Seventh Generation


1604. Cornelia Skillman was born on 26 May 1826. She was baptized on 19 December 1826. She appeared in the census in 1880 at Ward 23 in Brooklyn, Kings, NY. Widowed, living with son-in-law George Newton and family. Cornelia appeared in the census in 1900 at Ward 23 in Brooklyn, Kings, NY. She was living with her son-in-law George Newton, her dau. Anna and their two children. Her birth date May 1826 in NJ. Parents b. NJ. She died about 1906 at the age of 80. Find-a-Grave has a picture of the gravestone of Peter S. Van Zandt (1824-1877) and Cornelia Skillman (1826-1908) Perhaps Peter is her 2nd husband?

Cornelia Skillman and Stephen R. Hope were married on 6 January 1852. Stephen R. Hope, son of Thomas Hope, was born about 1826.