The Early Lovelock Family Tree Fragments |
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These notes attempt to describe how the current collection of
Trees and Fragments grew out of some earlier collections. Readers will understand that in the 25 years of the Web Site's existence there have been many detailed changes to all of the Trees. The gedcom files at LovelockTrees are always our most up-to-date versions of the trees, if available, so are recommended as your first port of call. | |
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Collected Fragments
In the late 1990s Gwen Eastment and Robert Sterry produced a compilation of Lovelock family tree fragments which included contributions from Janet Hearle, Richard Dowd, Graham Lovelock and others. The version displayed in the link is essentially that received from Robert Sterry on 21-Jan-1998 apart from the following changes:
- Details concerning living, or potentially living, individuals have been omitted, in line with the policy of the Lovelock Web Site.
- An index to the fragments has been added at the top of the file, which also includes some indications of how some of the fragments evolved.
However, as time went by this became increasingly complicated and the collection of fragments eventually included duplicate or inconsistent material. So in Sept/Oct 2004 a new organisation of trees and fragments was established. The fragments in the updated collection of Lovelock family tree fragments were not discarded, but were redistributed as follows:
- Fragment 1 was integrated into the Lieflock Line
- Fragment 2 was included in the Lyneham Line
- Fragment 3 became the Tonbridge, Kent Tree
- Fragment 4 was included in the Wallingford, Berks Line
- Fragment 5 was removed, following the analysis by Graham Lovelock. See also the Log file entry for 27-Jan-08
- Fragment 6 was included in the Hampshire-Suffolk-Rutland-Herefordshire Tree. Nigel Gerdes had noticed that Frederick Lovelock (b abt 1853) who appears in this tree is probably the same individual who appears at the top of Fragment 6. (Note that Wesmill appearing in this fragment is probably a misspelling of Winnall).
- Fragment 7 This is the tree for the New Zealand athlete Jack Lovelock, which is now included on the page of Lovelock Trees and Fragments for other Count(r)ies
- Fragment 8 is now included in the Luckington-Dowdeswell Tree
- Fragments 9 and 11, which were similar, are now part of the Lambeth-Australia and NZ Tree
- Fragment 10 can be found on the Hampshire Trees and Fragments page as the Tangley, Hants Tree
- Fragment 10 bis had already become the Lieflock Line
- Fragments 12 and 13 had already been deleted since they had been merged with fragments 4 and 6 respectively
- Fragment 14
can be found on the Trees and Fragments "Overview" page as the Glamorgan Loveluck Line
- Fragments 15 and 16 were included in the Wiltshire Lovelock Family Trees collection as the Lyneham and Lyneham 2 Trees
- Fragment 17
became the Middlesex-Tasmania Tree, but this was then merged with a Hambleden Tree to form the Hambleden-Tasmania Tree.
- Fragment 18
was included in the Kingsclere, Hants
Line
- Fragment 19
evolved into the Marlborough
Tree which in turn was merged with other data to become
the Wootton Rivers Tree 2
Wiltshire Fragments by Parish
Building on an early version of the collection of Lovelocks in Wiltshire a number of Wiltshire parish fragments were constructed. Some of these were later subsumed into the Lieflock Line, the Lyneham Line or other major trees. Here is the original list of fragments together with some indications of what became of them.- Aldbourne
- All Cannings and
Bishops Cannings
Fragments 2, 3 and 4 are now part of the Lyneham Line
- Burbage, Easton Royal,
and Great Bedwyn
Fragments 1, 5, 6, 8 and 10 are now part of the Lieflock Line
Fragment 7 is part of the Wootton Rivers tree
- Etchilhampton
Fragments 1 and 2 are now part of the Lyneham Line.
- Ramsbury
Fragment 1 has evolved into the Ramsbury Tree
- Marlborough
- Chippenham
- Milton
Lilbourne
Fragment 1, and possibly fragment 3, are now part of the Lieflock Line - Wootton Rivers
plus comments on
fragment
There have been two particularly significant changes to the Wootton Rivers Fragment 1. Most of the first part is now part of Wootton Rivers Tree 2, but the children shown as born to John Lovelock (baptised on 18 Jul 1740) and Elizabeth Bromham were later identified as the children of John Lovelock (baptised about 1753 at Easton Royal) and Elizabeth Hancock; this family is part of the Lieflock Line. A bigger chunk of Fragment 1 (spouse and children of John Lovelock baptised on 28 Jan 1770 and later descendants) was moved to the Lieflock Line with the identification of this family as in fact that of John Lovelock baptised on 31 Aug 1788 at Wootton Rivers, the son of John Lovelock and Elizabeth Hancock, who married Elizabeth Hillier at Preschute on 10 Aug 1813.
(Thanks to Robin Lovelock for providing this summary.)
The Wootton Rivers Fragment 2 has evolved into the Wootton Rivers Tree.