The Origins of Trees

The Origins of some Lovelock or Loveluck Trees

All Family Trees have to start somewhere, and it is often not as far back in time as living members of the Trees would wish. Lovelock and Loveluck Family Trees are no different in this respect, but sometimes there are tempting glimpses of
'what might have been'.

It has to be admitted that none of the Lovelock Trees that have been assembled to date take us back even to the earliest days of parish records, which, as far as England is concerned, was that point in 1538 when Thomas Cromwell, from the court of King Henry VIII, ordered that every marriage, baptism and burial was to be recorded in the church in which it took place. Indeed we are lucky in most cases to be able to trace unbroken Lovelock family lines back to the early 18th Century, although there are a good few Lovelock records from the 16th and 17th Centuries that have withstood the vicissitudes of time, weather, and military or civil unrest, or just plain carelessness. It seems also that Lovelocks have never been a part of England's aristocracy, so although the construction of aristocratic genealogies was common enough in Britain's Middle Ages it is unlikely that any of them need concern us in our pursuit of information on our Lovelock forebears.

Some of our Lovelock Trees are nonetheless quite extensive, but inevitably working backwards in time they reach a point beyond which no firm and absolutely attributable evidence seems to exist. However, there are occasions when the data that we have collected supports some reasoned theorising about 'what might have been', and the purpose of this page is to collect together the results of this theorising, to touch upon the research that supports it, and perhaps to stimulate further research.

Thus we have assembled some information relating to each of the trees in the following list. Please follow the links in the left hand column to the supplementary pages.

If you have any information which seems to have been missed, or if your research has pointed to the possibilities of extending back in time these or any of the other trees or fragments that reside in the Webtrees Utility or here on the Web Site, please share it with us!

The Lieflock Line	This tree currently starts with the marriage of a Richard Lovelock* to a Mary Head from Easton, but where was Richard from originally?*
The Wallingford Line	This tree currently starts with a John Lovelock who was buried in 1817 at the age of 77, but which of so many John Lovelocks was he?
The Lyneham Line	This tree starts with the marriage of a Abraham Lovelock* to a Priscilla Greenaway in Wroughton, but where was Abraham from?*
The Kingsclere Line	This tree currently starts with a Francis Lovelock, married and buried in Kingsclere, but born where?
The Tangley Tree	This tree currently starts with a John Lovelock* who may be one of two baptised less than 5 months apart.*
The Glamorgan Lovelucks	This tree currently starts with a John Lovelock* who married Ann John in the church of St Mary, Margam on 23 Nov 1765*
The Brimpton Branch	This tree currently starts with a Thomas Lovelock* who was buried on 23 July 1839 at Brimpton.*
The Swallowfield-Heckfield-Worplesdon Tree	This tree currently starts with a Thomas Lovelock* who was possibly born around 1645.*
The Lambeth-Australia-NZ Tree	This tree currently starts with a Stephen Lovelock* who was buried on 10 February 1837, but was he the son of another Stephen?*
The Wiltshire-Cornwall Tree	This tree currently starts with a Robert Lovelock* who was* buried on 23 July 1830 but whose son in Easton was he?
The Luckington-Dowdeswell Tree	This tree currently starts with a Abraham Lovelock* who, as a widower, married in 1771, but from whence came he?*
The Lambourn-Sparsholt Tree	Yet another tree that currently starts with a John Lovelock, but could it be linked to another tree?
The Hampshire-Suffolk-Rutland-Herefordshire Tree	This tree currently starts with a Thomas Lovelock* of unknown origin, but does he actually appear elsewhere in our data?*
The Baughurst Fragment	This fragment currently starts with a Francis Lovelock* of unknown origin, but does he have links to well-established trees?*

There was one other Tree that featured in the list above, but the extension of that Tree has been implemented, and the case for doing so may be viewed here.

Readers who have worked their way through all of the material linked to in the table above may be feeling rather confused about the possibilities 'on offer', and looking for some simpler presentation as a starting point. If so this link will take you a page which presents the possible origins of the Lieflock Line, The Tangley Tree and the Lambourn-Sparsholt Tree: an Unknown Lovelock, perhaps born about 1620.

On the other hand we have collected documentary evidence to show how the Lieflock Line is definitely connected to the Aldermaston, Tangley and Wootton Rivers Trees, and possibly to the Lambeth-Australia-NZ and Wiltshire-Cornwall Trees as well, and this link will take you to a page summarising the connections in a more pictorial sense.

Are you confused by references to first, second and third cousins, once, twice or thrice removed? Here is a useful chart discovered by Sarah Lovelock on a tea-towel which should help!