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1. "Lockwood Genealogies shows birthdate of 15 Jul 1823 with no location indicated. Also shows first wife, Margaret Matthewson, as mother which we believe to be in error. George appears to have stayed with his dad whereas Julia went with her mother after their separation.
2. Censuses:
1850 US: Cazenovia, New York, M432 roll 526, pg. 65, house 942, family 1038:
G.G. Lockwood, 27, Printer.
Elmina, 24
Wm H., 5
Mary E., 2
Almina Merchant 19.
1860 US: Buffalo 4th Ward, Erie, New York, p. 636, dwelling 909, family 1206 (note the Lockwoods and Cooks are next door neighbors and eventually each of their children, William and Laura, marry each other):
George G. Gillette, 48, printer, no real estate, $600 personal prop., NY.
William, 14, NY.
Mary, 12, NY.
Georgianna, 9, NY.
Eliza Connely, 19, servant, NY.
Almina, 34, NY.
1870 US: San Francisco, M593 roll 84, San Francisco 11th Ward, 1st District, pg. 208/525B, house 1565, family 1625:
Lockwood, George 49 Printer
William 24 do.
Laura 20 Keeping house
Grace 2
Mary 21 At Home
Georgina 19?.
3. A "George Lockwood," age 61 is shown living alone chopping wood for a farm family in Gallatin, Clay, Missouri in the 1880 US census. It notes both parents of Connecticut. Another G.G.Lockwood shows living alone with Mathews, a Steam engineer, farming at Seaside, Santa Cruz, CA age 60, b. NY, and both parents born NY. The first looks unlikely. The second more likely.
a. Liz Garrity April 19, 2002: "I used the 1880 disks and have now checked them out on the ancestry census so I can answer the ED question. William Lockwood is at ED 226, Georgia is at ED 220, next door to Benjamin Josselyn and Maime at ED 73. The interesting thing is that finding G.G. Lockwood at ED 88 in Seaside turns up Joseph Josselyn age 37 on page 469A and M.W. Josselyn age 42 keeping house in the residence before George! There is another unnamed Lockwood on pg. 470 age 55. So now I believe this is really our George & that they met the Josselyn through the son & daughter of Dr. Joseph."
4. Per Liz Garrety 11 Jan 2002 email : She checked the following without results: San Francisco Probate Index (FHL1000133) & Santa Cruz Marriage Record Index (FHL1290965).
5. The following letter is from Geo. Gillette Lockwood to his brother-in-law Charles Henry Hales and sister Julia Ann in Utah and was found several years ago in the home of Grace Hayward during a renovation project. I now have a photocopy of the letter. This home was built by Charles Henry for his wife Julia Ann and her family (he was polygamous with two families). There was not a complete date on the letter. Some words are omitted because they are indecipherable. Israel Barlow is a half brother to Julia and George from their mother Annis Gillette's previous marriage to Jonathan Barlow. He also lived in Utah. The Hales left Nauvoo, Illinois ca. 1846. The year of the letter has been the subject of some discussion. The transcontinental railway with both the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railways was completed in 1869 near Ogden, Utah and took 7 days to travel the entire length. George mentions his son has a daughter that is a year old - this would be Grace M. who was born circa 1869 (11 in 1880 census). George does mention 18 years of work but it should be interpreted as when his wife became an invalid and not from the Nauvoo visit which occurred before her illness began. He speaks about his wife in a past tense; she died Jul 1866 in St. Louis, hence his remark that she is there which she is indeed in a cemetery plot. When he speaks of bringing his family out west, it is only of his daughters that he speaks. The letter: "San Francisco July 23. Dear Brother and Sister. I embrace this early opportunity to write you and let you know where I am. I received your letter some 2 weeks before I left St. Louis. I was glad to hear from you and learn that you were all well. I can say the same. I left St. Louis 3 weeks ago coming Saturday. I left my old place to accept one here. I don't know as I shall do any better, but I wanted to see California so off I started not before I had a situation engaged, for I am to old to go off on a wild goose chase for I left a situation of 25 dol per week in greenbacks for 25 in gold here. I can live just as cheap here as in St. Louis, and it matters but little to me where I am, as all I hope for on this earth is a living. It is all I get anyway. I came here by the two Pacific R.Rd.s. I came nearer you than I ever expect to again, unless I should some time return the same way. I am here all alone. Mary, my oldest girl is in Waterloo, Iowa with her aunt. Georgia, the youngest girl [the spelling of name may be off a letter] is at school in a convent in St. Louis. Wm. H. Lockwood, my only son is married and lives in Buffalo. He has a daughter a year old old. My wife is in St. Louis. I shall send for them this fall if I conclude to stay here. When I was at Deseret I wanted to stop over and go and see Israel, but I had no time for I was already 2 weeks behind time. So I rushed thru as soon as I could. I was seven days from point to point. Time somewhat shortened from what it was when you came to Salt Lake City when it took you three months to come. Now but little more than 3 days to where you are, time works wonders. I should have liked to have made you all a visit but I don't even expect to see you or my dear sister. Oh how I do want to see Julia once more but it seems as if it was not to be. I know there is not a person who thinks more of a sister than I do, but I have always been obliged to work hard for a living and have had but little time to spend visiting. Since I was at your house in Nauvoo I think I have not been idle one month is all. I have had constant employment and I have been obliged to work in order to live for 18 years Elmira was an invalid, which took nearly all I could earn to get along in bringing up my family decently. No one knows but myself what I have had to endure and all without a murmur. Elmira altho sick, she was a good woman and a kind mother. You don't know how I missed her. You never know the value of a good wife until you have lost her or been deprived of her company. I have not written to Israel. Does he ever speak of me. There seems to be a coldness on his part for I have written him and received no answer. I am ... to write again. Direct your letter to G.G. Lockwood, 516 Sacrament Street, upstairs. See envolope. Write soon."
The aunt in Iowa could be a half sister to George through Jonathan Barlow's marriage to Annis Gillett. There are two candidates: Margaret Marie Barlow who married Charles Bunnell and died in 1875 in Avoca, Pottawattamie, Iowa or Rhoda Almira Barlow who married Lyman Wing and died 1876 at an unknown location but probably in Iowa. The book "Israel Barlow Story" quotes a letter of his wherein he talks of Rhoda being in the Dubuque area around 1852/3; Dubuque is just about 75 miles east of Waterloo. Kim Everingham at reports that she is not familiar with any siblings of Elvira Merchant living there but she is still uncertain of the whereabouts of four of them as of 19 Apr 2002.
6. From the book "The Israel Barlow Story," p. 331: "Lucy Heap Barlow, in a letter 2 Aug. 1885, when George would have been 53, wrote to her daughter Isabel B. Call, 'I think you have sometime heard your father speak of a half brother of his name George Lockwood. Well, he has come either from the East of California to make his folks a visit and he sent Auntie (Elizabeth [Haven Barlow?]) word that he was going to see Julia Ann (Hales). That was two weeks ago yesterday that he was coming to see them. He is your Aunt Jula Ann's own brother, so they are coming to Bountiful Tuesday morning."
7. It is mentioned in the book The Town of Mendon 1813-2000 and Village of Honeoye Falls 1838-2000 by Diane Ham and Anne Bullock, Honeoye Falls-Town of Mendon Historical Society, January 2000, p. 75, that Annis Gillett, George Gillett Lockwood, Julia Ann Lockwood, Israel Barlow, Jonathan Barlow, Truman Barlow, Annis Barlow and Rhoda Barlow all went to Kirtland, OH with the Mormons in 1832.
MARRIAGE:
1. The Hales Newsletter, Autumn 1997, Vol. 3 No. 3, p.40 which quotes "Genealogy of the Lockwood Families" compiled by Holden and Dunbar (FHL film 0000551) quotes marriage as May 1844 at Cazenovia to Olive Elmira Merchant, whereas Ordinance Index has two entries: this one and another noted as 23 May 1844 at Earlville, Madison, New York to a Elmina O. or Elmira Merchant.
2. Per Liz Garrety 11 Jan 2002 email : Deaths, Births, Marriages from Newspapers published in Hamilton, Madison County, NY 1818-1886 has marriage of George and Elmira, abstracted from the Democratic Reflector & Abstracts from Madison Co. Newpapers has it abstracted from the Madison Co. Eagle.
DEATH:
1. Per Feb 2002 email from Ruth Jenson : Websites <http://www.sfo.com/~timandpamwolf/sfbirlm.htm> and <http://feefhs.org/fdb2/sfcalli.html> are indexes to vital records recorded in San Francisco newpapers. I found: "Lockwood, George G. ... died in 1886 ... age 63 ... 1886D-2501." Looked up and found in the newspaper "San Francisco Morning Call" 5 Sep 1886, p. 6, col. 8: "Lockwood - At Madrone, Santa Clara County, September 4, George G. Lockwood of San Francisco of San Francisco, aged 63 years."
SOURCES_MISC:
1. The book: "Genealogy of the Lockwood Family 1630-1888 - Descendants of Robert Lockwood, Colonial and Revolutionary History of the Lockwood Family in America from A.D. 1630," compiled by Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood, printed privately by the family, 1889, Philadelphia.
ACTION:
1. Find George in 1860 Census; possibly Missouri.
2. George is in a second 1870 census in San Francisco, pg. 93/308A (San Francisco 10th ward, 3rd District), dwelling 609, family 943, John Hann household. May be married to to a second wife from Prussia: Julia.
3. Barlow Family Assoc. indicates birthplace at Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts. Which is correct?
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Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy
1823 - 1886 (63 years)