SKIPWITH family (Kimpton, St Albans)

[sdbadger]

Thanks very much, Vance! Will check it out!

Cheers!

[Vance Mead]

You mentioned Kimpton, about five miles north of St Albans. Here are two places, Caldicote and St Paul's Walden, which are within a mile or two of Kimpton.

If you go to the HALS site:

https://www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/services/Libraries-and-archives/Hertfordshire-Archives-and-Local-Studies/Hertfordshire-Archives-and-Local-Studies.aspx

And Search Hertfordshire Names Online for surname Skypwyth, you will find a will for:

Peter Skypwyth, 1464, who requested to be buried at Codicote.

Codicote is about a mile east of Kimpton.

And here is an earlier Common Pleas record with John Skypwyth. He is not identified further, but this is probably the same person from St Albans:

http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT1/H6/CP40no748/aCP40no748fronts/IMG_0147.htm
Hilary 1448, second entry:
Herts. John Skypwyth versus John Theyne, of Rugge/Ridge, husbandman; John Sampson, of Tydenhangre/Tyttenhanger, dyer; John Smyth, of Walden Abbots/St Paul’s Walden, husbandman. Debt.

Ridge and Tyttenhanger are both near St Albans; St Paul's Walden is about two miles north of Kimpton.

You can order copies of wills from HALS. In 1464 it will probably be in Latin and not very easy to read, but if you post an image or link here, there are people who can help decipher it.
 
Wills at that time might be uninformative. Often they include several religious bequests and not much more, but it might be worth a look.

[sdbadger]

Thanks very much, Vance! You're a font of information and I very much appreciate it!

Was trying to locate the will of John SKIPWITH (1477/8) previously mentioned and have had no luck either at Herts or National Archives....

Appreciate your information and will get to work on it.

Cheers!

[Vance Mead]

It's at Hertford:
John Skypwyth   1477/8   St Albans       registered will   2AR27

[sdbadger]

JUST found it while looking for the Peter SKYPWYTH one you mentioned!

Thanks SO very much, Vance! :-)