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

The Manor of Lackham IV : 19 th & 20 th century owners
Hence the children of Anne Wallace and Frederick Rooke were the
only descendants of the Alexander Wallace and Davida Patterson Rollo.
Four years after Anne’s death in 1829, Fredrick married Harriet Hyde,
the fifth daughter of Nathan Hyde of Arnwick in Lancashire. They
were married at Sherborne in Warwickshire in September 1833 77 .
They had no children but it was Harriet who was the Lackham Mrs.
Rooke.
The Lackham estate was 590 acres when Capt. Rooke purchased it two
years later, in 1835, 78 at a cost of £30,000. Details of the Lackham
itself are known from information “Extracted from the survey by Mr
Little of Biddestone of the Parish of Lacock in the county of Wilts so
far as respects Lackham House and lands agreed to be sold to Capt.
Rooke “ 79 The date of this survey is not known but was presumably
77 September 10 th The United Service Journal 1833 pt 3 p 287
78 Rooke, Susan pers. comm. 2003
79 W&SHC 44/6
Acres Rods Poles
Fish pond and small wood 3 0 21
Rape Pond 16 1 28
Wood Lye 14 1 8
Green Lye 15 1 20
Old Barton 10 2 4
Rookery 9 0 30
Hermitage 2 0 17
Old garden and lawn 7 1 10
North front 4 3 3
ditto 4 2 6
Bradley 8 0 13
Fifteen acres 15 0 0
Old Orchard 10 3 31
Boltham? 4 1 0
Lackham Woods 52 0 17
Lackham house, garden )
Coachhouse Stables ) 3 0 32
and Pleasure grounds )
Coach road and )
Plantations )
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