Dear Ms Miller,
Thank you for your query. There are family trees of
the Kipling and the MacDonald famillies in some biographies of Kipling, but
I do not know of one which includes the Lockwood family.
Ms Miller writes:
An English friend asked recently what my family
relationship was to Rudyard
Kipling and I had to confess that I had lost
track, except that I believed
my grandmother to be a cousin. She was a
Lockwood whose family immigrated
to Winnipeg, Canada in the late 19th or
early 20th century from a town near
Manchester whose name escapes me,
following a house fire I believe. She was
younger than Kipling, dying
in the 1960s in her 70s. Her first name was
Bertha, married name Miller, and
she ended up living in southern California.
At one point I found a biography of Kipling in my
parents' house with a
family tree on the inside cover which included my
brother James Lockwood
Miller (born in 1942) but when we emptied the house a
few years ago I could
no longer locate this volume (probably published
mid-40s). Both parents are
now deceased so I have lost my immediate
sources of information.
If you could direct me to a source that might have
a detailed family tree I
would be very grateful. Since I am currently
doing research at an
institution attached to Harvard, I should be able to
locate even obscure or
out-of-print books relatively easily from the Harvard
library. Thank you
for your help.
Sincerely,
Virginia E. Miller
Fellow in
Pre-Columbian Studies
Dumbarton Oaks
1703 32nd St. NW
Washington D.C.
20007
Does anyone know of such a
family tree?
Jane
Keskar
