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The Manor of Lackham Vol 3 : The Montagu family Another survey was carried out twenty years later, 461 , apparently made with the rental of the estates in mind. At this time Lackham Estate included nine farms 462 , Lackham Manor 463 , and two mills 464 (it is noted 461 Brown, Thomas (1812) The Montagu estates of Lackham and Alderton, a valuation W&SHC 14305 / 16 462 Brown, Thomas (1812) ibid Great Lodge Farm, 108 acres 1 rod, 13 poles (hereafter figures given in this order and unspecified), tenant William Hancock Middle Farm 243 2 3 James Hancock Little Lodge Farm 246 2 12 John Howell Cuckoo Bush Farm 89 3 1 and Notton Farm 240 0 0 Thomas Rummings New End Farm 84 2 30 Robert Hooper Bewley Court Farm 93 2 27 Isaac Joice but this included an amount of property leased to others Cattridge Farm 152 3 39 William Taylor. Nocketts Hill Farm 108 1 13 George Archard. This last is interesting, the Archard family still lives locally around Gastard; Pat Archard was, for very many, years the Horticultural Technician at Lackham, she was a student of the College before that. George was still a tenant in 1819, see below. Thomas Rummings, who was the tenant farmer at Notton Farm, also held land on the borders of the Lackham estate. 463 Brown, Thomas (1812) ibid Lackham House (in hand) River Avon 23 3 10 Oxen Lease Meadow 14 1 9 Old Orchard “ 10 3 5 Boulton “ 4 0 34 Water Walk “ 1 2 0 Willow Bed Willows 1 3 26 Lackham Wood Wood 42 0 38 Kitchen Garden Garden 1 2 16 Bradley Meadow 7 3 13 Manor house & Offices 1 17 Park Pasture 87 0 35 Rake pond & willow bed 2 3 36 464 Brown (1812) ibid Arnolds Mill 33, 3, 16 W. Beak 114
The Manor of Lackham Vol 3 : The Montagu family that in the Domesday survey Lackham had two mills, whether these were the same two is not known but it is possible). The total figure given for the 1812 valuation is slightly different from the tithe returns at 2,180 acres, 1 rod 31 poles, and was valued at £5, 526 2s 4d, but it was proposed that 191 acres would be let separately from the rest of the estate. The Trustees in overall control of the estate were appointed by Court of Chancery; for example in 1813 the Court appointed Robert Ashe and William Hughes to be charged with this duty. George CC Montagu had a roving eye. His wife eventually found out about his illegitimate children in 1823, when she “commence[d] divorce proceedings against him in this court for the furtherance of obtaining a divorce from Bed Board and mutual cohabitation with her husband on 10 May 1824” 465 ; George defended himself by declaring that the marriage wasn’t legal in the first place, hence the court case referred to. The Court found the marriage lawful and proved on Thursday 7 July 1825. It is interesting to note that George may have tried to disappear in 1819. The local paper carried an obituary for him “On Friday last,[late August] aged 43, suddenly George Conway Montagu esq of Lackham House in this county 466 , which agrees with Vernon and also with an article about George Conway Montagu published in the Wiltshire Times by Kite 467 but he didn’t die then and continues in the record for some considerable time. 468 Ray Cloth and Gryst Mill 28, 2, 12 Robert Wiggle and Robert Ray These were actually separate mills, Robert Wiggle ran the Cloth Mill and Robert Ray the Gryst Mill, 465 W&SHC 44/1, Preamble 466 Devizes and Wilts Gazette September 2nd 1819 467 Wiltshire Times February 7 th and 14 th , 1929 468 The story of George Montagu and his son is complicated, for further details 115
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