Locky History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Scotland

Early Origins of the Locky family

The surname Locky was first found in Peeblesshire (Gaelic: Siorrachd nam Pùballan), former county in South-central Scotland, in the present day Scottish Borders Council Area, where they held a family seat from early times.

"William Lokky was chaplain in Glasgow, 1503, and John Loky is recorded in Strafrank in 1531. David Lokky was "ane of the maris generall of the sheriffdome" of Forfar in 1535, Quhintene Loke was burgess of Edinburgh in 1583 and John Lockie was retoured heir in the three mark lands of Martoune in the bailliary of Lauderdaill in 1670." 1

Early History of the Locky family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Locky research. Another 186 words (13 lines of text) covering the years 1527, 1565, 1588, 1600, 1602, 1609, 1616, 1623, 1660, 1663, 1665, 1679, 1720 and 1741 are included under the topic Early Locky History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Locky Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Lockie, Lockey, Locky and others.

Early Notables of the Locky family

Notable amongst the family at this time was Rowland Lockey (c. 1565-1616), an English Baroque era painter and goldsmith, best known for his near life-size painting "Family of Sir Thomas More" (1527). As the son of Leonard Lockey, a crossbow maker of the parish of St Bride's, Fleet Street, London, Lockey was apprenticed to Queen Elizabeth's miniaturist and goldsmith Nicholas Hilliard for eight years and was made a...
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Locky migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Locky Settlers in United States in the 17th Century

Edward Locky, who landed in Virginia in 1667 2

Citations +

Black, George F., The Surnames of Scotland Their Origin, Meaning and History. New York: New York Public Library, 1946. Print. (ISBN 0-87104-172-3)
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)