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Category: 29. Genealogical materials
OMAR001. O'Mara, Richard. “Among
Lumbees, Locklear is the name of the game.” Baltimore Sun
12 October 1993: 6A (Tuesday)
Publication type: Newspaper article
The director of the American Indian Center in
Baltimore estimates
that 20-30% of Lumbees have the surname Locklear. It
is the
“Smith” of the Lumbee people but was not on the
list of Lost
Colonists and is not a common name in Great Britain.
The name is
unique to the Lumbee and to Robeson County. Most people
with this
last name have some Lumbee (Robeson County) ties. Locklear
may be a
Siouan word. Elders who testified before Congress in
the early
1900s pronounced it “Locklaha,” meaning “falling
water.”
Additional subjects: Locklear (Surname/Genealogy) | Baltimore
(MD) - Lumbee settlement in
This annotation was edited on: June 21, 2002
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