When James Bernard Scott was born on 26 May 1898, in Knipton, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Joseph Scott, was 33 and his mother, Lucy Ann Shepherd, was 31. He married Elsie Miriam Corney in December 1925, in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. He lived in Ancaster, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom in 1911. He died on 1 January 1976, in Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 77.
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English, Scottish, and Irish (Down): habitational and ethnic name from Middle English Scot ‘man from Scotland’. There is no evidence that the surname denoted either of the earlier senses of Scot as ‘(Gaelic-speaking) Irishman’ or ‘man from Alba’, the Gaelic-speaking region of Scotland north of the river Forth. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
English and Scottish: from the rare Middle English personal name Scot (Old English Scott, possibly also Old Norse Skotr), only certainly attested in northern England.
English: variant of Scutt .
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