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Origin / History of the Lucock Name

Of Anglo-Saxon origin this unusual and interesting name represents a rare survival of an Olde English pre-7^th Century personal name into Middle English.  It is rare because a great many native Anglo-Saxon personal names disappeared after the Norman Conquest of 1066 and the subsequent introduction of Continental given names.  A derivation of the Olde English male name of ‘Lufa’, from luuf, love with the addition of the affectionate or diminutive suffix ‘cock’, sometimes used in the same way as the suffix kin’, to distinguish the son from the father.  As a surname Lucock, can also found as Lo(w)cock, Luck(c)ock, Luckcuck and Lewcock, and as a personal name is well recorded in the 13^th Century: Leucok Schayfe is listed in the Lancashire Assize Rolls of 1246; Lovekoc de Wlvedale in Yorkshire in 1275; and Lokoc de Heppewrth, also in Yorkshire in 1286.  The surname development includes: Geoffrey Luvecoc or Lucoc (1259, Yorkshire); Henry Lovecok (1274, Essex); and Robert Lukok (1338, Yorkshire), and among the examples from Surrey Church Registers are the marriage of Rychard Lucocke and Elizabeth Steavens in Shere 1554; and the christening of Thomas, son of Edward Lucock 1636, at Walton on the Hill.  The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Peter Luuecok, which was dated 1221, witness in the ‘Assize Court Rolls of Warwickshire’.

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