The Shambrook Family

The name Shambrook arrived in England after the Norman Conquest of 1066. The Shambrook family lived in Shropshire. Their name is derived from the Old English word Semebre, and indicates that the original bearer of the name lived near a sandy stream.

Spelling variations include: Semembre, Sambrook, Sambrooke, Sembrooke, Sembrook, Sanbrook, Sanbrooke, Sandbrooke, Sandbrook and many more.

First found in Shropshire where they were anciently seated as Lords of the Manor of Sambrook in that shire. Conjecturally the family name is descended from Turold, a Norman noble, who held the village of Sambrook at the time of the taking of the Domesday Book, a census of England initiated by Duke William of Normandy in 1086, after his conquest of England at Hastings in 1066 A.D.