Hello all,

A few weeks ago, Brad Verity convinced me, via email, that my ancestor
Margaret Skipwith

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Skipwith-86

is not a daughter of William Skipwith and Elizabeth Page, as she appears
on many on-line trees, including the above, many of which cite Burke's
books.

The reasoning behind this is that there are no listings of Margaret as a daughter of William and Elizabeth, let alone one married to John Trye,
other than Burke's, and the sources that I know, like the Lincolnshire pedigrees

https://archive.org/details/lincolnshirepedi03madd/page/306/mode/2up

and the visitations, only list a Mary, married to George Metham.

And if this is true, I have a new dead end, because in the visitation of Gloucestershire, take in the year 1632, there is a Trye pedigree that
says that John Trye married Margarett d. of Sr William Skipwith Knt. of Flambsted in com. Hertford [de com. Lincoln], claiming that there is an official record for the [de com. Lincoln] at the Heralds' College, as
one can see at

https://archive.org/details/visitationofcoun00inchit/page/171/mode/1up?view=theater

The intriguing part here is that the visitation of Gloucester 1682-3
only lists Lincoln as the origin of Sir William Skipwith, and the
unproven father, William Skipwith MP is also from Lincolnshire (South
Ormsby).

To me this suggests that there may still be a connection, which is also suggested by the visitations of Nottingham in the years 1569 and 1614,
which say that Elizabeth Page married William Skipwith de Flambsted in
Hertford militis.

Could this mean that there's still some truth in Burke's books about
this family? And if so, what other sources could I check?

Sir William SKIPWITH's biography on History Parliament Online says that
he had an illegitimate son, named Edward. Could there have been an
illegitimate daughter too?

http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/skipwith-sir-william-1510-86

As a knight, he certainly could have been in all mentioned counties, and
I know that visitations not always list all spouses and descendants,
especially when someone married and died outside the area. My own
ancestor, Francis Trye, son of William Trye by Mary Tyrrell, is an
example of that. He's shown as a lone son in the visitations of
Gloucester of 1632, and 1682, and showed up in Amsterdam, The
Netherlands, in 1635, where he married Anne Throgmorton, from London.

Confused ...

Enno

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