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Skerrow Coat of Arms / Skerrow Family CrestThe surname of SKERROW is a locational name 'of Skarow' a small village, a mile from Ripon, possibly some spot nearer the Lancashire border of the West Riding. The name is also spelt SKARROW, SKERRY and SKARRER. The earliest of the name on record appears to be Thomas de Skyrhow of Yorkshire, who was listed in the Yorkshire Poll Tax of 1379. Habitation names were originally acquired by the original bearer of the name, who, having lived by, at or near a place, would then take that name as a form of identification for himself and his family. When people lived close to the soil as they did in the Middle Ages, they were acutely conscious of every local variation in landscape and countryside. Every field or plot of land was identified in normal conversation by a descriptive term. If a man lived on or near a hill or mountain, or by a river or stream, forests and trees, he might receive the word as a family name. Almost every town, city or village early times, has served to name many families. William Skerowe of Wray in Melling, was listed in the Lancshire Wills at Richmond in 1570, and Margaret, daughter of Henry Skerrow was baptised at St. Antholin, London in the year 1611. The acquisition of surnames in Europe during the past eight hundred years has been affected by many factors, including social class and social structure, naming practices in neighbouring cultures, and indigenous cultural tradition. On the whole, the richer and more powerful classes tended to acquire surnames earlier than the working classes and the poor, while surnames were quicker to catch on in urban areas than in more sparsely populated rural areas. These facts suggest that the origin of surnames is associated with the emergence of bureaucracies. As long as land tenure, military service, and fealty were matters of direct relationship between a lord and his vassals, the need did not arise for fixed distinguishing epithets to mark out one carl from another. But as societies became more complex, and as such matters as the management of tenure and in particular the collection of taxes were delegated to special functionaries, it became imperative to have a more complex system of nomenclature to distinguish one individual from another reliably and unambiguously. Thomas Skirow of Wray, Lancashire was listed in the Wills at Richmond in 1634, and Christpher Scirroe of Wray appears in the same Wills in the year 1638. |
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