How about the LANE & LOCK family? Will this be a hit or a miss in your book?
Hi Mark
Yes, this was a "hit & miss" result i.e. a hit with LOCK surname, but nothing for LANE. Unfortunately, no christian names mentioned, but an occupation of Coal Merchant which I presume is associated with Irongmonger?
1) Author's Tradesman Appendix - "
Coal Merchants - Lock", though there was also a heading of "
Cutlers, Ironmongers & Tinmen", but no Lock under that heading.
2) Part description of East Street ".........
the three shops next were occupied by Spencer, a confectioner, Trapnell, a grocer, and Parsons, a currier, then came five private residences, the occupier's names being Cornish, Seaward, Beadon, Lock and Noble; next came Jack Bastable's open clog, patten last shop; Murrey a baker lived next door............."
3) This excerpt relates to the author's walk through Taunton in 1886, not of his memories of 1820's/30's "....
the shop now occupied by Lock, the baker, stands on the site of an open blacksmith's shop, owned by man named Kallend, where could be seen and heard bellows blowing, hammering, fires blazing, sparks flying and horses shying......" I can't really decipher where the author was talking about, but I think its somewehere around the old Turnpike Gate area(?).
4) Author describing describing the Castle Inn "...........
Jim Hollier, the head ostler, was usually seen and heard halloing to the other ostlers, or talking to Best about Day and Martin's blacking, or with Lock, the waiter. Long Jim Saunders, chubby-faced, Bill Miller, bandy-legged Jack Stradling, the post boys dressed in yellow jackets........"
5) Author describing working conditions of about 100 "
roughest and coarsest men" working on the river in relation to coal barges. "........
the merchants who employed these men were Badcock, Davey, Hammet, Kinsbury, Lock, Stone, Trood, Ball, Joyce, Lleewellen, Potter, Foxwell, Pring and Pain."
So, nothing really there to confirm your LOCK ancestors, only surnames and occupation. Hopefully, you might be able to match them up somewhere else - good luck!
Les
