Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Rev. William Skepper
Bef 1597 - Bef 1646 (< 48 years)-
Name William Skepper Prefix Rev. Birth Bef 27 Nov 1597 [1, 2, 3] Baptism 27 Nov 1597 Boston, Lincolnshire, England [1, 2, 3] Gender Male Alternate death Between 1640 and 1650 [1, 3] Death Bef 1646 [2] Person ID I5234 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP Last Modified 11 Jan 2023
Father Edward Skepper, b. 1552 d. 10 Nov 1629, East Kirkby, Lincolnshire, England (Age 77 years) Mother Mary Robinson d. Aft 1630 Marriage 11 Apr 1592 Boston, Lincolnshire, England [1, 2] Family ID F1705 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Sarah Fisher Marriage 17 Jan 1639 Boston, Lincolnshire, England [1, 2, 3] Children + 1. Sarah Skepper, b. Abt 1640 d. 18 Dec 1711, Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 71 years) Family ID F1686 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 7 May 2020
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Notes - Emigrated to New England in 1639. One of AP's two proven gateway ancestors.
He was admitted a pensioner at Sidney College, Cambridge, 8 Jul 1612. He matriculated 1614, B.A., 1617-18. He was Rector of Thorpe by Wainfleete (Thorpe-in-the-Marsh) in 1630, a parish next to Wainfleet All Saints where his elder sister Mary had married the rector in 1622. He left Thorpe-in-the-Marsh sometime before Dec 1638, when John Watts is recorded as the vicar there, and is next seen in Boston, Lincolnshire, where he married his second wife Sarah Fisher. The exact date of his emigration to New England is unknown but it appears to have taken place in 1639. He did not subsequently live long there, but he is recorded there as having arranged for certain monies to be provided to his four older children.
His descendants include Calvin Coolidge, Roy Rogers (the actor and singer, not the guitarist), Tuesday Weld, and John Kerry.
Rev. William Skepper = Jane (first wife)
Jane Skepper = Abraham Browne
Jane Browne = Henry Lunt
Jane Lunt = Nathaniel Drake
Abraham Drake = Martha Eaton
Martha Drake = John Smith
John Smith = Mary "Polly" Mudgett
Mary Hussey Smith = Jacob Lee Merrill
George David Merrill = Mary Bird
Gertrude May Merrill = Frederick George Sanders
Doris May Sanders = Gordon Arnold Markle
Thomas Wayne Markle = Doria L. Ragland
Rachel Megan Markle (1981- ) = Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
- Emigrated to New England in 1639. One of AP's two proven gateway ancestors.
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Sources - [S4123] Mary Lovering Holman, "The Skepper Family." The American Genealogist 20:77, 1943.
- [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013.
- [S4124] James L. Hansen, "The Ancestry of Joan Legard, Grandmother of the Rev. William1 Skepper/Skipper of Boston, Massachusetts." The American Genealogist 69:129, Jul 1994.
- [S4123] Mary Lovering Holman, "The Skepper Family." The American Genealogist 20:77, 1943.