Too many threads to unravel?

[Annie65115]

My query arises from researching the history of a house. It's proving a little too meaty for me to unravel but I'll bet RCers can do it!!! (I hope!)

The Crescent, King St, Leicester, was built for James Rawson in the 1820s. In his will he bequeathed most of the houses in the crescent to his son James and if James were to die without issue, to his other sons Charles and Henry and daughter Harriet Dalby. James (snr) died in 1840; his son James died without children in 1853 in Leicester; Harriet stayed in the UK; Charles and Henry seem to have emigrated to the USA around 1850ish and ended up in Texas.

In 1891, Charles Thomas Lockwood of Illinois, USA, bequeathed no 4, the Crescent, to his wife Rebecca Tenessee Lockwood. I can trace Charles back to his birth in Nuneaton, Warwickshire in 1841 as the deeds name as his sister, Eliza F Lockwood, of Cheltenham. Their parents seem to have been George Palmer Lockwood and Sarah Harriet ? (maiden name unknown - could be the missing key!). Siblings included Sarah J, Eliza F (as above), Catherine, and George P Lockwood (rose to become a captain in the army). Their father was a rector but the family seem to have been quite well off if you track them through the censuses.

So - how did 4, The Crescent, come to be owned by Charles Lockwood in Illinois? I found a FH website that mentions him but gives no detail of his background other than to say that he inherited from his aunt () Elizabeth (haven't found her!).

Can anyone help me link these families, presumably by marraige/wills etc?

[Morganllan]

Their parents seem to have been George Palmer Lockwood and Sarah Harriet ? (maiden name unknown - could be the missing key!).

If you obtain the birth certificate for Charles Thomas Lockwood, you will find the maiden name of his Mother.

Charles Thomas Lockwood born Nuneaton in 1841 (December quarter)
Nuneaton volume 16 page 412

Morgan

[danuslave]

Is this the site where you found the information about Charles Thomas Lockwood?

www.schneiderfamilyonline.com/familytreeLockwoodCharlesThomas.html

It has him
born September 08, 1842 in Weston- super-Mare
died December 05, 1892 in England
buried  December 07, 1892, Mound Grove Cemetery, Kankakee, IL

England to Illinois in 2 days in 1892??

You need to be very wary about information that you have not atually checked for yourself   

Linda

[Annie65115]

Yes, that's the site I mentioned, re Charles Lockwood. But the info I got re the name of his wife and sister, and place of residence, is from the title deeds of the property - so I feel confident in that. (I did spot some anomalies on the Svneider site - otherwise I'd have dropped the site owner an email).

[prlgoon]

Have done some research into this Lockwood family who were very off. George Palmer Lockwood married Sarah Harriet Vickers in Swannington, Norfolk on 20th February 1834. They had 6 children including George Palmer Lockwood, born about September 1838 in Thornton, Leicestershire and Charles Thomas Lockwood who was born about December 1841 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire.

George Lockwood Palmer, senior had two sisters who lived together and did not marry - Jane born 1796 in Leicester and Elizabeth born 15th January 1800 in Leicester. Jane died in 27th March 1875 and Elizabeth died 16th December 1886. Elizabeth left an estate worth £18,176 3s 10d (this is the equivalent of about £1,500,00 in todays money.

The father of George Palmer Lockwood, Jane Lockwood and Elizabeth Lockwood was Thomas Lockwood born 14th March 1768 Leicester and died about November 1841. I have a copy of his will , which is available on www.documentsonline.pro.gov.uk but it is quite hard to read. However it does seem to mention 5 properties in The Crescent.



Lockwood One Name Study
www.lockwoodons.webspace.virginmedia.com/

[Annie65115]

Well, this ties together very nicely, thankyou for the tip off regarding the Lockwoods

The Crescent contained 16 individual houses in a terrace (pluss assorted gardens, stables, private bath houses etc). as far as I know it was built for my ancestor James Rawson- I have never seen anything to suggest that anyone else owned it initially.

James's will (from 1840) bequeathed 11 of the 16 houses to various Rawson family members. However, I see that Thomas Lockwood's will, from 1841, bequeathed 5 of the Crescent houses, "lately purchased of the trustees for sale of John Mansfield". And looking at the 1841 census, the Lockwood houses were still occupied by the occupiers mentioned in the will. (That was the north end of the Crescent, if anyone is interested - I know this because James specified in his will that his houses were on the south west end).

John Mansfield was Mayor of Leicester in 1815; James Rawson was mayor in 1828.  My guess is that James sold 5 of his Crescent houses to John Mansfield; these were presumably sold to Thos Lockwood after John Mansfield's death; and Thomas Lockwood split the 5 between his 2 daughters. Elizabeth Lockwood subsequently bequeathed her share of the Crescent to her nephew in the USA - as per the first post.


RC solves another puzzle!