LOVELOCK

LOVELOCK. Lovelocks were " pendent locks of hair, falling near or over the ears, and cut iir a variety of fashions. This ridiculous appendage to the person is often alluded to bj' the writers previous to the Restoration." Halliw. I do not know whether any trace of this fashion is found in the middle ages, though it seems probable that the surname was first bestowed upon some fop who indulged in it. The H.R. mention one Walterus le Loveloker. Was he a cultivator of "love-locks?" I think he is moi'e likely to have followed the sterner occupation of a holier after lores, or wolves. See Love.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.