Today I've been working on the LOCKETT family who came to Bristol between 1842 and 1849. I've been pursuing them down to current times. Two brothers have vanished can anyone find them for me. Thomas Edward LOCKETT born 1887 in Clifton and James Charles LOCKETT born 1889 in Bedminster. These were the only sons of Thomas LOCKETT and Mary Anne ASMUSSON. Thomas Sr was in the Merchant Navy so it could well be that the boys took to sea. In 1901 the boys were boarding together at the home of George Seaborne and his wife. Their mother was dead and presumably their father was away at sea. I cannot see a marriage or a death for either of them - did they emigrate? Please let me know if there are any sightings of them. Liz www.btinternet.com/~e.newbery OPC for Street, Somerset

Hi Liz, et al., Just last night, working on my study (now 293 pages) of the ERNLE (and many variants family), I added the marriage of Mrs Jane ERNLE to Edward LOCKET or LOCKETT at Chalbury, Dorset in 1669. The LOCKETT family are featured in an article in 'Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset', vol. 9, 1905, pp. 63-64, entitled, "Lockett of Somerset, Dorset, Cornwall and Devon" though alas, that article didn't run to Edward (though it mentioned a Thomas LOCKETT of Charlton Marshall, will dated 1630, and his widow Joan.) Edward LOCKETT was a gent., of Charlton [Marshall], Dorset, and possibly son or grandson of the foregoing Thomas, but I have no idea as to whether he and Jane had children. If one goes back two pages in NQSD to p. 61, one gets an explanation of the LoCKETT pedigree on pp. 63-64. It seems the compiler was a Mr R. Cyril LOCKETT, of "Enmore", Alexandra Drive, Liverpool, as of 24 Nov. 1903, and was investigating various branches of the LOCKETT pedigree. Listers may be interested to know that I found this article via google's advanced book search function. Using a blind proxy server, I was able to view the entire article which is apparently no longer in copyright. It enables me to download it, copy, or print it, or even to alter the printed page into plain text if I wished. Very handy. http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search Copy and paste into any proxy server you choose, and have a go. I used the phrase Thomas LOCKETT and the keyword Charlton and got it immediately when looking for the article today to quote for this message. BTW, the ERNLE family has some connexions to Bristol and so, conceivably, it is possibly that there was migration to Bristol from Dorset by descendants. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John ERNLE b. ca 1619/20, d. 1697 (baptism so far untraced) had an elder brother Robert EARNELY son of John who was baptised in St Augustine the Less Bristol on 25 Feb. 1619/20. He died while up at Oxford, and so Sir John became the heir to the Whetham, Calne, Wilts. (senior) branch of the family, now represented by Tory candidate, Richard Grosvenor PLUNKETT-ERNLE-ERLE-DRAX, of Charborough House, Dorset. Earlier, I have a reference to a P.C.C. Administration for a Joan ERNELEY, widow, city of Bristol, 1585, of which I have yet to see the particulars. Any references to ERNLE (and variants beginning EAR-, H-, I-, U-, and even Y-) and LOCKETT would be most welcome. Cheers, Richard Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA Richard Carruthers, M.A. (Oxon.) ---------------------------------------- > From: e.newbery@btinternet.com > To: bristol_and_district@rootsweb.com > Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:58:41 +0000 > Subject: [B&D] LOCKETTS > > Today I've been working on the LOCKETT family who came to Bristol between > 1842 and 1849. I've been pursuing them down to current times. Two brothers > have vanished can anyone find them for me. > > Thomas Edward LOCKETT born 1887 in Clifton and James Charles LOCKETT born > 1889 in Bedminster. > > These were the only sons of Thomas LOCKETT and Mary Anne ASMUSSON. Thomas > Sr was in the Merchant Navy so it could well be that the boys took to sea. > > In 1901 the boys were boarding together at the home of George Seaborne and > his wife. Their mother was dead and presumably their father was away at > sea. > > I cannot see a marriage or a death for either of them - did they emigrate? > > Please let me know if there are any sightings of them. > > Liz > www.btinternet.com/~e.newbery > OPC for Street, Somerset > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRISTOL_AND_DISTRICT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Say Happy New Year with Messenger for Mobile. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9706117