Edward Lockey, of York, VA

Birth date also seen as 1606

No children.

Marriages of Some Virginia Residents 1607 - 1800 compiled by Dorothy F. Wulfeck, Naugatuck, Conn. 1963. Edward of York Co., d 1667, London England, m. 1 1659 Elizabeth ____ Read, widow of John; m. (2) Oct., 1661 Elizabeth Hansford, widow of Maj. John. 6T54: 8W(1)202."

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[The Lockeys were London merchants resident in Virginia in the tobacco trade. Edward Lockey, Jr., was nephew of Edward Lockey, Sr., and son of John Lockey, of St. Botolph's, Aldgate, London, grocer, who died in Virginia. See P.C.C. Admon. Act Book, February 27, 1666, and W. & M. Quar., iii, 278, viii, 202, 225.]

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From "William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine," Vol. 3, No. 4. (Apr., 1895), pp. 273-281.

John Lockey and Thomas Griffith, both prominent merchants of London, traded in tobacco with Virginia, and Col Richard Lee appointed them in 1663 his executors. John Lockey died in 1665-6, leaving a widow Elizabeth, who married Stanford, and two daughters, Elizabeth and Catherine Lockey. ("New England Historical and Genealogical Magazine," 46, p 77).
In 1660 William Collis, of York County, Virginia, deposed that Edward Lockey, a prominent merchant of that place, was brother of Mr. John Lockey, merchant of London. This Edward Lockey was administrator in 1657 of Capt. Francis Morgan, an early justice and settler of York County, who left one son of the same name heir of his large estate.
In 1661 Edward Lockey married Elizabeth [Reade], widow of Major John Hansford, father of Col. Thomas Hansford, hanged in Bacon's Rebellion.
In 1667, while in the parish of St. Catherine Creechurch, London, he died without children and left a large estate to collaterals. He gave a plantation called Morgan's Plantation to his "cousin" [usually that means a nephew] Isaac Collier, son of Isaac Collier, Sr., Read's plantation to his wife Elizabeth for life, and then to Isaac Collier, Jr., as also to him a plantation of 320 acres at Mattapony, bought of John Madison (in King William County). There were certain legacies left to Isaac Lockey, Jr., to the three daughters of his nephew Edward Lockey, Mary, Ann and Judith Lockey, and to William Carter, son of Francis Carter. [This is the Mary who married John Myhill]

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!Will proved 24 MAY 1688, York County, Virginia. Genealogy of the Collier Family written by C.I. Collier of Winder, Georgia on June 10 1928., More informatio from Book written by Vaughn Ballard on Robert Terrell Collier His Ancestors and Descendants, in 1986. The Quote from Genealogy of the Collier Family "Isaac Collyer Sr., As he is styled in the Virginia records, came to Virginia from London, England about 1650, settling in York County. He Married Sara, sister of John and Edward Lockley of London, the latter of whom in his will of 1667 left his "cousin" (a term then used to signify nephew) Isaac Collyer, son of Isaac Collyer Sr., Morgans plantation, 300 acres in York County Virginia and Potobello 320 acres in King Williams County. Isaac Collyer Sr., (as he signed him name in his will) died in 1688, will proved in May 24, 1688.
Virginia Gleanings in England by Lothrop Withington, 1980 "...Edward Lockey of York county, Va., brother of John Lockey, grocer of london died with out issue in parish of St. Catherine Cree Church, London in 1667.

From http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/lockey/58/

The following is from William and Mary College quarterley historical magazine:

In 1659 Edward Lockey married Elizabeth, widow of John Read, dec'd.
On Oct. 10, 1661, he married Elizabeth, widow of Major John Hansford, father of Col. Thomas Hansferd, hanged in Bacon's Rebellion.
In 1667, while in the parish of St. Catherine Creechurch, London, he died without children and left a large estate to collaterals. He gave a plantation called Morgan's Plantation to his "cousin" * Isaac Collier, son of Isaac Collier. Sen., Read's plantation to his wife Elizabeth for life, and then to Isaac Collier, Jun., as also to him a plantation of 320 acres at Mattapony, bought of John Madison (in King William county). There were certain legacies left to Isaac Lockey, Jun., to the- three daughters of his nephew Edward Lockey, viz., Mary, Anne and Judith Lockey, and to William Carter, son of Francis Carter.

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From http://www.dailypress.com/features/family/dp-nws-york-river-slavery...
"A cradle of slavery on the York"

Tobacco and slavery

Just how critical a role the fine dark soil along the York played in this transformation can be seen in a 2006 study by Longwood University geographer David S. Hardin.
Of all the arable land in Tidewater, only 14 percent could produce sweet-scented tobacco, he says. And the mildest, densest, most abundant and profitable of those crops came from the south bank of the York.
The "very best of the best" came from Bellfield Plantation on what is now the Yorktown Naval Weapons Station, where planter Edward Digges used his profits to erect a landmark three-story manor house. So renowned were his "E.D."-branded hogsheads of tobacco that York River leaf became the benchmark for England's luxury tobacco market.
With the wealth that resulted, the elite planters on the York could do what few other Virginia colonists could afford to buy expensive black slaves in what was for decades an erratic market.

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• Marriage 1: in 1659 Elizabeth Reade, widow of John Reade.
• Marriage 2: on OCt. 10, 1661 he married Elizabeth, widow of Maj. John Hansford. It is said he dies w/o issue, that the children were her children from John Hansford?

Notes:

1. Genealogy of Virginia Families from Tylers Quarterly Historical and genealogical magazines.

2. LOCKEY - COLLIER - CARY. Edward Lockey, of York county, Va., was a brother of John Lockey, grocer of London, and of "Elizabeth Friend als. Lockey", whose daughter, True, was wife in 1667 to Richard Walton, citizen and merchant of London. Edward Lockey married Elizabeth, widow of John Hansford, and died s.p. about 1667. He left his property to his cousin Isaac Collier, Jun., and to Mary and Anne Lockey, daughters of his nephew Edward Lockey, deced. If Isaac Collier, Jun., should die without issue, his share was to go to Francis Carter, the son of William Carter, and if Francis be dead or unheard of, then to Judith Lockey, sister of Mary and Anne. In 1671 Isaac Collier, Jun., being dead, and said Carter not turning up, the general court adjudged Isaac's share to Henry Cary, who had married Judith Lockey, excepting the land which which was adjudged "to the brother of said Isaac Collier". Mr. John Myhill married Mary Lockey, and was ordered December 7, 1668, tonpay 310 pds. of tobacco to Dr. Francis Haddon for physick and attendance administered to Mary's uncle, Mr. Edward Lockey. - York County Records.

!Will proved 24 MAY 1688, York County, Virginia. Genealogy of the Collier Family written by C.I. Collier of Winder, Georgia on June 10 1928., More informati from Book written by Vaughn Ballard on Robert Terrell Collier His Ancestors and Descendants, in 1986. The Quote from Genealogy of the Collier Family

"Isaac Collyer Sr., As he is styled in the Virginia records, came to Virginia from London, England about 1650, settling in York County. He Married Sara, sister of John and Edward Lockley of London, the latter of whom in his will of 1667 left his "cousin" (a term then used to signify nephew) Isaac Collyer, son of Isaac Collyer Sr., Morgans plantation, 300 acres in York County Virginia and Potobello 320 acres in King Williams County. Isaac Collyer Sr., (as he signed him name in his will) died in 1688, will proved in May 24, 1688.

Virginia Gleanings in England by Lothrop Withington, 1980

"...Edward  Lockey of York county, Va., brother of John Lockey, grocer of london died with  out issue in parish of St. Catherine Cree Church, London in 1667.

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