Locke Brick Walls

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Roberta Baum on July 28, 2009 at 9:42pm

I am a descendant of Larrs Karrlsson Lock. I've been able to trace my connection back to him. Isaac Lock/Locke had ten daughters and two sons; one son died at the age of two, the other never married to the best of my knowledge. So I am descended thru Ann Locke who married A. W. Gorrell; they were the parents of my great-grandmother Etta May Gorrell who married Wm. Daniel Thomas. They were the parents of my grandmother Mary Myrtle Thomas Elder and, hence, to my mother Freida Pauline Elder. I would like to know which Lock/Locke you are descended from, and if I am eligible to be in your group. Larrs Karrlsson Lock came to New Sweden on the Swan in 1647 and I am trying to get a family reunion organized to take a cruise on the Kalmar Nyckel some time in the near future. It's a replica of the first Kalmar Nyckel which was also a ship that came from Sweden to New Sweden (Delaware/NJ/PA). Thank you. Roberta Baum

Permalink Reply by Debbie Basile on January 23, 2012 at 8:02pm

hi roberta

i believe my family are decendents of lars carlsson lock as well which is surprising because we were always told we were scottish! my dad is robert, his dad hiram (clara thomas), jehu priscilla w. zane), hiram (lydia adams), william deborah mitchell), peter (priscilla homan), peter (magdelena hendrickson), peter (maria streng), lars (beata lom)...or at least i think that's the lineage...my grandmother was clara thomas and i saw you had a thomas too...huh!?!?

debbie

Permalink Reply by Roberta Baum on February 7, 2014 at 1:26pm

Hello, Debbie:  It's not surprising that you were told that but once you begin to look back into your tree, you begin to see that  there may be many other nationalities involved.  I'm not familiar with Robert or Hiram but I think there is a Clara Thomas in my tree.  (My Thomases are Welsh.)  All of that line lived in Pleasants and Ritchie Co., WV;  do you have any other information on them?   I am sorry to be so late in replying.  Roberta 

Permalink Reply by James Alfred Locke Miller Jr. on January 24, 2012 at 9:16pm

My great grandfather was Lutheran Rev. John Abner Locke Miller, called Locke Miller. He was born Zrb / Franklin, Rowan County, North Carolina 1858 and died Concord, Cabarrus County, N.C., 1945, and is buried with his parents, Capt. Alfred Alexander Miller, CSA, and Mrs. Mary  Elizabeth Hall Miller, and grandparents John Cyrus Miller and Mrs. Sophie Propst Miller, at Bethel Lutheran Church, Franklin. Capt. Miller's sister, Susan Rebecca Miller, was the first wife of "Squire" Capt. Abner Leander Hall, CSA, of Rowan Co.  Their parents were Isaac Anderson Hall and Mary "Polly" Elliott, of Rowan County. I know of no Locke forebears of the Elliotts, Halls, Propsts, or Millers?

Rev. Locke Miller, 1876, Cabarrus County, wed Mary Ann Pinkston, the daughter of Pvt. William Franklin Pinkston, CSA, who with his brother, 3rd Lt. Jesse Rowan Pinkston, CSA, served under Capt.Miller. A  Pinkston kinsman, but non-ancestor, Moses Pinkston; much to Col. Francis Locke's irritation, wed his daughter. I know of no other Locke-Pinkston connections? Pvt. Pinkston wed Jamima Sloan. I'm not sure who her parents were, but I know of no Sloan/Locke connections? Possibly Jesse and Franklin's father was Jesse Pinkston who wed Nancy Monroe; but I know of no Monroe/Locke connection either?

That's going back; alternative I've tried to trace down via Gen. Matthew Locke, Sr's many officer sons; it's not a complete job; but no luck, nor Lockes, there either, on a Miller/Locke connection. With less success, I've tried to trace down with Gen. Locke's daughters? Then in the adjoining County above Rowan County, N.C. (alas, I've forgotten it's name), I learned that Gen. Locke had an older brother, George Locke who seems to have had daughters. I was not able to trace George's Locke's children to Millers either. Yet Rev. Locke Miller was proud of his Locke name; it's Locke origins that allude me.  His son William Alfred Miller wanted his son named James Alfred Locke Miller (Sr.), but his wife, Mrs. Ruby Valerie Woollen Miller, was afraid he would also be called Locke Miller by her husband, and she hated the Locke name used as such. In the family Bible, she recorded James (for her father, Confederate musician Sgt. James Anderson Woollen) Alfred (for Capt. Alfred Alexander Miller, CSA) Locke (for Rev. Locke Miller) Miller; but on the new 1914, North Carolina birth certificate, she omitted the Locke part of dad's name. I remember the first time I saw "James Alfred Locke Miller" (Sr.) in grandmother's Bible, I asked who's that? Rev. Locke Miller's name is John, not James; and Abner, not Alfred?  Come to think of it, whence came the Abner name? The Bible was in the possession of dad's older sister, Mrs. Shirley Woollen Carrington, who explained how her mother did not want dad called "Locke Miller". Instead he was called "Al", and I with the same full names (Jr.); am called "Jim". Her issue Lockeless on earth, that put grandmother into Heaven; figuratively, if not actually?