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CHADDOCK Family History

This interesting surname, widely recorded in Lancashire, is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is a habitation name either from Chaddock, an ancient estate in the township of Tyldesley, in the parish of Leigh, Lancashire, or else a dialectal variant of Chadwick, itself a locational name from the hamlet thus called near Rochdale in Lancashire. The initial element in both placenames is the Olde English pre 7th Century male given name "Ceadda" (perhaps St. Chad, a 7th Century Northumbrian bishop), with respectively the Old Norse "dokk", a valley or hollow, and the Olde English "wic", an early loan-word from the Latin "vicus", dwelling-place, village, hamlet, town.