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Cooke (Lakeview)
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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.
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