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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : habitational name for someone from Schaijk in North Brabant, the name of which is a reduction of Schadewijck, an area south of Utrecht named after Willem Schade, an official of the Bishop of Utrecht in the Middle Ages.
  • Goosen Gerritsen van Schaick was a brewer in Fort Orange (Albany, NY) in the mid 17th century.

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