origin of the name stokes
Surnames: Stokes is a patronymic form of the name âStokeâ an English place name derived from the numerous places though-out England by that name.They were named from Old English stoc place, house, dwelling and generally referred to an outlying settlement away from a larger one.he history of this ancient âStokes Pembrokeshire familyâ traces its ancestry as a family of Norman origin before the year 1100 and appears first in the ancient records in âPembrokeshire..