Its owners and some historical connections - Lackham Countryside ...

The Manor of Alderton 3 rd edition
proper 354
Ann refused to return to George, although she did live at Lackham
afterwards.
The problems of the succession were not made public - in 1797 the Rev. Samuel
Denne FSA wrote that a friend of his was staying with Colonel Montagu who had
been left “by his brother a noble house built within the last five years situated
in the midst of a good estate and the manor extensive to the river Avon
meandr’ring by a considerable part of it” 355
George and Mrs Dorville eventually moved to Knowle, near Kingsbridge in Devon,
where he died of lockjaw on 28 th August 1815. George’s wife continued to live
at Lackham until about 1808-1809. 356
George and Anne’s son, George Courtenay Conway (henceforth George CC)
Montagu was a spendthrift and
even in 1797 he had already started to sign promisory notes for
ready cash, and by 1799 he was living in the north of England and
elsewhere under an assumed name (sometimes more than one!) in an
effort to dodge his creditors. Thereafter he spent some time, on
and off, living under Kings Bench Rules and thus came the gradual
sale of the estate 357
George CC Montagu married Margaret Green in 1803. She was the daughter of
Richard Green Wilson of Lancaster. They had two sons, Frederick Courtenay,
born in 1805 and Humphrey. There was also a daughter, Eleanora Christine
Courtenay Montagu, who was born in 1811, and married Thomas Keeld Harvey in
1842, having two children.
354 W&SHC 137/59-6, a very large (53 pges of A2 sheets) compilation of judgements
from the Courts over the Estate.
355 Lacock Inscriptions ibid
356 She died at Hotwells, Bristol, then in the county of Somerset, on 10 th February,
1816
357 Lacock inscriptions ibid
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