Hockers meaning | Last name Hockers origin

Family name is a variation of Hawkhurst. A parish in Kent.

The Hockers is form of Ackers. See under Akerman - Anglo-Saxon. Æcer-mon, a fieldman, farmer, ploughman, clown. Bosworth, The German Ackermann, naturalized amongst us, has precisely the same signification. The forms in the Hundred Rolls are Akerman, le Akermon, le Akermannes, Acherman, and le Acreman. Sometimes the Akermanni were a peculiar class of feudal tenants, the tenure of whose lands is uncertain, as it is stated that the lord could take them into his own hands when he would, yet without injury to the hereditary succession. These holdings were very small, consisting in some instances of five acres only. Hale's St. Paul's Domesday, 'Agricola, acer-man."

Hockers is the form of the Acker. See under Akerman - Anglo-Saxon. Æcer-mon, a fieldman, farmer, ploughman, clown. Bosworth, The German Ackermann, naturalized amongst us, has precisely the same signification. The forms in the Hundred Rolls are Akerman, le Akermon, le Akermannes, Acherman, and le Acreman. Sometimes the Akermanni were a peculiar class of feudal tenants, the tenure of whose lands is uncertain, as it is stated that the lord could take them into his own hands when he would, yet without injury to the hereditary succession. These holdings were very small, consisting in some instances of five acres only. Hale's St. Paul's Domesday, 'Agricola, acer-man."

The lastname Hockers is a variant of Ecker. Dweller on a farm located on a steep slope.

The family name Hockers is a variant form of Acker. One who lived on a homestead of an acre.

Form of the Ackhurst. One or two places in the Weald of Sussex and Kent bear this name, which signifies 'the wood of oak trees,': from Anglo-Saxon Ac and hurst.