SKIPP Family Norfolk -> Ledbury (General)

by slowhands , proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Friday, March 15, 2013, 08:56 (4273 days ago) @ slowhands

The SKIPP's had links to Colwall , close to Ledbury....

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=044-b38&cid=-1#-1

The family had its origins in Norfolk, but some branches settled in Herefordshire in the sixteenth century, and one of them, John Skippe, was Bishop of Hereford 1539 - 1552.
An Alice Skippe married John Willason of Sugwas and thus connected the Skippe's wife a family who acquired considerable property in Ledbury by taking leases of the portion of the overhall (the Ledbury benefices was in two portions, the Netherhall and the Overhall) and by purchasing lands which before the Dissolution had formed the endowment of Charities in Ledbury Church.
The properties descended, through the death of the heir to the Willason family, to John Skippe of the Upper Hall who died in 1619. The Skippes in suceeding generations added to their inheritance by buying up further properties in Ledbury and by acquiring a share of the Ledbury Crown Lands sold by Charles I.

and here

http://www.forest-of-dean.net/.../Littledean_Bigland_Transcripts.pdf

GEORGE SKIPP, Esq.
of the Grange
in the Parish of Flaxley,
of a very ancient
Family of that Name
in the County of Hereford
and lineally descended from the
Right Rev. JOHN SKIPP,
Lord Bishop of Hereford,
in the Reign of
King EDWARD the Sixth,
Son of
RICHARD SKIPP,
of Donnington Hall
in the County of Hereford, Esq.
and of MARY his Wife
Daughter of
THOMAS PYRKE, Esq.
of this Parish.
He died May 3, 1783, aged 83.

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