LONGMORES in Hertford

[klong]

Thanks Peter,

I am sure there is a connection with the Skinner family.  I have come across the surname recently.   Many thanks.  More research for the weekend.
 

Karen (Australia)

[wilgar]

Hi Karen - Tried to get in touch with you via Longmore Website - I am the great granddaugher of Jessie Longmore.  She was the daughter of Philip Longmore and Sabine (nee Elton) of Hertford Castle.  She was my great grandfather Cecil Holder's second wife and they were in fact first cousins as Jessie's mother Sabine and Cecil's mother Ann were sisters. Hope to hear from you.  Kind regards wendy

[wilgar]

The Skinner family and the Longmore family are indeed related.  In fact to inherit under his uncle's  (matthew? skinner's)will, Samuel James Longmore had to change his name to Skinner and adopt the coat of arms.  If you google in (under google books) there is a very detailed full view of the book 'A few memories of the right rev R B Skinner 'by allan McLean Skinner dated 1860.  Also, I think we forget (or at least I do!) how common it was for cousins to marry each other in those days.  In my own family, apart from the Longmores.  there are  Holders and  Eltons marrying cousins, and of two siblings from one family marrying two siblings from another.