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Dockery Family History

This interesting surname of English origin with variant spellings Dockray, Dockerey, Dockwray, Dockeray, Dockwra etc., is a locational name from Dockray in Cumberland, deriving from the old Norse "dokk" meaning "a hollow, valley" or the old English pre 7th Century "docce" "dock, sorrel" and "(v)ra" "a corner". The placename is recorded as Dochora (1195), "The Feet of Fines", and as Dokwra (1292), "Placita de quo Warranto". The surname dates back to the early 14th Century, (see below). Church recordings include one Eliza Dockerey who married John Lewis on January 28th 1606 in London, Margaret Dockwray who married Thomas Arrys on March 23rd 1646 at St.