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SCAHILL Family History

This unusual English surname is locational, and very rare. It may originate from a place called Scarth Hill in the county of Lancashire, or from a now 'lost' medieval village of which there were several thousand that have completely disappeared, or it may be a variant of something else. Taking the latter possibility, certain registers suggest that it is a developed form of Scales or Scholes, a Norse-Viking word in origin, meaning 'the summer place', and referring to pasture lands grazed in the summer.