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Boconnock Surname Definition:

BOCONNOCK: From Boconnoc in West hundred. Hals says, "For the compound name Boconnoc, it is taken from the barton and manor of land still extant there, with reference to the beasts that depastured thereon, and signifies prosperous, successful, thriving, cows, kine, or cattle"! Tonkin says Bo-con-oke is Gaulish-Saxon, and signifies the town or Tillage of Stunt Oke.

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BOCONNOCK: From Boconnoc in West hundred. Hals says, "For the compound name Boconnoc, it is taken from the barton and manor of land still extant there, with reference to the beasts that depastured thereon, and signifies prosperous, successful, thriving, cows, kine, or cattle"! Tonkin says Bo-con-oke is Gaulish-Saxon, and signifies the town or Tillage of Stunt Oke. The name is rather from bo-gonock, the downy place.

Patronymica Cornu-Britannica (1870) by Richard Stephen Charnock

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