Släkthistoria för Cockshott
Cockshott Vad efternamn betyder
from Middle English cokshote cokshete cokshute ‘place where woodcocks dart’. Nets were stretched in such places to catch the birds for the food table so the surname may have belonged to someone who trapped woodcocks for the lord of the manor. Cockshutt Cockshoot etc. appear as minor place-names and field names in many counties but the modern surname is primarily from Lancs. According to McKinley an early bearer of the surname is recorded at Ightenhill near Padiham (Lancs) in the 14th century. The Lancs surname probably migrated to the Skipton area of WR Yorks by the 16th century (Redmonds Dictionary of Yorks Surnames ). It is sometimes pronounced Coeshot.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
