Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from a place in the parish of Halifax, West Yorkshire, so named from an unattested Old English word, scacol ‘tongue of land’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
- The British Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874–1922) was born in Kilkee, Ireland; his father’s Quaker family came from Yorkshire, England.