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Skeffington: One-Name Study

Skeffington: One-Name Study

Hardcover

Genealogy & Heraldry

Publisher Price: $20.00

ISBN10: 2919427032
ISBN13: 9782919427031
Publisher: Gamone Press
Published: Jan 19 2019
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This one-name study starts from an unknown patriarch called Sceaft. Since this word designates a shaft, a javelinr or a spear in ancient Saxon, the author refers to him as Spearhead. He may have been a Viking whose descendants found their way to Normandy in France. The author believes that descendants of this legendary Spearhead settled at the site of present-day Skeffington in Leicestershire, in the wake of the Norman invasion. Maybe the Conqueror himself was a descendant of Spearhead. This speculation leads the author to a far-fetched possibility: the idea that, following a path from Leicestershire down to Dorset, he might well be a Y-chromosome genetic descendant of both Spearhead and the Conqueror.

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