Augustine SKIDMORE

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Augustine Skidmore/Scudamore “had an estate at the Dudley manor of Budbrooke, perhaps from Edward, the fourth Lord Dudley. He is doubtless the man of his distinctive name who was in Virginia for a time as a servant to Colonel John Upton (died 1652) of Isle of Wight County, and among the 30 persons for whom Upton claimed 1500 acres as headrights on 10 November 1638. He had several children christened at Budbrooke, the eldest in 1621 and the youngest in (or soon after) 1640. He may have been in Virginia for part of this time, but he promptly disappears from there and presumably returned to England. He married firstly his cousin Susan, a daughter of William and Katherine (Walford) Hands, and secondly Bridget ______, whose parentage is presently unknown.”