Hoke

The ancestors of the name Hoke date back to the Anglo-Saxon tribes of Britain. The name is derived from when the Hoke family lived in Dorset at Hooke, a parish, in the union of Beaminster, hundred of Eggerton, Bridport division. Hooke is also a chapelry, in the parish of Snaith, union of Goole, Lower division of the wapentake of Osgoldcross in the West Ridig of Yorkshire and Hook is a hamlet, in the parish and union of Kingston-Upon-Thames, First division of the hundred of Kingston in Surrey. The surname Hoke was first found in Devon where one of the first records of the name was found in 1050-71 in a reference of Old English Bynames of Devon.