Folk Tales of the Skermer Name

There's a site on the Internet that tells that folk lore holds that the Skermer name was of Norse decent and came to Wales with the Viking raids in the 9th or 10th century. There was also mention of a SKOMER Island off Pembrokeshire as evidence of this.

It goes on to say that one book even shows the name SKIRME and says itis derived from medieval French ESKERMER which means Fencing Master. They list other spellings as well SKYRME, SKIRME, SKIRMSHIRE, SKERMER, SKIRMER and SKIRME.

WRITING OUR OWN AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Don't you wish there was a way to contact our ancestors so that we could ask them questions about what their lives were like and what their opinions were on interesting subjects?
When we were young most of us were too busy to take much interest in stories about what our parents or grandparents life was like when they were children, young adults or in their advanced years. I'm sure we all remember some of our parent's stories and a lot of us probably felt they were a little boring at the time; never realizing that someday they would be very important to us and to our children (continued)