Burial at Newent - 3 May 1820 - Thomas SKINNER, age 48, c 1773 - address: Newent Town and Gloucestershire Records Office database, has a Will for a Thomas SKYNNER, dated 1820 - Yoeman of Newent - which may hold clues etc.

and an Ann SKINNER burial at Newent (address Town of Newent) - 24 June 1821, age 36 c1785 -

? baptism at Newent - 22 March 1789, Anne POWEL - parents Reuben & Sarah

There is a Hannah POWELS age 20 - at Newent working as a Female Servant for Henry PAINTER (1841 census)

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Gloucestershire Record Office website gives will give the information required to send for a copy of Thomas SKYNNER's will (if needed)

http://ww3.gloucestershire.gov.uk/genealogy/search.aspx

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When Thomas Powles SKYNNER married Jane SMITH in 1830 - one witness was Eliza SKINNER - and there is a baptism at Newent on 28 July 1811 of an Eliza SKINNER, parents Thomas & Ann - so probably his sister

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For FOD members who don't have access to Ancestry - this is the family of the 1841 Census Newent (adults ages were normally rounded up to the nearest 5 years)

Culvert Street (FOD records have Ann & Thomas SKYNNER, having a Son *Richard 8 August 1813 - Culvert Street, Newent)

1841 Census, Newent, Culvert Street

SKYNNER

Thomas - 30 - Collar m (all born in County)
Jane - 30
Thomas - 10 (SKYNNER) - Newent - 16 February 1831
Harriet - 8 (SKYNNER) - Newent - 14 October 1832
Richard - 6 (POWLES SKYNNER) - 30 January 1835
Ann - 15 (who are Ann's parents?) **
John - 4 (SKYNNER) - 25 December 1836 - father Thomas POWLES SKYNNER
William - 3 (SKYNNER) - 30 July 1838

(what does the 1851 Canada Census say?) are there any children born in Canada?

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Looking at Gloucestershire BDM

http://ww3.gloucestershire.gov.uk/bmd/

SKINNER- mother's maiden name SMITH

There is William listed - and an Ann in 1840

and no children after that

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There is a baptism at Newent of Ann SKYNNER/SKINNER - 29 May 1818 - parents Thomas & Ann

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1841 Census, Newent, Church Street

Richard SKINNER age 26 - M/S- working for William HOLLAND, Innkeeper

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1851 Census, Newent Berry Bar Street

Transcribed as SKMNER

Richard - 34 - Horsekeeper Groom, born Newent - his Will is also on Gloucestershire Records Office database
Ann - (wife) age crossed through
Ellen - 4 (Gloucestershire BDM - mother's maiden name BISCO)

Gloucestershire BDM - Marriage at Glos. St Mary de Lobe 1842 - Richard SKINNER and Ann BISCOE

1861 Census, Newent

Ann SKINNER, Married age 43, Schoolmistress
Ellen SKINNER - 14 (no sign of Richard)

1876 Directory of Newent, list Miss Ellen SKINNER, Bury Bar Lane, Dressmaker

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1851, Newent Culvert Street,

Ann SKINNER - unmarried - 32 born Newent
Cornelius SKINNER - son - age 3 - born Hereford Aston Ingham (Gloucestershire BDM - Newent)