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| MARGARET wife of RICHARD LOCKE DIED March 1, 1860 Age 64 [poem illegible] |
Most of my “Brick Wall Ancestors” are
females, usually unknown wives of ancestors. Some of these mystery grandmothers are missing
their maiden names (surnames), which makes it even more difficult to trace
them. Finding a maiden name is usually
the key to smashing down the brick wall.
But for some of these mysterious ancestresses I know their maiden name,
but nothing else about their background stories.
One of these mystery ancestresses is my
4th great grandmother Margaret Welch Batchelder. She was born Margaret Welch about 1796
according to her gravestone record. Her
death record in Chichester, New Hampshire lists her birthplace as Kittery,
Maine. Her son William F. Locke was the
town clerk of Chichester at the time, so this is probably accurate. Kittery has excellent records, but no record
of my Margaret.
There were many Welch families in Kittery
and York County, Maine at the time Margaret was supposedly born there. They are descendants of Phillip Welch (born
about 1638 and died 1700) of Ipswich, Massachusetts. His son Moses Welch removed to York,
Maine.
On 21 October 1823 Margaret Welch married
Captain Richard Locke in Chichester, New Hampshire. He was a sea captain, and the son of Simon
Locke and Abigail Mace of Rye, New Hampshire on the seacoast. According to the Locke Genealogy compiled by
the Locke Family Association, he went to Boston around 1811 to learn to be a
blacksmith, was a sea captain, and removed to Chichester as a farmer.
Richard Locke was enumerated in the
Federal Census as living in Chichester in 1850 and 1860 as a farmer. In the 1860 census Margaret is missing, and
Richard Locke was living with his widowed daughter Abigail (Locke) Batchelder
and her 11-year-old grandson, George, (my 2nd great grandfather). He was also enumerated with another widowed
daughter, Mehitable (Locke) Brown and her 3-year-old daughter. Poor Margaret had died about a month before
this 1860 census, one son-in-law had died in 1848 (My 3rd great grandfather
George E Batchelder) and another (Elihu Brown) in 1859. At least he had two daughters to care for him
before his death in 1864.
I have been researching this family
for over 40 years and looking for Margaret (Welch) Locke’s roots just as
long. I searching for any researchers of the Welch family in York County, Maine to assist me with this family history.
My WELCH lineage:
Generation 1: Margaret WELCH, born about 1796, maybe in Kittery, Maine, and died 1 March 1860 in Chichester, New Hampshire; married on 21 October 1823 in Chichester to Captain Richard Locke. Three children.
Generation 2: Abigail M. Locke born 10 September 1825 in South Boston, Massachusetts, and died 15 January 1888 in Chichester, New Hampshire, married on 7 September 1845 in South Boston to George E. Batchelder, son of Jonathan Batchelder and Nancy Thompson. He was born 13 August 1822 in Chichester and died 3 April 1848 in Chichester. Two children.
Generation 3: George
E. Batchelder, Jr., born 8 October 1848 in Chichester, and died 28 July 1914 in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, married on 28 October 1869 in Chichester to Mary
Katharine Emerson, daughter of George Emerson and Mary Ester Younger. She was born 25 December 1847 in South
Boston, and died 23 April 1932 in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Nine children.
Generation 4: Carrie Maude Batchelder was born 22 September 1872 in Chichester and died 21 January 1963 at the Sea View Convalescent and Nursing home in Rowley, Massachusetts, married on 1 November 1892 in Essex, Massachusetts to Joseph Elmer Allen, son of Joseph Gilman Allen and Sarah Burnham Mears. He was born 24 September 1870 in Essex and died 12 March 1932 at the Masonic Home in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. Five children.
Generation 5:
Stanley Elmer Allen, born 14 January 1904 and died 6 March 1982 in
Beverly, Massachusetts, married on 14 February 1925 in Hamilton, Massachusetts
to Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents) daughter of Arthur Treadwell
Hitchings and Florence Etta Hoogerzeil.
She was born 1 August 1905 in Beverly and died 3 November 2001 at the Pilgrim
Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Peabody, Massachusetts. Seven children.
A blog post about finding the tombstones of Richard and Margaret Locke:
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/11/tombstone-tuesday-bumping-into-great.html
My LOCKE “Surname Saturday” blog post:
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/05/surname-saturday-locke-of-rye-new.html
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To Cite/Link to this post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Do you know the roots of Margaret (Welch) Locke (about 1796 – 1860)?”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted March 15, 2021, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2021/03/do-you-know-roots-of-margaret-welch.html: accessed [access date]).
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