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Title: Britannia Lock
Post by: matilda1973 on Friday 21 January 11 13:55 GMT (UK)
 has anyone come across a Britannia Lock born c 1882 somerset  ???
Title: Re: Britannia Lock
Post by: KGarrad on Friday 21 January 11 14:12 GMT (UK)
Nice name!

She is certainly there in 1891 with her family, living in Nailsea, Somerset.
And the family is still in Nailsea in 1901.

However, she doesn't turn up on the 1911 census.

Birth, December qtr 1881, Chipping Sodbury, Vol 6a, page 203
Title: Re: Britannia Lock
Post by: matilda1973 on Friday 21 January 11 14:16 GMT (UK)
thanks 
        by 1911 she is with " husband " adolphus ryles and daughter Lily may, but  i think they dont marry til 1914 under his mothers name of Hurn.
Title: Re: Britannia Lock
Post by: KGarrad on Friday 21 January 11 14:52 GMT (UK)
If you need details (parents, siblings) just ask!
Title: Re: Britannia Lock
Post by: matilda1973 on Saturday 22 January 11 13:52 GMT (UK)
yes please that would be great or the census  many thanks  ;D
Title: Re: Britannia Lock
Post by: KGarrad on Saturday 22 January 11 23:25 GMT (UK)
OK! 1891 reference is RG12, Piece 1955, Folio 49, Page 25
The Heath, Nailsea

Lock, William  Head  M  47  Licensed Hawker  b Cheddar, Somerset
Lock, Rebecca  Wife  F  36  b Wotton-under-Edge
Lock, Merrick  Son  M  18  Licensed Hawker  b Badminton, Gloucestershire
Lock, Adam  Son  M  17  Licensed Hawker  b Farmonton, Gloucestershire
Lock, Naomi  Daughter  F  15  b Horfield, Bristol
Lock, Ada  Daughter  F  11  b Nailsea
Lock, Britania  Daughter  F  9  b Nailsea
Lock, Maurice  Son  M  7  b Nailsea
Lock, Cinderalla  Daughter  F  6  b Nailsea
Lock, Lavinia  Daughter  F  4  b Nailsea
Lock, Mary  Daughter  F  2  b Farmonton, Gloucestershire
Lock, Sarah  Daughter  F  8 months  b Midsomer Norton, Somerset

A hand-written note says: Note. This family now residing in a house occupy a travelling van in summer.


1901 census, reference RG13, Piece 2354, Folio 61, Page 34
Union Street, Nailsea

Lock, William  Head  M  59  Peddler & Horse Dealer  b Cheddar, Somerset
Lock, Rebecca  Wife  F  46  Peddler & Hawker  b Wotton-under-Edge, Glos
Lock, Merrick  Son  M  29  Peddler & Horse Dealer  b Oxford Upton, Glos
Lock, Hadam  Son  M  28  Peddler & Horse Dealer  b Farnham, Surrey
Lock, Brittania  Daughter  F  20  Peddler & Hawker  b Nailsea
Lock, Maurice  Son  M  17  Peddler & Horse Dealer  b Nailsea
Lock, Cinderalla  Daughter  F  16  Peddler & Hawker  b Nailsea
Lock, Lavinia  Daughter  F  14  Peddler & Hawker  b Nailsea
Lock, Mary Ann  Daughter  F  13  b Nailsea
Lock, Christabel  Daughter  F  6  b Nailsea, Somerset
Lock, Rubin  Visitor  M  36  Peddler & Horse Dealer  b Kingswood, Glos
Title: Re: Britannia Lock
Post by: KGarrad on Saturday 22 January 11 23:35 GMT (UK)
1881 census, reference RG11, Piece 2424, Folio 106, Page 44
Bailey Wood, Wrington, Somerset

Lock, William  Head  M  31  Tinman Hawker
Lock, Rebecca  Wife  F  27
Lock, Merrick  Son  M  10  Scholar
Lock, Adam  Son  M  8  Scholar
Lock, Naomi  Daughter  F  6  Scholar
Lock, Ada  Daughter  F  13  Scholar
Lock, Cinderella  Wifes Mother  Widow  F  50
Lock, Reuben  Brother-in-Law  Single  M  24  Travelling Tinker
Lock, Sabina  Sister-in-Law  Single  F  22  Seller of Clothes Pins

In the column "Where Born" is the note:
All born in the county of Gloucestershire has been living at Nailsea during the winter and the children sent to school they appear as Gipsies.
Title: Re: Britannia Lock
Post by: cathayb on Sunday 23 January 11 20:05 GMT (UK)
the family are still around bristol.some married into the birchs.cant say more cause they are alive.they liked the hurn name though.adolphus mothers maiden name.
Title: Re: Britannia Lock
Post by: matilda1973 on Monday 24 January 11 11:56 GMT (UK)
 thanks for those KGarrad,
       yep they did Cathay thats why its taken sometime to work them out with the name changes lol
Title: Re: Britannia Lock
Post by: matilda1973 on Monday 24 January 11 13:00 GMT (UK)
     
Lock, Cinderella  Wifes Mother  Widow  F  50
Lock, Reuben  Brother-in-Law  Single  M  24  Travelling Tinker
Lock, Sabina  Sister-in-Law  Single  F  22  Seller of Clothes Pins
       
     i wonder who these are as if they are rebeccas mum and siblings  as suggested  then surely they shouldnt be Locks, unless rebecca was a Lock before aswell as after " marriage"
Title: Re: Britannia Lock
Post by: KGarrad on Monday 24 January 11 13:04 GMT (UK)
I simply thought thet Rebecca must have been a Lock!
Did travellers register their marriages (forgive my ignorance on the matter)?

Have been trying to work out where "The Heath" is/was.
Union Street still exists, and I found Bailey's Wood near Wrington (Bailey's Wood Walled Gardens is marked on Google maps).

Having grown up in Portishead (just a few miles away), and having spent a few years driving around Nailsea, I can't place The Heath?
Title: Re: Britannia Lock
Post by: matilda1973 on Monday 24 January 11 13:35 GMT (UK)
  not all of them  got married  in a church or reg office , they had there own ways of doing it which in there eyes was just as good, they often married within the groups they travelled   or extended family so she could of been a lock aswell.   they also like to swop last names,  with children sometimes using there mothers last name sometimes the fathers and sometimes a different name altogether. so it can make them a challenge 
  i dont know Nailsea at all even though i dont live that much father down the m5 dont think ive ever been there   
Title: Re: Britannia Lock
Post by: cathayb on Monday 24 January 11 13:51 GMT (UK)
if you live near portishead have you been to yatton graveyard?there is alot of gypsy graves there including the joules/joles family.they also married into the locks so you might find some lock baptisms,marriages or deaths in the parish records there.the lock also favoured weston supoer mare and in the old days what was called gloucester was sometimes part of bristol!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Britannia Lock
Post by: KGarrad on Monday 24 January 11 14:04 GMT (UK)
Grew up in Portishead - now living in the Netherlands!
And before that the Isle of Man!

Haven't lived in North Somerset for nearly 20 years now.
Title: Re: Britannia Lock
Post by: cathayb on Monday 24 January 11 14:07 GMT (UK)
shame,i notice you have crockers in your tree?i have one or two west country crockers in mine.
Title: Re: Britannia Lock
Post by: ROMANYGENES on Tuesday 25 January 11 11:54 GMT (UK)
hi Matilda some locks also used name Davis and Smith ! have a lot of info and also large tree a researcher sent me will add it to jib or genes soon:)
Title: Re: Britannia Lock
Post by: matilda1973 on Wednesday 26 January 11 12:59 GMT (UK)
that would be great, look forward to it thanks  ;D
Title: Re: Britannia Lock
Post by: cwtch on Friday 28 January 11 23:52 GMT (UK)
 hi  Matilda1973,
 I noticed you mentioned a adolphus ryles, i had an uncle called aldy ryles but i have no info about him, wondering if it could be same. my family name is price and they are related to the locks, lock,hearn family, just not sure how.
Title: Re: Britannia Lock
Post by: matilda1973 on Saturday 29 January 11 12:53 GMT (UK)
 hi
            that sounds like there maybe a link, mine has links to Locks, Loveridges and Hurn/hearn   if you would like to pm me i,ll gladly share info with you.
             look forward to hearing from you
Title: Re: Britannia Lock
Post by: matilda1973 on Tuesday 01 February 11 10:11 GMT (UK)
 i belive Britannia's sister Cinderella married Ambrose Smith and had a son James Smith in 1911 
Title: Re: Britannia Lock
Post by: cwtch on Tuesday 01 February 11 12:38 GMT (UK)
hi Matilda, i have read that but do not know how we are linked....i would love to make a family treee but am beginning to believe that is going to impossible lol
Title: Re: Britannia Lock
Post by: matilda1973 on Tuesday 01 February 11 13:44 GMT (UK)
 Marona
                start with what you no and work backwards it will take time but there are some very helpfull pleople about. if you want to post what you no about your folk with any dates you have or send me a personal message i will try to help as much as i can ,
                  good luck Matilda 
Title: Re: Britannia Lock
Post by: amantay on Wednesday 29 June 11 23:29 BST (UK)
Hello there , i have come across this thread as i am searching my family tree . Merrick Lock & Pheobe Joules were my great grandmother & father , i am the grand daughter of their daughter Daisy Lock . If anyone has any info on the family it would be very much appretiated .... many thanks :)