Willenhall Shafp, Staffs

[albaqwerty]

Am getting lost in researching family tree and have found a relative who was born in the above place in 1890.

I know roughly where Willenhall is, near Walsall and not too far from Birmingham, but cannot find out what Shafp means/is.

It is the same spelling in various documents covering different times, I could understand one document mis-spelling for instance.

Does anyone have any idea please as to its meaning?

[albaqwerty]

have just re-visited this.

jno, thanks for the info about the 1921 census, I read somewhere that there was a 1920 Census Reform Act which meant that the 1921 would never be published until/unless that law was changed/revoked or whatever they do with these things.
Many thanks for the info for 1939 register.

Might add meat to the ancestors bones - (purely to put Togo's mind at ease! ) ;-) x

Some family members had interesting names which fortunately don't seem to have been passed down.