Shelvock

Shelvock

Shelvock is a name of Saxon origins - from the Old English "scelf" meaning a shelf of level ground, or flat topped hill, and "ac" meaning oak, taken from the ancient Manor of Shelvock, near Ruyton-XI-Towns, Shropshire, England originally pronounced "shelf'ac", "shelv'ak" or "shelv'oak", but today as "shel'vock". All families with this name (and associated variants Shilvock & Shelvoke) are believed to be given to tenant-farmers and servants attached to the manor.

Shelvock is also a type of freestone quarried on the property, a Permian sandstone, known to be used in the building of Grimpo Congregational Chapel, 3km north of Shelvock.

Manor of Shelvock

In the Domesday period (1086) Shelvock was one of the three Berewicks (a hamlet attached to a manor) of the Manor of Wykey. Sometime between the Domesday Book and 1175 Shelvock became the head of the Manor.

The first recorded spelling of Shelvock was Shelfhoc (1175), and later Sselvak & Schelfac (c1270). From the C15th for several centuries Shelvock was the seat of the THORNES family, before its decline in the C18th and beyond. In the 1890's, then a farm house in the Parish of Ruyton-XI-Towns (Ruyton-of-the-Eleven-Towns, or simply Ruyton), Shelvock was part of the Tedsmore Hall property. In 1894 the Township of Shelvock included the house and only one cottage. In the C21st only the working farm remains.

Detailed History of Shelvock Manor

Family names

"Shelvock" is the original family name of Shropshire origins. "Shilvock" - pronounced "shil'vok" - the variant created in the C17th/C18th by Black Country (North Worcestershire/South Staffordshire) dialect and is the dominant family name and spelling today. After US immigration some Shilvock families reverted to the name Shelvock. Both family names can be found in Central England, the US, Canada, Australia & New Zealand.

Shelvoke is a variant (occasionally Shelvoak). Extinct as a family name (since the 1960's), the name survives only in a small number of UK engineering firms, the most notable of which are Accles & Shelvoke and Shelvoke & Drewry, which the latter became incorporated into Shelvoke Dempster, Dennis Shelvoke, & other spin-off companies. The name also exists in a firm of Accountants based in Cannock, Staffordshire.

Noted people with the name include:
* Captain George Shelvocke, C18th Privateer & Author
* George Shelvocke, son of Captain George Shelvocke, a member of the crew and later Secretary General of the Post Office in London

External links

* [http://www.geocities.com/gracefiles/shilvock.html Family Names & Location History]
* [http://bcarpent.webspace.fish.co.uk/ Shelvoke & Drewery Historical Website]


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