Clarke Family Tree » Richard Skulthorpe (1791-1880)

Personal data Richard Skulthorpe 

  • He was born on August 13, 1791 in Cambridgeshire, England.
  • He died on February 2, 1880 in "Lemon Forest", age 89 years, Kurrajong, NSW, AU, he was 88 years old.
  • He is buried June 1880 in St Peter's CoE Cemetery, Skuthorp Family Vault, Row 4. Gr. 76/78. Sec. A, Richmond, NSW, AU.
  • A child of William Skulthorpe and Frances Carlisle

Household of Richard Skulthorpe

(1) He is married to Eleanor (aka Ellen and Honor) Connor.

They got married on October 13, 1818 at St Peter's, Richmond, NSW, AU, he was 27 years old.


Child(ren):

  3. Ellen Skuthorp  1823-1828
  5. Ellen Skulthorpe  1828-1829
  6. John Skuthorp  1830-1848
  7. Elizabeth Skuthorp  1833-1871 


(2) He is married to Sarah Sherwood.

They got married in the year 1858 at Presbyterian Church, Windsor, NSW, AU, he was 66 years old.


(3) He is married to Louisa McKay.

They got married about 1861 at Richmond, NSW, AU.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Richard Skulthorpe

Richard Skulthorpe
1791-1880

(1) 1818

Eleanor (aka Ellen and Honor) Connor
1791-1857

Richard (Rick or Middle Dick) Skuthorp
1817-1900
Thomas (Tom) Skuthorp
1820-1856
Ellen Skuthorp
1823-1828
Frances (Fanny) Skuthorp
1826-1898
Ellen Skulthorpe
1828-1829
John Skuthorp
1830-1848
Elizabeth Skuthorp
1833-1871
(2) 1858

Sarah Sherwood
± 1814-1860

(3) ± 1861

Louisa McKay
± 1807-1885


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Historical events

Birthday August 13, 1791

  • The temperature on August 13, 1791 was about 22.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1791: Source: Wikipedia
    • August 7 » American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.
    • August 30 » HMSPandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.
    • September 5 » Olympe de Gouges writes the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen.
    • September 30 » France's National Constituent Assembly is dissolved, to be replaced the next day by the National Legislative Assembly
    • October 1 » First session of the French Legislative Assembly.
    • November 4 » Northwest Indian War: The Western Confederacy of American Indians wins a major victory over the United States in the Battle of the Wabash.

Day of marriage October 13, 1818

  • The temperature on October 13, 1818 was about 12.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southeast. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
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    De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
  • In the year 1818: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 2 » The British Institution of Civil Engineers is founded by a group of six engineers; Thomas Telford would later become its first president.
    • February 5 » Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
    • March 16 » In the Second Battle of Cancha Rayada, Spanish forces defeated Chileans under José de San Martín.
    • March 30 » Physicist Augustin Fresnel reads a memoir on optical rotation to the French Academy of Sciences, reporting that when polarized light is "depolarized" by a Fresnel rhomb, its properties are preserved in any subsequent passage through an optically-rotating crystal or liquid.
    • April 20 » The case of Ashford v Thornton ends, with Abraham Thornton allowed to go free rather than face a retrial for murder, after his demand for trial by battle is upheld.
    • December 13 » Cyril VI of Constantinople resigns from his position as Ecumenical Patriarch.

Day of death February 2, 1880

  • The temperature on February 2, 1880 was about -3.5 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1880: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
    • February 13 » Thomas Edison observes Thermionic emission.
    • May 11 » Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough Tragedy, a gun battle in California.
    • May 13 » In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
    • June 24 » First performance of O Canada at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français. The song would later become the national anthem of Canada.
    • June 28 » Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan.
    • September 16 » The Cornell Daily Sun prints its first issue in Ithaca, New York. The Sun is the United States' oldest, continuously-independent college daily.


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About the surname Skulthorpe


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