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Re: Thomas Skillicorn *PIC*
In Response To: Thomas Skillicorn ()

Using information from Ancestry public member trees, it seems that noone has yet discovered the answer to your question. And noone seems to have found Thomas and his wife in 1841. Here they are:

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1841
New Brighton, Cheshire

Ancestry’s transcription:

Name Age
Susannah Leddon 7
Thos Findlin 25
Jane Hagher 20
Thos Skilecom 30
Elizabeth Skilecom 25
Jane Skilecom 7

TS 30 ag lab N (not born in Cheshire)
Jane 7 N (presumably from Thomas Skillicorn’s first marriage)
ES 25 b Cheshire

There’s also John Ledder’s family in the same building:

NameAge
John Leddon 45
Martha Leddon 45
George Leddon 25
Martha Leddon 20
Samuel Leddon 18
Margaret Leddon 16
Ann Leddon 15
Mary Leddon 13
Ellen Leddon 11

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Thomas was a widower when he married Elizabeth Ledder in Liverpool in 1840.

Looking for Thomas’s first marriage, several trees suggest that his first wife was Elizabeth Collister, married in Kk German in 1834, but there’s no evidence that this is the right marriage.

Following the clue of the 7 year old Jane Skillicorn in the 1841 household, familysearch has only one Jane Skillicorn birth to a father Thomas in the right time frame ---- 22 March 1835, Douglas St Matthews, to Thomas Skillicorn (labourer) and Ann Bell. (There’s also a baptism listed as being to a Tom Skillicorn and Jane Hill in 1834 but examination of the image shows that Tom is a mistranscription of Wm.)

Name: Thomas Shillicorn • Edit
Event Type: Marriage
Event Date: 21 Dec 1834 • Edit
Event Place: Braddan, Isle of Man • Edit
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Single
Spouse's Name: Ann Bell • Edit
Spouse's Gender: Female
Spouse's Marital Status: Single

The image shows that they were bachelor/spinster, both “of this parish”, and both made an x-mark. Witnesses were John Skillicorn (he signed) and James Corran.

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There don’t appear to be any other births to this couple.

There’s a burial of an Ann Skillicorn 30 Oct 1835 in St Mary’s Cemetery, Liverpool, age 23, abode Workhouse. This might or might not have been Ann nee Bell.

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There’s a tantalising clue in the 1871 census---- the only one in which Thomas Skillicorn gave a birthplace which wasn’t just “Isle of Man”. But I can’t decipher it. I’ll attach a screenshot---can anyone make a recognisable name out of it ? The first letter looks like the T (or maybe L) in words on the same page. Familysearch has transcribed it as Gannoch but it doesn’t look like other examples of the letter G. Could it be a farm name ?

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This is a possible baptism:

Name:Thomas Skillicorn • EditEvent Type:ChristeningEvent Date:07 Jun 1807 • EditEvent Place:Braddan, Isle of Man • EditGender:MaleFather's Name:Wm Skillicorn • EditMother's Name:Isabella Quayle • Edit

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William Skillicorn married Isabella Quayle in Braddan 17 April 1791. They had children baptised in Malew, German and Braddan. There’s a burial for an Isabella Skillicorn 4th Aug 1848 Braddan age 82.

1841
Tromode, Braddan

John Skillicorn 30 sailcloth weaver
Catherine 25 washerwoman
John 6
Wm 4
Isabella 70

Could this be Thomas Skillicorn’s mother and brother ?

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John Skillicorn (the one bap 18 March 1804 Kk German to Wm Skillicorn and Isabella Quayle ?) married Catharine Kelly 21 Aug 1836 Braddan. He signed his name, and it’s the same signature as one of the witnesses to Thomas Skillicorn’s 1834 marriage to Ann Bell. In 1851 he was a widower age 44 living at Union Mills, Braddan with 4 children --- he was a woollen weaver.

1851
Union Mills

Skillicorn mistranscribed by Ancestry as William

Name Age
John William 44
John William 16
William William 14
Louis William 9
George William 6

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When Thomas Skillicorn gave his birthplace to the census taker in Cheshire in 1871, could his Manx accent have been interpreted as Trumoch ? How would the word Tromode have been pronounced back then ?

Putting all these clues together, this might be the right family for your Thomas Skillicorn, but it’s just speculation at this stage.

Jean C
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