Sarah Blake is the testator and there is familial information in this will. The family lives at Cottleigh near Honiton in the County of Devon. Her father was named Richard and still living at the time of writing the will. Her brothers are Robert, Humphrey, Richard and her sister is Elizabeth Genge. Charles Blake is perhaps her nephew and she has put five pounds into a “stocking” for him it would appear.
I found Humphry Blake on the census in 1851 with his wife Jane living in Woodbury and he states that he was born at Cotleigh Devon and he is 61 years old (Wheelwright) so approximate year of birth would be 1790. Humphrey Blake married Joan Gould 10 Jun 1811 at Plymtree, Devon. Their children include:
Mary Blake baptized 11 Oct 1812 at Plymtree, Devon (Family Search P00179-1)
Robert Blake baptized 14 May 1815 at Plymtree, Devon
George Anthony Blake baptized 25 Dec 1819 at Woodbury, Devon (Family Search C05218-1)
Henry Blake baptized 21 Jan 1822 at Woodbury, Devon
Charles Blake baptized 25 Dec 1824 at Woodbury, Devon
There is a marriage of a Robert Blake to Mary Stark 13 Mar 1816 at Plymtree.
Honiton is 8 miles ESE of Plymtree and Cotleigh is 10 miles E of Plymtree.
On the 1841 census at Cottleigh there is a Richard Blake farmer living on his own and his age is listed as 80 so approximate year of birth would be 1761 but these years are rounded up or down so close to that age but might not be correct. He is living at Mondays, Cotleigh.
The 1841 census was taken on 6 Jun 1841 and Sarah would have been deceased since her will was probated 27 Apr 1841. Given the year of birth of her brother Humphrey Sarah was possibly over 40 when she died.
I could not find Elizabeth Genge on the census other than one who was married to a Thomas but living in Somerset and this Elizabeth was born in Newfoundland.
In the Gentleman’s Magazine and Historical Review, Volume 61, Part 2 under Marriages and Deaths of Eminent Persons I found on page 680 for July 14:
At Plymtree, Devon, Richard Blake, esquire. Merchant, of Bristol, to Miss Harward, daughter of the Dean of Exeter. Later in the Haward family the name “Blake” was used as a middle name (namely the monumental inscriptions at Plymtree as noted in the following website:
http://www.plymtree.org.uk/st-john-the-baptist/churchyard-and-monument-inscriptions
Does this will relate at all to the will of Richard Blake, merchant, Exeter probated 22 Jan 1702/03. He died childless but is this the same family whom I suspect are from the Somerset family?
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/08/will-of-richard-blake-merchant-exeter.html
This a rather recent find on the medieval genealogy site:
CP 25/1/45/72, number 56.
County: Devon.
Place: Westminster.
Date: Two weeks from Easter, 6 Henry [IV] [3 May 1405].
Parties: Richard Blake, querent, and Robert Blake and Englisa (or Euglisa), his wife, deforciants.
Property: 1 messuage and 23 acres of land in Haccombe and Combe.
Action: Plea of covenant.
Agreement: Robert and Englisa have acknowledged the tenements to be the right of Richard, as those which he has of their gift.
For this: Richard has granted to Robert and Englisa the tenements and has rendered them to them in the court, to hold to Robert and Englisa and the heirs of the body of Robert, of the chief lords for ever. In default of such heirs, successive remainders (1) to Thomasia, daughter of Richard Blake, and the heirs of her body, (2) to John Wodelond' and Edith, his wife, and the heirs of their bodies and (3) to the right heirs of Robert.
Standardised forms of names. (These are tentative suggestions, intended only as a finding aid.)
Persons: Richard Blake, Robert Blake, Englisa Blake (or Euglisa Blake), Thomasia Blake, John Woodland, Edith Woodland
Places: Haccombe, Combeinteignhead (in Haccombe)
http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/fines/abstracts/CP_25_1_45_72.shtml
Is this perhaps the Blake family of Coombe found in the Visitation of Cornwall? An abstract thought at this point in time but did not want to lose the reference. The visitation begins with John Blake of Comb and Elizabeth Lugar of Modburye and their son John. There isn’t a Richard in this line however but the reference appeared when I searched for “Richard Blake” + Plymtree on Google.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 12 Aug 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1943/439
Testator: Sarah Blake, Spinster
Place: Cottleigh near Honiton, Devon, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 27 Jun 1840, probated 27 Apr 1841
Condition: 18th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Sarah
[Margin]: Blake
[Margin]: 10
1 This is the last Will and Testament
2 of me Sarah Blake of Cottleigh near Honniton in the County
3 of Devon Spinster First I direct all my just debts funeral and testamenta-
4 ry expences to be fully paid and satisfied then I give and bequeath unto
5 my sister Elizabeth Genge wife of Thomas Genge of Shadwell in then
6 County of Middlesex Vintner all my cloathes linen and wearing ap-
7 parel of every description whatsoever and I direct my Executrix herein
8 after named to collect get in and receive all my money and Personal
9 Estate whatsoever and wheresoever and place the same out at interest in the public
10 funds or on other good security and I direct that the interest thereof shall
11 accumulate until the death of my Father Richard Blake of Cottleigh afore-
12 said unless he the said Richard Blake fall into misfortunes and be with
13 out the means of support then I direct that the interest of the money then
14 invested shall be paid to him during his life and after his decease I
15 give and bequeath unto my said sister Elizabeth Genge the sum of
16 twenty pounds part of the said stock monies and accumulations and as
17 to all the rest residue and remainder of the said stock monies and accumu-
18 lations I give and bequeath the same equally to be divided between my
19 brothers and sister Robert Blake Humphrey Blake Richard Blake and
20 the said Elizabeth Genge to be paid to them as soon after the decease of
21 my said father as conveniently can be and I hereby nominate con-
22 statute and appoint my said sister the said Elizabeth Genge sole
23 Executrix of this my will In witness whereof I the said Sarah Blake
24 the testatrix above named have to this my last Will and Testament
25 set my hand this twenty seventh day of June in the year of our Lord
26 One thousand eight hundred and forty
27 I gave to my Nether Charles Blake five pounds to be paid him at the
28 age of twenty one or after the deth of my Father Sarah Blake Signed
29 published and declared by the said Sarah Blake the testatrix above
30 named as and for her last Will and Testament in the presence of us who
31 in her presence at her request and in the presence of each other have
32 subscribed our Names as Witnesses thereto Henry North Mary
33 Bromfeild Jane Bucke Robert Hale
34 In the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
35 In the Goods of Sarah Blake Spinster deceased
36 Appeared Personally Mary Bromfield the
37 wife of William Bromfield of the parish of Cottleigh in the Colunty of
38 Devon Miller and made oath that she is one of the subscribed witness-
39 ses to the execution of the last Will and Testament now hereunto annex-
40 ed of Sarah Blake late of Cotleigh near Honiton in the County of Devon
41 Spinster deceased the said Will being now marked “No 1” and beginning
42 thus “This is the last Will and Testament of me Sarah Blake of Cottleigh
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43 near Honiton in the County of Devon Spinster “ending thus “In
44 witness whereof the said Sarah Blake the testatrix above named in
45 have to this my last Will and Testament set my hand this twenty
46 seventh day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
47 and forty and being thus subscribed Sarah Blake” and the deponent
48 having now carefully viewed and observed the said Will but more
49 particularly the following obliterations therein and addition thereto to
50 with the words “all my cloathes linen and wearing apparel of every
51 description whatsoever” obliterated by being ran through as with a pen
52 in the seventh and eighth lines from the top of the first side of the said
53 will the word twenty in the date at the foot of said Will appearing
54 to have been misspelt or to have been converted from some other word
55 and lastly the following words appearing to be written at the end of the
56 said will to wit “I gave to my Nether Charles Blake five pounds to
57 paid him at the age of twenty one or after the death of my Father”
58 this Appearer does depose that the said obliterations in and addition to
59 the said Will were respectively so made and done previously to the exe-
60 cution of the said Will by the said testatrix that the said testatrix so executed
61 her said Will on the twenty seventh day of the Month of June in the
62 year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty being the day
63 on which the same bears date and the same is now in all res-
64 pects in the very same plight and condition as when so executed by
65 the said Sarah Blake Spinster the testatrix deceased as aforesaid
66 Mary Bromfeild On Thursday the fifteenth day of April in the
67 year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty one the said
68 Mary Bromfield was duly sworn to the truth of the aforegoing affi-
69 davit by virtue of the annexed Commission Before me William
70 Michell Rector of Cotleigh in the County of Devon Commissioner
71 Proved at London 27th April 1841 before the Worsful August Frederick Bayford Dr of Laws and Surrogate by the Oath
72 of Elizabeth Genge Wife of Thomas Genge the sister the sole Executrix
73 to whom Admon was granted having been first sworn
74 duly to administer.
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