Chat
|
Daily Search
|
My GenForum
|
Community Standards
|
Terms of Service
|
|
|
Hi Richard
As I suspected, your Lock(e) line appears to have come out of North Carolia.
I beleive there are 4 main branches out of North Carolina.
The 4 branches as far as we can tell are not related to each other. The 2 primary family's I believe came out of
Rowan County NC and Bladen County NC.
If I were to guess, I would guess your branch descends off of the Rowan County NC clan.
I know little about Aquilla Lock(e) and family.
1870 Hawkins County Tennessee census
Page 144a
Line 40
46/46
Whooing? Stone Quary
Aquilla Locke, White Male, age 52, b. North Carolina
Continued on page 144b
Elizabeth Locke, White Female, age 47, b. Virginia
Josephine Locke, age 20, b. Tennessee
William Locke, age 17, b. Tennessee
Mary Locke, age 17, b. Tennessee
Thomas Locke, age 13, b. Tennessee
Baisheba Locke, Female, age 10, b. Tennessee
Maggie Locke, age 7, b. Tennessee
1870 Hawkins County Tennessee census
Page 144b
Line 8
47/47
Day Laborer
David Locke, White Male, age 23, b. Tennessee
Amanda Locke, White Female, age 22, b. Tennessee
Robert Locke, age 2, b. Tennessee
1860 Hawkins County, Tennessee census
District 12
Page 134
1020 1006
Equilla Lock, White Male, age 50, b. North Carolina
Elizabeth Lock, White Female, age 36, b. Tennessee
Joseph Lock, age 14, b. Tennessee
David Lock, age 13, b. Tennessee
Mary Lock, age 11, b. Tennessee
William Lock , age 11, b. Tennessee
Thomas Lock , age 5, b. Tennessee
Bersheba Lock, Female, age 9 months, b. Tennessee
Sarah Mason, age 70, b. Tennessee
Sarah Carpenter, age 8, b. Tennessee
1850 Hawkins County Tennessee census
Page 395a
104/104
Farmer
Aquilla Locke , age 30 , White Male , b. Virginia
Elizabeth Locke , age 27 , b. Virginia
David Locke , age 3 , b. Tennessee
Josephine Locke , age 9 months old , b. Tennessee
( also in house hold )
Sarah Mason , age 68 , b. Virginia
Mary Mason , age 30 , b. Tennessee
As you see from the census records , Aquilla states he was born in Virginia in the 1850 census yet in later census records he states he was born in North Carolina.
I don't know enough about this man to know one way or the other which state he was born in.
Several years ago, I had a hard drive crash on me, and I lost 7 months worth of research. Part of the data that was lost was info on Aquilla Lock and family. I did have a file going on him though that data maybe long gone now.
I have just started a new file on him in hopes I can recreate my original research on him. If memory serves me right, I do recall finding data on a Aquilla Lock in Virginia. I will have to go back through many years of paper records to see what it is I have on paper that isn't in the database on him.
His is a name that is rare and one that stands out to me, I know I had a file going on him many years ago, I just have to see if I can locate that info.
Lock was for the most part, the original spelling for most branches, but not all. Lock(e) was presumed to have originated out of England, but in more recent years, we have discovered Lock(e)'s having come out of Germany, Russia, Prussia, and elsewhere. So there isn't any one place the name originated, as it seems to have been a name used in several cultures.
Even Chinese in the USA carry the Lock surname. I am not sure if this holds true in China.
The oldest clans do appear to originate out of England /UK area, including Scotland and Ireland. But because we haven't seen family tree's on the
Lock(e)'s of Germany and Russia and else where, we can not be sure how far back their clans can be traced back.
Very few in the USA in the 1600's-early 1800's spelled the name Locke. Most spelled it Lock, and some still use the original spelling today. Why the E was added, no one seems to know, but it is obvious to me that around 1870-1900 most branches though unrelated, that most added the E to make it Locke.
Some feel the Civil War had a small roll in the name change and that for some, maybe the case as many family's owned slaves who carried on the Lock surname, and after the war, some may have wanted to distance themselves from former slaves who carried on the Lock surname.
So Locke in some cases, could have been used as an Alias.
Others believe many changed the name to Locke because of John Locke the Philosopher / Statesman who is well known to English and USA history.
And this seems plausable to me, that it is in part of John Locke's popularity that many Lock family's added the E.
This had a dire effect on our Lock history as many grew up believing they are directly related to this John Locke.
Even I had school teachers ask me if I were related to this man. For more years then I would like to remember, many have contacted me with the same ole story, that their family claimed to be related to this John Locke.
Until 2005, many researchers believed their Lock(e) family were likely some how related to this John Locke. But since 2005, we started using a new tool to help in our research, that tool is DNA testing on us Lock(e) men.
Thanks to DNA testing us Lock(e) men, we now know there are 29 distinct unrelated lineages in the world, and that number grows as more men are tested.
John Locke the Philosopher never married and had no known children, with out male children descended from John, how can anyone rightly claim kinship to this man?
There are no male descendants of John to DNA test.
If during your search on Aquilla Lock and family, if you find a living male descendant, he is one I would be very interested in having DNA tested.
By having one of his male descendants DNA tested, we could see right away if he is a DNA match to one of the 40 existing participants in the Lock(e) DNA project.
And that is the key to DNA testing, knowing who you do and do not have a DNA match with. Using that knowledge of who you do have a DNA match with, that gives the researchers a whole new family tree to do research on to try to link the 2 branches together.
It all starts with the proven paper trial family tree, and from there we can use DNA testing to help possibly find other kinships to branches we may not have even suspected to be related.
I will start going through all my files to see what else I can find on Aquilla Lock and family.
Don
Notify Administrator about this message?
Followups:
|
| http://genforum.genealogy.com/locke/messages/1956.html | ||
 |
Link to GenForum Add Forum |
|