Lockyer Name Meaning
English (mainly Dorset): occupational name for a locksmith, from an agent derivative of Middle English, Old English loc ‘lock’, ‘fastening’
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my grandfather,Edmund Thomas Herbert Lockyer was born in 1902 in or near London,England..I believe the district was Lewisham.His father's name was Thomas and his mother's name, Mary.They came to the united States when he was a small boy..I don't know about his ancestors