Just had an interesting if fairly pointless couple of hours of genealogy, showing that HM the Queen is connected to the LOCKING family via her BURNABY ancestors (her mother's maternal line).

The Queen Mother's mother was Cecilia Nina CAVENDISH-BENTINCK (1862-1938). Her mother was Caroline Louisa BURNABY (1832-1918) whose 2x gt grandparents were the Rev Andrew BURNABY (1702-1786) and his wife Hannah BEAUMONT. This couple had Andrew (1732-1812) the Queen's ancestor, and Thomas Beaumont BURNABY (d 1823), who was the father of Mary Wootton BURNABY (1791-1869) who married, in 1824 one Rev Henry LOCKING MA.

I would be more excited; except unfortunately I know very little about the Rev Henry and certainly can't yet connect him to any branch of my own family...

I know he was born in 1796 in Newark, to china, glass and eartheneware dealer Thomas LOCKING and his wife Mary BURTON. He married in his wife's parish of Asfordby in 1824, and in 1825 had a daughter, Harriette Marie in Melton Mowbray, named after his sister and mother. He received his degrees from St. John's College, Cambridge and was for a time curate of Hazlebeach, Northants, under the patronage of his wife's family. He died in Glascomb, Radnorshire, Wales in 1849. I can't find him in the 1841 census, or his widow in the 1851 census. I don't know anything about who his grandparents may have been.

So, interesting, but not connecting yours truly to anyone related to the Queen!

Here is Asfordby Church and the old Rectory, built by Mary's father Thomas Beaumont BURNABY.