English (now mainly Bedfordshire): habitational name from Tarbock
Green, formerly in Lancashire, now in Merseyside, named in Old English
with þorn ‘thorn tree’ + broc ‘brook’, ‘stream’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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