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scaife Name Meaning and History

Northern English (Yorkshire): nickname from the northern English dialect word scafe ‘crooked’, ‘awry’, ‘awkward’, ‘wild’ (Old Norse skeifr).

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The scaife name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the scaife family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of scaife Families in the US in 1920
Number of scaife families
 14-25
 5-13		 1-4
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Searching for information on the Scaife name Robert D. Scaife 124
SCAIFE HISTORY LORENE SCAIFE 5
William & Abigail SCAIFE, siblings, ?Cumberland? LornaHen 0
Hunmanby, Yorkshire, SCAIFE's cas19601 0
Scaife Carol Waldroup 31
Scaife in Yorkshire mwbeerman 0
Ralph Johnson Scaife of Pocklington, Yorkshire Martin Cross 0
Scaife Info. Center Johnnie N Scaife 2
S(c/k)aifee of Lancester, Ulverston & Dacre Hall, 'Netherton' Yorks @@astronomer@ntlworld.com 1
Gen: Scaife KFAYEO 0
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