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The nearest tomb to the camera is for Roland Okeover, his family and descendants. Roland became Lord of the Manor of Oldbury (of which Mancetter then formed part) in 1745 through marriage. In 1672 Dorothy Farmer, widow, held the manor of Oldbury. She was apparently the granddaughter of Richard Whitehall by his first wife Joan Wriothesley, and had married John Farmer of Baddesley. Her son John Farmer held Oldbury in 1730 and seems to have left two sons, John and Matthew, and a daughter Elizabeth, who married Thomas Okeover. Rowland, the son of Thomas married Patience daughter of Matthew Farmer and inherited Oldbury from his wife's uncle John. The manor then passed to the descendants of Rowland by his second wife Alice Gregory, and the Okeovers were lords of the manor from 1745 onwards, Haughton Charles Okeover being so described in 1850.

'Parishes: Mancetter', in A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 4, Hemlingford Hundred, ed. L F Salzman (London, 1947), pp. 116-126. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/warks/vol4/pp116-126 [accessed 5 September 2023].