General Notes

Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 84T6-29

William Skinner * was born about 1542 in of Braintree, Essex, England.
(422) He signed a will in 1616.(10759) He died before 25 Sep 1616 in
Braintree, Essex, England. (422) He was a yeoman. Notes (source: Tylcoat
Database, David J. Tylcoat (106155.3560@@compuserve.com),
http://www.bearhaven.com/family/data/tylcoat2.html)
From "Hale, House and Related Families, mainly of the Connecticut river
valley" by Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman, the
Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, Connecticut, 1952. "To the
research of Henry F. Waters we are indebted for a number of additional
details [additional to SVT's book - DJT]., :-
"John Talcott, a pewterer, of Braintree, Essex, died in 1604 (will dated
30 Sept 1604, proved 24 Jan 1604/5; married Anne Skinner, who died at
Felsted, Essex, in 1637 (will Jan 1636/7, proved 25 May 1637), daughter
of William and Margery Skinner. She married second, by Jan 1604/5, Moses
Wall, a clothier, of Braintree, who died about the end of 1623 (will
dated 16 Sept 1623, codicil 16 Oct 1623, proved 23 Jan 1623). [Refs.,
Ibid., 1125; F.F.Starr, Goodwin and Morgan Ancestral lines (1915),
1:240-1.; H.F.Waters, Genealogical Gleanings in England (1901), 1130.]
"William Skinner, yeoman, of Braintree, Essex, England, died between 14
Aug 1616 (date of will) and 26 sept 1616 (date of probate); married
Margery ------, who died between 2 Mar 1617/18 (date of will) and 16 Dec
1620 (date of probate).
[H.F.Waters, Genealogical Gleanings in England (1901), 1205-6.]."
DWT has William b. abt 1542 in Braintree & d. 26 Sept 1616 in Braintree.
SKINNER.
E.R.O. Assize file 35/104/5/7 (Essex), Assizes held at Brentwood, 8 Mar
1663/4 :-
The same, [John Chapman] the same day, there stole eight hens each worth
6d., belonging to Wm. Skynner. Confessed, asked for a book. Witnesses:
Wm. Skynner and others [as above].
R.Bingham:-
Name: William Skinner - 62
Birth Date: About 1542
Birth Place: Braintree, Essex, England
Death Date: Before 26 Sep 1616
Death Place: Braintree, Essex, England
Burial Date: 26 Sep 1616
Burial Place: Braintree, Essex, England
Father: John Skinner - 58 (-1586)
Spouse: Margarie Trotter - 63
Children: Anne - 49
William - 64
Richard - 65
John - 66
Margery - 68
Rachel - 67
Notes:
From Lewis2.
Fisher:
Name: William SKINNER Yeoman - 52
Birth Place: Braintree, Essex, England
Death Date: About 26 Jul 1616
Father: John SKINNER Yeoman - 656 (-1586)
Mother: (w of John Skynner) --- - 655
Spouse: Margery TROTTER - 54
Children: Anne - 185
Notes:
See note under wife Margery for a will containing a number of references
to William SKINNER. From *Essex Wills, Archdeaconry Court* (3 vols.), e
F. G. Emmison (Essex Record Office) 1990, vol. for 1597-1603, p. 21: At
the end of the will of RICHARD GOSNOLL of Chigwell, 19 April, 34 Eliz.
[1592] we read: "Pr. 2 May 1592 by William SKINNER notary public, proct
of Anne GOSNOLD the ex'rix." Henry F Waters in *Genealogical Gleanings*,
Boston (New England Historica Genealogical Society) 1901, p 1205, gives
the will of "WILLIAM SKINNER of Braintree (Essex) yeoman, 14 August 161
proved 26-7-1616. The poor of Braintree twenty six shillings eight penc
To wife Margey my freehold, lands, messuages, tenements, shops &c. in
Braintree for life; afterwards to second son John. To John copyhold lan
&c. in Braintree, he to secure his mother the rent it now goeth for &c.
To John twenty poinds and to his son John, my grandson (silver). To
eldest son William one hundred asnd sixty pounds. To his daughter Rebec
and Francis Skinner (silver) and thirty pounds apiece at eighteen years
of age, and to his son Richard forty pounds. To my youngest son Richard
(inter alia) my book of my brother Allyn's works. To John and Mary
Skinner children of sain son Richard (household stuff). To son Richard
ten pounds for use and benefit of Mary, Ellyn and Richard, his children,
at ages of eighteen. To eldest daughter An, wife of Moyses All, forty
pounds. To John Taylcote, Sara Taylcoate and Rachel Taylcaote, Moyses
Wall, Lidia Wall and Mary Wall, the children of my said daughter An. fi
marks apiece, to be paid to the said Moyses Wall my son in law to their
use &c. To my son in law Moyses Wall ten pounds to be employed about a
building which he did intend to do within the house wherein he now
dwelleth. To Sara Taylecoate my bible. To John Gill my won in law twenty
pounds to the use of Mary Gill and An Gill, children of my daughter
Margery. Wo my said daughter Margery Gill two silver spoons. To my s
law Edmund Allstonne ten pounds. To Rachell Skinner my daughter, the wi
of Edmund Allstone (household stuff). To my brother Allin "my new hatt
turf't w'th velvett." To Mr. Collen ten pounds for a sermon to be
preached at my burial. To Edmund, Rachel and Mary Allstone childr
said daughter Rachel five marks apiece. To my said daughter Rachel my
book of Mr. Perkin's works after wife's decease. Susan wife of Joseph M
and her daughter Susan. Godson William Skinner son of William Skinner of
Bocking. Godson William Winteflood. Godson William Skinner son of Martin
Skinner. Cousin Martin Skinner. To Mr. Daniel Rogers, ten shillings. To
Cousin Richard Barnard ten shillings. Wife Margery to be executrix and
friends Martin Skynner, sons in law Moyses Wall and Edmund Alstone, and
Richard Barnard to be supervisors. Com. Court of London for Essex and
Herts. Unnumbered will, File for 1616." Parents: John Skinner * .
Children were: Anne Skinner *, William Skinner, Richard Skinner, John Skinner, Margery Skinner, Rachel Skinner.