From: flake at netrax.net (Frank Lake)
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 22:34:20 -0400
Subject: English LAKEs

Just a little tit-bit for anyone interested in LAKE families in England, now
or for future searchers of the archives.

My June issue of the Genealogists' Magazine (from the Society of
Genealogists, London) informs me that among the new Library acquisitions,
under Surname Document Collections, subsection Pedigrees, there are some
documents? and/or a pedigree? of the name LAKE with connections with the
counties of Dorset, Sussex and Hampshire.

If anyone wishes to view these documents and happens to be in London, use of
the SoG Library for non-members is possible by payment. Charges are by the
hour, half day or full day.

I am not too sure which family of Lakes this pedigree refers. I know there
was a Thomas Lake, later Sir Thomas, courtier to Elizabeth I and one of
James I's Secretary of State. He was eventually banished from Court,
imprisoned in the Tower for a few months and then retired to the country. He
came from Southampton, Hampshire and retired to Middlesex, where his
descendants lived until all the male heirs died out. I do not believe they
had a connection with Dorset or Sussex. It is probably another family. I do
know there is a place called LAKE not far from the Hampshire-Dorset border,
close to Bournemouth. There are a number of places named LAKE, especially in
the south of England, but usually too small to get on a map. Devonshire
supposedly has twenty-two such places.

I hope someday this may help some lost Lake researcher.

Frank Lake in Pennsylvania
PS please note my new email address



From: flake at netrax.net (Frank Lake)
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 21:50:59 -0400
Subject: [lake-surname] English LAKEs

Hi Arthur,

There was a mill operated by Lakes in the 14 - 1600's near the Roman Road
just north of Broadstone, near Poole, Dorset.

I have not found Broadstone yet but the only road that looks straight enough
to be Roman appears to run N & S somewhat closer to Christ Church (Hants.)
than Poole then up to near Salisbury. I am looking on my 1840 Moule county
map which is not known for its accuracy but has some names that later maps
do not.
Have you seen the site where you can download the OS 6" to the mile maps
with dates from 1860-1890? http://www.old-maps.co.uk/index.htm
It is best to save the maps onto your hard drive before printing them. There
is no zoom out, you need to know where you are because the scale is about
one or two miles to my monitor screen.

The LAKE place name I remember is on one of the main roads from Ringwood to
Bournemouth, on the outskirts of Bournemouth.

There is a place called Lake somewhat east of the center of the Isle of
Wight and another just to the north of Dorset in Wiltshire. I assume,
probably incorrectly, that Sir Thomas's ancestors came from one or the other
but maybe from your millers. His father was a Southampton tradesman, or so
his enemies at court claimed. I would be interested in the details of your
millers and the Cheeke / Bridges / Seymour /LAKE connection. I may just pass
on the Cromwells. I always wondered who was the worst, Wolsey or Cromwell.
Probably both.

I am afraid I have no definite plans to visit England and the SoG, just a
goal. That may have been different if I had won the office draw today - two
airline tickets to Europe.

Frank

> There was a mill operated by Lakes in the 14 - 1600's near the Roman Road
> just north of Broadstone, near Poole, Dorset.  I think the owners
succombed
> to the plague or migrated.
>
> Its hard to find material otherwise for the Dorset Lakes.
>
> There were Lakes married into the Cheeke / Bridges / Seymour families,
some
> of whom had land in the counties you mention.