Researching Bob Skelly
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 566 people with the Skelly surname? In that year Skelly was ranked number 3013 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Bob means "Form of ROBERT - Bright fame" and is of German origin.
Records of Bob Skelly on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Bob Skelly and the Skelly Genealogy
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| Did you know that there are currently 1448 people with the Skelly surname in the UK? Skelly is now ranked number 2727 for popularity in the UK. |
Skelly Family History Databases
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| Did you know that there are currently 3038 people with the Skelly surname in the USA? Skelly is ranked number 156 for popularity in the USA. |
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Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on Bob Skelly. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Bob Skelly
Bob Skelly
Robert Skelly (born April 14, 1943) is a Canadian former politician from British Columbia. He was born April 14, 1943 at New Westminster, British Columbia and worked as a teacher.
Skelly, the son of Robert Daniel Skelly and Dorothy Graham, was educated at the University of British Columbia. In 1965, he married Sonia Alexandra Shewchuk. He has a daughter, Susan Kathleen Skelly, born 1973; and a son, Robert Mark William Skelly, born 1975. Susan married Michael Ramsay, and they have three children: Rebecca Ruth, born 2001; Sarah-Grace Victoria, born 2002; and Maria Anne Heather, born 2010.
He served in the BC Legislature from 1972 to 1987. The longest-serving member for Alberni constituency in history, he was elected five times. He was elected leader of the British Columbia New Democratic Party in 1984 and was Opposition Leader in the BC Legislature until 1987. He resigned as MLA in early 1988 and was elected to the House of Commons of Canada representing the Federal riding of Comox—Alberni from 1988 to 1993.
During his campaign in the 1986 election he showed such great gains against then Premier Bill Bennett that the Social Credit Party became alarmed and convinced Bennett to resign, replacing him with Bill Vander Zalm. The Social Credit Party then went on to win the election. While the NDP failed to gain any seats under Bob Skelly's leadership, neither did they lose any (Social Credit won 47 seats to the NDP's 22 in the newly enlarged BC Legislative Assembly). The NDP had dropped in popular vote from the previous election, though they scored a higher percentage than in the elections they won in 1972, 1991 and 1996. The NDP vote fell in each election after 1979 until the 2005 election.
Following the election, the distribution of electoral districts in the province was declared to be biased in favour of Social Credit, suggesting that Skelly would have won if this hadn't been the case. The courts then ordered a fair redistribution. In 1986 Skelly resigned as NDP leader and in the following year, a party convention acclaimed Michael Harcourt as his successor.
Skelly went on to federal politics and was elected Member of Parliament for the federal riding of Comox—Alberni in the 1988 federal election under the banner of the New Democratic Party. He ran for a second term but was defeated in the 1993 general election in which the New Democratic Party collapsed to nine seats..
Skelly served in parliament at the same time as his brother Ray Skelly.
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