Reverend Samuel Skelton -11th Great Grandfather

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Repinski-Dietz Family Tree
Samuel Skelton-11th Great Grandfather
Another Ancestral Connection to Salem Massachusetts
Surname Branches: Repinski-Dietz-Brown-Smith-Olney-Marsh-Skelton


Reverend Samuel Skelton
BIRTH Feb 1592
Boston, Boston Borough, Lincolnshire, England
DEATH 2 Aug 1634 (aged 42)
Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA

Today I discovered another ancestral Great Grandpa who was one of the men responsible for the founding of the 1st church in Salem Mass.

Samuel Skelton was one of my 11th Great Grandfathers in a line that comes down to me through my mother, Marlene Dietz Repinski via one of her many family branches back to Colonial New England.

I found this amazing man and the story of his life while researching a line that goes back to my 'Basset" family branch of Medieval England that I have been looking into of late.

I also came upon an interesting possible further family connection to another of my ancestral great grandfathers, Roger Williams, through Samuel's mother who's maiden name is Williams. Sarah Williams, who would be my 12th Great grandmother and who married Samuel's father, William Skelton.

Sarah was born in 1565 in Coningsby, Lincolnshire, England and though I have been unable to find her parents at this point, I have a feeling that she is closely related to Roger Williams as the connections via the Salem Church and Roger being one of it's members, leads me to surmise that somewhere there is an intimate relationship....

I discover at least 4 new ancestral great grandparents each day and I find myself so lucky to have been born to this woman who I have discovered has a pedigree that is so utterly amazing.
If she only knew of all of this while she was alive.

Robert Cushman-11th Great Grandfather

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Robert Cushman
11th Great Grandfather
(Responsible for the Charter of the Mayflower)


Since discovering my family ancestry from my mother and her grandparents, Henry Deitz & Grace Pope, back to Plymouth Mass. and the Mayflower Pilgrims, I have found many ancestral great grandparents and relatives that have English, Scottish and Irish roots.

Robert Cushman is one of those ancestral great grandparents.

Though Robert was not on the Mayflower and is not one of the 1st settlers of Plymouth Colony, he is treated as such in the history of the Pilgrims, as without his assistance, this chapter in the history of the world might never have been written.

Come along with me and meet one of the men responsible for the the Charter of the Mayflower and the sowing of Early Colonial America....

George Soule & Mary Bucket/Becket-11th Great Grandparents-Mayflower Passengers

Family History Research
August 2018

George Soule (c. 1600 – between 20 September 1677 and 22 January 1679) was a colonist who was one of the indentured servants on the Mayflower and helped establish Plymouth Colony in 1620.
He was one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact.
George Soule was also my 11th Great Grandfather.

As I continue my research into my mother, Marlene Deitz Repinski's family lines that I discovered a little more than 2 years ago, I am learning so much and continue to be awe struck by my family history through her father and his ancestors.

I still get tears in my eyes each time I find another of my ancestors that she should have known about.
How her parents and the rest of my family on her side never knew of these awesome lines back in history, I will never be able to fathom.

I am so happy that I was the one who finally "rediscovered" all of these amazing ancestors and my goal in my lifetime is to reacquaint my family and my friends with them so they will never ever be forgotten again.

In the last two years I have discovered at least 250 ancestral great grandparents and each week I find at least 2 more to add to that growing list.
Some of them gained fame like George did by being part of   the written history of our planet and being part of some pretty remarkable events and others passed their lives with barely a mention in a newspaper or a family bible if even.
None of them are more important than the other in my eyes and I endeavor to put "a face and flesh and bones" to each of them that I discover.

The history of one of my ancestral great grandparents who lived their entire lives without ever venturing out of their birth town is just as wondrous to me as the one who donated land for a village church or the one who came over on a great ship or the one who fought in the American Revolutionary War or the one who owned slaves or the one who created the first Baptist church in America or the ones who were descended from Kings and Queens of Europe.

I have all of the above in my history and amazingly I have some of these ancestors on both sides of my tree which means that most of my family does as well.
Case in point, I just discovered about a year ago that my father, Maurice Repinski, descends from one of the royal houses of Poland and that his family's ancestors were instrumental in the founding of the village of Rzepin in Poland.

Come along and meet my 11th Great Grandfather and Grandmother, George Soule and Mary Bucket/Beckett Soule. George and Mary were true pioneers and were the progenitors of an American legacy of many human beings, myself and my siblings and their children included.....