When Lewis Lockwood was born on 18 December 1763, in Pound Ridge, Pound Ridge, Westchester, New York, United States, his father, Ebenezer Lockwood Sr. - Major - Esq., was 26 and his mother, Hannah Smith, was 21. He had at least 2 daughters with Esther Lockwood. He died on 9 March 1816, at the age of 52, and was buried in Pound Ridge Cemetery, Pound Ridge, Westchester, New York, United States.
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English: habitational name from one of three places called Lockwood, one in Yorkshire, one in North Yorkshire and another in Staffordshire. The Yorkshire and Staffordshire placenames both derive from Old English loc ‘lock, enclosure, fold’ + wudu ‘wood’. The North Yorkshire placename derives from Old English loc + Old Norse vithr ‘wood’. The surname appears to have migrated to East Anglia.
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