Robert Blake, testator, was a Mariner living in Barnstape, Devon. He is perhaps the Robert Blake baptized 27 Jul 1744 at Barnstaple son of John and Susanna Blake. Although his will was duly probated and listed in the Index to Death Duty Registers, I did not find his burial.
Likely his daughter Ann Blake was baptized 6 Nov 1765 at Barnstaple daughter of Robert and Ann.
A Susanna Blake was baptized 24 Jan 1773 at Barnstaple daughter of Robert and Ann. Susanna was buried 2 Oct 1775 at Barnstaple.
Possibly his daughter Jenny (Jane) Blake was baptized 28 Jul 1776 at Barnstaple daughter of Robert and Ann.
A Susanna Blake was baptized 15 Apr 1781 at Barnstaple daughter of Robert and Ann.
A Robert Blake married Ann Dimon 23 Oct 1764 at Barnstaple. The records on Find My Past do not mention if he was a Mariner.
Ann Blake married Charles Jordan 6 Aug 1786 at Barnstaple.
Jane Blake married Walter Gribble 11 Oct 1797 at Barnstaple.
Susanna Blake married John Pearse 13 Jan 1804 at Barnstaple.
I do not normally trace down the children of Blake unless their father was a Blake. That includes me as it turns out since my husband’s surname is Kipp.
Two sons were born to a Robert and Ann (Dimon likely in the case of John) Blake and baptized at Barnstaple:
John Dymon Blake was baptized 8 Nov 1767
George Blake was baptized 17 Dec 1768
I did not locate any burials for John Dymon Blake or George Blake.
I did not find a reasonable marriage for the possible parents of Robert Blake, John and Susanna Blake.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 4 Jan 2020
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1566/154
Testator: Robert Blake, Mariner
Place: Barnstaple, Devon
Type of Record: Memorandum
Date of document: 27 Apr 1804, probated 10 Mar 1815
[Margin]: Robert Blake 39
1 I Robert Blake of Barnstaple in the County of
2 Devon Mariner do make my last Will and Testament in manner
3 following that is First I give and bequeath unto my daughter Jane
4 wife of Walter Gribble of Barnstaple aforesaid Mariner the Sum of
5 twenty pounds of lawful British Money Current in England to be
6 paid her by my Executrix hereinafter mentioned within one Month
7 next after my decease Item I give and bequeath unto my daughter
8 Susanna Wife of John Pearse of Barnstaple aforesaid Mariner
9 the one fourth part of the Brigantine Jupiter together with the
10 one fourth part of her Stores Rigging and Stock and all my right
11 Title Property and Interest I have in the said Brigantine Jupiter
12 to be delivered to my said daughter Susanna Pearse by my Executrix
13 hereinafter mentioned immediately after my decease Item I give
14 and bequeath unto my two daughters Jane Gribble and Susanna
15 Pearse and unto my two sons in law Walter Gribble and John
16 Pearse a Suit of Mourning each to be provided by my Executrix
17 herein after mentioned immediately after my decease Item I give
18 and bequeath unto my Grandson Robert Gribble my Watch and
19 Silver Buckles to be delivered to him by my Executrix when
20 he attains his age of twenty one years or before as to her shall
21 seem meet Also I further order and direct that my Executrix do
22 maintain educate and bring up my said Grandson Robert Gribble
23 until he shall attain his age of fourteen Years and then I give and
24 bequeath my said Grandson Twenty pounds of lawful British
25 money to bind him out as an Apprentice and for finding him
26 apparel during his Apprenticeship which Sum to be paid by my
27 Executrix and she to bind him to such Master or Mistress as she
28 shall approve of Item I give and bequeath unto my daughter Anne
29 Jordan All that Messuage Tenement or dwelling house situate in
30 Well Street wherein I now reside and which I hold for the
31 remainder of a Term of Sixty Years by and under the Feoffees of
32 the Long Bridge of Barnstaple aforesaid to hold the same with
33 all and singular its appurts unto my said daughter Anne Jordan
34 for and during her natural life or until her second Marriage
35 and from and immediately after her decease or second Marriage
36 which shall first happen Then I give and bequeath the said
37 Messuage Tenement or dwelling house with its Appurts unto my
38 daughter Susanna Pearse during the then rest residue and the
39 remainder of the said Term of Years that may then be to come
40 and unexpired I give and bequeath unto my said daughter Anne
41 Jordan the moderate use of all my household Goods plate Bed
42 and Table linens and Furniture of every description whatsoever
43 during her natural life or until her second Marriage and from
44 and immediately after her decease or second Marriage which shall
45 first happen I give and bequeath all my said household Goods
46 and Furniture Plate Bed and Table Linen as aforesaid unto my
47 two daughters Jane Gribble and Susanna Pearse equally between
48 them share and share alike Item I give and bequeath unto John
49 Dennis of Barnstaple aforesaid Ironmonger and John Baker of
50 the same place Tanner and to the Survivor of them and to the
51 Executors Admors and Assigns of such Survivor All such Sum
52 and Sums of Money as I now or may hereafter have laid out placed
53 or vested in the Stocks Funds or upon Government Security or
54 Securitys and all and every or any which Stock Funds or Government
55 Security or Securities shall and may be from time to time or at any
56 time by and with the Consent and Approbation of my daughter
57 Anne Jordan alter or transferred assigned and disposed of and the
58 monies thereby arriving again invested and placed out upon new
59 or other Security or Securities Stocks Funds or Government Security
60 or Securities as to them the said John Dennis and John Baker or
61 the Survivor of them or the Exors Admors and Assigns of such Survivor
62 shall seem meet (by and with the Consent and Approbation of
63 my daughter Anne Jordan during her natural life or until her second
64 marriage that is that they the said John Dennis and John Baker
65 and the Survivor of them and the Exors Admors and Assigns of such
66 survivor do and shall from and immediately after my decease during
67 the natural Life of my daughter Anne Jordan or until her second
68 marriage which shall fir happen pay all the dividends Interest
69 and annual produce of all such Sum or Sums of Money as shall
70 or may be invested or placed in the Stocks Funds or on Government
71 Security or Securities (as the same shall become due) into the hands
72 of my said daughter Anne Jordan or into the hands of such person
73 or persons as she shall by any Note in Writing to be by her signed
74 with her own hand from time to time direct and appoint and from
75 and immediately after the decease or second Marriage of my daughter
76 Anne Jordan which shall first happen Then and as for and concerning
77 all such Sum or Sums of Money as placed or invested in the Stocks
78 Funds or on Government Security or Securities as aforesaid shall or
79 may be invested or placed And also all such dividends or annual
80 produce as shall happen to be then due and owing In Trust for
81 One Moiety or half of all such dividends and annual produce of
82 all such Sum and Sums of Money be invested or placed as aforesaid
83 for my daughter Jane wife of Walter Gribble during her natural life
84 and from and immediately after her decease In Trust that they the
85 said John Dennis and John Baker and the Survivor of them and the
86 Exors Admors and Assigns of such Survivor shall and do from and
87 immediately after the decease of my daughter Jane Gribble pay assign
88 transfer and make over the Moiety or one half of all such capital
89 Stock Funds or Government Security or Securities wherein or upon
90 which the same shall or may be invested or placed together with all
91 such dividends or annual produce as may then happen to be due
92 after the decease of my daughter Jane Gribble to all and every of her
93 Children then living equally between them share and share alike but
94 if one Child only shall be then living then to such only Child and to
95 his or her Exors Admors or Assigns but if one or more of my daughter
96 Jane Gribble’s Children shall die before my daughter Jane Gribble
97 leaving Issue lawfully begotten then the Issue of such her Child or
98 Children so dying to be entitled to the Share or Share of his her or
99 their parent or parents so dying as aforesaid and from and immediately
100 after the decease or second Marriage of my daughter Anne Jordan
101 which shall first happen Then as for and concerning the other Moiety
102 or one half of the dividends or annual produce of such Sum and
103 Sums so invested or placed in the Funds Stocks or upon Government
104 Security or Securities as aforesaid In Trust that they the said John
105 Dennis and John Baker and the Survivor them and the Exors
106 Admors and Assigns of such Survivor do and shall from thenceforth
107 during the natural Life of my daughter Susanna Pearse pay the other
108 Moiety or one half of all such dividends or annual produce thereof
109 (as the same shall become due) into the hands of my daughter
110 Susanna Pearse during her natural life and from and immediately
111 after her decease In Trust that they the said John Dennis and John
112 Baker and the Survivor of them and the Exors Admors and Assigns
113 of such Survivor shall from and immediately after the decease of my
114 said daughter Susanna Pearse pay assign transfer and make over the
115 other Moiety or one half of all such Capital Stocks Funds or Government
116 Security and Securities wherein or upon which the same shall or may
117 be invested or placed together with all such dividends or annual
118 produce as may then happen to be due after the death of my said
119 daughter Susanna Pearse to all and every of her Children then living
120 equally between them share and share alike but if one Child only
121 shall be then living then to such only Child and to his or her Exors
122 Admors or Assigns But if one of more of my daughter Susanna
123 Pearse’s children shall die before his her or their Mother leaving Issue
124 lawfully begotten then the Issue of her Child or Children so dying to be entitled to the share or shares of his her or their parent or parents so dying as
125 aforesaid But if either of my Children Jane Gribble or Susanna Pearse
126 shall die without Issue lawfully begotten Then In Trust that they the said
127 John Dennis and John Baker and the Survivor of them and the Exors
128 Admors and Assigns of such Survivor shall from and immediately after
129 the decease of either of them so dying without Issue pay assign
130 transfer and make over such the Moiety of her as dying without Issue
131 of all such Capital Stock Funds or Government Security or Securities as
132 aforesaid together with all such dividends or annual produce as may
133 then happen to be due to all and every of the Children of the Survivor
134 of them then living equally between them share and share alike if
135 but one Child then living then to such only Child and to his or her
136 Exors Admors and Assigns Item all the rest residue and remainder
137 of my Good Chattels personal and testamentary Estate and Effects
138 whatsoever and wheresoever and of what kind or Sort soever after the
139 payment of my just debts Legacies and Funeral Expences) I give and
140 bequeath the same and every part and parcel thereof unto my daughter
141 Anne Jordan and I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint my
142 said daughter Anne Jordan whole and sole Executrix of this my last
143 Will and Testament But in case my said daughter Anne Jordan shall
144 marry or intermarry again after my decease then from and immediately
145 on such second Marriage taking place or effect I then nominate constitute and
146 appoint my two daughters Jane Gribble and Susanna Pearse joint and
147 Sole Executrixes of this my last Will and Testament immediately on
148 such second marriage and I hereby revoke and make void all former
149 and other Will and Wills by me at any time or times heretofore made
150 and Lastly I hereby declare that they the said John Dennis and John
151 Baker or either of them or their or either of their Exors Admors or
152 assigns shall not be charged with or accountable for any more Monies
153 Estate or Effects than he or they shall respectively receive by Virtue of
154 this my Will nor the one of them for the other nor for the acts deeds
155 receipts defaults or disbursement for one for the other but each of
156 them for his own Acts deeds receipts defaults or disbursements
157 and that it shall be lawful to and for each of them my Trustees
158 and the Survivor of them and the Exors Admors and Assigns of such
159 survivor in the first place by and out of the Trust Estate to deduct
160 and reimburse him and themselves all such loss Costs Charges and
161 Expences as they or either of them shall sustain expend or be
162 put at for or by reason of the Trust hereby in them reposed or
163 in the management thereof In Witness whereof I the said Robert
164 Blake the Testator to this my last Will and Testament contained
165 in this and the three preceding Sheets of paper have set my hand
166 and my hand and Seal to this last Sheet the twenty seventh day
167 of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
168 and four Robert Blake Signed sealed published and
169 declared by the said Robert Blake the Testator as and for his
170 Last Will and Testament in the presence of us who have hereunto
171 subscribed our Names as Witness in his presence and at his request
172 and in the presence of each other Samuel Lee W Westelley
173 Whereas I Robert Blake of Barnstaple in the County of
174 Devon Mariner ave made my last Will and Testament in writing
175 bearing date the twenty seventh day of April in the year of our Lord one
176 thousand eight hundred and four Now by this Codicil to my said
177 Last Will and Testament I do give and devise all that my Messuage
178 or dwellinghouse with the outhouses Curtilage and Garden and other
179 appurts thereunto belonging situate lying and being in Barnstaple
181 aforesaid in a certain Street there called Silver Street and now in the
182 several occupations of William Watts and John Pearse (and which
183 I lately purchased of Mr John Hodge) unto my daughter Ann
184 Jordan *in my said will named and unto her heirs and assigns for
185 ever and I hereby ratify and confirm my said Will and all the Gifts
186 Devises Bequests Matter and Things therein contained (whereby
187 altered) And I do hereby decare this Writing to be a Codicil to my
188 said Will and direct it to be accepted and taken as part thereof as
189 fully as if the same had been actually inserted therein and also
190 direct it to be annexed thereto In Witness whereof I the said
191 Robert Blake have to this Codicil to my said last Will and Testament
192 set my hand and Seal this fifth day of March in the Year of
193 our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seven Robert Blake
194 Signed sealed published and declared by the above named Robert
195 Blake as and for a Codicil to his last Will and Testament in the
196 presence of us who have hereunto subscribed our Names as
197 Witnesses thereto in his presence at his request in the presence of each other Robert Westacott
198 Robert Yeo John Foller
199 Whereas I Robert Blake of Barnstaple in the County
200 of Devon Mariner have made and duly executed my last Will
201 and Testament in writing bearing the twenty seventh day of April
202 in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and four and
203 have also made and duly executed a Codicil annexed thereunto bearing
204 date the fifth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand
205 eight hundred and seven and whereas by my said Will I have
206 given and bequeathed unto my daughter Jane the then Wife but
207 now Widow of Walter Gribble of Barnstaple aforesaid Mariner
208 the Sum of twenty pounds to be paid her by my Executrix thereinafter
209 mentioned within one Month next after my deceae Now I do hereby
210 revoke and make void the said Legacy of twenty pounds so made and
211 bequeathed by my said Will unto my said daughter Jane Gribble
212 in as far as concerns the time and manner of payment of the same
213 and instead thereof I do will and direct that the said Sum of
214 twenty pounds shall be paid to my said daughter Jane Gribble
215 by my said Executrix in my said Will mentioned in weekly Sums
216 after the rate of two shillings a week until the whole Sum of twenty
217 pounds be fully paid the first weekly payment of two shillings to commence
218 and be made within one week next after my decease And I do ordain
219 and declare this present Writing to be a second Codicil to my said Will
220 and that the same shall be annexed thereto and taken part thereof
221 and do confirm my said Will and former Codicil in every particular
222 thereof that is not hereby altered In Witness whereof I have to this
223 Codicil set my hand and Seal the seventh day of October in the
224 year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fourteen Robert
225 Blake Signed sealed published and declared by the said Robert
226 Blake as and for a Codicil to be annexed to his last Will and Testament
227 in the presence of us who have hereunto subscribed our Names as
228 witnesses thereto in his presence at his request and in the presence of
229 each other William Gribble William Henry Thorne
230 Proved at London with two Codicils 10th March 1815 before the
231 Judge by the Oath of Anne Jordan Widow the daughter and sole
232 Executrix to whom Admon was granted having been first sworn by
233 Comm[issi]on duly to administer
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