Shaft Family History
Shaft Name Meaning
German (Schaft): metonymic occupational name for a maker of
wooden shafts for tools or weapons, from Middle High German, Middle
Low German schaft.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Shaft
Name Distribution of Shaft Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Shaft families
 5 - 8  2 - 4 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Shaft census records
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Shaft Family Origin
Shaft Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Shaft Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Shaft census records
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Military Service by Shaft
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