96 Moorland Road - LOCKETT published by Pat Hase on Fri, 06/11/2020 - 11:41
I have been told that when this was being built in 1906, as a house, an Edwin LOCKETT was a carpenter employed on the site. He had a girl friend whose father did not approve of him but grudgingly gave permission for her to visit Weston one Bank Holiday. However she bought a one-way ticket and they were married in 1906. The story goes that they then persuaded the Builder to change the plan to a shop and settled in it themselves. They were living there in 1911 but he was still entered as a carpenter & joiner. In 1917, in the Trades Directory section, of the Street Directory, Edwin LOCKETT was listed as a Draper at 96 Moorland Road.
His wife, Emily died in 1926 and was buried in Milton Road Cemetery in H 143. Edwin married again in 1931 and in 1939 he and his 2nd wife, Doris, were listed as Drapers at 339 Locking Road. I assume that they were still involved in the shop at Moorland Road. At 96 Moorland Road Edwin's daughter, Nora LOCKETT, was listed as a Draper's Shop Assistant.
Edwin and his first wife had one son and three daughters - Can anyone add anything about the LOCKETT family?
I hope all is well. I guess you know this but August 1939 must have been an expensive month for Edwin!
- Emily Marian (a qualified nurse at Weston General Hospital) married George Geoffrey Clutterbuck, a teacher at Walliscote Road Senior School, at Victoria Methodist Church on 11 August 1939.
- Edna married Herbert Joseph Shapcott Wells, draughtsman, at St. Paul's Church, Weston, 30 August 1939.
- Nora married Phillip Thomas Ellis at Weston in 1940
I believe all the above people are interred at Minehead Cemetery.
William Norman Joseph Lockett married Louisa Currie in 1933. He was a pharmacist in Plymouth, however, I am sure I read somewhere that his pharmacy was destroyed in heavy bombing during the war (I used to live in Plymouth so it might have been an article in the Herald there).
The Clevedon Locketts are 20thcentury additions to the clan. My husband's Locketts are mostly from Cornwall , and were historically miners for tin and copper, (Henry Lockettc.1745/6 Redruth etc.) There is another group found in DBY/CHES and we do not know which was first, , but we know miners travelled to where the work was.
We came here for work too, from the midlands. I did find another family of Locketts in Clevedon currently,, but they seemed to have no connection to me/ husband., interesting, though. Sylvia
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