This is a forwarded message From: Sylvia Ellingwood <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, January 17, 2001, 10:00:15 PM Subject: Schofield genealogy ===8<==============Original message text=============== Thank you for posting so I am able to make contact with a real live Schofield researcher. I am in Washington State, USA. I was born a Schofield My father's family was many generations in the area of Pennsylvania in and around Philadelphia and Valley Forge, Chester County, Pennsyvania. The family tradition is that the first spelling of the name was SKOLFIELD. From here on I will copy from a book I have that relays mcu of what i know of the family since arrival in the USA, prir to the Revolutionary War with England. "Thomas Skolfield, an Englishman, was an officer in King William's army, and took part in the Irish Campaign, 1690, when King James was driven from Ireland. As a reward he was granted a tract of land inthat country. The original Thomas Skolfield had four children: Thomas Skolfield, Jr. George Elizabeth Susan George Skolfield settled in Philadelphia, Penna. Thomas, Jr. and Susan settled in Brunswick, Maine. William Skolfield, son of George Skolfield (who settled in Philadelphia) and Rebecca Davis, served as Lieutenant under Captains Job and Fred Vernon in the Revolutionary War________". There is more here but I'll skip on a bit. "Thomas Skolfield, Jr. received a liberal education at Dublin University, and shortly after graduation, emigrated in 1732 to America with the ORR famil, and taught at a Latin School in Boston. Subsequently, (about 1742) the ORRS removed to Maine, and Skolfield went with them. He married Mary Orr and settled in Brunswick." More beyond this. Some referenced are made as to source of material. It happens that I descend from the original Thomas Skolfield's son George who settled in Pennsylvania. Interestingly, I married a man from Maine and have been fortunate in having been able to return to Brunswick, Maine and visit a museum named Schofield House that was in the family for many years and is today in the same state of "lived in" as when the last resident moved out many years ago. It is open only in summers as there is no heating system. That branch of the family were very prominentin town affairs and as sea captains. A whole other story. The family branch I descend from is gifted in the area of medicine, the arts and eccenticities!!! (But NOT spelling my husband tells me!!) I've had correspondence with a man in Louisiana who has sent me documents showing a connection to the Maine branch of the Skolfields. If any of this is of interest or ties into material of others on the list I'd be most interested in hearing from and sharing with them. My E-mail address is [email protected] Sylvia ===8<===========End of original message text=========== -- Cheers, Anne ICQ# 32010967 (nickie) mailto:[email protected] Rootsweb ListOwner: Docwra, Dockery, Garton, Hampson and Schofield still hunting Nichols, Martin, Fletcher, Ford, Chandler