Medieval English families on the internet: S

Sackett

• The Sackett Family Association (Chris Sackett)
  Includes notes on the origin of the surname, and on Sacketts in Kent and elsewhere, 14th century and later.

St Barbe

• St Barbe [formerly at http://www.nvsn.com/lrichard/batt2.htm#ST.%20BARBE; not functioning, 27/07/2001; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from July 2001] (Lonnie Richardson)
  Narrative pedigree, 13th-16th centuries, Wiltshire

St Leger

• Ulcombe and the St. Legers (Rosemary St Leger-May) [not available, 19 April 2015; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from August 2012]
  Miscellaneous information on the St Leger family of Kent; see also The St. Leger-May Genealogy Page

St Sauveur

• Neel de Saint-Sauveur (Pat Patterson)
  Biography, from J.R.Planché's The Conqueror and His Companions (1874); to be used with caution, as indicated by the transcriber

St Valery

• Bernard de St Valery (Pat Patterson)
  Biography, from J.R.Planché's The Conqueror and His Companions (1874); to be used with caution, as indicated by the transcriber

Salisbury

• Salisbury Genealogy Site (Grant Salisbury) [not available, 11 December 2018; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from February 2005]
  Includes abstracts from source documents from Somerset (14th century and later) and from the North of England and the South of England

Sankey

• Published References To Sankey (Tim Sankey) [formerly at http://www.sankey.demon.co.uk/v5_refs.html; not available, 22 May 2005; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from October 2004]
  Includes notes on the Sankey family of Lancashire, 12th century and later, from The Chapelry of Sankey In The Parish of Prescot, Lancashire by William Beaumont (1882), A History of Sankey by William Beaumont (1889), and other sources, including Burke's Landed Gentry [formerly at http://www.sankey.demon.co.uk/v5_chapel.html and http://www.sankey.demon.co.uk/v5_history.html; not available, 22 May 2005; see the Internet Archive's copies of The Chapelry of Sankey and A History of Sankey, from May and October 2004]

Saunders

• Saunders of Pentre, Tymawr, and Glanrhydw (Ivan Sanders)
  Occurrences of the surname in Surrey and elsewhere, 13th century and later; a paper by Francis Green from the Historical Society of West Wales Transactions (1913).

Savage

• Savage of Rock-Savage (Matthew Ortiz, Ortiz-Cowger Genealogy Database) [formerly at http://members.nbci.com/ocgenealogy/hcsavage.htm; not available, 2 November 2003]
  Scanned narrative from Ormerod's History of Cheshire (2nd edn, 1882)

Savile/Saville

• J. W. Clay, The Savile Family and W. Paley Baildon, Notes on the early Saville pedigree and the Butlers of Skelbrook and Kirk Sandal (David Hepworth, this site)
  Text of articles on the Saville family of West Yorkshire, 12th century and later, originally published in the Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, vol. 25, pp. 1-47 (1920), vol. 28, pp. 380-419 (1926) and vol. 29, pp. 68-89 (1929)
• The Saville family of Langton Matravers (S. B. Saville)
  Edited version of the booklet "The origins and history of the Saville family of Langton Matravers, Dorset", by Reginald Saville; includes some medieval information. [not available, 14 October 2008; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from January 2008]

Say

• Picot de Say (Pat Patterson)
  Biographies, from J.R.Planché's The Conqueror and His Companions (1874); to be used with caution, as indicated by the transcriber

Scholes

• The Origins of Scholes (Peter H. Scholes) [not available, 24 December 2016; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from March 2016]
  Detailed discussion of the origin of the surname and its early bearers, in Yorkshire, Lancashire and elsewhere

Scot

• Douglas Hickling, Which John de Mowbray was the Brother of Christiana de Plumpton? (2005) (this site)
  Article setting out the evidence about Christiana and her three husbands, John Scot, Richard de Emeldon and Sir William de Plumpton, and discussing in detail the identification of her brother, John de Mowbray.

Scrope

• Bolton Castle (Michael W. Cook) [not available, 19 June 2022; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from January 2022]
  Includes a narrative history of the Scropes of Yorkshire, from the 12th century

Scudamore/Skidmore

• An Overview of the History of the Skidmore Family (Warren Skidmore) [formerly at http://www.skidmoregenealogy.com/overview.htm; not available, 15 February 2006; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from March 2005]
  A brief account of the early Scudamores of the West Country, 11th century and later

Scull

• William Ellis Scull, The Family of Scull (1930) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  Account of the Scull family of Herefordshire and Worcestershire, 15th century and later. This book is still in copyright, but can be "borrowed" electronically.

Segrave

• Segrave Line (Homer Beers James/Paul McBride)
  Narrative pedigree, 12th-14th centuries; this material, based on older secondary sources, should be treated with caution

Seton

• The History of the House of Seytoun (Foundation for Medieval Genealogy)
  Scanned images, in PDF format, of the 1829 edition of Sir Richard Maitland's work on the history of the Scottish family of the Lords Seton, later Earls of Wintoun, to 1559, with the continuation by Alexander, Viscount Kingston, to 1687. (Subscription required.)

Sewell

• The Domesday Book and the early Sewells (Eric L. Sewell)
  Discussion of early occurrences of related personal names; 11th-13th centuries

Seymour/St Maur

• The Seymour Wiki (Jim Seymour)
  Includes part of the text of Annals of the Seymours by H. St Maur (1902), covering the Seymour family in England, from the 11th to the 15th century.

Shelton

• Descendants of Nicholas Shelton (continued on following pages; Pam Shelton-Anderson) [formerly at http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/s/h/e/Pam--Sheltonanderson/GENE2-0001.html; not available, 11 April 2006]
  Pedigree with notes; Norfolk, 13th century and later

Shillito

• Shillito Family History Society [not available, 18 August 2013; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from August 2012]
  The History section includes some notes on the Yorkshire family, 14th century and later; the Ancestor Files section includes a note of a 14th-century fine, and an account of the Yorkshire family, 16th century and later

Simnel

• Chris Phillips, Who did 'Lambert Simnel' claim to be? (this site)
  Summary of the contemporary and nearly contemporary evidence about the claimed identity of the pretender of 1487, written in response to the recent book by Philippa Langley and collaborators, which argues that the pretender claimed to be - and really was - King Edward V, rather than Edward, Earl of Warwick, as conventionally believed.

Sinclair

• Thomas Sinclair The Sinclairs of England (1887) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  11th century and later.
  [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 ;  3 .]

Siswick

• Siswick.org (Mike Siswick, Siswick.org) [formerly at http://www.siswick.org/; not available, 30 July 2005; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from October 2004]
  The section on "Origin of Surname" contains brief notes on occurrences of the surname, Yorkshire and Westmorland, 13th to 16th centuries

Skipwith

• Notes on the Skipwith family of St Albans (this site)
  A pedigree and some discussion of sources (Hertfordshire; 15th century and later)

Smith/Smythe

• Thomas Smythe, of Westenhanger, commonly called Customer Smythe (Pat Patterson)
  Text of an article by J.F. Wadmore, published in Arch?ologia Cantiana (1887) on the 16th-century Smythes of Wiltshire and Kent, ancestors of the Lords Strangford
• The Smythe Family of Essex, 1500-1600 (Vaughn Baker/Pat Patterson)
  Biographical notes on Thomas Smith of Essex (1513-1577), with a note on two other Thomas Smiths of Berkshire.
• John Angus, transcriber, and Jean Vanes, editor, The Ledger of John Smythe, 1538-1550. (1975) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  Bristol Record Society Publications, 28. A merchant's account book. With a genealogy of the Smythe family of Long Ashton.
• J. H. Bettey, editor, Calendar of the Correspondence of the Smyth Family of Ashton Court 1548-1642. (1982) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  Bristol Record Society Publications, 35.

Smithson

• Genealogical Notes & Memoirs of the Smithson Family (George R. Smithson, 1906)
  Cumberland/Yorkshire, 13th century and later.

Snoxhill

• Snoxhill Family Tree (David Snoxhill) [not available, 3 February 2008; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from February 2007]
  Some early occurrences of the surname; 14th-16th centuries

Spafford: see Spofforth

Spencer

• The Spencers and the Despencers (Baronage Press) [not available, 10 December 2022; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page]
  Note on the fictitious descent, exposed by J.H. Round, of the 16th-century Spencers from the medieval Despensers

Spofforth/Spafford

• Ralph Spofforth, A new history of the Spofforth Family (1949) (Alex Spofforth, Peter Spawforth and Bob Spafford)
  A previously unpublished account of the Yorkshire family, with extracts from records; the earlier parts should be treated with caution.

Springall

• Springall Extractions - Earlier than 18th Century (Bev Weston's Genealogical Home Page)
  Includes a number of medieval and early-modern occurrences of the surname and its variants.

Stafford

• Stafford Line (Earls of Stafford) (Homer Beers James/Paul McBride)
  Narrative pedigree, 11th-15th centuries; this material, based on older secondary sources, should be treated with caution
• Stafford Families of North-West Derbyshire - Index to Transcribed Documents (Rosemary Lockie)
  Staffords of Eyam, 13th to 16th centuries, and of Botham, 14th century and later. Includes transcripts of several articles by C.E.B. Bowles, from the Derbyshire Archaeological Society Journal.

Stainton

• J. W. Walker, Dicton, Stainton and Popeley (David Hepworth, this site)
  Excerpt from "The Manor and Church of Woolley", originally published in the Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, vol. 27, pp. 249-318 (1924)

Stanley

• Stanley Roots: The Origins of Stanleys in England, 1100-1700 (Nigel Stanley)
  Comprehensive study of early families named Stanley throughout England, including extensive record evidence of medieval Stanleys, arranged county by county. The site includes a particularly detailed study of a family of Stanleys originally from the parish of Mayfield, in East Sussex, some of whom later migrated to Kent.
• The House of Stanley (Frances Coakley)
  Text by Peter Draper, "of the Ormskirk Advertiser" (1864); extracts currently available are post-medieval.
• Tatton (Matthew Ortiz, Ortiz-Cowger Genealogy Database) [formerly at http://members.nbci.com/ocgenealogy/hctatton.htm; not available, 2 November 2003]
  Scanned narrative from Ormerod's History of Cheshire (2nd edn, 1882); "includes Massy, Brereton and Stanley"
• The History of the House of Stanley (Frances Coakley, A Manx Note Book)
  Text (in progress) of the work by John Seacombe, from the 1793 edition. An account of the family, originally from Staffordshire and later earls of Derby. To be treated with caution, like any work of this age

Staunton

• Staunton and the Staunton Family (Nottinghamshire History and Archaeology)
  Two illustrated articles from Transactions of the Thoroton Society (1900 and 1923), mainly architectural but including some information about the family.

Sterry

• Sterry Worldwide (Robert Sterry)
  This site includes narrative pedigrees from the 16th century, lists of medieval occurrences of the surname, and abstracts of wills, lay subsidies and other records.

Stewart

• The Origin of the Stewarts (Mary Kifissia/Rick Eaton, this site)
  Text of the first part of J.H. Round's (1901) paper, tracing the Breton origins of Alan, the son of Flaald, who ancestor of both the FitzAlan family in England and the Stewart family in Scotland.

Storm

• Storm and Company - the Early Years (Roy Storm)
  Includes some 16th-century references to the Storm family of Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire.

Stradling

• St Donats and the Stradlings (Dr Hugh Stradling, The Stradling Family) [not available, 16 March 2020; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from January 2015]
  An account of the family, Glamorgan and south west England, 13th century and later; includes extracts from public records and other sources

Strange: see Lestrange

Stratton

• Stratton Notes (Suffolk) from Original Sources (Robert Battle)
  Notes of Stratton records, early 13th century and later

Strelley

• Charter of Eleanor de Lyston for Richard and Ellen de Strelleye, 1335 (this site)
  Photographs, transcript, translation and comments.

Strudwick

• Selected research on the Strudwick Family name (Garry Strudwick)
  Includes some extracts from public records, 15th and 16th centuries, and lists and abstracts of wills and administrations, 16th century and later.

Swinnerton

• The Alleged Gresley-Swinnerton Marriage: A Closer Examination (Nathaniel L. Taylor; PDF file)
  Discussion of the identity of Alice, wife of Sir John Gresley of Drakelowe, Derbyshire, and of the wife of Sir Thomas Swinnerton (d. 1361).

Sydenham

• Descendancy chart of William de Sydenham (Pat Patterson)
  Pedigree, with notes, 12th-16th centuries, Somerset and other counties

Syfrewast

• The Syfrewast Family (David Nash Ford, Royal Berkshire History)
  Extract from Montague Burrows, The Brocas Family of Beaurepaire (1886), concerning the West-Country Syfrewasts, 13th century and later