Person Sheet


Name Mary Elizabeth SKINNER
Birth 15 Mar 1838, St. Catherines, Niagara District, Ontario31
Death 18 Mar 1930, Erie Twp., Erie Co., Pa.72 Age: 92
Burial 21 Mar 1930, Port Burwell, Bayham Twp., Elgin Co., Ontario
Burial Memo buried
Father Daniel Milton SKINNER (~1808-<1870)
Mother Elizabeth Jane HILTON (1817-1910)
Spouses
1 Charles T. OAKS
Birth 1 Aug 1828, Port Burwell, Bayham Twp., Elgin Co., Ontario71
Death 25 Apr 1905, Bayham Twp., Elgin Co., Ontario71 Age: 76
Father James OAKS IV (~1799-~1861)
Mother Mary Ann DOWLING (1800-1877)
Marriage bef 1857
Children George Walter (1857-1940)
Marion Emeline (1860-1877)
Henry Roebuck (1863-1936)
Charles Chauncey (1865-1959)
Lucille (Lucy) Adelaide (1867-~1881)
Owen M. (1871->1946)
Wilhelmina (Wilma) R. (1872-1941)
Cassius (1874-1942)
Violet (1877-1970)
Murat Lafayette (1880-1922)
Ethel Valeria (1882-1974)
Notes for Mary Elizabeth SKINNER
1842 - Not found
1851 - Not found
1861 - Age 23
1871 - Age 32
1881 - Age 42
1891 - Age 51, parents born in Ontario
1901 - Age 64, b. 15 Mar 1837

According to Lewis Parker Abell, "Mary Skinner, who married a Mr.
Oakes, sent two grandsons to France during the World War and a
granddaughter who served as a red-cross nurse. It is said that Mary
Skinner resided for a time when a little girl, with her uncle James
Hilton in Thorold, and was a playmate with 'Josie'. and may have been
the other'twin' ..."

According to the delayed registration of birth of her daughter,
Valeria by her son, Owen on 18 February 1946, she was the mother of
11 children, 4 still living (Chauncey, Owen, Violet, and Ethel). It
also indicates her racial origin was Scottish.

Her birthdate is given as 15 March 1837 in the 1901 census. She is
listed as having just turned 92 years old in her obituary in March
1930, which would make her birthyear 1838. According to her death
record, she was born 15 March 1839. According to the 1900 census in
Michigan, her sister, Hannah Maria, was born in February 1837.
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