Lock's of Gloucester

[LockeRoots]

Lesanne & Paula

I would like to invite you 2 and anyone else who maybe interested to my new
Romany Genealogy message board, so we can discuss our possible Lock connections more.

http://z8.invisionfree.com/Romany_Genealogy/index.php

Don

[Sloe Gin]

Old thread I know, but just to confirm that Henry Lock of South Cerney was buried there in 1811.
Therefore he cannot be the Romany Henry Lock who was the father of Matthew Lock (who married Remembrance Boswell) and daughters Unity and Sarah.  Henry Lock was present at his daughters' weddings in 1815, which were widely reported in the newspapers. 

I am descended from another of Henry's daughters, Lavinia, who was baptised at Madeley, Salop, in 1799.

[LockeRoots]

I have a clue that I have not shared as of yet and will share it now.

In 1930 when my direct forefather George Simon Locke passed away in Texas USA, his family was cleaning out his home and found an old Lock family bible. The family bible belonged to George's grand father Rev. Jacob Lock of Barren County, Kentucky USA.

The bible of Rev. Jacob Lock had multiple generations of the family birth, marriages, deaths noted in it, which was exciting to see, but it was what was in the bible that really got the family really excited.

In the family bible, they found an old British record, but that record has not been seen since 1935.
There are multiple oral stories about what became of this British record, regardless, the record has vanished and no one has seen it since 1935.

John H. Locke son of George Simon Locke, John sent the British Chancery division a letter in 1935 requesting more information about this British record, but unfortunately John failed to give enough details. The Royal Court of Justice sent John H. Locke a response stating they needed more information, but that they had looked at the Chancery records and did not find the record that John was looking for.

But the Royal Court of Justice did mention something that I found quite interesting, they said they needed a date of the proceeding in regards to some property that came under the control of the Court.

The way this response is worded, implies that Richard Lock had some land in England, and for what ever the reasons were, the land came under the control by the court. I know that my assumed immigrant ancestor was in Colonial Virginia by 1763, likely a bit earlier then 1763, so what ever happened back in England, almost must have happened before 1763.

If this British record can be found in the UK records, it just might help explain the why and how Richard Lock ended up in the American Colonies.