Cooke (Lakeview)
O’Brien writes that Thomas Cooke, an army volunteer, came to Athlone in 1742. He leased the lands of Retreat and later bought them. By his wife Jane Horsbrough he had 23 children. He was succeeded by his son Thomas in 1798 who married Elizabeth Dawson of Noughavel, who died at Lakeview House in 1849. He died in 1810 and his son, another Thomas, inherited the estate but died the following year. His brother William succeeded to the estate which at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) was located in the parish of St Mary’s Athlone. William married twice, on both occasions to members of the Chute family. He died in 1864. By his first wife he had two sons, the Rev William and Falkiner. In the mid-1870s the Rev William Cooke of Newtownbarry, county Wexford, owned 626 acres in county Westmeath.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Court Devenish | Athlone | St Mary's | Athlone | Athlone East | Westmeath |
OSI Ref: N041416
OS Sheet: 29 Discovery map: 47 |
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| Woodville | Lissywollen | St Mary's | Athlone | Athlone East Rural | Westmeath |
OSI Ref: N065423
OS Sheet: 29 Discovery map: 47 |
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| Retreat | Lissywollen | St Mary's | Athlone | Athlone East Rural | Westmeath |
OSI Ref: N055419
OS Sheet: 29 Discovery map: 47 |
Contemporary printed sources
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 83
- HUSSEY DE BURGH, U. H. ''The Landowners of Ireland. An alphabetical list of the owners of estates of 500 acres or £500 valuation and upwards in Ireland''. Dublin: Hodges, Foster and Figgis, 1878. [available online at www.askaboutireland.ie] : 96
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Athlone Union, 94 (Court Devenish); 117 (Woodville and Retreat)
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 87 (Woodville and Retreat)
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 334 (Woodville)