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"Experts on human personality tell us there are three things people really need to live a rich and happy life. The first thing is to know where you come from, to know your heritage. The second is for our lives to have a purpose or a sense of significance. The third and most important thing is that along the way we connect with other people. If you look around the room to each other we should consider ourselves very fortunate because we can find all three of those things right here in this room. We should be thankful that we live in a country where this is possible and to be part of a family that helped make it so. We should consider ourselves very rich." - Tom Hunt at the 120th annual family reunion.
Our Purpose
We are a family organization that puts as great an emphasis on the fellowship of modern Locke descendants as on the traditional genealogical pursuits of collecting and publishing data and preserving Locke artifacts.
Our Annual Reunions
We hold an annual reunion to celebrate the family's accomplishments every year on the first Saturday in August, usually in Rye, New Hampshire. We have done this since our founding without fail, even through two world wars. Over 300 cousins attended our 100th reunion and over 100 cousins commemorated the 300th anniversary of the death of our ancestor, Captain John Locke.
New Links
Check out our Links page for a new link to another namesake town, Lockeport, Nova Scotia.
News
The 123rd Locke Family Association Reunion will be held in Concord, New Hampshire running Friday, August 2 through Sunday, August 4, 2013, with the annual meeting on Saturday.
The new brochure should be arriving in your mailbox with the latest edition of the newsletter, but you can also download a copy of the pdf brochure.
More News
Supplement III, originally announced in the Fall 2003 issue of the newsletter, has kicked off. BUT, there are significant changes to the process. Follow the link for more details.