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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: Fowlman on May 17, 2012, 05:14:45 pm

Title: Breed query ?
Post by: Fowlman on May 17, 2012, 05:14:45 pm

My wife's maiden name is SHELVOCK and she has always been told there was once a breed with that name, the name hails from the Oswestry area. Is she correct ? We found evidence of a flock named shelvock but these were suffolks. 

Title: Re: Breed query ?
Post by: jaykay on May 17, 2012, 05:22:44 pm

I found this :

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Your refernce to the Shelvock flock brings back very happy memories as its owner Ted Lloyd was one of my father's closest friends for over thirty years. Indeed the popularity of his sheep particularly in North Wales was such that his customers used to say they had a Shelvock as opposed to a Suffolk ram

Title: Re: Breed query ?
Post by: Fowlman on May 17, 2012, 05:26:45 pm

Thanks Jaykay, thats the bit i found too. It would appear they were suffolks but known locally as shelvocks.

Title: Re: Breed query ?
Post by: jaykay on May 17, 2012, 05:57:09 pm

A bit like a Hoover and a vacuum cleaner  :)

Title: Re: Breed query ?
Post by: Fowlman on May 17, 2012, 05:58:10 pm

Something like that  ;D worth asking though.