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Travelling People / Re: Lock/Locke/Taylor
« on: Monday 17 March 25 12:41 GMT (UK) »Hello cousin!
I am not sure how Henry Lock of South Cerney, Gloucestershire 1770's is related to Richard Lock of
Ampney Crucis, Gloucestershire 1690's, but DNA testing a Henry Lock male descendant and a Richard Lock male descendant, proves we are a 65/67 DNA match, meaning Richard and Henry are some how related.
Richard Lock and wife Mary Eldridge may have also spent time in Islip, Oxfordshire 1690's.
I find christening records for their children in both places, which according to the map, Islip isn't all that far from Ampney Crucis, and South Cerney isn't all that far from either place.
A lot of people have identified Henry & Sarah Lock (née Peters) of South Cerney as the parents of Matthew Lock (the one married to Remembrance Boswell).
This is impossible as Henry Lock of South Cerney was buried there on 20 June 1811, but Henry Lock (father of Matthew) was alive in 1815 when his daughters Sarah and Unity were married, as reported in various newspapers. (I am descended from his younger daughter Lavinia.)QuoteA few days ago, at Doynton, Gloucester, Mr Wilson, a resident near Stroud, to Sarah Lock, a young gipsey girl belonging to a gang then hutted on the common in the vicinity of that town. This happy event was celebrated by the ringing of bells and other demonstrations of joy. A handsome dinner was provided on the occasion at the Bull Inn in Hinton. A Ball followed, at which the whole of the gipsey corps, and the inhabitants for miles round, were present. At eleven o’clock the dingy tribe retired; but not before the father of the bride called for a pint pot, which he filled with guineas and presented to the bridegroom.
Lancaster Gazette, 3 June 1815
SINGULAR WEDDING – On the 24th ult. was married, at Chedworth, Gloucestershire, by the Rev. T. Nutt, Mr George Payne, late of the parish of Terrington, to Unity, second daughter of Henry Locke, a gypsy! An immense concourse of spectators of all ranks were assembled from the neighbouring villages; and during the performance of the marriage ceremony the body and galleries of the church were completely crowded. When the sacred rite was completed, they adjourned to the gypsy encampment, about half a mile distant, the bells ringing a joyful peal. About two o’clock a plentiful dinner was prepared, of which the party partook on the Downs! A great quantity of provisions was distributed to the poor, and strong beer and spirits were handed about in abundance. Dancing and singing succeeded the dinner, and the party did not break up till a substantial supper had concluded the festive day! It is not known exactly what fortune the lady has; but the father offers 500 guineas with each of his two other unmarried daughters, provided they be united to men of good character and householders.
Trewman’s Exeter Flying Post or Plymouth and Cornish Advertiser, 16 November 1815.
Henry's wife Sarah died in 1802 and was buried in Chetwynd, Salop. I don't know yet where/when Henry died.
Henry Lock of South Cerney and Henry Lock the "gypsy" are two different people.
I don't think the South Cerney Locks were travellers. All their burials and baptisms are local and I doubt they ever travelled further than Cirencester.
I have found a Sarah Lock that died 7th October 1823 in Gloucestershire. Could his mum still have been a Sarah, just not Peters? I noticed a lot of people had Sarah Peters on their trees too so not sure where she has come from 😊