When Oliver Skinner was born on 10 January 1638, in Winchcomb, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Skinner, was 25 and his mother, Bridget Taynton, was 29. He married Sarah Collins about 1660. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 6 September 1699, in his hometown, at the age of 61, and was buried in Winchcomb, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom.
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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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