Släkthistoria för Horrock
Horrock Vad efternamn betyder
perhaps from a lost locality on the River Ribble called Hurroc alluded to in Hurrocford (about 1330) modern Horrocksford in Clitheroe (Lancs). Lancs Place-Names p. 78 links Hurroc- to modern northern English dialect hurrock ‘piled up heap of stones or rubbish’. There is no evidence so far for a Middle English surname *atte hurroke.alternatively a variant pronunciation of Horwick; see Horwich.alternatively perhaps a variant of Scottish Orrock. Migration of Scots into N England might explain the lateness of the evidence for this name in Lancs and its alternative forms Harrock and Harrocks. Compare Orrick. unexplained.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
