The story
- Old English · derived fromsċeaga“copse, thicket”
- English todayShawcross
Probably a habitational surname from Shaw Cross, a suburb of Dewsbury, a town in West Yorkshire, from Old English sċeaga (“copse, thicket”) + croft (“enclosed field”).
Words from the same roots
Old Englishsċeaga all →
shawGrimshaw
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.