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Offline lobster boy

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Skillicorn
« on: Tuesday 14 April 09 18:25 BST (UK) »
I was told by my granny that her Skillicorn grandfather came from the Isle of man, so I was a little surprised to discover that he and his father and grandfather all came form Cumberland!


I have tried to trace the Skillicorn name and have got back to a John Skillicorn. He appears in the 1841 census with his wife, Martha, and an approximate date is given as 1776 and Cumberland as a place of birth. The IGI does not list a John Skillicorn this far back

Does anyone have access to parish baptisms for this period. The Skillicorn family settled in and around Dearham and Maryport.

Many thanks for any help you can give

Lobster Boy
Sussex: Cobby, Rapley, Goldsmith, Patching
Cheshire: Hardman, Lee
Cumbria: Skillicorn
Lancashire: Griffin

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Re: Skillicorn
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 16 April 09 13:33 BST (UK) »
If you go to www.cumberlandroots.co.uk/Dearham.htm there are quite a few skillicorns in the parish records covering 1663 to 1837. I have looked in the surrounding parishes but only found a skilscorn in aspatria but of course there is no transcription for crosscanonby which covered maryport at that time. Good luck
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Cumberland: Graham and Greenop
Yorkshire: Altass
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Re: Skillicorn
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 16 April 09 17:35 BST (UK) »
Many thanks  :)

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Sussex: Cobby, Rapley, Goldsmith, Patching
Cheshire: Hardman, Lee
Cumbria: Skillicorn
Lancashire: Griffin

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Re: Skillicorn
« Reply #3 on: Monday 04 May 09 21:48 BST (UK) »
There was a direct sea route from Ramsey, Isle of Man to Cumbria so many people who left from the north of the island went direct to Cumbria and settled there.  Our Skillicorns lived in Ramsey and one branch of the family moved to Whitehaven.  I have yet to find the descendants, but I keep hoping.

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Re: Skillicorn
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 05 May 09 09:18 BST (UK) »
They'll have come over with the Christians then who married into many local famous families. One married the only daughter of Workington hall and inherited that and another married the netherhall landowning bigwig and he built a port for his coal exports and he named it after her- Maryport. Maryport didn't exist before this.Fletcher also came from near Dearham so those Skillicorns listed there could be yours. There is still a boat trip to IOM from Workington on one of the bank holidays.
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Re: Skillicorn
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 05 May 09 22:18 BST (UK) »
There were definitely Skillicorns in Whitehaven up to the 1960's as I went to school with a girl whose surname was Skillicorn.  I think she was from the Hensingham area.

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Re: Skillicorn
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 05 May 09 22:53 BST (UK) »
There seem to have been at least three breeding pairs of SKILLICORNs in the Whitehaven district in the 1980s and 90s.
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