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[Facts] My last name.
Where does the name Stockdale come from?
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Your post should go here: http://surnames.behindthename.com/I think,
Look at the two words which make up your last name, stock and dale. Stock means merchandise (a store) and dale means a valley. Now combine those two words.
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stock + daleAgata is using one of the modern definitions of the word "stock." Stockdale (and its spelling variants) is a place name that is a compound word as Agata suggested. However, the etymology of "stock" is from Middle English ("stok"), from Old English "stocc" meaning "tree trunk." The word "dale" is the Old English word "dael" meaning (as Agata indicated correctly) "valley." Therefore, the name Stockdale means something along the lines of "valley filled with trees (or tree trunks if you want to nitpick)."
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Thank you, I was leaning towards like a banker/shops valley and so forth.
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I was thinking stock like cattleergo, a valley with cattle ranchers. Can't escape that cowboy influence! *LOL*
~Lillian~
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Lol.Valley of the Cows. I heard that was a working title for a Jean Auel novel. ;P
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lmao
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