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Cleaning and documenting the Geni tree around John Locke, Sheriff of London in 1561.
There seems to be a generation missed out in most published pedigrees and biographies of the Locke family. The pedigree published in the Book of the Lockes (1853) is one such case. The Dictionary of National Biography & Wikipedia repeat the error.
John Locke mercer & sheriff (d. 1463) did not have a son Thomas. He had sons John, William & Stephen (see abstract of his will).
SomersetSue first pointed this out in 2009:
"It looks as if William's father may be Thomas Locke who is said in a variety of online places to have married a Joan or Joanna Wilcocks and appears to be his accepted father but there may need to be another generation to get back to the earlier mercer John Lok who died in 1463."
"John Lok's Will mentions that he was survived by 3 sons and 3 daughters. One of these sons died under age and I think it is probably a son called John"
"According to the Will of John Lok that leaves a son called Stephen in addition to the William. There is no mention of a Thomas. So I think it is probable that Thomas may be a later son of the William and so a grandson of John Lok."
See: GEN-MEDIEVAL 2009
In 1460 John Locke had an apprentice named William Locke (probably his son). William is named as one of the son's in John Locks will.
In 1472 William Locke had an apprentice named Thomas Locke (probably his son).
Sources: (1) The Medieval Account Books of the Mercers of London (2) Records of London's Livery Companies Online - Apprentices and Freemen 1400-1900
In the Herald's College, in a volume, known there as Vincent's Middlesex, there is a Pedigree of the family of Lok or Lock or Locke
It is meagre in its details but an examination shows it to be accurate as to names and relationahips.
The first person named in Vincent (as supra) is William Lock, who had two sons Thomas and John.
Source: Miscellanies of the Fuller Worthies Library (1871)
The new proposed descent is:
- John Lock (d. 1463) & Elizabeth Valdrian
- William Lock (d. by 1474) & Elizabeth Unknown (later Bulstrode)
- Thomas Lock (d. 1507) & Joan Wilcock
- William Lock (1480-1550)
resources
- The book of the Lockes Page 358-359
- John Locke (Lok) (ca 1420-1463)
- The Phillips, Weber, Kirk, & Staggs families of the Pacific Northwest Rootsweb database
- The Locke and Lok family of merchants 2009