Gabriel's Tree Sarah's Tree

Timeline Context

1727 King George II; 1760 King George III; 1820 King George IV; 1830 King William IV; 1837 Queen Victoria
1756-1763 Seven Years War; 1775-1783 American Revolutionary War; 1789-1799 French Revolution; 1803-1815 Napoleonic Wars; 1805 Battle of Trafagar; 1815 Battle of Waterloo; 1850 Taiping Rebellion; 1853-1856 Crimean War
1830 Swing Riots

Family Sheet Links & Information

Name	Birth	Birthplace	1841	1851	1861	1871	1881	1891	1901
Gabriel Skinner	1749	Kingsnorth
Sarah Skinner (Baker)	1752	Oare
Gabriel Skinner	1770	Sussex	Burwash Carpenter Husband of Lydia
Sarah Kemp (Skinner)	1774	?	Wife of Thomas Kemp
Thomas Skinner	1776	Brightling
Ann Skinner	1778	?
Mary Skinner	1781	?
Elizabeth Skinner	1784	Brightling
Richard Skinner	1787	Brightling
Henry Skinner	1793	Brightling	Burwash Ag. Lab.	Burwash Carrier	Aylesford wid
John Skinner	1795	Brightling	Bethersden Ag.Lab.	Bethersden Farmer	Bethersden [a] Farmer	Bethersden [b] Farmer
Charles Skinner	1796	Brightling	Emigrated to Aus.
Stephen Skinner	1799	Brightling	Brightling Ag Lab	Brightling Ag Lab	Brightling Ag Lab	Brightling Ag Lab
Ann Skinner	1800	Brightling

Address Key

[a]	Farm House, Bethersden
[b]	Tenterden Road, Bethersden

Certificates

John Skinner (45, labourer) married Mary Ann Weller (34, servent), oct 18th 1840 @ Bethersden. Fathers – Gabriel Skinner (carpenter) & Joseph Weller (labourer).
Witnesses: James Kemp & Richard Maplesden

Parish Records

Faversham

Baptism's

1695	24th Nov	Elizabeth French	James & Elizabeth French
1721	13th Mar	John Baker	Henry & Elizabeth Baker
1723	25th April	Henry Baker	Henry & Elizabeth Baker
1725	12th Sept	James Baker	Henry & Elizabeth Baker

Marraiges

1695	22nd Apr	James French = Elizabeth Philpott.
1719	27th Dec	Henry Baker = Elizabeth French
1748	11th April	Henry Baker = Anne Phillips

Parish Documents

Settlement Certificate
We Stephen FULLER, Joseph CRUTTENDEN and Joshua PELLING Churchwardens and Oversears of the Poor of the Parish of Brightling in the County of Sussex aforesaid, do hereby own and acknowledge Thomas SKINNER and Mary his wife and Gabriel about four years old and Sarah about two years and an infant not baptised their children to be our Inhabitants legally settled in the Parish of Brightling in the County of Sussex aforesaid. In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals this seventeenth day of September in the 27th year of our Sovereign Lord George the 2nd, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King Defender of the Faith, and in the Year of our Lord 1753.

Removal order for Gabriel Skinner, his wife Sarah and their children Gabriel (aged about 12yrs), Sarah (aged about 7 years) Thomas (aged about 4 years) and Ann aged (about 3 years) and Mary (aged about 6mths) dated 11 December 1781 from the parish of Ashburnham in the County of Sussex to be removed to Brightling, Sussex. This may be why I was unable to find any baptismal records for some of their children

Ancestory Family Tree's

Sarah Baker born 12th Jan 1752, Oare, Kent to Henry & Ann Baker (Phillips)
Henry Baker married Ann Phillips, 11th april 1748 @ Faversham.
Henry Baker born 1723, Faversham to Henry & Elizabeth Baker (French)
Henry Baker died 1778, age 55 @ Oare.
Henry Baker married Elizabeth French, 27th December, 1719 @ Faversham.
Elizabeth French born 24th Nov, 1695 @ Faversham to James & Elizabeth French (Philpot)

IGI

Gabriel Skinner bap 26th nov 1749, Kingsnorth, Kent to Thomas & Mary (Turner) Skinner. } ancestor one tree
Gabriel Skinner born 26th nov 1749, Kingsnorth, to Thomas & Mary Skinner } IGI
Gabriel Skinner married Sarah Baker, 24th Nov 1770, Oare, Kent. } IGI
Gabriel Skinner married Lydia Capeling, 30th april 1798, Bethersden.} IGI
Lydia Capeling bap 16th mar 1777, Betherden. To John & Lyddy Capelin } IGI

Canterbury Marriage License

John Capeling of Bethersden married Lydia Saunders of Shadoxhurst (father David S. Saunders, farmer) 28 may 1775.