Skidmore Family History
Skidmore Name Meaning
English (Staffordshire): of Norman origin a variant of Scudamore which most probably arises from a Norman French nickname for a knight who used a particular type of leather shield from the unrecorded Norman French phrase escu de more ‘Moor's shield’ a reference to a type of Moorish leather shield called an adarga which was in widespread use not only in medieval Iberia and north Africa but also in Brittany.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022