Scaife Family History
Scaife Name Meaning
Northern English (Yorkshire): nickname from the northern English
dialect word scafe ‘crooked’, ‘awry’, ‘awkward’, ‘wild’ (Old
Norse skeifr).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Scaife
Name Distribution of Scaife Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Scaife families
 458 - 914  153 - 457 |
 1 - 152  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Scaife families
|
22 - 41 8 - 21 |
1 - 7 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Scaife census records
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Scaife Family Origin
Scaife Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Scaife Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Scaife census records
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Military Service by Scaife
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