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The Manor of Lackham IV : 19 th & 20 th century owners Another son, who was not present that census day, was Octavius Cobb Rooke, he lived at Dean Hall, in Gloucestershire, family home of his wife Augusta Pyre. Actually it is debatable how much time he spent at Dean hall, he was in the Army and serving all over the world; in 1851, for example, he was with 3 rd (East Kent) Foot ( The Buffs) in Malta, listed on their manifest as Lieutenant Octavius Cobb Rooke 97 . He had purchased his Lieutenancy from Lt. Smith on 10 th December 1847 98 having been an ensign in the same regiment since November 1846 99 . He was the most junior (ie newest) ensign in the regiment. He was still in the Buffs in 1849 but in April 1652 he sold his commission 100 and joined the Royal, South Gloucester Light Infantry Militia regiment, where he was regimental adjutant and was appointed Captain 101 . This was almost certainly connected with his marriage, in September that year 102 , to Augusta, the daughter of Dunscombe Pyre of Dean Hall in Gloucestershire, where they lived for many years. A third son was Alexander Beaumont Rooke , who lived at The Ridge near Corsham . He served in the 77 th Regiment of Foot, having joined the regiment in 1839 103 as an Ensign, without purchasing the position, as a 97 The British Army Garrison in Malta. 1851 – 1880 June 1851 at http://website.lineone.net/~remosliema/regiments2.htm dated 20 Nov 1846 [from Boase, F (1853) Modern English Biography vol 6 p2116] 98 Pollock, AWA (1848) Colburn’s United service’s Magazine vol 56 p472 [date from Boase, F (1853)see below] 99 War Office A list of officers of the Army and corps of Royal Marines 1847 p159 100 Boase, F (1853) Modern English Biography vol 6 p2116 dated 16 July 1852 101 Watts, F (1853) Bulletins and other State Intelligence for the year 1852 p614 Commissions signed by the Lord lieutenant of Gloucestershire dated Septmeber 17 1852 102 Burke, B (1863) A genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland p1292. They married on September 1 st 103 The New Army List 1844 p219 gives him as an Ensign 25 th Jan 1839 37
The Manor of Lackham IV : 19 th & 20 th century owners Gentleman Cadet directly from the Royal Military College 104 . He replaced Ensign Molyneaux Hyde Nepean who had been promoted to the 41 st Foot as Lieutenant, replacing Lt. Hill, who had died 105 . Alexander Beaumont became a Lieutenant in 1840 106 . It is unclear when he left the army but was before November 1844. When his marriage, to Ellen Clutterbuck the daughter of Thomas Clutterbuck of Hardenhuish House, Chippenham, was reported in the Gentleman’s Magazine Alexander was described as being “late of the 77 th Foot 107 ”. Alexander next appears twenty years later as a Gloucestershire Justice of the Peace in ,1864 108 when he was living at Avening, near Stroud. The Post Office directory 109 shows him there in 1863 but doesn’t say whether he was a JP at the time.. He bought The Ivy in Chippenham in 1869 110 and was a local JP for, many years. - still serving on the Bench nearly 30 years later when Queen Victoria celebrated her Diamond Jubilee 111 in 1897. The Rooke’s other son, Francis was born in 1825. He entered the Royal Naval College in July 1836 , when he was 11, and the following year, as a volunteer, joined HMS Talavera 112 . He voyaged to the Mediterranean 104 The United Service Journal 1839 part 1 p428 105 The United Service Journal 1839 ibid 106 War Office A list of officers of the Army and corps of Royal Marines 1840 p262. One 14 th June 1842 by purchase [New Army List ibid] 107 Gentleman’s Magazine vol 177 p540 November 1844 108 Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Directory 1864 p70 Justices of the Peace 109 Post Office Directory of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire and the City of Bristol 1863 p192 110 Barnett, G & Jefferies, S (1985) 100 photographs of Chippenham Past Chippenham Civic Society ISDN 0 948251 05 0 p97 and Rooke, S (2003) ibid 111 see Wiltshire Gazette for many reports concerning him as JP in this year, and previous years. 112 http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowShip.php?id=2360 38
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