Horrox Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

Search old registers for Horrox and you will soon meet Horrocks too.

It is a place-based name: “from a place near Bolton, Lancashire”. Records show Horrox as one of the forms Horrocks took over time. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written. You may also find the name written Horrock.

Heraldry and the Horrox name

Heraldry is personal: arms associated with the Horrocks surname were borne by specific families, and sharing the name does not mean sharing the blazon.

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