Skeat

Skeat or Skeats is a common English family name. The names Skeat, Skeats, Skeates, Skett, Skitt and Skates are derived from the forename Scet or Schett, which is mentioned in Domesday Book.^[1]

History

Skeat was originally a given name derived from the Old Norse skjótr, meaning "swift" or "fleet". Ricardus filius (son of) Schet 1166 is mentioned in the Pipe Rolls of Henry II in Norfolk. It is mentioned as a surname in the 1201 Pipe Rolls in Shropshire and in the 1275 Hundred Rolls in Norfolk again. Robert Skeet is mentioned in the Subsidy Rolls of Suffolk for 1327.^[2]

People surnamed Skeat or Skeats

Bob Skeat, bass guitarist in Wishbone Ash
Ethel Skeat (1865–1939), English paleontologist
Ernest Willington Skeats (1875–1953), geologist
Francis Skeat (1909–2000), English glass painter
Len Skeat, jazz double-bassist
Theodore Cressy Skeat (1907–2003), paleographer
Walter William Skeat (1835–1912), philologist and etymologist
Walter William Skeat (anthropologist) (1866–1953), anthropologist

References

^ Keats-Rohan, K. S. B.; Thornton, David E., eds. (1997). Domesday Names: An Index of Latin Personal and Place Names in Domesday Book. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. pp. 191–192. ISBN 9780851154299. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
^ Reaney, P. H.; Wilson, R. M. (1995). A Dictionary of English Surnames. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 412. ISBN 0198631464. Retrieved 2 October 2022.

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[1] Keats-Rohan, K. S. B.; Thornton, David E., eds. (1997). Domesday Names: An Index of Latin Personal and Place Names in Domesday Book. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. pp. 191–192. ISBN 9780851154299. Retrieved 2 October 2022.

[2] Reaney, P. H.; Wilson, R. M. (1995). A Dictionary of English Surnames. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 412. ISBN 0198631464. Retrieved 2 October 2022.

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