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More errors in Holden book-Confirming my line of Lockwoods which is mentioned in none of the research. Anyone connected with this line please notify me, I amm trying to find Joseph H. Lockwoods parents
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p. 222:
Descendants of Robert Lockwood, published in 1889 by F. A. Holden and E. D. Lockwood is so poorly put together that twice in working on Lockwood lines for descendants the present writer has found their male lines of descent given erroneously. Many descendants of Edmund Lockwood are included among those of Robert. One blunder is so atrocious that I have decided to call attention to it, both for the sake of the correction, and as a warning against accepting the statements of this book as authentic without thorough investigation and verification.
On page 220 is found the alleged family of Joseph5 Lockwood (Joseph4, Joseph3, Ephraim3, Robert1). Of his it is stated that he was born at Norwalk, Conn., removed to Rochester, N.Y., and married Cordelia Filley. No dates are given. The children are listed as:
Laura, b. June 1791; m. Walter Hawley.
Manley, b. Jan. 1793.
Oliver, b. Sept. 1795; m. Lydia Maynard.
Bulah, b. Nov. 1798.
Jason, b. 1800.
Harlow, b. June 1802.
Eliza, b. 1 May 1805.
The dates seem rather late for children of Joseph5, for his father, Joseph4, was born in 1710, so if Joseph5 was born about 1750 when his father was 40, he himself would be over 40 when the first of his children was born. The reference given for the children is “Hy. Old Windsor p. 612” by which is meant the first edition (1859) of the History of Ancient Windsor, by Henry R. Stiles. The second edition (1892), vol. 2, p. 253, lists children of Jonah and Polly (Manly) Filley as follows:
1. Jonah, b. Feb. 1786; m. Rebecca Andrew.
2. Polly, b. May 1788; m. John Manning. Issue:
1. Emeline (Manning), m. Ralph Mygatt; ett. Lansingburgh, N.Y.
2. Cordelia (Manning), m. Jos. Lockwood; res. Rochester, N.Y.
3. Laura, b. June 1791; m. Walter Hawley.
4. Manly, b. Jan. 1793; rem. To Colebrook, Conn., where he m. a Rogers.
Issue: 1. Leander Judson, b. 1819; m. Julia Moore of Becket, Mass.
5. Olive, b. Sept. 1795.
6. Beulah, b. Nov. 1798; prob. The B. who m. Alpheus Ingham,
3 Apr. 1817 – Wby. Ch. Rec.
7. Jason, b. 1800.
8. Harlow, b. June 1802; d. 10 Apr. 1804.
9. Eliza, b. May 1805.
Compare the two accounts. They constitute a “deadly parallel.” A Cordelia Manning, whose mother was Polly Filley, married one Joseph Lockwood and lived in Rochester, N.Y. The compilers of the Lockwood book have changed her into Cordelia Filley, and given her for Lockwood children her mother’s seven younger brothers and sisters who actually were Filleys, not Lockwoods. Not satisfied with this, they have turned Olive Filley into Oliver Lockwood who m. Lydia Maynard.
This Oliver Lockwood was an actual person. His marriage to Lydia Maynard on 23 Aug. 1815 in Franklin Co., Ohio, is found in the “Old Northwest” Genealogical Quarterly, vol. 2, p. 22. He was listed in the 1850 Census at Illinois Grove, Marshall Co., Iowa, aged 71, with wife Lydia, 66, and others who are known by descendants to have been his children. His birthplace is listed as New York State. It thus appears that he was not born in 1795 in Danville, Conn. (a non-existent place) as the compilers had it. According to the History of Union County, Ohio (1883), vol. 2, p. 173, Oliver Lockwood who married “Miss Maynard” was one of the children of Israel Lockwood, Sr., and the family is said to have moved from Connecticut, thence to Canada which they left because of the War of 1812, and in 1814 to Ohio. There seems no reason to doubt this, now that the sins of the compilers of the Lockwood book stand revealed.
What then of the actual history of Joseph5 Lockwood of Norwalk, who was about two generations too early to be the Joseph of Rochester, N.Y., who married Cordelia Manning, miscalled Cordelia Filley by the compilers? Joseph4 Lockwood was born 23 Nov. 1710. His children were not recorded, but are named in his will dated 17 Mar. 1773, proved 2 Sept. 1773. The will of his widow Rebecca, made 29 Sept. 1775, proved 6 Nov. 1775, shows that she was the mother of all of Joseph’s children. His will names his wife Rebecca; children, David, Joseph, Ebenezer, Stephen, Abraham (the last three called the three youngest sons), Rebeckah, Ruth, Anna, Sarah; and heirs of daughter Phebe late deceased. There are distributions and numerous deeds of the heirs. In these, Joseph5 was always of Norwalk and never with a distinguishing appellation such as “senior” or “junior” to indicate that there was any other Joseph in Norwalk after Joseph4 died except his son.
p. 224: Joseph5 gave deeds in 1786 and 1794. On 29 Oct. 1803, Joseph Lockwood of Norwalk conveyed for love to his son, Joseph, Jr., of Norwalk, land with buildings at Pudding Lane. Since Joseph4 conveyed in 1765 to his [eldest] son David land in Pudding Lane, the 1803 deed seems clearly to be from Joseph5 to his son Joseph6. We therefore identify Joseph5 as the Joseph who married 31 Oct. 1774 Isabel Hyatt and had children Joseph 2 Oct. 1778, William 23 July 1780, and Fanny, 29 June 1784. His will, made 2 July 1821, divided his property between his son Joseph and his daughter Fanny wife of John Cannon.
In Town House Cemetery at Norwalk are gravestones to Joseph3 Lockwood (d. 23 Nov. 1760 ae. 80); Joseph4 Lockwood (d. 20 Jul. 1773 ae. 62) and his wife Rebecca (d. 25 Sept. 1775 ae. 58); and Joseph5 Lockwood (d. 27 Sept. 1821 ae. 71) and his wife Isabel (d. 20 Aug. 1819 ae. 64). [Hale Collection, Connecticut State Library].
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THE AMERICAN GENEALOGIST
VOL. 32, #3, Jul. 1956
LOCKWOOD NOTE
Most of the information given in my article “An Atrocious Lockwood Blunder” [supra, 31:222-4] was collected in behalf of a descendant of Oliver Lockwood, Mrs. Walter A. Davis of Charleston S.C., and this acknowledgement should have been made. Mrs. Davis calls my attention to the fact that I “hit a wrong key” on the typewriter when I cited (p. 223) a census record which gave Oliver Lockwood as aged 71: this was the 1860 Census, not the 1850 Census as stated. Mrs. Davis herself consulted the census records in Washington.
As pointed out in my article, the compilers of Descendants of Robert Lockwood (1889) wrongly identified (p. 220) a Joseph5 Lockwood (Joseph4, Joseph3, Ephraim2, Robert1), with a much later Joseph Lockwood of Rochester, N.Y., who married Cordelia Manning (wrongly called Cordelia Filley in the Lockwood book). Mr. Gerald J. Parsons of Rochester has kindly made a search which confirms this conclusion that Joseph of Rochester was a much younger man than the Joseph with whom the Lockwood book identifies him.
He reports that cemetery inscriptions for Monroe County, N.Y., as copied some years ago by the D.A.R., give the following records from Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester: Joseph H. Lockwood, b. Lansingburg 17 April 1809, d. 20 Sept. 1860; Cordelia M., his wife, b. Otis, Mass., 25 Jan. 1804 [possibly misreading for 1808?], d. 3 or 31 May 1872. The typed “Intestate Estates of Monroe County,” p. 121, give the estate of Joseph H. Lockwood of Greece Township, who died 20 Sept. 1860; widow Cordelia named, and children Francis (of full age) and Caroline and Wharton J. (minors). Without question, this is the Joseph Lockwood who married Caroline Manning, and he was born in 1809. He was positively not a son of Joseph4 Lockwood, born in 1710, which would make him born when his father was 99 years old!
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