Checked for Valentina Taylor and she is perhaps baptized 13 Aug 1777 at Bath Abbey, Bath daughter of William and Valentina Taylor.
Children of William and Valentina Taylor baptized at Bath Abbey, Bath, Somerset:
Ann baptized 18 Jan 1768
Elizabeth baptized 1 Jun 1769 - not mentioned in the will
Mary baptized 12 Dec 1770
Julia baptized 30 Jun 1773
Harriott baptized 28 Feb 1776 - not mentioned in the will
Valentina baptized 13 Aug 1777
William Lee baptized 23 May 1780 - not mentioned in the will
Marriage of Mr William Taylor bookseller of Bath and Miss Valentina Blake, daughter of Mr Blake apothecary, at St James Church, Bath, 5 Feb 1767. They were married by license and the witnesses were Ann Blake and Ann Wingrove. (Find my past website)
A rather interesting item from Dictionary of Canadian Biography (http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/blake_charles_5E.html) is Charles Blake who was an army officer, surgeon, apothecary, landowner, office holder and businessman born 13 Aug 1746 in Bath, England, son of John Blake. He lived his life in Canada marrying Mary Sunderland 12 Apr 1783 in Montreal and then 31 Mar 1804 he married Harriet Antill also in Montreal. From this marriage two daughters and Charles died in Montreal 22 Apr 1810. His appointment was 3 Jun 1770 to the 54th Regiment of Foot and later transferred to the 34th Foot and he arrived in the province of Quebec in the spring of 1776 with the troops under Major General John Burgoyne (this is the American Revolutionary War) and he continued in this capacity until the end of the war(1783). There is more information on him in the article but one is left to wonder is this the same family. Is Charles a brother to John, Anne and Valentina? I shall have to investigate this Blake family in Canada as there were two daughters born although I do not take that past their marriage and possibly the names of their children if more than 100 years ago.
An amazing discovery and I wonder if I can relate Charles back to John Blake and his sister Anne. But definitely this John Blake, testator, is uncle to the Taylor children mentioned in his will.
There was an Anna Blake baptized 17 Apr 1741 at Bath Abbey, Bath daughter of John Blake (born 16 Mar 1741).
There was a John Blake married to Betty Nernum 25 Jun 1738 at Abbey or Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Bath, Somerset (Family Search).
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 11 Oct 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1622/299
Testator: John Blake, Gentleman
Place: Bath, Somerset, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 10 Jan 1809, probated 20 Nov 1819
Condition: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: John
[Margin]: Blake
[Margin]: 9
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 I John Blake of the parish of St James in the City of Bath
3 Gent[lma]n do make being of sound mind memory and understanding my
4 Last Will and Testament I give devise and bequeath to my friends
5 Thomas King of Walcot Place Statuary and Thomas George of the
6 City of Bath hosier etc all that my freehold messuage tenement or
7 dwelling house situate in Duke Street in the said City of Bath and
8 in which I now reside together with all the Offices and Garden
9 adjoining to and belonging to the same and also all my present
10 Effects
11 ever and wheresoever of what nature kind and quality soever the same
12 may be upon trust nevertheless to the intent and purpose that they
13 the said Thomas King and Thomas George do suffer and permit
14 my Sister Anne Blake to reside and dwell in the said house for
15 and during the term of her natural life and to have the use of the
16 furniture plate china and all other the household Utensils of every
17 description and the prints and pictures which shall be in the said
18 house at the time of my decease and at and after the decease of
19 my said Sister Anne Blake then to convey and transfer the said
20 dwelling house together with all the said furniture plate china
21 prints and pictures which shall be in the said house at the
22 time of my decease and at and after the decease of my said Sister
23 Anne Blake Then to convey and transfer the said dwelling house together
24 with all the said furniture plate china and all other the household
25 utensils of every description and the prints and pictures and whatever
26 may belong to the said dwelling house unto Julia Taylor daughter
27 of William Taylor late of the City of Bath Book seller deceased or unto
28 the heirs executors or administrators of her the said Julia Taylor to
29 have and to hold the same in fee for ever from and after the decease
30 of my said Sister Anne Blake and upon trust to receive as the same
31 shall or may become due and paid all interest arising from my
32 Personal property whether from Stock vested and standing in my
33 name in the public funds or from bonds notes or other securities and
34 to pay over the same from time as the same shall be received to
35 my said Sister Anne Blake for her sole use and benefit and on
36 further trust to call in sell and transfer and to reinvest in Government or
37 other security all sums as they my said Executors shall in their
38 discretion think meet and right so to do and after paying all my
39 just debts and funeral expences and which I hereby require and
40 direct my said Executors to do as soon as may be after my decease
41 and with the first money of my property that shall come into their
42 hands
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43 hands and after the decease of my said Sister Anne Blake I give and
44 bequeath to Anne Savage Mary Taylor Valentina Taylor Julia
45 Taylor daughters of the aforesaid William Taylor the residue of all
46 my property of whatever kind whether arising from money in the funds
47 Government Securities bonds notes etc I may at that time be possessed
48 jointly and equally divided between the aforesaid Anna Taylor Mary
49 Taylor Valentina Taylor and Julia Taylor to be paid to them or to
50 their representatives or assigns within six months after the decease of
51 my said Sister and my will is and I do further direct that if either of
52 the abovenamed Legatees Anna Mary Valentina or Julia shall die
53 in the lifetime of my said Sister that then and in that case the legacy
54 of her the legatee shall go too be paid to the sole survivor and further
55 it is my will that my said Executors and the survivor of them shall
56 and may lawfully out of my said Estate and property (and for which
57 express purpose I bind and make answerable all my Estate and property
58 Real and personal) pay and reimburse themselves or himself all such
59 costs charges and expences as they shall be at pay sustain or be put
60 to in and about the execution of this my Will and the trusts hereby in
61 them reposed and that they or either of them shall not be answerable
62 the one for the other nor for any loss or losses which may happen
63 to my Estate or property so bequeathed so as such losses happen without
64 their wilful neglect or default and I do give and bequeath to my Executors
65 to each of them the sum of ten pounds as a trifling but sincere proof
66 and memorial of my regard for them and for their trouble in the
67 execution of this my Will and I do hereby nominate constitute and
68 appoint the said Thomas King and Thomas George joint Executors
69 of this my Will and I do hereby revoke all other Wills and Codicils by
70 me made heretofore In Witness whereof I have to this my Will
71 contained in this sheet of paper to the first part thereof set my name
72 and hereunto my hand and seal this tenth of January Eighteen
73 hundred and nine John Blake Signed sealed published
74 and declared by the said John Blake as and for his last Will and
75 Testament in the presence of us who at his request and in the
76 presence of each other have subscribed our names as Witnesses
77 John Taylor hatter William Whitton hatter Tho[ma]s
78 Parker hosier Bath
79 On the 20th November 1819 Administration (with the will annexed)
80 of the Goods etc of John Blake late of the Parish of St James in the
81 City of Bath deceased was granted to Anna (in the Will written
82 Anne) Savage, Wife of George John Savage) the Niece and one of the
83 Residuary Legatees named in the said Will having been first sworn
84 by Commission duly to administer Thomas King and Thomas George
85 the executors and Residuary Legatees in Trust named in the said Will having first
86 renounced as well the Probate and execution thereof as Letters of
87 administration with the said Will annexed of the Goods of the said
88 deceased Anne Blake Spinster the Sister the Universal Legatee for life
89 named in the said Will having first renounced the Letters of Adminis-
90 tration with the said Will annexed of the Goods of the said deceased.
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