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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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Just as a matter of interest and attempt to clutter up the blog…..for those who have not seen this article…..I do apologise as it is a bit heavy going ! This is an account of how the Staffordshire Inskeeps/Inskips successfully conquered America. It is from the Moorefield Examiner, West Virginia, 1906. If you haven’t time [...]

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Terry Inskip, recently sent me a list of Inskip departures from these shores between 1890 and 1929. It is interesting to observe that at the height of the British Empire, the largest formal Empire the world has ever known (yes larger than the Romans!), that to travel abroad the passengers simply [...]

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