Skeat History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Early Origins of the Skeat family

The surname Skeat was first found in Ayrshire (Gaelic: Siorrachd Inbhir Àir), formerly a county in the southwestern Strathclyde region of Scotland, that today makes up the Council Areas of South, East, and North Ayrshire, where they held a family seat from ancient times, and gave their name to the village of Skeoch near Mauchline, the setting for many of Robert Burns poems.

Early History of the Skeat family

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Skeat Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Skeoch, Skewych, Skeach and others.

Early Notables of the Skeat family

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Migration of the Skeat family

Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: James Skeach arrived in Philadelphia in 1877.

Contemporary Notables of the name Skeat (post 1700) +

Bill Skeat (1926-1999), English saxophone player
Len Skeat (1937-2021), English jazz double-bassist and younger brother of Bill Skeat
Francis Walter Skeat (1909-2000), English glass painter who created over 400 stained glass windows in churches and cathedrals, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Fellow of the British Society of Master Glass Painters
Theodore Cressy Skeat (1907-2003), British librarian at the British Museum
Walter William Skeat (1866-1953), English anthropologist, son of Walter Skeat
Walter William Skeat FBA (1835-1912), English philologist, best known for his work Etymological English Dictionary (4 parts, 1879-1882; rev., and enlarged, 1910) and as an authority on Geoffrey Chaucer
Bob Skeat, English bass guitarist, best known for his work with rock band Wishbone Ash