Talk:Scott (surname)/Archive 1

Scott as an anglicized German surname.
Scott, according to the New York Passenger list was recorded as being the surname of 67 German immigrants. Whether or not the surname was acquired upon arrival in the US is not mentioned. Also, the Jewish-English jazz musician Ronnie Scott used the surname 'Scott' as an anglicized variant of his family's original surname 'Schatt'. His family were originally Russian however, not German.