Hungerford - Shalbourne Tree

James LovelockAge: 53 years17711824

Name
James Lovelock
Given names
James
Surname
Lovelock
Birth about 1771 37 27

Christening 28 July 1771
Publication: Baptisms 1559-1812 (Modern Transcription of PRs and BTs 1559-1700; Parish Register 1559-1812) 1870-1953 (From PRs as supplied by Mr Allen via John Lovelock) Compiled by Robert Sterry
Citation details: Baptisms 1559-1812 (Modern Transcription of PRs and BTs 1559-1700; Parish Register 1559-1812) 1870-1953
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1771 Jul 28 James son of John and Sarah LOVELOCK

Quality of data: primary evidence
Note: (From PRs as supplied by Mr Allen via John Lovelock)
Birth of a brotherThomas Lovelock
about 1774 (Age 3 years)

Christening of a brotherThomas Lovelock
24 April 1774 (Age 3 years)
Publication: Baptisms 1559-1812 (Modern Transcription of PRs and BTs 1559-1700; Parish Register 1559-1812) 1870-1953 (From PRs as supplied by Mr Allen via John Lovelock) Compiled by Robert Sterry
Citation details: 1774 Apr 24 Thomas son of John and Sarah LOVELOCK (Note: IGI only lists father)
Quality of data: primary evidence
Birth of a sisterAnne Lovelock
about 1776 (Age 5 years)

Christening of a sisterAnne Lovelock
11 August 1776 (Age 5 years)
Publication: Baptisms 1559-1812 (Modern Transcription of PRs and BTs 1559-1700; Parish Register 1559-1812) 1870-1953 (From PRs as supplied by Mr Allen via John Lovelock) Compiled by Robert Sterry
Citation details: 1776 Aug 11 Anne Daugr of John and Sarah LOVELOCK
Quality of data: primary evidence
Birth of a brotherEdward Lovelock
about 1778 (Age 7 years)

Christening of a brotherEdward Lovelock
17 January 1779 (Age 8 years)
Publication: Baptisms 1559-1812 (Modern Transcription of PRs and BTs 1559-1700; Parish Register 1559-1812) 1870-1953 (From PRs as supplied by Mr Allen via John Lovelock) Compiled by Robert Sterry
Citation details: 1779 Jan 17 Edward son of John and Sarah LOVELOCK
Quality of data: primary evidence
Birth of a sisterMaria Lovelock
about 1784 (Age 13 years)

Christening of a sisterMaria Lovelock
20 June 1784 (Age 13 years)
Publication: Baptisms 1559-1812 (Modern Transcription of PRs and BTs 1559-1700; Parish Register 1559-1812) 1870-1953 (From PRs as supplied by Mr Allen via John Lovelock) Compiled by Robert Sterry
Citation details: 1784 Jun 20 Maria daugr of John and Sarah LOVELOCK
Quality of data: primary evidence
MarriageLucy DoerView this family
2 November 1812 (Age 41 years)
Citation details: Email 24-Jul-07 with Word document "A Tree Originating in Burghfield ... Or Perhaps Not"
Quality of data: primary evidence
Publication: Marriages 1662-1812, Banns 1754-1824 (PRs); 1812-1829 (LDS British Isles Vital Records 2nd Edition: FHL Film 1279453); 1559-1837 (Berkshire Marriage Index) Extracted by Robert Sterry
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1812 Nov 2 James Lovelock, bachelor and Lucy Doer, spinster, both of this parish. Banns Oct 18, 25, Nov 1 1812. Both put their marks. By banns. Wit: Thomas Doer, Lucy Lovegrove

Christening of a sonThomas Lovelock
27 June 1813 (Age 42 years)
Citation details: Email 24-Jul-07 with Word document "A Tree Originating in Burghfield ... Or Perhaps Not"
Quality of data: primary evidence
Publication: Baptisms 1662-1837 (PRs) Extracted by Robert Sterry
Text:

1813 Jun 27 Thomas s. of James & Lucy Lovelock, Burghfield, Labourer

Also in IGI

Christening of a sonJohn Lovelock
14 April 1816 (Age 45 years)
Publication: Baptisms 1559-1812 (Modern Transcription of PRs and BTs 1559-1700; Parish Register 1559-1812) 1870-1953 (From PRs as supplied by Mr Allen via John Lovelock) Compiled by Robert Sterry
Citation details: 1816 Apr 14 John LOVELOCK, Father: James LOVELOCK Mother: Lucy
Quality of data: primary evidence
Death of a fatherJohn Lovelock
about 1818 (Age 47 years)

Burial of a fatherJohn Lovelock
3 April 1818 (Age 47 years)
Text:

Age 84

Christening of a sonJoseph Lovelock
22 August 1818 (Age 47 years)
Publication: Baptisms 1559-1812 (Modern Transcription of PRs and BTs 1559-1700; Parish Register 1559-1812) 1870-1953 (From PRs as supplied by Mr Allen via John Lovelock) Compiled by Robert Sterry
Citation details: 1818 Aug 22 Joseph LOVELOCK, Father: James LOVELOCK Mother: Lucy
Quality of data: primary evidence
Burial of a motherSarah Dore
30 August 1819 (Age 48 years)
Text:

Age 75

Birth of a daughter
#1
Marianne Lovelock
about 1821 (Age 50 years)

Christening of a daughterMarianne Lovelock
23 September 1821 (Age 50 years)
Publication: Baptisms 1559-1812 (Modern Transcription of PRs and BTs 1559-1700; Parish Register 1559-1812) 1870-1953 (From PRs as supplied by Mr Allen via John Lovelock) Compiled by Robert Sterry
Citation details: 1821 Sep 23 LOVELOCK, Father: James LOVELOCK Mother: Lucy
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Note: the extract provided by Robert Sterry does not include the forename Marianne, but it is included in the IGI record.

Quality of data: primary evidence
Source: IGI
Publication: International Genealogical Index database of the LDS
Citation details: Batch no. C018803 Dates 1813 - 1832 Source Call no. 1040521
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MARIANNE LOVELOCK Christening: 23 SEP 1821 Hungerford, Berkshire, England Father: JAMES LOVELOCK Family Mother: LUCY

Quality of data: primary evidence
Death of a daughterMarianne Lovelock
about 1822 (Age 51 years)

Burial of a daughterMarianne Lovelock
25 August 1822 (Age 51 years)
Text:

Age 1

_PPEXCLUDE

Death about 1824 (Age 53 years)

Shared note: Spouse Lucy (widow) remarried Thomas Spicer in 1825
Burial 17 March 1824 (Age 53 years)
Text:

Age 54

Family with parents - View this family
father
mother
Marriage: 29 April 1770Hungerford, Berkshire, England
20 months
himself
4 years
younger brother
3 years
younger sister
3 years
younger brother
7 years
younger sister
Family with Lucy Doer - View this family
himself
wife
Marriage: 2 November 1812Burghfield, Berkshire, England
8 months
son
3 years
son
John Lovelock
Christening: 14 April 1816 45 24Hungerford, Berkshire, England
Death: between January 1877 and March 1877
2 years
son
3 years
daughter
Thomas Spicer + Lucy Doer - View this family
wife’s husband
wife
Marriage: 3 January 1825Hungerford, Berkshire, England
2 years
step-son
2 years
step-son
3 years
step-daughter
5 years
step-son
4 years
step-daughter

ChristeningHungerford St Lawrence parish register - Baptisms
Publication: Baptisms 1559-1812 (Modern Transcription of PRs and BTs 1559-1700; Parish Register 1559-1812) 1870-1953 (From PRs as supplied by Mr Allen via John Lovelock) Compiled by Robert Sterry
Citation details: Baptisms 1559-1812 (Modern Transcription of PRs and BTs 1559-1700; Parish Register 1559-1812) 1870-1953
Text:

1771 Jul 28 James son of John and Sarah LOVELOCK

Quality of data: primary evidence
Note: (From PRs as supplied by Mr Allen via John Lovelock)
MarriageGraham Lovelock - email messages
Citation details: Email 24-Jul-07 with Word document "A Tree Originating in Burghfield ... Or Perhaps Not"
Quality of data: primary evidence
MarriageBurghfield St Mary, Berks, parish register - marriages
Publication: Marriages 1662-1812, Banns 1754-1824 (PRs); 1812-1829 (LDS British Isles Vital Records 2nd Edition: FHL Film 1279453); 1559-1837 (Berkshire Marriage Index) Extracted by Robert Sterry
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1812 Nov 2 James Lovelock, bachelor and Lucy Doer, spinster, both of this parish. Banns Oct 18, 25, Nov 1 1812. Both put their marks. By banns. Wit: Thomas Doer, Lucy Lovegrove

BurialLovelocks in Berkshire data on main Lovelock website
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Age 54

Christening

(From PRs as supplied by Mr Allen via John Lovelock)

Marriage

Note from Graham Lovelock, 24-Jul-07.

Graham proposed a fragment beginning with James Lovelock and Lucy Doer, who marr at Burghfield 2 Nov 1812, together with the descendants of their son Thomas, bap Burghfield 27 June 1813. In his note Graham explains that he then realised that the James Lovelock in question was thae same as the one appearing in the Hungerford-Shalbourn tree, whch did not at the time include son Thomas, or the surname of spouse Lucy. Following is the relevant text in Graham's note:

There is nothing in our Burghfield records to directly indicate the origins of James L the potential progenitor of the above, although both he and Lucy were 'of this parish' at the time of their marriage. Noting that some of their grandchildren were born in Wroughton I have previously observed that a James and Lucy had several children baptised in Wroughton from 1815 onwards. However, that couple are already fully accounted for as part of the Wroughton-Tidcombe tree. There are, though, three baptisms at Hungerford of interest in the current 'investigation':

1816 Apr 14 John LOVELOCK, Father: James LOVELOCK Mother: Lucy 1818 Aug 22 Joseph LOVELOCK, Father: James LOVELOCK Mother: Lucy 1821 Sep 23 LOVELOCK, Father: James LOVELOCK Mother: Lucy

The James in those entries might seem unlikely to be from Hungerford - the nearest baptism of a James there in time was in 1771 - and there is no relevant entry in the marriage records. However, the Hungerford marriage records do include the following:

1825 Jan 3 Thomas Spicer and Lucy Lovelock, wid

There are no Lovelock burials in Hungerford between 1812 and 1904 recorded on the Website, so it would seem that we can not be certain that the widowed Lucy had been the wife of James, but I present as supporting evidence the following entry from the 1841 Census:

Layland Greene (sic), Kintbury, Berks HO107 21/12 F8 P10

Thomas Spicer 35 Ag Lab Lousia (sic) Spicer 45 Stephen Spicer 15 William Spicer 14 All were born in Berkshire Henry Spicer 11 Rosa Spicer 9 John Lovelock 25

The linking of John L with Mrs Spicer I think justifies another small tree as a result (picking up on some 1851 and 1861 data along the way regarding John L):

James LOVELOCK + Lucy (Lousia) UNKNOWN b abt 1796 John LOVELOCK bap 14 Apr 1816 in Hungerford, Berks + Mary WATTS (b 1800/01 in Wooten, Oxon) m in 2Q 1845 in Hungerford RD, ref 6 283 Joseph LOVELOCK bap 22 Aug 1818 in Hungerford, Berks Unknown LOVELOCK bap 23 Sep 1821 in Hungerford, Berks

But it gets a little better, when we consider the following entry from 1851:

1 Mt Pleasant, St Giles, Reading, Berks HO107 1692 F602 P30

Thomas Spicer Head 48 Ag Lab Hungerford, Berks Lucy Spicer Wife 58 Burghfield, Berks Stephen Spicer Son 26 Ag Lab Hungerford, Berks Ann Spicer Daur 24 Hungerford, Berks Henry Spicer Son 21 Ag Lab Hungerford, Berks Rosanna Spicer Daur 19 Needlewoman Hungerford, Berks H Griffin Lodger (Male) 21 Ag Lab Reading, Berks Infant Son 10mos Reading, Berks Sarah Stevens Visitor 45 Ag Lab Farnham, Surrey

I think there's sufficient evidence there, with Lucy being from Burghfield, to link the Burghfield baptism of Thomas in 1813 with the 3 baptisms in Hungerford.

But of course, the Hungerford baptisms are part of the Hungerford-Shalbourne Tree that you posted on the website on 12 Sep 06 James.

So this seems to me to be the story: the James baptised in 1771 in Hungerford is the one who married Lucy DOER (or DORE?) in Burghfield in 1812, he having apparently taken up residence there. When they married he was 41 and she was about 19. Clearly Lucy was already pregnant, for their son Thomas was baptised in Burghfield only 7 months later, which would be a good enough reason to explain the otherwise most unusual, for the times, difference in their ages. (I am always minded in these cases to remember that when my parents married my father was 44 and my mother 22.) Sometime in the next 3 years the couple moved to Hungerford, where 3 more children were born. Not too long after the third arrived James died, and Lucy remarried to Thomas Spicer in Jan 1825. Presuming that James died sometime in 1824 he would have been aged about 53. We might eventually find that entry in the Hungerford Burial Register. Lucy would have been left with 4 children under the age of 12, which would have been a pretty good reason to marry again. Of James' and Lucy's 4 children we can now establish a trail for 3: Thomas, John (both as above, although regrettably John apparently had no children) and Joseph (as in the Hungerford-Shalbourne Tree).

In a reply to Graham 3-Oct-07 I noted that: I had in fact already included the re-marriage of Lucy (UNKNOWN at the time) to Thomas Spicer in my Hungerford - Shalbourne database. It doesn't show up in the descendant tree generated by Legacy, which only follows the Lovelock line. However you will find it on the PhpGedView site, although it's somewhat obscured by the fact that I hadn't marked Thomas Spicer as 'Non Living', so the marriage details are not included, but they are in my database. However, I hadn't followed up on the Spicer family, because I didn't have access to the 1841 and 1851 census records.

Death

Spouse Lucy (widow) remarried Thomas Spicer in 1825