Hancock Family History
Hancock Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Hann +
the hypocoristic suffix -cok, which was commonly added to
personal names (see Cocke).Dutch: from Middle Dutch
hanecoc ‘winkle’, ‘periwinkle’ (a type of shellfish), probably
a metonymic occupational name for someone who gathered and sold
shellfish.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Hancock Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hancock families
 915 - 1,828  306 - 914 |
 1 - 305  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hancock families
|
8 - 13 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Hancock census records
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Hancock Family Origin
Hancock Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Hancock Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Hancock Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Hancock census records
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Military Service by Hancock
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