Scantlebury



Scantlebury is an English surname originating from the West Country, and most likely from Devon and Cornwall. The family included builders, coastguards, farmers, labourers, mariners, seamen, servants and tailors.

The Oxford Dictionary of Surnames gives the origin of Scantlebury as: "English (West Country) of unknown origin perhaps a habitation name from Kentisbury or Kentisbeare both found in Devon with an added "S". Both villages can be found in the Domesday Book. Kentisbury in South Devon near Cullompton is spelt Chentesberie in the Domesday Book, Kentelesbere in 1240 and Kentesbyire in 1252 in Fleet Fines. Kentisbury in North Devon spelt Chentesberie in the Domesday Book Kentelesberi in 1260 and Kentelesberi in 1275."

Another plausible theory is that Skentel is a Cornish word meaning "Craftsman", and bery/bury is an old English word for house/hamlet, so Skentelbery/Scantlebury could translate in simple Old English to a "Thatcher".

Recorded variations and spellings of Scantlebury include Skentbewe (1561), Skentelbewe (1690), Skentlebury (1649), Skantilbew (1575), Skentlebewe (1612), Scentilbewy (1601), Scantlebewe (1622), Skentelbury (1785), and Scantlebury (1809).

Parish registers started in 1538 when Henry VIII's Vicar-General Thomas Cromwell ordered that each parish priest should keep registers of each baptism, burial and marriage taking place in his parish. The earliest parish record of a Scantlebury was the marriage of Thomas, son of John Skantilbew, and Mary, daughter of Andrew Pale, in the parish church of Lanreath in Cornwall.



Scantlebury, Alice
Scantlebury, Ann
Scantlebury, Anne
Scantlebury, Caroline Isabella
Scantlebury, Dolly
Scantlebury, Dorothea
Scantlebury, Edward
Scantlebury, Edward Horseman
Scantlebury, Elizabeth
Scantlebury, Elizabeth
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Scantlebury, Elizabeth Jane
Scantlebury, Emily Kate
Scantlebury, Frederick
Scantlebury, George Henry
Scantlebury, George Henry
Scantlebury, Gwendoline Olive Emily
Scantlebury, Jane
Scantlebury, John
Scantlebury, John
Scantlebury, John
Scantlebury, John
Scantlebury, John Mildern
Scantlebury, John Peter
Scantlebury, Lilian Martha
Scantlebury, Lily
Scantlebury, Martha
Scantlebury, Mary
Scantlebury, Mary Ann
Scantlebury, Mary Ann
Scantlebury, Mary Ann
Scantlebury, Mary Elizabeth
Scantlebury, Peter
Scantlebury, Peter
Scantlebury, Peter Riling
Scantlebury, Phillippa Clogg R.
Scantlebury, Richard
Scantlebury, Richard
Scantlebury, Richard Stirling
Scantlebury, Richard Walter
Scantlebury, Samuel
Scantlebury, Sarah Jane
Scantlebury, Thomas
Scantlebury, William
Scantlebury, William
Scantlebury, William
Scantlebury, William
Scantlebury, William Henry
Scantlebury, William Henry
Scantlebury, William Henry
Scantlebury, William Riling

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