Hello all Lovelocks and Lovelucks and a happy new year. Posting following mainly for people interested in Welsh Lovelucks but may be of interest to others. Surname sometimes refered too as Esturmies and variant form of Sturmy, but almost certainly a member of the Wiltshire family of Esturmy,who traced their origin to a Richard Esturmy who faught for William the Conquerer at Hastings.This family acquired lands at Burgage and elsewhere in Wiltshire and was also the Royal Warden for the Forest of Savernake. Our Geoffrey`s personal seal which depicts a man holding a spear and blowing a horn. Stormy Down, near Pyle, Glamorganshire. The placename Stormy I always thought was compiled from its exposed position and being lashed by winter gales which hurl themselves upon it from the channel, but it seems that this name is actually a tribute to the family which pioneered the Norman settlement there prior to 1154. It was then that Archbishop Theobald of Canterbury was called upon to settle a dispute between the parish churches of Kenfig and Newcastle concerning the tithes due from Geoffrey Esturmi. His finding was in favour of the older church of Newcastle, Kenfig church only having come into being since 1147. A letter by William the Rural Dean of Grogneath written about the year 1170 shows that Geoffrey himself was the first person to settle there , building a church, "in his vill in the wilderness, on his land whereon no one had hitherto ploughed". At this said church Geoffrey Sturmi insalled a priest called Thomas who served there all his life, and during his days the dead were buried and children christened there. The only surviving link with this church is a font believed to have come from there which was later used as a n animal feeding trough, the historian Mr. Thomas Gray found it and since placed at Margam Abbey Church for safe keeping. Surname sometimes refered too as Esturmies and variant form of Sturmy, but almost certainly a member of the Wiltshire family of Esturmy,who traced their origin to a Richard Esturmy who faught for William the Conquerer at Hastings.This family acquired lands at Burgage and elsewhere in Wiltshire and was also the Royal Warden for the Forest of Savernake. Our Geoffrey`s personal seal also depicts a man holding a spear and blowing a horn. Agnes the only known daughter of Geoffrey married Gilbert Burdin, an ancestor of the family which give its name to Burdin`s Grove Farm. [ Grove Farm ]. Agnes was given dower land there on her marriage, but for some reason it was exchanged by Geoffrey for other of his lands. Margam Abbey Grants show that Roger was the last of the family with land. He must have been in some trouble for he made gifts of his and his fathers lands to the monks, for next to nothing, before he departed the district. The above Roger born abt 1180 married Cunnilda and one of their children Alice married Griffith Began and had two sons John and Rhys. Grants show that by 1179 the Sturmi family was no longer resident in the area, but still retained an interest there for another fifty years.. Best Regards Allen in Aberavon