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Yet again the odd way life works out amazes me. Coming back from holiday I had two emails about Inskips waiting for me. One was from a lady in Canada who was enquiring about some information I’d sent her. The other was from ebay alerting me to the sale of a [...]

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Inskipt

Jim Inskipt recently got in touch with us to find out if we knew anything about the unusual spelling of the name. Everyone, we are aware of, with this spelling lives in the USA (mainly centred on Pennsylvania), and it seems to be linked with the Inskeeps. How and where it was changed [...]

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Legend has it that the Inskips arrived in Bedfordshire when ‘three brothers came down from the North’. The North presumably being the Lancashire/Yorkshire border area – but not necessarily so. There were also Inskips in Northumberland and Durham at the start of the 16th century.
The first Inskip I have found mentioned in the [...]

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