Brief Life History of Sarah
When Sarah Skidmore was born in 1755, in Long Island, New York Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Peter Skidmore, was 29 and her mother, Mary Dayton, was 16. She married Matthew Wells on 13 January 1774, in Huntington, Suffolk, New York Colony, British Colonial America.
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Family Time Line
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- Sarah Scidmore, "New York, Births and Christenings, 1640-1962"
Spouse and Children
1751– Male
1755– Female
Parents and Siblings
1726–1800 Male
1740– Female
Siblings (14)
1754–1765 Male
1755– Female
1758–1810 Male
1761–1817 Male
1763–1850 Female
+9 More Children
Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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