The famous genealogist Donald Lines Jacobus thought that the
Lockwood family originated in Combs, Suffolk, England and that brothers Edmund
and Robert Lockwood arrived in New England with the Winthrop Fleet in 1630. But the author of the Great Migration series,
Robert Charles Anderson, believes that there is not any proof of this. Edmund Lockwood, born about 1600, my 10th
great grandfather, is of uncertain origins.
Edmund’s first record in New England was 19 October 1630
when he was made a freeman. He was third
on the list of “Newtowne inhabitants” in 1632 (Newe Towne is now known as
Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was made
the constable on 9 May 1632.
Edmund Lockwood was married twice. His first wife died before 1630, probably in
England. He was married by 1632 to
Elizabeth, the widow of John Masters of Cambridge. Edmund died soon after his second marriage,
before 3 March 1634/5, and the court in Watertown was ordered on 2 June 1635 to “dispose his elder children” to their
uncle, Robert Lockwood, who was living in Stamford, Connecticut. These elder children were probably the offspring of the first wife.
Many Lockwood descendants believe that they are descendants
of Robert Lockwood because of a very erroneous genealogy compiled in 1889
Descendants of Robert Lockwood (see below).
Donald Lines Jacobus (see above) corrected the mistakes, especially the children
of Edmund who were previously assigned to be children of Robert Lockwood. However, Jacobus’s journal articles were not
read by the general public, who have perpetuated the mythical lineages
online.
This is a case of READ THE LATEST RESEARCH! No one should depend on an 1889 genealogy
without checking for more recent research.
Also, in The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634 – 1635, Volume
1, page 234, Anderson states “Mary
Lockwood [wife of Jeremy Belcher) was probably a previously unidentified daughter
of EDMUND LOCKWOOD of Cambridge… These children of the immigrant’s first
marriage were to be ‘disposed of’. Since
the son of Edmund, even though he eventually resided in Stamford, married a
woman from Ipswich, this may be where he was placed, so it would not be
surprising if we found other children in that town as well.)”
Mary Lockwood Belcher (about 1625 – 1700) is my 9th
great grandmother. You can read all
about the BELCHER family HERE.
Some Lockwood resources:
The Great Migration
Begins, by Robert Charles Anderson, Volume II, pages 1192- 1194 for the
sketch of Edmund Lockwood. See also Connecticut Ancestors, Volume 27, pages
9 – 18.
The Great Migration, by Robert Charles Anderson, Volume IV,
pages 308 – 315 for the sketch of Robert Lockwood. See also Connecticut
Ancestors, Volume 48, pages 53-58.
“Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood 1594 – 1635”, by
Harriet Woodbury Hodge, 1978
“Early Records of Boston (Cambridge)”, NEHGS Register, Volume 4, page 181.
Do not rely on Descendants of Robert Lockwood, Colonial and
Revolutionary History of the Lockwood Family from AD 1630, by Frederick
A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood, 1889 (online at Archive.org). See instead the article “An Atrocious
Lockwood Blunder” by Donald Lines Jacobus in The American Genealogist, 1954, Volume 31, pages 222 – 228.
My LOCKWOOD genealogy:
Generation 1: Unknown
Lockwood, lived in England, had two sons, Edmund and Richard Lockwood.
Generation 2: Edmund
Lockwood, born about 1600 in England and died before 3 March 1634/35 in
Cambridge, Massachusetts; married first to Unknown (at least two known
children, probably more); married second to Elizabeth, widow of John Masters of
Cambridge (one child named John).
Generation 3: Mary,
daughter of Edmund Lockwood and his first unknown wife, born before 1625 in
England, and died October 1700 in Ipswich, Massachusetts; married on 30
September 1652 in Ipswich to Jeremy Belcher.
He was the son of Thomas Belcher and Anne Unknown, born about 1613 in
Wiltshire, England and died 21 March 1693 in Ipswich. Eight children. (Jeremy Belcher had four children with a
previous wife, Mary Clifford).
Generation 4: Mary Belcher
m. Thomas Andrews
Generation 5: Thomas Andrews
m. Mary Smith
Generation 6: Mary
Andrews m. Stephen Burnham
Generation 7: Joshua Burnham m. Jemima Wyman
Generation 8: Jemima
Burnham m. Romanus Emerson
Generation 9: George Emerson m. Mary Esther Younger
Generation 10: Mary Katharine Emerson m. George E.
Batchelder
Generation 11: Carrie
Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen
Generation 12: Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda
Hitchings (my grandparents)
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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ LOCKWOOD of Cambridge, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 3, 2016, (http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/12/surname-saturday-lockwood-of-cambridge.html: accessed [access date]).
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