldean and Abenhall (elder son of Godwin Scudamore (ABL [2], see p.19) by his wife Elizabeth Potter), was baptized on 10 October 1729 at English Bicknor, Gloucestershire. He married 1stly on 15 December 1749 at St. Nicholas’ Church, , Anne Wellington of Lea, Herefordshire (who was buried at Lea on 25 August 1750). He married 2ndly (licence) at Abenhall on 5 January 1750/1 Elizabeth Voyce of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, who was born about 1722. (She survived him and was buried at Abenhall on 7 January 1808 aged 86 according to the inscription on the family tomb in the churchyard). On 16 November 1770 he purchased a cottage with a garden and stables at the corner of the lane leading to the Forest of Dean at Abenhall from William Vaughan (and William his son) which had formerly belonged to Charles Walding. Mr. Scudamore died at Abenhall on 6 April 1796 and was buried there three days later, having had issue, 5. 1. JOHN, of , of whom further. 6. 2. RICHARD, of Abenhall, to whom we will return. 1. Elizabeth, baptized at Mitcheldean 20 September 1752. 2. Mary, baptized at Abenhall 8 December 1760. She married at Mitcheldean on 13 May 1789, Thomas Harris, of Longhope, Gloucestershire. 3. Hannah, baptized at Abenhall 26 February 1765. She married at English Bicknor in August 1786, Joseph Young. 4. Sarah, baptized at Abenhall 9 March 1771. She married (licence) at Mitcheldean on 15 August 1788, William Mayo. The elder son, ABL [5]. JOHN SCUDAMORE, of Flaxley and Boxbush Farm, Longhope, baptized at Mitcheldean 1 May 1754. He married (licence) at Flaxley on 6 January 1785, Mary, the daughter of George and Mary Martin of Flaxley (baptized at Flaxley 16 August 1763, who survived her husband and died 5 January 1852 and was buried at Longhope five days later). In her will dated 23 August 1850 (proved 28 July 1852) she directs that her property at Ruardean and Mitcheldean be sold and that the proceeds be divided among her five children. Mr. Scudamore died on 7 May 1840 and was buried five days later at Longhope. In his will, dated 23 August 1839 (proved 30 May 1840), he leaves his freehold farm at Boxbush of 47 acres to his son, Richard. 8. 1. JOHN, of Flaxley, of whom further. 9. 2. Richard, of Upper Boxbush Farm, Longhope, baptized at Flaxley 10 February 1793. He married (licence) at Abenhall 7 June 1820, his cousin Charlotte, the youngest daughter of Richard and Sarah Scudamore of Abenhall (who survived her husband and was buried aged 88 at Abenhall on 25 February 1887). Mr. Scudamore died on 16 May 1879 (will dated 4 June 1878, proved 4 July 1879), and was buried four days later at Longhope. Had issue, christened at Longhope, 19. 1. George of Bradley House Farm, Longhope, baptized 26 November 1820. He married in 1847, Martha, daughter of John and Anne Drinkwater (born about 1821, who survived him and died at Newent on 24 August 1881, buried at Longhope seven days later). In her will dated 11 July 1877 (proved 30 September 1881) she left her estate to her three surviving child- ren, the eldest of whom she appoints executrix. Mr. Scudamore died in his father’s lifetime on 10 November 1871 and was buried at Longhope five days later. In his will, dated 26 October 1866 (proved 9 January 1872) he leaves his estate to his wife, who he appoints executrix. Had issue, 1. Charlotte Ann, baptized at Longhope 15 April 1849. She married in September 1881 Frank Robert Savidge. 2. Martha, baptized at Longhope 22 May 1851. She

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died in infancy and was buried at Abenhall on 5 September 1854. 3. Sarah Ann, baptized at Longhope 6 March 1853. She married in 1871 William Dodds of Tibberton, Gloucestershire. 4. Martha Ann, born 1855. She married on 12 April 1881 at Longhope George William Crook, a farmer of Newent. 2. Richard, baptized 24 July 1831. He was unmarried and died in 1869. 1. Anne, baptized 6 October 1822. She married (licence) at Longhope on 18 June 1849, Thomas Drinkwater, of Lea, Herefordshire. 2. Charlotte, baptized 22 June 1828. She married in 1855 Alfred William Kitsell, of Gloucester (who died in 1899). Mrs. Kitsell was buried at Longhope on 27 September 1886. 3. Sarah, baptized 17 October 1834. She died in infancy and was buried at Abenhall on 22 October of the same year. 1. Sarah, baptized at Flaxley 16 January 1789. She married (licence dated 11 April 1812) Robert Crook of Huntley. 2. Mary, baptized at Flaxley 4 December 1796. She married Samuel Smith and was living his widow in 1850. 3. Ann, baptized at Longhope 8 June 1806. She married (licence 9 July 1853) Harry Greens, of Newent, Gloucestershire. The elder son, ABL [8]. JOHN SCUDAMORE, of Moors Farm, Flaxley, baptized at Flaxley 14 August 1786. He married Sarah ______(born 1789, she survived him and died 21 January 1866). In her will dated 18 January (proved 18 May) 1866 she leaves her small holding at Lea Bailey for the benefit (after sale) of four of her children (named), and nominated her brother-in-law Harry Greens as her executor. Mr. Scudamore in his will dated 6 October 1853 (proved 25 March 1854) left his freehold property at Green Bottom in East Dean Township to his second son John, and his freehold and leasehold property at Lea Line within the manor of Longhope to his youngest son Richard. He also devises to his same two sons his small holdings at Mill Green in East Dean to be held in trust for his married daughters Mary Wintle and Sarah Ann Smith and their grandchildren. He appoints his wife Sarah his executrix, and left her his farm and associated property called The Moors in Flaxley. After her death The Moors was to go to his six children (named) subject to the payment of £100 to his son John. Mr. Scudamore died on 10 October 1853 and was buried at Flaxley four days later, having had issue, 17. 1. GEORGE, of Barrow-in-Furness, of whom further. 18. 2. JOHN, of Littledean and Lea Bailey (in East Dean), of whom presently. 3. Richard, of Hazelhurst Farm, Walford, Herefordshire, baptized at Littledean 13 July 1828. He married 1stly in 1859 Mary Ann Merrett (born 1825 at Abenhall, and buried there on 31 January 1868). He married 2ndly in 1869 Margaret Smith (born 1833, a widow with children by her previous marriage, who survived her husband and died on 20 July 1893). Her will (dated 7 July, proved 10 November 1893) names her daughter Hilda Margaretta Read and her niece Martha Ann Read to whom she makes bequests. Mr. Scudamore died (presumably without issue) on 28 August 1887. In his will (dated 14 August 1875, proved 24 February 1888) he leaves his freehold and copyhold property to his wife Margaret, and then in default of issue to his brothers and sisters (named) and to his niece Martha Ann Drinkwater. 4. Joseph, baptized at Littledean on 29 August 1830. He died in infancy and was buried at Flaxley on 1 September 1830. 1. Sarah Ann, baptized at Lea on 26 May 1822. She married (licence) on 29 September 1846, at Lea, William Smith of Westbury Grove. 2. Hannah, born 1823. She married at Flaxley on 11 August 1840 John Merrett of

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Arlingham, Gloucestershire. 3. Mary, born about 1827. She married (licence) on 4 May 1848 at Flaxley Thomas Wintle of Taynton, Gloucestershire. The eldest son, ABL [17]. GEORGE SCUDAMORE, of Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire, baptized at Longhope 6 August 1820. He married (licence) on 10 November 1854 at St. Nicholas’ church, Gloucester, Mary Bamford of Newnham, Gloucestershire, (born 1837, who survived her husband and died at Barrow-in-Furness in 1899). Mr. Scudamore (who worked on the railways) was living in Penrith Street, Barrow, in 1881, and at 10 Glasgow Street at his death on 30 January 1886. (His admons granted on 16 September 1901 to his son John Thomas Scudamore because the widow Mary had died without administering her late husband’s personal estate.) Had issue, 37. 1. JOHN THOMAS, of Barrow, of whom further. 2. Joseph, of Preston, Lancashire, born 1859. He married at Lytham, Lancashire, on 21 October 1895 Margaret (born 1844 who survived him and died in 1925), the widow of ______Wilding and a daughter of George Langton. Mr. Scudamore died in 1916 without issue. 3. George, of Barrow, born 1864. Presumably unmarried, he died in 1945. 4. Richard, born 1867. He died in 1877. 1. Sarah Ann, born 1861. She died unmarried at Barrow in 1953. 2. Mary (Polly), born 1869. She married on 15 June 1889 John Taylor. The eldest son, ABL [37]. JOHN THOMAS SCUDAMORE, of Barrow-in-Furness, born 1856. He married on 11 August 1877 Harriet Jones (born 1859 and died in 1892). Mr. Scudamore died in 1929 having had issue, 1. John William, born at Barrow in 1878. He died in infancy in 1882. 83. 2. RICHARD, of Bootle, of whom further. 1. Louisa, born 1883. She married in 1910 Arthur Allen and was living in 1957 at Dale Bank, Barrow. 2. Hannah, born 1884. She married on 24 December 1910 Frederick Colin Banks. 3. Harriet, born 1892. She married in 1913 John Wadeson. 4. Doris, born 1894. She died unmarried on 4 March 1957, admons being granted to her sister Louisa Allen on 17 May of that year. The surviving son, ABL [83]. RICHARD SCUDAMORE, of Bootle near Barrow, born 1882. He married in 1903 Emily Moss (born 1883 who survived her husband and died in 1943). Mr. Scudamore died in 1928, having had issue, 1. William, born 1903. He died in infancy the same year. 128. 2. JOHN THOMAS, of whom further. 129. 3. Joseph, born 1908. He married in 1931 Margaret Standing. He died in 1952 leaving issue, an only son. 130. 4. John, of Barrow, born 27 May 1912. He married in 1936 Alice Bradley and died in 1978 leaving issue, 2 sons and a daughter. 131. 5. Richard, born 1 February 1915. He married in 1947 Mary V. Queen and died in 1978 having had issue, a daughter. 6. George, born 1920. He died in infancy the following year. 7. Norris, born 1924. 1. Mary, born 1904. She married in 1923 Francis Cloudsdale. 2. Emily, born 1918. She married in 1937 Albert Helling. The eldest surviving son, ABL [128]. JOHN THOMAS SCUDAMORE, of Bootle and Barrow, born 1906. He married in 1929 Lily M. Whitten. Mr. Scudamore died in 1954 having had issue, 3 sons and 5 daughters.

The 2nd son of John Scudamore (ABL [8]) of Moors Farm by his wife Sarah, ABL [18]. JOHN SCUDAMORE, of Littledean and Lea Bailey (in East Dean), Gloucestershire,

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3. Lillian, born 1893. She married in 1935 Arthur S. Wilson. 4. Susannah, born 1895. She married in 1935 John J. Craigie. 5. Louisa (a twin), born 10 April 1904. She married on 8 September 1945 John Dennis Griffiths. 6. Olive (a twin), born 10 April 1904. She died in infancy in 1905. The eldest son, ABL [84]. JOSEPH WILLIAM SCUDAMORE, of Cardiff and Pontypridd, born 4 September 1888. He married in 1916 Sarah M. Owens (born 1891 who died in 1967). Mr. Scudamore died in 1958 having had issue, 6 sons and 2 daughters.

For the descent of the family at Abenhall, Hentland, Herefordshire, and subsequently of Gallatin County, Illinois, it is necessary to return to, ABL [6]. RICHARD SCUDAMORE, of Abenhall (the 2nd son of John Scudamore (ABL [3]) of Mitcheldean and Abenhall by his wife Elizabeth Voyce) baptized at Mitcheldean 24 January 1758. He married at Abenhall on 13 February 1784 Sarah Nelmes (born about 1766, who survived her husband and died on 25 November 1843 and was buried at Abenhall four days later). Mr. Scudamore died on 19 May 1829 and was buried three days later at Abenhall. In his will (dated 7 April 1827, proved 11 July 1829) it appears that he acquired by inheritance, and also doubtless by purchase, several small holdings within the of Mitcheldean and Abenhall (or vicinity). He devises these properties to his wife and children and he appoints his wife and his son Joseph as executors. The family grave at Abenhall, adjacent to that of his grandparents, has memorials inscribed to his wife and himself on the south-facing panel. Had issue, christened at Abenhall, 1. Richard, of Westbury-on-Severn and Abenhall, baptized 30 August 1789. His father, in his will, left him a small holding in Mitcheldan parish called Skult’s House (a property acquired by his great-grandfather, Godwin Scudamore, in 1753), as well as a legacy of £40 and some of his father’s personal effects, including two hogsheads, a barrel and a kilderkin. His father made a provision in his will that should Richard not have children then Skult’s House is to go to his brother Joseph. Richard Scudamore did not marry; he died on 4 March 1860 and was buried at Abenhall four days later. 10. 2. JOHN, of Abenhall, of whom later. 3. Thomas, of Vandalia, Gallatin County, Illinois, baptized 12 May 1793. In 1819 he and his brothers George and Philip emigrated to the United States, embarking in the spring of that year. Thomas Scudamore died unmarried of fever at Vandalia on 10 September 1820. He and his brother Philip are remembered in an inscription incised on the west-facing side of their father’s tomb at Abenhall in the churchyard. 11. 4. JOSEPH, of Pengethley, Herefordshire, baptized 5 July 1795. He was the ancestor to the family at HENTLAND, HEREFORDSHIRE (see p.38). 12. 5. GEORGE, of Gallatin County, Illinois, baptized 15 October 1797. He emigrated (with his brothers Thomas and Philip) to the United States in 1819. In a letter (written on 29 April 1823 in Gallatin County) to his brother John at Abenhall he breaks the news of the deaths of their brother Thomas from fever and of the loss of their married brother Philip from the same complaint. George says of himself that he had suffered two bouts of fever from which he thought that he would not recover, but he has not written any of this to his parents so as not to distress them. He ends by saying that he expects to see his brother John in 12 months time. George’s father in his will leaves him a legacy of £40 with the proviso that if he pre-deceases his mother or does not return to England within three years of her death then the legacy is to be paid to the testator’s grandson, John Scudamore son of Ann Drinkwater. Mr. Scudamore died on 27 November 1841 leaving issue four sons and three daughters in GALLATIN COUNTY, ILLINOIS (see p.50). 13. 6. Philip, of Albion, Edwards County, Illinois, baptized 29 March 1800. A black- smith, he emigrated to the United States with his brothers Thomas and George in 1819 and settled in the English settlement at Albion. He married on 8 February 1820 Ann Drinkwater (a native of Lincolnshire) who was brought to Albion by Mr. Flower who founded the English

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colony there. She was previously the widow of ______Stone and married 3rdly Moses Smith (born 1795, died 1854) of Albion on 16 December 1822 in Edwards County by whom she had other children; she died 6 December 1859. Philip died of fever on 1 May 1822, leaving (according to the admons on his estate) an acre lot in Albion where he had his smithy and a small amount of personal property. Had issue an only son, 34. 1. Thomas E., of Princeton, Gibson County, Indiana, born 4 December 1820. He married on 25 April 1843 Jane Pickford (who is noted in the 1870 census as born in England and aged 46). He was a harness maker by trade and had died before 15 September 1856 when the guardianship of his four minor children was given to their grandmother and step-grandfather. Had issue (the three eldest born at Albion), 1. George, born 1848. He was living at Princeton, Gibson County, Indiana, on 8 March 1864 when he enlisted for three years in Company C, 58th Regiment of Indiana Infantry in the Civil War. He was mustered out at Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, on 25 July 1865. 1. Virginia, born 1844. She married Louis Pfohl on 14 December 1865 and died on 5 September 1901 at Princeton aged 57. 2. Mary J., born 1846. She married William H. Evans (died 1895) on 12 October 1869. They lived at Oakland City in Gibson County, Indiana. 3. Clara E., born June 1853 in Indiana. She was living alone on Broadway Street in Princeton in 1900, but married D. P. Stuart on 2 April 1903. 1. Sarah, baptized 22 February 1785. She married (licence) at Abenhall on 29 August 1809 John Ballinger of that parish. Her father in his will leaves her £100. She died on 15 August 1829 and was buried at Abenhall, where an inscription to her memory is recorded on the north-facing panel of her parent’s tombstone. 2. Ann, baptized (as Nancy) 8 October 1786. She married (licence) at Abenhall on 25 February 1811 John Drinkwater of Huntley, Gloucestershire (who died 11 February 1832). Before her marriage Ann was the mother of a son who is remembered in the will of his grandfather, Richard Scudamore, as “John Scudamore son of my daughter Ann Drinkwater”, and to whom he leaves a legacy of £20 and a cottage and some land in Silver Street in Abenhall parish. Ann Drinkwater died on 26 April 1866 and memorials to herself, her husband John, their two sons Thomas and Edward, are inscribed on two of the side panels of her father and mother’s tombstone. Her son, 20. 1. John Scudamore, of Mitcheldean, Abenhall and Hereford, baptized at Abenhall 15 April 1808. He married (licence) at St. Mary de Lode, Gloucester, on 16 September 1831 Hannah Hail (born at Longhope about 1805, who survived her husband and died at Hereford but was buried at Longhope on 30 April 1880). John and his wife first lived at Mitcheldean where John was a maltster according to the census returns for 1841. Ten years later the family was living at the Old Vicarage, Abenhall, where John farmed 159 acres. By 1861 John and Hannah were living at Hereford where the census returns for that year show that they were dwelling in Commercial Street in that city, John following his original trade of maltster. He died at Longhope and was buried there on 28 December 1875. Had issue, 1. Samuel, baptized at Abenhall 7 August 1836. He died there and was buried on 22 March 1846. 2. Thomas, baptized at Mitcheldean 23 September 1838. He was unmarried in 1861 and was living with his

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parents at Hereford where he followed his father’s trade as a maltster. He died in 1865 at Hereford. 41. 3. George, baptized 28 September 1841. He was living with his parents at Abenhall in 1851, but married Elizabeth Palmer (who survived him and died on 26 June 1880 at Yazor, Herefordshire) on 4 March 1869 at Staunton-on-Arrow. He and his wife moved shortly after their marriage to Suffolk where their children were born. Mr. Scudamore was a groom and coachman to a family at Hitcham Hall. He died at Bildeston, near Hitcham, and was buried at Hitcham on 21 June 1877. His widow and his young children returned to Herefordshire where she died three years later. The children lived with their aunt Ellen (wife of Charles Perry) at Staunton-on-Wye and later emigrated to America. Had issue, born at Hitcham, 89. 1. Arthur, born 1871. He emigrated in 1891 and settled first in New England where he worked for a gentleman named Wickwire. He moved by 1900 with his employer to Cortland, Cortland County, New York, where they were nail manufacturers. He married Helena ______and they were living in 1920 at 11 Broadway Street, Cortland. He died in 1960 having worked for Wickwire for over 60 years. Had issue, 140.1. Roger Arthur, born 17 March 1911 at Cortland. He married Marian Cox (died 1943) and died at Cortland on 22 October 1992. He is buried there in St. Mary’s Cemetery. Has issue. 1. Hazel, born 1898. She was living at home in 1920. 90. 2. George William, born 21 December 1873 (baptized 18 January 1874 at Hitcham). He married Mary Norter in 1899 and died in February 1956. He and his wife were living in 1900 at Ro- chester, Monroe County, New York. Had issue, 141. 1. George W., born 3 April 1905. He married Florence Fogel (who survived her husband) on 19 September 1925 and had three children. He died on 9 June 1991 at Greece, Monroe County, New York. 1. Doris, born 27 December 1900. She married Jack Casey in 1936 and was living in 1991.

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2. Alice, born 31 January 1903. She married Harvey Lauer in 1926 and did not have any children. 1. Alice, born 4 September (baptized 29 September) 1872. She was living unmarried, a nurse at Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut, in 1900. 2. Ellen Ann (Nellie), born 1875. She was living in 1900 at 56 Gibbs Street, Rochester, Monroe County, New York, a domestic servant.

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3. Mary Emma, baptized 10 December 1876. 1. Mary Ann, born at Hereford in 1834. She married Henry Pearce on 24 June 1854 at St. Nicholas, Gloucester. 2. Harriet, born at Mitcheldean in 1844. She was living with John and Elizabeth Pritchard and their family at Richmond Place, Hereford, in 1861 as a servant. 3. Martha, born at Mitcheldean in 1847. She was living with her parents in Hereford in 1861. She married (licence) at Hereford 25 October 1869 Francis Ward of Holme Lacy. 3. Charlotte, baptized 16 April 1801. She married at Abenhall on 7 June 1820 Richard Scudamore, of Longhope, her cousin (died 1879). Her father in his will leaves her two properties in Abenhall situated on the south side of Gloucester Road, then occupied by Joseph Evans and John Jones. This bequest is subject to the payment of a legacy of £20 out of these properties to the testator’s grandson John, son of his daughter Ann Drinkwater. Charlotte Scudamore died on 21 February 1887 and was buried four days later at Abenhall, and a memorial to her is incised on the south- facing panel of her parent’s gravestone. The 2nd son, ABL [10]. JOHN SCUDAMORE, of Abenhall, baptized there on 11 September 1791. He married 1stly at Longhope on 21 August 1821 Ann (born about 1801, buried at Abenhall 10 February 1840), a daughter of Daniel and Winifred Young of Hartsborn in Longhope parish, by whom he had issue, 21. 1. JAMES, of Mitcheldean and Northampton, of whom further. 22. 2. JOHN, of Abenhall, of whom presently. 3. George, born 12 September (and baptized at Abenhall 14 October) 1827. He died in infancy the following year and was buried there on 31 October 1828. 4. Joseph, of Longhope and Gloucester, born 13 December (baptized 28 December) 1828. Mr. Scudamore, a coal merchant, was unmarried. He died at Gloucester on 12 November 1870 and was buried at Abenhall five days later. In his will (dated 7 November 1867, proved 1 March 1871) he makes bequests to his brothers James and John, and to his sisters Harriet and Emily. A memorial to him is incised on the south panel of his grandparent’s grave at Abenhall. 5. Daniel, baptized 16 June 1839. He died in infancy and was buried at Abenhall on 28 December of the same year. 1. Harriet, baptized at Abenhall 1 May 1831. She married at the same church on 6 July 1853 William Hawkins. 2. Emily, baptized at Abenhall 22 December 1833. She married at Newland on 20 October 1854 Thomas Bennett Brain of . 3. Winifred, baptized at Abenhall 9 December 1834. She was living unmarried at Abenhall and travelled to Australia in 1860 aboard the ship Great Victoria with her then 3 year old son William Scudamore. She married John Stenner (born about 1827 in Minehead, Somerset, son of William and Elizabeth (Thawe) Stenner, died 1971 in Victoria) at St Paul's Church, Melbourne on 10 October 1868 and they had a son John William Stenner in 1869 who died in 1870 aged 6 months. Mrs Stenner died on 25 January 1883 at 26 Greville Street, Prahran, Victoria . A son, born in England, 48. i. WILLIAM called Scudamore, born about 1853, whose birth registration has not been found and whose father is unknown. He went to Australia with his mother in 1860, where he was a carpenter. He married Mary Kelly on 18 April 1880 at the Registry Office, Gore Street, Fitzroy,

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Victoria. Mary Kelly was born 4 August 1857 at Pennyweight Flat, Guildford (near Castlemaine) Victoria, daughter of John and Mary (Sullivan) Kelly. She died on 13 February 1945 at Bendigo Benevolent Home, Bendigo, Victoria. Mr Scudamore died of tuberculosis on 14 April 1907 in Victoria, aged 47 and is buried at the Boorondara Cemetery, Kew along with his son William Dennis David Scudamore. Issue, born in Victoria, i. A baby son, born and died in Prahran in 1880. ii. Mary Winifred, born 1881 in Prahran, died in Melbourne in 1903. iii. John, born 1883 in Richmond, Victoria. He married Mary Ann Hudson in 1919 at Collingwood, Victoria. They had no children. Mrs Scudamore died at Greenvale, Victoria in May 1969 aged 77 and is buried with her husband at the Springvale Cemetery, Victoria. Mr Scudamore died in Heidelberg, Victoria on 21 October 1864. iv. Kate, born 23 October 1885 at 5 Donald Street, Prahran, Victoria, died 4 January 1926. She married Thomas Hugh Lewis (1880-1947) on 17 December 1906 at the Registry Office at Collingwood, Victoria. They had four children, William Thomas Hugh, Tasman James Wildred, Thomas Donald and Burnley John Dennis. Mrs Lewis died at Heidelberg, Victoria on 4 January 1926. v. Annie, born 1887 in Melbourne. She married 1stly Thomas Roundtree Falkingbridge and 2ndly Albert Martin. Mrs Martin died at Eltham on in 1926. vi. William Alfred, born and died at Armadale in 1890. vii. William Dennis David, born 1892 in Richmond, died 18 September 1914 from tuberculosis, aged 22. viii. Harriet Emily, born 1895 in Richmond and died there in 1904. A daughter, born in Australia, ii. Ada Winifred WARD, born 14 October 1865 at Cogills Creek. Her mother stated at the child’s birth registration that she was married to William Ward in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England in 1858 (for which there is presently no evidence). Ada's name was changed to Ada Scudamore. She married Frank Esau Place in 1886 and they had two daughters, Adelaide Winfred Maria Place and Ada May Victoria Place. Ada Place died aged 30 and her two daughters were raised by William Scudamore, her half-brother and his wife Mary.(LM). Mr. Scudamore married 2ndly at Abenhall on 12 May 1846 Elizabeth (who survived him and died at Plump Hill Township, East Dean, on 12 March 1861, admons granted on 16 August of that year to Dinah, wife of Aaron Cooper, her only child by her first husband), widow of ______Cook. John Scudamore died on 11 April 1851 and was buried at Abenhall eight days later. In his will (dated 12 June 1848, proved 17 March 1852) he devises several properties in Abenhall and the vicinity to his (named) children by his first marriage. The eldest son, ABL [21]. JAMES SCUDAMORE, of Mitcheldean and Northampton, Northamptonshire, born 16 August (baptized at Abenhall 22 August) 1824. He married at Mitcheldean on 6 June 1854 Charlotte (born 1834, who survived her husband and died at Northampton on 6 October 1907), daughter of George Lawson Whatley, a solicitor then practicing in Micheldean. Mr. Scudamore was a road contractor in Northampton. He died there on 23 January 1899 and was buried in the General Cemetery. His will (dated 6 November 1897,

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For continuation of the descent of the family at Abenhall it is necessary to return to, ABL [22]. JOHN SCUDAMORE, of Abenhall, born 9 November (baptized 11 December) 1825, the 2nd son of John Scudamore of Abenhall (died 1851) by his wife Ann Young. He married 16 September 1858 at English Bicknor, Mary Ann, a daughter of James and Mary Buston of Trump Farm, English Bicknor (born 1833, died on 17 March 1870, buried at Abenhall three days later). Mr. Scudamore farmed at Abenhall where he was awarded several silver trophies for good husbandry. In his will (dated 10 October 1893, proved 12 June 1894) he leaves properties in Abenhall parish and neighborhood to his six surviving sons and his daughter, and appoints his sons, John Howard and Albert, co-executors with his brother-in-law, Thomas Bennett Brain. He died on 8 November 1893 and was buried three days later at Abenhall. Had issue, baptized at Abenhall, 1. James Pickering, born 13 March, (baptized 17 April) 1860. He died in infancy and was buried at Abenhall on 6 February 1861. 44. 2. John Howard, of Abenhall, Aston Ingham and Ross-on-Wye, born 10 March (baptized 16 April) 1861. He married on 28 April 1887 at Hope Mansell, Herefordshire, his cousin Ellen Hartland, a daughter of Thomas Bennett and Emily Brain (born 1865, died 1927). He and his brothers and sister were left a legacy of £2000 in the will of their grandfather, James Buston. During his lifetime the family fortunes declined, influenced (no doubt) by the general recession that hit farming at that period and aggravated by fires that destroyed the flour mill that he and his brother Albert owned. From correspondence it is clear that he was scrupulously fair in sharing the family inheritance with his brothers and sister. In a letter to his brother Godwin in New Zealand dated 20 January 1923, he expresses disappointment in his efforts to claim an inheritance to which he believed his family was entitled. He had corresponded with an attorney in Salt Lake City, but nothing else is known of his suit. (Perhaps we have here an echo of aspirations other members of the Scudamore family had entertained relating to past litigation.) Mr. Scudamore died in reduced circumstances on 6 July 1932 at Ross-on-Wye where he was buried. His will is dated 8 April 1909 (proved 26 July 1932). Left issue an only son, Cornelius John, of Gloucester, born 11 April 1894. He married on 1 November 1921, at Twigworth, Gloucestershire, Doris Christabel, daughter of Frank Martin Vines of Twigworth Court (born 1 November 1898, who survived her husband and died at Bradley House Nursing Home near Mitcheldean on 3 December 1981 and was buried on 10 December at Gloucester Cemetery). Mr. Scudamore, a surveyor by profession, served with the Royal Engineers in Salonica during World War I. He was appointed Deputy Surveyor of Gloucester in 1922 and Surveyor the following year. He died without issue of a heart attack during a visit to London on 23 March 1948 and was buried at Twigworth. 45. 3. ALBERT, of Cheltenham, of whom further. 46. 4. Godwin, of Dunedin, New Zealand, born 19 December 1863, baptized 18 January 1864. He emigrated to New Zealand in 1888 sailing on the S. S. Ironie. He married in 1891 Elizabeth Campbell, a daughter of Captain L. F. Mathieson, of Dunedin (born 1869, died May 1945). Mr. Scudamore died in November 1945, having had issue, 95. 1. John Godwin, born 1898. He married in 1932 Christina Ellen Clark and died in 1957, leaving issue, 2 sons & 2 daughters. 1. Gladys Mary, born 1893. She died unmarried in 1918. 2. Winifred Elizabeth, born 1894. She died unmarried in 1967. 3. Constance Mabel, born 1896. She died unmarried in 1943. 4. Eunice Evelyn, born 1902. She lived at Oamaru, North Otago, New Zealand and died unmarried on 9 July 1985. 5. Emily Blanche, born 1907. She married 12 April 1933 Robert Alfred Young (born 1907, died 1989). They live at Timaru, South Canterbury, New Zealand.

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47. 5. Joseph Leonard, of East Dean, Gloucestershire, born 26 August (baptized 21 September) 1865. He married in 1893 Emma Meek (who survived her husband and died on 28 September 1955). Mr. Scudamore died on 7 June 1909 having had issue, 96. 1. Albert Leonard, of East Dean, baptized at Abenhall 12 February 1900. He married there 24 December 1927 Elsie May Jones (born 1901 who survived him and died on 13 June 1986). Mr. Scudamore, a collier, died on 9 April 1961 and was buried at Abenhall leaving issue, a son & 3 daughters. 1. Margaret Ann, born 1894. She married at Bristol in 1923 William J. Hobbs. 2. Eleanor Mary, born 23 August (baptized at Abenhall 9 September) 1897. She died in infancy and was buried at Abenhall on 16 March 1898. 3. Eleanor Mary, born 30 August 1898, baptized at Abenhall 23 January 1899. 6. Henry Buston, born 16 June (baptized 20 July) 1867. He may have gone to Australia for a time but seems to have died at Bristol in 1933. 1. Mary Ann, born 24 December 1868, baptized 20 January 1869. She married in 1891 Scudamore Bennett Brain, the youngest son of Thomas Bennett Brain of Drybrook, Gloucestershire. They had issue four sons and a daughter. The 3rd son, ABL [45]. ALBERT SCUDAMORE, of Churcham and Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, born 22 September (baptized 19 October) 1862 at Abenhall. He married 1stly on 28 January 1890 Caroline Elizabeth (born 1864, died 5 June 1902), daughter of Charles Hall of Brockworth Court (near Gloucester) by whom he had issue, 1. John Reginald Hall, of Cheltenham, born 30 November 1890. He married in 1919 Annie Keren (born 3 December 1894, died 3 April 1966), a daughter of Sidney Organ. Mr. Scudamore lived at Charlton Kings, Cheltenham, where he died on 27 February 1973 leaving no issue. 1. Julia May, born 30 May 1892. She married in 1914 Stanley Fruin of Cheltenham. She died in October 1962. 2. Hilda Mary, of Malvern, Worcestershire, born 8 March 1894. She died unmarried at Malvern on 12 January 1985. Mr. Scudamore married 2ndly in 1903 Ada Louise (born 1882, who survived her husband and died in Australia in 1952), daughter of Arthur George Peach. Shortly after her husband’s death Mrs. Scudamore emigrated to Australia taking with her the two sons by him. Mr. Scudamore died at Cheltenham on 15 January 1912 leaving issue by his second wife, 93. 2. ALBERT GODWIN, of whom further. 94. 3. Richard, born 1906. He married Elizabeth Robertson by whom he had issue, a son & a daughter. The 2nd son, ABL [93]. ALBERT GODWIN (SAM) SCUDAMORE, of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, born at Cheltenham 3 August 1904. He married Jean (born 1914), a daughter of George Vincent William of Sydney, New South , Australia. Mr. and Mrs. Scudamore lived at Corinda (near Brisbane). He died on 28 December 1992, having had issue, 2 sons.

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Richard Scudamore of ABENHALL, GLOUCESTERSHIRE (noticed elsewhere above, ABL [6], see p.28), was born in 1758. He was descended from a branch of the family at KENTCHURCH, HEREFORDSHIRE, that settled in the 15th century first at Thruxton and later at Huntsham in Goodrich in that county. Richard Scudamore acquired by inheritance as well as purchase several small holdings in the vicinity of Abenhall and Mitcheldean. He married Sarah Nelmes in 1784 and died at Abenhall in 1829 having had by her six sons and three daughters. It is to his son JOSEPH SCUDAMORE and his descendants that we now turn.

ABL [11]. JOSEPH SCUDAMORE, of Little Treaddow and Little Pengethley, in Hentland, near Ross- on-Wye, Herefordshire, (the 4th son of Richard Scudamore by his wife Sarah Nelmes) was baptized at Abenhall, Gloucestershire, on 5 July 1795. He married in 1821 Elizabeth (baptized at Mitcheldean 6 March 1803, who survived him), a daughter of James and Mary Hale of that place. Mrs. Scudamore made her will on 7 December 1881 (proved 23 May 1882) naming ten of her children as beneficiaries; she died at Llancraugh in Llangarron on 18 February 1882 and was buried five days later at Hentland. A maltster and farmer at Little Pengethley, Mr. Scudamore died at Trewen in on 26 May 1862, and was buried at Hentland five days later having had issue christened at Hentland (with the exception of the two eldest children), 23. 1. GODWIN, of Illinois and California, U.S.A., of whom further. 24. 2. JOSEPH of Coleford, of whom presently. 3. Richard, of Pengethley and Whitecross Farm, , Herefordshire, born 7 August (baptized 28 September) 1828. He married (licence) 16 November 1859, at Walford, Herefordshire, Harriet Anne (who survived her husband and emigrated to California), a daughter of William Whittington of Walford, Herefordshire. She died at Beaumont, Riverside County, California, on 30 January 1910, (admons being granted on 19 April 1910 to Thomas Matthews, attorney to Emily Ann, wife of Sidney Lewis). Mr. Scudamore died without issue at Whitecross on 17 July 1890 (will dated 14 July, proved 22 August 1890), and was buried at Bristow. 25. 4. JOHN, of Pengethley, to whom we will eventually return. 5. Thomas, born 28 May 1838 who died in infancy on 20 June of that year and was buried at Hentland two days later. 26. 6. GEORGE, of Treworgan in Llangarron, of whom presently. 27. 7. THOMAS, of Great Trewen in Llangrove and Kilreague in Llangarron, of whom presently. 28. 8. ALFRED, of Gillow, Herefordshire, and Pontypridd, Glamorgan, of whom presently. 29. 9. HENRY, of Trostrey Court in Usk, Monmouthshire, of whom presently. 1. Mary, born 25 December 1821, baptized at Mitcheldean 12 January 1822. She died aged 12 on 19 January 1834, and was buried at Hentland three days later. 2. Elizabeth, born 15 June 1823. She married Thomas James Christy Nops at Hentland 26 April 1849. 3. Charlotte, born 23 December (baptized 29 December) 1830. She married in 1853 John Williams. 4. Anne, born 20 September (baptized 28 October) 1832. She married in 1856 at Hentland, Michael Davies of Treaddow (died 31 May 1862 aged 35, and was buried at Hentland three days later). She died 12 September 1860 and was buried at Hentland. 5. Mary, born 8 June, baptized 11 June 1856. She married Charles Smith. 6. Sarah Jane, born 30 July 1841, baptized 21 March 1842. She married 1stly in 1865 Daniel Bull (died 1882), and 2ndly John Davies of Marstow Court. She died on 27 January 1891 and was buried at Marstow. The eldest son,

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ABL [23]. GODWIN SCUDAMORE, of Randolph County, Illinois, and Scotts Valley Precinct, Lake County, California, born 28 November 1824, baptized at Hentland on 21 January 1825. He emigrated to the United States in 1844, landing in New York in November of that year. He farmed in New Orleans and near Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, moving in March 1853 to Liberty, Randolph County, Illinois, where he continued farming near Jones Creek until his enlistment in the Union Army on 28 July 1862. He served as a Private in Company A, 80th Regiment of Illinois Infantry. Captured at Rome, Georgia, on 3 May 1863 by the Confederates, he was imprisoned from 31 August 1863 until 29 February 1864 in the notorious Libby Prison at Richmond. He escaped from there (with others) on 29 February 1864 by tunnelling under the walls. Promoted from 2nd to 1st Lieutenant on 8 April 1863, and to Captain on 16 May 1865, he commanded two companies until the end of the war and his discharge at Camp Harker, Tennessee, on 20 Jun 1865. He settled in Scotts Valley, Lake County, California, in October 1869 where he remained for the rest of his life. He married 1stly in Sycamore Township, Hamilton County, Illinois, on 15 September 1849, Caroline Augusta (born 1826, died in January 1866 at Rockwood, Illinois), widow of John Colley, and daughter of Jonathan Hampton by whom he had issue, 1. Charlotte, born 17 September 1851. She married on 1 October 1871 William Rose (born 1851, died 1892), and died in 1946 having had issue a son and four daughters. 2. Sarah Jane, born 20 July 1855. She married on 21 June 1874 Dr. Charles Henry Hurt of Scotts Valley. She died on 7 June 1935 having had issue six sons and eight daughters. 3. Alice, born 15 October 1857. She married James Whitsett Hurt (born 1855, died 19 December 1928), and died on 17 June 1882 having had issue a son and two daughters. 4. Mary, born 20 January 1862. She married 1stly on 18 April 1882 George W. Howell, and 2ndly on 13 September 1886 Samuel H. Grigsby. She died on 4 March 1899 having had issue two sons by her 2nd husband. Mr. Scudamore married 2ndly on 15 October 1866, Mary S., (born 26 December 1832, died 14 June 1896), a daughter of Harvey Clendenin of Randolph County, Illinois. They lived at Lakeport in Lake County, California. He died at Scotts Valley on 22 May 1908 and was buried in the Hartley Cemetery there two days later, having had issue by his 2nd wife, 49. 1. Richard (Dick), born 1 January 1869. He married in 1892 Nancy O. Harmon (born 1869, died 10 November 1935). He was living in 1920 on Telegraph Road, in Anaheim, Orange County, California. He died on 12 July 1938, leaving issue, 1. Joseph Harmon, born 1893. He married 20 August 1912 Sallie Christie. They had no issue. 1. Mary Aileen, born 17 March 1898. She married 22 November 1915 Alfred Wesley Akers by whom she had an only son. 2. Thomasine, born 1900. She married ______and had issue two daughters. 2. Joseph Harvey, born 25 February 1873. He died in infancy on 19 July 1874 and was buried, as were also several other members of the family, in the Hartley Cemetery. 5. Elizabeth Laurancy (Lora), born 25 August 1867. She married 22 January 1897 Joseph S. Williams of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California (said to have been a cousin from Coleford, Gloucestershire, born 1857). They were living on Telegraph Road in Anaheim in 1920. 6. Nancy Persis (Nannie), born 16 September 1871. She married William C. Craig, of Humbolt County, California, by whom she had two sons and three daughters.

The 2nd son of Joseph Scudamore by his wife Elizabeth Hale, ABL [24]. JOSEPH SCUDAMORE, of Coleford, Gloucestershire, was born on 23 October (baptized at Hentland 17 December) 1826. He married at Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, 29 January 1853, Jane (born 1828, who survived him and died at Weymouth, Dorset, on 2 April 1915), a daughter of Thomas Roper, of Ross. Mr. Scudamore is said to have died abroad. Had issue, an only son, ABL [50] CHARLES JOSEPH ROPER SCUDAMORE, of Hampshire, was born in 1853 and baptized at Ross-on-Wye on 25 December of that year. He married (licence) at Kensington, Middlesex, 21

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September 1881, Eva (born 1858, who survived him and died at Selborne, Hampshire, on 8 May 1845), a daughter of George Frost. Mr. Scudamore was living at Enfield, Middlesex, in 1900, and died at Alverstroke, Hampshire, in 1909 having had issue (as known) an only son, ABL [97]. BASIL CAMERON SCUDAMORE, of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, was born on 26 March 1885. He emigrated to Canada and was living at The Citadel, Quebec, in 1914. He married on 15 September 1921 Mabel May Power, a widow (born 7 July 1890, who surived her husband and died in July 1973), and a daughter of ______Brinson. Mr. Scudamore died on 18 April 1949, having had issue, 3 sons.

The 6th son of Joseph Scudamore by his wife Elizabeth Hale, ABL [26]. GEORGE SCUDAMORE, of Treworgan in Llangarron, Herefordshire, and Pontypridd, Glamorgan, born 1 July (baptized 11 August) 1839. He married in 1863 Sarah Jane (born 1846, who survived him and died at Pontypridd on 29 November 1932), daughter of William Sherriff, of Monmouth and Treworgan. Mr. Scudamore farmed over 500 acres at Treworgan, and retired to live at Pontypridd where he died on 5 June 1906 and was buried at the Glyntaff Cemetery. Had issue (christened at Llangrove in Llangarron perhaps with the exception of his two youngest children), 56. 1. Joseph Sherriff, of Taunton, Somerset, baptized 22 July 1866. He married in 1893 Charlotte Elizabeth (born 1859, who died on 17 September 1930, and was buried at Cheddon Fitzpaine, near Taunton), daughter of Charles Isaacs. Mr. Scudamore was the owner of a footware manufacturing business and was Mayor of Taunton. He died on 15 September 1932 and was buried at Cheddon Fitzpaine leaving issue an only son, 102. George Sherriff, of Llangarron Court and Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, born 1894. He married in 1920 Marjorie Biffin (born 1893 who survived him and died at Ross on 2 October 1967). Mr. Scudamore was much involved in promoting farming interests in the county. He died at Ross on 28 February 1954 having had issue, a son & 2 daughters. 2. William Hubert, baptized 27 September 1868. He emigrated to South Africa and died there in 1899. 3. George Frederick, of Worlebury and Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, baptized 14 October 1873. He married 1stly at London in 1902 Ethel Maud Redgrove (who married 2ndly in 1925 Edward S. Goddard). Mr. Scudamore married 2ndly in 1925 at Bristol Alice Maber Cole (formerly Ricketts, born 29 May 1891, who survived her husband and died on 17 January 1982). Mr. Scudamore died without issue at Weston-super-Mare on 20 May 1943. 57. 4. Tom Allan, of Pontypridd, baptized 27 October 1876. He married on 15 October 1900 Gertrude Parfitt (born 14 June 1879, who died on 26 November 1957). Mr. Scudamore died on 12 July 1947, having had issue, 103. 1. Hubert, of Nottingham, born 11 October 1901. A doctor, he was at one time employed by the Cunard Line and afterwards practised at Sandiacre, Nottinghamshire. Dr. Scudamore retired to live at Bramcote, Nottinghamshire. He married at Toronto in 1936 Roberta Elizabeth Reade (born 1909, died 1991) and he died on 8 April 1985, having had issue an only son. 104. 2. George, of Pontypridd, born 3 February 1909. He married at Pontypridd in 1930 Gwyneth M. Morgan and died in 1975 having had issue, a son & 2 daughters. 3. John, born 1910. He died in infancy in the same year. 105. 4. Allan, of Pontypridd, born 10 June 1912. He married 6 September 1938 at Pontypridd Enid M. Gegg by whom he has issue an only daughter. 106. 5. Douglas Frank, of Whitchurch, Cardiff, born 22 August 1916. He married at St. Mark’s church, Gabalfa, Cardiff, 28 April 1943 Pauline F. Pascoe (who died in 1990). Mr. Scudamore was a banker, now retired, and has issue an only son. 107. 6. Tom Osbert, of Sandiacre near Nottingham, born 11 October 1918.

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He married at Sandbach, Cheshire, in 1945 Mary Jones. Like his eldest brother he is a doctor and was in practice in Stapleford. Dr. Scudamore has issue, a son & a daughter. 1. Marjorie, born 6 March 1904. She married in 1927 Richard Stanley Evans a stipendiary magistrate at Pontypridd by whom she has a daughter, and 2ndly Timothy Manfred Magee on 4 April 1987. 58. 5. Richard Ernest, of , baptized 29 July 1879. He married 1stly in 1905 Marguerite Mary King (born 1883, who died in 1940), and 2ndly in 1954 Mabel Ellen Newman (a widow formerly Harris born 1885, who died on 4 January 1966). Mr. Scudamore died on 26 February 1966, having had issue by his 1st wife, 1. Eric, born 1908. He was killed in a road accident in 1931. 1. Gwyneth M., born 1916. She married in 1938 Geoffrey B. Preece. 6. Reginald, baptized 27 May 1881. He died in infancy and was buried at Welsh Newton on 19 June the same year. 7. Arnold, baptized 17 December 1882. He died in infancy and was buried at Welsh Newton on 6 February 1883. 8. Henry, of Pontypridd, born 1885. He died unmarried on 31 December 1955. 9. Charles Septimus, of Pontypridd and Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, born 1887. He married in 1927 Winifred, the widow of John Sherwood (born 21 October 1885, who survived her 2nd husband and died at Weston-super-Mare on 20 September 1971). Mr. Scudamore, who had a boot and shoe business at Weston-super-Mare, died there without issue on 25 April 1946. 1. Florence Mary, baptized 20 June 1871. She married in 1892 William Charles Lee of Bath.

The 7th son of Joseph Scudamore by his wife Elizabeth Hale, ABL [27]. THOMAS SCUDAMORE, of Great Trewen in Llangrove, and Kilreague in Llangarron, Herefordshire, born 3 May (baptized 4 June) 1843. He married 1stly at Skenfrith, Monmouthshire, on 30 June 1868 Mary Watts Nelmes Leonard (born 1849, who died on 14 August 1902 and was buried at Llangrove four days later) by whom he had issue, 59. 1. Godwin Charles Thomas Leonard, born 14 May (baptized 13 June) 1869. He married at Crickhowell, Breconshire, in 1889 Annie Emms. Mr. Scudamore is said to have emigrated to Canada where he died. Had issue, 108. 1. Godwin Leonard, of Shurdington, Gloucestershire, born 1893. He married in 1918 Susan Watkins (who survived her husband and died on 10 December 1976). Mr. Scudamore died on 21 December 1975 having had issue an only son, Godwin Leonard, of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, born 1922. He was a pilot officer in the 261st Squadron, Royal Air Force, in World War II. He was flying U.S.A. Thunderbolts Mark IIs on the Burma Front when he was killed on 25 April 1945. 1. Florence Mary F., born 1897. She married in 1924 John S. Woodman. 60. 2. Alfred Henry, of Ruxton in Whitchurch, Herefordshire, born 16 October (baptized 13 November) 1870. He married on 4 April 1895 at Ballingham Gertrude Eleanor Evans (who survived him and died on 20 December 1954). Mr. Scudamore farmed at Tre-reece in Llangarron. He died on 4 July 1922 and was buried at Llangrove four days later leaving issue, 109. 1. Frank Harvey, of Cross Dunn, born 10 January (baptized at Llangrove 2 February) 1895. He married in 1923 Phyllis Groves of Gloucester (born 1902, died at Hereford on 13 September 1990). Mr. Scudamore died on 7 June 1971 and was buried at Llangarron five days later, leaving issue an only daughter.

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2. Thomas Alfred, baptized at Llangrove 3 May 1896. He died in war service at Salonica in September 1917. 3. Ivor Martin, baptized at Llangrove 24 May 1908. He died in infancy and was buried at Llangrove on 12 January 1910. 1. Doris Lucy, born 1898. She married at Llangarron 25 April 1917 Wallace George Martin of Weston-under-Penyard. 2. Mary Nelmes, baptized at Llangarron 28 December 1902. She died in infancy and was buried at Llangrove on 15 March 1904. 3. Kathleen Gertrude, baptized at Llangrove 28 August 1904. She died in infancy and was buried at Llangrove 22 October 1907. 4. Phyllis Gwenllian, baptized at Llangarron 15 May 1910. She died in infancy and was buried at Llangrove on 1 April 1914. 3. George Leonard, born 9 February 1872, baptized 5 January 1873. He died at the age of 23 and was buried at Llangrove on 29 March 1895. 4. William Frederick, born 22 November (baptized 19 December) 1875. He died in infancy and was buried at Llangrove on 20 February 1877. 5. Samuel Nelmes, born 17 July (baptized 12 October) 1879. He died in infancy and was buried at Llangrove on 15 December 1879. 61. 6. Charles Allen, of Kilreague in Llangarron, and Hownhall Farm, Weston-under- Penyard, Herefordshire, and later of West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, born 16 August (baptized 24 October) 1880. He married 1stly at Llangarron 19 August 1903 Fanny (born 1868, buried at Llangarron on 5 April 1940), a daughter of James Houlbrook Ashton, by whom he had an only son, 110. Alan Edward Houlbrook, of Radcliffe-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, born 5 September (baptized at Llangarron 26 September) 1909. He married in 1934 Edith Jones of Bangor, Carnarvonshire. He died 21 July 1979 having had issue, 2 daughters. Charles Allen married 2ndly in 1941 Ethel Patterson (who died on 7 March 1966), and died on 21 September 1952. 7. Thomas Hadley, born 8 February (baptized 11 March) 1883. He died in infancy and was buried at Llangrove on 29 March of the same year. 62. 8. Joseph Albert, of Hopcroft, Leigh, Worcestershire, born 28 September (baptized 19 October) 1884. He married in 1909 Amy Martha Murdoch, of Grendon Court, , Herefordshire (who died 26 March 1960). Mr. Scudamore, a farmer, died on 23 August 1977 leaving issue, 1. Margaret Mary, born 1910. She married in 1934 Berkeley Secker. 2. Joan Elizabeth, born 1912. She married in 1941 John Francis Edward Salter. 63. 9. John Ivor, of Los Angeles County, California, born 5 October (baptized 31 October) 1886. He married 1stly Florence Janet Drinkwater (a daughter of his father’s 2nd wife) on 5 March 1907 in Orange County, California, by whom he had a daughter. Mr. Scudamore’s first marriage was dissolved and he is said to have married a 2nd time. 1. Mary Elizabeth, born 12 December 1872, baptized (with her brother) on 5 January 1873. She died in infancy and was buried at Llangrove on 30 November 1877. 2. Sarah Alice, born 7 July (baptized 8 August) 1874. She died in infancy and was buried at Llangrove on 23 February 1875. 3. Hilda Annie, born 23 July (baptized 17 August) 1890. She married at Llangarron 10 September 1911 Alfred Henry Ingram. 4. Gladys May, of Los Angeles County, California, born 23 May (baptized 19 June) 1892. She married ______after 1920 and died without issue. Thomas Scudamore married 2ndly on 8 September 1903 Sophia (died 17 December 1914), widow of J. Drinkwater and daughter of ______Lennon. Mr. Scudamore died at Monmouth on 6 March 1916 and was

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The 8th son of Joseph Scudamore by his wife Elizabeth Hale, ABL [28]. ALFRED SCUDAMORE, of Gillow, in Hentland, and Pontypridd, Glamorgan, born 3 December 1844, baptized 12 January 1845. He married in 1872 Agnes Emily Farr (born 1848, who died on 30 April 1890 and was buried at Hentland). Mr. Scudamore, a butcher, died at Pontypridd on 24 January 1915 and was buried at Hentland. Had issue, 64. 1. Alfred Edward, of Cardiff, born 1874. He married in 1903 Hettie George (born 1878, who died on 13 May 1962). Mr. Scudamore died at Penarth on 17 September 1962 leaving issue, 1. Hettie Edna Emily Elizabeth, born 1905. She married in 1936 Victor George Sederman. 2. Mary, born 1914. She married in 1935 Arthur Granville Davies. 65. 2. Richard Bennett, of Cardiff, born 20 November 1881. He married 28 April 1908 Edith Paice (born 1899, who died on 31 March 1939). Mr. Scudamore died at Cardiff on 5 July 1973 leaving issue an only son, Richard Arthur, of Rhiwbina, Cardiff, born 29 July 1913. He married at Lubeck, West Germany in 1946 Gladys Cecilia Vinall (born 16 November 1905, died 7 January 1984). Mr. Scudamore died without issue on 26 December 1981. 1. Annie Elizabeth, born 29 August 1873. Unmarried, she lived with her sisters Emily and Kate at Ealing, Middlesex, where she died on 17 February 1971 aged 97. 2. Emily May, born 1876, who was unmarried and died on 22 October 1961. 3. Louise Farr, born 1880. She married in 1910 Ernest Hugh Rainbow. 4. Katherine (Kate) Marian, born 1884. She died unmarried at Ealing on 31 October 1968.

The 9th son of Joseph Scudamore by his wife Elizabeth Hale, ABL [29]. HENRY SCUDAMORE, of Trostrey Court, Usk, Monmouthshire, born and baptized 3 August 1848. He married 24 May 1876 Mary Maria Marfell (born 1852, who survived her husband and died on 29 March 1938 and was buried at Hentland). Mr. Scudamore died at Trostrey Court on 18 November 1911 and was buried four days later at Hentland, leaving issue, 66. 1. JAMES MARFELL, of whom further. 67. 2. Francis Henry, of Haywood Lodge, Callow, Herefordshire, born 28 July 1879. He married 28 April 1908 Amy Evans (born 1878, who died at Hereford on 9 December 1956). Mr. Scudamore, a farmer, died on 3 June 1964 leaving issue, 1. Sydney, of Haywood Lodge and Forest Lodge, Callow, born 11 June 1910. Mr. Scudamore is a retired farmer and lives with his sister at Forest Lodge. 2. Amy, born 6 November 1913. 68. 3. William Edward, of Trostrey Court, Usk, born 1881. He married in 1918 Sylvena Mary Parker (born 17 December 1886, who survived her husband and died at Westbury-on- Trym, Gloucestershire, on 23 March 1981). Mr. Scudamore died on 9 December 1938 having had issue, 114. 1. Peter Lincoln, of Northallerton, Yorkshire, born 1919. He married in 1943 Ruby M. Davies and has issue, 1. Simon Guy, born 1956. 2. Clive Paul, born 1957. 115. 2. Joseph Henry, born 1926. He married in Scotland Joan ______. They emigrated to Australia and have issue, 1. Ian William.

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2. Kirsten Elizabeth. 3. Duncan Howard. 1. Sylvena Nancy, born 1921. She married in 1949 Christopher Humphry and has issue a son and a daughter. 2. Evelyn Betty, born 1922. She married in 1953 Arthur A. Hall. 3. Freda May, born 1924. She married in 1949 Clifford J. King. 69. 4. Martin Howard, of Teddington, Middlesex, born 31 December 1882. He married in 1909 Laura Crissie Gower (born 5 May 1886, who survived her husband and died on 27 March 1975). Mr. Scudamore was a schoolmaster. He died on 9 May 1961 having had issue, 3 daughters. 70. 5. Herbert Richmond, of Belmont, Clehonger, Herefordshire, born 1887. He married in 1919 Olive Elizabeth Lucas (born 9 June 1895, who died on 5 January 1970). Mr. Scudamore died on 26 June 1971, having had issue an only child, Keith Lucas, born 1919, who died in infancy the same year. The eldest son, ABL [66]. JAMES MARFELL SCUDAMORE, of Maisemore and Upleadon, Gloucestershire, and Moraston in Peterstow, Herefordshire, born 1877. He married in 1902 Winifred Rudge of Treribble in Llangarron, Herefordshire, (born 1880, who survived her husband and died on 26 November 1960). Mr. Scudamore, a farmer, died at Gloucester on 22 February 1937 having had issue, 111. 1. James Henry, of Netherton, Ross-on-Wye, born 1903. He married in 1930 Mildred Davies (who survived him and married 2ndly in 1979 Roland P. Morgan). She died in August 1992. Mr. Scudamore, a farmer and Justice of the Peace, died on 26 May 1973 having had issue, a daughter & a son. 112. 2. Robert William, of Ross-on-Wye and Sudeley Hill Farm, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, born 11 February 1905. He married on 23 September 1934, Joyce Cooper. Mr. Scudamore, a farmer, died 21 November 1986, leaving issue, 3 sons & a daughter. 113. 3. George Edward, of Gloucester, born 31 January 1907. He married in 1939 Nancy Scott (born 1906). Mr. Scudamore, at one time in business as a butcher, died on 9 August 1985 having had issue, 2 sons. 114. 4. Leonard John, of Southport, Lancashire, and Hoole, Cheshire, born 16 October 1918. He made his career in the electricity business starting in 1934 with the Gloucester Corporation Electricity Department. After service with the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars during the Second World War he held engineering posts with the Southern and North Western Electricity Boards, joining the Merseyside and North Wales Electricity Board in 1954. He was appointed District Manager at Southport in 1963, Management Services Officer at their head office at Chester in 1969, Deputy Secretary in 1977 and Secretary in 1978 from which position he retired in 1983. Mr. Scudamore married on 31 October 1942 Joan Kathleen Harris (born 14 January 1921, who died on 23 February 1975), by whom he had issue, 2 sons & 2 daughters. 1. Winifred Mary, born 1909. She married in 1934 Christopher John Metcalf, and has issue two sons and three daughters. She died in July 1992. 2. Barbara, born 1911. She married in 1932 Jack Reed Mansfield, and has issue two sons and a daughter.

For the continuation of the descent of the family at Pengethley and Treaddow in Hentland, it is necessary to return to the 4th son of Joseph Scudamore by his wife Elizabeth Hale, ABL [25]. JOHN SCUDAMORE, of Pengethley, born 28 July (baptized 4 August) 1834. He married in St. Maughans, Monmouthshire, 2 March 1858 Sarah Ann Day (born 1836, who died on 30 August 1906 and was buried at Hentland). Mr. Scudamore farmed somewhat over 400 acres at Pengethley and retired to live at Treaddow Cottage where he died on 25 March 1909 and was buried at Hentland. Had issue, born at Hentland, 1. John Day, of Treaddow, born 12 December 1858, baptized at Hentland 2

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February 1859. Mr. Scudamore was unmarried and died on 26 April 1948 and was buried at Hentland. 51. 2. Joseph Frederick, of Harewood End, born 1 August 1860. He married 1stly in 1888 Helen Augusta (born 1856, who died in childbirth on 19 April 1893 and was buried at Welsh Newton), daughter of William Sherriff of Monmouth and Treworgan, Herefordshire. Mr. Scudamore farmed at Harewood End a mixed farm of about 280 acres. Later he had the farmhouse converted into an inn so that farmers and local gentry could stay there and refresh themselves while their horses were being shod at the smithy on the opposite side of the road. He married 2ndly in 1895 Julia Bertha (born 21 February 1861), daughter of ______Nelmes, an auctioneer at Monmouth. He died on 20 December 1907 after a fall at home fractured his skull and was buried at Hentland. Mrs. Scudamore married 2ndly in 1911 Henry Bird (her farm bailiff) from whom she later obtained a deed of separation. Her eyesight became progressively worse and she eventually sold the farm and went to live at , Ross-on-Wye, where she died on 27 September 1947. Mr. Scudamore had issue by his 2nd wife, 1. Joseph Nelmes, born 4 July 1897. He served with the Shropshire Light Infantry in World War I and died of wounds in France on 29 April 1917; buried in the war cemetery at Bethune. 98. 2. Ralph Eric, of Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire (now Dyfed), born 21 February 1901. After training as an engineer fitter, Mr. Scudamore served in the army in World War I, afterwards working for a cable company as an electrician fitter. He married in 1926 Ena A. G. Williams (born 28 February 1907, who died on 13 October 1979). Mr. Scudamore died 2 October 1992 leaving issue an only son, 148. William Frederick, of Winterbourne near Bristol, Avon, born 1927. He married in 1950 Margaret Shapcott. Mr. Scudamore was an inspector in the police force and is now retired. He has issue, a daughter & a son. 3. Leslie Ivor, born 13 September 1903. He was unmarried and died in a road accident in Hammersmith, London, in 1933 and was buried at Hammersmith Cemetery. 3. Edgar Herbert, born 1 December 1864. He died in infancy and was buried at Hentland. 52. 4. Thomas Rymer, of Blackwood, Monmouthshire, born 23 February 1866. He married in 1895 Margaret Price (born 1866 who died on 17 February 1932). Mr. Scudamore died on 14 February 1940 having had issue, 1. Royston David, of Blackwood, born 16 July 1896. He married 1stly in 1928 Margaret Brown (born 1895, who died on 9 February 1956), and 2ndly in 1963 Patricia Josephine Davis (formerly Jones, born 1923, who survived him and died on 27 July 1985). Mr. Scudamore, an electrician by profession, died without issue on 26 June 1970. 2. Hubert Price, born 1898. He died in infancy the same year. 3. Cyril Price, born 1902. He died an infant in 1905. 53. 5. Charles Edgar, of Wednesbury, Staffordshire, born 30 May 1867. He married in 1897 Alice M. Downing (born 1870, who died in 1936). Mr. Scudamore died in 1940 leaving issue, 1. Charles Edgar, of Wednesbury, born 8 July 1901. He married in 1946 Mary Ann Smith. Mr. Scudamore died on 4 July 1981 without issue. 1. Gladys Mary, born 1898. She married in 1925 (his 2nd wife) George T. Woolgrove. 54. 6. HAROLD, of Treaddow in Hentland, of whom further. 55. 7. James Edward, of Blackwood, Monmouthshire, and Tongland, Kirkudbright,

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Scotland, born 13 May 1870. He married in 1895 Lucy (born 1871, who died at Tongland on 26 October 1957), daughter of William Squires. Mr. Scudamore was a grocer. He died at Morar near Tongland, on 3 December 1955, having had issue, 100. 1. John Kenneth Squires, born 1897. He married in 1922 Margaret C. Jones (born 1896, who died on 7 February 1965). Mr. Scudamore died in 1968, having had issue an only son, John L., born 1923. He died in 1944 while serving with the Royal Armoured Corps in World War II. 2. Roland, of Blackwood, born 6 September 1900. He married Gwyneth Annie Jones (born 1898, died 25 June 1978) in 1923. An electrical engineer, he died without issue on 30 January 1977. 101. 3. Harold Cecil, of Blackwood, born 22 April 1902. He married Mildred Coleman in 1930. An engineer, he died on 15 November 1971 leaving issue, an only daughter. 8. George Day, born 1 February 1872. He died on 16 October 1877 and was buried at Hentland. 1. Susan Elizabeth, born 25 November 1861, who was unmarried and lived at Linton (near Ross), Herefordshire. She died on 16 December 1943. 2. Sarah Ann, born 14 June 1863. She died in infancy on 16 January 1864 and was buried at Hentland. 3. Mary Day, born 16 October 1874. She married in 1895 Oliver Fellows of London. 4. Agnes Christine, born 7 August 1879. She married in 1912 Leonard Rickett and died without issue in 1947. The 6th son, ABL [54]. HAROLD SCUDAMORE, of Treaddow in Hentland, and Ruxton in Kings Caple, Herefordshire, born 1 October 1868. He married in 1898 Sarah Ann Badger (born 1871, who died at Cheltenham in 1960). Mr. Scudamore, a farmer and expert judge of horses, died at Cheltenham on 11 April 1946 leaving issue, 98. 1. JOHN GEOFFREY, of Much Dewchurch, Herefordshire, of whom further. 1. Molly Primrose, born 1903. She married in 1935 Francis Hamp Adams by whom she had issue two sons and two daughters. She died 22 July 1989. 2. Margaret Joyce, born 1911. She married Ernest Brian Wilde in 1932 by whom she has a daughter, and died 30 January 1995. The only son, ABL [99]. JOHN GEOFFREY SCUDAMORE, of Much Dewchurch, Herefordshire, born 30 June 1906. He married in 1932 Margaret Handley Greaves (born 28 July 1906, who survived her husband and died on 17 April 1989). A keen countryman and horseman in his younger days, Mr. Scudamore hunted and rode in point-to-points. During World War II he served in the Royal Air Force. His Halifax bomber was shot down during a raid over the Ruhr in Germany and he was made a prisoner of war. After the war he farmed 350 acres at The Lowe, Much Dewchurch, where for a time he trained National Hunt horses. He died 10 December 1982 leaving issue, 149. 1. MICHAEL JOHN, of Prothither near Hoarwithy, of whom further. 150. 2. Harold Handley, of Much Dewchurch, born 1933. He married in 1970 Vivianne Madelaine McDonald (born 1944). She was the widow of Robert McDonald by whom she had a daughter Marie-Louise (now Scudamore by deed poll) who was born 1967. Mr. and Mrs. Scudamore live at The Old Lowe, Much Dewchurch, where Mr. Scudamore farms. Has issue a son, Handley John, born 1972. The elder son, MICHAEL JOHN SCUDAMORE, of Prothither near Hoarwithy, Herefordshire, born 1932. He married in 1957 Mary Gwendoline Duffield. In his younger days Mr. Scudamore was a National Hunt rider who had the crowning success of winning the Grand National at Aintree on Oxo in 1959. Mr. Scudamore farms and trains

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GALLATIN COUNTY, ILLINOIS

ABL [6]. Richard Scudamore, of ABENHALL, GLOUCESTERSHIRE (see p.28), was born in 1758 the grandson of Godwin Scudamore of English Bicknor and Mitcheldean (ABL [2]) by his wife Elizabeth Potter. They were descended from a younger branch of the Scudamores of Kentchurch that settled first at Thruxton, Herefordshire, in the 15th century, and lived afterwards for about 200 years at Huntsham in Goodrich in the same county. Richard Scudamore acquired by inheritance as well as by purchase several small holdings in the vicinity of Abenhall and Mitcheldean bordering on the Forest of Dean. In 1784 he married at Abenhall Sarah Nelmes and died in 1829 having had issue by her six sons and three daughters. In his will made two years before he died he leaves to his younger son GEORGE SCUDAMORE a legacy of £40 to be paid 12 months after his wife’s death with the proviso that should George predecease his mother, or not return to England (from whence he had emigrated to America eight years earlier) within three years after her death, then the legacy was to go to George’s nephew John, the son of his sister Ann Drinkwater.

ABL [12]. GEORGE SCUDAMORE, of Gallatin County, Illinois, (the 5th son of Richard Scudamore, of Abenhall, Gloucestershire, by his wife Sarah Nelmes) was baptized at Abenhall on 15 October 1797. He emigrated to America, together with his brothers Thomas and Philip, in 1819 embarking in the spring of that year. In 1820 George Scudamore was the head of a household in Bond County, Illinois, that included two males. His brother Philip was enumerated alone in Edwards County, Illinois. On 29 April 1823 he wrote from Gallatin County to his brother John, then living at Abenhall, to give him news of Thomas and Philip’s deaths from fever contracted while in Illinois. George was a farmer and cattle dealer and married on 20 October 1825 in Gallatin County Rebecca Ann (born 13 February 1800), a daughter of Warner and Barbara (Slusher) Buck. She survived him and married (her third husband) Thomas Hiram Moutry on 14 December 1842 in Hamilton County, Illinois. She died on 14 August 1892 aged 91 and was buried at Blooming Grove Cemetery in Hamilton County. She was previously the widow of Benjamin Ellis (whom she married on 30 March 1818 and by whom she had two sons, William Ellis, born 14 January 1819, and John Ellis, born 10 September 1821). Mr. Scudamore died in Gallitan County on 27 November 1841(when the doctor made his last call; his coffin was ordered on the 28th) having had issue (all except the youngest born in Gallatin County), 30. 1. GEORGE WILLIAM, of White County, Illinois, to whom we will return. 31. 2. Thomas F., born 12 October 1829. He married in Hamilton County, Illinois, 6 November 1856 Caroline M. Baker (born 1839 who died in 1881). He was living in 1880 at Equality, Gallatin County, Illinois and was a widower, in 1900 at Eldorado, Saline County, Illinois. Mr. Scudamore, a farmer and a merchant, died on 26 March 1901 and was buried at Leavel Hill Cemetery in Gallatin County, having had issue, 74. 1. George C., of Webster County, Kentucky, born 6 May 1866. He married about 1890 Viviane Miller at Sebree and was living in 1900 in the household of George M. Miller at Sebree in Webster County, Kentucky. He was a patient in 1910 at the Anna State Hospital in Union County, Illinois. Had issue a daughter,

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Viviane, born November 1891 in Alabama. She was living with her grandfather in 1900. 2. William D., of Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, born 28 June 1868. He married about 1899 Anna ______(born March 1878) in Indian Creek Township, White County, Illinois. Mr. Scudamore was a lumber merchant at Norris City, and was living in 1961 aged 93. He died without issue. 75. 3. James Calvin, born 28 May 1872. He married about 1895, Daisy D. Musgrove on 23 October 1895. Mr. Scudamore, a dry goods salesman at Flora, Clay County, Illinois, in 1910 and had issue, 120. 1. Robert Henry, born February 1896. He died in Flora on 6 September 1977 and is buried in Elmwood Cemetery.(LM) 1. Thelma Coly, born September 1898. She died unmarried in Flora in June 1985. (LM) 76. 4. Charles Cloyd, born 24 June 1878. He married in Saline County, Illinois, 18 June 1902, Ethel T. Osburn (born 20 December 1879, who survived him and was living at St. Louis, Missouri, in 1919). During the Spanish-American War he served in Companies G and B of the 9th Illinois Infantry. He died on 22 November 1910 at Flora, Clay County, Illinois. His widow was living in 1920 at 5774 Kingsbury Place, St. Louis. They had issue a daughter, Margaret Cynthia, born 8 September 1904, in Clay County. She married E. L. Gebauer, of Willowick, Lake County, Ohio. 1. Rebecca Alice, born 3 August 1857. She married Isaac N. Bourland (born 20 April 1855) on 7 August 1881 in Saline County. 2. Sarah E., born 6 March 1859. 3. Anna M., born 9 July 1860. She was living unmarried in 1900 with her father. 4. Phoebe M., born 12 May 1862. 5. Eliza F., born 12 March 1864. She married W. O. Hathis. 6. Mary C., born 30 August 1875. 32. 3. JOSEPH BUCK, of Wayne County, Illinois, of whom further. 33. 4. JAMES ALEXANDER, of Jefferson County, Illinois, of whom presently. 1. Elizabeth E., born 8 April 1834. She married William Carol Maulding on 12 January 1854 in Hamilton County. She was dead in 1884. 2. Sarah J., born 2 October 1838. She married James Alexander Maulding on 9 November 1856 in Hamilton County. She died on 18 February 1912 and is buried in the Blooming Grove Cemetery near McLeansboro, Illinois. 3. Rebecca Ann, born 21 October 1840 at Henderson, Henderson County, Kentucky. She married on 26 April 1866 Anthony Mateer (a widower, born in Pennsylvania in August 1834 and who died 30 March 1917) in Hamilton County. She died on 13 April 1913 and is buried in the Salem Cemetery, at Middleton, Wayne County, Illinois.

The 3rd son, ABL [32]. JOSEPH BUCK SCUDAMORE (HONORABLE), of Wayne County, Illinois, born 23 August 1832. He married in Hamilton County, 1 January 1856, Elizabeth J. Lewis (born 28 March 1838, who died on 27 April 1900). He enlisted in the army during the American Civil War serving with the 110th Illinois Infantry and with Company L, 6th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, attaining the rank of Captain. He took part in the Battle of Stone River and in other engagements. After the war he remained on his farm near Belle

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Prairie City until 1869 when he moved to Wayne County locating at Four Mile (the present site of Wayne City) where he built the first dwelling and became the first merchant. When others settled there Wayne City was formed. He was the first mayor and the first postmaster of the town and was known as “the father of Wayne City.” The J. B. Scudamore Park there was named in his honor. He represented Wayne County in the 37th General Assembly of Illinois. He died 12 February 1922 and was buried at Thomason Cemetery, Wayne County, having had issue, 77. 1. Alvin George, born 27 February 1864. He married 29 March 1888 Dessia Sylvanus Wright (born 3 November 1867 in Kentucky, who died 4 October 1957). Mr. Scudamore, who lived to a great age, was a farmer, merchant, postmaster, schoolteacher and insurance agent at Wayne City. He died 29 September 1963 aged 99 in Champaign County, Illinois, but is buried in the Thomason Cemetery. Had issue six children, of whom four survived infancy, 1. Orla E., born 26 February 1889 and died 13 March 1889. He was buried at Thomason Cemetery, Wayne County, Illinois. 121. 2. Fay Walter, born 4 August 1892. He married 22 December 1913 Edith Alice (born 8 July 1890, died 17 December 1960), daughter of Valentine and Lenore Pixley Hunter. His wife remarried in 1929 Edwin R. Tietz (born 4 May 1889, died 3 August 1976) and both were buried in Mountview Cemetery, Billings, Yellowstone County, Montana. Mr. Scudamore worked as a bookkeeper first in a bank and later in a clothing factory. He died 1 February 1919, and was buried in Thomason Cemetery, having had issue an only son, 172. 1. Dr. Harold Hunter, M.D., F.A.C.P., of Monroe, Green County, Wisconsin, born 8 December 1915 in Wayne City, Illinois. Dr. Scudamore married 26 December 1942 Virginia Gordon Haskins (born 16 August 1918). He was commissioned a First Lieutenant in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Army in November 1946 and discharged as a Captain in November 1948 having been assigned only in the U.S.A. He served as a leader in the Boy Scouts of America for many years. He was on the staff of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Olmstead County, Minnesota, for 20 years and at the Monroe Clinic since 1971. He died suddenly on 15 December 1994 while sitting at his desk in his apartment at Rochester. He had issue four sons and a daughter. 3. Infant son, born and died 15 August 1895. 1. Zella, born 14 January 1890. She was a teacher. She died unmarried on 13 March 1940 and was buried in Thomason Cemetery. 2. Neva Ione, of Bradenton, Manatee County, Florida, born 17 July 1901. She married 26 April 1922 Carl Chapman (died 14 March 1966), and lives at Bradenton, County, Florida. 3. Sybil Eunice, of Mt. Clemens, Macomb County, Michigan, born 13 January 1908. She married 4 April 1925 Alfred Clede Gaston. She died 11 December 1981 and is buried in Thomason Cemetery. 78. 2. John William, of Oklahoma City and Skillett Fork River, Wayne County, born 18 March 1871. He married 17 February 1903 Clara Belle Koontz (born 6 January 1878, who survived him and died in 1968). Mr. Scudamore, a farmer, died on 2 January 1935 and was buried at Thomason Cemetery, having had issue, 122. 1. George Oakley, born 18 September 1904 in Oklahoma. He married Olive Bell Hoskins (born 15 December 1913, who survived him and married 2ndly in 1974 Albert C. Dudley). Mr. Scudamore died on 21 August 1962

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having had issue, a son & 3 daughters. 1. Vivian Marie, born 8 June 1903 in Oklahoma. She married Homer Tullet. 2. Vera Morine, born 31 July 1906. She married 1stly Robert Ralston (born 17 July 1899, who died on 26 January 1953), and 2ndly Edward Bierman (born 19 November 1905). 3. Velma May, born 1908. She died in infancy. 4. Deon Freda, born 17 April 1908. She married Edward Fry (born 25 December 1915). 1. Frances Arminda, born 9 December 1858. She married Henry Hamilton Jones on 6 March 1879 in Wayne County and died on 14 April 1902 at Grayridge, Goddard County, Missouri. 2. Ada Clara, born 15 April 1861. She married 10 March 1878 Benjamin Craig Talbert (born 1 July 1855). She died on 1 April 1945 and was buried at Hopewell Cemetery, Wayne County, Illinois. 3. Mary (Molly) Rebecca, born 26 February 1867. She married 23 September 1886 Frank Quincy Jacobson (born 1864, who died in 1915). She died on 15 April 1938 and was buried at Thomason Cemetery. 4. Eva Jane, born 11 March 1869. She married 9 October 1890 Victor Curtis Pittman, and died on 2 May 1959. 5. Bertha S., born 28 August 1873. She married 19 June 1906 Thomas Ashbrook, and died on 17 March 1933 and was buried at Thomason Cemetery. 6. Edna O., born 8 March 1876. She died unmarried on 17 May 1962 and was buried at Thomason Cemetery.

The 4th son of George Skidmore by his wife Rebecca Ann Buck, ABL [33]. JAMES ALEXANDER SCUDAMORE, of Jefferson County, Illinois, later of Mississippi County, Arkansas, and finally of Howell County, Missouri, born 23 March 1837. He married 1stly at Sedalia in Pettis County, Missouri, 27 April 1868, Mercy (born about 1841, who died at Marked Tree, Arkansas, on 28 June 1890), daughter of William and Emelia Partridge. Mr. Scudamore was a school teacher and merchant and was enumerated in 1860 in the household of his stepfather in Hamilton County, Illinois. He enlisted in the army during the American Civil War, serving with Company D, 60th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He was injured and confined for a time in Confederate prisons at Andersonville, Sumter County, Georgia (where conditions were particularly infamous), and at Florence, Florence County, South Carolina. After the war he spent four years in Barton County, Missouri, then for a short while in Stone County in that state, before returning to Weber, Jefferson County, Illinois at the end of 1871. In 1874 he worked in a notarial and real estate office, and was a general commission merchant at Pigeon, Jefferson County, Illinois, where he remained for some time. By January 1889 he was living at Pigeon Post Office. He married 2ndly Mrs. Kate Herman at Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, on 2 March 1895. He later moved to near Etowah, Mississippi County, Arkansas, until 1916 when he went to live with his daughter, Olive Rebecca Girdley, in West Plains, Howell County, Missouri, where he died on 29 January 1917. He was buried at Oak Lawn Cemetery, Howell County, having had issue, 79. 1. George William, of Louisiana and later of Florida, born 29 January 1876. He enlisted in the army on 12 September 1899 at Mt. Vernon, Jefferson County, Illinois, in the Spanish-American War and was serving in Company H, 38th Volunteer Infantry, at Lipa in the Philippine Islands at the time of the 1900 census. After his discharge on 30 June 1901 he resided in Mississippi County, Arkansas, until 1 December 1919 when he moved to Beauregard Parish, Louisiana. Later he resided at Sarasota, Sarasota County, and at Clearwater and Safety Harbor in Pinellas County, Florida. He married, in Mississippi County, 28 January 1904, Florence A. Jackson (born 1886, who died in 1950), and died on 17 January 1956. He was buried at Clearwater Cemetery, Pinellas County, Florida, and had issue, 123. 1. Walter Aaron, born 7 February 1908. He married Henrietta Browning. Had issue, a son & a daughter.

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124. 2. Ralph Otis, born 6 November 1913. He married 1stly Ruth E. Hersey, and 2ndly Martha Horton. He died on 19 February 1985 and was buried in Sylvan Abbey Memorial Park, Clearwater, Pinellas County, Florida, having had issue by his 2nd marriage an only son. 3. Howard Alexander, born 6 October 1917. He married 24 December 1949 at Clearwater, Bonnie Irma Beach. They have two adopted children. 1. Olive Rebecca, born 17 January 1870 at Doylsport Township, Barton County, Missouri. She married at Manila, Mississippi County, Arkansas, Joseph B. Girdley and died without issue on 29 January 1917 at West Plains, Howell County; buried at Oak Lawn Cemetery. 2. Minnie Elizabeth, born 10 December 1871 near Mt. Vernon, Jefferson County, Illinois. She married in Jefferson County on 13 April 1892 Franklin Virgil Faulkner (born 6 May 1866, who died on 5 August 1934) and died on 16 March 1948 at Osceola, Mississippi County, Arkansas.

For the descendants of the family in White County, Illinois, it is necessary to return to the eldest son of George Scudamore by his wife Rebecca Ann Buck, ABL [30]. GEORGE WILLIAM SCUDAMORE, of Burnt Prairie Township, White County, Illinois, was born 10 January 1827 in Gallatin County. He married in October 1869 Mahala Ellen (born September 1842, died 7 January 1917) the widow of ______Windle (by whom she had a daughter Mary B. Windle, born about 1868 in Illinois). Mr. Scudamore died in 1909 and was buried in the Centerville Cemetery in Burnt Prairie Township, White County, having had issue, 71. 1. James A., born August 1871. He married Louisa ______(born September 1872, died 1941). He was living in Gray Township, White County, Illinois, in 1909. He died in 1958 and they are buried in the Centerville Cemetery in Burnt Prairie Township. Had issue, 117. 1. Martin Luther, born March 1894. He married Martha V. Pollard. 1. Flora Pearl, born May 1896. She married Harry Venables. 2. Mattie, born February 1898. She married Herman Wallace. 72. 2. George Luther, born August 1877. He married Susan Gowdy on 24 March 1903 in White County. The probate on his estate was granted on 12 March 1915 in White County. Had issue, 118. 1 CHARLES, born 16 November 1898. 2. George, born 7 January 1910. A machinist in Muncie, he married Roma E., the widow of _____ Turner. 73. 3. ALEXANDER SCUDAMORE, called Ellie in censuses when with his mother, a son of George William [30] and Mahala Ellen Scudamor, born April 1884, according to census records or 7 May 1884 according to his WW1 draft registration card dated Sep 1918. He was a farmer at Carmi, Randolph County, Illinois. Alex Scudamore married Lily May Joseph (born 2 May 1897, died 24 December 1973, buried Bellefontaine Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Posey County, Indiana) on 31 December 1917 in White County, Illinois. A son, 1. William, born 39 November 1919 in Carmi, White County, Illinois. He died 14 June 1943 and was buried at Carmi on 18 June, having spent at least 8 years in Dixon State Hospital, Dixon, Lee, Indiana. 1. Hattie D., born October 1881. She had a licence to marry Elmer E. Shelton (born about 1879, son of James and Mary (Dean) Shelton) on 8 August 1898 but they were not married until 25 March 1903. She died on 27 October 1947 at Eldorado, Saline, Illinois and was buried 29 October at Indian Creek, White, Illinois.

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NOTES

The following are buried in the Salem Cemetery, three miles east of Poole, Webster County, Kentucky: [They can not be found in any census record.]

MARY E. SCUDAMORE, born 16 September 1871, died 23 June 1895. According to an online pedigree at Ancestry.com, this is Mary Ester (May) Miller, first wife of George C. [74].

LOU ANNIE SCUDAMORE, born 25 April 1824, died 25 February 1905. According to an online pedigree at Ancestry.com, the birth year should read 1874; this is George C. Scudamore's second wife.

NONA SCUDAMORE, born 1905, died 1906. According to an online pedigree at Ancestry.com, Mona May was the daughter of George C. [74] by his second wife Lou Ammie (Miller). Mona May, 20 February 1905, died 1 March 1905 in Webster County, Kentucky. (L.M.)

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