Richard Robert Lockwood

    Limehouse, London

d 30 March 1992

    Whitechapel, London

son of George Arthur Lockwood and Emma Blackburn

father of Patricia Ann Lockwood

married Ann Norah Wood

Richard Robert Lockwood, known to everyone as “Bob”, was the 5^th of  nine children born to George Arthur Lockwood and Emma Blackburn. He was born on 31^st January 1916 in the family home at 16 Conder Street , London E14. Home for Bob and his family consisted of two rooms above a Mission Hall at that address.

In July 1940, Bob was conscripted into the RAF serving a total of four years. While on leave on 11 September 1941, he married Ann Norah Wood, the 22 years old daughter of Thomas Charles Wood and Charlotte Edler.

Bob and Ann were separated for three years while he was on war service with the RAF in Africa . A year after his return, the couple had their only child, Patricia Ann Lockwood, born on her mother’s birthday on 2^nd October 1945.Throughout their married life the couple lived in Wapping, London E1.

A long distance lorry driver by profession, Richard Robert Lockwood died at the London Hospital, Whitechapel, London E1 on 30 March 1991. He was 76. Wife Ann Norah Wood pre-deceased him on 26 July 1988 aged 69.