Shockley Family History
Shockley Name Meaning
English: of uncertain origin. Most probably a habitational name
from Shocklach in Cheshire, named in Old English with sceocca
‘goblin’, ‘evil spirit’ + læcc ‘boggy stream’. In the 17th
century, the name was most common in Buckinghamshire, England.Perhaps also an Americanized form of Swiss German
Schoechli, a topographic name meaning ‘barn’, from a diminutive
of Schoch.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Shockley Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Shockley families
 74 - 146  25 - 73 |
 1 - 24  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Shockley families
|
13 - 24 5 - 12 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Shockley Family Origin
Shockley Immigration Information
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Shockley Family Occupations
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