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"The ancient home of the Skelton family is in Cumberland, England, in the parish of Skelton, from which the family, or the particularly family of the name residing in the neighborhood, took its name. The name was written de Skelton as long as the family owned the family estate, or parish and resided there. The prefix was dropped by emigrating portions of the family, and finally entirely omitted after the middle of the fifteenth century. Some derive the name of the parish directly from the British language — skell, water, and tone, town. Others believe the town was not named until the latter half of the Anglo-Saxon period, or possibly as late as 1090, when its cultivation began. Thus they derive the name from the Anglo-Saxon language — Skaling, a hut. Huts were built in numbers in the forest of Inglewood to shelter the herdsmen who tended the vast herds which fed in the ancient forest, forming in a time a village; and when cultivation began, the place was called Skalington, tone, or tune, etc., having previously been adopted from the British into the Saxon language, and used now as English in Skelton." Source: John W. Jordan, "Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania," (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1913), Vol. II, p. 679.
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