Today, finally, I am back to proofreading Bishops Nympton parish registers. I have reached 1591 for marriages. There is still an enormous amount to read as I am only on page 10 of 876 pages of my word document. I shall try to do a couple of hours per day.
Unfortunately, I succumbed to a flu bug that my husband had first last week. It was a formidable one necessitating my resting for most of the time the last two days. I am on the mend now although we need to snowblow the laneway as mother nature dumped a fresh lot of snow on us whilst we were being ill. We managed to use up all of our milk and juice and most of our bread so must also go out and get some groceries now that we are both feeling somewhat improved. It will be a couple more days though before we are fit as a fiddle once again.
Interesting emails came in and I did manage to read and respond to them from my sick bed. Amazing what you can do in between bouts of tiredness!
More discussion of these "rare" yDNA results where matches are few and far between. I think my line is like that because most of them are still in England and there still isn't a large following of yDNA testers yet in England. The interest in deep ancestry though is starting to happen and so more will test out of curiosity.
It is nice to return to genealogy once again. I had not thought I would be able to for a while yet.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Blake and Routledge families emails and postings on Facebook
The Blake family in Huron County has always rather interested me. As a child we passed by the sign that pointed to Blake, Ontario and sharing the same surname as the town mystified me. I knew that my Blake family had only just arrived in Ontario in 1913 and the village of Blake predated their arrival. Although I had this enormous curiosity about my surname as a child, it didn't inspire me towards genealogy. As a child I thought I knew all my ancestors; after all my grandfather had told me who they were and the eight year old mind can be a closed one in some ways. One simply doesn't look that far back (or forward) at that age I suspect. It did take walking on home turf to stir my mind towards genealogical pursuits. Eventually, it took yDNA to stir my thoughts towards the greater Blake family. Why choose a surname Blake way back when people took on surnames was my earliest query as I learned about surnames? But coincident with that thought were the published genealogies for the Blake family (principally American ones when I first started to research). They all traced back to Robert de Blakeland who lived in the late 1200s (1286 saw a lay subsidy being paid by him in Wiltshire (not yet verified by me)). The name gradually became Blake in the 1300s. The American genealogies theorized that the Blake family of Hampshire, Wiltshire and Somerset (Devonshire) were all related. Since my Blake family was of Hampshire (principally within 2 miles of Andover Hampshire itself) for a period greater than 600 years, this has intrigued me from the very beginning. Finding the Blake Pedigree Chart at the Swindon and Wiltshire Record Office a couple of years ago further intensified this thought that perhaps my line was descendant of the Wiltshire Blake family since the heading of the chart clearly stated that the Blake family at Eastontown (near Andover) was descendant of Richard Blake. The question at the moment is Richard Blake also Robert de Blakeland? I have to find the entry in the subsidy that names Blake in 1286 to see if there was a mistranscription at some point in the past but clearly the chart has the same descendants as the published genealogies.
But back to Huron County and the Blake family there. They principally lived in the Seaforth area but were actually found in several other places in Huron County. Are they all the same family? yDNA studies may show that at least the Seaforth Blake branch descends from the County Clare Blake family? Historically the Blake family in Huron County is thought to be of Irish descent. I collected some information on the Blake family when we visited Archives of Ontario and need to pull that out and have a look at it. All of this resulted from a set of emails which came to me looking at the Seaforth Blake family and my interest, of course, soared.
Although I am still mostly concerned with getting my husband better (and he is very much on the mend), I am starting to see that I will have time for genealogy once again in the near future rather than the far future that I was imagining just a week ago. Time has moved forward much more quickly than I could have thought possible. The marvels of modern medicine.
Right out of the blue on the Routledge Clan group in Facebook, along came a descendant of Margaret Tuckey. I have known about Margaret Tuckey since I was a young child listening to the sad stories about my great grandmother Grace Gray's older sisters. They both died in childbirth about eight months apart. What a wrenching pain for this family. Grace herself miscarried her first child (although a 7 months baby it did not survive) and experienced the reverse pain; the loss of a child to be. But that was already ten years after her sisters passed away. Her younger sister Ann never married and herself died at the young age of 33. What plagued this family I wondered as a child. Were they just unlucky but then I thought of my mother with seven children and my child mind told me that they were just that - unlucky in a time when modern medicine didn't exist and if it had existed they would have lived. The second daughter of this family was Margaret Gray and she married Charles Tuckey in 1856 (she was just 18 years old) and she died 26 Mar 1857 but little Margaret lived to adulthood and married William Tomlinson. But my knowledge of this family ended there because this family moved off to Michigan and were lost to family. Perhaps because death followed my mother's family around she talked a lot about all of these people who had died. Her father died when she was eight and her step grandmother when she was six, her grandfather died when she was two. It tended to occupy her mind all these deaths looking back. But then perhaps it did her father as well. He was just six when his younger brother died, then fourteen when his mother died and fifteen when his younger sister died. Suddenly an only child with just his father for comfort, he must have been a lonely child. Fortunately he had many many first cousins which was hopefully a comfort to him in those teen years. The picture of him at his father's second marriage is one of a sad eighteen year old.
But then along came this query about the Routledge family that had married into the Gray family with a child born to a mother who died in childbirth and the name of that child was Margaret Tuckey. I spent yesterday writing up the history of this family on the Routledge Clan website just to fill in the enquirer with the actual history of her ancestors since fourty years ago a mistake had been made in the surname of the wife of Thomas Routledge. My mother had been quite correct that the wife of Thomas Routledge was Elizabeth Routledge - a Routledge in her own right as well as her married name. But the knowledge of this family ended with Thomas and Elizabeth at that time but my cousin George DeKay went back to England and found the records which took this family back one generation to the parents of Thomas and Elizabeth. Over time, I managed to get them back another generation on both sides and further back on some of the Routledge lines. But I am stuck in the 1600s not able to make the leap back to the Indenture of 1630 which names fathers and sons and the Return of Land 1603 in Bewcastle which also names fathers and sons. There is a list of Routledge families at Bewcastle (the home village has been known to me since childhood passed down by my mother and her father before that) in the Protestation Returns of 1641-42 but again I can not be sure which of the Williams is mine. All the males on the list are 18 years of age or greater but the list does not distinguish between fathers and sons. I repeat the list below where I have added in details from other sources:
Surname Forename Father Surname Father Forename
Routledge Adam Routledge Rowland, wife Gracie of the Nook
Routledge Bartholomew
Routledge Christopher
Routledge Edward Routledge Nephew William of Todholes (mother is Elizabeth-sister)
Routledge Edward Routledge Of Ash
Routledge Edward
Routledge Francis Routledge James and Elener of the Ash
Routledge George Routledge James and Elener of the Ash
Routledge George
Routledge Gilbert
Routledge James Routledge James, wife Janet of Baileyhead
Routledge Michael
Routledge Nicholas
Routledge Quinton
Routledge Richard Routledge James, wife Janet of Baileyhead
Routledge Rowland Routledge James, wife Janet of Baileyhead
Routledge Thomas Routledge James, wife Janet of Baileyhead
Routledge Thomas Routledge Rowland, wife Gracie of the Nook
Routledge Thomas Routledge John of Black dubs
Routledge Thomas
Routledge William
Routledge William
Routledge William
You can see the difficulty of three William and I trace back to one of them. There are no Oakshaw (Yakeshaw) Routledge named in this list but definitely some of these men were of Oakshaw (one of the farm areas in Bewcastle).
I am starting into the two volume set of Border Lands complaints which may help me with the Routledge family sorting. Time will tell. I also have a set of images that I want to transcribe on the Routledge family. That may be my start back into genealogy.
But back to Huron County and the Blake family there. They principally lived in the Seaforth area but were actually found in several other places in Huron County. Are they all the same family? yDNA studies may show that at least the Seaforth Blake branch descends from the County Clare Blake family? Historically the Blake family in Huron County is thought to be of Irish descent. I collected some information on the Blake family when we visited Archives of Ontario and need to pull that out and have a look at it. All of this resulted from a set of emails which came to me looking at the Seaforth Blake family and my interest, of course, soared.
Although I am still mostly concerned with getting my husband better (and he is very much on the mend), I am starting to see that I will have time for genealogy once again in the near future rather than the far future that I was imagining just a week ago. Time has moved forward much more quickly than I could have thought possible. The marvels of modern medicine.
Right out of the blue on the Routledge Clan group in Facebook, along came a descendant of Margaret Tuckey. I have known about Margaret Tuckey since I was a young child listening to the sad stories about my great grandmother Grace Gray's older sisters. They both died in childbirth about eight months apart. What a wrenching pain for this family. Grace herself miscarried her first child (although a 7 months baby it did not survive) and experienced the reverse pain; the loss of a child to be. But that was already ten years after her sisters passed away. Her younger sister Ann never married and herself died at the young age of 33. What plagued this family I wondered as a child. Were they just unlucky but then I thought of my mother with seven children and my child mind told me that they were just that - unlucky in a time when modern medicine didn't exist and if it had existed they would have lived. The second daughter of this family was Margaret Gray and she married Charles Tuckey in 1856 (she was just 18 years old) and she died 26 Mar 1857 but little Margaret lived to adulthood and married William Tomlinson. But my knowledge of this family ended there because this family moved off to Michigan and were lost to family. Perhaps because death followed my mother's family around she talked a lot about all of these people who had died. Her father died when she was eight and her step grandmother when she was six, her grandfather died when she was two. It tended to occupy her mind all these deaths looking back. But then perhaps it did her father as well. He was just six when his younger brother died, then fourteen when his mother died and fifteen when his younger sister died. Suddenly an only child with just his father for comfort, he must have been a lonely child. Fortunately he had many many first cousins which was hopefully a comfort to him in those teen years. The picture of him at his father's second marriage is one of a sad eighteen year old.
But then along came this query about the Routledge family that had married into the Gray family with a child born to a mother who died in childbirth and the name of that child was Margaret Tuckey. I spent yesterday writing up the history of this family on the Routledge Clan website just to fill in the enquirer with the actual history of her ancestors since fourty years ago a mistake had been made in the surname of the wife of Thomas Routledge. My mother had been quite correct that the wife of Thomas Routledge was Elizabeth Routledge - a Routledge in her own right as well as her married name. But the knowledge of this family ended with Thomas and Elizabeth at that time but my cousin George DeKay went back to England and found the records which took this family back one generation to the parents of Thomas and Elizabeth. Over time, I managed to get them back another generation on both sides and further back on some of the Routledge lines. But I am stuck in the 1600s not able to make the leap back to the Indenture of 1630 which names fathers and sons and the Return of Land 1603 in Bewcastle which also names fathers and sons. There is a list of Routledge families at Bewcastle (the home village has been known to me since childhood passed down by my mother and her father before that) in the Protestation Returns of 1641-42 but again I can not be sure which of the Williams is mine. All the males on the list are 18 years of age or greater but the list does not distinguish between fathers and sons. I repeat the list below where I have added in details from other sources:
Surname Forename Father Surname Father Forename
Routledge Adam Routledge Rowland, wife Gracie of the Nook
Routledge Bartholomew
Routledge Christopher
Routledge Edward Routledge Nephew William of Todholes (mother is Elizabeth-sister)
Routledge Edward Routledge Of Ash
Routledge Edward
Routledge Francis Routledge James and Elener of the Ash
Routledge George Routledge James and Elener of the Ash
Routledge George
Routledge Gilbert
Routledge James Routledge James, wife Janet of Baileyhead
Routledge Michael
Routledge Nicholas
Routledge Quinton
Routledge Richard Routledge James, wife Janet of Baileyhead
Routledge Rowland Routledge James, wife Janet of Baileyhead
Routledge Thomas Routledge James, wife Janet of Baileyhead
Routledge Thomas Routledge Rowland, wife Gracie of the Nook
Routledge Thomas Routledge John of Black dubs
Routledge Thomas
Routledge William
Routledge William
Routledge William
You can see the difficulty of three William and I trace back to one of them. There are no Oakshaw (Yakeshaw) Routledge named in this list but definitely some of these men were of Oakshaw (one of the farm areas in Bewcastle).
I am starting into the two volume set of Border Lands complaints which may help me with the Routledge family sorting. Time will tell. I also have a set of images that I want to transcribe on the Routledge family. That may be my start back into genealogy.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Hiatus
Probably I will be for the most part taking somewhat of an hiatus from blogging and even genealogy. My husband has been struggling with ill health for the past year and my duties at home substantially have increased including driving 100% of the time. This somewhat decreases my time to spend on genealogy.
The good news is that a cause has been established for my husband's illness which is tertiary heart block and bradychardia. The solution is a pacemaker which has now been inserted. I anticipate that there is a learning curve to this particular device and that my time will be spent assisting him in that regard.
Hence I do not anticipate myself spending much time over the next couple of months on genealogy. I want to continue with the Blake Newsletter and I am writing the issue in my head as the days pass. The next issue should be around the beginning of April and will try for beginning of July and beginning of October. Any items on Blake that you would like to be part of the Newsletter please send on to me at kippeeb@rogers.com.
I will continue with my transcriptions as time permits but it will be at a reduced fashion.
The good news is that a cause has been established for my husband's illness which is tertiary heart block and bradychardia. The solution is a pacemaker which has now been inserted. I anticipate that there is a learning curve to this particular device and that my time will be spent assisting him in that regard.
Hence I do not anticipate myself spending much time over the next couple of months on genealogy. I want to continue with the Blake Newsletter and I am writing the issue in my head as the days pass. The next issue should be around the beginning of April and will try for beginning of July and beginning of October. Any items on Blake that you would like to be part of the Newsletter please send on to me at kippeeb@rogers.com.
I will continue with my transcriptions as time permits but it will be at a reduced fashion.
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Roots Tech Conference
My husband and I watched the live streaming of the Roots Tech Conference from Salt Lake City the past couple of days. The talks were often quite an eye opener and the discussion on Clouds most fascinating. I now have a dropbox account and sharing of files is so very easy. I intend to set one up for my Blake and Pincombe one name studies so that I can readily share material with other members of the research groups.
I continue thinking about the development of the Blake webpage and the Wiki for our domain. I want to plan it well so that I am not constantly changing it (although I suspect change will be the order of the day). In the meantime whilst I am thinking I am also transcribing a couple of Routledge documents. The first is a Star Chamber document (undated thus far in my transcription) but from the 1558 to 1601 period in that Elizabeth is Queen of England. It concerns the answer of Alexander Routledge (a now aged and infirm man) to the Bill of Complaint brought against him by Andrew Taylor. I am not sure that it involves land at this moment in time as my transcription is very sparse at the moment although I have managed to complete the first four lines of this 17 line document. The language is very early Middle English and the spelling/short forms are abundant for individual words.
Routledge of course interests me because two of my 3x great grandparents were surnamed Routledge and family lore says they were cousins. I have not yet been able to establish this cousin relationship although both are of the Oakshaw Routledge family and historically this family was known to marry first, second, third cousins etc. Of the four parents of my Routledge couple, three have the surname Routledge and going back to the grandparents it is likely that six of eight were Routledge (five for sure). Tom Routledge (the individual for whom I am doing the transcription) and I first met (online) back in 2007 when he asked about my routledge.xls file that I had online at the time. It was 2000 entries for Routledge and I said to do whatever he liked with it and the work he has done has been marvelous. His webpages on the Routledge family are tremendous and now he is in the process of reinstating the Routledge family as a Clan in Scotland where they originally lived (coming to Cumberland in the 1400s).
My transcription thus far and I shall continue to revise this blog posting until I am satisfied with the transcription (revised 15 Feb 2012):
Transcription Date - 26 Jan 2012 (begin)
Document Read - #STAC 7/30/8
Location of Document - The National Archives, Kew, London, England
Date of Document - 1558-1603
Title: The answere of Alexander Rowtlage def[endan]t to the Bill of Complaynte of Andrewe Taylour p[lain]ti[ff]
1 The said def[endan]t saieth that the said Bill of Complaynt ys verye werten untrue and insufficient
2 the kind to be answered unto and the matters therein conteyned against this d[ef]
3 devised ymagined and set forthe onely of more malice to put this def[endan]t being a verye
4 aged and Brused man to extreme paynes in travelinge and costes and charges [in]
5 the same and not _____ use ____ or cause _________ wherefore the s[aid]
6 def[endan]t prayeth to be desmyssed with his reasonable coste and charges in this behalfe
7 wrongefully ____ _____ ____yf the said def[endan]t shall by the order of the
8 this hon[our]able courte be compelled to make any further answer unto the said insuffici
9 ent Bill of complaynt then the Advantage ofe excer[t]ion to the insufficyency of the
10 same Bill at all tyme to this def[endan]t said forefull Answered and declaration of the
11 trothe sayeth as concerninge any Ryott Rents unlawfull assemblye or any other mysdeme
12 danore against the place or said sov[er]aigneLady the Quenes ma[jes]tie in these
13 said Bill of Complayente declared and setforth to this def[endan]t ys not therefore
14 gyltie nor yet did eth[er] consent or agree to comye to any suche Ryott or other mysdeme[anor]
15 nor any plot cherges as in the said Bill ofe Complaynte against this def[endan]t ys most
16 untimelye and sclanderistye alledged and declared and w[i]thout that that
16 any other chargs or clamys conteynes and specified in the said Bill ofe Complaynte
17 materall or effectuale to be answered unto and not herein sufficiently wytessed
18 Avoyded denyed or therewise traversed ys true All wh[ich] matters the said def[endan]t
19 ys made to and was as this hon[our]able courte shall awarde and prayeth to
20 Be dissmyssed w[i]th costs and charges in this behalfe wro[n]gefully susteyned
21 [Star Chamber Elizabeth] Kytchyn[er] [seal]
I continue thinking about the development of the Blake webpage and the Wiki for our domain. I want to plan it well so that I am not constantly changing it (although I suspect change will be the order of the day). In the meantime whilst I am thinking I am also transcribing a couple of Routledge documents. The first is a Star Chamber document (undated thus far in my transcription) but from the 1558 to 1601 period in that Elizabeth is Queen of England. It concerns the answer of Alexander Routledge (a now aged and infirm man) to the Bill of Complaint brought against him by Andrew Taylor. I am not sure that it involves land at this moment in time as my transcription is very sparse at the moment although I have managed to complete the first four lines of this 17 line document. The language is very early Middle English and the spelling/short forms are abundant for individual words.
Routledge of course interests me because two of my 3x great grandparents were surnamed Routledge and family lore says they were cousins. I have not yet been able to establish this cousin relationship although both are of the Oakshaw Routledge family and historically this family was known to marry first, second, third cousins etc. Of the four parents of my Routledge couple, three have the surname Routledge and going back to the grandparents it is likely that six of eight were Routledge (five for sure). Tom Routledge (the individual for whom I am doing the transcription) and I first met (online) back in 2007 when he asked about my routledge.xls file that I had online at the time. It was 2000 entries for Routledge and I said to do whatever he liked with it and the work he has done has been marvelous. His webpages on the Routledge family are tremendous and now he is in the process of reinstating the Routledge family as a Clan in Scotland where they originally lived (coming to Cumberland in the 1400s).
My transcription thus far and I shall continue to revise this blog posting until I am satisfied with the transcription (revised 15 Feb 2012):
Transcription Date - 26 Jan 2012 (begin)
Document Read - #STAC 7/30/8
Location of Document - The National Archives, Kew, London, England
Date of Document - 1558-1603
Title: The answere of Alexander Rowtlage def[endan]t to the Bill of Complaynte of Andrewe Taylour p[lain]ti[ff]
1 The said def[endan]t saieth that the said Bill of Complaynt ys verye werten untrue and insufficient
2 the kind to be answered unto and the matters therein conteyned against this d[ef]
3 devised ymagined and set forthe onely of more malice to put this def[endan]t being a verye
4 aged and Brused man to extreme paynes in travelinge and costes and charges [in]
5 the same and not _____ use ____ or cause _________ wherefore the s[aid]
6 def[endan]t prayeth to be desmyssed with his reasonable coste and charges in this behalfe
7 wrongefully ____ _____ ____yf the said def[endan]t shall by the order of the
8 this hon[our]able courte be compelled to make any further answer unto the said insuffici
9 ent Bill of complaynt then the Advantage ofe excer[t]ion to the insufficyency of the
10 same Bill at all tyme to this def[endan]t said forefull Answered and declaration of the
11 trothe sayeth as concerninge any Ryott Rents unlawfull assemblye or any other mysdeme
12 danore against the place or said sov[er]aigneLady the Quenes ma[jes]tie in these
13 said Bill of Complayente declared and setforth to this def[endan]t ys not therefore
14 gyltie nor yet did eth[er] consent or agree to comye to any suche Ryott or other mysdeme[anor]
15 nor any plot cherges as in the said Bill ofe Complaynte against this def[endan]t ys most
16 untimelye and sclanderistye alledged and declared and w[i]thout that that
16 any other chargs or clamys conteynes and specified in the said Bill ofe Complaynte
17 materall or effectuale to be answered unto and not herein sufficiently wytessed
18 Avoyded denyed or therewise traversed ys true All wh[ich] matters the said def[endan]t
19 ys made to and was as this hon[our]able courte shall awarde and prayeth to
20 Be dissmyssed w[i]th costs and charges in this behalfe wro[n]gefully susteyned
21 [Star Chamber Elizabeth] Kytchyn[er] [seal]
Friday, February 3, 2012
Marriage Challenges at the Guild of one name Studies
Several marriage challenges have been completed and I now have at least 200 marriages to enter into my database for Blake. That will be several days of entering and I will begin that next week.
In the meantime I am still considering possible displays for the new Blake webpage. It will be accessed from the main page of our domain index page. I also want to create a Wiki but have now decided that it will be a Wiki for our domain so that my husband and I can both make use of it. That way if anyone picks up this family's genealogy in the future it will all be in one spot. We are diversified in that my husband has nine to ten generations of American/Canadian history going back to the 1620s and 1630s in colonial America. He also has more recent German ancestry (one set of his great grandparents were born in Germany and came to Canada as adults) and more recent English ancestry (one set of his 2x great grandparents came from Aylmerton Norfolk in the early 1830s to East Gwillimbury, Ontario, Canada with their family). My own lines are all English with just one Canadian line - myself, my mother, her father and his mother being my Canadian born ancestors). All the remainder of whom I have knowledge thus far were born in England, most lived in England all of their days and most died in England with my Routledge, Gray, Pincombe, Buller and Blake emigrants being the exception (they all died in Canada and some were married here). But, uniquely, each Canadian born ancestor married a new British emigrant thus creating my somewhat unusual tree. I have been able to research all my lines because I knew each and every emigration story (i.e. place of departure and place of birth for all emigrants).
How to display these two family sets in a meaningful way - my husband's and my own. My husband has extensive webpages already for his family lines. I have a little up there mostly just one page and relationship charts for each surname but I am moving away from looking at all my family lines with the same deep research. I want to devote my time to Blake and Pincombe for the most part but still continue, as leads arise, to collect information on all of my family lines.
The other new family line that I am investigating is our son-in-law's French Canadian family. I have researched his line in great depth now and would also like to display some of that line (trees are private on ancestry for his four grand parents) especially sections that evade me still because of the pioneering nature of the family they preceded the record keeping often enough. A fascinating baptism took place in Montebello where the parents traveled from just south of Plantagenet in February to Montebello to baptize their baby daughter. French Canadian families were in the forefront of settlement all through the Ottawa Valley and points north.
In the meantime I am still considering possible displays for the new Blake webpage. It will be accessed from the main page of our domain index page. I also want to create a Wiki but have now decided that it will be a Wiki for our domain so that my husband and I can both make use of it. That way if anyone picks up this family's genealogy in the future it will all be in one spot. We are diversified in that my husband has nine to ten generations of American/Canadian history going back to the 1620s and 1630s in colonial America. He also has more recent German ancestry (one set of his great grandparents were born in Germany and came to Canada as adults) and more recent English ancestry (one set of his 2x great grandparents came from Aylmerton Norfolk in the early 1830s to East Gwillimbury, Ontario, Canada with their family). My own lines are all English with just one Canadian line - myself, my mother, her father and his mother being my Canadian born ancestors). All the remainder of whom I have knowledge thus far were born in England, most lived in England all of their days and most died in England with my Routledge, Gray, Pincombe, Buller and Blake emigrants being the exception (they all died in Canada and some were married here). But, uniquely, each Canadian born ancestor married a new British emigrant thus creating my somewhat unusual tree. I have been able to research all my lines because I knew each and every emigration story (i.e. place of departure and place of birth for all emigrants).
How to display these two family sets in a meaningful way - my husband's and my own. My husband has extensive webpages already for his family lines. I have a little up there mostly just one page and relationship charts for each surname but I am moving away from looking at all my family lines with the same deep research. I want to devote my time to Blake and Pincombe for the most part but still continue, as leads arise, to collect information on all of my family lines.
The other new family line that I am investigating is our son-in-law's French Canadian family. I have researched his line in great depth now and would also like to display some of that line (trees are private on ancestry for his four grand parents) especially sections that evade me still because of the pioneering nature of the family they preceded the record keeping often enough. A fascinating baptism took place in Montebello where the parents traveled from just south of Plantagenet in February to Montebello to baptize their baby daughter. French Canadian families were in the forefront of settlement all through the Ottawa Valley and points north.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Blake Newsletter Volume 1 Issue 1 2012
The Blake Newsletter Volume 1 Issue 1 2012 is available on my website and will eventually be available on the Guild Blake Profile but we are moving to a new IP and I cannot revise my profile page at the moment. The newsletter can be viewed at:
http://www.kipp-blake-families.ca/Blake-newsletter-1-1-2012.pdf
I hope to keep to a quarterly publication of this newsletter and invite anyone with Blake information to send it on to me to include in the newsletter. Initially I would like to keep it to two pages.
As I mentioned I want to set up a Blake one name study website on my own webpages and a Wiki. I am gradually developing the site in my mind and hope to start constructing it in the near future.
However, I continue to invite queries and lookups on any of the information on my webpages. I have collected a fair amount of information on many of my family lines and would continue to share that with any descendants of my ancestors.
My time commitments are shifting with the changes coming in our family life. We are about to become grandparents for the first time with a grandson expected in early summer. My fingers are busy knitting, sewing and smocking at least they will soon be doing all three. At the moment I have done some knitting.
As a result my studies will concentrate on the Blake and Pincombe one name studies and continuing with the Bedard family lines collecting stories, pictures and documents to continue proving this line as it will be half of our grandson's heritage.
http://www.kipp-blake-families.ca/Blake-newsletter-1-1-2012.pdf
I hope to keep to a quarterly publication of this newsletter and invite anyone with Blake information to send it on to me to include in the newsletter. Initially I would like to keep it to two pages.
As I mentioned I want to set up a Blake one name study website on my own webpages and a Wiki. I am gradually developing the site in my mind and hope to start constructing it in the near future.
However, I continue to invite queries and lookups on any of the information on my webpages. I have collected a fair amount of information on many of my family lines and would continue to share that with any descendants of my ancestors.
My time commitments are shifting with the changes coming in our family life. We are about to become grandparents for the first time with a grandson expected in early summer. My fingers are busy knitting, sewing and smocking at least they will soon be doing all three. At the moment I have done some knitting.
As a result my studies will concentrate on the Blake and Pincombe one name studies and continuing with the Bedard family lines collecting stories, pictures and documents to continue proving this line as it will be half of our grandson's heritage.
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