English (mainly Nottinghamshire): habitational name from any of
various places, for example in Nottinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Norfolk,
Shropshire, and Staffordshire, which are named from Old English
scylf ‘shelf’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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