Släkthistoria för Mattock
Mattock Vad efternamn betyder
perhaps from Middle English mattok ‘mattock’ (Old English mattuc) for a maker or user of such a tool but this may be a misleading coincidence of linguistic form with that of the name in (ii). Some of the early bearers listed below may otherwise belong at (2).possibly from an unrecorded early Middle English personal name *Mattoc a pet form of Old English *Mætta (attested in place-names) + the Old English hypocoristic suffix -oc. in Cornwall and Devon apparently a variant of Maddock with devoicing of /d/ to /t/. Compare Alexander Maddock 1602 George Mattock 1694 in IGI (Bradworthy Devon) and Mattocks. The name may have been confused with Madrick. With the Devon early bearers listed below compare John Mederyck 1524 in Subsidy Rolls (Wolborough and Newton Abbot Devon) and Lewes Maderick 1677 in IGI (Honiton on Otter Devon)
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
