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This is the lockington.me website created 18 July 08 by me,
(Niol Lockington, Auckland New Zealand). I was
contacted by my hosting service to say the name was available so I decided to
grab it with no particular reason in mind. However I am mildly interested in
recording the family tree and have included the earlier years here. You may have
stumbled upon the site as a result of a Google search. maybe you have the same
name and this could be of use to you, or you may be able to add to it. I would
welcome any additions, but I don't think it would be wise to publish "new
generations" on the web due to identity stealing etc. Individual relatives may
email me at niol@lockington.me and I
will add them to my tree and forward info back if I can, to add to their tree. I am
not really looking for work though, and will only reply when time and
inclination permits. Below is a photo of me at 64, pretending to be James
Lockington who came out from Ireland to New Zealand in 1874.
Below the photo are links to various family trees. In many instances we have not
established a link. I suppose DNA testing from myself and a perhaps cousin
Natoba from Fiji may quickly settle the issue although I have a reluctance in
case it proves I am not related which would be a great disappointment. As I fly
into Fiji from Auckland during descent the Island of Kadavu appears on the
horizon, home of the Fijian Lockingtons, some of whom I have had the pleasure of
meeting. It would be painful to learn we were not connected.
The early Lockington location was Sussex England. In 1978, Norman Lockington
(Canada) was in England and contacted a Lockington who was a church minister who
had informally traced his family back to Ranulph de Loketon who arrived with
William the Conqueror in 1066. He knew many had moved to Ireland. Our
first Irish entries list 2 brothers in about 1610 who were associated with the
occupation by James I and later became tenant farmers in Ireland. Successive
crop failures and famine forced a mass exodus to greener pastures in the mid
1800s and Lockingtons are in Canada, USA. Pacific Islands, Australia and New
Zealand.
Family Tree of Charles Lockington, ancestor of James Henry Lockington (My Paternal Grandfather)
Family Tree of Robert Stone, ancestor of Elsie Grace Stone who married James Henry Lockington
Family Tree of Edwin Taylor, ancestor of John Ede Taylor (My Maternal Grandfather)
Family Tree of John McKinnon Munro, ancestor of Isobel Munro who married John Ede Taylor
Family Tree of the Pacific Island Lockingtons
Family Tree of the West Coast of the South Island of NZ Lockingtons
Family Tree of the Canadian Lockingtons