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The future Skene castle was built around1217.
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In 1250 the skeens were found in Aberdeenshire holding a family seat. A family seat was the principle manor of a medival lord wich was normally an elegant country mansion. In the area of the mansion the family usually the family had politcal ties. ourfamily were all free barons and had two castles in scotland. we were thought to be an exceptionally early sept of Clan Donnachaidh, from before it adopted the name Robertson.
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The Skeen Provost house in Aberdeen built in 1545 and bought not pillaged by Provost Skeen in 1669.
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John Skene was the first documented Skene to travel to America arriving in 1664 arriving in New Jersey.
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According to my grandfather our family started immigrating to america around the 1750's before Ellis Island. When we arrived we decided to change our last name to Skeen. We did this of our own accord not because anyone else changed our name.
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James Skeen who came to Allegany County, PA in 1845