Buskin Family History

from Buskin in Devon or topographic for someone who lived ‘(by the) bushes’ from the dative plural busken of Middle English busk ‘bush’ (borrowed from Old Scandinavian buskr). Some examples may belong under (2).

from Middle English bukke-skin skin of a buck used particularly of buckskin breeches used to denote a maker of breeches or for a worker in buckskin or leather.

Richard de Gravele called Bokskyn was an apprentice of Walter Polyt fuyster (‘saddletree maker’; see Fewster) 1311 in London Letter Books D.