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		Although entitled archives this part of the website will include information about Skull/Scull families that have living descendants today. Follow the links in blue to find out more.

Walter Delaplaine Scull Susan Connor has kindly contacted me about her research into Walter D. Scull. She is not related but lives in his old house. Click link to www.thesussexweald.org At the top of the page is a link to Sussex Worthies click on this then scroll down the page to the entry on Walter Delaplaine Scull

	Millitary Men: some records relating to those who served in the armed forces.

The Skull Chair in Brecon Cathedral


	Most members of the family can trace their ancestry back to the 1700's many from the county of Wiltshire.


	St James Church, Dauntsey. This is where two of the early Skull families were married. Below is an extract from the parish register.


	Photograph showing Walter Skull's Chair Factory in High Wycombe around 1880

There were two brothers who had separate factories in the area which is famous for its chair making. I believe it is due to the abundant supply of beech wood from the nearby forests of the Chiltern Hills

(Knight's British Almanac 1862, quoting Walter Skull).
'When I began the trade I loaded my cart and travelled to Luton. All there was prosperous. There was a scramble for my chairs' ... this manufacturer now sends his chairs to London, Liverpool and Manchester, to Australia, New Zealand and Constantinople'
In 1874 the firm of Walter Skull made 2500 rush-seated chairs for St. Pauls Cathedral


	Link to Wycombe Chair Museum/ History.


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