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What's the meaning of it all?
| SHAKESPEARE - From Skegsby? (Domesday
Book - Schegebill a local name; Nottinghamshire. This word is derived from
(Danish)-Schacke;(Flemish)-Schack, Schakael; (Swedish)-Scheike; personal
name. (Dutch) boer or byr, a dwelling. Compare Shakerley, Schackerston, Exbear, Ailesbear, Shebbear, etc. In Rot. Obl. et Fin., K. John, it is spelt Scheggeby, |
| from "British Family Names". Henry Barber 1894 |
| The name of SHAKESPEARE has probably nothing to do with a spear. The name is derived from Schalkesboar, the knave's farm. Neither schalk nor knave originally implied anything but what was honourable. Schalk was a servant, and enters into the name Godshalk, God's servant. Indeed, the Anglo-Saxon scealc was used as a designation of a warrior. Adrian IV - or Nicolas Breakspear, as he was called before his elevation to the Papacy-took his name from Bragi's boer, the farm of Bragi. |
| from "Family Names and their Story". S. Baring-Gould, M.A. Seeley & Co. Ld., London 1910 |
| Shakespeare is far more likely to have been a real spear - shaker, a soldier, than the 'Jaques-Pierre' dreamed up by one of the tribe of ingenious etymologists. |
| from The Guiness Book of Names. Leslie Dunkling 1974 |
Provided by Roy W Shakespeare
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