Last name: SCHOLES
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SCHOLES : This last name is indexed 43,453 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
SCHOLES : English: habitational name from one or other of the places called Scholes in Lancashire and Yorkshire or from Scole in Norfolk all named with Middle English scole or scoles ‘herdsman's hut(s)’ (Old Norse skáli). In northern England the name was sometimes interchangeable with Scales a dialect variant of the same word.
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