Walter Palk
Syon Monastery
, Twickenham, Middlesex, dissolved by King Henry VIII, took up residenceWalter Palk (1742-1819), of
Sheriff of Devon (1791-2) and in 1798 was a Captain in the Ashburton Volunteer Militia,[4] one of many such units formed across Devon to counter a possible invasion by Napoleon
.
Origins
He was the eldest son of Walter Palk (d.1801) of Headborough and Yolland Hill, in the parish of Ashburton, a small farmer and clothier, by his first wife Thomasine Withecombe of Priestaford, Ashburton., between 1768 and 1774.
Landholdings
Shortly before 1810 he purchased the manor of Rattery together with several local estates, and built Marley House, a large Georgian country house, as his new seat within the parish of Rattery.[5]
Marriage and children
On 15 February 1782 he married Elizabeth Lyde, by whom he had two daughters,[4] only one of whom survived:
- Elizabeth Palk, only daughter[6] and sole heiress, who in 1806 married Sir Henry Carew, 7th Baronet (1779–1830) of Haccombe in Devon.
References
- ^ Polwhele, Richard, History of Devonshire, 3 Vols., Vol.2, London, 1793, p.181, footnote
- ^ "the family seat" History of Parliament biography
- History of Parliament biography [1]
- ^ a b c d History of Parliament biography
- ^ Risdon, Tristram (d.1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, p.380
- ^ Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.145, pedigree of Carew