Birth: 18 December 1883 Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK
Father: Charles Skippon 1849-1932
Mother: Ellen Cowles 1852-1887
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 7 July 1909 Thunder Bay, Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada
Wife: Ellen Cowles 1852-1887
Death: 10 Jul 1962 Port Arthur, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Buried: Section 26, Plot 36, Riverside Cemetery, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.
Jessie Maud Mary Skippon [Henderson, Maxwell] 1874-1960
Walter Charles Skippon 1875-1956
John Skippon 1877-1878
Harry Roland Skippon 1880-1881
Charles Edward Skippon 1883-1962
Birth of Charles Edward Skippon in FreeBMD in January-March 1884 in Mutford (4a 885).
His mother died in Lowestoft in 1887, and his father married Elizabeth Brundle [Powell] shortly aftterwards.
In the 1891 census as Charles Skippon aged 7, born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, and living with his father (Charles), (step)mother (Elizabeth), brother (Walter), sister (Jessie), (half)brother (Roland), (half)sister (Daisy), and three children from his stepmother's first marriage (Maud, Modoc and Yavasaur Powell) at 104 St Peters Street, Lowestoft, Suffolk.
In the 1901 census as Charles Skippon aged 17, born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, and living with his father (Charles), (step)mother (Elizabeth), brother (Walter), sister (Jessie), (half)brother (Roland H), (half)sister (Lily D), and a child from his stepmother's first marriage (Modoc L Powell) in St Brendas Terrace, Beccles Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk.
Entry in Ancestry Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935 for Charles Skippon aged 23, born in Suffolk, a brickayer and a returning Canadian arrived St John, New Brunswick on 27 April 1907 from Liverpool on Empress of Braitain for Port Arthur.
Entry in Ancestry Ontario, Canada Marriages, 1801-1928 for Charles Edward Skipper aged 24, parents Charles Edward, a carpenter, and Emma Cales Skipper, a bachelor and bricklayer of Port Arthur and Leonora Hillier on 7 July 1909 in Thunder Bay, Port Arthur, Ontario.
Entry in RootsWeb Northern Districts, 1909. "019665-09, Charles Edward Skippon, 24, not given, Port Arthur, bricklayer, s/o Charles Edward Skippon, carpenter & Emma Caleo, to Leonora Hillier, 22, not given, Port Arthur, d/o Leonard Hillier, railroad & Mary Hoskins, witn: Myrtle Short of 340 FoleyStreet, John G. Hillier of Port Arthur, 7 July 1909 at Port Arthur".
In the 1911 census as Chas E Shepper (sic - in the index) aged 27, born in England, immigrated in 1890, and living with his wife (Lemora), daughter (Kathleen) and father-in-law (Leonore Hiller) at 54 Hill Street, Port Arthur, Thunder Bay and Rainy River, Ontario. Original is nearly illegible.
Entry in Ancestry Canada, WWI CEF Attestation Papers, 1914-1918 dated 3 September 1915 Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force, for Charles Edward Skippon born 18 December 1883 in Suffolk, England, a bricklayer, spent 3.5 years in 2nd Norfolk Volunteers, L.S.R. 5 months. next of kin Mrs C E Skippon, 122 Rockwood Avenue, Ontario, height 5 ft 6.5in, chest 38+2in, blue eyes, brown hair, fair complexion, No. 439673.
In the 1921 census as Charles Skippon aged 28, born in England, immigrated in 1890, immigrated in 1905, a painter, and living in a rented house $30 per month with his wife (Leonora), daughter (Kathleen) and father-in-law (Leonard Hiller) at 208 N Algoma Street, Port Arthur and Kenora, Ontario.
Entry in Ancestry Canada, Voters Lists, 1935-1980 for Charles E Skippon retired address 8 Ruttan Street, Port Arthur in 1949, other occupant Mrs Charles E Skippon, and two for Charles Skippon retired address 336 May Street, Fort William, Ontario in 1957, other occupants Kathleen and Robert Strawson (daughter and son-in-law?), and Mary A Strawson, and 336 Dease Street, Fort William, Ontario in 1962 other occupants Kathleen and Robert A Strawson (daughter and son-in-law?), and Mary A Strawson (daughter's mother-in-law) from 1953 to 1968.
Entry in Find a Grave for PTE Charles E Skippon born in 1884, died 10 July 1962 and buried in Section 26, Plot 36, Riverside Cemetery, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. "Charles E Skippon/Private/52 Battn C.E.F./10 Jul 1962/Age 78".
Three entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Charles Edward Skippon born in Lowestoft, Suffolk on 18 December 1883, parents Charles Skippon and Ellen Cowles, his arrival in Canada in 1905 and again in 1907, his marriage to Leonora Hillier in Thunder Bay, Ontario on 7 July 1909, and his daughter.
Charles Edward Skippon was my third cousin.
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