Släkthistoria för Boocock
Boocock Vad efternamn betyder
variant of either Bulcock or Bolcock (see Balcock and Buckoke). These names will have been easily confused with each other. Redmonds Dictionary of Yorks Surnames notes that in the parish registers of Bolton by Bowland (WR Yorks) the same family name is spelled Bulcock Bowcocke and Boocock (1608–30) and that Edward Bowcock of Howgill (WR Yorks) is also called Bulcock in a will dated 1677. Compare also Alice Bowcock 1641 Chr. Bulcock 1646 in IGI (Barnoldswick WR Yorks).
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
