Colt Babcock's Sundry Documents

The Babcock surname is English, like many other surnames containing 'cock'. You can find concentrations of them in England. I've seen maybe 20 surnames containing 'cock'. The word 'cock' used to refer to a (young) lad that strutted like a rooster (arrogant - perhaps due to thinking that they know best - as young people sometimes do). Then it became a term for any "lad." So (young) "son of Bab" (like 'Jackson') could've been the idea behind the surname. I read: Bab was a nickname for Bartholomew, a short-form for Barbara, & a pet name for Babb. A source claimed that 'cock' was a nickname meaning: a sharp, forward (similar to arrogant) lad. I read this meaning of 'Babcock': "cock" = small, a son; 'cock' is a diminutive - i.e. suffix in surname - (like 'cic', ''el', and 'et'), that (like those other examples) involve the meaning of kindness and tenderness, that was

He was a Canadian military mechanic. On D-Day, his boat arrived on shore before another (for some reason. Perhaps the other boat driver was scared) that was supposed to go first (mechanics wouldn't be front line troops) to clear the way. It probably freaked him out. He wouldn't have been expecting to go first. Once at home, after the war, thunder made him quickly crouch down. Perhaps the thunder was very loud/close by, and unexpected. He stopped deer hunting after the war (Perhaps due to the sight/reminder of a rifle, and/or he didn't want to hear the gun noise). Someone said that their father who was in World War 2 said that he would never pick up a gun again when he came home from the war. He knew what it was to be hunted. Therefore, that is perhaps at least part of the reason that my great grandfather didn't want to go hunting again.