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Skilbeck is my friend's surname, she was once told it originated from Scaninavian Jews. Can anyone help please?
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I'm sure that this is an English surname from an English place-name. However I'm unable to find the place on maps or in gazetteers. Perhaps it has disappeared. The language appears to be Old Danish or Old Norse; a beck, or stream, with a Skali, or temporary dwelling nearby.
I doubt that there is a Jewish connection, unless it was adopted by Jewish refugees or immigrants as an English language substitute for a similar sounding surname.
I doubt that there is a Jewish connection, unless it was adopted by Jewish refugees or immigrants as an English language substitute for a similar sounding surname.
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There is a place called Scalebeck in Cumbria, Northern England, originally a farm. This may be the source of the surname Skilbeck.
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