When Henry Skidmore Sr was born in 1650, in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Abraham Skidmore, was 50 and his mother, Joan Dancer, was 42. He had at least 1 son with Elizabeth Cannon. He died on 7 January 1695, in Cedar Creek Hundred, Sussex, Delaware, United States, at the age of 45.
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Fort Casimir was established in 1651, by Peter Stuyvesant.
In 1664, the Dutch were driven out of Delaware by Sir Robert Carr of England. He claimed the area for the Duke of York and made Delaware an English colony.
Historical Boundaries: *1680: Worcester, Maryland Colony, British Colonial America 1685: Sussex, Delaware Colony, British Colonial America 1776: Sussex, Delaware, United States *1682: Deale ceased to exist in 1682, became Sussex in 1685.
English (Staffordshire): of Norman origin, a variant of Scudamore, which most probably arises from a Norman French nickname for a knight who used a particular type of leather shield, from the unrecorded Norman French phrase, escu de more ‘Moor's shield’, a reference to a type of Moorish leather shield called an adarga, which was in widespread use not only in medieval Iberia and north Africa but also in Brittany.
History: The manor of Upton Scudamore in Wiltshire was held by Peter de Skydemore in 1216. The same manor was held by Godfrey Escudamore shortly after 1150. The Scudamore family claim descent from Ralph, recorded in Domesday Book (1086) as holder of Opeton (Upton), whose son was known as Reginald Escudemor.
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