Richard Blake and Susan Larkham were married 21 Oct 1812 in Hampshire and this from Family Search I03915-6 with the bride's age being 27 years (born circa 1785) and also listed Richard Blake of Exbury Hants widower married Susan Lacham October 1812 at St Thomas Salisbury (patron submission).
One of the legatees in the will below William Larkam Blake was baptized 1 Aug 1819 at Exbury Hampshire England and the son of Richard and Susannah Blake. Exbury is located in the liberty of Beaulieu six miles north east of Lymington and 9 miles from Southampton (Winchester Diocese).
Children of Richard and Susannah Blake:
Henrietta Blake baptized 3 Sep 1815 at Exbury (I04053-1 Family Search)
Matilda Blake baptized 15 Jun 1817 at Exbury (I04053-1 Family Search)
William Larkam Blake baptized 1 Aug 1819 at Exbury (I04053-1 Family Search)
Elizabeth Mary Blake baptized 29 Jul 1821 at Fawley (I04296-6 Family Search)
Sarah Larkam Blake baptized 7 Dec 1823 at Exbury (I04053-1 Family Search); married Henry Thomas Crew Kemp Dec quarter 1850 (1851 Census he is a grocer and draper and they are living next door to Henry Blake who is a malster)
There is a Charles Blake (legatee in the will below) baptized at Fawley 19 May 1806 and son of Richard and Ann Blake. There are two records for a Henry Blake baptized 24 Apr 1810 and 12 Apr 1812 at Fawley and the son of Richard Blake and Anne Whitlocke (C15074-1 Family Search). There is a marriage 12 Feb 1805 at Lyndhurst Hampshire for Richard Blake and Ann Whitlock (M14510-1). This would appear to be likely the first wife of Richard and his two sons mentioned in the will below - Charles and Henry.
He mentions his children in birth order in the will except he placed William Larkam Blake before his sisters.
Looking at the OPC Hampshire site for Exbury there are no marriages for Blake from 1756 to 1909.
Stephen Barney the one non family executor is likely the person found at Beaulieu on the 1841 Census and his date of birth is circa 1791 in Hampshire. On the 1851 census he is at Bishop Stoke with his family. Probably the best way to learn more about Richard Blake at Hilltop Farm is to look at the Tax Records in this time period in Beaulieu.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 5 Oct 2012
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1852/307
Name of testator: Richard Blake, Yeoman
Place: Beaulieu, Hampshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Dated:, 16 Jul 1835, probated 17 Oct 1835
Read: Electronic file images
Condition: cramped English writing, 19th century, bold copy
[In margin] Richard
[In margin] Blake
[In margin] 24
1 This is the last Will and Testament
2 of me Richard Blake of Hill Top Farm in the Parish of Beaulieu in the
3 County of Southampton yeoman I request my Trustees and Executors herein
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4 after named to distribute the plate that may be in my house at the time of my decease
5 among my children in such proportions as they may think fit I give and bequeath unto
6 my son Charles Blake the sum of one hundred and ten pounds which I trust to be
7 paid to him within six months after my decease which sum together with the sum of
8 one hundred and forty pounds which my said Son is now indebted to me but from
9 the payment of which I hereby release him will make up a Legacy to him of Two
10 hundred and fifty pounds I give and bequeath unto my wife Susanna Blake my
11 said son Charles Blake and Stephen Barney of the said parish of Beaulieu Merchant
12 their executors administrators and assigns All my monies in the Funds and all
13 such monies as I may leave in the Lymington or any other saving Bank and in
14 my house or elsewhere at the time of my decease and also all my Stock of every
15 description on the said Farm called Hilltop Farm household furniture and effects
16 except plate debts accrued to me at the time of my decease and All my
17 Personal Estate and property whatsoever and wheresoever Upon trust in the
18 first place to pay all my just debts funeral and testamentary expences and if the
19 money in my house or in any Bank at the time of my decease should be
20 inadequate to the payment thereof then upon trust to dispose of such part of my
21 landed property as shall be sufficient for that purpose and subject thereto to stand
22 possessed thereof upon the trusts hereinafter declared concerning the same that is to
23 say upon trust in the first place to place out of the sum of Three hundred and thirty
24 three pounds six shillings and eight pence Three pounds per centum consolidated
25 rent annuities in their or his own names or name and from time to time to advance
26 and pay so much and such part thereof as they or the survivors or survivor of
27 them or the executors or administrators of such survivor in their discretion shall
28 fit to my Son Henry Blake to and for his own use during the term of his
29 natural life and subject thereto to pay the interest and dividends thereof with my said son
30 Henry Blake during the term of his natural life and from and after his decease to
31 divide and pay so much of the said principal sum as they shall not have paid to
32 him in his lifetime unto and equally between such child or children as he shall
33 leave him surviving and in case of his dying without leaving child or children then
35 to divide so much of the said principal sum of Three hundred and thirty three
36 pounds six shillings and eight pence three pounds per centum Consolidated bank
37 annuities as shall remain unto and equally between each of this the said Henry
38 Blakes brothers and sisters as shall survive him and subject to the payment of the
39 Legacies and bequests hereinbefore expressed and contained to my said sons Charles
40 and Henry upon trust if my said trustees or the survivors or survivor of them
41 the executors or administrators of such survivor should think fit so to do to carry
42 on the business of the said Farm called Hilltop Farm until my son William
43 Larkham shall attain his age of twenty one years or if he shall die before that
44 time up to and until the time of his decease And I expressly direct that if my said
45 Trustees or Trustee shall carry on the business of my said Farm that all losses
46 charges and expences of carrying on managing and conducting the same shall be borne
47 and paid by my said Trustees or Trustee with and out of the monies which shall
48 come to their or his hands by virtue of this my Will and that they shall have the
49 fullest powers over the said business which I can give them by this my Will so
50 to enable my said Trustees or Trustee to carry on manage and conduct the same in
51 the same manner in all respects as I myself could do if I were living and acting
52 therein But if my said Trustees or Trustee for the time being should not think
53 proper to carry on the business of the said farm or shall not carry it on until the
54 time of my said son William Larkham attaining his age of twenty one years or
55 his death or shall carry it on until he should attain that age then and in either of
56 such cases my said Trustees or Trustee for the time being shall pay out of my
57 then estate and effects to my said wife the sum of Four hundred pounds for her
58 own use and benefit and the sum of fifty pounds to my said son William
59 Larkam for his own use and benefit in addition to his share hereinafter mentioned
60 And then shall invest one sixth part of share of the then residue of my said
61 estate and effects (the whole into six equal parts or shares to be divided) in or
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62 upon government or real securities at interest and pay the interest dividends and
63 annual product thereof to my said wife during her life or as long as she shall
64 continue my widow and after the decease or marriage again the said one sixth part
65 or share shall be in trust for such of my seven children who may then be living and the
66 issue of such of them as shall have previously died leaving lawful issue such issue to
67 take only the share or shares of his or her parent or parents And as to the remaining
68 five sixth parts or shares of my said residuary estate upon trust for and to divide the
69 same between such of my said children William Larkam, Henrietta, Matilda,
70 Elizabeth Mary, and Sarah Larkham as shall be then living in equal shares and pro-
71 portions provided always that notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained to
72 the contrary if any or either of them shall marry or if any or either of them shall wish
73 to be apprenticed to any trade or business before the division of my property amongst
74 them shall take place that then and in any such case it shall and may be lawful to and
75 for my said Trustees or the survivors or survivor of them to advance and pay to such
76 child marrying or on being apprenticed any part of his or her respective portions not
77 exceeding one half part thereof And I declare that my said Trustees or Trustee from time
78 to time may lay out alter vary and transpose all the hereinbefore mentioned trust
79 monies upon Government or real securities as they or the survivors or survivor of them
80 shall in their his or her discretion think fit I declare that my mother Frances Pearce
81 shall be permitted to reside with my family and be maintained out of the profits of my
82 farming business until my said son William Larkam shall attain twenty one years or that
83 in case she shall before he attains that age cease to reside with my said family
84 then that my said trustees or trustee shall pay to her until my said Son shall attain
85 twenty one years the annual sum of fifteen pounds And I declare that all persons
86 paying to my said Trustees or Trustee any trust monies belonging to my Estate and
87 taking their or his receipt for the same shall be effectually discharged from all responsi-
88 bility in respect of the application thereof And I hereby appoint my said wife my
89 said son Charles Blake and the said Stephen Barney Executors in trust of this
90 my Will but I direct that if my said Wife shall marry again after my decease then
91 that shall no longer act in any manner as a Trustee or Executor under this my Will but
92 that her appointment as such Trustee and Executor shall on her subsequent marriage
93 immediately cease and so terminate And I direct that in case my said Trustees or either of
94 them or any Trustee or Trustees to be appointed under this present provision shall be
95 or become unwilling or unable to act in the aforesaid trusts before the same be fully
96 performed then and in every such case it shall be lawful for the survivors or active
97 Trustee or Trustees for the time being of this my Will or if there be none such for the
98 unwilling Trustee or Trustees or in case all the Trustees shall have departed this life then
99 for the Executors or Administrators of the last surviving Trustee to nominate any fit
100 person or persons to supply the place or places of the Trustees or Trustee so direct or
101 becoming unwilling or unable to act as aforesaid And that immediately after such
102 nomination the said Trust premises shall be transferred to and in such manner as that
103 the same may vest in the surviving or continuing Trustees or Trustee and in such new
104 Trustees or Trustee or in such new Trustees or Trustee solely as the case may require and
105 such new Trustees or Trustee shall be entitled to exercise the same power and authorities
106 in relation to the said Trusts as if she or they had been appointed a Trustee or Trustees
107 by this my Will And I hereby further declare that the Trustee and Trustees for the time
108 being of this my Will shall be charged and chargeable only with such monies as they
109 respectively shall actually receive by virtue of the trust hereby reposed in them
110 respectively notwithstanding their joining in any receipt or other act for the sake of
111 conformity only and shall not be answerable or accountable for any banker broker or
112 other person with whom or in whose hands the said trust monies or any part thereof
113 shall be placed for safe custody or otherwise nor for the insufficiency of any security
114 upon which the same shall be invested nor for any other loss misfortune or damage
115 which may happen in the execution of the aforesaid trusts or any of them or a relation
116 thereto unless the same shall happen by or through their his or her own wilful default
117 And also that it shall be lawful for the said Trustees respectively by and out of the
118 monies which shall come to their his or her hands respective to retain or allow
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119 each other all costs charges damages and expences and fees to Counsel for advice which
120 they respectively shall sustain or expend in or about the execution of the said trusts or
121 in relation thereto In Witness whereof I have to this my last Will and Testament
122 contained in five sheets of paper at the foot of the first four sheets thereof set my
123 hand and to this the fifth and last sheet my hand and seal this sixteenth day of
124 July On thousand eight hundred and thirty five Richard Blake
125 Signed sealed published and declared by the said Richard Blake the Testator as and
126 for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who in his presence at his request
127 and in the presence of each other have hereto subscribed our names as witnesses
128 William Pinnick Beaulieu Yeoman Wm Henry Moberly Sol[icito]r
129 Southampton
130 This is a Codicil to my Will dated the sixteenth day of
131 July One thousand eight hundred and thirty five I declare that if my Wife shall
132 depart this life before the sum of four hundred pounds which I have bequeathed
133 to her by my Will shall become payable that the said sums shall be divisible
134 between my five children William Larkam Henrietta Matilda Elizabeth Mary
135 and Sarah Larkam in equal shares In witness whereof I have hereunto set
136 my hand the day and year above mentioned Richard Blake [signed]
137 Witnesses William Pinnick [signed] Wm Henry Moberly [signed]
138 This is a further Codicil to my Will dated
139 the eighteenth day of August One thousand eight hundred and thirty five I give and
140 bequeath my Family Bible unto my Wife Susanna Blake. In Witness hereof
141 I have hereunto set my hand the day and year above mentioned Richard Blake [signed]
142 Witness John Warn [signed]
143 Proved at London with two Codicils 17th October 1835 before the Judge by
144 the Oaths of Susanna Blake Widow the Relict Charles Blake the Son and Stephen
145 Barney the Executors to whom Admon was given to having been first Sworn by
Commission duly to Administer.
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