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I did some research into the Skipwith family, on a recent trip to London, because they are connected with my Merry line (back around 1650). At the Society of Genealogists library, there is a privately-published book from 1867, "A Brief Account of the Skipwiths of Newbold, Metheringham and Prestwould," compiled by Fulwar Skipwith, Late Bengal Civil Service.
The book traces the family's lineage back to Robert DeEstouteville, of Cottingham, a Norman Baron, who accompanied William the Conqueror to England in 1066.
Someone has penciled in on the book's frontispiece that much of it is inaccurate and incomplete. Still, it's a good place to start looking.
From another source: In 1595, Sir William Skipwith (knighted April 30, 1603), and brothers Henry and George, received a grant of land in Leicestershire.
There are references to Sir Ralph Skipwith, in about 1300.
An unnamed Skipwith researcher wrote "in the registers of Walmsgate, Laceby and Ormesby [Leicester County] I found so many Skipwiths entered as married, born and buried, that it would have taken me several days to copy them."
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