The testator, Thomas Blake, is named as a Baker and Yeoman of Sturmer, Essex. Sturmer is 14 miles from Bocking and Braintree. There was a Barnabas Blake family at Bocking namely Barnabas Blake married to Hannah Barnard 26 Sep 1751 at St Mary the Virgin, Bocking. Is Thomas a Brother to this Barnabas Blake? Barnabas was also a baker. He left a will dated prior to 20 Dec 1800 when he was buried at St Mary the Virgin in Bocking. This will transcription can be found on Ancestry in the tree of Johnaowen and others. However this Barnabas does not have children Thomas and Elizabeth so is likely a separate Blake family from this one. Barnabas seemed like an unusual forename but obviously not. I did not find any other Barnabas Blake that I could attach to this family.
Names mentioned in the will:
Thomas Blake, Testator, baker and yeoman, Sturmer, Essex
Elizabeth Blake, wife, executrix
Barnabas Blake, eldest brother
Thomas Blake, nephew, son of Barnabas
Elizabeth Blake, niece, daughter of Barnabas
Mary Bannister, niece
Ann Fraser, sister, Debenham, Essex
Sarah Ling, sister
John Challis, cousin, stone cutter?, Braintree
John Purkiss, executor
Richard Webb, witness
Thomas Mason, witness
Ann Stubbin, witness
No success in sorting this line out at the moment.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 9 Apr 2014
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1360/118
Testator: Thomas Blake, Baker and Yeoman
Place: Sturmer, Essex, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 15 May 1800, probated 10 Jul 1801
Condition: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Thomas
[Margin]: Blake
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 I Thomas Blake of the parish of Sturmer in the County
3 of Essex Baker and Yeoman being weak in body but
4 of Sound and disposing mind memory and understanding
5 do make and ordain this to be my Last Will and
6 Testament in manner and form following (viz)
7 First and principally I commend my Soul into the
8 hands of Almighty God my heavenly Creator and my
9 body I Commit to the Earth to be decently buried
10 by the order and at the discretion of my Executors
11 herein after named and First I give devise and
12 bequeath unto Elizabeth my Loving Wife all the
13 Income of my real and personal Estate which I
14 leave after my decease with all the Effects that to
15 ine belongeth or appertaineth and my Will is the
16 same shall be Sold within one Year after my
17 decease by my Executors and the Income or Interest
18 thereof I give as aforesaid to my Loving Wife during
19 the term of her natural life and after her
20 decease I give and bequeath unto my Eldest Brother
21 Namely Barnabas Blake Five pounds Also to
22 his two children namely Thomas and Elizabeth
23 twenty pounds each Also to my Neice Mary
24 Bannister the Sum of Fifty pounds Also to the Four
25 Children of my Sister Ann Frazer of Debenham the
26 Sum of twenty pounds each share and share alike
27 also to my Sister Sarah Ling the Sum of twenty pounds
28 Also to my Cousin John Challis of Braintree in Essex
29 the Sum of ten pounds my Will is he should fix
30 me a stone as soon as Convenient after my decease
31 and the rest and Residue that remain after all my
32 just debts Funeral Charges with the probate of this
33 my last Will and Testament are paid off I give
34 and bequeath unto all my before mentioned Legatees
35 to be divided share and share alike and Lastly
36 I Nominate and appoint Mr John Purkiss
37 with Elizabeth my Wife to be the Executors of this
38 my Last Will revoking all others before Witness
39 I have set my hand and affixt my Seal this
40 2nd day of May One thousand Eight hundred 1800
41 Tho[mas] Blake Signed Sealed and declared to
42 be the Last Will and Testament of Mr. T Blake
43 in his presence and in the presence of Each of us
44 Rich[ar]d Webb Tho[ma]s Masons Mark X Ann
45 Stubbins Mark X
46 I Thomas Blake do
47 annex and Join this for a Codicil to my Will dated
48 May the 2nd 1800 and I give and bequeath unto Elizabeth
49 my Wife therein mentioned the Sum of twenty
50 pounds besides the Income or Interest of all my Estate
51 and Effects therein resited Also I give unto my Sister
52 Allice Frazer of Debenham the Sum of ten pounds
53 Witness my hand this 15 day of May 1800 Thos
54 Blakes Mark X John Purks R[ichar]d Webb
55 13 th May 1801
56 On which day appeared personally Richard Webb
57 of Havershill in the County of Suffolk Baker one of
58 the Subscribing Witnesses to the Last Will and
60 Testament of Thomas Blake late of Sturmer in
61 the County of Essex deceased with a Codicil thereto
62 and made oath that on the Second day of May One
63 thousand Eight hundred he the appearer together
64 with Thomas Mason and Ann Stubbins did see
65 the said deceased Sign Seal publish and declare the
66 paper Writing now here unto annexed beginning
67 thus In the Name of God Amen I Thomas Blake of
68 the parish of Sturmer in the County of Essex Baker
69 and Yeoman ending thus before Witnesses I have
70 set my hand and affixt my Seal this 2nd Day of
71 May One thousand Eight hundred 1800 and thus
72 Subscribed Thos Blake as and for his last
73 Will and Testament and he then Subscribed his
74 Name thereto as Witness and the said Thomas
75 Mason and Ann Stubbins made their Marks
76 thereto and he further saith having fir Carefully
77 viewed and perused the said Will so here unto
78 annexed he saith that the word Five written upon
79 an obliteration after the Name Barnabas Blake
80 in the thirteenth Line also the Words Elizabeth
81 and Niece severally written on Erasures in the
82 Fourteenth line from the top of the said Will were
83 severally so made written and done previous
84 to the deceased executing the said Will in the
85 presence of this deponent and the other Subscribing
86 Witnesses and he Lastly saith that the said
87 Will is in every respect in the same plight and
88 condition as when executed by the deceased in
89 manner before set Forth Rich[ar]d Webb The same
90 day the said Richard Webb was duly sworn to
91 the truth of this affidavit Before me C: Hayward
92 Commiss[ione]r
93 This Will was proved at London with a
94 Codicil the tenth day of July in the year of Our
95 Lord One thousand Eight hundred and One before
96 the Right honorable Sir William Wynne Knight
97 doctor of Laws Master Keeper or Commissary of
98 the Prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully
99 constituted by the Oath of John Purks one of the
100 Executors named in the said Will to whom Admon
101 was granted of all and Singular the Goods Chattles
102 and Credits of the said deceased having been First
103 Sworn duly to administer power reserved of
104 making the like grant to Elizabeth Blake Widow
105 the Relict and the other Executor named in the
106 said Will when she shall apply for the same
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