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Stocks Family History

This interesting name is of early medieval English origin. It has has at least five possible sources. The first being that it is residential for somebody who lived at a place called Stock, such as Stock Gaylard in Dorset, or perhaps Stocksbridge in Yorkshire. The second is that it is topographical for someone who lived near an area of cleared trees, that is where the branches had been removed and the remaining trunk or stumps either left to die or to fom a coppice. The third possibility relates to residence by a bridge built of "stocks" or tree trunks from the Old English word "stocc", meaning a trunk or stump...