On May 12, 6:16=A0pm, Susan <dicentraex...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I am trying to solve a question regarding the Skipwith family, and
> would appreciate the expertise of this group. It seems that this
> family both in England and Virginia had/has a custom
> of using surnames as given names, Fulwar, Peyton, Grey, and Humberston
> to name some. Perhaps members of this list could point out other
> examples. I am trying to understand when these four surnames first
> entered the Skipwith families and began to be used as given names. I
> see examples in England and it seems very common in the Virginia
> Skipwith family.
>
> 1. FULWAR
> I saw a marriage between Margaret Fulwar, dau of Richard Fulwar of
> Copwood married to Henry Skipwith of Ormesby (d. 07/03/1629). Was
> there a large inheritance from this marriage to Margaret Fulwar, or
> another reason for the hundreds of years of Fulwar Skipwiths, Fulwar,
> etc. that followed? The odd part is that the Virginia Skipwith family
> have used the Fulwar name, yet this marriage is to a descendant of Sir
> William Skipwith of Ormesby, Sheriff of Lincoln****re (a 1527) first
> marriage to Elizabeth Tyrwhit, whereas the Virginia Skipwiths who use
> Fulwar as a given name descend from his second marriage to Alice
> Dymoke. Is this in error?
>
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If I'm understanding you, you're making the claim that Fulwar Skipwith
(d abt 1678) was not the grandson of Margaret Fulwar ?
I'd then refer you to
http://books.google.com/books?id=3DIPcMAAAAIAAJ&pg=3DPA892&dq=3Dfulwar+skipw=
ith+dorothy#PPA892,M1
Lincoln****re Pedigrees, "Skipwith of Ketsby"
which says that he was.
Will Johnson
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