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SCARFF Family History

This interesting and unusual surname is of Old Norse origin, and is found mainly in Northern England and Scotland, especially the Orkneys, and has two possible sources. The first source is locational from any of the various places named with the Old Norse topographical term "skarth", gap, notch. The second source is from the Old Norse byname "Skarthi", meaning hare-lipped, a derivative of "skarth", as before. In Scotland, Scarth was in the parish of Firth and the first recording of the surname in Scotland was of one Fene Skatht (witness) in 1482 at Orkney.