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• Also Known As: Florence
• Census: 1910, Queens, New York, New York
• Census: 1921, Saint John, Saint John, New Brunswick
• Census: 1930, Queens, New York, New York

Gretchen married William Joseph LALLY in Sep 1928 in New York, New York. William was born on 21 May 1897 in New York, New York; died on 26 Jan 1958 in Beacon, Dutchess, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. William James LALLY was born on 11 Oct 1930 in New York, New York; died on 6 Apr 2019 in West Orange, Essex, New Jersey.

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• Census: 1900, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
• Census: 1910, Queens, New York, New York

Notes:

From The Gleaner (Fredericton) March, 2, 1896 : Charles St.C. Skinner, s/o C.N. SKINNER of St. John has removed to Boston to reside permanently.

Charles married Leila F. M. BOTSFORD on 18 Feb 1897 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Leila (daughter of George BOTSFORD and Frances Maria CLOPPER) was born on 29 Oct 1869 in Fredericton, York, New Brunswick; died on 30 Jan 1950 in Saint John, Saint John, New Brunswick; was buried in Fernhill Cemetery, Saint John, Saint John, New Brunswick. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Also Known As: Sarah Eliza
• Census: 1881, Fredericton, York, New Brunswick
• Census: 1900, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
• Census: 1910, Queens, New York, New York
• Census: 1921, Saint John, Saint John, New Brunswick

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• Census: 1901, Saint John, Saint John, New Brunswick

Notes:

The Biographical Review noted above says this about Hon. Charles N. Skinner:

“[…] ex-judge of probate for the county of St. John, N.B. and in 1900, Recorder for the city of St. John. Born in St. John, 12 March 1833, son of Samuel Skinner, whose father came from New England to the province just before the Revolutionary war. Samuel Skinner was born in N.S. and during his active life was a leading builder and contractor of St. John. He married Phebe Sherwood, daughter of Robert Golding and grand-daughter of Captain Golding, a Loyalist who commanded a company of dragoons through the Revolution, and afterward emigrated with his family to the Maritime Provinces.
 Charles N. Skinner received his elementary education in the schools in St. John, and after studying law with Charles W. Stockton, was admitted an attorney in 1858, and in 1860 was called to the bar. He began the practice of his profession in the city of his birth, where he had since won a reputation as a keen, clear-headed lawyer, prudent in counsel and devoted to the interests of his clients. For nearly twoscore years, Mr. Skinner has been active in politics, and from 1861 to 1868 he was a member of the Legislative Assembly. In August, 1867, he was appointed Solicitor General, an office which he ably filled until March 1868, when he was made Judge of Probate for St. John County. During the same year, he was appointed Queen’s Counsel by the provincial government, and in 1883, was thus honored by the Dominion government. In 1887, Mr.Skinner, who had previously resigned his position as Judge of Probate, was elected to the Dominion Parliament, in which he served until 1892. He subsequently resumed his position as Judge of Probate, having been reappointed in June 1892, and served until January 1894, when he resigned to accept his present office of City Recorder. For several years he was a member of the St. John Council, and while occupying that position took advantage of every opportunity to advance the welfare of the city and the interests of its citizens.
 Fraternally, Mr. Skinner is a Mason and an Odd Fellow, and he is a member of the Union Club of St. John. In his religious belief he is a Baptist, and contributes generously toward the support of that denomination. In June 1896, he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law from King’s College, Windsor, N.S.”

Charles married Eliza Jane McLOUGHLIN on 12 Jan 1865 in Saint John, New Brunswick. Eliza (daughter of Daniel J. McLOUGHLIN) was born in 1837 in New Brunswick; died on 24 Jan 1915. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1901, Saint John, Saint John, New Brunswick

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• Census: 1881, Fredericton, York, New Brunswick

Notes:

Source: Descendants of Francis Le Baron of Plymouth, Mass.

George married Frances Maria CLOPPER. Frances (daughter of Henry George CLOPPER and Mary Ann KETCHUM) was born on 20 Dec 1827 in Woodstock, Carleton, New Brunswick; died on 13 May 1924 in Saint John, Saint John, New Brunswick; was buried in Old Burial Ground Cemetery, Fredericton, York, New Brunswick. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1881, Fredericton, York, New Brunswick
• Census: 1900, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
• Census: 1910, Queens, New York, New York
• Census: 1921, Saint John, Saint John, New Brunswick

Notes:

According to “Biographical Review… Province of New Brunswick”, Samuel Skinner was born in Nova Scotia and during his life was a leading builder and contractor of St. John, N.B.

Samuel married Phebe Sherwood GOLDING on 1 May 1832 in Wickham, Queens, New Brunswick. Phebe (daughter of Robert GOLDING and Elizabeth SMITH) was born about 1814 in Wickham, Queens, New Brunswick; died on 21 Nov 1863 in Saint John, New Brunswick. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Samuel and Phebe were married by Rev. Joseph Churchill Skinner

Notes:

CLOPPER, HENRY GEORGE, office holder, banker, and magistrate; b. 25 April 1792 in Kingsclear Parish, N.B., son of Garret Clopper and Penelope Miller; m. 9 Feb. 1820 Mary Ann Ketchum in Woodstock, N.B., and they had two daughters; d. 4 Nov. 1838 in Fredericton.

Henry George Clopper’s father was a New York loyalist of Dutch descent who had served with the provincial forces during the American revolution and who held minor civil offices in New Brunswick; his mother’s family were genteel Massachusetts loyalists, with a connection to the family of Edward Winslow*. After attending Fredericton Academy and serving some time as an apprentice to a Halifax merchant, Henry became a clerk in the commissariat department at Fort Cumberland (near Sackville, N.B.) in 1813. He worked for the commissariat in various places at least until 1818, being for a time in charge of the depot at Presque Isle. That he remained in employment when military establishments were reduced after the War of 1812 may have been in part due to the influence of his mother’s brother-in-law, Harris William Hailes, administrator of New Brunswick in 1816–17 and afterwards aide-de-camp to Lieutenant Governor George Stracey Smyth*.

Clopper was appointed in February 1821 to succeed his father as registrar of deeds and wills for York County. On his father’s death in July 1823 he also replaced him in the offices of sergeant-at-arms of the House of Assembly and county clerk. Small official plums would continue to come his way, among them the post of sub-collector of customs for Fredericton in 1831. Late in 1837 he gave up the office of county clerk, whose duties included that of acting as prosecutor, and became a justice of the peace and a judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas. There were few community endeavours in which Clopper was not involved. In 1822 he was one of the commissioners for erecting an almshouse and workhouse in Fredericton and he served on its board for many years. He was also clerk of the vestry of the parish church, first secretary of the Fredericton Savings Bank when it was founded in 1824, and secretary and treasurer of the Fredericton Library. In 1825 he became a founding member of the Central Committee of Relief for the Miramichi Fire, and the following year he was made one of the commissioners for the allocation of the funds it collected.

A significant event in Clopper’s public career was his participation in the census of 1824. Not only was he responsible, as county clerk, for coordinating the census in York, but he was chosen by the provincial secretary, William Franklin Odell, to compile the total returns for the colony and to report to the assembly. Census takers, who were selected by the justices of the peace, recorded population numbers by sex, colour, and age (above or under 16 years), as well as numbers of families, occupied and unoccupied houses, and new houses being built. Unfortunately, the accuracy of the figures for the colony that Clopper compiled was compromised by a few late returns from remote areas and by the failure of two counties to assess the numbers employed in lumbering operations. In 1825 Archdeacon George Best* estimated the population to be 79,176, or 5,000 more than the figure shown in the assembly’s published report.

In 1834 Clopper became the first president of the Central Bank of New Brunswick, located in Fredericton. It was incorporated that year by a legislature which had recently shown itself entirely unreceptive to efforts of a group of Saint John merchants to launch a second bank in that city [see John McNeil Wilmot]. The ease with which the Central Bank’s promoters received legislative sanction was likely owing to the fact that their institution, by virtue of its location and its modest size (the initial authorized capital being only £15,000), posed no threat to the virtual monopoly of the Bank of New Brunswick, founded in Saint John in 1820. It may have helped that Charles Simonds*, an important figure in the Bank of New Brunswick and one of the most powerful politicians in the province, was Clopper’s brother-in-law. Clopper’s involvement with the Central Bank led to an association with other business enterprises; one was the Nashwaak Mill and Manufacturing Company, of which he became a director, along with James Taylor* and others, in 1836.

Clopper was an obstinate man who appears to have been lacking in warmth and generosity. A dispute with a maternal uncle over the sum of £35 disrupted the family in 1830. It also involved Clopper in a confrontation with lawyer George Frederick Street*, and in 1834 the public was treated to an exchange of incivilities in the correspondence columns of the New-Brunswick Courier between these two scions of the loyalist aristocracy. Clopper was nevertheless a man of significant abilities. When he died the Royal Gazette’s obituary referred to the “clear and powerful intellect” that had “enabled him to undertake and to perform duties of such varied kind and character, as will render it a matter of extreme difficulty to supply his place in this community.” Years afterwards the People’s Bank of New Brunswick honoured him by placing his portrait on its five-dollar notes. Since he had had no sons and his only brother had died in 1819, the Clopper name continued to be known in New Brunswick chiefly through the career of his wife’s nephew Henry George Clopper Ketchum*.

D. M. Young

Henry married Mary Ann KETCHUM on 9 Feb 1820 in Woodstock, Carleton, New Brunswick. Mary was born in 1799 in Woodstock, Carleton, New Brunswick; died on 18 Jul 1839 in Fredericton, York, New Brunswick. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]