George Blake the testator is the son of Humphrey Blake and Sara Williams who lived at Bridgwater, Somerset. George is a brother to Admiral Robert Blake. This line continues back to Robert Blake and Margaret Symonds also of Bridgwater and thence back to Humphrey Blake and Ann (unknown) who lived at Overstowey. The father of Humphrey is not known reliably but is suspected to be John Blake who is shown on the Blake Pedigree Chart held by the Swindon and Wiltshire Record Office. John was a son of William Blake and Margaret Browne. This William was then the son of David Blake and Joane Mallet. This David then being a son of John Blake/Blague and Margaret Dyncham (first wife). This John does not mention having a son by his first wife in his will of 1504.
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2012/10/will-of-john-blake-national-archives.html
If this can ever be proven to be correct (the lineage back) then the Somerset Blake family of Overstowey/Bridgwater would be descendant of the Blake family of Calne/Quemberford Wiltshire.
Always nice to be able to link a will to a known family line and George mentions his children George and Robert, and daughters Sarah, Elizabeth, Bridget and Jane (married to William Bickton) as well as his wife Jane.
To help link this George with the family at Bridgwater his brother William mentions “the children of my brother George Blake of Plymouth George, Robert, Sarah, Elisabeth and Bridget, deceased” in his will of 24th Oct 1667 so George has died by 24th October 1667 although his will is not probated until 19 Feb 1667/68. George the testator is mentioned in his brother Admiral Robert Blake’s will of 1655 (proved 1657).
There are a number of marriages in the right timeframe in the LDS but none to a Jane.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 26 Jun 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/326/267
Testator: George Blake, Gentleman
Place: Plymouth, Devon, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 3 Feb 1666, probated 19 Feb 1667/68
Condition: 17th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: T[esta]m[ent]
[Margin]: Georij
[Margin]: Blake
1 In the Name of God Amen I George
2 Blake of the Borrough of Plimouth in the County of Devon Gentl being weake
3 and sicke of of Body but of a sound mind and perfect memory praised bee to God
4 for the same doe declare my last Will and Testament to bee in manner and forme as
5 hereafter followeth That is to say Imprimis I commend my Soule to God my Createur
6 who gave it mee hopeing and surely trusting that in and by the merits of my deare
7 Saviour Jesus Christ I shall enioy eternall rest and happiness with him in the highest
8 heavens And my Bodye to Christian Buriall handsomely and decently to bee interred And
9 for my Worldly Goods and Estate which it hath pleased God to bestowe upon mee I doe
10 give and bequeath in manner following I doe hereby give unto my two Sonnes George
11 and Robert All that Messuage Tenement and dwelling house Garden and Outhouses
12 and all and every the appurtenances wherein Doctor Roger Ashton now liveth and the
13 Two
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14 Two Barnes adioyning thereunto Sictuate and being in the Borrough of Plimouth
15 equally to bee devided betwixt them To have and to hold the same to them their Executors
16 administrators and assignes dureing the full Tearme and Estate I have therein Item
17 I doe hereby give and bequeath unto my daughter Sarah All that Messuage dwelling
18 house and Garden with its appurten[an]ces Sictuate in Plimouth and wherein one John
19 Dunbarre lately lived it being the Northerne Tenement of thesew three Tenements
20 or howses I lately erected in Plimouth and adioyning to the Garden Docteur Ashton
21 holdeth Item I doe give and bequeath unto my Daughter Elizabeth All that Messuage
22 dwelling house and Garden with the appurtenances in Plimouth wherein Katherine
23 Everdon now liveth being the Midle Tenement of the Three Tenements or houses I
24 erected as aforesaid Item I doe hereby give unto my Daughter Bridgett All that
25 Messuage Tenement and dwelling house and Garden with the appurten[an]ces wherein I now
26 live being the Southerne Tenement of the aforesaid Three Tenements The profits of all
27 the aforemencioned Tenements and Messuages with all and every of their appurtenances
28 soe given and bequeathed as aforesaid to come and bee unto my Wife Jane until my
29 children aforesaid shalbe married respectively Provided my wife mainteyne them
30 necessaries until their severall marriages they remaining with her And the Tenement
31 and house given to my daughter Bridgett as aforesaid to bee and remaine unto my Wife
32 after the marriage of the said Bridgett soe long as my Wife shall put unto her or her
33 assignes Six pounds every yeare for the same Item I doe hereby give and bequeath
34 unto my Wife Jane Blake, All that Messuage Tenement and dwelling house Garden
35 outhouses and all other the appurtenances Sictuate and being in Plymouth neere the
36 Middle hoe Lane and which one Docteur Thomas Spencer now holdeth and dwelleth
37 in To have and to hold the same with all and every the appurtenances unto my said Wife
38 and to her Assignes dureing the Tearme of her natural life And after the decease of my
39 said wife the one Moyety of the last mencioned Tenement I doe give unto my Sonne George
40 during the Remainder of the Lease I have in the last mencioned p[re]misses And the other Moiety
41 of this last mencioned Tenement wherein Docteur Thomas Spencer now liveth After my
42 wifes decease I give unto my Sonne in Law William Bickton during the remainder of
43 the said Lease and is in part of a marriage Porcion with my daughter Jane his now
44 wife And Lastly All the Remainder of my Goods and Chattells whatsoever I doe hereby
45 give and Bequeath unto my said Wife to bee given by her amongst my other Children as
46 shee shall thinke fit my Debts being paid and doe make my said Wife my Sole Executrix
47 of this my last Will and Testament In witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand
48 and Seale This Third of February Anno dom[ini] 1666 George Blake Sealed and
49 Published in the p[re]sence of Tho: Spenser Rich: Rowe
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Will of George Blake, Gentleman, Plymstock - The National Archives PROB 11/244/607, probated 16 Aug 1655
Will of George Blake and this is the third of 25 Devon wills that I will be transcribing over the next month or so. I know of three Blake lines in Devon; I do not know if they are related although it is possible that one is descendant of the Somerset Blake family and one of the Hampshire Blake family. Were they related? That is one of the many reasons for the yDNA study of the Blake family and as it slowly grows we are on a voyage of discovery trying to learn more about the deep ancestry of this very interesting British Isles family.
As mentioned in the will of Ferdinando Blake, George is the first cousin once removed of the testator Ferdinand Blake whose will was probated last:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/06/will-of-ferdinando-blake-elder.html
From the Visitation of Devon 1620 and signed by John Blake the father of this George the testator, John Blake father of George married Dorithie Wood and they had four sons and three daughters namely: John (bc 1608), George, Nicholas and Edward and Suzan, Elizabeth and Jane. George is born before 1620 and probably closer to 1608 so is probably in his 40s when he died. George’s father and Ferdinand were half brothers in that Ferdinand was the son of John Blake and Mary Fortescue and John was the son of John Blake and Elizabeth Slannig (John was actually married a third time to Grace Cock). John the father of John (eldest) and Ferdinand 2nd son was himself the son of John Blake and Stivolla Weeke and in turn this John was the son of John Blake also of Comb and Elizabeth Lugar. Using a somewhat arbitrary scale of 25 years to a generation and knowing that George’s brother was 12 at the taking of the Visitation then his father John was born circa 1583, his father John was born circa 1558 and his father John would be born circa 1533. Investigating the Parish Registers for Combe may be a good next step to look at this particular Blake family. They married primarily into Devon families.
Always nice to link families together and indeed as mentioned in the will of Ferdinand his son Ferdinand sold the property at Combe in 1663/64. The Blake family in Devon can be found at Combe and at North Molton but also in the Plymouth area as likely founding families (although they could have migrated to Devon from elsewhere).
The marriage of William Coram and Jana Blake was celebrated 28 Oct 1639 at Buckland Monachorum, Devon. There was a William Coram son of William baptized 7 Mar 1644 at Ottery St Mary. This Jana Blake is a sister to George the testator and is presumably Jane.
There are references at the beginning and the end of the will in the margin possibly referring to land dealings with respect to Combe in 1666 noting that the eventual inheritor of the land was to be the son of Ferdinand - Ferdinand and that in 1663/64 Ferdinand and his wife Ruth sold the property. There were apparently court cases involving this particular piece of property for a number of years following the sale of the property to the Fortescue family (noting that the grandmother of the seller (mother of Ferdinand the testator in the will published earlier) was Mary Fortescue.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 24 Jun 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/244/607
Testator: George Blake, Gentleman
Place: Plymstock, Devon, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 20 May 1654, probated 16 Aug 1655
Condition: 17th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: T[estament] Georij
[Margin]: Blake
[Margin]: ______________________ 1666
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 I George Blake of Combe within the parishe of
3 of Plymstock in the Countie of Devon gent beinge sicke of
4 bodie but perfect of minde and sound of memorie Thanks
5 be unto God and knowinge it is appointed that all men
6 might dye and nothinge more certaine then death but
7 The tyme when where and howe most uncertaine
8 therefore whiles God hath given me time and life I
9 doe make and ordaine this my last Will and Testamewnt
10 in manner and forme following First I commend my
11 Sowle into the hands of the Everliving God my Creator And my
12 Bodie to the Earth the mother of all mankind Trusting assuredly
13 that through the merits and bloudy passion of Jesus Christ
14 myne onely Saviour and Redeemer both Sowle and bodye shall
15 at the general day of resurrection be againe reunited and enioy
16 everlasting blessedness in his heavenly kingdome for evermore
17 And touching my reall and personal estate which God in his
18 great mercie hath blessed me withal I doe thereof dispose and
19 bequeath the same as followeth First I give unto the poore
20 people of Plymstocke aforesaid Twenty shillings to be distributed
21 amongst them by myne Executrix hereafter named in suich
22 manner as she shall thincke fit And whereas my beloved wife
23 Johan Blake
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24 Johan Blake is to have an enioye one annuitye or yearelie rent
25 charge of Fiftie poundes to be issuing and payeable unto her
26 after my death dureing her life out of all that my Capitall messuage
27 Barton Farme lands and Tenements commonly called or knowne by the
28 name of Combe otherwise Combe Pryors and Lower Combe situate
29 lyinge within the said parishe of Plymstock and nowe in the tenure
30 possession or occupant[i]on of me the said George Blake mine Under-
31 tenants or assignes I doe nowe in recompence of her love and
32 faithfulness towards me and for her better preferment and livelihood
33 give devise and bequeath unto the said Johane my loveinge wife
34 All the said Capitall messuage Barton Farme Tenements
35 and all houses edifices buildinges courtledges gardens
36 orchards lands meadowes leasows pasture woods underwoodes
37 wasts ways pathes waters watercourses easements priviledges
38 profits commodityes and hereditaments with thappurtenancs to
39 the said Capitall messuage Barton and farme or to any or
40 either of them incident belonging or in any wise apperteyninge
41 To have and to hould the same unto my said loveinge wife
42 ymmediately from and after my death for and dureing the tearms
43 of her life Provided it shalbe lawfull for the said Johane to get
44 the same premises or any yt thereof to any person or persons for the terme of twentie years lease
45 or under at her pleasure And after her death my Will and meaning
46 is and I doe hereby give and devise all the said Capitall messuage
47 Barton and Farme of Combe otherwise called Combe Pryors
48 and Lower Combe and all other thaforesaid premises and every
49 part and parcel thereof with thappurtenancs to my nephew
50 William Corham sonne of my sister Joane late the wife of
51 William Corham deceased To have and to hould the same
52 unto my said nephew William Corham his Executors
53 administrators and Assignes ymediatelie from and after the death
54 of the said Johane my wife for and duringe the tenure of
55 fower score and nyneteene yeares then next ensueinge fullie
56 to be complete and ended if the said William Corham my
57 nephew and such women as shalbe his wife at the time of his
58 death and his eldest child w[hi]ch shalbe liveinge at the time of
59 his death or any or either of them soe longe shall happen to live
60 they yeildinge and paying then therefore yearelie unto such as
61 shalbe myne heires and assignes thereof the annuall rent of
62 fower poundes lawfull money of England at fower the most
63 usuall Feastes in the yeare (that is to saie) The feasts of the
64 Nativitie of St John the Baptist St Michaell Tharkangell
65 the birth of our Lord God and thann[un]cia[t]ion of the blessed Virgin
66 Mary by even and equall por[t]tions to be paid dureing the saide
67 terme The first payment thereof to commence and begin at such
68 of the said feasts as shall first happen next after the death of
69 the said Johane my wife and alsoe repayringe and mainteyninge
70 the said premises and every part thereof in all needful and
71 necessarie reparactions when and as often as neede shalbe And
72 towards the reparations thereof it shall and may be lawfull
73 to and for my said nephew his Executors and Assignes to have
74 and take sufficient and necessarie houseboote and great timber
75 plougheboote, fireboote, hayboote, hedgeboote Frith and stukey
76 of the Trees woodes and underwoodes in and upon the premises
77 growing or hereafter to be growing when and as often as
78 neede shalbe without delivery doeing noe voluntarie wast Alsoe
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79 I give and bequeath unto my neece Joane Corham sister of the said
80 William Corham Fiftie poundes lawfull money of England To be
81 paid unto her out of the profits and issues of the said Brixton
82 Farme and lands of Combe by the said William Corham her
83 brother his Executors or Assignes within twoe yeares next after
84 the Comencement of the estate and terme to him hereby devised of
85 and in the said Capitall messuage Barton and Farme called Combe
86 otherwise Combe Pryors as above said And lastlie I give and devise
87 unto my Cosen Ferdinando Blake of Brixton sonne and heire of
88 Ferdinando Blake deceased this heritance and rever[s]ion of all the
89 Said Capitall messuage Barton and Farme called Combe otherwise
90 Combe Pryor and Lower Combe and all houses edifices buildings
91 courtledges gardens orchards lands Tenements meadowes leasues pastures woods
92 underwoods rents wasts commons ways pathes waters waterroutes
93 easements profits comodityes and hereditaments with thappurten[an]cs
94 to the said Capitall messuage Barton and Farme in any wise
95 incident belonginge to apperteyninge To have and to hould the
96 Same unto the said Ferdinando Blake his heires and Assignes
97 for ever Provided always and upon Condicion nevertheless That if
98 the said Ferdinando Blake his heires and Assignes or any of them
99 doe or shall at any time hereafter question or make any entrie
100 clayme title or demand whatsoever in or to any messuages lands or
101 tenements wherefor or wherein John Blake grandfather of me the
102 Said George nowe deceased had any estate at the time of his deathe
103 or Concerne or presente or consent to the comencinge or p[er]secutings
104 of any action or suite either in lawe or equitie of or touching the
105 Same messuages lands or Tenements or any part thereof That
106 then and from thenceforth this my gifte and devise of the said
107 Capitall messuage Barton and Farme called Combe otherwise
108 Combe Pryor and Lower Combe and of all other the premises thereunto
109 belonging unto the said Ferdinando Blake and his heires and
110 assignes by this my last Will and Testament shalbe voyd and
111 of nowe effect to allow any intention purpose And that then and
112 from thenceforth thinheritance and reversion in Force of the said
113 Capitall messuage Barton and Farme called Combe and of all other the said
114 landes and premises thereunto belonging shall remaine come and
115 be to my right heires for ever and that is shalbe lawfull for of them into
116 they owne to enter and do possesse and enioye the same to them and them having
117 forever allowing thestates hereby devised unto my said wife and
118 nephew William Corham dureing the continuances thereof All
119 the residue of my goodes and chattels not hereby formerly given
120 or bequeathed (my debtes beinge paid) I give and bequeath unto
121 the said Johane Blake my beloved wife whome I make and
122 ordaine my whole and sole Executrix of this my last Will and
123 Testament desireing her to give and allowe unto her and my
124 kinswoman Pricilla Pearse meate drincke and lodging in house
125 with her untill she the said Pricilla bee marryed if my said wife
126 live soe longe And I doe nominate and desire my goode friends
127 Mr Thomas Riche Mr Thomas Gale James Mynge and John
128 Candishe to be myne Overseers of this my last Will and to be
129 aydinge and assisting unto her in the performance thereof
130 In wittnes whereof I have putt my hand and seale hereunto
131 and have published the same to be my last Will and Testament
132 upon the twentieth day of May in the yeare of our Lord
133 according to the Computation of the Church of England one
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134 thousand sixe hundred fiftie and fower in the presence of us after
135 counterlyinge above writing between the sixteenth seaventeenth
136 lynes Geo: Blake Tho Riche Thomas Prynn Silvester Prynn
137 This will was proved at London
138 before the Judges for probate of Wills and granting administra[t]ions
139 the sixteenth day of August in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand
140 sixe hundred fiftie five by the oathe of Joane Blake the Relict
141 and sole Executrix named in the last Will and Testament of the
142 said deceased To whome administra[t]ion was permitted She
143 beinge sworne by Commission truly and faithfullie to administer
144 10 July 1666 _______________________ Geo: Gaell
As mentioned in the will of Ferdinando Blake, George is the first cousin once removed of the testator Ferdinand Blake whose will was probated last:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/06/will-of-ferdinando-blake-elder.html
From the Visitation of Devon 1620 and signed by John Blake the father of this George the testator, John Blake father of George married Dorithie Wood and they had four sons and three daughters namely: John (bc 1608), George, Nicholas and Edward and Suzan, Elizabeth and Jane. George is born before 1620 and probably closer to 1608 so is probably in his 40s when he died. George’s father and Ferdinand were half brothers in that Ferdinand was the son of John Blake and Mary Fortescue and John was the son of John Blake and Elizabeth Slannig (John was actually married a third time to Grace Cock). John the father of John (eldest) and Ferdinand 2nd son was himself the son of John Blake and Stivolla Weeke and in turn this John was the son of John Blake also of Comb and Elizabeth Lugar. Using a somewhat arbitrary scale of 25 years to a generation and knowing that George’s brother was 12 at the taking of the Visitation then his father John was born circa 1583, his father John was born circa 1558 and his father John would be born circa 1533. Investigating the Parish Registers for Combe may be a good next step to look at this particular Blake family. They married primarily into Devon families.
Always nice to link families together and indeed as mentioned in the will of Ferdinand his son Ferdinand sold the property at Combe in 1663/64. The Blake family in Devon can be found at Combe and at North Molton but also in the Plymouth area as likely founding families (although they could have migrated to Devon from elsewhere).
The marriage of William Coram and Jana Blake was celebrated 28 Oct 1639 at Buckland Monachorum, Devon. There was a William Coram son of William baptized 7 Mar 1644 at Ottery St Mary. This Jana Blake is a sister to George the testator and is presumably Jane.
There are references at the beginning and the end of the will in the margin possibly referring to land dealings with respect to Combe in 1666 noting that the eventual inheritor of the land was to be the son of Ferdinand - Ferdinand and that in 1663/64 Ferdinand and his wife Ruth sold the property. There were apparently court cases involving this particular piece of property for a number of years following the sale of the property to the Fortescue family (noting that the grandmother of the seller (mother of Ferdinand the testator in the will published earlier) was Mary Fortescue.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 24 Jun 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/244/607
Testator: George Blake, Gentleman
Place: Plymstock, Devon, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 20 May 1654, probated 16 Aug 1655
Condition: 17th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: T[estament] Georij
[Margin]: Blake
[Margin]: ______________________ 1666
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 I George Blake of Combe within the parishe of
3 of Plymstock in the Countie of Devon gent beinge sicke of
4 bodie but perfect of minde and sound of memorie Thanks
5 be unto God and knowinge it is appointed that all men
6 might dye and nothinge more certaine then death but
7 The tyme when where and howe most uncertaine
8 therefore whiles God hath given me time and life I
9 doe make and ordaine this my last Will and Testamewnt
10 in manner and forme following First I commend my
11 Sowle into the hands of the Everliving God my Creator And my
12 Bodie to the Earth the mother of all mankind Trusting assuredly
13 that through the merits and bloudy passion of Jesus Christ
14 myne onely Saviour and Redeemer both Sowle and bodye shall
15 at the general day of resurrection be againe reunited and enioy
16 everlasting blessedness in his heavenly kingdome for evermore
17 And touching my reall and personal estate which God in his
18 great mercie hath blessed me withal I doe thereof dispose and
19 bequeath the same as followeth First I give unto the poore
20 people of Plymstocke aforesaid Twenty shillings to be distributed
21 amongst them by myne Executrix hereafter named in suich
22 manner as she shall thincke fit And whereas my beloved wife
23 Johan Blake
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24 Johan Blake is to have an enioye one annuitye or yearelie rent
25 charge of Fiftie poundes to be issuing and payeable unto her
26 after my death dureing her life out of all that my Capitall messuage
27 Barton Farme lands and Tenements commonly called or knowne by the
28 name of Combe otherwise Combe Pryors and Lower Combe situate
29 lyinge within the said parishe of Plymstock and nowe in the tenure
30 possession or occupant[i]on of me the said George Blake mine Under-
31 tenants or assignes I doe nowe in recompence of her love and
32 faithfulness towards me and for her better preferment and livelihood
33 give devise and bequeath unto the said Johane my loveinge wife
34 All the said Capitall messuage Barton Farme Tenements
35 and all houses edifices buildinges courtledges gardens
36 orchards lands meadowes leasows pasture woods underwoodes
37 wasts ways pathes waters watercourses easements priviledges
38 profits commodityes and hereditaments with thappurtenancs to
39 the said Capitall messuage Barton and farme or to any or
40 either of them incident belonging or in any wise apperteyninge
41 To have and to hould the same unto my said loveinge wife
42 ymmediately from and after my death for and dureing the tearms
43 of her life Provided it shalbe lawfull for the said Johane to get
44 the same premises or any yt thereof to any person or persons for the terme of twentie years lease
45 or under at her pleasure And after her death my Will and meaning
46 is and I doe hereby give and devise all the said Capitall messuage
47 Barton and Farme of Combe otherwise called Combe Pryors
48 and Lower Combe and all other thaforesaid premises and every
49 part and parcel thereof with thappurtenancs to my nephew
50 William Corham sonne of my sister Joane late the wife of
51 William Corham deceased To have and to hould the same
52 unto my said nephew William Corham his Executors
53 administrators and Assignes ymediatelie from and after the death
54 of the said Johane my wife for and duringe the tenure of
55 fower score and nyneteene yeares then next ensueinge fullie
56 to be complete and ended if the said William Corham my
57 nephew and such women as shalbe his wife at the time of his
58 death and his eldest child w[hi]ch shalbe liveinge at the time of
59 his death or any or either of them soe longe shall happen to live
60 they yeildinge and paying then therefore yearelie unto such as
61 shalbe myne heires and assignes thereof the annuall rent of
62 fower poundes lawfull money of England at fower the most
63 usuall Feastes in the yeare (that is to saie) The feasts of the
64 Nativitie of St John the Baptist St Michaell Tharkangell
65 the birth of our Lord God and thann[un]cia[t]ion of the blessed Virgin
66 Mary by even and equall por[t]tions to be paid dureing the saide
67 terme The first payment thereof to commence and begin at such
68 of the said feasts as shall first happen next after the death of
69 the said Johane my wife and alsoe repayringe and mainteyninge
70 the said premises and every part thereof in all needful and
71 necessarie reparactions when and as often as neede shalbe And
72 towards the reparations thereof it shall and may be lawfull
73 to and for my said nephew his Executors and Assignes to have
74 and take sufficient and necessarie houseboote and great timber
75 plougheboote, fireboote, hayboote, hedgeboote Frith and stukey
76 of the Trees woodes and underwoodes in and upon the premises
77 growing or hereafter to be growing when and as often as
78 neede shalbe without delivery doeing noe voluntarie wast Alsoe
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79 I give and bequeath unto my neece Joane Corham sister of the said
80 William Corham Fiftie poundes lawfull money of England To be
81 paid unto her out of the profits and issues of the said Brixton
82 Farme and lands of Combe by the said William Corham her
83 brother his Executors or Assignes within twoe yeares next after
84 the Comencement of the estate and terme to him hereby devised of
85 and in the said Capitall messuage Barton and Farme called Combe
86 otherwise Combe Pryors as above said And lastlie I give and devise
87 unto my Cosen Ferdinando Blake of Brixton sonne and heire of
88 Ferdinando Blake deceased this heritance and rever[s]ion of all the
89 Said Capitall messuage Barton and Farme called Combe otherwise
90 Combe Pryor and Lower Combe and all houses edifices buildings
91 courtledges gardens orchards lands Tenements meadowes leasues pastures woods
92 underwoods rents wasts commons ways pathes waters waterroutes
93 easements profits comodityes and hereditaments with thappurten[an]cs
94 to the said Capitall messuage Barton and Farme in any wise
95 incident belonginge to apperteyninge To have and to hould the
96 Same unto the said Ferdinando Blake his heires and Assignes
97 for ever Provided always and upon Condicion nevertheless That if
98 the said Ferdinando Blake his heires and Assignes or any of them
99 doe or shall at any time hereafter question or make any entrie
100 clayme title or demand whatsoever in or to any messuages lands or
101 tenements wherefor or wherein John Blake grandfather of me the
102 Said George nowe deceased had any estate at the time of his deathe
103 or Concerne or presente or consent to the comencinge or p[er]secutings
104 of any action or suite either in lawe or equitie of or touching the
105 Same messuages lands or Tenements or any part thereof That
106 then and from thenceforth this my gifte and devise of the said
107 Capitall messuage Barton and Farme called Combe otherwise
108 Combe Pryor and Lower Combe and of all other the premises thereunto
109 belonging unto the said Ferdinando Blake and his heires and
110 assignes by this my last Will and Testament shalbe voyd and
111 of nowe effect to allow any intention purpose And that then and
112 from thenceforth thinheritance and reversion in Force of the said
113 Capitall messuage Barton and Farme called Combe and of all other the said
114 landes and premises thereunto belonging shall remaine come and
115 be to my right heires for ever and that is shalbe lawfull for of them into
116 they owne to enter and do possesse and enioye the same to them and them having
117 forever allowing thestates hereby devised unto my said wife and
118 nephew William Corham dureing the continuances thereof All
119 the residue of my goodes and chattels not hereby formerly given
120 or bequeathed (my debtes beinge paid) I give and bequeath unto
121 the said Johane Blake my beloved wife whome I make and
122 ordaine my whole and sole Executrix of this my last Will and
123 Testament desireing her to give and allowe unto her and my
124 kinswoman Pricilla Pearse meate drincke and lodging in house
125 with her untill she the said Pricilla bee marryed if my said wife
126 live soe longe And I doe nominate and desire my goode friends
127 Mr Thomas Riche Mr Thomas Gale James Mynge and John
128 Candishe to be myne Overseers of this my last Will and to be
129 aydinge and assisting unto her in the performance thereof
130 In wittnes whereof I have putt my hand and seale hereunto
131 and have published the same to be my last Will and Testament
132 upon the twentieth day of May in the yeare of our Lord
133 according to the Computation of the Church of England one
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134 thousand sixe hundred fiftie and fower in the presence of us after
135 counterlyinge above writing between the sixteenth seaventeenth
136 lynes Geo: Blake Tho Riche Thomas Prynn Silvester Prynn
137 This will was proved at London
138 before the Judges for probate of Wills and granting administra[t]ions
139 the sixteenth day of August in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand
140 sixe hundred fiftie five by the oathe of Joane Blake the Relict
141 and sole Executrix named in the last Will and Testament of the
142 said deceased To whome administra[t]ion was permitted She
143 beinge sworne by Commission truly and faithfullie to administer
144 10 July 1666 _______________________ Geo: Gaell
Monday, June 24, 2013
Will of Ferdinando Blake the elder, Gentleman of Yealmpton, Devon - The National Archives PROB 11/196/196, probated 21 May 1646
Ferdinando Blake is the testator and his marriage to Martha Berrie is recorded 21 Feb 1613 at Plympton Saint Mary in Devon (Family Search M05197-1). The marriage of his son Ferdinando to Ruth Bartlett 28 Dec 1648 at Yealmpton in Devon (Family Search M05197-1).
This Ferdinand is descendant of the Blake family at Coombe as I discovered glancing at the next will and at the Visitation for Devon 1620 where Ferdinand was the second son of John Blake of Coombe married to Grace Cock. He is listed as married to Martha Berry but no children are listed for this couple. More with the next will which is George Blake of Coombe.
Children baptized at Yealmpton with parents Ferdinando and Martha Blake (Family Search C05222-1 and there are some missing since he mentions daughters Grace and Ann and son Ferdinando in his will however Honor and John must have died:
Samuel baptized 24 Jul 1619
Honor baptized 3 Feb 1622
John baptized 24 Jul 1640
Martha baptized 21 Feb 1642
Mentioned in the will the children of Ferdinando: Samuel, Grace, Ann, Martha and Ferdinando. The gap between the baptisms is rather large and could it be that he had a second wife Martha?
http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-721-1/dissemination/pdf/southwes1-81288_1.pdf
Ferdinando Blake and Ruth, his wife: Combe and Lower Combe, Plymstock. 1663/4 (National Archives 74/96/9).
According to an Archaeological Dig in this area of Combe, Coombe Farm was held by the Augustinian Priory at Plympton since the 13th century. From before the Dissolution it was the home of the Blake family, who lived there from 1511 to circa 1724. The Blakes sold the farm in 1663 to Edmund Pollexfen of Kitley House in Yealmpton. Further in the document “When John Blake went from leaseholder to landowner in 1544, he assumed the responsibility for running and maintaining a house and buildings that were never intended to be supported on the profits of a single farm.” The house was enormous as judged by the Hearth Tax of 1674.
An interesting entry in the Alumni Oxoniensis for Ferdinando son of Ferdinando of Brixton, Devon, pleb. New Inn Hall, matriculation 21 May 1669 aged 18 years. This would give him a date of birth of 1641 and lead one to think that perhaps the testator Ferdinando did marry twice.
Perhaps one of the other Devon wills will shed more light on this Blake line.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 21 Jun 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/196/196
Testator: Ferdinando Blake, the elder, Gentleman
Place: Yealmpton, Devon, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 17 Aug 1643, probated 21 May 1646
Condition: 17th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: T[esta]m[ent] Ferdinando
[Margin]: Blake
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 the Seventeenth day of Auguste Anno d[omi]ni one Thousand six hundred forty
3 and three I Ferdinando Blake th[e ]elder of Cofflute w[i]thin the parish of
4 Yealmpton in the County of Devon gent beinge sycke in body but of sound and perfect
5 memory thankes be unto Allmighty God doe make and ordaine this my last will
6 and Testament in manner and forms forme following First I commend my Sowle
7 into the hands and tuition of Allmighty God my only Saviour and Redeemer
8 through whose infinite mercy and goodnesse onley I hope to bee saved and my body I
9 commend unto the Christian burial Item I give devise and bequeath unto Martha
10 my now wife All my whole estate right title interest and terme of yeares which I
11 the sayd Ferdinando Blake now have or cleyme to have in or unto all that Messuage
12 or Tennement w[i]th Th[e ]appurttenncs in exculled Cofflute al[ia]s North Cofflute w[i]thin
13 the Parish of Yealmpton sometime in the possession of Mr Michaell Steerts deceased
14 and now in the tenure Possession occupatioin of mee the sayd Ferdinando Blake
15 To have and to hold the sayd messuage or Tennement w[i]th Th[e ]appurttences
16 and every parte and parcel thereof unto the sayd Martha my now wyffe and her
17 Executors and Assignes ymediately from and after the death and decease of mee the
18 sayd Fardinando Blake for and during all the residue yf the estate and terme of
19 Yeares of mee the sayd Fardinando Blake that shal[l ]bee then to come and unexpired
20 of and in the same Item I give devise and bequeath unto Martha my sayd wife
21 all that one Messuage or Tennement lyinge in Yealmpton aforesaid now in the possession
22 of mee the sayd Firdinando Blake together with all Howses Orchardes gardens
23 lands woodcuts Pastures and all other the Premisses with Th[e ]appurttencs which
24 I the sayd Firdinando now have or cleyme to have by for and vertue of a
25 certainne Lease or grant thereto unto mee made from one George Keynshame of
26 St Kevern in the County of Cornwall gent for Terme of Fowerscore and nyne-
27 teene yeares yf I the sayd Firdinando Blake Samuell Blake and Grace Blake
28 my sonne and daughter or either of do happen soe long to live To have and to hold
29 the sayd Messuage or Tennement and all and singuler other the Premisses w[i]th
30 Th[e ]appurttencs unto the sayd Martha my now wife ymmediatly from and after my
31 decease for and during the terme of Forty yeares yf shee the sayd Martha doe shall happen soe
32 long too live and after her decease my will and intent is and I doe hereby give devise and
33 bequeath all the residue in my estate right interest and Termes of Yeares that shal[l ]bee
34 then to come and unexpired of and in the Messuage or Tennement w[i]th Th[e ]appurttencs
35 last before mencioned unto Samuell Blake my Sonne ymmediatly from and after
36 The death and decease of mee the sayd Furdinando Blake and yf Martha my now wife
37 for and during all the Residue of the sayd estate and terme of yeares of mee the
38 sayd Ferdinando that shal[l ]bee therein then to come and unexpired (and not before) Item I give therein
39 and bequeath unto the sayd Martha my now wife All those two Closes of land w[i]th
40 Th[e ]appurttencs whereof the one called great Hallwill downe and Th[e ]other is called
41 Georges Parke parcel of the b[ar]ton of Halliwell lying and beinge w[i]thin the Parish
42 of Brixton in the sayd County of Devon To have and to hold the sayd two Closes
43 of Land w[i]th their Appurttencs from and after my decease in manner and forme following
44 (that is to say) unto the sayd Martha my now wyfe for and during the terme of
45 Forty Yeares yf she the sayd Martha doe or shall happen soe long to live and yf
46 my estate then for soe long continue and after her decease unto Grace Blake
47 Ann Blake and Martha Blake my daughters for and during all the Resydue of
48 the estate and terme of yeares of mee the sayd Fardinando Blake that shal[l ]bee
49 then to come and unexpired of and in the same Item I give and bequeath unto
50 Fardinando Blake my Sonne the Sum[m]e of six poundes therteene shillinges and
51 Fower pense in lawfull English money to bee payd unto the sayd Furdinando Blake
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52 my Sonne yearly and every Yeare during the natural lyfe of my sayd wyfe and of
53 mye sayd Sonne Ferdinando by my Executrix heare after named att the fowre most
54 usuall Feastes or Termes of payment in the yeare that is to say att the Feast of
55 St Michaell Th[e ]archangell the birth of our Lord God Th[e ]annunciation of
56 Wel[l ]blessed Lady Mary the Virgin and the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist
57 by even and equall portions during the sayd Terme the first payment thereof to
58 begin att the next Feast of the Feasts aforesayd that shall first happen after the
59 death of mee the sayd Ferdinando Blake the Father Item my will intent and
60 meaning is that my Executrix hereinafter named shall att her owne costes and
61 chardges find and provide sufficient meate drinke Education and apparel unto and
62 for Samuell Blake my Sonne Grace Blake Anne Blake and Martha
63 Blake my daughters to have as well in sicknesse and in health during the lyfe of my
64 Executrix or until they shall marrey The residue of all my goodes cattells
65 and Chattells not before given nor bequeathed I doe hereby give devise and
66 bequeath unto the sayd Martha my now wyfe whom I doe heareby make and
67 ordaine to bee my whole and sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament
68 and doe desire my good freindes Richard Avent and John Avent of Brixton
69 Yeoman to bee Overseers of this my last Will and Testament and to see this my
70 will performed In wittnesse whereof I the sayd Ferdinando Blake have here
71 unto sett my hand and Seale the daie and yeare above wrytten By mee Ferdinando
72 Blake Wittnesses heare unto me mee John Frent the signe of Anne Koope
73 widdowe the signe Henry Cornishe
This Ferdinand is descendant of the Blake family at Coombe as I discovered glancing at the next will and at the Visitation for Devon 1620 where Ferdinand was the second son of John Blake of Coombe married to Grace Cock. He is listed as married to Martha Berry but no children are listed for this couple. More with the next will which is George Blake of Coombe.
Children baptized at Yealmpton with parents Ferdinando and Martha Blake (Family Search C05222-1 and there are some missing since he mentions daughters Grace and Ann and son Ferdinando in his will however Honor and John must have died:
Samuel baptized 24 Jul 1619
Honor baptized 3 Feb 1622
John baptized 24 Jul 1640
Martha baptized 21 Feb 1642
Mentioned in the will the children of Ferdinando: Samuel, Grace, Ann, Martha and Ferdinando. The gap between the baptisms is rather large and could it be that he had a second wife Martha?
http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-721-1/dissemination/pdf/southwes1-81288_1.pdf
Ferdinando Blake and Ruth, his wife: Combe and Lower Combe, Plymstock. 1663/4 (National Archives 74/96/9).
According to an Archaeological Dig in this area of Combe, Coombe Farm was held by the Augustinian Priory at Plympton since the 13th century. From before the Dissolution it was the home of the Blake family, who lived there from 1511 to circa 1724. The Blakes sold the farm in 1663 to Edmund Pollexfen of Kitley House in Yealmpton. Further in the document “When John Blake went from leaseholder to landowner in 1544, he assumed the responsibility for running and maintaining a house and buildings that were never intended to be supported on the profits of a single farm.” The house was enormous as judged by the Hearth Tax of 1674.
An interesting entry in the Alumni Oxoniensis for Ferdinando son of Ferdinando of Brixton, Devon, pleb. New Inn Hall, matriculation 21 May 1669 aged 18 years. This would give him a date of birth of 1641 and lead one to think that perhaps the testator Ferdinando did marry twice.
Perhaps one of the other Devon wills will shed more light on this Blake line.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 21 Jun 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/196/196
Testator: Ferdinando Blake, the elder, Gentleman
Place: Yealmpton, Devon, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 17 Aug 1643, probated 21 May 1646
Condition: 17th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: T[esta]m[ent] Ferdinando
[Margin]: Blake
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 the Seventeenth day of Auguste Anno d[omi]ni one Thousand six hundred forty
3 and three I Ferdinando Blake th[e ]elder of Cofflute w[i]thin the parish of
4 Yealmpton in the County of Devon gent beinge sycke in body but of sound and perfect
5 memory thankes be unto Allmighty God doe make and ordaine this my last will
6 and Testament in manner and forms forme following First I commend my Sowle
7 into the hands and tuition of Allmighty God my only Saviour and Redeemer
8 through whose infinite mercy and goodnesse onley I hope to bee saved and my body I
9 commend unto the Christian burial Item I give devise and bequeath unto Martha
10 my now wife All my whole estate right title interest and terme of yeares which I
11 the sayd Ferdinando Blake now have or cleyme to have in or unto all that Messuage
12 or Tennement w[i]th Th[e ]appurttenncs in exculled Cofflute al[ia]s North Cofflute w[i]thin
13 the Parish of Yealmpton sometime in the possession of Mr Michaell Steerts deceased
14 and now in the tenure Possession occupatioin of mee the sayd Ferdinando Blake
15 To have and to hold the sayd messuage or Tennement w[i]th Th[e ]appurttences
16 and every parte and parcel thereof unto the sayd Martha my now wyffe and her
17 Executors and Assignes ymediately from and after the death and decease of mee the
18 sayd Fardinando Blake for and during all the residue yf the estate and terme of
19 Yeares of mee the sayd Fardinando Blake that shal[l ]bee then to come and unexpired
20 of and in the same Item I give devise and bequeath unto Martha my sayd wife
21 all that one Messuage or Tennement lyinge in Yealmpton aforesaid now in the possession
22 of mee the sayd Firdinando Blake together with all Howses Orchardes gardens
23 lands woodcuts Pastures and all other the Premisses with Th[e ]appurttencs which
24 I the sayd Firdinando now have or cleyme to have by for and vertue of a
25 certainne Lease or grant thereto unto mee made from one George Keynshame of
26 St Kevern in the County of Cornwall gent for Terme of Fowerscore and nyne-
27 teene yeares yf I the sayd Firdinando Blake Samuell Blake and Grace Blake
28 my sonne and daughter or either of do happen soe long to live To have and to hold
29 the sayd Messuage or Tennement and all and singuler other the Premisses w[i]th
30 Th[e ]appurttencs unto the sayd Martha my now wife ymmediatly from and after my
31 decease for and during the terme of Forty yeares yf shee the sayd Martha doe shall happen soe
32 long too live and after her decease my will and intent is and I doe hereby give devise and
33 bequeath all the residue in my estate right interest and Termes of Yeares that shal[l ]bee
34 then to come and unexpired of and in the Messuage or Tennement w[i]th Th[e ]appurttencs
35 last before mencioned unto Samuell Blake my Sonne ymmediatly from and after
36 The death and decease of mee the sayd Furdinando Blake and yf Martha my now wife
37 for and during all the Residue of the sayd estate and terme of yeares of mee the
38 sayd Ferdinando that shal[l ]bee therein then to come and unexpired (and not before) Item I give therein
39 and bequeath unto the sayd Martha my now wife All those two Closes of land w[i]th
40 Th[e ]appurttencs whereof the one called great Hallwill downe and Th[e ]other is called
41 Georges Parke parcel of the b[ar]ton of Halliwell lying and beinge w[i]thin the Parish
42 of Brixton in the sayd County of Devon To have and to hold the sayd two Closes
43 of Land w[i]th their Appurttencs from and after my decease in manner and forme following
44 (that is to say) unto the sayd Martha my now wyfe for and during the terme of
45 Forty Yeares yf she the sayd Martha doe or shall happen soe long to live and yf
46 my estate then for soe long continue and after her decease unto Grace Blake
47 Ann Blake and Martha Blake my daughters for and during all the Resydue of
48 the estate and terme of yeares of mee the sayd Fardinando Blake that shal[l ]bee
49 then to come and unexpired of and in the same Item I give and bequeath unto
50 Fardinando Blake my Sonne the Sum[m]e of six poundes therteene shillinges and
51 Fower pense in lawfull English money to bee payd unto the sayd Furdinando Blake
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52 my Sonne yearly and every Yeare during the natural lyfe of my sayd wyfe and of
53 mye sayd Sonne Ferdinando by my Executrix heare after named att the fowre most
54 usuall Feastes or Termes of payment in the yeare that is to say att the Feast of
55 St Michaell Th[e ]archangell the birth of our Lord God Th[e ]annunciation of
56 Wel[l ]blessed Lady Mary the Virgin and the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist
57 by even and equall portions during the sayd Terme the first payment thereof to
58 begin att the next Feast of the Feasts aforesayd that shall first happen after the
59 death of mee the sayd Ferdinando Blake the Father Item my will intent and
60 meaning is that my Executrix hereinafter named shall att her owne costes and
61 chardges find and provide sufficient meate drinke Education and apparel unto and
62 for Samuell Blake my Sonne Grace Blake Anne Blake and Martha
63 Blake my daughters to have as well in sicknesse and in health during the lyfe of my
64 Executrix or until they shall marrey The residue of all my goodes cattells
65 and Chattells not before given nor bequeathed I doe hereby give devise and
66 bequeath unto the sayd Martha my now wyfe whom I doe heareby make and
67 ordaine to bee my whole and sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament
68 and doe desire my good freindes Richard Avent and John Avent of Brixton
69 Yeoman to bee Overseers of this my last Will and Testament and to see this my
70 will performed In wittnesse whereof I the sayd Ferdinando Blake have here
71 unto sett my hand and Seale the daie and yeare above wrytten By mee Ferdinando
72 Blake Wittnesses heare unto me mee John Frent the signe of Anne Koope
73 widdowe the signe Henry Cornishe
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Research and Gardening
Gardening and housework are winning out over research as they have for the last two summers along with enjoying biking, walking and all the other attributes of the now summer time.
I find this time of year that my transcription falls off as I find it difficult to transcribe with the long days of the spring/summer time.
I have begun the Devon wills for the Blake family and there are 27 Blake wills in Devon including the will of the husband of Elizabeth Blake (will blogged today) as I discovered looking through them quickly. I am hoping that some of them do link together. However the Blake family in Devon is large and appears in several distinct areas with quite a long history in the area.
I had always thought that they were descendant of the Somerset family but another researcher has mentioned to me their thoughts on the lines in the north being descendant of the Hampshire (Knights Enham) Blake family. It will be interesting if the latest testers for the Blake yDNA study show matches to the Hampshire lines.
Just to keep any readers for Blake material up to date on where I am at.
With regard to the Pincombe Study I have not done a great deal on Pincombe the past six months but do plan to return. I was finding it a mite disturbing having such diverse yDNA results for the Pincombe family in the United States as opposed to the Pincombe family in Devon, England. The Pincombe family in the US tends to belong to the spelling Pinkham although not entirely as descendants of my 2x great grandfather's brother also live in the United States and use the spelling Pincombe. It is always very disturbing to people who have done research for 30 years to discover they do not match the line that they believe themselves to be in.
With no close matches on my paternal yDNA I am not much disturbed by that happening because lines do go extinct as ours will with this generation (my four brothers do not have any sons) and the acquisition of surnames was a rather random process at times.
My other lines which I was working on day by day have gone somewhat by the board as I get used to my Windows 8 computer which I really do like. I need to set up my calendar once again and will do that in the Fall. I was to begin our son in law\s French Canadian lines as well but that too will wait for the Fall. I want to continue extracting the records from Drouin for his lines.
I find this time of year that my transcription falls off as I find it difficult to transcribe with the long days of the spring/summer time.
I have begun the Devon wills for the Blake family and there are 27 Blake wills in Devon including the will of the husband of Elizabeth Blake (will blogged today) as I discovered looking through them quickly. I am hoping that some of them do link together. However the Blake family in Devon is large and appears in several distinct areas with quite a long history in the area.
I had always thought that they were descendant of the Somerset family but another researcher has mentioned to me their thoughts on the lines in the north being descendant of the Hampshire (Knights Enham) Blake family. It will be interesting if the latest testers for the Blake yDNA study show matches to the Hampshire lines.
Just to keep any readers for Blake material up to date on where I am at.
With regard to the Pincombe Study I have not done a great deal on Pincombe the past six months but do plan to return. I was finding it a mite disturbing having such diverse yDNA results for the Pincombe family in the United States as opposed to the Pincombe family in Devon, England. The Pincombe family in the US tends to belong to the spelling Pinkham although not entirely as descendants of my 2x great grandfather's brother also live in the United States and use the spelling Pincombe. It is always very disturbing to people who have done research for 30 years to discover they do not match the line that they believe themselves to be in.
With no close matches on my paternal yDNA I am not much disturbed by that happening because lines do go extinct as ours will with this generation (my four brothers do not have any sons) and the acquisition of surnames was a rather random process at times.
My other lines which I was working on day by day have gone somewhat by the board as I get used to my Windows 8 computer which I really do like. I need to set up my calendar once again and will do that in the Fall. I was to begin our son in law\s French Canadian lines as well but that too will wait for the Fall. I want to continue extracting the records from Drouin for his lines.
Will of Elizabeth Blake, widow, Saint David in Exeter, Devon - The National Archives PROB 11/1176/207, probated 12 Mar 1789
This next set of wills is for the Blake family of Devon and begins with Elizabeth Blake who lived at Exeter. In trying to locate her maiden name I consider the possibility she was Elizabeth Hatherly given the bequests in her will. Elizabeth in her will asks to be buried by the side of her husband who is buried at Saint Martin Church in Exeter, Devon.
World Connect does have a tree for a Hatherly family going back to a Narcissus Hatherly married to Elizabeth Galsworthy who were married 24 Apr 1668 in Parkham, Devon and four children are listed: Grace baptized 21 Mar 1669, Arthur baptized 2 Jan 1672, Narcissus baptized 9 Jul 1674 and Elizabeth baptized 12 Jul 1677 all at Parkham, Devon. Narcissus is further traced down with his marriage to Elizabeth Bruton 29 Sep 1708 in Alwington, Devon. The children of this marriage are listed below and Elizabeth baptized 3 May 1722 is listed as being married to a Thomas Blake (no further details other than 26 Oct 1752 at Kenton, Devon). No children listed for Thomas Blake and Elizabeth Hatherley. I have not verified the data at World Connect but certainly the will does bear out the relationships mentioned for the siblings of Elizabeth the Testatrix of this will.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hatters&id=I3
An online tree on The Blakes of Somerset that I have mentioned before
http://www.portbury-hundred.co.uk/admiralreport.htm
traces back a marriage of Thomas Blake (born circa 1697) and Elizabeth Hatherley which was celebrated in 1749 at Kenton, Devon (according to this website). Is this Elizabeth the testator? Elizabeth doesn’t mention any children and this site mentions there are five children for this couple. Thomas was 52 when he married Elizabeth Hatherley with children named: John, Martha, Mary, Kath., and Jane. The website further listst the three children of the Reverend Thomas Blake (born circa 1652 and died in Alwington 23 Nov 1713 at the age of 61) named George (bc 1682), Nicholas (bc 1686) and Thomas (bc 1697). The website then has Thomas the son marrying Elizabeth Hatherley and they have five children as mentioned but the numbering begins at iv instead of i. There is nothing further on the children of Thomas and Elizabeth. I can not find any children by these names baptized to Thomas and Elizabeth Blake. However, at this point I am not discounting the possibility that this Elizabeth Blake’s husband is perhaps descendant of the Somerset Blake family. This family is known to be in the Plymouth/Exeter area of Devon from the 1600s on. Did all five children of this couple die? Not impossible given the times but unusual for a family that had sufficient funds to provide the best but again it is not impossible so will not at this point discount the possible connection.
However, as with much of the Blake material online this website has some interesting features but tends to try to group together as many Blake families as possible. Using the unsourced early material perpetuates the errors that were created by Horatio Gates Somersby without adding any new material. I have already shown that some of these relationships as stated are not possible given the historical evidence in the Calendar of Patent Rolls.
The Hatherley family mentioned in the will and found on World Connect appear to be the descendants of Narcissus Hatherly married to Elizabeth Bruton 29 Sep 1708 at Alwington Devon) and their children were all baptized at Bideford Devon (Family Search website):
Narcissus baptized 16 Sep 1709 (from World Connect)
Elizabeth baptized 6 Mar 1711 (from World Connect) and probably died young
John baptized 17 Apr 1713
Arthur baptized 17 Aug 1715; buried 24 Dec 1715
Arthur baptized 17 May 1717 (from World Connect)
William baptized 12 Feb 1719
Elizabeth baptized 3 May 1722
Jane baptized 3 May 1722; buried 2 Jun 1722
Thomas baptized 6 Jan 1725
First mentioned in the will were the three nephews: Narcissus, John and William Henry. They would appear to be the children of Elizabeth’s brother Narcissus who was married to Honor Chope 18 May 1741 in Northam, Devon. Honor is mentioned in the will as a widow. They had seven children all baptized at Bideford namely(* marks nephews mentioned in the will):
*Narcissus baptized 18 Jul 1746
Grace baptized 11 Jul 1748
*John baptized 23 Aug 1750
Elizabeth baptized 6 Apr 1753
Henry baptized 8 Nov 1754
*William Henry baptized 24 Jun 1756
Thomas baptized 11 Aug 1758
*John is married to Elizabeth (mentioned in the will as the wife of John her nephew) and they had ten children between 1781 and 1807 but none mentioned in the will).
*William Henry is married to Elizabeth Fortescue Wells 13 Mar 1781 at Kingsbridge, Devon and they have 11 children between 1781 and 1800 (none of these children are mentioned in the will but Elizabeth wife of William Henry is mentioned).
Both of Elizabeth the Testatrix brothers Narcissus married to Honor and Thomas married to Grace are deceased as both women are mentioned as widows. The second wife of William is not mentioned.
Next to be mentioned is Elizabeth Hatherley (she is likely the sister of Narcissus, John and William Henry) married to Samuel Pyke and they were married 22 Apr 1776 at Abbotsham, Devon (Family Search M05015-1). Hence Elizabeth is also a child of Narcissus Hatherly and Honor Chowe shown above baptized 6 Apr 1753. The World Connect chart does not list her marriage to Samuel Pike.
Looking at the Herman Drewe family next mentioned in the will: Married in Colyton Church 1 May 1775 Herman Drew, clerk, of the parish of Wootton Fitzpaine in the county of Dorset and Sarah Mary Hatherley of this parish married by licence in the presence of Elizabeth Hatherly, Jno. Rolle. Sarah Mary Hatherley is said to be the daughter of William Hatherley and Sarah Baker who were married 27 Sep 1753 at Modbury Devon and she was baptized 3 Dec 1755 at Kenton. According to the chart at World Connect William married a second time to Elizabeth Matthews 12 Sep 1758 at Bideford and they had one child Mary Ann Hatherly (not mentioned in the will) baptized 15 Feb 1762.
The children of Herman Drewe and Sarah Mary Hatherley (Sarah Elizabeth and Mary are mentioned in the will and if either of them die then the funds are to be shared by the rest of their children) are found on Family Search:
Sarah Elizabeth baptized 15 Jun 1776 at Wootton Fitzpaine, Dorset
Herman baptized 2 Jan 1778 at Wootton Fitzpaine, Dorset
Mary baptized 9 Feb 1780 at Wootton Fitzpaine, Dorset
Elizabeth Judith Hatherly also mentioned in the will lastly was the daughter of Thomas Hatherly and Grace and was baptized 18 Sep 1749 at Bideford (Family Search C05032-1). There are two possible marriages for Thomas Hatherly and both appear to be patron entries: Thomas Hatherly and Grace Smith 1748 and Thomas Hatherly and Grace Voisey 1751. Given the birth date of 1749 for Elizabeth Judith it is possible that Thomas married twice with the first Grace having died.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 19 Jun 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1176/207
Testator: Elizabeth Blake, widow
Place: Saint David in Exeter, Devon, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 9 Aug 1786, probated 12 Mar 1789
Condition: 18th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Elizabeth
[Margin]: Blake
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 I Elizabeth Blake of the parish of Saint David in the County of
3 the City of Exeter Devon do make this my last Will and Testament in
4 the manner following that is to say I desire that I may be
5 buried in a decent and plain manner in the parish Church of
6 Saint Martin in the City of Exeter by the side of my late
7 husband and that the Funeral Service may be performed by the
8 Curate for the time being of the parish of Saint David
9 aforesaid to whom I give three Guineas and one Guinea to the
10 Rector of Saint Martin I desire that ______ no outer
11 Bearers but that the Reverend John Quick Rector of Highley
12 the Reverend Mr Locker Rector of St Lawrence in the City of Exeter
13 the Reverend John Stabback Edward Cleave Esquire Robert Lydstone
14 Newcome Esquire and Mr Richard Thorn will each accept of a
15 Ring of the value of one Guinea I give and bequeath to my
16 three Nephews Narcissus John and William Henry Hatherly
17 one hundred and sixty pounds each of lawful Money of Great
18 Britain to be paid to them respectively by my Executor hereinafter
19 named at the end of eight months next after my decease
20 also I give and bequeath unto my Friend Mr John Codrington
21 of the City of Exeter apothecary the Sum of two hundred pounds
22 of like lawful money upon trust for such person or persons
23 and to and for the Ends Intents and purposes as my Niece Elizabeth
24 Pike wife of Samuel Pike of Northam in the County of Devon
25 Esquire shall by any writing or writings under her hand attested
26 by one or more credible Witness or Witnesses or by her last Will
27 and Testament in Writing or any writing purporting to be or in
28 the nature of her her last Will and Testament attested by two or
29 more Credible Witnesses notwithstanding her Couverture and whether
30 she be Covert or Sole order direct or appoint and for want of
31 and in the meane time until the said Elizabeth Pike shall
32 make some such order direction or appointment as aforesaid to
33 and shall stand possessed of and in the said Sum of two hundred
34 pounds and the dividends and Interest that will be made thereof
35 upon trust for the said Elizabeth Pike her Executors and Admors
36 to and for the Sole separate and peculiar use and disposal of the said
37 Elizabeth Pike and wherewith as with any part thereof her said
38 present or any future husband shall not in any wise intermeddle
39 neither shall the same or any part thereof be in any wise
40 subject or liable to the power Control debts or Engagements of
41 any such husband but the Receipt and Receipts of the said
42 Elizabeth Pike alone or of such person or persons to whom she
43 shall so order direct or appoint the said Sum of two hundred
44 pounds and the Dividends and Interest thereof or any part thereof
45 to be paid as aforesaid shall from time to time be a sufficient
46 and effectual discharge and discharges to the said John Codrington his Executors
47 and administrators for the same or so much and such part
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48 and parts thereof as to such Receipt and Receipts shall be
49 mentioned expressed or acknowledged to be received Also I give
50 and bequeath unto the said John Codrington the like Sum
51 of two hundred pounds upon trust for the separate and peculiar
52 use of my Niece Sarah Mary Drewe the Wife of the Reverend
53 Herman Drewe of Wootton in the County of Dorset with the
54 like power of disposal and appointment and in the same
55 manner as I have hereinbefore declared touching the Legacy
56 of two hundred pounds hereinbefore given for the use of the
57 said Elizabeth Pike also I give and bequeath the like Sum
58 of two hundred pounds unto my Niece Elizabeth Judith Hatherly
59 and I do hereby direct that the aforesaid three several
60 Legacies of two hundred pounds shall be paid by my Executor
61 at the end of eight months next after my decease also
62 I Give and bequeath unto the said Herman the
63 sum of three hundred pounds old South Sea Annuities now
64 standing in my Name upon trust that he the said Herman
65 Drewe do and shall from time to time receive the dividends
66 thereof and lay out and invest the same Dividends in the
67 purchase of other stock or on good Securities until his two
68 daughters Sarah Elizabeth Drewe and Mary Drewe shall
69 attain the age of twenty one years or be married which shall
70 first happen and then do and shall transfer assign
71 and make over the said Sum of three hundred pounds
72 old South Sea annuities and the Dividends thereof and
73 all Stocks Funds and Securities wherein the same shall be
74 invested into and between his said two Daughters
75 Sarah Elizabeth and Mary equally to be divided
76 between them share and share alike and I do hereby
77 declare it to be my Will that if either of them the said
78 Sarah Elizabeth Drewe and Mary Drewe shall happen
79 to die before attaining her said age of twenty one
80 years or being married then the share of her so
81 dying shall go and belong to the Survivor of them
82 and shall be paid and payable to her at the
83 same time as the original Share and I do hereby
84 further declare that in case both of them the said
85 Sarah Elizabeth Drewe and Mary Drewe shall die
86 before having attained such age or have as aforesaid that
87 then the said Herman Drewe his Executors and
88 Administrators shall stand possessed of the said Stocks
89 Funds and Securities and the Dividends and Interest
90 thereof upon trust for all and every other the Child
91 and Children of the said Herman Drewe and Sarah
92 Mary Drewe his Wife equally to be divided likewise
93 then if more then one share
94 and share alike and if but one such Child then to such
95 one only Child the share and shares of such of
96 them as shall be a Son or Sons to be paid and payable
97 to him and them at his or their ages or respective
98 ages of twenty one years and the share or shares of
99 such of them as shall be a daughter or daughters
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100 to be paid and payable to her or them at her or their
101 age or respective ages of twenty one years or Day or
102 respective Days of Marriage which shall first
103 happen and in case any or either of the aforesaid
104 Children shall happen to die without having
105 attained such age or time as aforesaid then the
106 share or shares of him her or them so dying
107 shall go and belong to the Survivors and
108 Survivor of such Children in the same manner
109 as is hereinbefore declared touching his her or
110 their original portion or portions and in case all
111 such Children shall die without attaining sucvh age
112 or time as aforesaid then I give and devise the
113 same Stock Funds and Securities unto the aforesaid
114 John Codrington his Executors Administrators and assigns
115 upon trust for the separate and peculiar use of my said
116 Niece Mary Drewe and with the same power of
117 appointment and in the same manner as I have
118 hereinbefore declared touching the said Sum of two hundred
119 pounds hereinbefore given to the said John Codrington
120 for the use of the said Sarah Mary Drewe
121 Recommending it nevertheless to her to give the same
122 to some part of my family and whereas it is my
123 intention to lay out the Sum of Fifty pounds more
124 during my life in old South Sea Annuities now I do
125 hereby bequeath such Sum of Fifty pounds in case I
126 shall so lay out the same to the said Herman Drewe
127 upon the same trusts as I have hereinbefore
128 declared touching the said Sum of three hundred
129 pounds and in case I should not in my life time
130 lay out such Sum of Fifty pounds in the manner
131 aforesaid I do hereby direct my Executor herein after
132 named to lay out that Sum out of the residue of
133 my personal Estate in the name of the said Herman
134 Drewe who shall stand possessed thereof Upon the
135 trusts aforesaid also I give and bequeath to
136 my two Sisters Honour Hatherly widow and Grace
137 Hatherly widow the Sum of five Guineas each as a
138 token of my affection for them I give to Joan
139 Thomas Six Guineas and to Mary White Sister of Mr
140 Arthur White Apothecary Mrs Waldrond widow of the
141 late Doctor Walrond deceased Mrs Margaret Coles Mrs
142 Isabella Weeks and Miss Francis Broom two
143 Guineas each I give to each of my Maid Servants
144 they shall have lived with me twelve months before
145 my decease three Guineas over and above the wages
146 which may be due to them and Mourning at the
147 discretion of my Executor I give to Ann Mortimer
148 one Guinea if she continues to be employed in my
149 service at the time of my death I give to Mrs
150 Joan Stooke Widow and her three daughters Mrs Margaret
151 Cleave Mrs Margaret Baker Mrs Mary Codrington Mrs
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152 Locker wife of the Reverend Wm Locker Mrs Hannah
153 Newcombe Mrs Frances Stabback the aforesaid Herman
154 Drewe and Samuel Pike Esquire Mrs Elizabeth
155 Hatherley wife of my nephew John Hatherley and
156 Mrs Hatherley wife of my nephew William Henry
157 Hatherley a Ring of the value of one Guinea
158 each I give to the said John Codrington the
159 sum of thirty Guineas a Ring of the value of
160 one Guinea and a Suit of Mourning and do
161 appoint the said John Codrington Sole Executor of this
162 my last Will and Testament and I give and devise
163 unto the said John Codrington his heirs and assigns all
164 and every the Messuages Lands Tenements and hereditaments
165 which are vested in me by any mortgage or Mortgages
166 in Fee with their and every of their Rights Members
167 and appurtenances upon trust to convey the same upon
168 payment of the principal Sum and Sums and Interest
169 thereby respectively secured I give and bequeath unto my
170 aforesaid three Nieces Elizabeth Pike Sarah Mary Drewe
171 and Elizabeth Judith Hatherley my watch and all my
172 Plate Jewells wearing apparel household Goods
173 and Furniture and all other the Goods and Chattells
174 whereof I shall die possessed except my Monies and
175 Stocks Funds and Securities for Money equally to be divided
176 between them share and share alike all the rest and
177 residue of my Estate and Effects whatsoever and whereso
178 ever I give and bequeath unto my aforesaid
179 three Nephews Narcissus John and William Henry
181 Hatherley all my aforesaid three Nieces Elizabeth Pike
182 Sarah Mary Drewe and Elizabeth Judith Hatherley
183 equally to be divided between them share and share
184 alike and I do hereby declare that the respective Shares
185 of the said Elizabeth Pike and Sarah Mary Drewe of
186 and in my aforesaid watch plate Jewels wearing
187 apparel household Goods and Furniture and the residue
188 of my personal Estate and Effects shall be for the respective
189 sole and separate use of my said two Nieces exclusive of
190 their respective husbands in the same manner
191 as I have hereinbefore declared touching the said two
192 several Legacies of two hundred pounds and two hundred
193 pounds hereinbefore bequeathed to the said John
194 Codrington in trust for them as aforesaid and lastly I
195 do hereby declare it to be my Will that the aforesaid
196 John Codrington and Herman Drewe respectively or either
197 of them their or either of their heirs Executors or admors
198 shall not be charged or chargeable with or
199 accountable for any more of the said trust monies
200 and premises than they or he shall respectively
201 actually receive by virtue of the trusts aforesaid nor
202 with or for any loss which shall happen of the same
203 monies and premises or any part thereof so as
204 the same respectively happen without their wilful
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205 defaults or neglects and that my said Trustees their
206 Executors and administrators respectively shall and
207 lawfully may deduct retain to and reimburse
208 themselves respectively out of the said trust monies
209 and premises all such Costs Losses Charges
210 damages and Expences whatsoever as they or
211 either of them shall or may bear sustain or be put
212 unto in or about the Execution or management of
213 the trusts hereby in them respectively reposed or any
214 thing relating thereunto and that it shall and
215 may be lawful to and for the said John Codrington
216 his Executors and administrators to compound any debt
217 or debts that shall or may be due to my Estate
218 and release the person or persons who may be
219 debtor or debtors therein and sign and subscribe this
220 or their consent to the allowance of the Certificate
221 or Certificates of any Bankrupt or Bankrupts
222 and submit to arbitration any matter in dispute
223 relating to my Estate and perform the award to
224 Be made in pursuance to such submission and
225 I hereby revoke all former Wills by me made
226 declaring this to be my last Will and Testament
227 In Witness whereof I the said Elizabeth Blake
228 The Testatrix have to the three first sheets of
229 this my last Will and Testament contained in four Sheets
230 of Paper subscribed my name and to this fourth and
231 last sheet thereof set my hand and Seal the ninth
232 day of August in the year of our Lord one
233 thousand seven hundred and eighty six Eliz: Blake
234 Signed Sealed published and declared by the said
235 Elizabeth Blake the Testatrix and for her last
236 Will and Testament in the presence of us three whose
237 names are hereunto subscribed and who subscribed
238 our names as Witnesses hereto at the desire
239 and in the presence of the said Testatrix and in
240 the presence of each other Rv Lydston Newcombe
241 John Stabback Wm Stabback
242 June the 23rd 1788 I Eliz: Blake give to Mr John
243 Codrington the Sum of thirty pounds over and
244 above what I have given him in my Will in
245 consideration of his great care and attention to me and
246 I also give to Frances Broom twenty pounds over and
247 above what I have given her in my Will provided
248 she lives with me at the time of my Death likewise
249 such Mourning as my Executors or relations shall
250 judge proper this paper I desire may be
251 considered as part of my Will written by my own
252 hand Eliz: Blake
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253 The second day of March 1789
254 Appeared Personally James Pitts of
255 The City of Exeter Ironmonger and Elizabeth Stabback
256 of the said City Spinster and being severally sworn
257 on the holy Evangelists to depose the truth made
258 oath and say that they very well knew and
259 were acquainted with Elizabeth Blake late of the
260 Parish of Saint David in the City of Exeter Widow
261 deceased for several Years before and to the time of her
262 death and also with the manner and Character of
263 hand writing and subscription of the said deceased
264 having often seen her write out witness and subscribe
265 her name to writings and declaring now seen and
266 carefully perused the paper Writing hereunto annexed
267 purporting to be a Codicil to the last Will and Testament
268 of the said deceased beginning thus June the 23rd
269 1788 Eliz: Blake ending thus written by my own
270 hand and thus subscribed Eliz: Blake They these
271 deponents say that they truly and in their consciences
272 believe the whole Body Series and Contents of the
273 said Codicil to the said Gifts of the said deceased and also the Subscription
274 hereto to be of the proper hand writing of the said
275 deceased James Pitts Eliz:Stabback Same Day the
276 said James Pitts and Elizabeth Stabback were duly
277 sworn to the truth of this affidavit before me Mr
278 Shore Commissioner
279 This Will was proved at London with a Codicil
280 The twelveth day of March in the year of our Lord
281 one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine before the
282 Right Worshipful Sir William Wynne Knight Doctor of
283 Laws Master Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative
284 Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted by the Oath of John
285 Codrington the Sole Executor named in the said Will to
286 whom Administration was granted of all and singular the
287 Goods Chattels and Credits of the deceased having
288 been first sworn by Commission duly to administer
World Connect does have a tree for a Hatherly family going back to a Narcissus Hatherly married to Elizabeth Galsworthy who were married 24 Apr 1668 in Parkham, Devon and four children are listed: Grace baptized 21 Mar 1669, Arthur baptized 2 Jan 1672, Narcissus baptized 9 Jul 1674 and Elizabeth baptized 12 Jul 1677 all at Parkham, Devon. Narcissus is further traced down with his marriage to Elizabeth Bruton 29 Sep 1708 in Alwington, Devon. The children of this marriage are listed below and Elizabeth baptized 3 May 1722 is listed as being married to a Thomas Blake (no further details other than 26 Oct 1752 at Kenton, Devon). No children listed for Thomas Blake and Elizabeth Hatherley. I have not verified the data at World Connect but certainly the will does bear out the relationships mentioned for the siblings of Elizabeth the Testatrix of this will.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hatters&id=I3
An online tree on The Blakes of Somerset that I have mentioned before
http://www.portbury-hundred.co.uk/admiralreport.htm
traces back a marriage of Thomas Blake (born circa 1697) and Elizabeth Hatherley which was celebrated in 1749 at Kenton, Devon (according to this website). Is this Elizabeth the testator? Elizabeth doesn’t mention any children and this site mentions there are five children for this couple. Thomas was 52 when he married Elizabeth Hatherley with children named: John, Martha, Mary, Kath., and Jane. The website further listst the three children of the Reverend Thomas Blake (born circa 1652 and died in Alwington 23 Nov 1713 at the age of 61) named George (bc 1682), Nicholas (bc 1686) and Thomas (bc 1697). The website then has Thomas the son marrying Elizabeth Hatherley and they have five children as mentioned but the numbering begins at iv instead of i. There is nothing further on the children of Thomas and Elizabeth. I can not find any children by these names baptized to Thomas and Elizabeth Blake. However, at this point I am not discounting the possibility that this Elizabeth Blake’s husband is perhaps descendant of the Somerset Blake family. This family is known to be in the Plymouth/Exeter area of Devon from the 1600s on. Did all five children of this couple die? Not impossible given the times but unusual for a family that had sufficient funds to provide the best but again it is not impossible so will not at this point discount the possible connection.
However, as with much of the Blake material online this website has some interesting features but tends to try to group together as many Blake families as possible. Using the unsourced early material perpetuates the errors that were created by Horatio Gates Somersby without adding any new material. I have already shown that some of these relationships as stated are not possible given the historical evidence in the Calendar of Patent Rolls.
The Hatherley family mentioned in the will and found on World Connect appear to be the descendants of Narcissus Hatherly married to Elizabeth Bruton 29 Sep 1708 at Alwington Devon) and their children were all baptized at Bideford Devon (Family Search website):
Narcissus baptized 16 Sep 1709 (from World Connect)
Elizabeth baptized 6 Mar 1711 (from World Connect) and probably died young
John baptized 17 Apr 1713
Arthur baptized 17 Aug 1715; buried 24 Dec 1715
Arthur baptized 17 May 1717 (from World Connect)
William baptized 12 Feb 1719
Elizabeth baptized 3 May 1722
Jane baptized 3 May 1722; buried 2 Jun 1722
Thomas baptized 6 Jan 1725
First mentioned in the will were the three nephews: Narcissus, John and William Henry. They would appear to be the children of Elizabeth’s brother Narcissus who was married to Honor Chope 18 May 1741 in Northam, Devon. Honor is mentioned in the will as a widow. They had seven children all baptized at Bideford namely(* marks nephews mentioned in the will):
*Narcissus baptized 18 Jul 1746
Grace baptized 11 Jul 1748
*John baptized 23 Aug 1750
Elizabeth baptized 6 Apr 1753
Henry baptized 8 Nov 1754
*William Henry baptized 24 Jun 1756
Thomas baptized 11 Aug 1758
*John is married to Elizabeth (mentioned in the will as the wife of John her nephew) and they had ten children between 1781 and 1807 but none mentioned in the will).
*William Henry is married to Elizabeth Fortescue Wells 13 Mar 1781 at Kingsbridge, Devon and they have 11 children between 1781 and 1800 (none of these children are mentioned in the will but Elizabeth wife of William Henry is mentioned).
Both of Elizabeth the Testatrix brothers Narcissus married to Honor and Thomas married to Grace are deceased as both women are mentioned as widows. The second wife of William is not mentioned.
Next to be mentioned is Elizabeth Hatherley (she is likely the sister of Narcissus, John and William Henry) married to Samuel Pyke and they were married 22 Apr 1776 at Abbotsham, Devon (Family Search M05015-1). Hence Elizabeth is also a child of Narcissus Hatherly and Honor Chowe shown above baptized 6 Apr 1753. The World Connect chart does not list her marriage to Samuel Pike.
Looking at the Herman Drewe family next mentioned in the will: Married in Colyton Church 1 May 1775 Herman Drew, clerk, of the parish of Wootton Fitzpaine in the county of Dorset and Sarah Mary Hatherley of this parish married by licence in the presence of Elizabeth Hatherly, Jno. Rolle. Sarah Mary Hatherley is said to be the daughter of William Hatherley and Sarah Baker who were married 27 Sep 1753 at Modbury Devon and she was baptized 3 Dec 1755 at Kenton. According to the chart at World Connect William married a second time to Elizabeth Matthews 12 Sep 1758 at Bideford and they had one child Mary Ann Hatherly (not mentioned in the will) baptized 15 Feb 1762.
The children of Herman Drewe and Sarah Mary Hatherley (Sarah Elizabeth and Mary are mentioned in the will and if either of them die then the funds are to be shared by the rest of their children) are found on Family Search:
Sarah Elizabeth baptized 15 Jun 1776 at Wootton Fitzpaine, Dorset
Herman baptized 2 Jan 1778 at Wootton Fitzpaine, Dorset
Mary baptized 9 Feb 1780 at Wootton Fitzpaine, Dorset
Elizabeth Judith Hatherly also mentioned in the will lastly was the daughter of Thomas Hatherly and Grace and was baptized 18 Sep 1749 at Bideford (Family Search C05032-1). There are two possible marriages for Thomas Hatherly and both appear to be patron entries: Thomas Hatherly and Grace Smith 1748 and Thomas Hatherly and Grace Voisey 1751. Given the birth date of 1749 for Elizabeth Judith it is possible that Thomas married twice with the first Grace having died.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 19 Jun 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1176/207
Testator: Elizabeth Blake, widow
Place: Saint David in Exeter, Devon, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 9 Aug 1786, probated 12 Mar 1789
Condition: 18th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Elizabeth
[Margin]: Blake
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 I Elizabeth Blake of the parish of Saint David in the County of
3 the City of Exeter Devon do make this my last Will and Testament in
4 the manner following that is to say I desire that I may be
5 buried in a decent and plain manner in the parish Church of
6 Saint Martin in the City of Exeter by the side of my late
7 husband and that the Funeral Service may be performed by the
8 Curate for the time being of the parish of Saint David
9 aforesaid to whom I give three Guineas and one Guinea to the
10 Rector of Saint Martin I desire that ______ no outer
11 Bearers but that the Reverend John Quick Rector of Highley
12 the Reverend Mr Locker Rector of St Lawrence in the City of Exeter
13 the Reverend John Stabback Edward Cleave Esquire Robert Lydstone
14 Newcome Esquire and Mr Richard Thorn will each accept of a
15 Ring of the value of one Guinea I give and bequeath to my
16 three Nephews Narcissus John and William Henry Hatherly
17 one hundred and sixty pounds each of lawful Money of Great
18 Britain to be paid to them respectively by my Executor hereinafter
19 named at the end of eight months next after my decease
20 also I give and bequeath unto my Friend Mr John Codrington
21 of the City of Exeter apothecary the Sum of two hundred pounds
22 of like lawful money upon trust for such person or persons
23 and to and for the Ends Intents and purposes as my Niece Elizabeth
24 Pike wife of Samuel Pike of Northam in the County of Devon
25 Esquire shall by any writing or writings under her hand attested
26 by one or more credible Witness or Witnesses or by her last Will
27 and Testament in Writing or any writing purporting to be or in
28 the nature of her her last Will and Testament attested by two or
29 more Credible Witnesses notwithstanding her Couverture and whether
30 she be Covert or Sole order direct or appoint and for want of
31 and in the meane time until the said Elizabeth Pike shall
32 make some such order direction or appointment as aforesaid to
33 and shall stand possessed of and in the said Sum of two hundred
34 pounds and the dividends and Interest that will be made thereof
35 upon trust for the said Elizabeth Pike her Executors and Admors
36 to and for the Sole separate and peculiar use and disposal of the said
37 Elizabeth Pike and wherewith as with any part thereof her said
38 present or any future husband shall not in any wise intermeddle
39 neither shall the same or any part thereof be in any wise
40 subject or liable to the power Control debts or Engagements of
41 any such husband but the Receipt and Receipts of the said
42 Elizabeth Pike alone or of such person or persons to whom she
43 shall so order direct or appoint the said Sum of two hundred
44 pounds and the Dividends and Interest thereof or any part thereof
45 to be paid as aforesaid shall from time to time be a sufficient
46 and effectual discharge and discharges to the said John Codrington his Executors
47 and administrators for the same or so much and such part
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48 and parts thereof as to such Receipt and Receipts shall be
49 mentioned expressed or acknowledged to be received Also I give
50 and bequeath unto the said John Codrington the like Sum
51 of two hundred pounds upon trust for the separate and peculiar
52 use of my Niece Sarah Mary Drewe the Wife of the Reverend
53 Herman Drewe of Wootton in the County of Dorset with the
54 like power of disposal and appointment and in the same
55 manner as I have hereinbefore declared touching the Legacy
56 of two hundred pounds hereinbefore given for the use of the
57 said Elizabeth Pike also I give and bequeath the like Sum
58 of two hundred pounds unto my Niece Elizabeth Judith Hatherly
59 and I do hereby direct that the aforesaid three several
60 Legacies of two hundred pounds shall be paid by my Executor
61 at the end of eight months next after my decease also
62 I Give and bequeath unto the said Herman the
63 sum of three hundred pounds old South Sea Annuities now
64 standing in my Name upon trust that he the said Herman
65 Drewe do and shall from time to time receive the dividends
66 thereof and lay out and invest the same Dividends in the
67 purchase of other stock or on good Securities until his two
68 daughters Sarah Elizabeth Drewe and Mary Drewe shall
69 attain the age of twenty one years or be married which shall
70 first happen and then do and shall transfer assign
71 and make over the said Sum of three hundred pounds
72 old South Sea annuities and the Dividends thereof and
73 all Stocks Funds and Securities wherein the same shall be
74 invested into and between his said two Daughters
75 Sarah Elizabeth and Mary equally to be divided
76 between them share and share alike and I do hereby
77 declare it to be my Will that if either of them the said
78 Sarah Elizabeth Drewe and Mary Drewe shall happen
79 to die before attaining her said age of twenty one
80 years or being married then the share of her so
81 dying shall go and belong to the Survivor of them
82 and shall be paid and payable to her at the
83 same time as the original Share and I do hereby
84 further declare that in case both of them the said
85 Sarah Elizabeth Drewe and Mary Drewe shall die
86 before having attained such age or have as aforesaid that
87 then the said Herman Drewe his Executors and
88 Administrators shall stand possessed of the said Stocks
89 Funds and Securities and the Dividends and Interest
90 thereof upon trust for all and every other the Child
91 and Children of the said Herman Drewe and Sarah
92 Mary Drewe his Wife equally to be divided likewise
93 then if more then one share
94 and share alike and if but one such Child then to such
95 one only Child the share and shares of such of
96 them as shall be a Son or Sons to be paid and payable
97 to him and them at his or their ages or respective
98 ages of twenty one years and the share or shares of
99 such of them as shall be a daughter or daughters
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100 to be paid and payable to her or them at her or their
101 age or respective ages of twenty one years or Day or
102 respective Days of Marriage which shall first
103 happen and in case any or either of the aforesaid
104 Children shall happen to die without having
105 attained such age or time as aforesaid then the
106 share or shares of him her or them so dying
107 shall go and belong to the Survivors and
108 Survivor of such Children in the same manner
109 as is hereinbefore declared touching his her or
110 their original portion or portions and in case all
111 such Children shall die without attaining sucvh age
112 or time as aforesaid then I give and devise the
113 same Stock Funds and Securities unto the aforesaid
114 John Codrington his Executors Administrators and assigns
115 upon trust for the separate and peculiar use of my said
116 Niece Mary Drewe and with the same power of
117 appointment and in the same manner as I have
118 hereinbefore declared touching the said Sum of two hundred
119 pounds hereinbefore given to the said John Codrington
120 for the use of the said Sarah Mary Drewe
121 Recommending it nevertheless to her to give the same
122 to some part of my family and whereas it is my
123 intention to lay out the Sum of Fifty pounds more
124 during my life in old South Sea Annuities now I do
125 hereby bequeath such Sum of Fifty pounds in case I
126 shall so lay out the same to the said Herman Drewe
127 upon the same trusts as I have hereinbefore
128 declared touching the said Sum of three hundred
129 pounds and in case I should not in my life time
130 lay out such Sum of Fifty pounds in the manner
131 aforesaid I do hereby direct my Executor herein after
132 named to lay out that Sum out of the residue of
133 my personal Estate in the name of the said Herman
134 Drewe who shall stand possessed thereof Upon the
135 trusts aforesaid also I give and bequeath to
136 my two Sisters Honour Hatherly widow and Grace
137 Hatherly widow the Sum of five Guineas each as a
138 token of my affection for them I give to Joan
139 Thomas Six Guineas and to Mary White Sister of Mr
140 Arthur White Apothecary Mrs Waldrond widow of the
141 late Doctor Walrond deceased Mrs Margaret Coles Mrs
142 Isabella Weeks and Miss Francis Broom two
143 Guineas each I give to each of my Maid Servants
144 they shall have lived with me twelve months before
145 my decease three Guineas over and above the wages
146 which may be due to them and Mourning at the
147 discretion of my Executor I give to Ann Mortimer
148 one Guinea if she continues to be employed in my
149 service at the time of my death I give to Mrs
150 Joan Stooke Widow and her three daughters Mrs Margaret
151 Cleave Mrs Margaret Baker Mrs Mary Codrington Mrs
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152 Locker wife of the Reverend Wm Locker Mrs Hannah
153 Newcombe Mrs Frances Stabback the aforesaid Herman
154 Drewe and Samuel Pike Esquire Mrs Elizabeth
155 Hatherley wife of my nephew John Hatherley and
156 Mrs Hatherley wife of my nephew William Henry
157 Hatherley a Ring of the value of one Guinea
158 each I give to the said John Codrington the
159 sum of thirty Guineas a Ring of the value of
160 one Guinea and a Suit of Mourning and do
161 appoint the said John Codrington Sole Executor of this
162 my last Will and Testament and I give and devise
163 unto the said John Codrington his heirs and assigns all
164 and every the Messuages Lands Tenements and hereditaments
165 which are vested in me by any mortgage or Mortgages
166 in Fee with their and every of their Rights Members
167 and appurtenances upon trust to convey the same upon
168 payment of the principal Sum and Sums and Interest
169 thereby respectively secured I give and bequeath unto my
170 aforesaid three Nieces Elizabeth Pike Sarah Mary Drewe
171 and Elizabeth Judith Hatherley my watch and all my
172 Plate Jewells wearing apparel household Goods
173 and Furniture and all other the Goods and Chattells
174 whereof I shall die possessed except my Monies and
175 Stocks Funds and Securities for Money equally to be divided
176 between them share and share alike all the rest and
177 residue of my Estate and Effects whatsoever and whereso
178 ever I give and bequeath unto my aforesaid
179 three Nephews Narcissus John and William Henry
181 Hatherley all my aforesaid three Nieces Elizabeth Pike
182 Sarah Mary Drewe and Elizabeth Judith Hatherley
183 equally to be divided between them share and share
184 alike and I do hereby declare that the respective Shares
185 of the said Elizabeth Pike and Sarah Mary Drewe of
186 and in my aforesaid watch plate Jewels wearing
187 apparel household Goods and Furniture and the residue
188 of my personal Estate and Effects shall be for the respective
189 sole and separate use of my said two Nieces exclusive of
190 their respective husbands in the same manner
191 as I have hereinbefore declared touching the said two
192 several Legacies of two hundred pounds and two hundred
193 pounds hereinbefore bequeathed to the said John
194 Codrington in trust for them as aforesaid and lastly I
195 do hereby declare it to be my Will that the aforesaid
196 John Codrington and Herman Drewe respectively or either
197 of them their or either of their heirs Executors or admors
198 shall not be charged or chargeable with or
199 accountable for any more of the said trust monies
200 and premises than they or he shall respectively
201 actually receive by virtue of the trusts aforesaid nor
202 with or for any loss which shall happen of the same
203 monies and premises or any part thereof so as
204 the same respectively happen without their wilful
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205 defaults or neglects and that my said Trustees their
206 Executors and administrators respectively shall and
207 lawfully may deduct retain to and reimburse
208 themselves respectively out of the said trust monies
209 and premises all such Costs Losses Charges
210 damages and Expences whatsoever as they or
211 either of them shall or may bear sustain or be put
212 unto in or about the Execution or management of
213 the trusts hereby in them respectively reposed or any
214 thing relating thereunto and that it shall and
215 may be lawful to and for the said John Codrington
216 his Executors and administrators to compound any debt
217 or debts that shall or may be due to my Estate
218 and release the person or persons who may be
219 debtor or debtors therein and sign and subscribe this
220 or their consent to the allowance of the Certificate
221 or Certificates of any Bankrupt or Bankrupts
222 and submit to arbitration any matter in dispute
223 relating to my Estate and perform the award to
224 Be made in pursuance to such submission and
225 I hereby revoke all former Wills by me made
226 declaring this to be my last Will and Testament
227 In Witness whereof I the said Elizabeth Blake
228 The Testatrix have to the three first sheets of
229 this my last Will and Testament contained in four Sheets
230 of Paper subscribed my name and to this fourth and
231 last sheet thereof set my hand and Seal the ninth
232 day of August in the year of our Lord one
233 thousand seven hundred and eighty six Eliz: Blake
234 Signed Sealed published and declared by the said
235 Elizabeth Blake the Testatrix and for her last
236 Will and Testament in the presence of us three whose
237 names are hereunto subscribed and who subscribed
238 our names as Witnesses hereto at the desire
239 and in the presence of the said Testatrix and in
240 the presence of each other Rv Lydston Newcombe
241 John Stabback Wm Stabback
242 June the 23rd 1788 I Eliz: Blake give to Mr John
243 Codrington the Sum of thirty pounds over and
244 above what I have given him in my Will in
245 consideration of his great care and attention to me and
246 I also give to Frances Broom twenty pounds over and
247 above what I have given her in my Will provided
248 she lives with me at the time of my Death likewise
249 such Mourning as my Executors or relations shall
250 judge proper this paper I desire may be
251 considered as part of my Will written by my own
252 hand Eliz: Blake
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253 The second day of March 1789
254 Appeared Personally James Pitts of
255 The City of Exeter Ironmonger and Elizabeth Stabback
256 of the said City Spinster and being severally sworn
257 on the holy Evangelists to depose the truth made
258 oath and say that they very well knew and
259 were acquainted with Elizabeth Blake late of the
260 Parish of Saint David in the City of Exeter Widow
261 deceased for several Years before and to the time of her
262 death and also with the manner and Character of
263 hand writing and subscription of the said deceased
264 having often seen her write out witness and subscribe
265 her name to writings and declaring now seen and
266 carefully perused the paper Writing hereunto annexed
267 purporting to be a Codicil to the last Will and Testament
268 of the said deceased beginning thus June the 23rd
269 1788 Eliz: Blake ending thus written by my own
270 hand and thus subscribed Eliz: Blake They these
271 deponents say that they truly and in their consciences
272 believe the whole Body Series and Contents of the
273 said Codicil to the said Gifts of the said deceased and also the Subscription
274 hereto to be of the proper hand writing of the said
275 deceased James Pitts Eliz:Stabback Same Day the
276 said James Pitts and Elizabeth Stabback were duly
277 sworn to the truth of this affidavit before me Mr
278 Shore Commissioner
279 This Will was proved at London with a Codicil
280 The twelveth day of March in the year of our Lord
281 one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine before the
282 Right Worshipful Sir William Wynne Knight Doctor of
283 Laws Master Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative
284 Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted by the Oath of John
285 Codrington the Sole Executor named in the said Will to
286 whom Administration was granted of all and singular the
287 Goods Chattels and Credits of the deceased having
288 been first sworn by Commission duly to administer
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Will of Richard Blake, Gentleman, St Earney, Cornwall - The National Archives PROB 11/982/21 Nov 1772
Richard Blake of St Earney Cornwall Gentleman is the testator of this will. He is the Mr Richard Blake who married Mrs Elizabeth Blake 28 Sep 1732 which is mentioned in the book which I refer to in the next paragraph. I blogged the will of Philip Blake, gentleman of Landrake and wondered if he was a son of this couple but he does not appear to be although he is named in the will as Executor. That leaves John Blake and Thomazin as possible parents although in the will Richard does not say what relationship Philip Blake is to him. He is older than both Elizabeth and Grace. I must admit I am still prone to thinking that Philip is the son of this testator and has already received land and property. It is surprising though not to see him mentioned as a relative to Richard.
Interesting information from Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica, edited by Joseph Jackson Howard, LLD, FSA, Volume II, second series and published at London: 1888 by Mitchell and Hughes, 140 Wardour Street W. The following from page 240:
"On the 5th May 1764 “Rokeby Scott of parish of St. Andrew’s, Plymouth, Lieutenant in ye 68th Company of Marines,” was married at Landrake, co. Cornwall, by licence, to “Grace Dade, widow.” She was widow of John Dade, Esq., and daughter of Richard Blake of Trelogan alias Treluggan, Co. Cornwall, Esq., to whom she is also stated to have been coheir. In the Registers of St. Erney’s, which adjoins Landrake, the baptism of “Grace da. Of Mr Richard Blake and Elizabeth his wife privately May 22, Received publick baptism July 15, 1739,” and the same Registers record the marriage of “Mr Richard Blake and Mrs Elizabeth Blake,” 28 Sept 1732 and the burials of “Richard Blake of Trelogan, Esquire,” 3 Jan 1770, “Elizabeth Blake, widow,” 2 June 1772, and “Mary Dade daughter of Grace Scott,” 25 Apr 1767; also the baptisms of “Philip,” “Elizabeth,” and “Richard,” children of “Mr Richard Blake and Elizabeth his wife.”
Trelogan, or Treluggan, is in the parish of Landrake, but near the church of St. Erney’s parish. In the latter church is a hatchment on which is the date 1770 and the arms of Blake, viz.: Argent, a chevron between three garbs Sable, impaling “Azure, a saltire Argent between four martlets (or birds of some sort) Or:” Crest, “On a chapeau Or a martlet Argent.” Local tradition assigns this hatchment to the memory of Mr. Richard Blake of Trelogan, and as the date on it is that of the year of his burial there seems no reason to doubt it. Can any correspondent identify the arms impaled with Blake? If Elizabeth Blake, whom Mr. Richard Blake married, as above, in 1732, was his only wife, this coat must be intended for hers, and in that case she must, though his namesake, have been of a totally different family of Blake. Burke’s ‘Armory’ gives no coat like it to Blake.
To anyone who can give me any information about the family of Blake of Trelogan, or identify the “John Dade, Esq.,” who married Miss Grace Blake, as her first husband, I shall be very grateful. I may add that Lysons, in his “History of Cornwall,” states that “Dogherty inherits Trelogan from Blake, his wife having been Blake heiress.” Family tradition in her descendants makes Grace Blake a coheir to her father. "
This will bears out the information that Grace (and her sister Elizabeth) were coheirs of their father Richard Blake. Interesting that this Blake family carries the ancient arms of the Blake family namely Argent, a chevron between three garbs Sable.
If Philip who left his will in 1808 isn’t the son of this Richard and Elizabeth what happened to their son Philip? Is my one thought. Plus there was also a son Richard who is not mentioned either.
Another interesting tidbit from Notes and Queries: A medium of intercommunication for Literary Men, General Readers, Etc. Sixth Series, Volume Third, January-June 1881. London (by William White and query from Reginald Stewart Boddington) and found on Google Books on page 89 of this text:
"… Rev Rokeby Scott, Rector of Arthingworth, Northants (he was there buried 3 Oct 1767) and had issue, Rokeby Scott, Lieut. Of Marines (died 28 Oct 1773) having married at St Erney, co Cornwall), May, 1674, Grace daughter of Richard Blake of Trelogan, co Cornwall (relict of John Dade), and had a daughter Emma Anne who married at Holy Trinity, Chester, the Rev. Thomas Maddock, M.A., Prebendary of Chester and who was buried in Chester Cathedral, 19 Feb 1825, leaving issue."
Still the Blake families in Cornwall remain a nystery. Are they all related and do they descend from the Blake family at Comb, Devon?
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 16 Jun 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/982/317
Testator: Richard Blake, Gentleman
Place: St Earney, Cornwall, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 26 Oct 1769, probated 21 Nov 1772
Condition: 18th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Richard
[Margin]: Blake
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 I Richard Blake of the parish of St Earney in the County
3 of Cornwall Gentleman being of sound and disposing
4 Mind Memory and Understanding hereby revoking all former
5 and other Wills by me at any time heretofore made do make
6 and publish this my last Will and Testament in manner
7 and form following First I commit my Soul into the hands
8 of Almighty God hoping thro’ the Merits and Mediation
9 of my blessed Saviour Jesus Christ to obtain remission of
10 all my Sins and Everlastinge Life after Death and as for
11 that Worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased Almighty
12 God to bless me I give and dispose of the same as
13 follows Imprimis I give and bequeath to my loving Wife
14 Elizabeth Blake all my Right and Interest in my
15 Copyhold Estate of Thornhill and also of my Copyhold
16 Estate of Trelogan both lying in the parish of St Earney
17 wherein I now live for and during her natural Life
18 also I give to my said Wife during her life the use of
19 all my Plate household Stuff Implements of husbandry
20 Lumber Etc[etr]a of what nature kind of quality soever Now
21 in my Dwelling house or on the premises of Trelogan
22 aforesaid and after my said Wife’s decease I give and
23 bequeath the same plate household Stuff Implements of
24 husbandry Lumber etc as aforesaid to my daughter Elizabeth
25 Blake as her sole property for ever Also I give and
26 bequeath unto my said daughter Elizabeth Blake the
27 Sum of Five hundred pounds to be raised and paid her
28 by my Executors hereinafter named out of my Lands in
29 the parish of Landrake and County of Cornwall in the
30 space of One year next after my Death Item I give to
31 the poor of the parishes of Landrake and St Earney
32 Forty Shillings each to be distributed at the discretion of my
33 Executors within one year after my decease Item I give
34 to Elizabeth Blake and Grace Blake daughters of Philip
35 Blake of Landrake Five pounds each to be paid them
36 in one year after my death Item all my Messuages
37 Lands and Tenements with their Appurtenances lying
38 within the parish of Lawanick and County of Cornwall
39 I give devise and bequeath unto Joseph Freeman of the
40 Borough of Plymouth in the County of Devon Gentleman
41 and unto Philip Blake of the parish of Landrake in
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42 the County of Cornwall Yeoman and to their heirs and
43 to the Survivor of them and his heirs In trust and
44 to and for the end and intent that they may with all
45 convenient speed after my decease sell and dispose of
46 the said Lands and premises and of the Fee Simple land
47 inheritance thereof for the best price that they shall be
48 able to get for the same and the Money arising by such
49 sale to apply in aid of my personal Estate for and
50 towards the payment of my just Debts All the rest
51 of my Messuages Lands and Tenements which I am
52 possessed of in Fee Simple in the parishes of Landrake
53 and St Earney in the County of Cornwall or in any other
54 part of the Kingdom of Great Britain I give devise
55 and bequeath unto them the said Joseph Freeman and
56 Philip Blake To hold to them the said Joseph Freeman and Philip Blake and the Survivor of them and the heirs
57 of such Survivor from the day of my death for ever
58 but in Trust Nevertheless and to and for the uses intents
59 and purposes hereinafter mentioned and to and for no
60 other Use Trust intent or purpose whatsoever that is to
61 say that they the said Joseph Freeman and Philip Blake
62 do permit and suffer my said daughter Elizabeth Blake
63 and her heirs and assigns to receive and take One
64 Moiety or half part of the Rents Issues and profits
65 of my said Lands to and for the sole use of her my said
66 daughter Elizabeth her heirs and assigns for ever and
67 as to the other Moiety of the Rents Issues and profits
68 of the said Lands In Trust that they my said Trustees
69 do permit and suffer my daughter Grace Scott the Wife
70 of Rokeby Scott to receive and take the said other
71 Moiety of the Rents Issues and profits of my said Lands
72 for and during her natural Life and after her decease
73 that they my said Trustees or the Survivor of them or the
74 heirs of such Survivor do during the Minority of such
75 child or children as my said daughter Grace Scott
76 shall leave behind her receive the Rents Issues and
77 profits of this last mentioned Moiety of my said Lands
78 and lay out the same to the best advantage they or the
79 Survivor of them or the heirs of such Survivor can
80 and from and after or as soon as my said Grand
81 Child or Grand Children arrive at the Age of Twenty
82 one Years That then I direct that my said Trustees or
83 the Survivor of them or the heirs of such Survivor
84 shall permit and suffer my said Grandchild or Grand
85 Children to receive and take the Rents Issues and profits
86 of this last mentioned Moiety of my said Lands to him
87 her or them him her or their heirs or assigns forever
88 as Tenants in common and not as joint Tenants I also
89 give devise and bequeath all my Messuages Lands and
90 Tenements which I hold by Lease or for a Term or
91 Terms of Years in the parishes of Landrake and St
92 Earney or in any other part of the County of Cornwall
93 unto the said Joseph Freeman and Philip Blake To hold
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94 to them or the Survivor of them or the Executors or
95 Administrators of such Survivor from the day of my Death
96 for and during the remainder of the Terms that shall be
97 then therein to come and unexpired But in Trust
98 Nevertheless that they my said Trustees do permit and suffer
99 my said daughter Elizabeth Blake her Executors Administrators
100 or assigns to receive and take the Moiety or half of the
101 Rents Issues and profits of my said last mentioned premises
102 for and during the Remainder of the said Terms And as to
103 the other Moiety of my said Estates which I hold by
104 Lease or for a Term or Terms of Years I do hereby
105 order and direct that they my said Trustees do permit
106 And suffer my daughter Grace Scott Wife of Rokeby Scott
107 aforesaid to receive and take the said other Moiety of
108 the Rents Issues and profits of my said Estates which
109 I holds by Lease or for a Term or Terms of Years for
110 and during her natural Life and after her Death that
111 they my said Trustees or the Survivor of them or the
112 heirs of such Survivor do during the Minority of such
113 Child or Children as my said daughter Grace Scott shall
114 leave behind her receive the Rents Issues and profits of
115 these last mentioned premises and lay out the same to
116 the best advantage and from and after or as soon as
117 my said Grand child or Grand children arrive at the age
118 of Twenty one Years that then I do hereby order and
119 direct that my said Trustees or the Survivor of them or
120 the heirs of such Survivor shall permit and suffer my
121 said Grandchild or Children to have hold and enjoy the
122 said last mentioned premises and to receive and take the
123 Rents Issues and profits thereof to him her or them him
124 her or their Executors Administrators or assigns for and
125 during the remainder of the several Terms which I
126 have therein as Tenants in common and not as joint
127 Tenants All the rest and residue of my Goods and
128 Chattels Rights and Credits of what nature kind or
129 quality the same are and wheresoever situate lying and
130 being and not hereinbefore given and bequeathed I give
131 devise and bequeath unto the said Joseph Freeman
132 and Philip Blake To hold to them the said Joseph
133 Freeman and Philip Blake and the Survivor of them
134 and Executors and Administrators of such Survivor for
135 ever But in Trust that they in the first place pay
136 off my just Debts Legacys and Funeral Charges and after
137 payment and satisfaction thereof that they my said
138 Trustees or the Survivor of them or the Executors or
139 Administrators of such Survivor do divide the same in
140 manner following (that is to say) that they give One
141 Moiety or half to my said daughter Elizabeth Blake
142 And the other Moiety to my daughter Grace Scott and
143 they the said Joseph Freeman and Philip Blake my
144 said Trustees I do hereby make and ordain and appoint
145 whole and sole Executors of this my last Will and
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146 Testament In Trust as aforesaid and to and for the
147 uses intents and purposes aforesaid and to and for
148 no other use intent or purpose whatsoever
149 In Witness whereof I the said Richard Blake
150 have to the first Sheet of this my last Will and
151 Testament containing two Sheets of paper set my hand
152 and to the last Sheet thereof my hand and Seal this
153 Twenty sixth day of October in the Year of our Lord
154 One Thousand seven hundred and sixty nine Rich[ar]d Blake
155 Signed sealed published and declared by the said
156 Richard Blake as and for his last Will and Testament
157 in the presence of us who have hereunto subscribed our
158 Names as Witnesses thereto in the presence of the said
159 Testator and in presence of each other J Wollcock Clk
160 John Kelse John Lamerton
161 This Will was proved at London the Twenty first
162 day of November in the Year of our Lord One Thousand
163 seven hundred and seventy two before the Right Worshipful
164 George Hay Doctor of Laws Master Keeper or Commissary
165 of the prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted
166 by the Oaths of Joseph Freeman and Philip Blake the
167 Executors named in the said Will to whom Administration was
168 granted of all and singular the Goods Chattles and Credits
169 of the said deceased they having been first sworn by Commission
170 duly to administer.
Interesting information from Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica, edited by Joseph Jackson Howard, LLD, FSA, Volume II, second series and published at London: 1888 by Mitchell and Hughes, 140 Wardour Street W. The following from page 240:
"On the 5th May 1764 “Rokeby Scott of parish of St. Andrew’s, Plymouth, Lieutenant in ye 68th Company of Marines,” was married at Landrake, co. Cornwall, by licence, to “Grace Dade, widow.” She was widow of John Dade, Esq., and daughter of Richard Blake of Trelogan alias Treluggan, Co. Cornwall, Esq., to whom she is also stated to have been coheir. In the Registers of St. Erney’s, which adjoins Landrake, the baptism of “Grace da. Of Mr Richard Blake and Elizabeth his wife privately May 22, Received publick baptism July 15, 1739,” and the same Registers record the marriage of “Mr Richard Blake and Mrs Elizabeth Blake,” 28 Sept 1732 and the burials of “Richard Blake of Trelogan, Esquire,” 3 Jan 1770, “Elizabeth Blake, widow,” 2 June 1772, and “Mary Dade daughter of Grace Scott,” 25 Apr 1767; also the baptisms of “Philip,” “Elizabeth,” and “Richard,” children of “Mr Richard Blake and Elizabeth his wife.”
Trelogan, or Treluggan, is in the parish of Landrake, but near the church of St. Erney’s parish. In the latter church is a hatchment on which is the date 1770 and the arms of Blake, viz.: Argent, a chevron between three garbs Sable, impaling “Azure, a saltire Argent between four martlets (or birds of some sort) Or:” Crest, “On a chapeau Or a martlet Argent.” Local tradition assigns this hatchment to the memory of Mr. Richard Blake of Trelogan, and as the date on it is that of the year of his burial there seems no reason to doubt it. Can any correspondent identify the arms impaled with Blake? If Elizabeth Blake, whom Mr. Richard Blake married, as above, in 1732, was his only wife, this coat must be intended for hers, and in that case she must, though his namesake, have been of a totally different family of Blake. Burke’s ‘Armory’ gives no coat like it to Blake.
To anyone who can give me any information about the family of Blake of Trelogan, or identify the “John Dade, Esq.,” who married Miss Grace Blake, as her first husband, I shall be very grateful. I may add that Lysons, in his “History of Cornwall,” states that “Dogherty inherits Trelogan from Blake, his wife having been Blake heiress.” Family tradition in her descendants makes Grace Blake a coheir to her father. "
This will bears out the information that Grace (and her sister Elizabeth) were coheirs of their father Richard Blake. Interesting that this Blake family carries the ancient arms of the Blake family namely Argent, a chevron between three garbs Sable.
If Philip who left his will in 1808 isn’t the son of this Richard and Elizabeth what happened to their son Philip? Is my one thought. Plus there was also a son Richard who is not mentioned either.
Another interesting tidbit from Notes and Queries: A medium of intercommunication for Literary Men, General Readers, Etc. Sixth Series, Volume Third, January-June 1881. London (by William White and query from Reginald Stewart Boddington) and found on Google Books on page 89 of this text:
"… Rev Rokeby Scott, Rector of Arthingworth, Northants (he was there buried 3 Oct 1767) and had issue, Rokeby Scott, Lieut. Of Marines (died 28 Oct 1773) having married at St Erney, co Cornwall), May, 1674, Grace daughter of Richard Blake of Trelogan, co Cornwall (relict of John Dade), and had a daughter Emma Anne who married at Holy Trinity, Chester, the Rev. Thomas Maddock, M.A., Prebendary of Chester and who was buried in Chester Cathedral, 19 Feb 1825, leaving issue."
Still the Blake families in Cornwall remain a nystery. Are they all related and do they descend from the Blake family at Comb, Devon?
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 16 Jun 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/982/317
Testator: Richard Blake, Gentleman
Place: St Earney, Cornwall, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 26 Oct 1769, probated 21 Nov 1772
Condition: 18th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Richard
[Margin]: Blake
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 I Richard Blake of the parish of St Earney in the County
3 of Cornwall Gentleman being of sound and disposing
4 Mind Memory and Understanding hereby revoking all former
5 and other Wills by me at any time heretofore made do make
6 and publish this my last Will and Testament in manner
7 and form following First I commit my Soul into the hands
8 of Almighty God hoping thro’ the Merits and Mediation
9 of my blessed Saviour Jesus Christ to obtain remission of
10 all my Sins and Everlastinge Life after Death and as for
11 that Worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased Almighty
12 God to bless me I give and dispose of the same as
13 follows Imprimis I give and bequeath to my loving Wife
14 Elizabeth Blake all my Right and Interest in my
15 Copyhold Estate of Thornhill and also of my Copyhold
16 Estate of Trelogan both lying in the parish of St Earney
17 wherein I now live for and during her natural Life
18 also I give to my said Wife during her life the use of
19 all my Plate household Stuff Implements of husbandry
20 Lumber Etc[etr]a of what nature kind of quality soever Now
21 in my Dwelling house or on the premises of Trelogan
22 aforesaid and after my said Wife’s decease I give and
23 bequeath the same plate household Stuff Implements of
24 husbandry Lumber etc as aforesaid to my daughter Elizabeth
25 Blake as her sole property for ever Also I give and
26 bequeath unto my said daughter Elizabeth Blake the
27 Sum of Five hundred pounds to be raised and paid her
28 by my Executors hereinafter named out of my Lands in
29 the parish of Landrake and County of Cornwall in the
30 space of One year next after my Death Item I give to
31 the poor of the parishes of Landrake and St Earney
32 Forty Shillings each to be distributed at the discretion of my
33 Executors within one year after my decease Item I give
34 to Elizabeth Blake and Grace Blake daughters of Philip
35 Blake of Landrake Five pounds each to be paid them
36 in one year after my death Item all my Messuages
37 Lands and Tenements with their Appurtenances lying
38 within the parish of Lawanick and County of Cornwall
39 I give devise and bequeath unto Joseph Freeman of the
40 Borough of Plymouth in the County of Devon Gentleman
41 and unto Philip Blake of the parish of Landrake in
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42 the County of Cornwall Yeoman and to their heirs and
43 to the Survivor of them and his heirs In trust and
44 to and for the end and intent that they may with all
45 convenient speed after my decease sell and dispose of
46 the said Lands and premises and of the Fee Simple land
47 inheritance thereof for the best price that they shall be
48 able to get for the same and the Money arising by such
49 sale to apply in aid of my personal Estate for and
50 towards the payment of my just Debts All the rest
51 of my Messuages Lands and Tenements which I am
52 possessed of in Fee Simple in the parishes of Landrake
53 and St Earney in the County of Cornwall or in any other
54 part of the Kingdom of Great Britain I give devise
55 and bequeath unto them the said Joseph Freeman and
56 Philip Blake To hold to them the said Joseph Freeman and Philip Blake and the Survivor of them and the heirs
57 of such Survivor from the day of my death for ever
58 but in Trust Nevertheless and to and for the uses intents
59 and purposes hereinafter mentioned and to and for no
60 other Use Trust intent or purpose whatsoever that is to
61 say that they the said Joseph Freeman and Philip Blake
62 do permit and suffer my said daughter Elizabeth Blake
63 and her heirs and assigns to receive and take One
64 Moiety or half part of the Rents Issues and profits
65 of my said Lands to and for the sole use of her my said
66 daughter Elizabeth her heirs and assigns for ever and
67 as to the other Moiety of the Rents Issues and profits
68 of the said Lands In Trust that they my said Trustees
69 do permit and suffer my daughter Grace Scott the Wife
70 of Rokeby Scott to receive and take the said other
71 Moiety of the Rents Issues and profits of my said Lands
72 for and during her natural Life and after her decease
73 that they my said Trustees or the Survivor of them or the
74 heirs of such Survivor do during the Minority of such
75 child or children as my said daughter Grace Scott
76 shall leave behind her receive the Rents Issues and
77 profits of this last mentioned Moiety of my said Lands
78 and lay out the same to the best advantage they or the
79 Survivor of them or the heirs of such Survivor can
80 and from and after or as soon as my said Grand
81 Child or Grand Children arrive at the Age of Twenty
82 one Years That then I direct that my said Trustees or
83 the Survivor of them or the heirs of such Survivor
84 shall permit and suffer my said Grandchild or Grand
85 Children to receive and take the Rents Issues and profits
86 of this last mentioned Moiety of my said Lands to him
87 her or them him her or their heirs or assigns forever
88 as Tenants in common and not as joint Tenants I also
89 give devise and bequeath all my Messuages Lands and
90 Tenements which I hold by Lease or for a Term or
91 Terms of Years in the parishes of Landrake and St
92 Earney or in any other part of the County of Cornwall
93 unto the said Joseph Freeman and Philip Blake To hold
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94 to them or the Survivor of them or the Executors or
95 Administrators of such Survivor from the day of my Death
96 for and during the remainder of the Terms that shall be
97 then therein to come and unexpired But in Trust
98 Nevertheless that they my said Trustees do permit and suffer
99 my said daughter Elizabeth Blake her Executors Administrators
100 or assigns to receive and take the Moiety or half of the
101 Rents Issues and profits of my said last mentioned premises
102 for and during the Remainder of the said Terms And as to
103 the other Moiety of my said Estates which I hold by
104 Lease or for a Term or Terms of Years I do hereby
105 order and direct that they my said Trustees do permit
106 And suffer my daughter Grace Scott Wife of Rokeby Scott
107 aforesaid to receive and take the said other Moiety of
108 the Rents Issues and profits of my said Estates which
109 I holds by Lease or for a Term or Terms of Years for
110 and during her natural Life and after her Death that
111 they my said Trustees or the Survivor of them or the
112 heirs of such Survivor do during the Minority of such
113 Child or Children as my said daughter Grace Scott shall
114 leave behind her receive the Rents Issues and profits of
115 these last mentioned premises and lay out the same to
116 the best advantage and from and after or as soon as
117 my said Grand child or Grand children arrive at the age
118 of Twenty one Years that then I do hereby order and
119 direct that my said Trustees or the Survivor of them or
120 the heirs of such Survivor shall permit and suffer my
121 said Grandchild or Children to have hold and enjoy the
122 said last mentioned premises and to receive and take the
123 Rents Issues and profits thereof to him her or them him
124 her or their Executors Administrators or assigns for and
125 during the remainder of the several Terms which I
126 have therein as Tenants in common and not as joint
127 Tenants All the rest and residue of my Goods and
128 Chattels Rights and Credits of what nature kind or
129 quality the same are and wheresoever situate lying and
130 being and not hereinbefore given and bequeathed I give
131 devise and bequeath unto the said Joseph Freeman
132 and Philip Blake To hold to them the said Joseph
133 Freeman and Philip Blake and the Survivor of them
134 and Executors and Administrators of such Survivor for
135 ever But in Trust that they in the first place pay
136 off my just Debts Legacys and Funeral Charges and after
137 payment and satisfaction thereof that they my said
138 Trustees or the Survivor of them or the Executors or
139 Administrators of such Survivor do divide the same in
140 manner following (that is to say) that they give One
141 Moiety or half to my said daughter Elizabeth Blake
142 And the other Moiety to my daughter Grace Scott and
143 they the said Joseph Freeman and Philip Blake my
144 said Trustees I do hereby make and ordain and appoint
145 whole and sole Executors of this my last Will and
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146 Testament In Trust as aforesaid and to and for the
147 uses intents and purposes aforesaid and to and for
148 no other use intent or purpose whatsoever
149 In Witness whereof I the said Richard Blake
150 have to the first Sheet of this my last Will and
151 Testament containing two Sheets of paper set my hand
152 and to the last Sheet thereof my hand and Seal this
153 Twenty sixth day of October in the Year of our Lord
154 One Thousand seven hundred and sixty nine Rich[ar]d Blake
155 Signed sealed published and declared by the said
156 Richard Blake as and for his last Will and Testament
157 in the presence of us who have hereunto subscribed our
158 Names as Witnesses thereto in the presence of the said
159 Testator and in presence of each other J Wollcock Clk
160 John Kelse John Lamerton
161 This Will was proved at London the Twenty first
162 day of November in the Year of our Lord One Thousand
163 seven hundred and seventy two before the Right Worshipful
164 George Hay Doctor of Laws Master Keeper or Commissary
165 of the prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted
166 by the Oaths of Joseph Freeman and Philip Blake the
167 Executors named in the said Will to whom Administration was
168 granted of all and singular the Goods Chattles and Credits
169 of the said deceased they having been first sworn by Commission
170 duly to administer.
Saturday, June 15, 2013
Will of Reignald Blake, yeoman, Padstow, Cornwall - The National Archives 11/222/68, probated 14 May 1652
The will of Reignald Blake and he names his wife Jane and sons Renald, William, Thomas and Christopher and daughters Catterne Comely and Anstie Smith. The granddaughter has probated the will and she is named Jane Smith. Jane Blake (wife of Reignald the testator) wrote a will which was probated 5 Jul 1652 and she names her sons Reynold and William. Sons in law named by her were Richard Smith (with daughter Jane married to Anstice and Jane brought to probate her grandfather’s will) and William Comely (married to Catterne). Jane Smith was also one of her executors. Perhaps in going through papers they found the grandfather’s will which had not been probated.
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/05/will-of-jane-blake-widow-of-padstow.html
He also names a John Blake of Luxilian. John’s will was blogged 29 May 2013:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/05/will-of-john-blake-of-luxulyan-cornwall.html
Just of interest Luxulyan is 14 miles SE of Padstow.
Also at Padstow there was the will of Oliver Blake probated 26 May 1608 but he does not mention a son Reginald so do not know if there is a relationship between these families.
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/06/will-of-oliver-blake-of-padstow.html
There is mention on the National Archives website of property held by the Arundell family of Lanherne where Thomas Blake son of Reginald Blake, yeoman deceased has surrendered the property:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=021-ar_4-2&cid=1-1-4-3-2#1-1-4-3-2
This is also mentioned in the will of Andrew Blake Cooper at St Breock Cornwall also blogged:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/05/will-of-andrew-blake-cooper-st-breock.html
How and if these Blake families fit together is still to be determined but having the wills at least gives in many cases a number of generations to study.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 15 Jun 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/222/68
Testator: Reignald Blake
Place: Padstow, Cornwall, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 28 Nov 1640, probated 14 May 1652
Condition: 17th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Test: Reynald
[Margin]: Blake
[Top]: The twenty eight day of November in the
[Top]: yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred Forty
1 I Reignald Blake of Padestow in the County of Cornwall doe make
2 this my last will and Testament in manner and forme following First I doe be-
3 queath my soule to the Allmighty God my Maker and Redeemer and my bodie to the
4 holy turfe Item I doe give to my daughter Catterne Comely twenty pounds to be
5 paid her at the end of two yeares after my death Item I doe give unto my sonne Renald
6 Blake Twenty pounds to be paid three yeares after my death Nowe I doe give to him and his
7 heyres forever one house or Tenement in the new streete of Padstow which John Harbur
8 doth dwell in Item I doe give to my sonne William Blake the somme of twenty pounds
9 to bee paid Fouer yeares next after my death Item I doe give to each of my children
10 Anstie Smith Thomas Blake and Christopher Blake twelfe pense apiece All the rest of
11 my goods and chattels not given nor bestowed within the realme of England I doe freely
12 give unto my wife Jane Blake And shee I doe make my whole and sole Executrix In
13 witness whereof I have here unto sett my hands and seale in the day and yeare above
14 written In witness of these whose names are here unto written Renald Blake There is
15 one house or Tenement in the new streete which is in lane betweene Henry Stuebley and
16 Renald Blake which is my owne land Francis Grigg a salt sixe spoones of silver a masur
17 cup bounde with silver and gold vii li Dorothy Wilton one brewing panne of brasse and one
18 rower one pan viiij s John Blake of Luxilian one pan now to be paide of white brasse worth
19 iiij li Tamson Artur one pan of brasse 8 s Gregg a crock a kettle and a pan and an one pound
20 and vj s John Wilton my great crocke or his Mothers vij s Richard Thomas The signe of
21 William Millrod the signe of Jane Dive
22 The fourteenth day of May in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand sixe
23 hundred fifty two issued out a commission to Jane Smith the natural and lawfull
24 grandchild of Sara Blake late whilst shee lived Executrix of the last will and Testament
25 of Reginald Blake late of Padstowe in the County of Cornwall deceased (having goods
26 etc) To administer all and singular the goods chattels and debts of the deceased according
27 to the tenor of his will for that she says Sara Blake dyed before shee proved the sayd
28 will in this Court shee the sayde Jane being first sworne by virtue of a Commission in
29 that behalfe extracted well and truly to administer the same
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/05/will-of-jane-blake-widow-of-padstow.html
He also names a John Blake of Luxilian. John’s will was blogged 29 May 2013:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/05/will-of-john-blake-of-luxulyan-cornwall.html
Just of interest Luxulyan is 14 miles SE of Padstow.
Also at Padstow there was the will of Oliver Blake probated 26 May 1608 but he does not mention a son Reginald so do not know if there is a relationship between these families.
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/06/will-of-oliver-blake-of-padstow.html
There is mention on the National Archives website of property held by the Arundell family of Lanherne where Thomas Blake son of Reginald Blake, yeoman deceased has surrendered the property:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=021-ar_4-2&cid=1-1-4-3-2#1-1-4-3-2
This is also mentioned in the will of Andrew Blake Cooper at St Breock Cornwall also blogged:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/05/will-of-andrew-blake-cooper-st-breock.html
How and if these Blake families fit together is still to be determined but having the wills at least gives in many cases a number of generations to study.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 15 Jun 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/222/68
Testator: Reignald Blake
Place: Padstow, Cornwall, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 28 Nov 1640, probated 14 May 1652
Condition: 17th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Test: Reynald
[Margin]: Blake
[Top]: The twenty eight day of November in the
[Top]: yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred Forty
1 I Reignald Blake of Padestow in the County of Cornwall doe make
2 this my last will and Testament in manner and forme following First I doe be-
3 queath my soule to the Allmighty God my Maker and Redeemer and my bodie to the
4 holy turfe Item I doe give to my daughter Catterne Comely twenty pounds to be
5 paid her at the end of two yeares after my death Item I doe give unto my sonne Renald
6 Blake Twenty pounds to be paid three yeares after my death Nowe I doe give to him and his
7 heyres forever one house or Tenement in the new streete of Padstow which John Harbur
8 doth dwell in Item I doe give to my sonne William Blake the somme of twenty pounds
9 to bee paid Fouer yeares next after my death Item I doe give to each of my children
10 Anstie Smith Thomas Blake and Christopher Blake twelfe pense apiece All the rest of
11 my goods and chattels not given nor bestowed within the realme of England I doe freely
12 give unto my wife Jane Blake And shee I doe make my whole and sole Executrix In
13 witness whereof I have here unto sett my hands and seale in the day and yeare above
14 written In witness of these whose names are here unto written Renald Blake There is
15 one house or Tenement in the new streete which is in lane betweene Henry Stuebley and
16 Renald Blake which is my owne land Francis Grigg a salt sixe spoones of silver a masur
17 cup bounde with silver and gold vii li Dorothy Wilton one brewing panne of brasse and one
18 rower one pan viiij s John Blake of Luxilian one pan now to be paide of white brasse worth
19 iiij li Tamson Artur one pan of brasse 8 s Gregg a crock a kettle and a pan and an one pound
20 and vj s John Wilton my great crocke or his Mothers vij s Richard Thomas The signe of
21 William Millrod the signe of Jane Dive
22 The fourteenth day of May in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand sixe
23 hundred fifty two issued out a commission to Jane Smith the natural and lawfull
24 grandchild of Sara Blake late whilst shee lived Executrix of the last will and Testament
25 of Reginald Blake late of Padstowe in the County of Cornwall deceased (having goods
26 etc) To administer all and singular the goods chattels and debts of the deceased according
27 to the tenor of his will for that she says Sara Blake dyed before shee proved the sayd
28 will in this Court shee the sayde Jane being first sworne by virtue of a Commission in
29 that behalfe extracted well and truly to administer the same
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Will of Philip Blake, Gentleman of Landrake, Cornwall - The National Archives PROB 11/1477/16, probated 2 Apr 1808
Philip Blake is the testator and he lived at Penquite in Landrake. He names his sons John, Henry, Philip, Richard and Thomas and his daughters Grace (unmarried), Catherine (unmarried) and Elizabeth Denham. Philip’s daughter Thomasine was married to Nicholas Littleton and perhaps deceased at the time of writing the will as not mentioned. Another daughter Mary (baptism not found) was married to Samson Rendle; Mary died in 1795. Ursula the only other daughter not mentioned in the will was married to Jonathan Palmer and grandchildren Elizabeth and Ursula Palmer are mentioned (and Ursula is perhaps deceased).
Looking at the marriage records for Landrake
Philip Blake married Joan Palmer 14 Jul 1791 with witnesses C (senior) Blake and Jonathan Palmer. This Philip is the son of the testator. Philip is listed as a farmer. And his condition has not been inserted (the bride was a spinster).
Philip Blake married Mary Raw 5 May 1712
Mr Richard Blake married Mrs Elizabeth Blake 28 Sep 1732
Walter Blake married Mary Parsons 25 Jul 1743
Nicholas Littleton married Thomasin Blake 30 May 1782
Jonathan Palmer married Ursula Blake 1 Mar 1786
Samson Rundle married Mary Blake 2 Aug 1791
Thomas Blake married Maria Elizabeth Palmer 7 Aug 1800
Henry Blake married Emma Palmer 8 Jun 1831
There are 67 baptisms at Landrake between 1606 and 1872
Henry Blake and his wife Margery baptized seven children between 1606 and 1625 namely: Mary, Nicholas, Anne Urcilla, Dorathy, Bridgett, and Phillipp.
Then a Henry, John, Richard, Walter and John are shown with baptisms for one child each between 1689 and 1743 with two Philip Blake baptisms one the son of John and Thomazin and the second the son of Mr Richard and Mrs. Elizabeth (8 Jul 1733 and 1 Jan 1734 respectively).
Followed by eight baptisms for the children of Philip and Elizabeth Blake at Landrake with St Erney namely:
Ursula 29 Feb 1760
Elizabeth 16 Apr 1762
Henry 20 Jul 1767
Grace 7 Aug1769 (buried 17 Mar 1826 at the age of 56 living at Cutivet, spinster)
Richard 26 Jul 1771
Catharine 6 Aug 1773 (buried 24 Sep 1827 at the age of 54 living at Cutivet, spinster)
George 19 Nov 1775 (buried as an infant in 1776)
Thomas 1 Mar 1778
This accounts for all the sons mentioned in the will except for John and Philip.
This is then followed by the baptisms for the grandchildren of Philip and Elizabeth likely and they number nine for Philip and Joan/Jane, nine for Thomas and Maria, nine for Richard and Philadelphia.
The testator Mr Philip Blake was buried at Landrake (living at Penquite) 25 Feb 1808 at the age of 74 giving him a likely year of birth of 1734 but having two baptisms one in 1733 and one in 1734 that doesn’t help to decide his parents although he is perhaps the son of Mr. Richard and Elizabeth Blake given his subsequent status. The testator Philip’s wife Elizabeth was buried 30 Jan 1794 at the age of 59 giving her a year of birth of 1735.
Looking at the LDS I found a couple more baptisms for children of Philip and Elizabeth Blake:
Thomazin 10 Jan 1755 at St Erney
John 4 Dec 1757 at Landrake
On Find My Past there was a marriage celebrated at Plymouth, Devon 21 Mar 1754 between Philip Blake and Elizabeth Denstowe.
World Connect has a partial family tree with Philip Blake having a year of birth circa 1768. I suspect this is fairly accurate as he was likely born after Henry (born 1767) as he is named after him in the will. Grace was born in 1769.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dalmanic&id=I79449
From “A Complete Parochial History of the County of Cornwall: Compiled Volume 2 by Joseph Poisue (on Google Books: http://books.google.ca/books?id=MRsiAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA400&lpg=PA400&dq=%22philip+blake%22+%2B+landrake&source=bl&ots=xJ--ab7aXF&sig=HziwzoJUL8l5KSqwIKMDW9XSOP8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=706vUeeCO4i5rgHjtIDADg&ved=0CCkQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=%22philip%20blake%22%20%2B%20landrake&f=false)\ and on page 400
The tombstone for Philip Blake: Near this place lie deposited the remains of Philip Blake, late of Penquite, in this parish, gent., who departed this life the 20th day of February, A.D., 1808; aged 74 years. Also the remains of Elizabeth his wife, who departed this life the 27th day of January, A.D. 1794; aged 60 years. And also the remains of George their son who departed this life the 4th day of November, 1776; aged 12 months.
Sacred to the memory of Samson Rundle (late of this village (landrake) who departed this life March the 27 1821, aged 53 years. Also of Mary, his former wife, and daughter of Philip Blake, late of Penquite, in this parish. She departed this life in April, 1795; aged 30 years.
Sacred to the memory of Catherine Blake, late of Cutivett, who departed this life September the 20th, 1827; aged 54 years.
I did not find a baptism for Mary (daughter of Philip and Elizabeth) who was married to Samson Rundle/Rendle. They were married 2 Aug 1791 at Landrake and he was of St Mellion (witnesses C (Senior) Blake and Philip (junior) Blake and perhaps this is P (Senior)).
The Visitation of Cornwall provides some information on Thomazine in that her daughter Eleanor Littleton (grand daughter mentioned in the will below) was born 6 July 1791 and married 29 May 1816 to Philip Porter.
But the ancestry of this Blake line eludes me for the moment.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 5 Jun 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1477/16
Testator: Philip Blake, Gentleman
Place: Landrake, Cornwall, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 19 Feb 1808 , probated 2 Apr 1808
Condition: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Philip
[Margin]: Blake
1 This is the last Will
2 and Testament of me Philip Blake of penquite in the
3 parish of Landrake in the County of Cornwall
4 Gentleman which I make publish and ordain
5 in manner and form following that is to say
6 I direct all my just debts and Funeral Expences
7 to be paid as soon as may be after my decease
8 I give and devise to my Son John Blake his
9 heirs and assigns for ever the undivided Moiety
10 of and in all that Freehold Tenement called
11 North parks and yellow Torr with the appurt[enances]
12 I give and bequeath to my said Son John Blake
13 all that my Tenement called Trelugham situate
14 in the said parish of Landrake for and during
15 the Term of his natural life and after his
16 decease then I give the same Leasehold Tenement
17 to my Son Henry Blake for all my Estate and
18 Interest therein I give devise and bequeath unto my
19 Son Philip Blake his heirs Executors Admors and
20 assigns for ever all that my Freeehold Tenement
21 called Hodges Barah and also all that my
22 Leasehold Tenement called underway in Brightor
23 drews park and Brigham Steps respectively situate
24 in the parish of Landrake aforesaid I give to my
25 said Son Philip Blake the Legacy or Sum of Four
26 hundred pounds and direct the same to be paid to
27 him by my Son Henry Blake out of my Estate
28 of Saint Erney within one year after my decease
29 I give and devise to my said Son Henry Blake his
30 heirs and assigns for ever all that my Freehold
31 Estate called Saint Erney with its appurt[enance]s situate
32 in the said parish of Landrake subject nevertheless
33 to and I do hereby charge the same with the
34 payment of the said Sum of Four hundred pounds
35 to my said Son Philip Blake at the time and
36 in the manner aforesaid I give and devise to my
37 Son Richard Blake his heirs and assigns all
38 this my Freehold Tenements and Fields called
39 respectively Harards Tenement and the Cove and
40 Marsh and Wood all lying in the parish of
41 Landrake aforesaid I give and devise all that my
42 Freehold Estate called Vigurs’s perquite which I
43 purchased of Mr Carew and also all those my two
44 Freehold Fields called Broomball and West Park
45 respectively situate in the parish of Landrake
46 aforesaid unto Peter Palmer of the said parish of
47 Landrake Tanner and Solomon Brown of
48 Landrake aforesaid Farmer and their heirs to
49 upon
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50 upon and for the uses interests and purposes and
51 with and subject to the powers provisiors and
52 limitations hereinafter mentioned and expressed
53 concerning the same (that is to say) to the use of
54 my Son Richard Blake for and during his life
55 and from and after the said end Expiration or other
56 soever determination of that Estate by Forfeiture
57 or otherwise in his lifetime then to the use of
58 the said Peter Palmer and Solomon Brown and
59 their heirs during the life of my said Son
60 Richard In Trust to support and preserve the
61 contingent uses and Estates hereinafter given or
62 limited from being defeated or destroyed and for
63 that purpose to make entries and bring actions
64 that purpose to make entire and bring actions
65 as occasion shall be or require but nevertheless
66 to permit and suffer my said Son Richard or his
67 assigns to receive and take the Rents and profits
68 of the said Estate Fields and premises for his own
69 use during his life and from and immediately
70 after the decease of my said Son Richard to the
71 use of my Grandson Philip Blake Son of my
72 said Son Richard and the heirs male of his
73 Body Issuing and for default of such Issue to the
74 use of the second third fourth and fifth Son and
75 Sons and all and every other the Son and Sons
76 of my said Son Richard lawfully to be begotten
77 severally successively and in remainder one after
78 another as they shall severally be in priority of
79 Birth and the heirs Male of the Body and Bodies
80 of all and every such Son and Sons Issuing The
81 Elder of such Sons and the heirs Male of his and
82 their Body and Bodies being always preferred and
83 to take before the younger of the said Sons and
84 the heirs Male of his and their Body and
85 Bodies Issuing and for want or in default of such
86 Issue to the use of my Son Thomas Blake and
87 his assigns for and during his life and from and
88 after the determination of that Estate by forfeiture
89 or otherwise in his lifetime to the use of the
90 said Peter Palmer and Solomon Brown and their
91 heirs during the life of my said Son Thomas In
92 Trust to support and preserve the contingent uses
93 and Estates hereinafter given or limited from
94 being defeated or destroyed and for that purpose
95 to make Entire and bring Action as occasion shall
96 be and require but nevertheless to suffer my said
97 Son Thomas and his assigns to receive and take
98 the Rents and profits of the said Estate Fields
99 and premises for his own use during his life and
100 from and immediately after the decease of my
101 said Son Thomas to the use of his first Son lawfully
102 begotten and the heirs Male of the Body of
103 such
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104 such first Son Issuing and for default of such
105 Issue to the use of the second third fourth and
106 fifth Son and Sons all and every other the Son
107 and Sons of my Son Thomas lawfully to be
108 begotten severally successively and in remainder
109 one after another as they shall severally be
110 in priority of Birth and the heirs Male of the
111 Body and Bodies of all and every such Sons
112 and Sons Issuing the Elder of such Sons and
113 the heirs Male of his and their Body and
114 Bodies being always preferred and to take
115 before the younger of the said Sons and the
116 heirs Male of his and their Body and Bodies
117 issuing and for want or in default of such
118 Issue to my own right heirs for ever I give
119 and devise unto my Son Thomas Blake his
120 heirs and assigns for ever all those my several
121 Freehold Messuages or Tenements Fields or Closes
122 of Land and hereditaments respectively called
123 Smiths Star park Openheads high Park East
124 park and Little Penquite and Grissons Close
125 with their appurt[entance]s situate in the said parish
126 of Landrake The principal part of which I
127 purchased of Lord Viscount Edgecumb I give unto
128 the said Thomas Blake his heirs and assigns
129 all that my Freehold Tenement or dwelling
130 House and Garden being at Wootton Cross and also
131 all my reversionary Freehold Estate and situated
132 of and in all those three Fields called Wootton
133 Cross Grounds situate in the parish of Landrake
134 aforesaid and now held by William Steed I give
135 and devise all that Freehold Tenement called
136 Griggs House and Garden and also all those my
137 two Freehold Fields called Broad Park and
138 __adons respectively lying in Landrake aforesaid
139 to my daughter Grace Blake and her assigns for
140 and during the time of her natural life and
141 after her decease then I give and devise the same
142 to my Grandson Thomas Denham for his life
143 and from and after his decease then I give and
144 devise the said last mentioned Tenement and
145 fields to my said Son Philip Blake his heirs
146 and assigns for ever I give and devise unto my
147 Grandson Henry Blake his heirs and assigns for
148 ever all that my Freehold Tenement called Cross
149 Parks and West Parks situate in the parish of
150 Landrake aforesaid I give and bequeath unto
151 my Grandson Philip Son of the aforesaid
152 Philip Blake my Son his Executors admors
153 and assigns all my reversionary Estate and
154 Interest of and in all that Leasehold Tenement
155 Called Hurslade lying in Landrake aforesaid and on
156 which
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157 which I have put in his life I give and bequeath
158 unto my daughters Catherine Blake and Grace
159 Blake the Legacy or Sum of Four hundred pounds
160 apiece and to my daughter Elizabeth Denham
161 the Sum of Two hundred pounds and which said
162 three Legacies of Four hundred pounds Four
163 hundred pounds and Two hundred pounds I direct to
164 be paid by my Executors within the space of
165 a year after my decease I give and bequeath
166 to my Grand daughters Thomasin Littleton and
167 Eleanor Littleton Mary Denham and Catherine
168 Denham Elizabeth Rundle Elizabeth Palmer
169 And Ursula Palmer Elizabeth Maria and Mary
170 Blake the three daughters of my said son
171 Thomas Blake Elizabeth and Thomasin Blake
172 daughters of my said Son Philip Blake and
173 Elizabeth Blake daughter of my said Son
174 Henry Blake the Legacy or Sum of Fifty pounds
175 apiece and I will and direct that the said
176 several Legacies shall be vested Interests in
177 them respectively and be transmissible to their
178 Several personal Representatives and my will
179 further is that the same shall be payable
181 and paid to them respectively when they
182 attain the ages of Twenty one years respectively
183 and I give all the rest and residue of my Goods
184 Chattels personal Estate and Effects whatsoever
185 which shall remain after payment of my debts
186 Funeral and Testamentary Expences and
187 the before said pecuniary Legacies except the said
188 Legacy or Sum of Four hundred pounds which
189 I have solely charged on the said Estate called
190 Saint Erney and made payable thereout by
191 my said Son Henry Blake to my said Son
192 Philip Blake as aforesaid unto my said Sons
193 Philip Blake Henry Blake Richard Blake and
194 Thomas Blake their Executors admors equally
195 to be divided between them share and share
196 alike and I Nominate and appoint therin my
197 said Sons Philip Blake Henry Blake Richard
198 Blake and Thomas Blake Executors of this my
199 Will and I do hereby revoke all other Wills
200 and declare this to be my last Will and
201 Testament provided always and my Will is
202 that they the said Philip Blake Henry Blake
203 Richard Blake and Thomas Blake or either of
204 them their or either of their Executors Admors
205 or assigns shall not be charged or chargeable
206 but only each of them for his own respective
207 receipts payments acts and wilful defaults and
208 Not otherwise nor with any Sum or Sums of
209 money other than such as shall actually
210 come
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211 come to their or his own hands respectively by
212 virtue of this my Will In Witness whereof I the
213 said Testator Philip Blake have to this my
214 last Will and Testament contained in three Sheets
215 of paper set my hand and Seal (that is to say)
216 my hand to the two first Sheets thereof and my
217 hand and Seal to this Third and last Sheet thereof
218 this Nineteenth day of February in the year of
219 our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and Eight
220 Philip Blake Signed Sealed published and
221 declared by the said Testator Philip Blake as
222 and for his last Will and Testament in the
223 presence of us who in his presence at his
224 request and in the presence of each other have
225 hereto Subscribed our Names as Witnesses thereto
226 the words “which I purchased of Mr Carew having
227 been first inserted between the Twentieth and
228 Twenty first lines of the first Sheet” and the
229 words daughter of my said Son Henry Blake
230 having been also first Inserted between the
231 Seventh and Eighth lines and the Erazure
232 first made on the Twenty fifth line of the third
233 Sheet Grezy Porter Matthew Anstis Francis Warring
234 This Will was proved at London the
235 second day of April in the year of our Lord One
236 thousand Eight hundred and eight before the Right
237 honorable Sir William Wynne Knight doctor of Laws
238 Master Keeper or Commissary of the prerogative Court
239 of Canterbury lawfully Constituted by the Oaths of
240 Philip Blake Henry Blake Richard Blake and
241 Thomas Blake the Sons of the said deceased and
242 the Executors named in the said Will to whom
243 administration was granted of all and Singular the
244 Goods Chattels and Credits of the said deceased
245 having been first sworn by Commission duly to ad[minister]r
Looking at the marriage records for Landrake
Philip Blake married Joan Palmer 14 Jul 1791 with witnesses C (senior) Blake and Jonathan Palmer. This Philip is the son of the testator. Philip is listed as a farmer. And his condition has not been inserted (the bride was a spinster).
Philip Blake married Mary Raw 5 May 1712
Mr Richard Blake married Mrs Elizabeth Blake 28 Sep 1732
Walter Blake married Mary Parsons 25 Jul 1743
Nicholas Littleton married Thomasin Blake 30 May 1782
Jonathan Palmer married Ursula Blake 1 Mar 1786
Samson Rundle married Mary Blake 2 Aug 1791
Thomas Blake married Maria Elizabeth Palmer 7 Aug 1800
Henry Blake married Emma Palmer 8 Jun 1831
There are 67 baptisms at Landrake between 1606 and 1872
Henry Blake and his wife Margery baptized seven children between 1606 and 1625 namely: Mary, Nicholas, Anne Urcilla, Dorathy, Bridgett, and Phillipp.
Then a Henry, John, Richard, Walter and John are shown with baptisms for one child each between 1689 and 1743 with two Philip Blake baptisms one the son of John and Thomazin and the second the son of Mr Richard and Mrs. Elizabeth (8 Jul 1733 and 1 Jan 1734 respectively).
Followed by eight baptisms for the children of Philip and Elizabeth Blake at Landrake with St Erney namely:
Ursula 29 Feb 1760
Elizabeth 16 Apr 1762
Henry 20 Jul 1767
Grace 7 Aug1769 (buried 17 Mar 1826 at the age of 56 living at Cutivet, spinster)
Richard 26 Jul 1771
Catharine 6 Aug 1773 (buried 24 Sep 1827 at the age of 54 living at Cutivet, spinster)
George 19 Nov 1775 (buried as an infant in 1776)
Thomas 1 Mar 1778
This accounts for all the sons mentioned in the will except for John and Philip.
This is then followed by the baptisms for the grandchildren of Philip and Elizabeth likely and they number nine for Philip and Joan/Jane, nine for Thomas and Maria, nine for Richard and Philadelphia.
The testator Mr Philip Blake was buried at Landrake (living at Penquite) 25 Feb 1808 at the age of 74 giving him a likely year of birth of 1734 but having two baptisms one in 1733 and one in 1734 that doesn’t help to decide his parents although he is perhaps the son of Mr. Richard and Elizabeth Blake given his subsequent status. The testator Philip’s wife Elizabeth was buried 30 Jan 1794 at the age of 59 giving her a year of birth of 1735.
Looking at the LDS I found a couple more baptisms for children of Philip and Elizabeth Blake:
Thomazin 10 Jan 1755 at St Erney
John 4 Dec 1757 at Landrake
On Find My Past there was a marriage celebrated at Plymouth, Devon 21 Mar 1754 between Philip Blake and Elizabeth Denstowe.
World Connect has a partial family tree with Philip Blake having a year of birth circa 1768. I suspect this is fairly accurate as he was likely born after Henry (born 1767) as he is named after him in the will. Grace was born in 1769.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dalmanic&id=I79449
From “A Complete Parochial History of the County of Cornwall: Compiled Volume 2 by Joseph Poisue (on Google Books: http://books.google.ca/books?id=MRsiAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA400&lpg=PA400&dq=%22philip+blake%22+%2B+landrake&source=bl&ots=xJ--ab7aXF&sig=HziwzoJUL8l5KSqwIKMDW9XSOP8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=706vUeeCO4i5rgHjtIDADg&ved=0CCkQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=%22philip%20blake%22%20%2B%20landrake&f=false)\ and on page 400
The tombstone for Philip Blake: Near this place lie deposited the remains of Philip Blake, late of Penquite, in this parish, gent., who departed this life the 20th day of February, A.D., 1808; aged 74 years. Also the remains of Elizabeth his wife, who departed this life the 27th day of January, A.D. 1794; aged 60 years. And also the remains of George their son who departed this life the 4th day of November, 1776; aged 12 months.
Sacred to the memory of Samson Rundle (late of this village (landrake) who departed this life March the 27 1821, aged 53 years. Also of Mary, his former wife, and daughter of Philip Blake, late of Penquite, in this parish. She departed this life in April, 1795; aged 30 years.
Sacred to the memory of Catherine Blake, late of Cutivett, who departed this life September the 20th, 1827; aged 54 years.
I did not find a baptism for Mary (daughter of Philip and Elizabeth) who was married to Samson Rundle/Rendle. They were married 2 Aug 1791 at Landrake and he was of St Mellion (witnesses C (Senior) Blake and Philip (junior) Blake and perhaps this is P (Senior)).
The Visitation of Cornwall provides some information on Thomazine in that her daughter Eleanor Littleton (grand daughter mentioned in the will below) was born 6 July 1791 and married 29 May 1816 to Philip Porter.
But the ancestry of this Blake line eludes me for the moment.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 5 Jun 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1477/16
Testator: Philip Blake, Gentleman
Place: Landrake, Cornwall, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 19 Feb 1808 , probated 2 Apr 1808
Condition: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Philip
[Margin]: Blake
1 This is the last Will
2 and Testament of me Philip Blake of penquite in the
3 parish of Landrake in the County of Cornwall
4 Gentleman which I make publish and ordain
5 in manner and form following that is to say
6 I direct all my just debts and Funeral Expences
7 to be paid as soon as may be after my decease
8 I give and devise to my Son John Blake his
9 heirs and assigns for ever the undivided Moiety
10 of and in all that Freehold Tenement called
11 North parks and yellow Torr with the appurt[enances]
12 I give and bequeath to my said Son John Blake
13 all that my Tenement called Trelugham situate
14 in the said parish of Landrake for and during
15 the Term of his natural life and after his
16 decease then I give the same Leasehold Tenement
17 to my Son Henry Blake for all my Estate and
18 Interest therein I give devise and bequeath unto my
19 Son Philip Blake his heirs Executors Admors and
20 assigns for ever all that my Freeehold Tenement
21 called Hodges Barah and also all that my
22 Leasehold Tenement called underway in Brightor
23 drews park and Brigham Steps respectively situate
24 in the parish of Landrake aforesaid I give to my
25 said Son Philip Blake the Legacy or Sum of Four
26 hundred pounds and direct the same to be paid to
27 him by my Son Henry Blake out of my Estate
28 of Saint Erney within one year after my decease
29 I give and devise to my said Son Henry Blake his
30 heirs and assigns for ever all that my Freehold
31 Estate called Saint Erney with its appurt[enance]s situate
32 in the said parish of Landrake subject nevertheless
33 to and I do hereby charge the same with the
34 payment of the said Sum of Four hundred pounds
35 to my said Son Philip Blake at the time and
36 in the manner aforesaid I give and devise to my
37 Son Richard Blake his heirs and assigns all
38 this my Freehold Tenements and Fields called
39 respectively Harards Tenement and the Cove and
40 Marsh and Wood all lying in the parish of
41 Landrake aforesaid I give and devise all that my
42 Freehold Estate called Vigurs’s perquite which I
43 purchased of Mr Carew and also all those my two
44 Freehold Fields called Broomball and West Park
45 respectively situate in the parish of Landrake
46 aforesaid unto Peter Palmer of the said parish of
47 Landrake Tanner and Solomon Brown of
48 Landrake aforesaid Farmer and their heirs to
49 upon
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50 upon and for the uses interests and purposes and
51 with and subject to the powers provisiors and
52 limitations hereinafter mentioned and expressed
53 concerning the same (that is to say) to the use of
54 my Son Richard Blake for and during his life
55 and from and after the said end Expiration or other
56 soever determination of that Estate by Forfeiture
57 or otherwise in his lifetime then to the use of
58 the said Peter Palmer and Solomon Brown and
59 their heirs during the life of my said Son
60 Richard In Trust to support and preserve the
61 contingent uses and Estates hereinafter given or
62 limited from being defeated or destroyed and for
63 that purpose to make entries and bring actions
64 that purpose to make entire and bring actions
65 as occasion shall be or require but nevertheless
66 to permit and suffer my said Son Richard or his
67 assigns to receive and take the Rents and profits
68 of the said Estate Fields and premises for his own
69 use during his life and from and immediately
70 after the decease of my said Son Richard to the
71 use of my Grandson Philip Blake Son of my
72 said Son Richard and the heirs male of his
73 Body Issuing and for default of such Issue to the
74 use of the second third fourth and fifth Son and
75 Sons and all and every other the Son and Sons
76 of my said Son Richard lawfully to be begotten
77 severally successively and in remainder one after
78 another as they shall severally be in priority of
79 Birth and the heirs Male of the Body and Bodies
80 of all and every such Son and Sons Issuing The
81 Elder of such Sons and the heirs Male of his and
82 their Body and Bodies being always preferred and
83 to take before the younger of the said Sons and
84 the heirs Male of his and their Body and
85 Bodies Issuing and for want or in default of such
86 Issue to the use of my Son Thomas Blake and
87 his assigns for and during his life and from and
88 after the determination of that Estate by forfeiture
89 or otherwise in his lifetime to the use of the
90 said Peter Palmer and Solomon Brown and their
91 heirs during the life of my said Son Thomas In
92 Trust to support and preserve the contingent uses
93 and Estates hereinafter given or limited from
94 being defeated or destroyed and for that purpose
95 to make Entire and bring Action as occasion shall
96 be and require but nevertheless to suffer my said
97 Son Thomas and his assigns to receive and take
98 the Rents and profits of the said Estate Fields
99 and premises for his own use during his life and
100 from and immediately after the decease of my
101 said Son Thomas to the use of his first Son lawfully
102 begotten and the heirs Male of the Body of
103 such
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104 such first Son Issuing and for default of such
105 Issue to the use of the second third fourth and
106 fifth Son and Sons all and every other the Son
107 and Sons of my Son Thomas lawfully to be
108 begotten severally successively and in remainder
109 one after another as they shall severally be
110 in priority of Birth and the heirs Male of the
111 Body and Bodies of all and every such Sons
112 and Sons Issuing the Elder of such Sons and
113 the heirs Male of his and their Body and
114 Bodies being always preferred and to take
115 before the younger of the said Sons and the
116 heirs Male of his and their Body and Bodies
117 issuing and for want or in default of such
118 Issue to my own right heirs for ever I give
119 and devise unto my Son Thomas Blake his
120 heirs and assigns for ever all those my several
121 Freehold Messuages or Tenements Fields or Closes
122 of Land and hereditaments respectively called
123 Smiths Star park Openheads high Park East
124 park and Little Penquite and Grissons Close
125 with their appurt[entance]s situate in the said parish
126 of Landrake The principal part of which I
127 purchased of Lord Viscount Edgecumb I give unto
128 the said Thomas Blake his heirs and assigns
129 all that my Freehold Tenement or dwelling
130 House and Garden being at Wootton Cross and also
131 all my reversionary Freehold Estate and situated
132 of and in all those three Fields called Wootton
133 Cross Grounds situate in the parish of Landrake
134 aforesaid and now held by William Steed I give
135 and devise all that Freehold Tenement called
136 Griggs House and Garden and also all those my
137 two Freehold Fields called Broad Park and
138 __adons respectively lying in Landrake aforesaid
139 to my daughter Grace Blake and her assigns for
140 and during the time of her natural life and
141 after her decease then I give and devise the same
142 to my Grandson Thomas Denham for his life
143 and from and after his decease then I give and
144 devise the said last mentioned Tenement and
145 fields to my said Son Philip Blake his heirs
146 and assigns for ever I give and devise unto my
147 Grandson Henry Blake his heirs and assigns for
148 ever all that my Freehold Tenement called Cross
149 Parks and West Parks situate in the parish of
150 Landrake aforesaid I give and bequeath unto
151 my Grandson Philip Son of the aforesaid
152 Philip Blake my Son his Executors admors
153 and assigns all my reversionary Estate and
154 Interest of and in all that Leasehold Tenement
155 Called Hurslade lying in Landrake aforesaid and on
156 which
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157 which I have put in his life I give and bequeath
158 unto my daughters Catherine Blake and Grace
159 Blake the Legacy or Sum of Four hundred pounds
160 apiece and to my daughter Elizabeth Denham
161 the Sum of Two hundred pounds and which said
162 three Legacies of Four hundred pounds Four
163 hundred pounds and Two hundred pounds I direct to
164 be paid by my Executors within the space of
165 a year after my decease I give and bequeath
166 to my Grand daughters Thomasin Littleton and
167 Eleanor Littleton Mary Denham and Catherine
168 Denham Elizabeth Rundle Elizabeth Palmer
169 And Ursula Palmer Elizabeth Maria and Mary
170 Blake the three daughters of my said son
171 Thomas Blake Elizabeth and Thomasin Blake
172 daughters of my said Son Philip Blake and
173 Elizabeth Blake daughter of my said Son
174 Henry Blake the Legacy or Sum of Fifty pounds
175 apiece and I will and direct that the said
176 several Legacies shall be vested Interests in
177 them respectively and be transmissible to their
178 Several personal Representatives and my will
179 further is that the same shall be payable
181 and paid to them respectively when they
182 attain the ages of Twenty one years respectively
183 and I give all the rest and residue of my Goods
184 Chattels personal Estate and Effects whatsoever
185 which shall remain after payment of my debts
186 Funeral and Testamentary Expences and
187 the before said pecuniary Legacies except the said
188 Legacy or Sum of Four hundred pounds which
189 I have solely charged on the said Estate called
190 Saint Erney and made payable thereout by
191 my said Son Henry Blake to my said Son
192 Philip Blake as aforesaid unto my said Sons
193 Philip Blake Henry Blake Richard Blake and
194 Thomas Blake their Executors admors equally
195 to be divided between them share and share
196 alike and I Nominate and appoint therin my
197 said Sons Philip Blake Henry Blake Richard
198 Blake and Thomas Blake Executors of this my
199 Will and I do hereby revoke all other Wills
200 and declare this to be my last Will and
201 Testament provided always and my Will is
202 that they the said Philip Blake Henry Blake
203 Richard Blake and Thomas Blake or either of
204 them their or either of their Executors Admors
205 or assigns shall not be charged or chargeable
206 but only each of them for his own respective
207 receipts payments acts and wilful defaults and
208 Not otherwise nor with any Sum or Sums of
209 money other than such as shall actually
210 come
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211 come to their or his own hands respectively by
212 virtue of this my Will In Witness whereof I the
213 said Testator Philip Blake have to this my
214 last Will and Testament contained in three Sheets
215 of paper set my hand and Seal (that is to say)
216 my hand to the two first Sheets thereof and my
217 hand and Seal to this Third and last Sheet thereof
218 this Nineteenth day of February in the year of
219 our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and Eight
220 Philip Blake Signed Sealed published and
221 declared by the said Testator Philip Blake as
222 and for his last Will and Testament in the
223 presence of us who in his presence at his
224 request and in the presence of each other have
225 hereto Subscribed our Names as Witnesses thereto
226 the words “which I purchased of Mr Carew having
227 been first inserted between the Twentieth and
228 Twenty first lines of the first Sheet” and the
229 words daughter of my said Son Henry Blake
230 having been also first Inserted between the
231 Seventh and Eighth lines and the Erazure
232 first made on the Twenty fifth line of the third
233 Sheet Grezy Porter Matthew Anstis Francis Warring
234 This Will was proved at London the
235 second day of April in the year of our Lord One
236 thousand Eight hundred and eight before the Right
237 honorable Sir William Wynne Knight doctor of Laws
238 Master Keeper or Commissary of the prerogative Court
239 of Canterbury lawfully Constituted by the Oaths of
240 Philip Blake Henry Blake Richard Blake and
241 Thomas Blake the Sons of the said deceased and
242 the Executors named in the said Will to whom
243 administration was granted of all and Singular the
244 Goods Chattels and Credits of the said deceased
245 having been first sworn by Commission duly to ad[minister]r
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