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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

Demography and Statistics
What the data is telling us

Noted People
An offbeat listing of anyone with a notable recorded history

Commonwealth War Graves, Memorials
The names of those who served in the armed forces, those who sacrificed their lives and other stories

Researchers and Family Contacts
Names and email addresses from around the World

Data Bank
Birth, Death & Marriage Indices, census information and other public domain data from around the World.

SHELVOCK One Name Study:
Family Trees
(1581-present day)

SHILVOCK One Name Study:
Family Trees
(1639-present day)  

"Most Wanted"
Enquiries still seeking an answer - maybe you can help?

SHELVOCK - The Music
6 sets of instrumental music inspired by the place and history.
Composed and played by the Webauthor

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- HALESOWEN -

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.

© Mark Grace - May 2007

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