Where does the last name Scruggs come from?

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this question does not have anything to do with the Lester flatt and Earl Scruggs team.

I would like to know the courntry of orgin of the Scruggs name. Irish, german etc.

Thanks

Answer 1

This was all there was on ancestry.com

Scruggs Name Meaning and History

Probably an altered form of Scroggs.

I cant find anything in relation to the name on the Internet, just checking my books. There's nothing in the *Oxford name companion * either, sorry.

Here is the origin of the name Scroggs, for you.

Scroggs Name Meaning and History

English: topographic name from Middle English scrogge ‘brushwood’.

Scottish: habitational name from Scrogges in Peeblesshire.

Answer 2

Scruggs is maybe a variant of Scroggs.

Scroggs

This unusual and interesting surname has two possible sources. Firstly, the surname may be of Scottish locational origin, from the lands of Scrogges in the barony of Stobo, Peeblesshire. The derivation of the name comes from the Scottish and northern English dialect terms "scrag" and "scrog", parallel in meaning to the Olde English pre 7th Century "stocc", stock, stump of tree. During the Middle Ages, when migration for the purpose of job-seeking was becoming more common, people often took their former village name as a means of identification, thus resulting in a wide dispersal of the name. Adam of Skrogges, burgess of Haddington, rendered homage in 1296, and William del Skogges of Peeblesshire rendered homage in the same year. Secondly, the surname may be of early medieval English origin, and would have been a nickname for a thin, bony person, from the Middle English "scrag", thin or scrawny. Recordings of the surname from various Church Registers include: the christening of Danyell Scragg on November 22nd 1558, at St. Botolph's without Aldgate, London; the marriage of Alexander Scrag and Jean Black on April 4th 1656, at Old Machar, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire; and the christening of An, daughter of Thomas and Frances Scragg, on December 11th 1687, at Allhallows the Great, London. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Robert de Scrogges, which was dated 1208, in the "Records of Peeblesshire", Scotland, during the reign of King William "The Lion" of Scotland, 1165 - 1214.

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I also found this with a lot of other Scruggs info at

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ance...

SCRUGGS

Origins Of The Surname

The Scruggs family surname is probably an altered form of the Scroggs surname.  Scroggs is a topographic name from the Middle English term scrogge meaning ‘brushwood’ or ‘stumpy land’ in the sense of recently cleared land.   In Scotland Scroggs is a habitational name from Scrogges in Peeblesshire. (1)

First found in Peebleshire in the lands of Stobo where they were seated at Scrogges from the 12th century.  Robert de (of) Scrogged lost his life in the service of David de Line and in 1206 De Line granted Simon de Scoggs, Robert’s son, the lands of Scogges.  Adam Skogges, burgess of Hagingdon, rendered homage to the English crown in 1296 and William del (of the) Skoggs of Peebleshire rendered homage at the same time.  David de Scrogis was elected common councilor of Aberdeen in 1398.  John de Scrogis was a charter witness in Aberdeen in 1436.  Alexander Scroggs was a master of the ship Nicholas of Aberdeen in 1439.  

Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Richard Scruggs, who settled in Virginia in 1655; and Thomas Scruggs, who settled in Salem, Mass. in 1630

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Scruggs Family Association

http://www.geocities.com/scruggs_family/