Reverend
William
Skepper
aka Skipper
Born before in Boston, Lincolnshire, England
Ancestors 
Son of Edward Skepper Gent.
and Mary (Robinson) Skepper
Brother of
Bridget (Skepper) Palfreyman [half], Faith Skepper [half], Lucy Skepper [half], Richard Skepper [half], Elizabeth Skepper, John Skepper, Mary (Skepper) Herring and Jane Skepper
Husband of
Jane (Unknown) Skepper
— married
before 1626 in Lincolnshire, England
Husband of
Sarah (Fisher) Skepper
— married
17 Jan 1639 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England
Descendants 
Father of
Elizabeth (Skepper) Phillips, John Skepper, Mary Skepper, Theophilus Skepper, Theophilus Skepper, Jane (Skepper) Browne, Katherine (Skepper) Johnson and Sarah (Skepper) Fairfield
Died before
at about age 48
in Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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Biography
William Skepper was born in England.
William Skipper was the son of Edward Skipper of East Kirkby, Lincolnshire and his second wife Mary Robinson.[1] He was baptised on 27 November 1597 at Boston, Lincolnshire, England.[2][3][4][5]
William matriculated at Sidney College (now Sidney Sussex College), Cambridge in 1614 and was awarded a BA degree in 1617-8.[6] He became a clergyman and from 1630 to 1638 held the parish living of Thorpe St Peter (also known as "Thorpe in the Marsh" or "Thorpe in Marisco"), Lincolnshire, for which his mother had the right of presentation.[2][3][5][7]
William married twice. His first wife, whose family origins are not known, was called Jane.[2][3] They had the following children:
- John,[2][3] baptised at Thorpe St Peter, Lincolnshire on 29 August 1628,[8] and died young[5]
- Elizabeth, who married Zachariah Phillips[2][3][5] and who, according to "English Births and Christenings", was baptised at Thorpe St Peter, Lincolnshire on 12 November 1628:[9] doubt is cast on the year by the baptism date of her brother John, and a 1943 article in The American Genealogist suggests she may have been born in about 1626[5]
- Mary,[2][3] baptised at Thorpe St Peter, Lincolnshire on 19 July 1629[10] and died young[5]
- Theophilus,[2][3] who was baptised at Thorpe St Peter, Lincolnshire on 25 October 1631[11] and who was buried on 16 March 1631/2[5]
- another Theophilus[2][3] who was baptised at Thorpe St Peter, Lincolnshire on 9 January 1632/3[1][5][12]
- Jane, who married Abraham Brown[2][3] and who was baptised at Thorpe St Peter, Lincolnshire on 8 January 1634/5[13] or 9 January 1634/5[1][5]
- Katherine, who married John Maverick[14] and John Johnson[2][3][5][15] and who may be the Catherin, daughter of William and Jane, baptised at Bolingbroke with Hareby, Lincolnshire in 1637[16]
William's first wife died before 17 January 1638/9: on that date William married Sarah Fisher at Boston, Lincolnshire.[2][3][17][18] They had one child:
- Sarah, who married Walter Fairfield[2][3] and who was likely to have been born in Lynn, Massachusetts in about 1640:[5] her gravestone says she was in her 71st year when she died in 1710[19]
In 1639 William emigrated to New England.[2][3][5] In 1640, he made some provision for four children (the second Theophilus, Katherine, Jane and Elizabeth) but details do not survive.[5] He died, without making a will, before 1646.[2][3]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 A R Maddison. Lincolnshire Pedigrees, Vol. III, Harleian Society, 1904, pp. 883-884, Internet Archive
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), Vol. IV, pp. 32-33, SKEPPER 16, partially viewable on Google Books
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. IV, p. 640, SKEPPER 21
- ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5VQ-HY1 : 4 February 2023), Wills. Skypper, 1597
- ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 Mary Lovering Holman. The Skepper Family, in 'The American Genealogist', Vol. 20, 1943, pp. 77-81, American Ancestors website ($)
- ↑ J A Venn. Alumni Cantabrigienses, Part I, Vol. IV, Cambridge University Press, 1927, p. 83, Internet Archive
- ↑ The Clergy Database: search for Skepper, William - the linked full records have links to a list of incumbents for the locations
- ↑ England Births & Baptisms 1538-1975, FindMyPast
- ↑ England Births & Baptisms 1538-1975, FindMyPast
- ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NGPJ-8MY : 3 February 2023), William Skepper in entry for Mary Skepper, 1629
- ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NGPJ-C56 : 3 February 2023), Willim Skepper in entry for Theophilus Skepper, 1631
- ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NYPQ-274 : 3 February 2023), Theophilus Skepper, 1632: gives year as just 1632
- ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JQRG-ZH4 : 3 February 2023), Willim Skepper in entry for Jane Skepper, 1634: gives year as just 1634
- ↑ Sarah Elizabeth Titcomb. Early New England People, W B Clarke & Carruth, 1882, p. 252, Internet Archive
- ↑ George Wingate Chase. The history of Haverhill, Massachusetts, from its first settlement, in 1640, to the year 1860, privately published (Haverhill, Massachusetts), 1861, pp. 634-635, Internet Archive
- ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JW4B-X24 : 4 February 2023), Willm Skepper in entry for Catherin Skepper, 1637
- ↑ Lincolnshire: Boston: St Botolph: Parish Register, FreeREG, (https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/581802b6e93790eb7f0845e6 : viewed 7 Jan 2024) marriage Will'm Skepper to Sarah Fisher 17 Jan 1639
- ↑ "England, Lincolnshire, Parish Registers, 1538-1990", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPRB-54QX : Sat Nov 25 11:44:27 UTC 2023), Entry for Willm Skapper and Sarah Fisher, Jan 1638: gives year as just 1638
- ↑ Vital records of Wenham, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849, Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts, 1904, p. 196, Internet Archive; see also the image on Sarah's profile
- Hansen, James L. The Ancestry of Joan Legard, Grandmother of the Rev. William Skepper/Skipper of Boston, Massachusetts in 'The American Genealogist', Vol. 69, No 3, Jul 1994, p. 138, American Ancestors website ($)
- Pedigree showing relation to President John Calvin Coolidge Jr. https://fabpedigree.com/s074/f511220.htm NOTE: appears unsourced
Acknowledgements
Magna Carta Project
- This profile was re-reviewed for the Magna Carta Project by Michael Cayley on 7 January 2024.
- William Skepper is listed in Magna Carta Ancestry as a Gateway Ancestor (vol. I, pages xxiii-xxix) and is in project-approved/badged trails (reviewed March 2016 by a Magna Carta Project member) to Magna Carta Surety Barons William d'Aubigny, Robert de Ros, John de Lacy, Saher de Quincy, Gilbert de Clare, and Richard de Clare. The trails to all the surety barons named above are all detailed in the Magna Carta Trails section of Edward Skepper's profile.
- See Base Camp for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".
- William Skepper has other trails to surety Barons, but the Magna Carta Project is not planning to verify or work on them. These include a trail to Roger Bigod which is Douglas Richardson's main trail for William. See the profiles of Gateways William Farrar and William Asfordby, with whom he shares most of this ancestry, for more identified/undeveloped trails to Magna Carta surety barons, and also this PAGE.
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