Family name origins & meanings
- Dutch : perhaps a topographic for someone who lived by an enclosure for cattle, Middle Dutch sco(o)t(t)e, or by a corner of woodland or heathland in a marshy area, Middle Dutch scoet. Compare Van Benschoten.
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