Scholes Family History
Scholes Name Meaning
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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022