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.
If she only knew of all of this while she was alive.
