topographic name for someone who lived by a ford
marked by a stump, from Middle English stocke ‘treestump’ +
ford ‘ford’.habitational name from some minor place, as
for example Stokeford in Dorset (earlier Stockford) ‘ford near
to East Stoke’ (so named from Old English stoc ‘outlying
farmstead’, ‘secondary settlement’) .
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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