What is the origin of the name Cammock?

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What is the origin of the name Cammock?

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This name, with variant spellings Cammack, Camock, Cammacke, Camocke, Camacke, Cammocke and Cammock, is of
locational origin from a now "lost" place believed to have been in the Border Country. The name contains the
Celtic element "cam" meaning "bent" or "crooked" , probably with reference to land on a river bend. Locational
surnames, such as this, were developed when former inhabitants of a place moved to another area, usually in
search of work, and were best identified by the name of their birthplace. The surname first appears on record
in the early part of the 16th Century (see below), and one John Cammock was a landholder in Corrouchane,
Scotland, in 1557.

In the modern idiom the surname can be found as Cammack, Cammacke, Camacke Camock, Camocke, Cammocke and
Cammock. Recordings from English Church Registers include: the marriage of Mergeria Cammock to Thomas Laine in
Edmonton, London, on March 29th 1570; the christening of Isabell, daughter of Thome Camock, in Scarborough,
Yorkshire, on March 28th 1605; the marriage of John Camacke to Agnes Thompson in Kirkland, Cumberland, in
1611; and the marriage of John Cammack to Frances Wake in Holy Trinity, Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire. The
first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of
John Cammok, which was dated
circa 1525, in "Records of Cumberland", during the reign of
King Henry V111, known as "Bluff King Hal", 1509 - 1547.