Shattock Family History

Perhaps from the Middle English personal name Sad(d)oc of uncertain origin. The Old Testament name Zadok is formally possible (Greek Sadōk from Hebrew zedek ‘justice’). Since it was the name of the high priest who anointed Solomon (1 Kings 45), it may have been adopted as a baptismal name by clerical families in medieval Europe, but no evidence has been found for this.

A man named Saddoc was a tenant of the Bishop of Durham in 1183 in Boldon Book. Perhaps from a lost or unidentified place named in Middle English as *Shadok or *Shatok, either from an unrecorded Old English *scēaduc ‘little boundary’ or from one of two Old English compounds scēad + āc ‘boundary oak’ or scēat + āc ‘corner oak’.

A name of this type + Old English hyrst ‘wooded hill’ is possibly attested in the Kent place-name Shadoxhurst, recorded in the 13th century as Shattokeshurst, Sadhokesherst, and Chaddekesherst, though the first element might alternatively be the personal name in (i).