Shedlock Family History
- Shedlock Name Meaning
- Possibly a variant of English Shadlock, from Middle English schaken ‘to shake’ + loc ‘lock’ (found in the plural in one early example, Schakelokes). If this is right, it was either a nickname for someone with the habit of shaking back his or her long hair, or a metonymic occupational name for a jailer. Alternatively, it could be from Middle English schaklock ‘fetter’, ‘shackle’, again an occupational name for a jailer.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 10,913 Historical Documents with Shedlock on Ancestry
- 4,087 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,714 Census and Voter Lists
- 898 Military Records
- 285 Immigration Records
- 2,929 Member Trees
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Number of Shedlock families
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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18 - 34 7 - 17 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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