Lock Family History
- Lock Name Meaning
- English: metonymic occupational name for a locksmith, from Middle English, Old English loc ‘lock’, ‘fastening’. English: topographic name for someone who lived near an enclosure, a place that could be locked, Middle English loke, Old English loca (a derivative of loc as in 1). 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’. Americanized spelling of German Loch.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,172,420 Historical Documents with Lock on Ancestry
- 380,842 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 283,186 Census and Voter Lists
- 27,799 Military Records
- 25,334 Immigration Records
- 455,259 Member Trees
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Number of Lock families
 861 - 1,720  288 - 860 |
 1 - 287  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Lock families
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41 - 79 14 - 40 |
1 - 13 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Lock census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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