Shackleton Family History
Shackleton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Shackleton in Wadsworth (Yorkshire) possibly from Old English sceacol ‘shackle’ + tūn ‘farmstead estate’ (hence ‘farmstead where animals are shackled’) or Old English sceacel ‘stubble’ (related to the verb sceacan ‘to shake’; compare dialect shackle ‘stubble’) + tūn.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022