Schultz Family History
Schultz Name Meaning
German: status name for a village headman, from a contracted
form of Middle High German schultheize. The term originally
denoted a man responsible for collecting dues and paying them to the
lord of the manor; it is a compound of sculd(a) ‘debt’, ‘due’ +
a derivative of heiz(z)an ‘to command’. The surname is also
established in Scandinavia.Jewish (Ashkenazic): from
German Schulze (see 1 above). The reason for adoption are
uncertain, but may perhaps have referred to a rabbi, seen as the head
of a Jewish community, or to a trustee of a synagogue.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Schultz
Name Distribution of Schultz Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Schultz families
 104 - 205  35 - 103 |
 1 - 34  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Schultz families
|
9 - 16 4 - 8 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Schultz Family Origin
Schultz Emigration Information (US)
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Schultz Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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