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-- From Papcastle, Cumbria.
--- "Sussex Advertiser" 25 Apr 1757, page 2:
London, April 18.
Late on Saturday Night were interred in a Vault in Covent-Garden Church, the Remains of the Hon. Liet. Gen. Skelton, in a very elegant and decent Manner. He has left his whole Real and Personal Estate (except a few Legacies) to Capt. James Jones, of the Foot Guards; with a Request to that Gentleman, to take the Name of Skelton.
--- "Fontenoy and Great Britain's Share in the War of the Austrian Succession" by Francis H. Skrine, 1906, page 134:
Brigadier Skelton had served for many years in the 3rd Guards; Colonel, 32nd Foot, 1742. Died 1757, leaving his ancestral home, Branthwaite Hall, Cumberland, to a former A.D.C., Captain James Jones of the Third Guards, who had saved his life in Flanders.
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