Short Coat Of Arms
- Origin: English
- Spelling variations of this family name include: Short, Shorte, Shortt, Schorte and others
- First found in Yorkshire where they were seated from ancient times, some say well before the Norman Conquest in 1066
- Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were:
- John Short, who came to the Jamestown settlement in Virginia in 1606
- Henry Short who settled in Massachusetts in 1634
- Marmaduke Short, who arrived in Virginia in 1668
Source: https://www.hallofnames.org.uk
