Scaife History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Early Origins of the Scaife family

The surname Scaife was first found in Durham where they held a family seat on the English/Scottish border. After the Norman Conquest of England many of Duke William's rebellious Barons moved north. The border became a convenient no-man's land. Notable families such as the Percy, the Umfravilles and the Nevilles gathered many supporting clans around them. In the 16th century they became known as the 'unruly clans'. In that century, many of those clans drove their herds south, and they settled in Yorkshire and Lancashire. The name was first recorded in Yorkshire in 1219 when Geoffrey Skaif held estates in Yorkshire.

Early History of the Scaife family

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Scaife Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Scafe, Scaife, Skaife, Scaif, Skaif, Skafe and others.

Early Notables of the Scaife family

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Scaife Ranking

In the United States, the name Scaife is the 9,774^th most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. 1

Scaife migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Scaife Settlers in United States in the 17th Century

Jonathan Scaife, who arrived in Pennsylvania in 1683 2
Jonathon Scaife, who landed in Pennsylvania in 1683 2
Thomas Scaife, who arrived in Virginia in 1689-1690 2

Scaife Settlers in United States in the 18th Century

Jeffrey Scaife, who landed in America in 1798-1802 2

Scaife migration to Australia +

Emigration to Australia followed the First Fleets of convicts, tradespeople and early settlers. Early immigrants include:

Scaife Settlers in Australia in the 19th Century

William Thomas Scaife, English convict from Middlesex, who was transported aboard the "Asia" on October 22nd, 1824, settling in New South Wales, Australia 3
Mr. Andrew Scaife, English convict who was convicted in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England for 7 years, transported aboard the "Equestrian" on 25th January 1844, arriving in Tasmania (Van Diemen's Island) 4

Contemporary Notables of the name Scaife (post 1700) +

Alan M. Scaife, from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, American contributor to the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948), eponym of the Scaife Mountains, Antarctica
Allen Ross Scaife (1960-2008), American Professor of Classics at the University of Kentucky
Oliver Edward "Bo" Scaife III (b. 1981), American NFL football tight end
Richard Mellon Scaife (1932-2014), American billionaire, heir to the Mellon banking, oil, and aluminum fortune, owner and publisher of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, founder of the Scaife Foundations
Robert Henry "Bobby" Scaife (b. 1955), English former professional footballer who played from 1972 to 1980
Sergeant Kenneth Scaife (1939-1973), who died in an accident during the British Army Expedition of Axel Heiberg Island, Canada, eponym of the Canadian Scaife Glacier, Nunavut
Hugh Scaife (1930-2009), British three-time Academy Award nominated set decorator
Brendan Kevin Patrick Scaife FTCD, MRIA (b. 1928), Irish academic engineer and physicist, Boyle Laureate

Citations +

"What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
State Library of Queensland. (Retrieved 2016, October 27) Asia 1 voyage to Van Diemen's Land, Australia in 1824 with 9 passengers. Retrieved from http://www.convictrecords.com.au/ships/asia/1824
Convict Records Voyages to Australia (Retrieved 4th May 2022). https://convictrecords.com.au/ships/equestrian