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Even though my married name is Thomas, I want to emphasize the fact that by birth I am a direct descendant of the Skene family entirely through the male line dating back all the way to Scotland!
Beginning with my father Frank Skeens of West Virginia whose first forefather to migrate to West Virginia was Joseph Skeen, the son of Stephen Skeen of Wise/Russell County, Virginia who was the son of Sarah and Peter Skene also of Wise/Russell County, Virginia I am able to trace my lineage to my first forefather in America, John Skene of Burlington, New Jersey and his parents Lillias and Alexander Skene of Newtyle, (Aberdeen) Scotland.
The following pages are from the book "Early Families of the Kentuck-Fletcher-Goshen Area Jackson County, West Virginia compiled by Lee Mays. I have highlighted in yellow the Skeen line I came from starting with Peter Skeen his father all the way to my two sons: Jason and Jeffrey Thomas
Joseph Skeen - 1824 James Harlan Skeen - 1854 Joshua Frank Skeen - 1873 Frank Roscoe Skeen - 1908 Gwen Skeen Thomas - 1949 Jason Thomas - 1977 Jeffrey Thomas - 1983
The following ancestry in chapters 12 - 15 is not exhaustive but it serves the purpose of my ancestry for this book and those coming through the line of Joseph Skeen the first of my Forefathers to West Virginia. There are ample resources available that anyone can easily trace their own Skene ancestry all the way back to our Scottish roots.
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The genealogy chart in blue was compiled from the above mentioned book going all the way back to Revolutionary War Captain Peter Skene and his son Stephen. Then the genealogy of Peter Skeen back to our Scottish Forebears was taken from page 5 of "Skeen (s) Sargent and Evans" published by Wise County Historical Society.
Again, the following ancestry in chapters 12 - 15 is not exhaustive but it serves the purpose of my ancestry for this book and those coming through the line of Joseph Skeen the first of my Forefathers to West Virginia. There are ample resources available that anyone can easily trace their own Skene ancestry all the way back to our Scottish roots regardless of what line you came through.
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