he Lockhart family started out as Locards. They had been in Scotland since David I, Prince of Cumbria, brought several Anglo-Norman knights and nobles with him on his return to take the Scottish throne in 1124. Locards held lands near Penrith in Cumbria and in Annandale – the town of Lockerbie is supposed to have been named after them. The senior family settled in Ayrshire, where Stephen Locard, grandfather of the famous Sir Symon Locard, founded the village of Stevenston. They were also in Dumfriesshire and Peeblesshire, but their primary seat became
