When Bertha Jane Locke was born on 21 February 1871, in Grahamstown, Albany, Cape Province, South Africa, her father, George Gray Locke, was 31 and her mother, Emily Margaret Green, was 24. She married Herbert Wesley Hunt Elliott on 26 February 1889, in Cape Province, South Africa. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 30 May 1951, in East London, East London, Cape Province, South Africa, at the age of 80, and was buried in Wesley, Cape Province, South Africa.
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English, Dutch, and German: variant of Lock .
Americanized form of Norwegian Løkke: habitational name from a farm name, from Old Norse lykkja ‘enclosure’.
Chinese: variant of Lok .
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