Excerpt from Family of Asa Allcott General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, gives twelve coats of arms for as many different families of Alcock and Alcoche. While Mr. Henry Olcott, in his Descendants of Thomas Olcott, published 1874, states his belief that the name Alcock is derived from two Saxon words: Eald, old, and coc, a male bird; and this theory is supported by the fact that no less than eight of the twelve coats of arms in Burke contain the cock, nevertheless I find a general concurrence of opinion among English authorities that Alcock is like so many other family names, a derivative from a forename; that Al is the same as Hal or Harry, and cock used here, as often elsewhere, as a simple diminutive; i. E. Alcock= Little Hal or Harry. I have not been able, in the limited time devoted to such investiga tion, to ascertain anything regarding the family or early English home of our emigrant ancestor, Thomas Alcock. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.