The owners of Lackham in the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries ...

The Manor of Lackham IV : 19 th & 20 th century owners
The private banking house of Seton 72 , Wallace & Co. was
established in Edinburgh in 1791. It does not seem to have
existed for more than fifteen years, as the firm is not
mentioned after 1805 ; probably owing to the death of Mr.
Alex. Wallace on 12th June 1804 73
He was also an expert archer; he “gained the Musselburgh arrow at the
annual competition of the Royal Society of Archers in the years 1770,
1780, 1788, and 1792.” 74 .
Anne Wallace had 5 brothers of whom only two married and only one of
them, Robert, had an heir. All her five sisters died young and unmarried,
she was the only daughter to produce children 75 . She made up for this,
she and Frederick Rook had seven sons and three daughters
Miss Susan Rooke states that
FW Rooke married Anne Wallace (died 1829), daughter of
Alexander Wallace of Edinburgh who was heiress to her elder
brother Robert 76
The reason for this was that Anne’s brother Robert had died in
September 1801, a month before the birth of his only son, another
Robert, to his wife Mary Anne Oliver. This child was Robert’s heir, but
he died in 1824, five years before Anne Wallace, and so she inherited.
72 It is noted that this partner of Anne Wallace’s father probably inspired the
first name of one of her sons, Seton Rooke
73 Kerr, AW (1908) The History of Banking in Scotland Chapter XII The Crisis
of 11793 and 1797 at
http://www.electricscotland.com/history/banking/chapter12.htm
74 Rogers, Charles (1889) The Book of Wallace vol 1 p148
75 Rogers, Charles (1889) ibid
76 Rooke, S pers. comm. 2003
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