Henry Loker Sr.

• Preferred Name: Henry Loker Sr.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• Occupation: Glover
  
• Riddlesdale+alias+Loker+: with note: Description: Henry was a member of the Riddlesdale alias Loker family of Bures St. Mary, Suffolk. For about four generations the family used either a version of the surname Riddlesdale, or a variation of Loker. Riddlesdale was favored in the early generations, but he prefered Lokar. Henry lived in the southern part of the parish of Bures St. Mary which is in Essex. Apparently in his lifetime, he dropped the surname Riddlesdale and began regularly using the alias Loker insetad. “Loker” had variable spelling; he was baptized as “Locar”, but buried as “Loquar
  
• FSID: LHDY-F85
  
• Birth: 7 FEB 1577 in Bures Saint Mary, Essex, England at LATI: N1.9667 LONG: E0.7667 with note: Bures St Mary, Essex, England. Essex Standardized
  
• Death: 17 APR 1631 in Bures Saint Mary, Essex, England at LATI: N1.9667 LONG: E0.7667 with note: Bures St Mary, Suffolk, England. No, Essex Standardized
  
• Burial: APR 1631 in St. Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Bures Saint Mary, Essex, England at LATI: N1.9667 LONG: E0.7667 with note: See NEHGR volume 143, page 329. No std for the cemetery in 1631 Bures Saint Mary IN ESSEX
  
• Will+Made: 22 FEB 1630 in Bures Saint Mary, Essex, England at LATI: N1.9667 LONG: E0.7667 with note: From Will in Memories.
  
• Christening: 7 FEB 1577 in Bures Saint Mary, Essex, England at LATI: N1.9667 LONG: E0.7667 with note: Essex Standardized
  
• Will+Proved: 15 APR 1631 in Essex, England at LATI: N1.8523 LONG: E0.6147 with note: From the Will in Memories.
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Henry was a glover, not yet in his mother made her will in February 1592/93. Like his parents and grandparents, he lived in the southern part of the parish of Bures St. Marry which is in Essex. Apparently in his lifetime he dropped the surname Riddlesdale and began regularly using the alias Locker instead, a pattern which his children followed in New England."
  Henry married Elizabeth French, daughter of Jacob French and Susan Warrenne, about 1604. (Elizabeth French was born in Feb 1587 in Bures Saint Mary, Suffolk, England, christened on 27 Feb 1587 in Assington, Suffolk, England and died on 18 May 1648 in Sudbury, Massachusetts 126 .)
  THE ABOVE INFO TAKEN FROM ALTA VISTA SITE.
  
  GENi files
  
  Sharon's Notes
  NEHGS REGISTER 1909 pp 280-281
  The will of Henry Loker of Bures St Mary in the county of Essex, glover, 22 Feb 1630. Body to be buried in the churchyard of the parish of Bures aforesaid. To wife Eliza
  
  === !Sources: FGA - LDS. Newton Genealogy - ===
  !Sources: FGA - LDS. Newton Genealogy - FHL.
  Will Proved 15 April 1631
  
  !Evidence supporting Anne Loker, younger dau. of Henry and Elizabeth Loker
  as the wife of Richard Newton.
  1. Will of Henrie Loker spells name of younger dau. as Anne and Ann. Records
  of Sudbury, Mass. list her as Anne, Amie and Amy. Deeds say Anne and
  Hannah (often used for Anna). Her death record lists heer as Hannah Sr.,
  w/o Richard Newton. Death records for children: Hannah d/o Richard and
  Anne; Daniel s/o Richard and Anne.
  2. Will of Henrie Loker of Bures St. Mary, Essex, Eng., dated 22 Feb. 1630.
  mentions youngest dau., Anne.
  3. Parish Register, Bures St. Mary: Henry Loker chr. 7 Feb. 1576-7, probable
  father of Henry and John Loker who came to New England. HEHG Vol. 63.
  4. John Loker refers to his "sister Newton" in his 1653 in Sudbury, Mass.
  
  !Children:
  Anna or Hannah b. 1 aug. 1605, Marlboro, Mass., d. 5 Dec. 1697.
  John; md. Mary Draper.
  Henry; md. Hannah Brewer 24 Mar. 1647
  Bridgett; md. Robert Davis, he d. 1655; she md. 2) Thomas King 26 Dec. 1655.
  Hannah Brewer d. in Sudbury 4 Feb. 1679. Henry d. in Sudbury.
  John d. at Sudbury, his widow came to New England with her family.
  Work completed for the above children.
  
  Evidence supporting Anne Loker, younger dau. of Henry and Elizabeth Loker as
  the wife of Richard Newton.
  1. Will of Henrie Loker spells name of younger dau. as Anne and Ann.
  Records of Sudbury, Mass. list her as Anne, Amie and Amy. Deeds say Anne
  and Hannah (often used for Anna). Her death record lists her as Hannah Sr.,
  w/o Richard Newton. Death records for
  children: Hannah d/o Richard and Anne; Daniel s/o Richard and Anne.
  2. Will of Henrie Loker of Bures St. Mary, Essex, Eng., dated 22 Feb.
  1630. mentions youngest dau., Anne.
  3. Parish Register, Bures St. Mary: Henry Loker chr. 7 Feb. 1576-7,
  probable father of Henry and John Loker who came to New England. HEHG Vol.
  63.
  4. John Loker refers to his "sister Newton" in his 1653 in Sudbury, Mass.
  Will dated 17 June 1653.
  
  Children:
  Anna or Hannah b. 1 aug. 1605, Marlboro, Mass., d. 5 Dec. 1697.
  John; md. Mary Draper.
  Henry; md. Hannah Brewer 24 Mar. 1647
  Bridgett; md. Robert Davis, he d. 1655; she md. 2) Thomas King 26 Dec.
  1655.
  Hannah Brewer d. in Sudbury 4 Feb. 1679. Henry d. in Sudbury.
  John d. at Sudbury, his widow came to New England with her family.
  Work completed for the above children.
  
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  From Newton Genealogy - FHL SLC, Ut. Evidence supporting the wife of Richard Newton as Anne, younger dau. of Henry and Elizabeth Loker of Bures St. Mary, Essex, England.
  1. Will of Henrie Loker names younger dau. Anne and Ann. Records of
  Sudbury, Mass. give her name as Anne, Amie and Amy. Deed records
  list her as Anne and Hannah. Her death record lists Hannah Sr.,
  w/o Richard Newton, however death records of two children, Hannah
  and Daniel list their mother as Anne.
  2. Will of Henrie Loker of Bures St. Mary, Essex, England. 22 Feb.
  1630. Pvd. 15 April 1631, Archdeaconery of Sudbury.
  3. Parish register of Bures St. Mary in Essex 1538 - 1635.
  4. Will of Lucie Riddlesdale, alias Loker of Bures St. Mary, widow
  dated 1 Feb. 1592/3.
  5. Will of Robert Davis 17 May 1655 rec. at East Cambridge, Mdsx.
  Mass. refers to brother Henry Loker. Wit: Richard Newton.
  6. The home lot of Henry Loker was near the tavern of John Parmenter
  who may be he who witnessed the will of Henrie Loker in 1630.
  7. Will of John Loker 17 June 1653 names brother Henry Loker,
  brother-in-law Robert Davis and "sister Newton".
  
  === ! RESIDENCE: He lived in that part of Bu ===
  ! RESIDENCE: He lived in that part of Bures St. Mary that was in co. Essex. The parish church was in Bures St. Mary, across the river in co. Suffolk. ! LINEAGE: LOKER alias RIDDLESDALE: (Robert, John, Robert). Apparently Henry dropped the name Riddlesdale and went by Loker which had been an alias for many generations before him. The widow and the children only used LOKER after emigrating to New England. ! TRADE: Glover, and not yet in his apprenticeship when hid mother made her will in Feb 1592/3. ! DEATH: Will dated 22 Feb 1630/31 and proved 15 Apr 1631. ! REFERENCES: "Fifty Great Migration Colonists," Threlfall, pg. 321-328. NEHGR 143:329, "Riddlesdale alias Loker."
  
  === !SOURCE: Clare Almond Torrey, Marriages ===
  !SOURCE: Clare Almond Torrey, Marriages before 1700. !NAME: aka RIDDLESDALE DEATH: from Ancestral File, prior believed to be in England. !SOURCE: NEHGR 1989, p.329. Bp. as Henry LOCAR, bur. as Henry LOQUAR
  
  === alias Locar, Loker,Riddlesdale, Lived in ===
  alias Locar, Loker,Riddlesdale, Lived in Essex, church in Suffolk County.was a glover.
  
  === !FAMILY RECORDS: JENNIE WOODBURY LEE !AR ===
  !FAMILY RECORDS: JENNIE WOODBURY LEE !ARCHIVES !SUDBURY VITAL RECORDS !MASSACHUSETTS PIONEERS: 1900, POPE, P. 290 !ANCESTORS OF ORIN NELSON WOODBURY, P. 169 !HISTORY OF SUDBURY, MASS. Line 51529 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: SLGS MT
  
  === !BIRTH: SPOUSE: MARRIAGE: DEATH: Book-Ne ===
  !BIRTH: SPOUSE: MARRIAGE: DEATH: Book-New England Marriages Prior to 1700; Clarence Almon Torrey;1985; Page 470. ! SPOUSE: CHILDREN: DEATH: English Origins of New England Families; New England Historical and Genealogical Register: 1984: Vol 1,Pg 40.
  
  === Will dated 2 Feb 1630/31 proved 15 Apr 1 ===
  Will dated 2 Feb 1630/31 proved 15 Apr 1631: ...to Elizabeth my wife all my goods for life if she remains single, but if she remarries my eldest son Henry is to have my great brass kettle with a little table standing in the parlour, and my son John is to have the long table in the hall and the best barrell. I give to my daughter Bridget a flockbed, a coverlet, a blanket, a bolster, 1 pair of sheets and a deal hutch. I give my younger daughter Ann the best cupboard, 1 of the biggest barrels and a little barrel. If my wife remains single, she shall have the use of these goods during her life. From my stock I give my wife Elizabeth 12 pounds, my son Henry 12 pounds, my son John 10 pounds and 4 pounds each to my daughters Bridget and Ann on their marriage days or after my wife's decease....My wife and sons are to share the use of my household stock, but if a son marries he is to have half his cash legacy at once. I give my daughter Bridget 20s. due to me from John Mathew shoemaker of Bures. Wife Elizabeth and Eldest son Henry sole executors. Witness: John Isaack, Jeffrey Hust, John Parmiter
  
  === Death date is will dated. Am Pub H Vol 6 ===
  Death date is will dated. Am Pub H Vol 63 & 64 p. 281 & 136; A3 G5 p. 17. Archive Record - SLC, UT
  
  === 1. "New England Historical and Genealogi ===
  1. "New England Historical and Genealogical Register," 1909. 2. Archive Record (C,P). 3. Ancestral File.
  
  === Am. Pub. H vol. 63 - 64 page 281 A3GS ===
  Am. Pub. H vol. 63 - 64 page 281 A3GS page 13-17-19. will on page 13 B2E5 R8A11 Am. Pub H vol 63-64. page 281.
  
  === Glover (glove maker). Was to be apprenti ===
  Glover (glove maker). Was to be apprenticed according to his mother's will of 1592. As had his parents before him, he lived in that part of Bures St. Mary which lies south of the River Stour and is Essex county, though the parish church lies north of the river in Suffolk county. Apparently he dropped the name RIDDLESDALE and settled on LOKER which had been an alias for several generations. His widow and children used only LOKER after emigrating to New England. Will dated 22 Feb 1630, proved 15 Apr 1630, witnesses were John Isaack, Jeffrie Hust, John Parmiter. Wife and son Henry sole executors. LDS microfilm 1553696, batch F600546, sheet 38. This family went by the surname of "LOKER alias RIDDLESDALE," or "RIDDLESDALE alias LOKER." No one seems to know which is the original name. It is possible that the original name is REDYSDALE or RYDYSDALE or even REEDS- DALE. Surname also spelled LOCAR. Family group sheet from Robert B. Turner, 348 Edgemoor Rd., Box 1256, Big Bear Lake, CA 92315, (Vicki Russell). Parish Registers. Probate Records at Bures St. Edmunds. T.A.G. 55. N.E.H.G.S. 143:325-331. "Fifty Great MIgration Colonists To New England & Their Origins," by John Brooks Threlfall. Contributed by Douglas Richardson of Tuscon, Arizona. Named co-executor of his father's 1631 will. Information sent by Janice M. Hill, 147 Maine St., Silverton, New Jersey, 201-255-2540. The American Genealogist. Planters of the Commonwealth. "Newton Genealogy," by Ermina Newton Leonard.
  
  === !SOURCE: NEHGR Vol 143 pp 325-331. Will ===
  !SOURCE: NEHGR Vol 143 pp 325-331. Will of Henrie Loker NEHGR Vol 63 p 280. bap. as Locar, parents not named. He was a glover, not yet in his apprenticeship when his mother made her will in Feb. 1592/3. Like his parents and grandparents, he lived in the southern part of the parish of Bures St. Mary which is in Essex. Apparently in his lifetime he dropped the surname Riddlesdale and began regularly using the alias Loker instead, a pattern which his children followed in New England. In his will, dated 22 Feb. 1630/1, witnessed by John Isaack, Jefferie Hust, and John Parmiter, and proved 15 Apr 1631, he called himself Henrie Loker of Bures St. Mary, Essex, glover, and requested burial in the churchyard. Henry Loker's widow and four children went to New England in 1639 and settled in Sudbury, where they consistently used the name Loker. The John Parmiter who witnessed Henry's will was identical with the John Parmenter who also settled in Sudbury, Massachusetts, in 1639. See NEHGR Vol 68:271-272.
  
  === Lawrence L. Loker letter of 31 Jul 1997: ===
  Lawrence L. Loker letter of 31 Jul 1997: He m. Elizabeth French (?), b. in England c. 1600, d. in Bures St. Mary, Essex Co., England, c. 1600. She came to America in 1638/9 after the d. of her husband, settled in Sudbury, MA, with her 2 sons and 2 daus. and d. in Sudbury, MA, on 18 May or 3 Mar 1648.
  
  === !English Origins of New England Families ===
  !English Origins of New England Families, From NEHGR, First Series, Vol. I, Selected by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1984, p. 67. !"Newton Genealogy", Ermina Newton Leonard, Published by Bernard Ammidown Leonard, De Pere, WI, 1915, p. 17.
  
  === Original submitted by Eunice E. Nelson, ===
  Original submitted by Eunice E. Nelson, Chester, Utah. Heir listed asJonathan Calkins Wright. !Source: Am. Pub. H Vol. 63-64 p. 281.
  
  === Noted events in his life and other in ===
  Noted events in his life and other information:
  Background Information: 126
  "Henry was a glover, not yet in his mother made her will in February 1592/93. Like his parents and grandparents, he lived in the southern part of the parish of Bures St. Marry which is in Essex. Apparently in his lifetime he dropped the surname Riddlesdale and began regularly using the alias Locker instead, a pattern which his children followed in New England."
  Henry married Elizabeth French, daughter of Jacob French and Susan Warrenne, about 1604. (Elizabeth French was born in Feb 1587 in Bures Saint Mary, Suffolk, England, christened on 27 Feb 1587 in Assington, Suffolk, England and died on 18 May 1648 in Sudbury, Massachusetts 126 .)
  THE ABOVE INFO TAKEN FROM ALTA VISTA SITE.
  
  BIRTH: Also shown as Born FEB 1576?1577

Preferred Parents:
Father: Robert Henry Loker, b. 1534 in Boxford, Suffolk, England   d. 25 JUN 1591 in Boxford, Babergh District, Suffolk, England
Mother: Lucy Riddlesdale, b. 1536 in Bures Saint Mary, Essex, England   d. 28 FEB 1592 in Bures Saint Mary, Essex, England

Family 1: Elizabeth French,    b. 1586 in Assington, Suffolk, England    d. 18 MAR 1648 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America

• m. ABT 1603 in Bures Saint Mary, Essex, England

1. John Loker I, b. 1608 in Bures Saint Mary, Essex, England     d. 18 JUN 1653 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America

Sources:

1. Title: Article: "Genealogical Research in England," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 63
   Author: Elizabeth French, "Genealogical Research in England," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 63 (July 1909): 280-281.
   Publication: Name: https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/new-england-historical-and-genealogical-register/image?pageName=280&volumeId=11606;
   
2. Title: Article: "The Riddlesdale Alias Loker Family of Bures Saint Mary, Suffolk, England and Sudbury, Massachusetts," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 143
   Author: Douglas Richardson, "The Riddlesdale Alias Loker Family of Bures Saint Mary, Suffolk, England and Sudbury, Massachusetts," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 143 (October 1989): 329-331.
   Publication: Name: https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/new-england-historical-and-genealogical-register/image?pageName=329&volumeId=11712;
   
3. Title: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ordinance Index (TM) (1 Mar 1993 Edition)
   
4. Title: Book: Newton Genealogy
   Author: Ermina Newton Leonard, Newton Genealogy, Genealogical, Biographical, Historical, Being a Record of the Descendants of Richard Newton of Sudbury and Marlborough, Massachusetts, 1638 (De Pere, Wisconsin: Bernard Ammidown Leonard, 1915), 14.
   Publication: Name: https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/61157/46155_b290471-00031?pid=3880822;
   
5. Title: Book: English Origins of New England Families, Volume 1
   Author: Gary Boyd Roberts, English Origins of New England Families, Volume 1 (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1984), 40.
   Publication: Name: https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/48555/EnglishOrigins1Vol1-000278-40;
   
6. Title: Henry Loker, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVG9-QZTP : 24 February 2022), Henry Loker, ; Burial, Bures St Mary, Babergh District, Suffolk, England, St. Mary the Virgin Churchyard; citing record ID 110533191, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVG9-QZTP;
   Page: Same person
   

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