Skipwith Family History
Skipwith Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): habitational name from a place in Yorkshire,
recorded in Domesday Book as Schipwic, from Old English
sceap, scip ‘sheep’ + wic ‘outlying
settlement’. Under later Scandinavian influence the initial ‘s’ became
‘sk’ and the second element was changed to -with (Old Norse
viðr ‘wood’).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Skipwith Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Skipwith families
 15 - 27  6 - 14 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Skipwith families
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5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Skipwith last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Skipwith census records
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Skipwith Family Origin
Skipwith Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Skipwith
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Skipwith Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Skipwith census records
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Skipwith Civil War Service Records
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