This surname is derived from the name of an ancestor. — the son of Alcuin' (v. Yonge), corrupted to Oldcorn in north England. I have one representative in my parish (Ulverston). I place all these surnames together because it is impossible to separate them. No doubt both (a) and (1) have assimilated. In a general way Alchorn represents the local, and Alcorn the personal surname.

Richard Halchein, Oxfordshire, 1273. Hundred Rolls.

Hugh Eldcorne, Oxfordshire, ibid.

Eustace Eldcorn, Kent, ibid.

John Alcorn, Essex, ibid.

Stephan Alcorn, Kent, ibid.

(a) Local, 'of Alchorne,' a manor in the parish of Rotherfield, Sussex, where the family lived in the 14th century. Some of their descendants, still resident in that parish, have, within a generation or two, corrupted their name to Allcorn (Lower).

Thomas Allcorn, 1774: Reg. Cant. Cath.

John Alchorne, 1690: St. Mary Aldermary (London).

Alex. Alchorne, of Southampton, married, 1695: St. Dionis Backchurch (London).

Probably from Alchorne, a manor in the parish of Rotherfield in Sussex. A family of this name lived there in the fourteenth century and Lower (writing in 1860) says "Some of their descendants still resident in that parish have within a generation or two corrupted their name to Allcom." The mill of Kethyk was leased to John Awldcom in 1446 (Cupar-Angus, I, p. 124), and two years later it was re-let to his son Adam Aldcorn (ibid., p. 127). "Sir" Robert Aldcorne was chaplain in Stirling in 1476 (SBR., p. 259), and John Auldcorne, baker in Glasgow, and Walter Auldcorne, burgess of Elgin, are both mentioned in 1591 (RPC., IV, p. 620,659). Walter Auldcorne, member of assize of the regality court of Spynie in 1596 (SCM., II, p. 132) may be the aforementioned Elgin burgess. In 1594 Stevin Auldcorne was accused "for wirldng on the Sondaye" (MCM., I, p. 67), John Aldcorne was indweller in Kelso in 1630 (RPC., 2 ser. III, p. 563), Alexander Auldcorne, messenger, appears in 1634 (ibid., 2. ser. V, p. 621), Jonn Alcoirne was messenger of Gabriel Maxwell during the latter's residence in Daniskine 1635 (Pollok, II, p. 257) and in 1649 the wife of "umquhill" John Auldcome in Lochwinnoch was accused of witchcraft (ibid., 2. ser. VIII, p. 204). Henry Alcorn or Hary Auldcorne was assay-master at the mint, 1687 and 1689 (RPC., 3. ser. XIII, p. XXXVII; XIV p. 430). The name is also found in the Edinburgh Marriage records as Alcorn (1698), Alcorne (1671), and Auldcorn (1696). It is also found in Castlemilk, Dumfriesshire, and in Kelso in the seventeenth century, and six of the surname axe recorded in the Commissariot record of Stirling between 1621 and 1741. Aldycorne 1667.

(English) belonging to Alchorne (Sussex) =? the Temple-Corner. [Old Englishe)alh, temple, + horn or hyrne, a corner (of land].

Guppy, Homes of Family Names, finds that this name is, or was, confined to Sussex.

From Alchorne; a location name in Sussex. (?).

The Allcorns probably possess an ancestor in Thomas Alchorn, who leased an estate in Albourne in 1620 (D.).