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Shelvock
Location
Geography
& Geomorphology
Origins
of the Family Name
Earliest
origins of the family names
Where
& When?
Occurrence
of the family names from the C16th - present day
A
History of Shelvock Manor
The
place and local environs providing the family name as well as
some other associated families
The
SHELVOKEs
The
story of engineering prowess and how a family name will become
extinct in modern times
The
SHELVOCKs
The
story of one couple's destiny to preserve the original family
name from extinction
A
Brief History of Halesowen
The
town that became the centre for the modern family name of
SHILVOCK
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SHELVOCK
One Name Study:Family Trees (1581-present day)
SHILVOCK
One Name Study:Family Trees (1639-present day)
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HALESOWEN -
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William
Edward SHILVOCK (born 1866)
standing
outside his works
at 10 Stourbridge Road, Halesowen.
The
Works door (partially) reads
"...SHILVOCK
& SONS, BOLT MANUFACTURERS"
William
Edward is the ancestor of Simonie COOTE
Photo
courtesy of Simonie COOTE
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A
Brief History of Halesowen
The origin of the place name is said to
mean "Owen's nooks of land or hollow" (OE: halh).
Owen, a Welsh prince, married a sister of Henry II and became
Lord of Hales in the early C13th. In 1272, the name was recorded
as Hales Owayn. At the time of Edward the Confessor, Olwin held
manor of Hala.
1086:
Roger, Earl of Montgomery & Shrewsbury held manor. 2 priests
at Hala Church
1094:
Hugh second son of Roger Earl of Shrewsbury
1098:
Robert of Belesme buys Earldom of Shrewsbury
1102:
Robert's property confiscated by Henry I - Hales reverts to
Crown
1177:
Advowson of Hales Church given to Pershore Abbey
1199:
Abbot of Pershore gives up advowson of Hales Church
1200:
Advowson in hands of King John
1214:
Hales Manor granted by John to Peter de Rupibus, Bishop of
Winchester, for the establishment of a religious house
1215:
John confirms manor to Premonstratensian
Canons
1220:
Abbot Hales obtained permission to hold a market and fair. The
Manor was the property of the Earl of Shrewsbury
1248:
Advowson of Church of Hales appropriated by the Abbey
1270:
Ordination of the Vicarage of Hales. Bishop of Worcester
confirms grant
1281:
Papal Bull giving abbey license to appropriate church
1538:
William Taylor, Abbot, surrenders abbey to Henry VIII's
commissioners
1539:
The King grants manor and all its appurtenances to Sir John
Dudley, who assigns it to his wife, Joan
1555: Sir Robert Dudley
succeeds to the manor, which he sells to Blount & Tuckey,
who sell it to John Lyttelton, whose family has held the
advowson since.
It is interesting to note that
Roger, Earl of Montgomery also held the Manor of Shelvock as it
was part of Shropshire (held by various under-lords from
Domesday), and that the LITTLETON family were also connected to
the later C15th owners of the Manor of Shelvock, the THORNES, by
marriage.
A 1910 publication consists of a
transcription of Halesowen registers between 1559 - 1643. Within
is the first recorded clan members within the parish; given as
"Elizabeth the daughter of Roger SHELVOCK by Elizabeth
his wife was baptised the 9th of June, 1639". The name
Roger is connected with a large family of the time based in
Baschurch, N.W. Salop (in the Oswestry Hundred), and there is one
who fits the time period appropriately, and appears to have moved
to the Halesowen area. It is assumed Roger was either a
descendant of the THORNES of Shelvock, who later became known as
just SHELVOCK, or other families associated with the Manor or
local area. From this time onwards the local name in Halesowen
became SHILVOCK.
It is probably no coincidence that the name
should also appear in the area bounded by Oldbury, Warley
(Abbey), Halesowen, Clent & Romsley since this defined the
small inlier of Salop county within Worcs., (which remained so
until merged with Worcs. sometime before the 1851 census) as the
map of 1832 shows:
It should be noted that the variant
SHELVOKE is not associated with Halesowen but with Wolverhampton,
Willenhall, and Aston, Birmingham, being a later migration out of
Shropshire. SHILVOCKs mentioned in the Halesowen Parish Magazine
can be found on the Data
webpage.
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Gravestone at St John's,
Halesowen
Photo
courtesy of Penny WYTHES
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© Mark Grace - May 2007
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