Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: 1881; Foundry Man
• Occupation: 1883, Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; Machinist
• Census: 1911, Queens, Nova Scotia

Notes:

Also known as Judson Sandford Skinner.

Judson married Grace Sophia HAMILTON on 5 Dec 1883 in Kings, Nova Scotia. Grace was born in Jul 1864 in Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; died on 21 Aug 1919 in Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; was buried in Yarmouth Mountain Cemetery, Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Ralph Wallingford SKINNER was born on 12 Aug 1883 in Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; died on 7 Oct 1961 in Dayton, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.
2. Katherine Villa SKINNER was born on 18 Sep 1887 in Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; died on 24 Oct 1969; was buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
3. Lenora Rachael SKINNER was born in Nov 1888 in Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; died on 6 Jan 1950 in Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.
4. Judson George SKINNER was born on 4 Sep 1889 in Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; died on 20 Oct 1958 in Hebron, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; was buried in Yarmouth Mountain Cemetery, Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.
5. Edward Charles SKINNER was born on 10 Oct 1891 in Berwick, Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 25 Mar 1969 in Bridgewater, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia; was buried in Yarmouth Mountain Cemetery, Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.
6. Karl Stephen SKINNER was born on 14 Apr 1907 in Clyde River, Shelburne, Nova Scotia; died on 3 Oct 1994 in Danville, Rockingham, New Hampshire.

Judson married Iva Vera GEHUE on 17 Dec 1924 in Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Iva was born about 1899 in Bear River, Digby, Nova Scotia; died in 1952 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; was buried in Yarmouth Mountain Cemetery, Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Mary Elizabeth SKINNER was born on 11 Jul 1921 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; died on 20 Nov 1992 in Shelburne, Nova Scotia.
2. Iva SKINNER was born on 17 May 1923 in Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; died on 7 May 2005.
3. Dorothy SKINNER was born on 24 Nov 1925 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; died in 2003 in British Columbia.
4. Rebecca Mariam SKINNER was born on 30 May 1933 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; died on 12 Feb 2019 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; was buried in Yarmouth Mountain Cemetery, Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.
5. Sidney Judson SKINNER was born on 30 Dec 1934 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; died on 11 Sep 2014 in Abbotsford, British Columbia; was buried in Yarmouth Mountain Cemetery, Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.
6. Eleanor Rachael SKINNER was born about 1935.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: 1881; Farmer

Notes:

Canadian 1881 census: He resided in Berwick. He was a farmer.

Edward married Rebecca Penelope COGSWELL. Rebecca was born on 20 Jul 1836 in Nova Scotia; died on 20 Jan 1917 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; was buried in Berwick Cemetery, Berwick, Kings, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1901, Woodville, Kings, Nova Scotia
• Census: 1911, Kings, Nova Scotia

William married Lois WHITE on 28 Apr 1812 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia. Lois (daughter of Timothy WHITE and Weighty PORTER) was born on 29 Sep 1794 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died in Nov 1863 in Berwick, Kings, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

“Sarah and Charles Skinner went to Maugerville, N.B. just before the Loyalists, and it is assumed they might have gotten a good price for their land and moved to Bass River, N.S., where Charles was a school teacher. They stayed there about five years before moving to Kings County. The school records in Bass River were burned in a fire.” (Source: Isabel Palmeter) This would suggest that the family came to Cornwallis Township just prior to the influx of Loyalists.

Charles Skinner was a grantee at Cornwallis township, that he was born 3 Jan 1748 in Colchester, Connecticut, son of Aaron Skinner. He married 24 Nov 1774 at Passamaquoddy, Sarah, daughter of Samuel and Sarah Osborn, perhaps from Martha’s Vinyard. She lists 15 children, including my Ann Skinner, who married 1802 Thomas Lyons. (Source: Esther Clark Wright in “Planters and Pioneers”)

The Skinners first came to Passamaquoddy, Campobello or Indian Island (all in Passamaquoddy Bay in Charlotte, New Brunswick), where Charles might have taught school from 1774 to 1778. They moved to St. John and Maugerville in 1778 where he taught school until 1780. The arrival of the Loyalists may have provided financial incentive to sell their lands profitably. They moved to Five Islands, Cumberland, N.S. (but I think then all part of Cornwallis Township) where the family lived for the first five years, before they settled in 1785 at Little Pereau, near Blomidon, in the Cornwallis area of present day Kings County. (Source: Rev. Davison in his book “Alice of Grand-Pré”)

Charles Skinner was a school teacher by profession, and one reference said he was a “refined gentleman”.

The father of Samuel Skinner (i.e., Charles Skinner) came from New England to the Maritimes just before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. (Source: The book “Biographical Review… Province of New Brunswick” published in Boston in 1900 page 97)

“Died 15 January 1848 in Cornwallis, Mrs. Sarah Skinner in 88th year, daughter of the late Samuel Osborne of Martha’s Vineyard, U.S. They removed to Casco, Maine, to New Brunswick, then to Nova Scotia. Born 22 July 1760, married in NB at age 16 to Charles Skinner, native of Connecticut. Leaves 8 sons, 7 daughters, 113 grandchildren, 60 great-grandchildren. Late W. A. Chipman was a brother-in-law. Edward Manning and George Dimock sons-in-law. Rev. I. E. Bill married a granddaughter.” (Source: The Christian Messenger an early Baptist magazine).

Charles married Sarah OSBORN on 24 Nov 1774 in Passamaquoddy, Nova Scotia. Sarah was born on 22 Jul 1760 in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts; died on 15 Jul 1848 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From notes of A. Joanne (Irving) Hunt, Litchfield, NH:

From The Christian Messenger (an early Baptist magazine): “Died 15 January 1848 in Cornwallis, Mrs. Sarah Skinner in 88th year, daughter of the late Samuel Osborne of Martha’s Vineyard, U.S. They removed to Casco, Maine, to New Brunswick, then to Nova Scotia. Born 22 July 1760, married in NB at age 16 to Charles Skinner, native of Connecticut. Leaves 8 sons, 7 daughters, 113 grandchildren, 60 great-grandchildren. Late W. A. Chipman was a brother-in-law. Edward Manning and George Dimock sons-in-law. Rev. I. E. Bill married a granddaughter.”

Timothy married Weighty PORTER. Weighty was born in 1773; died in 1850. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]