If you can clarify the Lockwood/Kipling link (other than the fact that Frances Lockwood married Joseph Kipling) I should be most interested. Do you have any information on the birth of William Lockwood of Skelton in Cleveland (Rudyard Kipling's great grandfather). I know that his daughter Jane married a Skelton farmer in Whitby which is where my Lockwood family were living at the time. I am assured of some sort of link but that is unproven as yet.