The shaft Surname

shaft Name Meaning and History

German (Schaft): metonymic occupational name for a maker of wooden shafts for tools or weapons, from Middle High German, Middle Low German schaft.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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shaft Family Facts

Distribution of shaft Families in the US in 1920

Number of shaft families

16-29

6-15

1-5

Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 10 - Messages: 52

Thread	Author	Replies
Jane Parker Shaft	kjlid1	5
Charles E. SHAFT Biography, b. 1832 NY to WI	RMunns7272	0
Alice (Schaft)Shaft	gonewalkabout_ky	4
Nancy (Schaaf)Shaft	Lorraine Kapphahn	0
HAROLD SHAFT	Pirouettegrl1	1
Shaft in NY/MI	kirsten02	0
Mary Shaft m. James Tutt 1735 MA	texantwo	0
Hazel Shaft	ame1usn	31
John P. wives and children	Merl	1
Shaft	ferdinandy	0

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