My personal interest into the Lockey surname started with a book published in the 1980's "Lockey-Peyton and Related Families" by Grace Adele Lockey. My maternal grandmother was a Lockey, and I can trace her lineage six generations inside the United States. Personally, my research is still centered in the U.S., however, DNA analysis shows my generation holds around 30-40% English and an additional 30% Scottish. The oldest Lockey relative I've DNA tested comes up 37% English with an additional 17% Central Europe and 31% Irish. I know the linkages are out there, just have to find them!

The surname project is in it's absolute infantcy. I welcome any and all inquiries as well as project help volunteers.

The current project database I have contains 1,722 individuals, making up 627 family units - all descendants of one Henry Lockey (who died in 1715). There's still a lot of research for me to do yet, I started with my own family centered in the state of Louisiana and worked backwards. The migratory trail leads backwards from Louisiana to Alabama, through North Carolina and up towards New York. A few settled in Florida.

I'm not currently looking at any variants of the surname.

It is purported that the origin of Lockey is in England, but I have not yet traced the American Lockey's difinitively outside of the United States. There are quite a large number just within the U.S. to contend with.

,Ancestry.com shows over 30,000 instances among all their collections of the surname Lockey (exact match).

Familysearch.com comes in at 409,714 instances across all their collections for the Lockey surname (exact match).

FreeBMD.org.uk returns 4,296 birth records for the surname Lockey.

As you can see, there's a lot of data to work through, and I've only just begun.

I currently house all of my research in an offline database via Legacy Family Tree v9 software. A free version of their software can be downloaded from their website, and I'm happy to supply a GEDCOM of deceased persons only. I do have living persons in my dataset. I source everything I find, even the smallest of details. I do have future plans to get TNG going on a website for the project at a later date.

If you have data you are willing to contribute to the study, by all means, contact me!

I have a project on Family Tree DNA that is one-place. It consists currently of ten of my direct line Lockey's DNA. I also have ten additional Lockey DNA tests on Ancestry. - I will be happy to create a DNA project via Family Tree DNA with enough additional Lockey surname participant requests to trace lines. Please reach out to me if you are interested in testing and becoming part of a DNA project.