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LACK Family History

This interesting name is of topographic origin from the Old pre 7th Century English "lacu" applied to someone living by a stream. The name is presumed to relate particularly to Devon and the English west county. Variants of the surname include Lakes and Lakeman. It has emerged as early as the beginning of the 13th Century (see below). One Robert Altelake is recorded in the Pipe Rolls of Surrey (1242). In the London church registers Elizabeth, daughter of William Lacke was noted as christened at "St.