The Lockwoods
The Lockwoods were a family living in the North Riding of Yorkshire, predominantly at Easingwold for a number of generations.
My 4ggrandfather, William Lockwood, was b. 1752, Kirkgate, Leeds, d.1821, Easingwold. He was an attorney. He married in 1775 Ann Mitton, b. 1754, Badsworth, WRY, d. 1782, Easingwold. Their children were:
- John Lockwood, b. 1777, Easingwold, d. 1805, Easingwold. He was a wine merchant in York.
- William Lockwood, b. 1778, Easingwold, d. 1836, Easingwold. He was also an attorney. He married in 1802 Jane Key, b. 1778, Great Edstone, NRY, d. 1808, Easingwold. Their son was the Rev. William Lockwood MA, b. 1804, Easingwold, d. 1854, Kirkby Fleetham, NRY. He married Elizabeth Glaister.
- Elizabeth Lockwood, b. 1779 Easingwold, d. 1816 Gamston NTT. She married in 1814 Stephen Rose Haworth, b. 1782, East Retford, d. 1845, Kingston upon Hull.
- Thomas Lockwood, my 3ggrandfather, b. 1781, Easingwold, d. in 1828 and was buried from St Mary's Lowgate, Hull on 5 August, 1828. He was a commercial agent and merchant in Hull. He married Caroline Haworth, who was the daughter of Francis and Mary (nee Hunt), and the sister of Stephen Rose Haworth. The marriage took place in the Parish Church of Gamston on 20 February 1806, with M Hurst and Wm Lockwood as witnesses. Caroline was baptised in East Retford, Nottingham in 1784, and d. in Hull of dropsy, 1842. Their children were:
Ann Lockwood, b. 1807, Kingston upon Hull. She married, in 1827 in Sculcoates, Joseph Watson, a mast maker of Kingston upon Hull, and had at least four children: Caroline, Ann, William Lockwood, and John.
William Francis Lockwood, b. 1808, Master Mariner of Kingston upon Hull. He died unmarried in London in 1849, leaving all his effects to his youngest sister Eliza Brooke Lockwood.
Caroline Lockwood, b. 1810, Sculcoates, Hull, d. 1888, Lambeth, Surrey. She married in 1833 the minor Victorian portrait painter Thomas Hartley, b. 1798 in Tadcaster, WRY, d. 1890, Lambeth, Surrey. Among his work was a portrait of his wife's uncle William Lockwood. The Hartleys lived in Brighton, London and Lichfield at various stages of their lives. Their children were:
Thomas Lockwood Hartley, b. 1839, Brighton, Sussex, d. October quarter 1923, Conway registration district, Wales, aged 84.
Prof. Sir Walter Noel Hartley FRS, b. 1845 London, d. 1913, Braemar, Scotland. He married in 1882, but probably separated from, the Irish novelist Mary or May Laffan, b. 1849, Clontarf, Dublin, d. 1916. Their son, Capt. Walter John Hartley, b. 1889, Dublin, died in 1915 at Gallipoli.
Mary Lockwood, my 2ggrandmother, b. 1813, Sculcoates, Hull, d. after 1901. She married Edward Martin, b. 1806, in the Parish Church of St Marylebone in London in 1838.
Eliza Brooke Lockwood, b. 1816, Kingston upon Hull, d. 1900, Edmonton, Essex. She married in 1845, in Old Church St Pancras, London, Caleb Thomas Rouse, b. 1813, Worcester, d. 1900, Edmonton, Essex. Their children were John Lockwood Rouse, Norman Dewe Rouse, Arthur Rouse, Fanny Rouse, and Harold Corton Rouse.