When Rebecca Skinner was born about 1719, in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, her father, Joseph Skinner, was 51 and her mother, Elizabeth Olmstead, was 54. She married Joseph Mason Jr. on 4 June 1754, in Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons. She died on 20 March 1772, in Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 54.
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English: occupational name for someone who stripped the hide from animals to be used in the production of fur garments, or to be tanned for leather, from Middle English skinner ‘skinner’, an agent derivative of Middle English skin(n) ‘hide, pelt’ (Old Norse skinn).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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