SHORT Family Members

​Page last updated 16 August 2022.
Meaning (See https://www.familysearch.org/en/surname): 
SHORT:
  • English: nickname for a short person, from Middle English short ‘short’ (Old English sceort).
  • English: topographic name for someone who lived at a detached or cut-off piece of land (Middle English shorte, shirte, from Old English scierte, scerte, scyrte) or else a habitational name from a place so named, such as Shoart in Harbeldown (Kent) and Shuart in Saint Nicholas at Wade (Kent). Compare Shorter.
  • Irish and Scottish: adopted for Gaelic Mac an Gheairr, Mac an Ghirr ‘son of the short man’ (see McGirr).
  • Americanized form (translation into English) of German Kurz.​

SHORT family pages done are: ​
​m. = maiden name
​​(*) = This person was included while working with the cemetery; no evidence yet that we are related.
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