Ephraim Boake

The beech tree: a history and genealogy of the Boake family of England, Ireland, America and Canada from 1333-1970. By Dorothy Sue Boake

As a young man he managed to amass quite a good deal of property as he owned lands at Mullamast, Co. Kildare, owned a house and a mill at Baltinglass, Co. Wicklow, and owned a large piece of land at Ballitore on which he built his home, known as Boakefield House.

Ephraim Boake's farm consisted of about 300 acres and his home, Boakefield, was a large Georgian style mansion, the central part consisting of three stories flanked by two wings of two stories each.The front of the house faced a large meadow with a pond and a few large trees.

Ephraim's photo shows Boakefield House. The gateposts were built about 1770.