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[Flint]

Originally Posted by Carruthers

Knapping is the ancient art of making tools from flint and a flint knapper practises the art.

This showed up in my vanity search. In fact, I am named after the flint that you refer to here.

[Carruthers]

Originally Posted by Flint

This showed up in my vanity search. In fact, I am named after the flint that you refer to here.

When I posted the above, I did so without thinking about my forebears. On my mother's side of the family there are generations of Flints back to about 1770. Can't be sure about the exact dates at the present, as the info is on my other computer. They all come from villages to the north west of York. I don't think that it is a particularly common surname so we may be related.

Carruthers