A Richard SKINNER is identified in the Canadian census of 1851/52 in Houghton Ontario aged 41 with wife Mary Ann aged 33 with children Thomas 17 George 14 Sarah A 11 Emma 4.
Detailed as a Mill owner.
I suspect the same family along with another Skinner family is found in 1861 in Hougton. Richard is assumed decd As Mary Ann is a widow The same children George 22 , Sarah 19 and Emma 12 are listed with mother Mary Ann 42 , along with a second Sarah aged 23 probably the wife of George and possibly a grand daughter Mary Ann aged 1
The other adult male , Christian names e unlclear , but aged 26 .
Emma is believed to have married Joseph HUNTER in 1870 and migrated to US.
I am looking for any other record from Canadian archives that feature the family, and possibly some record of their arrival in Canada , assumed to be pre 1834.
They may have married in the UK prior to leaving for Canada, but no likely record has come to light.
Richard I believe may have been Born in Carshalton as Richard Loveland SKINNER 11-11-1804 son of Richard Skinner and Ann .If so this explains a potential DNA link between an ancestor of Richards sister , Mary Ann bapt 24-11-1799, and ancestors of Emma born in Canada circa 1838/9.
Richard snr is detailed as a sawyer on some of his children’s bapt record and in the 1841 census a Sawyer .The nature of the Mill in Canada assumed to be timber, possibly a co-incidence, possibly not.