Shank Coat of Arms, Family Crest and Shank Family History

Shank Family History

The names Shank and Shanks in Ireland are of immigrant origin having been brought into the Province of Ulster by settlers who arrived from England and Scotland, especially during the seventeenth century. It is in Ulster that the majority of descendants bearing these names can still today be found.

A Sept or Clan is a collective term describing a group of persons whose immediate ancestors had a common surname and all inhabited the same lands.