As noted elsewhere in Shelvock families, there was a genetic tendency towards more girls than boys that is the root cause to the rareness and then extinction of the family name.
Shelvock is a name of Saxon origins - from the Old English scelf meaning a shelf of level ground, or flat topped hill, and ac meaning oak, taken from the ancient Manor of Shelvock, near Ruyton-XI-Towns, Shropshire, England originally pronounced "shelf'ac", "shelv'ak" or "shelv'oak", but today as "shel'vock".
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The name also exists in a firm of accountants based in Cannock, Staffordshire.
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