Brief Life History of John
John Lockwood was born in 1762, in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America as the son of Gershom Lockwood and Ann.
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- Jno Lockwood, "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
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Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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