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Historical References

"SCALES. Local. There are places of this name in Cumberland and Westmorland. Harbert Skaillis of Chubtricknaul, Dumfriesshire, 1626 (Dumfries). Nicolas Skailles in Chirnsyde, 1680 (Louder). One of my nurses in the hospital in New York (1934) was a Miss Scales of Scots parentage. "(The surnames of Scotland. George Fraser Black, 1866-1948)

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