Marriage of Robert Blake to Gwenna/Gwinna Morgan 24 Mar 1799/14 Apr 1799 at Bristol (both dates are listed in Family Search). Baptism of Charles son of Robert and Gwina Blake 14 July 1811 at Bristol. Baptism of George Blake 19 Nov 1809 son of Robert and Gwina Blake. Baptism of James Blake 12 Apr 1807 son of Robert and Gwina Blake (All C01716-7 Family Search). Plus a son Robert
and Family Search has his birth as 5 Nov 1799
and his baptism 29 Sep 1805 at Bristol, Gloucestershire (C0171607, Item 4).
Robert mentions his property at Bicknoller and there was a will left by Joan Blake, widow, 1828 at Bicknoller listed in the Somerset Wills (B747, box/folio 73/750). This will likely destroyed in the bombing of the Exeter Record Office during WWII. Mentioning the Bicknoller area does bring one to think whether this is a collateral line to Admiral Robert Blake.
Going to the parish Records for Bicknoller found in the following blog and taken from Martin Southwood’s excellent site http://www.wsom.org.uk/Registers/ and blogged:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2012/04/parish-records-in-overstowey-somerset.html
The marriage of Richard Blake of Stogumber and Joan Gardner 3 Feb 1777 and the baptism of their children Robert 26 May 1779, Richard 22 May 1782, John 18 Nov 1784, George 14 Jan 1788 (all mentioned in Robert’s will). There are several other children that are perhaps children of this couple mentioned on the webpage.
Richard Blake (father) was perhaps buried 27 Jun 1798 and Joan Blake, age 74, buried 19 Mar 1828 which would jive with the will mentioned above for a Joan Blake, widow.
On the 1851 census at 3 Fenland Cottage, Mary Ann Blake, head, single, 48, Proprietor, born at Brisol; Gwina Blake, mother, widow, 74, Annuitant, born at Glamorganshire, Wales; Edwina Maria Blake, niece, unmarried, 12, scholar, born at London; Robert Charles Blake, nephew, unmarried, 8 years, scholar, born at London. There is also a visitor perhaps Mary Williams, 59, widow, dress maker, born in Bristol.
On the 1861 census Mary Ann has married Thomas Hickling and she is 57 years of age. Her mother Gwinna Blake is still living and is 87 years of age, an annuitant, born at Glamorganshire Petynt; also living there Mary Ann Blake, niece, 23, unmarried, a milliner born at Bedminster; Mary Ann Blake, niece, 10 years, scholar, born at Bethnal Green, Middlesex; and Elizabeth Blake, niece, 8, scholar, born at Clifton, Gloucestershire. They are living at 7 Duke Street.
The marriage of Mary Ann Blake and Thomas Hickling 30 Jul 1859 at St Andrews Clifton, Gloucestershire. Thomas the son of John Hickling and Mary Ann the daughter of Robert Blake. Thomas was widowed.
I found the baptism of Mary Ann Blake, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Blake at St Matthias Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets 6 Apr 1851. Baptized just one week later James Blake son of Charles and Elizabeth Blake but he was 4 years of age in 1851.
I found George Blake at Bicknoller on the 1851 census. He is actually living next door to John and Amelia Siderfin (3rd cousins several time removed of mine). At this time he is a widower, 64 years of age and living with him his daughter Mary 26 and Sarah J 24. George and his daughter Mary were born at Stogumber and the younger daughter Sarah born at Bicknoller.
Trying to take this family back, could they be descendants of Richard Blake and Ann Jessop who married 30 Nov 1643 at Kilve and had two sons John and Richard. These families have not been traced down in the Portbury records for the collateral lines of Admiral Robert Blake.
http://www.portbury-hundred.co.uk/admiralreport.htm
I did transcribe the will of Richard Blake married to Ann Jessop:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/10/will-of-richard-blake-gentleman.html
Perhaps later wills will clear up the mystery of the ancestry of this Robert Blake.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 9 May 2014
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/2094/89
Testator: Robert Blake, gentleman
Place: Bedminster, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 16 Sep 1848, probated 5 Jun 1849
Condition: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Robert
[Margin]: Blake
[Margin]: 22
1 This is the Last Will and Testament
2 of me Robert Blake of Number 12 Barford Place in the parish of Bedminster
3 in the City and County of Bristol Gentleman I direct that my debts funeral and
4 also testamentary expences be fully paid and satisfied by my Executors herein
5 after named with all convenient speed after my decease I give and bequeath
6 unto my Brothers George Blake John Blake and Richard Blake the sum
7 of five pounds each to procure mourning I give and devise all that my
8 messuage or dwelling house situate and being Number 19 Wellington Street
9 in the parish of Bedminster in the said City and County of Bristol with the
10 right members and appurtenances thereunto belonging unto my Son Charles
11 Blake his heirs and assigns for ever I give devise and bequeath unto my
12 daughter Mary Ann Blake and my friend Charles Getchell of Bicknoller
13 near Taunton in the County of Somerset Farmer their heirs and assigns
14 all those my two messuages or dwellinghouses called of known by the
15 names of Freeland Villa and Freeland House situate at the Hotwells in
16 the parish of Clifton in the said City of Bristol Upon the trusts neverthe-
17 less and to and for the intents and purposes and with under and subject
18 to the powers provisoes declarations and directions hereinafter mentioned
19 expressed declared and contained of and concerning the same that is to
20 say Upon trust that they the said Mary Ann Blake and Charles Getchell
21 and the survivor of them and the heirs executors administrators and
22 assigns of such survivor do and shall from time to time by with and out of
23 the rents issues and profits of the said messuages or dwellinghouses pay unto
24 my Wife Gwina Blake one annuity or yearly sum of Fifteen pounds
25 of lawful money of Great Britain and Ireland by equal quarterly pay-
26 ments that is to say on the twenty fifth day of March the twenty fourth
27 day of June the twenty ninth day of September and the twenty fifth
28 day of December the first quarterly payment to begin and be made on such
29 of the said days as shall first happen after my decease And I
30 also unto my said son Charles Blake One Annuity or yearly sum
31 of fifteen pounds of like lawful money to be paid as aforesaid and I
32 direct the said annual sum hereinbefore given to my said Wife
33 be for her separate use and benefit And that the receipts of the said
34 Annuitants shall be good and effectual discharges for the same And
35 in case the said two messuages or dwellinghouses should through
36 being void or otherwise not produce a sufficient amount to pay the
37 said Annuities Then I direct my said daughter Mary Ann Blake
38 to pay the deficiency out of her own proper monies And I further
39 declare that any sale mortgage charge or disposition in the way of
40 authorization which either of the said Annuitants shall make or
41 attempt or agree to make of the said Annuities or if either of them
42 shall at time become Bankrupt or take the benefit of any Act of
43 Parliament for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors Then and in any of
44 the said cases the said annual sum shall cease determine and be
45 void and shall sink into and become part of the residue of my real
46 and personal estate And I hereby declare that if the said Mary Ann
47 Blake and Charles Getchell or the survivor of them or the heirs
48 executors or administrators of such survivor shall at any time
49 invest upon real or government securities a sufficient sum the
50 interest whereof shall be adequate to pay the said Annuities and
51 declare the trusts thereof accordingly Then and in that case the
52 said annual sum for which the same shall be respectively
53 expressed to be in satisfaction shall be no longer a charge on
54 my said two messuages or dwellinghouses called or known by
55 the names of Freeland Villa and Freeland House And I do
56 hereby expressly declare my mind and will to be that the provision
57 hereinbefore made to or for the receipt of my said Wife shall be accepted
58 and taken in lieu clear and full satisfaction of all such soever and whether
60 at the Common Law or by Custom or otherwise as she my said Wife
61 may have wherein claimed or demanded in upon or out of all or any of the
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62 the said messuages lands tenaments and hereditaments whereof during the
63 coverture between us I have been now am or hereafter may be seized for any
64 estate or freehold or inheritance And I direct that my said Wife do and shall
65 accordingly within six calendar months after my decease at the expence of
66 my estate make an effectual release in the law to my said trustees or the
67 survivor of them or the heirs executors administrators or assigns of such
68 survivor as by them her or him or their her or his counsel in the law
69 shall be reasonably required of all such Dower or thirds and claim of
70 dower and Thirds And in case my said Wife shall demure or refuse to make
71 and execute such release of dower then I do hereby declare that the Annuity
72 hereinbefore given as a provision for my said Wife shall be absolutely
73 null and void That as to all the Rest Residue and Remainder of
74 my Real and Personal Estate of what nature sort kind or denomi-
75 nation soever and whether Freehold Leasehold or Copyhold and all
76 monies and securities for money by Mortgage or otherwise I give devise
77 and bequeath the same unto my dear daughter Mary Ann Blake her
78 heirs executors administrators and assigns And it is my Will and I direct
79 that my brother George Blake shall if he is so willing continue to
80 reside in my Estate at Bicknoller aforesaid at the present rental provided
81 the rent be paid half yearly and whenever the same is due and payable
82 and that he keeps the premises and land in good repair and condition
83 and does not commit any waste I give devise and bequeath all the
84 estates which are vested in me as mortgagee unto my said daughter
85 Mary Ann Blake her heirs executors administrators and assigns accord-
86 ing to the nature and quality thereof respectively (but subject to the
87 equities of redemption affecting the same and on payment of the
88 principal monies interest and costs secured thereon to recovery reassign and
89 resecure the same estates to the persons entitled thereto Provided always
90 and I declare that if the trustees appointed by this my Will or to be appointed
91 as hereinafter is mentioned or any of them or their or any of their heirs
92 executors administrators and assigns shall happen to die or shall discontinue
93 or be desirous of being discharged from or fuse or seizure or be incapable
94 to accept or to act in the trusts hereby in them respectively reposed as afores-
95 aid before the said trusts shall be fully executed then and in such case
96 and when and so often as the same shall happen it shall be lawful
97 for the surviving or continuing trustee by Deed or Instrument in writing
98 executed in the presence of an attested by two witnesses from time to time
99 to appoint any fit and proper person or persons to occupy the place of
100 the trustee or trustees so dying disclaiming or desiring to be discharged
101 or refusing declining or becoming incapable to accept the said trusts or to
102 act as aforesaid And when and so often as any new trustee or trustees
103 shall be nominated and appointed as aforesaid all the trust estates monies
104 and premises the trustee or trustees whereof shall so die disclaim or desire
105 to be discharged or refuse or decline or become incapable to accept the said
106 trusts or to act as aforesaid shall be thereupon with all convenient speed
107 conveyed assigned and transferred in such sort and manner and so as that
108 the same shall and may be legally and effectually vested in the person
109 or persons so to be appointed as aforesaid Either solely or jointly with
110 the surviving or continuing trustee or trustees as occasion shall require
111 to the uses upon the trusts and for the purposes hereinbefore expressed
112 and declared of and concerning the said trust estates monies and prem-
113 ises or such of them as shall be then subsisting undetermined and
114 capable of taking effect and the person or persons so to be appointed
115 as aforesaid shall have all the powers and authorities of the trustee
116 or trustees in whose room he or they shall be substituted or appointed
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117 provided always And I do hereby declare that if the said two several messuages
118 called or known by the names of Freeland Villa and Freeland House therein
119 before devised or either of them shall become untenanted it shall be
120 lawful for the said Mary Ann Blake and Charles Getchell or the survivor
121 of them or the heirs or assigns of such survivor by Deed or Demise to lease
122 the premises which shall for the time being be untenanted to any person
123 or persons whomsoever for any term or number of years not exceeding seven
124 years to be computed from the making thereof so that there be contained in every such
125 Lease or Demise a condition for reentry on nonpayment of the rent or tents thereby
126 reserved for the space of twenty one days next after the same shall become
127 payable And so that the Lesee named therein do thereby covenant for payment
128 of the said rent and do execute a Counterpart thereof provided also and I do
129 hereby further Will and declare that neither of the Trustees hereby appointed
130 nor any Trustee or Trustees to be hereafter appointed by virtue of the
131 provision hereinbefore contained shall be charged or chargeable with
132 or for any sum or sums of money other than what they shall respectively
133 actually receive by virtue of the Trusts in them hereby reposed notwithstand-
134 ing they or any of them shall join in any receipt for the sake of conformity
135 And that one of them shall not be answerable or accountable for the
136 other of them of for the acts receipts neglects or defaults of the other of
137 them but each only for his her or their own acts receipts neglects and defaults
138 And also that it shall be lawful for them with and out of the monies
139 which shall come to their respective hands by virtue of the trusts afore-
140 said to retain to and reimburse himself herself and themselves respectively
141 and so allow to his her or their Co Trustee or Co Trustees all such costs
142 charges or expences as they or any of them shall of may respectively
143 sustain expend or be put unto in or about the execution of the trusts
144 them hereby reposed or in anywise relating thereto And hereby revoking
145 all wills by me at any time heretofore made I do hereby declare this to be
146 my last Will and Testament and appoint the said Mary Ann Blake and
147 Charles Getchell Executrix and Executor thereof In witness whereof
148 I the said Robert Blake the Testator have to this my last Will and
149 Testament contained in this and the four preceeding sheets of paper set
150 my hand this sixteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one
151 thousand eight hundred and forty eight Robert Blake Signed
152 and declared by the above named Robert Blake the Testator as and for
153 his last Will and Testament in the presence of us present as the same
154 time who have at his request and in his presence and in the presence
155 of each other subscribed our names as witnesses James Geo Hobbs
156 Solicitor Bristol Joseph Allchurch 10 Somerset Place ______ Banker
157 Proved at London 5th June 1849 before the Judge by the Oaths
158 Mary Ann Blake Spinster the daughter and Charles Gatchell in the Will
159 written Getchell the Executors to whom Admon was granted having been
160 first sworn by Common duly to administer
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