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Hi, I live four miles from Bostock, Cheshire, and pass through the village every day. I have researched the family for 30 years.
First of all the origin of the name. It comes from the manor and village in central Cheshire and from the family who held the manor as tenants of the barony of Shipbrook originally held by the Vernon family.
As with most English place-names BOSTOCK comes from two elements Bote and stoc. The first is a personal name deriving from the name of St Botolph and the second means a secondary settlement, hence Bota's settlement or farm.
In 1086 it was said that the manor had been held by OSMER. He held this manor and several others and was a wealthy landowning Saxon. he probably resided at Audlem which was his more important holding. He was dispossessed sometime after 1068 when the Normans arrived in Cheshire. The name Osmer is rare in Saxon/Norman England: the name appears in Domesday records of Norfolk and Somerset as a land-onwers but wether they are one man or not, or whether they are the same as Cheshire's Osmer is not known. Nothing else is known about any man of this name - no executions or disputes!
Whilst some of the old pedigrees, which were drawn in the 16th or 17th centuries, allude to a descent from Osmer there is no real proof. In fact what we see may be succeeding lords of the manor rather than a blood line.
The first use of the surname is in the 12th C when Gilbert de Bostoc is mentioned in deeds.
As time goes on I shall have more to say on the origins and early history.
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