Francis Locke Sr.
Francis Locke was born in 1722 in Ireland. He was the son of John and Elizabeth Locke. When he was still young, the family emigrated to Lancaster, Pennsylvania Colony, where Locke grew up. After his father died in 1744, his mother married John Brandon, who eventually moved the family to Anson County, North Carolina Colony. That area of the county was later split off as Rowan County, North Carolina.
Leila Locke
Leila Chaplin was born on 27 April 1936 in London, and was raised in Dartington, Devon. In 1957 she obtained a Diploma in Art Education from Bath Academy of Art, Corsham, specialising in painting, sculpture and pottery. She often returned to teaching in various schools in the UK and Guyana thereafter. At Corsham she had met sculptor Donald Locke. She travelled to Guyana to marry him in 1958. In 1959 she and Donald moved to Edinburgh, whilst he studied at Edinburgh School of Art for four years. She had three children, Hew Locke b. 1959, Jonathan Locke b. 1962 and Corrine Locke b. 1964 with Donald Locke. They divorced in the late 1970s. She died on 11 April 1992 in a hospital on Barbados.