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Where did the English Scarff family come from? What is the English Scarff family crest and coat of arms? When did the Scarff family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Scarff family history?
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- Known spelling variations
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- First settlers to North America
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Spelling variations of this family name include: Scarf, Scarfe, Scarff, Scarffe, Scharf and others.First found in Yorkshire, where the name first appeared in the 13th century. The name Scarff is either a nickname, or of ornamental origin. It comes from the old Norse word "skarfr," meaning "cormorant," a kind of large, black seabird. The name was probably given to its first bearer because of some imagined resemblance to the bird in question. It is also possible that the name had no real significance whatsoever, and was purely ornamental.
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This is a small excerpt from our full listing of settlers for the name Scarff. Our PDF Extended History provide the complete listing from our dbase of over 500,000 settlers!
Some of the first settlers of this family name were:
Scarff Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century
- Wm. Scarff, aged 27, who landed in America from Liverpool, in 1899
Scarff Settlers in the United States in the 20th Century
- Mrs. William G. Scarff, aged 40, who emigrated to New York, in 1905
- William G. Scarff, aged 44, who settled in New York, in 1905
- Frederick Scarff, aged 36, who emigrated to the United States from Dublin, Ireland, in 1921
- James C. Scarff, aged 45, who settled in South Charleston, Ohio, in 1921
- George Scarff, aged 52, who emigrated to America from Stanley, England, in 1922
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- Warrant Officer (Gunner) F. W. Scarff, British officer of the Admiralty Air Department, inventor of the Scarff ring, a type of machine gun mounting for aircraft
- Clark Steven Scarff (b. 1948), former Australian cricketer who played four first-class matches for Western Australia
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- Crozier, William Armstrong Edition. Crozier's General Armory A Registry of American Families Entitled to Coat Armor. New York: Fox, Duffield, 1904. Print.
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The Scarff Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Scarff Family Crest was drawn according to heraldic standards based on published blazons. We generally include the oldest published family crest once associated with each surname.
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