Charles Lockey (1820-1901)
From Historical Hastings
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| Born | 23 April 1820 |
| Died | 3 December 1901 |
| Spouse(s) | Martha Mae Williams (1821-1897) |
Charles Lockey was the proprietor of the town's Music Hall in Robertson Street from around 1858[1] after he had moved to Hastings with his family from Somerset in that year - perhaps to recover from the throat disorder mentioned below[2]. From Census records, he was resident in an apartment at 6 Caroline Place in 1861,[3] moving to Lyndhurst, 1 Elphinstone Road where he died[4]. Charles was well known as a tenor singer, perhaps his best known performance being Mendelssohn's Oratorio 'Elijah'. Soon after his move to Hastings, he gave up performances and much of his public life due to a throat disorder.[5]
Children
| Children of: Charles Lockey and Martha Mae Williams (1821-1897) | |||
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Charles Oliver Lockey (1854-1881)
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| John Beeston Lockey (1858-1941) | 26 April 1858 | 18 March 1941 | |
| Richard Meredith Lockey (1861-)
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| Martha Lockey (1862-)
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References & Notes
- Ancestry: Charles Lockey
- ↑ Osborne's Stranger's Guide to Hastings and St Leonards c1854 Pg. 48 Google Books On this wiki
- ↑ Charles Lockey "UK Census", , 1861; St. Mary in the Castle; page 44, line 220.
- ↑ UK Census 1861
- ↑ "UK Census", , 1901; St. Mary in the Castle; , enumeration district 22 page 9, line 1.
- ↑ Corder, Frederick (1912). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 473.
