When Hannah S Lock was born in 1860, her father, Robert Lock, was 36 and her mother, Charlotte Todman, was 38. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1863 and lived in Saint George the Martyr Holborn, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom in 1861. She died on 15 August 1863, at the age of 3.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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English: topographic name for someone who lived near an enclosure, a place that could be locked, Middle English loke, Old English loca. Middle English loke also came to be used to denote a barrier, in particular a barrier on a river which could be opened and closed at will, and, by extension, a bridge. The surname may thus also have been a metonymic occupational name for a lock-keeper.
English, Dutch, and German: nickname for a person with fine hair, or curly hair, from Middle English loc, Middle High German lock(e) ‘lock (of hair), curl’. Compare Lok .
Americanized form of German Loch .
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