Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from places called Stockbridge, in Hampshire and a lost place in Spofforth in North Yorkshire, or Stock Bridge in Owston, South Yorkshire, and in Brantingham in Humberside. The place name is derived from Old English stocc ‘tree trunk’, ‘log’ + brycg ‘bridge’.
- John Stockbridge emigrated from England in about 1635 and settled in Scituate, MA. He had many prominent descendants.