Last updated on 25/02/2023
This post was originally on my old blog site which has now been deleted.
This is a blog about the name LOCKE (with an ‘e’ on the end) and is where I will publish (or have published) information about the family tree (genealogy) research I have done to trace my lineage.
The site will also include information about related names that are part of the bigger picture, such as WEBB, BUGG, IVE, CLARK and SUTER.
My grandfather was Joseph Locke who was born in 1868. Joe, as he was known, was a resident of Little Ann in the English county of Hampshire.
Mr Oram remembered him and wrote ‘he live in a white, slated cottage situated right on the bank of the river [presumably Pillhill Brook]. … I am pretty certain he was a maintenance worker on the Red Rice Estate, probably a plasterer … The Lord of the manor was Lord Grantly (in) the early 1920s)’ Mr. Oram (almost 78 when he wrote to me) said that the Locke family moved away from Little Ann in 1924 or 25. Joseph was the son of Thomas Locke and Elizabeth Applegate who were married in 1853. I think Thomas died in 1881 and Elizabeth might have died in 1908. Thomas was the son of William Locke who was born in 1789 and married a lady called Charity. Three generations of the Locke family
The above photo shows three generations of the Locke family in 1943. Left to right: Ages, Ivy, Mary, Doris (nee Webb), Peter, Derek and Doris’s mother Emma Webb (nee Bugg.) The group were photographed outside the house of Leslie and Doris in Tangier Road, Copnor, Portsmouth. Ivy Locke was my aunt and sister to my father Leslie.
Ivy Doris Locke was born in Andover, Hampshire, in September 1905. She was the daughter of Joseph and Agnes. She has one son – Eric Roy – who was born in Wilton in 1926. She lived in Fareham for many years before moving to Cape, South Africa to live with her son Roy who had gone there previously.
See also my page on the Locke family of Portsmouth.