Elizabeth Keene

"well to do widow" when she married Nicholas Locke as his second wife. Aunt of Agnes Keene, mother of the philosopher John Locke (1632-1704)

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• The life of John Locke (1876)

Author: Bourne, H. R. Fox (Henry Richard Fox), 1837-1909

Volume: 1

Subject: Locke, John, 1632-1704

Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers

Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT. Pg. 1-3

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• Abstracts of Somersetshire wills, etc. by Crisp, Frederick Arthur
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• EDMUND KEANE, or KEENE, of Wrington, Somerset, Tanner. Will dated January; 1628, proved June, 1630. [60 Scroope.] A marriage shortly to be solemnized between my daughter Agnes Keene & John Locke son of Nicholas Locke, of Pensford. Elizabeth Locke, my daughter. My wife Mary, Extrix.
• Edward Locke, of Brockhampton, Buckland Newton, Dorset. Churchwarden, 1573. ch: Nicholas (m. Frances Lansden & Elizabeth Keene) Locke
  • Nicholas Locke, born 1574, migrated to Somerset. Clothier, of Sutton Wick, died 1648, buried at Chew Magna. = 1 w. Frances Lansden, married at Publow, co. Somerset, died 1612. ; ch: Frances (m. Edmund Keene), John (m. Agnes Keene), Peter (m. Ann . . . ), Edward (b.1610), Thomas (b.1611-12) Locke.; = 2 w. Elizabeth Keene, widow of ...., married 1624.
    • Frances Locke, born Oct. 5, 1604, married Edmund Keene.
    • John Locke, born Apr. 29, 1606, married July 15, 1630, Agnes Keene, sister of Edmund Keene, clerk to Francis Baber and Alexander Popham. ; ch: John (the Philosopher), Thomas (bap.1637) Locke
      • John Locke the Philosopher, born Aug. 29, 1633.
      • Thomas Locke, born at Pensford, bap. Aug. 9, 1637.
    • Peter Locke, born July 13, 1607, buried 1686. = Ann . . . ; ch: Issue, see Registers at Chew, 1639-56.
    • Edward Locke, born Nov. 7, 1610. His will 1663.
    • Thomas Locke, born Feb. 10, 1611-12. Will 1663. _____________________
• The life of John Locke by Bourne, H. R. Fox
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  Edward Locke lived at Brockhampton, a hamlet near to Canning's Court, in the parish of Buckland-Newton, of which he was churchwarden in 1573 ; 3 but his son '''Nicholas''', born in 1574, 4 migrated early in life from the Dorsetshire hamlet to a Somersetshire village. In 1603, Nicholas Locke married a Frances Lansdon, at Publow, 5 and there, or at Pensford, hard by, he established himself as a clothier. 6  Bristol, being then a centre of the woollen trade in the west of England, like Hull and Leeds in the north, gathered in the cloths manufactured in the surrounding towns and villages for shipment to other parts of the country and to continental marts ; and contributions were sent to it from Pensford, which 

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• Leland, in 1540, termed a pretty market town, occupied with clothing." Nicholas Locke appears to have heen a collector of the stuffs made by his neighhours, and thus a sort of merchant, rather than himself a manufacturer. His trade prospered, and he acquired money in other ways. His first wife died in 1612, 1 and in 1624 he married again — his second wife being a well-to-do widow living at Chew Magna, in the same neighbourhood, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Keene. 2 After that, it would seem that he lived in the second wife's house. He was described as "of Sutton Wick, in the parish of Chew Magna, clothier;" 3 and when he died, in 1648, he was buried in the churchyard of Chew Magna, "under a goodly tomb opposite the belfry door." 4 Besides other children, he left a daughter Frances, born on the 5th of October, 1604; a son John, born on the 29th of April, 1606 ; and another son, Peter, born on the 13th of July, 1607. 5
  • .... etc.
  • 5 Additional MSS., no. 28273. Other sons of Nicholas Locke were Edward, born on the 7th of November, 1610, whose will was, dated the 24th of April, 1663, and proved in the same year, and Thomas, born on the 12th of February, 1611-12, and whose will, dated the 23rd of November, 1663, was proved on the 4th of February, 1663-4. Peter Locke, who probably carried on his father's business, and became a man of substance, lived at Bishop's Sutton, and was buried in Chew Magna churchyard on the 20th December, 1686. Three of his children died before him. He bequeathed his property to two daughters, — Anne, born in 1641, who in 1670 married Jeremy King, a grocer of Exeter ; their son, Peter King, Locke's protege, and afterwards lord chancellor, being the founder of the family now represented by Earl Lovelace ; and Elizabeth,
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• The elder of these two sons was the father of the John Locke whose life is to he recorded in these pages. On the 15th of July, 1630, at the age of twenty-three, his wife being ten years older, 1 he married Agnes or Anne Keene, his step-mother's niece and sister of an Edmund Keene, who, probably, a year or two before, had married his sister Frances. 2 He did not follow his father's trade in cloth,
  • who married twice, and had at any rate two sons, Peter Stratton, of Bristol, and John Bonville. Two other cousins of Locke's, Mary Doleman and Anne Hazel, were named by him in his will; but I have not been able to trace their parentage.
  • 1 The date of her birth— the 14th of April, 1597— is given on a loose memorandum, in the handwriting of Locke's father, but endorsed by him, "Age," which I found among the Shaftesbury Papers, series viii., no. 30.
  • 2 These Keenes were descended from Edmund Keene, a plumber, of Wrington, who, as it is recorded in John at-Neale's pedigree, owned "the house where he dwelt, by the hatch on the north side" — which is interesting to us as being afterwards the birth-place of John Locke — and whose widow, living on till 1636, or later, was the owner of much property at Wrington. The Edmund Keene who married Frances Locke was a tanner by trade. Among other evidences of his good social position, we hear of his purchasing land at Wrington worth 330/. under a deed that was executed by John Keene, his brother, and John Locke, his brother-in-law, as attorneys. .... etc.
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• but was educated for the law, and made for himself a good position as a country attorney, though we are told that he inherited from his father a much better estate than he left to his son." .... etc.
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• .... John Locke was born on the 29th of August, 1632, and baptised on the same day. 2
• Of his early childhood we know nothing ; but we may infer that it was passed mainly at Pensford, with occasional visits to Wrington, where his mother's kinsfolk resided, and where his father's sister Frances was living with her husband Edmund Keene, his uncle by the mother's side ; and to Sutton Wick, nearly midway between Pensford and Wrington, where his grandfather
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• resided in the house of his second wife. Thomas, the only other child of John and Agnes Locke, was born at Pensford, and baptised on the 9th of August, 1637. 1
• After that event we lose trace of Locke's mother. All our information about her is contained in a single vague sentence, written long afterwards by Locke's most intimate friend during the last years of his life: "What I remember him to have said of his mother expressed her to be a very pious woman and affectionate mother." 2 She probably died young, perhaps too early to leave any vivid impression on her son's memory. It may be assumed that she died before her husband made his will in 1660, as she is not named therein. _____________________