Lately, I have been thinking about all this genealogy I have been doing the past ten years. Perhaps it is a one decade thing that one would think back and analyze progress in whatever you are doing.
Along with thinking about progress, I started to think about my one name studies and what I was actually doing.
The Pincombe one name study has ground to a halt somewhat as I have reached a rather perplexing stage. The Pinkham yDNA results from individuals with paper trails back to the 1600s and the one result I have from a 5th cousin do not match (this individual did not join the project nor does he respond to emails but the details which he placed on ysearch determine him to be my 5th cousin). They do not even come close. The one belongs to R-M269 and the two Pinkham themselves do not match with one being I-M170 and the other I-M223. The one Pinkham has traced his line back and believes there may have been an adoption so that is perhaps explained. Nevertheless the other Pinkham result has a paper trail back to the 1600s. I can trace Pincombe/Pencombe back to the 1400s. The original researchers (one American and one British) of this one name study (I inherited it) had put the Pincombe and Pinkham families together on a number of charts showing these names to be quite interchangeable. This actually never occurs in my lines in England (they are always Pincombe/Pincomb/Pencomb). So what have I accomplished in my eight years on the Pincombe family? I do have a number of trees but they do not link. I do have quite a bit of information on the North Molton/South Molton/Bishops Nympton Pincombe family. I have some on the Barnstaple/Bideford Pincombe family and I have 14 charts put together by the earlier researchers. I have collected all the BMDs for the Pincombe family in Free BMD and I have collected a lot of the census material. I transcribed a number of registers and have all of that information for Pincombe. Still to do Rose Ash, Merton, North Molton and South Molton but I do own the fiche and have extracted Pincombe information. If I were starting this study from scratch would I have put the Pincombe and Pinkham families together? Both of the earlier researchers had the surname Pinkham and could this have perhaps influenced their thoughts on linking these two families as having a common ancestry? Pincombe/Pinkham is a singleton name of that I am quite convinced. Fortunately my mother knew her family line back a long ways which was exceedingly helpful when I discovered that the chart held at the Society of Genealogists as part of the original Pincombe/Pinkham one name study was incorrect for my family line. I now have all the documents taking this line back at Bishops Nympton to the late 1500s and the wills of the Pincombe family let me link back to the late 1400s when the Visitation of Devon 1620 tells me that this line arrived at North Molton in 1485 and my suspicion is that they were from Herefordshire and the parish of Pencombe there. Linking the Thomas Pencombe in those records with the Pencombe who came to North Molton still remains to be done.
So my legacy in the Pincombe one name study may be a somewhat cloudy one - I appear to be disconnecting the earlier work. The question to my mind is should I do that? The names Pincombe and Pinkham have been used interchangeably on this side of the Atlantic. My great grandfather's death obit shows him as a Pinkham. Sometimes the census also showed that spelling and certainly that item as an error passed down in the family as they were quite horrified to be mispelled! I suspect my mother could spell her name almost as her first word so keen was this family on having their name spelled correctly! I want to try to move forward once again with this study but I think I need to change the focus in my mind. I suspect I need to look at the early records once again and decide if indeed this study must expand to include Tingcomb and other variants but I do not want to lose sight of my earlier goal to record the Pincombe family as I know it.
So what is my legacy to this study? I have transcribed all of the wills and there are not that many. I have collected all the BMDs and linked them into family groups for the most part. I need to collect all the earlier baptismal/marriage/burial records. I need to record the tax records that I have collected and will blog on them. They are only really helpful for my lines and the Barnstaple/Bideford lines. I need to construct family trees and may do a few interchanged with Blake family trees once I select a day of the week to do family tree reconstruction (probably Saturday). Monday has been reserved for my Ancestor a week (working on my 4x great grandparents - Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, unknown, Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight, Vincent, Butt, Durnford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterel, Bartlett, Alderman, Ann (unknown), Sherwood, unknown, Habberfield, Collings, Rawlings, Tanner, Dove, Morgan, Lywood, Canham, unknown, Peck, Pincombe, Charley, Rowcliffe, Pearse, Rew, Moggridge, Siderfin, Kent, Gray, Hilton, Cobb, Sproxton, Routledge, Tweddle, Routledge, Routledge, (unknown) Buller, unknown, Beard, Hemsley, Welch, Brockhouse, Cheatle, Woodcock, unknown Taylor, unknown, Harborne, Lewis, Roberts, Croxall, Lawley, unknown - with only 49 known and 5 possibles. My tree can be seen to have pedigree collapse as I have a few second cousin marriages and indeed there are two Knights and three Routledges. Further back I have two Carters and two Blakes.
But again I wonder what will be my Legacy to the Pincombe one name study. It has not yet congealed in my mind. I think it will come with time. Certainly I have collected a lot of pictures for my line and perhaps that will be my legacy to see that my line is correct in the whole scheme of things. When I visited the Society of Genealogists they were unable to locate the large charts of which copies were sent to me a while ago. That has jogged my memory and I will send them electronic images of the charts. Do I change the one that is wrong? I need to think about that. Having things in print is a really dicey thing when the information is incorrect. I am tempted to make the change and record it as such on the chart before I send it back. But I may wait to do that until I have all of my charts completed. A slow and tedious process that has already been six years in the process. So perhaps I have seen my legacy, correct what I have found to be incorrect. Add to the existing charts and let a future researcher take up the mantle and determine the roots of Pincombe and Pinkham and the other possible derivatives of these two surnames. But in the meantime I shall pursue the connection between Pencombe in Devon in 1485 and Thomas Pencombe in Bromyord near Pencombe, Herefordshire found on the Calendar of Patent Rolls in 1395:
1395 20 May Westminster (membrane 5)
Licence, for 100 s. paid in the hanaper by Philip Webbe, chaplain of a
chantry of St. Mary in the parish church of Bromyord, for the alienation
in mortmain by John Falke of a messuage in Bromyord, and by John
Hunte or another there, and by Thomas Pencombe and Robert Stanford
of five messuages and half an acre of meadow in the same place, not held in
chief, to the said chaplain and his successors, in aid of their maintenance.
18 Richard II, volume 5, page 582
Bromyord is 4 miles ENE of Pencombe.
I have not purposely left the Blake one name study to the end but it always seems better to write about Pincombe first because I feel more successful with Blake even though I have barely scratched the surface with this great old family name. And it is an old name. I can find it in the 1200s and hope to discover more about this surname in that time period and earlier. It would be exciting to discover the original carrier of the surname in each of the known Blake lines in the Blake yDNA study. That is my focus; I continue to collect modern data on the Blake family and will be doing family trees but my deep focus is backwards in time to the originators of each of the distinct Blake lines. One is already known - Richard Caddell aka Blake - and I will include part of his tree as well but it will be from Martin Blake's well known two volume set on the Galway Blake family. Was Richard le Blak (merchant from Rouen, Normandy applying to go to market in 1274) the founder of the Blake family at Calne? That will be carefully looked at on the day that I do his tree which has been created by the College of Arms back in 1690 with additions up to 1740. Was the founder of my line at Andover John le Blake or Roger le Blake - who were they? They lived in the 1200s as well but in the Andover area.
My legacy to the Blake family will definitely be the transcription of wills; as many as I am able to do before I set aside my key board which may be much longer than I can even imagine. I tend to work on a ten year plan in that regard. I thought I would do genealogy for ten years and as that period of time has now come and gone I am still busy at the keyboard and thinking that another ten years of genealogy seems like a reasonable way to pursue my retirement. But I would like to enhance that legacy somewhat with the addition of family trees with documentation to prove the connecting lines. The other part of the legacy will be the accumulation of data in excel spread sheets of the material that I am unable to link together along with the material that is linked together. I like colours and as I link people into the trees I believe I shall colour them and then label their line in the file with the family tree number. Green means that they are in a tree and black means they are not yet. Red will mean I have a query about that individual in my mind and perhaps I shall use purple for queries that people send to me about individual Blake members where I am given data. Now what to do with these family trees that I produce? I think again I should put them into electronic books and eventually put that material up on InternetArchive as well if they do so permit. That way I can readily include the source. As more and more data comes online finding those sources is going to be easier and easier.
I will end all this thought on Legacies and one name studies with my still awesome finding. I knew that my great grandfather Buller had served in the Army during the 1870s/1880s (not after 1885) and had been injured in the leg as he walked with a limp (and cane in later life). But I could not find any information for him in the National Archives (UK) website, I hired a researcher to check out records for my great grandfather but he was unable to locate anything. Then Find My Past moved to their new search engine and moved me over to that new search engine page. Somewhat absentmindedly I searched on Edwin Denner Buller and wow there he was on a discharge register from Chelsea in 1882. Probably injured during the first Boer War and can look into that more when we are next at Kew but family lore had been clarified. Although the Find My Past website can be somewhat annoying as I liked the lists that were produced earlier, I am willing to wait while they work through their changes and improve the output. The gift of that record will keep me firmly attached to that record set for quite a while. I have acquired a lot of information from Find My Past anyway and I am willing to wait out the change.
My third project, and I think it will be Wednesdays when I do this particular one, will be looking at the 3x great grandparents of our daughter and son in law. I had written 4x earlier but I think I will concentrate on the 3x great grandparents. That is 64 individuals (32 are known on my son in law's side, on my husband's side all 16 are known and on my side 14 are known and 2 are possibles) and includes a lot of varied ancestry - our son in law's ancestry which is mostly French Canadian and French before that with a small number of other European nationalities including two English; mine which is English (from English counties only), and my husband which is mostly early Colonial America (Dutch, French Huguenot, Germanic, and English) with German and English later to Canada in the 1800s. This gives me a chance to look again at the French Canadian ancestry and gives some more attention to my husband's ancestry although he also blogs on his research. Since I will also be working on my 4x great grandparents and this Wednesday study will look at my 16 2x great grandparents, I will concentrate on proving and extending the knowledge of the 2x and 3x great grandparents for my lines. My great grandparents can all be found on my website:
http://www.kipp-blake-families.ca/elizabethmain.htm
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Gardening and new ways to look at my family lines
Gardening is once again taking up most of my time these days. I had thought I could mix the two but the short space between winter and summer here has ended up eating greatly into my transcription time!
Really nice to see the warm summer rays coming into our life after a rather harsh winter though. I will not be posting wills for a few weeks but may be writing short posts on other topics.
I am thinking of a new challenge for myself of constructing one Blake family tree a week taking census and matching it up with a Blake will for some of the counties where I have completed the wills. More on that notion to come and it would start in September.
A second challenge has emerged from reading the rootsweb list for the Guild of one name studies. It is the idea of doing an Ancestor a week. That would be my ancestors. With 52 weeks in the year it would be neat to do 52 of my 64 four times great grandparents or my grandparents 2x great grandparents. Looking at these grandparents:
Samuel George Blake and I know 14 of his 16 2x great grandparents
Ada Bessie Cotterill Rawlings and I know 13 of her 16 2x great grandparents
John Routledge Pincombe and I know all 16 of his 2x great grandparents
Ellen Rosina Buller and I know six for sure and 5 probables of her 2x great grandparents
That would give me 49 for sure and perhaps by the time I am into the last three weeks I might be surer of my maternal grandmother's mother's parents. I could then go to my 5x great grandparents for whom I would then be looking at my great grandparents 2x great grandparents. Looking at these great grandparents:
Edward Blake and I know 11 of his 16 2x great grandparents
Maria Jane Knight and I know 14 of her 16 2x great grandparents
George Cotterill and I know 6 of his 16 2x great grandparents
Elizabeth Rawlings and I know 9 of her 16 2x great grandparents
William Robert Pincombe and I know 14 of his 16 2x great grandparents
Grace Gray and I know 15 of her 16 2x great grandparents
Edwin Denner Buller and I know 12 of his 16 2x great grandparents
Ellen Taylor and I have 5 probable of her 16 2x great grandparents
This would then give me 81 5x great grandparents and 5 probable so about 1.5 years of weekly posts on these individuals and again I might, whilst I am working on these individuals on their day, be able to push back the line.
Although I am mostly dedicated to my one name studies of Blake and Pincombe, I would like to add in this day to my study week. I think I shall do this blog on Monday mornings.
I also want to work on my French Canadian research and I am thinking of doing 1 blog a week on the 4x great grandparents for whom I know all of these individuals with the exception of two probables for my great grandmother Ellen Taylor. That would get me back into my French Canadian research and give some exposure to my husband's lines on this blog as well as his own blog
http://americancanadianancestors.blogspot.ca/
Adding this in will bring me back to where I was one year ago working away on my own lines my son in law's French Canadian families a little each day! The year has passed quickly with some really interesting discoveries and I hope more to come. I will begin this blog at the beginning of July when the garden work has settled down and time becomes more available for such new pursuits. I think that I shall do this blog on Friday mornings.
Although it might be interesting to start a new blog for each of these two items I am going to just stay with my one blog which was aptly named English Research from Canada but has the clarifying lines about my French Canadian Research and if I find that I am doing quite a bit of reporting on my husband's lines (which he already blogs) I may add in a short line to my preamble about my blog.
More on all of this later as I start to plan how to get into these three challenges for myself - a Blake family tree once a week, a once a week blog on my 4x great grandparents and a once a week blog on the overall ancestry at the 4x great grandparent level working on French Canadian for my son in law/American-Canadian for my husband/primarily English for my own. There is quite a mixture in all of this as there is quite a bit of French in my husband's line and surprisingly on Family Finder at FT DNA one of my best matches is with an individual who has French Canadian ancestry almost totally! Must write to him and see if we can find the linkage as he is rated as a 2nd to 4th cousin.
Really nice to see the warm summer rays coming into our life after a rather harsh winter though. I will not be posting wills for a few weeks but may be writing short posts on other topics.
I am thinking of a new challenge for myself of constructing one Blake family tree a week taking census and matching it up with a Blake will for some of the counties where I have completed the wills. More on that notion to come and it would start in September.
A second challenge has emerged from reading the rootsweb list for the Guild of one name studies. It is the idea of doing an Ancestor a week. That would be my ancestors. With 52 weeks in the year it would be neat to do 52 of my 64 four times great grandparents or my grandparents 2x great grandparents. Looking at these grandparents:
Samuel George Blake and I know 14 of his 16 2x great grandparents
Ada Bessie Cotterill Rawlings and I know 13 of her 16 2x great grandparents
John Routledge Pincombe and I know all 16 of his 2x great grandparents
Ellen Rosina Buller and I know six for sure and 5 probables of her 2x great grandparents
That would give me 49 for sure and perhaps by the time I am into the last three weeks I might be surer of my maternal grandmother's mother's parents. I could then go to my 5x great grandparents for whom I would then be looking at my great grandparents 2x great grandparents. Looking at these great grandparents:
Edward Blake and I know 11 of his 16 2x great grandparents
Maria Jane Knight and I know 14 of her 16 2x great grandparents
George Cotterill and I know 6 of his 16 2x great grandparents
Elizabeth Rawlings and I know 9 of her 16 2x great grandparents
William Robert Pincombe and I know 14 of his 16 2x great grandparents
Grace Gray and I know 15 of her 16 2x great grandparents
Edwin Denner Buller and I know 12 of his 16 2x great grandparents
Ellen Taylor and I have 5 probable of her 16 2x great grandparents
This would then give me 81 5x great grandparents and 5 probable so about 1.5 years of weekly posts on these individuals and again I might, whilst I am working on these individuals on their day, be able to push back the line.
Although I am mostly dedicated to my one name studies of Blake and Pincombe, I would like to add in this day to my study week. I think I shall do this blog on Monday mornings.
I also want to work on my French Canadian research and I am thinking of doing 1 blog a week on the 4x great grandparents for whom I know all of these individuals with the exception of two probables for my great grandmother Ellen Taylor. That would get me back into my French Canadian research and give some exposure to my husband's lines on this blog as well as his own blog
http://americancanadianancestors.blogspot.ca/
Adding this in will bring me back to where I was one year ago working away on my own lines my son in law's French Canadian families a little each day! The year has passed quickly with some really interesting discoveries and I hope more to come. I will begin this blog at the beginning of July when the garden work has settled down and time becomes more available for such new pursuits. I think that I shall do this blog on Friday mornings.
Although it might be interesting to start a new blog for each of these two items I am going to just stay with my one blog which was aptly named English Research from Canada but has the clarifying lines about my French Canadian Research and if I find that I am doing quite a bit of reporting on my husband's lines (which he already blogs) I may add in a short line to my preamble about my blog.
More on all of this later as I start to plan how to get into these three challenges for myself - a Blake family tree once a week, a once a week blog on my 4x great grandparents and a once a week blog on the overall ancestry at the 4x great grandparent level working on French Canadian for my son in law/American-Canadian for my husband/primarily English for my own. There is quite a mixture in all of this as there is quite a bit of French in my husband's line and surprisingly on Family Finder at FT DNA one of my best matches is with an individual who has French Canadian ancestry almost totally! Must write to him and see if we can find the linkage as he is rated as a 2nd to 4th cousin.
Will of William Blake, gentleman, Bristol, Gloucestershire - The National Archives PROB 11/2175/217, probated 9 Jul 1853
William Blake, gentleman, Saint Michaels Hill, Bristol is the testator. He does not name any family in this will.
His executrix Hester Manfield Rogers is possibly Hester Rogers, house keeper to William Jones who kept a lodging house on Park Lane. She was born at Nailsea Somerset and was 45 years of age.
His witness Stephen Shallard is living at 66 Upper Church Lane St Michaels Parish and he was 55 years of age and a pattern maker on the 1851 census born at Bitten Gloucestershire.
On the 1841 Census there is one Blake family living in Saint Michael Parish, Salmon Street near Little Paul Street.
The Family Bible given away to Mary Jane Rogers would certainly be an interesting find!
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 15 May 2014
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/2175/217
Testator: William Blake, gentleman
Place: Parish of Saint Michael, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 2 Mar 1853, probated 9 Jul 1853
Condition: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: William
[Margin]: Blake
[Margin]: 5
1 This is the Last Will and Testament
2 of me William Blake of Saint Michaels Hill in the Parish of Saint Michael
3 in the City of Bristol Gentleman I give and bequeath unto Elanor the wife of Wil-
4 liam Coram of Paul Street Kingsdown in the City of Bristol the sum of Ten pounds
5 and I do hereby declare that the said sum shall be paid to her for her absolute use
6 notwithstanding her coverture and that her receipt alone shall be the only effectual
7 discharge to my Executrix hereinafter mentioned for the same I give unto Joseph
8 Coram of Paul Street aforesaid Accountant the sum of Five pounds I give unto
9 Mary Ann Hodges of Saint Michaels Hill aforesaid Spinster the sum of Nineteen
10 pounds ten shillings I give unto William Green of the City of Bristol Cutler the sum
11 of Five pounds I give unto Joseph Willis of Baldwin Street in the said City of
12 Bristol the sum of Five pounds I give unto Henry Lake of the Parish of Clifton in
13 the City of Bristol the sum of Five pounds I give unto Robert Gibbs of the said
14 City Accountant the sum of Five pounds I give and bequeath my large Imperial
15 Family Bible unto Mary Jane Rogers of Saint Michaels Hill aforesaid And I do
16 hereby direct the said pecuniary Legacies to be paid to the Legatees respectively within
17 three months next after my decease And as to all the rest residue and
18 remainder of my real and personal estate and effects whatsoever and wheresoever
19 after payment of my just debts funeral and testamentary expences I give devise and
20 bequeath the same unto Hester Manfield Rogers of the Parish of Saint Michael
21 aforesaid Spinster her heirs executors administrators and assigns And I do hereby ap-
22 point the said Hester Manfield Rogers sole Executrix of this my Will In witness
23 whereof I the said William Blake have to this my Will subscribed my hand this
24 Second day of March one thousand eight hundred and fifty three William
25 Blake Signed by the said Testator William Blake and acknowledged by him
26 to be his last Will and Testament in the presence of us present at the same time who
27 in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other have hereunto
28 subscribed our names as witnesses John Young Tailor St Thomas Bridge
29 Bristol Stephen Shallard Pattern Maker Upper Church Lane H__________
30 Bristol
31 Proved at London 9th July 1853 before the Judge by the oath of Hester
32 Manfield Rogers Spinster the sole Executrix to whom Admon was granted having
33 been first sworn by Comon duly to administer
His executrix Hester Manfield Rogers is possibly Hester Rogers, house keeper to William Jones who kept a lodging house on Park Lane. She was born at Nailsea Somerset and was 45 years of age.
His witness Stephen Shallard is living at 66 Upper Church Lane St Michaels Parish and he was 55 years of age and a pattern maker on the 1851 census born at Bitten Gloucestershire.
On the 1841 Census there is one Blake family living in Saint Michael Parish, Salmon Street near Little Paul Street.
The Family Bible given away to Mary Jane Rogers would certainly be an interesting find!
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 15 May 2014
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/2175/217
Testator: William Blake, gentleman
Place: Parish of Saint Michael, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 2 Mar 1853, probated 9 Jul 1853
Condition: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: William
[Margin]: Blake
[Margin]: 5
1 This is the Last Will and Testament
2 of me William Blake of Saint Michaels Hill in the Parish of Saint Michael
3 in the City of Bristol Gentleman I give and bequeath unto Elanor the wife of Wil-
4 liam Coram of Paul Street Kingsdown in the City of Bristol the sum of Ten pounds
5 and I do hereby declare that the said sum shall be paid to her for her absolute use
6 notwithstanding her coverture and that her receipt alone shall be the only effectual
7 discharge to my Executrix hereinafter mentioned for the same I give unto Joseph
8 Coram of Paul Street aforesaid Accountant the sum of Five pounds I give unto
9 Mary Ann Hodges of Saint Michaels Hill aforesaid Spinster the sum of Nineteen
10 pounds ten shillings I give unto William Green of the City of Bristol Cutler the sum
11 of Five pounds I give unto Joseph Willis of Baldwin Street in the said City of
12 Bristol the sum of Five pounds I give unto Henry Lake of the Parish of Clifton in
13 the City of Bristol the sum of Five pounds I give unto Robert Gibbs of the said
14 City Accountant the sum of Five pounds I give and bequeath my large Imperial
15 Family Bible unto Mary Jane Rogers of Saint Michaels Hill aforesaid And I do
16 hereby direct the said pecuniary Legacies to be paid to the Legatees respectively within
17 three months next after my decease And as to all the rest residue and
18 remainder of my real and personal estate and effects whatsoever and wheresoever
19 after payment of my just debts funeral and testamentary expences I give devise and
20 bequeath the same unto Hester Manfield Rogers of the Parish of Saint Michael
21 aforesaid Spinster her heirs executors administrators and assigns And I do hereby ap-
22 point the said Hester Manfield Rogers sole Executrix of this my Will In witness
23 whereof I the said William Blake have to this my Will subscribed my hand this
24 Second day of March one thousand eight hundred and fifty three William
25 Blake Signed by the said Testator William Blake and acknowledged by him
26 to be his last Will and Testament in the presence of us present at the same time who
27 in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other have hereunto
28 subscribed our names as witnesses John Young Tailor St Thomas Bridge
29 Bristol Stephen Shallard Pattern Maker Upper Church Lane H__________
30 Bristol
31 Proved at London 9th July 1853 before the Judge by the oath of Hester
32 Manfield Rogers Spinster the sole Executrix to whom Admon was granted having
33 been first sworn by Comon duly to administer
Monday, May 19, 2014
Will of William Blake, esquire, Bristol - The National Archives PROB 11/1213/141, probated 14 Jan 1792
The testator is William Blake, esquire, of Bristol, Gloucestershire. He has been married twice as mentioned in his will. One marriage is Elizabeth Slade to William Blake 15 Dec 1765 at Bristol. Is she the second wife of William Blake with his first wife being Rebecca Milles (married in 1754 at Duloe Cornwall)? The witnesses to this will were the Milles family members.
The will of Clementia Blake, daughter of the present testator, was blogged:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2014/04/will-of-clementia-blake-spinster.html
I suspect that the transcription of the birth year for Clementia Blake is incorrect or this is not the daughter of the present testator although the will reads as if she is. She is from the younger family of the present testator so likely born after 1765 which would make her about 50 when she died.
Mary Blake married John Marsh 12 Feb 1778 at St James Bristol.
http://theplain.thornburyroots.co.uk/TP%20no10&11.htm
John Marsh - the 1766 conveyance referred to above shows John Marsh was already occupying Porch House at the time it was conveyed to him and the other of John Stone's creditors. The list of property owners made for the 'Assessment for Relief of the Poor' in 1770 shows John Marsh as being 'for late Stones' which indicates he was still in the property previously associated with the Stone family. We understand that John was an attorney at law in Thornbury. In 1763 John married Elizabeth Hollister at Almondsbury. Elizabeth was the daughter of Luke Hollister of Almondsbury. Elizabeth died in 1775. The Bath Chronicle of 12th February 1788 shows that John Marsh attorney of Thornbury then married Mary Blake the daughter of Mr Blake a merchant of Bristol. The Bath Chronicle of 20th October 1825 says that John Marsh died that day at Biddestone House in Wiltshire in his 90th year. The notice of his death adds that he resided many years near Taunton and formerly at Thornbury. The Wiltshire connection leads us to suppose that John was related to Aaron Marsh who lived at Gloucester House in Thornbury. Aaron may have been John's son.
A rather interesting item I did not notice previously. Although it does not assist in finding anything more on William, the present testator, it does mention William. Clementia mentions her sisters Rebecca Mogg, Mary Marsh and her brother William but does not mention Richard her brother or James her full brother (the others being half-siblings).
Having read William’s will now I am still contemplating whether his line is descendant of the Calne Blake line. His properties include land in Cornwall and in Devon. He is possibly the Mr. William Blake named in the will of Richard Blake, gentleman, Bristol blogged earlier:
In the writeup on that will I have mused that William, present testator, might be of the Calne Blake family which is interesting in reflection.
There is a marriage of a William Blake to Rebecca Milles 12 Jun 1754 at Duloe, Cornwall.
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2014/04/1248-blake-family-gloucestershire-notes.html
Also mentioned in the blog the baptisms of Richard 1 Dec 1760 at Bristol, a son William 3 Dec 1757 and a daughter Rebecca 21 Apr 1759 all at Bristol to William and Rebecca Blake. Only the baptism of Mary is missing. Judging by the coat of arms on the memorial table for Richard Blake husband of Anne Augusta Blake (formerly Hayward), this line uses the same coat of arms as the Blake family of Calne.
Then who is William and how does he relate to the other members of the Ambrose Blake family in Gloucestershire or does he come down from another line also related to the Blake family at Calne?
Perhaps the set of Bristol Diocese Wills will assist with this set of Blake families.
Names mentioned in the will:
William Blake, Esquire, Bristol, testator
John Smith, tenant
Richard Blake, (married), son, child of first marriage
William Blake, (married), son, child of first marriage
____ Coriton Esquire, landlord
James Blake, son, child of second marriage
Mr Higgins, brazier, tenant
Mrs Hellier, tenant
John Marsh, Esquire, son in law
Clementia Blake, daughter, child of second marriage
Mr Hall, tenant
Mr Jeremiah Osborne, trustee (not for this testator)
Benjamin Pike, coach painter, tenant
Rebecca Mogg, daughter, wife of Jacob Mogg the younger
Jacob Mogg, the younger, gentleman, son in law
Mrs Tyler, tenant
Mr Jenkins, tenant
Mary Marsh, daughter, wife of John Marsh, Esquire
Maria Marsh, grand daughter
Carolina Marsh, grand daughter
Henry Marsh, grandson
Harriott Marsh, grand daughter
Mr Biggs, tenant
Mr Room, tenant
Mr Whitby, artist
____ Crattle
Mrs Dean, tenant
Mrs Blake, tenant
Joseph Dyer, distiller, tenant
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 12 May 2014
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1213/141
Testator: William Blake, esquire
Place: Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 21 Mar 1791, probated 14 Jan 1792
Condition: 18th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: William
[Margin]: Blake
[Margin]: Esq[uie]r
1 The Last Will and Testament
2 of me William Blake of the City of Bristol Esquire made
3 the twenty first day of March one thousand seven
4 hundred and ninety one (that is to say) Whereas I
5 am seized or possessed of two Estates part of the Manor
6 of Salcomb Regis in the County of Devon which I hold
7 by Copy of Court Roll of the Dean and Chapter
8 of Exeter for Lives and Widowhoods consisting of
9 Messuages or Tenements and Lands part whereof is
10 in my own possession and other part let to John
11 Smith I give the said Copyhold Estates with their
12 Rights and appurtenances to my Son Richard Blake
13 To hold to him for his life and the life of his widow
14 according to the Custom of the said Manor and
15 after his decease I give the said Estates with their
16 Rights and appurtenances to my Son William Blake
17 To hold to him for his life and the life of his widow
18 according to the said Custom of I give and devise unto
19 my said Son Richard all and singular my Messuages
20 Lands and hereditaments called Hole in the parish
21 of Saint Veep in the County of Cornwall part
22 whereof is Freehold and other part Leasehold held of
23 _______ Coriton Esquire for ninety nine Years
24 determinable with lives To hold to my said Son
25 Richard his heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns
26 for all my Estate Term or Terms and Interest therein
27 respectively I give and devise to my Son James all those
28 three Messuages or Tenements adjoining and Garden
29 Ground behind the same with their appurtenances
30 situate in a place called Turnagain Lane leading from
31 Saint James’s Churchyard in Bridewell Bridge in the
32 parish of Saint James and City of Bristol in the
33 occupations of Mr Higgins Brazier and others and also
34 all that Messuage or Tenement with its appurtenances
35 situate on the East Side of Saint James’s Church
36 Yard in the Occupation of Mrs Hellier To hold to my
37 said Son James his heirs Executors Administrators and
38 Assigns for all my Estate and Interest therein respectively
39 and I acquit release and discharge my Son James
40 his heirs Executors and Administrators and also his Estate
41 and Effects Real and Personal from all claims and
42 demands which I my heirs Executors or Administrators
43 can or may have on him or them I give to my
44 Son Richard and Son in Law John Marsh Esquire
45 three hundred pounds upon Trust that they or the
46 Survivor of them his Executors or Administrators do
47 and shall best the same in an annuity for the
48 life and for use of my daughter Clementia Blake
49 the said annuity to be secured on Land and made
50 payable to her and her assigns by quarterly payments
51 and until such annuite shall be purchased to place
52 out the said Sum of three hundred pounds on Land
53 or Government Security in the Joint Names of my
54 said Trustees and the Interest or Dividends ensuing
55 their from shall be paid to my said Daughter I
56 give and devise to my said Daughter Clementia her
57 heirs and assigns a freehold Messuage or Tenement
58 situate on the East Side of Saint James’s Church
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60 Yard in the occupation of Mr. Hall Whereas the
61 Sum of two hundred and seventy pounds or thereabouts
62 which was placed out at Interest in the Name of
63 Mr Jeremiah Osborne a Trustee on that occasion
64 on Security of a Messuage in Kingswood Street
65 Bath now or late in the occupation of Benjamin
66 Pike Coach painter the possession of which is since
67 surrendered up to the Mortgagee also the Rents
68 received for the use of my said Daughter Clementia
69 It is my Will as far as I have any power or
70 Controul respectring the same that the Principal and
71 Interest Money due and to grow due therein shall
72 be had and received by my Executors hereinafter
73 named and paid to my said Daughter for her
74 use and benefit I give to my said Daughter
75 Clementia ten pounds per Annum during her life
76 to be paid to her and her assigns by my Son
77 Richard out of the Interest Money on his Bond
78 of Five hundred pounds given by him to me and
79 my Will and intention is that the before mentioned
80 devised and bequests to my Son James and Daughter
81 Clementia are upon Condition that each of them
82 shall hold and enjoy the same in full compensation
83 and discharge of any Claims or pretended Claim by
84 any of them upon me my heirs Executors or Admors
85 in respect to or by virtue of any Deed of Settlement
86 by me entered into for the benefit of the Children
87 or Issue of my first Marriage or otherwise and that
88 my said Son James and Daughter Clementia shall
89 on request to them made by my Executors Execute good and
90 valid Releases and Discharges in the Law to them
91 and also my Estate of all claims and demands
92 against me and my Estate upon any account
93 whatsoever and upon refusal so to do my devise and
94 bequest to them severally made and appointed by
95 this my Will shall be void and what is herein
96 given and devised to each of them I give and
97 devise to my said Son Richard and Son in Law
98 John Marsh To hold to them their heirs Executors
99 Administrators and assigns equally share and
100 share alike I give to the said Richard Blake
101 and John Marsh Five hundred pounds to be by
102 them or the Survivor his Executors or Administrators
103 vested in the publick Funds or on Land Security
104 in their Names In Trust to pay the dividends or Interest
105 thereof to my Daughter Rebecca wife of Jacob
106 Mogg the younger Gentleman during her life separate
107 from her present or any future husband and her
108 Receipt along from time to time shall be a
109 sufficient discharge for the same and after her
110 decease In Trust to pay and divide the said Sum
111 of Five hundred pounds equally between the Issue
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112 or Children of my said Daughter Rebecca at their
113 respective ages of twenty one years and in case of
114 the Death of either of them before attainment to
115 such age to the Survivors or Survivor of them and
116 in default of such Issue to such person or persons
117 said Daughter notwithstanding her Coverture shall
118 by Deed or Will give limit direct or appoint I give
119 to my said Daughter Rebecca Mogg ten pounds
120 per Annum During her life to be paid to her and
121 her Assigns by my Son Richard being the remainder
122 of the Interest Money on his said Bond of Five
123 hundred pounds and after the decease of the said
124 Clementia Blake and Rebecca Mogg I give the
125 Principal Sum of Five hundred pounds secured by
126 such Bond to my Son Richard his Executors or
127 Administrators I give and devise to my Son in Law
128 John Marsh a Freehold Messuage with inclosed
129 pieces of Garden Ground in Front of the said
130 Messuage and used therewith and appurts thereto
131 belonging situate in Dove Street in the Parish
132 of Saint James in the County of Gloucester wherein
133 I now Dwell Also a Freehold Messuage in Duke
134 Street near Kings Square Bristol in the occupation
135 of Mrs Tyler also a Messuage in Dowry Square
136 in the parish of Clifton in the said County of
137 Gloucester in the occupation of Mr Jenkins which I
138 hold for the remainder of a term of one thousand
139 Years To hold the said three Messuages with their
140 Appurtenances to the said John Marsh and his
141 Assigns for life and after his decease I give and
142 devise the same three Messuages Garden Ground
143 and Premises with their appurtenances unto my
144 Daughter Mary Wife of the said John Marsh
145 and her assigns for her life then keeping upholding
146 maintaining the said Messuages and premises
147 and each and every of them in good tenantable
148 repair and after the decease of the Survivor of them
149 the said John Marsh and Mary his Wife I give
150 and devise the Messuage in Dove Street with its
151 appurtenances to my Grand Daughter Maria
152 Marsh her heirs and Assigns and I give and
153 devise the said Messuage in Duke Street with its
154 appurtenances unto my Grand Daughter Carolina
155 Marsh her heirs and Assigns and I give the said
156 Messuage in Dowry Square with its appurtenances
157 to my Grandson Henry Marsh his Executors
158 Administrators and Assigns for all my Estate term
159 and Interest therein I give and devise to my
160 Grand Daughter Harriott Marsh her heirs and Assigns
161 my moiety or half part of a Freehold Messuage
162 or Tenement with the Appurtenances situate in
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163 Charles Street in the parish of Saint James aforesaid
164 in the Occupation of Mr Biggs and also my Moiety or
165 half part of a Messuage or Tenement with the Appurts
166 in Pipe Lane in the parish of Saint Augustine in
167 the City of Bristol in the occupation of Mr Room
168 which premises last mentioned are Leasehold and
169 held of the Feoffees of Saint Mary Redcliff parish
170 Lands determinable with lives to hold to my said
171 Grand Daughter Harriott her Executors Administrators ans Assigns
172 for and during all my Estate term and Interest therein
173 I give all my Books in my Dwelling house in Dove
174 Street to my Sons Richard and William Blake I give my
175 Silver Cup and Cover given me by Mr Corsers
176 Executor to my Son William I give the Rest of my
177 Plate to my daughters Mary Marsh and Rebecca
178 Mogg and my Son Richard Blake I give my China
179 in the House in Dove Street to my Daughter’s Mary
181 Marsh and Rebecca Mogg I give to my said Daughter
182 Mary Marsh my Portrait Drawn by Mr Whitby I give the
183 Household Goods and Implements of household and
184 other things appertaining thereto in my house at
185 Sidmouth in the County of Devon to my Son William
186 Blake I give the household Goods and Implements
187 of household and other things appertaining thereto
188 and my Books in my house at Egypt near Sidmouth
189 to my Son Richard Blake I give to my Nephews
190 Charles Blake Forty pounds I give to my now Servant
191 Maids three Guineas each and to my Servant Boy two
192 Guineas I give to the said Richard Blake and John
193 Marsh Fifty pounds to be applied for the benefit of
194 _______ Crattle by annual payments of ten pounds
195 I give and devise to the said Richard Blake and John
196 Marsh one fourth part of the Sugar house and
197 Dwelling house in Redcliff Street in the City of Bristol
198 part hold or Lease under the Chamber of the said
199 City as Feoffees of Forsters Alms houses and other
200 part under the Feoffees of Saint Thomas parish
201 Lands lately occupied by Mrs Dean and Blake as
202 Sugar house And now by Joseph Dyer Distiller together
203 with a Moiety of all the utensils Materials and
204 appurtenances used in carrying on the Sugar Refining
205 Business and one half of the Erections that now remain
206 there and also all my household Goods (except what
207 is herein otherwise disposed of in my house in Dove
208 Street aforesaid Also my three Shares in the Bristol
209 Fire office also my Bank Stock of two thousand three
210 hundred and sixty five pounds in the Four per cents also
211 my two hundred pounds Short Annuities and all and
211 singular other my Estate and Effects Real and personal
213 whatsoever and wheresoever after payment of my just
214 Debts Funeral Expences and discharges incident to whit trust
215 To hold to them the said Richard Blake and John Marsh
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216 their heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns
217 Upon Trust to sell transfer dispose of and receive
218 the same and every part thereof and the Moneys
219 arising by such Sale transfer disposition and Receipt
220 to pay and divide as hereinafter mentioned (that is to
221 say) One sixth part to my Son William one sixth part
222 to my Daughter Mary Marsh One sixth part to
223 my Daughter Rebecca Mogg one sixth part to my
224 Son Richard Blake one sixth part to be divided equally
225 between my Son James and Daughter Clementia
226 Blake and the remaining sixth part to be divided
227 equally between my Grand Children Son or Sons and
228 Daughters of my Son William Blake And I hereby
229 nominate and appoint the said Richard Blake and
230 John Marsh Executors in Trust of this my Will and
231 revoking all other Wills by me made do declare this
232 to be my last In Witness whereof I have to this my
233 last Will and Testament contained in Five Sheets of
234 paper to the first four Sheets thereof set my hand
235 and to this fifth and last Sheet my hand and
236 Seal the Day and year above written Willm
237 Blake Signed Sealed Published and Declared
238 by the above named William Blake the Testator
239 as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence
240 of us who in his presence at his request and in the
241 presence of each other have hereunto subscribed
242 our Names as Witnesses The word “three” being interlined
243 instead of five in the fourth line from the Bottom of
244 the first Sheet hereof Richard Milles Susan Milles
245 Fenwick Bird
246 This Will was proved at London the
247 fourteenth day of January in the year of our Lord
248 one thousand seven hundred and ninety two before the
249 Right honorable Sir William Wynne Knight Doctor
250 of Laws Master Keeper or Commissary of the
251 Prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted
252 by the Oaths of Richard Blake the Son of the deceased
253 and John Marsh the Executors named in the said
254 Will to whom Administration was granted of all and
255 singular the Goods Chattels and Credits of the said
256 deceased having been first sworn (by Commission) duly
257 to administer.
The will of Clementia Blake, daughter of the present testator, was blogged:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2014/04/will-of-clementia-blake-spinster.html
I suspect that the transcription of the birth year for Clementia Blake is incorrect or this is not the daughter of the present testator although the will reads as if she is. She is from the younger family of the present testator so likely born after 1765 which would make her about 50 when she died.
Mary Blake married John Marsh 12 Feb 1778 at St James Bristol.
http://theplain.thornburyroots.co.uk/TP%20no10&11.htm
John Marsh - the 1766 conveyance referred to above shows John Marsh was already occupying Porch House at the time it was conveyed to him and the other of John Stone's creditors. The list of property owners made for the 'Assessment for Relief of the Poor' in 1770 shows John Marsh as being 'for late Stones' which indicates he was still in the property previously associated with the Stone family. We understand that John was an attorney at law in Thornbury. In 1763 John married Elizabeth Hollister at Almondsbury. Elizabeth was the daughter of Luke Hollister of Almondsbury. Elizabeth died in 1775. The Bath Chronicle of 12th February 1788 shows that John Marsh attorney of Thornbury then married Mary Blake the daughter of Mr Blake a merchant of Bristol. The Bath Chronicle of 20th October 1825 says that John Marsh died that day at Biddestone House in Wiltshire in his 90th year. The notice of his death adds that he resided many years near Taunton and formerly at Thornbury. The Wiltshire connection leads us to suppose that John was related to Aaron Marsh who lived at Gloucester House in Thornbury. Aaron may have been John's son.
A rather interesting item I did not notice previously. Although it does not assist in finding anything more on William, the present testator, it does mention William. Clementia mentions her sisters Rebecca Mogg, Mary Marsh and her brother William but does not mention Richard her brother or James her full brother (the others being half-siblings).
Having read William’s will now I am still contemplating whether his line is descendant of the Calne Blake line. His properties include land in Cornwall and in Devon. He is possibly the Mr. William Blake named in the will of Richard Blake, gentleman, Bristol blogged earlier:
In the writeup on that will I have mused that William, present testator, might be of the Calne Blake family which is interesting in reflection.
There is a marriage of a William Blake to Rebecca Milles 12 Jun 1754 at Duloe, Cornwall.
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2014/04/1248-blake-family-gloucestershire-notes.html
Also mentioned in the blog the baptisms of Richard 1 Dec 1760 at Bristol, a son William 3 Dec 1757 and a daughter Rebecca 21 Apr 1759 all at Bristol to William and Rebecca Blake. Only the baptism of Mary is missing. Judging by the coat of arms on the memorial table for Richard Blake husband of Anne Augusta Blake (formerly Hayward), this line uses the same coat of arms as the Blake family of Calne.
Then who is William and how does he relate to the other members of the Ambrose Blake family in Gloucestershire or does he come down from another line also related to the Blake family at Calne?
Perhaps the set of Bristol Diocese Wills will assist with this set of Blake families.
Names mentioned in the will:
William Blake, Esquire, Bristol, testator
John Smith, tenant
Richard Blake, (married), son, child of first marriage
William Blake, (married), son, child of first marriage
____ Coriton Esquire, landlord
James Blake, son, child of second marriage
Mr Higgins, brazier, tenant
Mrs Hellier, tenant
John Marsh, Esquire, son in law
Clementia Blake, daughter, child of second marriage
Mr Hall, tenant
Mr Jeremiah Osborne, trustee (not for this testator)
Benjamin Pike, coach painter, tenant
Rebecca Mogg, daughter, wife of Jacob Mogg the younger
Jacob Mogg, the younger, gentleman, son in law
Mrs Tyler, tenant
Mr Jenkins, tenant
Mary Marsh, daughter, wife of John Marsh, Esquire
Maria Marsh, grand daughter
Carolina Marsh, grand daughter
Henry Marsh, grandson
Harriott Marsh, grand daughter
Mr Biggs, tenant
Mr Room, tenant
Mr Whitby, artist
____ Crattle
Mrs Dean, tenant
Mrs Blake, tenant
Joseph Dyer, distiller, tenant
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 12 May 2014
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1213/141
Testator: William Blake, esquire
Place: Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 21 Mar 1791, probated 14 Jan 1792
Condition: 18th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: William
[Margin]: Blake
[Margin]: Esq[uie]r
1 The Last Will and Testament
2 of me William Blake of the City of Bristol Esquire made
3 the twenty first day of March one thousand seven
4 hundred and ninety one (that is to say) Whereas I
5 am seized or possessed of two Estates part of the Manor
6 of Salcomb Regis in the County of Devon which I hold
7 by Copy of Court Roll of the Dean and Chapter
8 of Exeter for Lives and Widowhoods consisting of
9 Messuages or Tenements and Lands part whereof is
10 in my own possession and other part let to John
11 Smith I give the said Copyhold Estates with their
12 Rights and appurtenances to my Son Richard Blake
13 To hold to him for his life and the life of his widow
14 according to the Custom of the said Manor and
15 after his decease I give the said Estates with their
16 Rights and appurtenances to my Son William Blake
17 To hold to him for his life and the life of his widow
18 according to the said Custom of I give and devise unto
19 my said Son Richard all and singular my Messuages
20 Lands and hereditaments called Hole in the parish
21 of Saint Veep in the County of Cornwall part
22 whereof is Freehold and other part Leasehold held of
23 _______ Coriton Esquire for ninety nine Years
24 determinable with lives To hold to my said Son
25 Richard his heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns
26 for all my Estate Term or Terms and Interest therein
27 respectively I give and devise to my Son James all those
28 three Messuages or Tenements adjoining and Garden
29 Ground behind the same with their appurtenances
30 situate in a place called Turnagain Lane leading from
31 Saint James’s Churchyard in Bridewell Bridge in the
32 parish of Saint James and City of Bristol in the
33 occupations of Mr Higgins Brazier and others and also
34 all that Messuage or Tenement with its appurtenances
35 situate on the East Side of Saint James’s Church
36 Yard in the Occupation of Mrs Hellier To hold to my
37 said Son James his heirs Executors Administrators and
38 Assigns for all my Estate and Interest therein respectively
39 and I acquit release and discharge my Son James
40 his heirs Executors and Administrators and also his Estate
41 and Effects Real and Personal from all claims and
42 demands which I my heirs Executors or Administrators
43 can or may have on him or them I give to my
44 Son Richard and Son in Law John Marsh Esquire
45 three hundred pounds upon Trust that they or the
46 Survivor of them his Executors or Administrators do
47 and shall best the same in an annuity for the
48 life and for use of my daughter Clementia Blake
49 the said annuity to be secured on Land and made
50 payable to her and her assigns by quarterly payments
51 and until such annuite shall be purchased to place
52 out the said Sum of three hundred pounds on Land
53 or Government Security in the Joint Names of my
54 said Trustees and the Interest or Dividends ensuing
55 their from shall be paid to my said Daughter I
56 give and devise to my said Daughter Clementia her
57 heirs and assigns a freehold Messuage or Tenement
58 situate on the East Side of Saint James’s Church
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60 Yard in the occupation of Mr. Hall Whereas the
61 Sum of two hundred and seventy pounds or thereabouts
62 which was placed out at Interest in the Name of
63 Mr Jeremiah Osborne a Trustee on that occasion
64 on Security of a Messuage in Kingswood Street
65 Bath now or late in the occupation of Benjamin
66 Pike Coach painter the possession of which is since
67 surrendered up to the Mortgagee also the Rents
68 received for the use of my said Daughter Clementia
69 It is my Will as far as I have any power or
70 Controul respectring the same that the Principal and
71 Interest Money due and to grow due therein shall
72 be had and received by my Executors hereinafter
73 named and paid to my said Daughter for her
74 use and benefit I give to my said Daughter
75 Clementia ten pounds per Annum during her life
76 to be paid to her and her assigns by my Son
77 Richard out of the Interest Money on his Bond
78 of Five hundred pounds given by him to me and
79 my Will and intention is that the before mentioned
80 devised and bequests to my Son James and Daughter
81 Clementia are upon Condition that each of them
82 shall hold and enjoy the same in full compensation
83 and discharge of any Claims or pretended Claim by
84 any of them upon me my heirs Executors or Admors
85 in respect to or by virtue of any Deed of Settlement
86 by me entered into for the benefit of the Children
87 or Issue of my first Marriage or otherwise and that
88 my said Son James and Daughter Clementia shall
89 on request to them made by my Executors Execute good and
90 valid Releases and Discharges in the Law to them
91 and also my Estate of all claims and demands
92 against me and my Estate upon any account
93 whatsoever and upon refusal so to do my devise and
94 bequest to them severally made and appointed by
95 this my Will shall be void and what is herein
96 given and devised to each of them I give and
97 devise to my said Son Richard and Son in Law
98 John Marsh To hold to them their heirs Executors
99 Administrators and assigns equally share and
100 share alike I give to the said Richard Blake
101 and John Marsh Five hundred pounds to be by
102 them or the Survivor his Executors or Administrators
103 vested in the publick Funds or on Land Security
104 in their Names In Trust to pay the dividends or Interest
105 thereof to my Daughter Rebecca wife of Jacob
106 Mogg the younger Gentleman during her life separate
107 from her present or any future husband and her
108 Receipt along from time to time shall be a
109 sufficient discharge for the same and after her
110 decease In Trust to pay and divide the said Sum
111 of Five hundred pounds equally between the Issue
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112 or Children of my said Daughter Rebecca at their
113 respective ages of twenty one years and in case of
114 the Death of either of them before attainment to
115 such age to the Survivors or Survivor of them and
116 in default of such Issue to such person or persons
117 said Daughter notwithstanding her Coverture shall
118 by Deed or Will give limit direct or appoint I give
119 to my said Daughter Rebecca Mogg ten pounds
120 per Annum During her life to be paid to her and
121 her Assigns by my Son Richard being the remainder
122 of the Interest Money on his said Bond of Five
123 hundred pounds and after the decease of the said
124 Clementia Blake and Rebecca Mogg I give the
125 Principal Sum of Five hundred pounds secured by
126 such Bond to my Son Richard his Executors or
127 Administrators I give and devise to my Son in Law
128 John Marsh a Freehold Messuage with inclosed
129 pieces of Garden Ground in Front of the said
130 Messuage and used therewith and appurts thereto
131 belonging situate in Dove Street in the Parish
132 of Saint James in the County of Gloucester wherein
133 I now Dwell Also a Freehold Messuage in Duke
134 Street near Kings Square Bristol in the occupation
135 of Mrs Tyler also a Messuage in Dowry Square
136 in the parish of Clifton in the said County of
137 Gloucester in the occupation of Mr Jenkins which I
138 hold for the remainder of a term of one thousand
139 Years To hold the said three Messuages with their
140 Appurtenances to the said John Marsh and his
141 Assigns for life and after his decease I give and
142 devise the same three Messuages Garden Ground
143 and Premises with their appurtenances unto my
144 Daughter Mary Wife of the said John Marsh
145 and her assigns for her life then keeping upholding
146 maintaining the said Messuages and premises
147 and each and every of them in good tenantable
148 repair and after the decease of the Survivor of them
149 the said John Marsh and Mary his Wife I give
150 and devise the Messuage in Dove Street with its
151 appurtenances to my Grand Daughter Maria
152 Marsh her heirs and Assigns and I give and
153 devise the said Messuage in Duke Street with its
154 appurtenances unto my Grand Daughter Carolina
155 Marsh her heirs and Assigns and I give the said
156 Messuage in Dowry Square with its appurtenances
157 to my Grandson Henry Marsh his Executors
158 Administrators and Assigns for all my Estate term
159 and Interest therein I give and devise to my
160 Grand Daughter Harriott Marsh her heirs and Assigns
161 my moiety or half part of a Freehold Messuage
162 or Tenement with the Appurtenances situate in
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163 Charles Street in the parish of Saint James aforesaid
164 in the Occupation of Mr Biggs and also my Moiety or
165 half part of a Messuage or Tenement with the Appurts
166 in Pipe Lane in the parish of Saint Augustine in
167 the City of Bristol in the occupation of Mr Room
168 which premises last mentioned are Leasehold and
169 held of the Feoffees of Saint Mary Redcliff parish
170 Lands determinable with lives to hold to my said
171 Grand Daughter Harriott her Executors Administrators ans Assigns
172 for and during all my Estate term and Interest therein
173 I give all my Books in my Dwelling house in Dove
174 Street to my Sons Richard and William Blake I give my
175 Silver Cup and Cover given me by Mr Corsers
176 Executor to my Son William I give the Rest of my
177 Plate to my daughters Mary Marsh and Rebecca
178 Mogg and my Son Richard Blake I give my China
179 in the House in Dove Street to my Daughter’s Mary
181 Marsh and Rebecca Mogg I give to my said Daughter
182 Mary Marsh my Portrait Drawn by Mr Whitby I give the
183 Household Goods and Implements of household and
184 other things appertaining thereto in my house at
185 Sidmouth in the County of Devon to my Son William
186 Blake I give the household Goods and Implements
187 of household and other things appertaining thereto
188 and my Books in my house at Egypt near Sidmouth
189 to my Son Richard Blake I give to my Nephews
190 Charles Blake Forty pounds I give to my now Servant
191 Maids three Guineas each and to my Servant Boy two
192 Guineas I give to the said Richard Blake and John
193 Marsh Fifty pounds to be applied for the benefit of
194 _______ Crattle by annual payments of ten pounds
195 I give and devise to the said Richard Blake and John
196 Marsh one fourth part of the Sugar house and
197 Dwelling house in Redcliff Street in the City of Bristol
198 part hold or Lease under the Chamber of the said
199 City as Feoffees of Forsters Alms houses and other
200 part under the Feoffees of Saint Thomas parish
201 Lands lately occupied by Mrs Dean and Blake as
202 Sugar house And now by Joseph Dyer Distiller together
203 with a Moiety of all the utensils Materials and
204 appurtenances used in carrying on the Sugar Refining
205 Business and one half of the Erections that now remain
206 there and also all my household Goods (except what
207 is herein otherwise disposed of in my house in Dove
208 Street aforesaid Also my three Shares in the Bristol
209 Fire office also my Bank Stock of two thousand three
210 hundred and sixty five pounds in the Four per cents also
211 my two hundred pounds Short Annuities and all and
211 singular other my Estate and Effects Real and personal
213 whatsoever and wheresoever after payment of my just
214 Debts Funeral Expences and discharges incident to whit trust
215 To hold to them the said Richard Blake and John Marsh
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216 their heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns
217 Upon Trust to sell transfer dispose of and receive
218 the same and every part thereof and the Moneys
219 arising by such Sale transfer disposition and Receipt
220 to pay and divide as hereinafter mentioned (that is to
221 say) One sixth part to my Son William one sixth part
222 to my Daughter Mary Marsh One sixth part to
223 my Daughter Rebecca Mogg one sixth part to my
224 Son Richard Blake one sixth part to be divided equally
225 between my Son James and Daughter Clementia
226 Blake and the remaining sixth part to be divided
227 equally between my Grand Children Son or Sons and
228 Daughters of my Son William Blake And I hereby
229 nominate and appoint the said Richard Blake and
230 John Marsh Executors in Trust of this my Will and
231 revoking all other Wills by me made do declare this
232 to be my last In Witness whereof I have to this my
233 last Will and Testament contained in Five Sheets of
234 paper to the first four Sheets thereof set my hand
235 and to this fifth and last Sheet my hand and
236 Seal the Day and year above written Willm
237 Blake Signed Sealed Published and Declared
238 by the above named William Blake the Testator
239 as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence
240 of us who in his presence at his request and in the
241 presence of each other have hereunto subscribed
242 our Names as Witnesses The word “three” being interlined
243 instead of five in the fourth line from the Bottom of
244 the first Sheet hereof Richard Milles Susan Milles
245 Fenwick Bird
246 This Will was proved at London the
247 fourteenth day of January in the year of our Lord
248 one thousand seven hundred and ninety two before the
249 Right honorable Sir William Wynne Knight Doctor
250 of Laws Master Keeper or Commissary of the
251 Prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted
252 by the Oaths of Richard Blake the Son of the deceased
253 and John Marsh the Executors named in the said
254 Will to whom Administration was granted of all and
255 singular the Goods Chattels and Credits of the said
256 deceased having been first sworn (by Commission) duly
257 to administer.
Sunday, May 18, 2014
Will of Robert Blake, woollen draper and wine spirit dealer, Bristol, Gloucestershire - The National Archives PROB 11/2192/296, probated 17 Jun 1854
Robert Blake is the testator. He mentions his wife Harriet Blake and his son Joseph Hammond Blake. The baptism of Joseph Hammond Blake 16 Nov 1836 at Saint Nicholas, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England son of Robert and Harriet Blake.
On 8 Feb 1858 Joseph Hammond Blake (son of Robert Blake) married Mary Frances Holmes at St Andrew Holborn, Middlesex. On his marriage registration Joseph is listed as an architect.
Joseph H Blake (14 years) is found on the 1851 census at School in Clevendon.
In 1861 Joseph H Blake is on the census at Lee, Lewisham, London and he is a surveyor and 25 years of age born in Gloucestershire. His wife is Mary, 30 years, and she was born in Kent.
In 1871 Joseph H Blake is on the census at Lewisham, London, 34 years of age, Civil Engineer born at Gloucester and he is a civil engineer. His wife is Mary F Blake and she is 33 years of age born at Eltham.
In 1881 Joseph H Blake still at Lewisham, London, 45 years of age, no occupation, born at Gloucester, Gloucestershire and his wife Mary F, 50 years born at Eltham, Kent.
A rather interesting 1841 census for this family. At Cheltenham Road, Bristol and in the united parishes of St James and St Paul. Joseph Hammond 45, woolen draper, born in Gloucestershire; Cather Hammond 46, born in Gloucestershire, Robert Blake, 30, Spirit dealer, born in Gloucestershire, Harriet 30, born in Gloucestershire and Joseph Blake 5, born in Gloucestershire.
No ideas on the parentage of this Robert Blake. Could he be the son of Robert and Gwina Blake?
However, my cousin Thomas is reminding me that he is needing the transcription of some of the Routledge material so I need to return to working on that material for a couple of weeks or so. I will complete to the end of the PCC Blake wills for Gloucestershire and then return to Routledge. Then I will begin to work on the wills of Bristol Diocese for Blake. There are 37 wills between the dates of 1546 and 1851. These wills will hopefully fill in some of the missing information.
The Gloucestershire Blake family has proven to be most interesting especially with the likely link back to the Blake family at Calne.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 9 May 2014
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/2192/296
Testator: Robert Blake, woollen draper and wine spirit dealer
Place: Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 14 Sep 1853, probated 17 Jun 1854
Condition: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Robert
[Margin]: Blake
[Margin]: 6
1 This is the Last Will and Testament
2 of me Robert Blake of the City of Bristol Woollen Draper and Wine and
3 Spirit Dealer I will and direct that all my just debts funeral expences and the
4 charge of proving this my Will shall be fully paid and satisfied by my Executrix
5 hereinafter named I give devise and bequeath unto my dear Wife Harriet
6 Blake all my furniture plate linen and china Also I give devise and bequeath
7 unto my Wife those two houses with gardens and outbuildings belonging there-
8 unto known by the name of No 1 and 2 Gloster Villas Cheltenham Road Also I
9 give unto my Wife the stock fixtures and lease of my Woollen Warehouse No 2
10 Dolphin Street Bristol Also I give the stock of Spirits Wines and book debts of my
11 Spirit Stores No 3 Dolphin Street charging the last named stock with the sum of
12 two shillings and sixpence per week to be paid unto Mary Thomas late Servant in
13 my employ for her life I give unto my Son Joseph Hammond Blake two
14 policies on the life of James Thomas Martin Esq[ui]er for Eight hundred pounds
15 one No 2011 in the Asylum Office Exchange Bristol for the sum of Five hundred
16 and fifty pounds without participation of profits due Nov[embe]r 9th annual premium
17 £10.6.3 and the other in the Equitable Office London No 4500 for Two hundred
18 and fifty pounds with participation in profits now value Two hundred and
19 ninety three pounds 15/. Annual premium £5.18.0 due Oct[obe]r 8th I also charge
20 the Stock and Business of the Spirit Stores with those two sums of £10.6.3and £5.18.0
21 making Sixteen pounds 4/3 to be paid annually I also charge the said Stock and
22 Business with Twenty pounds per annum to be paid by quarterly instalments
23 unto my Son before named while he continue a minor I give devise and be-
24 queath unto George Willis Beebee now in my employ and if he continue to be
25 at my decease and if not unto my Son Joseph Hammond Blake a house
26 garden and outbuildings known by the name of No 2 Albert Buildings
27 Catherine Place Stokes Croft Bristol now in the occupation of Mrs Perry sub-
28 ject nevertheless to the mortgage, ground rent or other debts that may be
29 chargeable thereon I give unto my Wife All my Residuary Estate and
30 appoint my Wife Harriet Blake Trustee and Executrix of this my Will And
31 hereby revoking all former Wills to declare this to be my last Will and Testa-
32 ment In witness whereof The said Robert Blake the Testator have to this
33 set my name this fourteenth day of September One thousand eight hun-
34 dred and fifty three Robt Blake Signed and declared by the said Robert
35 Blake the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of usq
36 present at the same time who in his presence at his request and in the presence
37 of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses
38 Luke Arnold Thomas Pope Arnold
39 Proved at London 17th June 1854 before the Judge by the Oath of Harriet
40 Blake Widow the Relict the sole Executrix to whom Admon was granted
41 having been first sworn by Commission duly to administer
On 8 Feb 1858 Joseph Hammond Blake (son of Robert Blake) married Mary Frances Holmes at St Andrew Holborn, Middlesex. On his marriage registration Joseph is listed as an architect.
Joseph H Blake (14 years) is found on the 1851 census at School in Clevendon.
In 1861 Joseph H Blake is on the census at Lee, Lewisham, London and he is a surveyor and 25 years of age born in Gloucestershire. His wife is Mary, 30 years, and she was born in Kent.
In 1871 Joseph H Blake is on the census at Lewisham, London, 34 years of age, Civil Engineer born at Gloucester and he is a civil engineer. His wife is Mary F Blake and she is 33 years of age born at Eltham.
In 1881 Joseph H Blake still at Lewisham, London, 45 years of age, no occupation, born at Gloucester, Gloucestershire and his wife Mary F, 50 years born at Eltham, Kent.
A rather interesting 1841 census for this family. At Cheltenham Road, Bristol and in the united parishes of St James and St Paul. Joseph Hammond 45, woolen draper, born in Gloucestershire; Cather Hammond 46, born in Gloucestershire, Robert Blake, 30, Spirit dealer, born in Gloucestershire, Harriet 30, born in Gloucestershire and Joseph Blake 5, born in Gloucestershire.
No ideas on the parentage of this Robert Blake. Could he be the son of Robert and Gwina Blake?
However, my cousin Thomas is reminding me that he is needing the transcription of some of the Routledge material so I need to return to working on that material for a couple of weeks or so. I will complete to the end of the PCC Blake wills for Gloucestershire and then return to Routledge. Then I will begin to work on the wills of Bristol Diocese for Blake. There are 37 wills between the dates of 1546 and 1851. These wills will hopefully fill in some of the missing information.
The Gloucestershire Blake family has proven to be most interesting especially with the likely link back to the Blake family at Calne.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 9 May 2014
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/2192/296
Testator: Robert Blake, woollen draper and wine spirit dealer
Place: Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 14 Sep 1853, probated 17 Jun 1854
Condition: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Robert
[Margin]: Blake
[Margin]: 6
1 This is the Last Will and Testament
2 of me Robert Blake of the City of Bristol Woollen Draper and Wine and
3 Spirit Dealer I will and direct that all my just debts funeral expences and the
4 charge of proving this my Will shall be fully paid and satisfied by my Executrix
5 hereinafter named I give devise and bequeath unto my dear Wife Harriet
6 Blake all my furniture plate linen and china Also I give devise and bequeath
7 unto my Wife those two houses with gardens and outbuildings belonging there-
8 unto known by the name of No 1 and 2 Gloster Villas Cheltenham Road Also I
9 give unto my Wife the stock fixtures and lease of my Woollen Warehouse No 2
10 Dolphin Street Bristol Also I give the stock of Spirits Wines and book debts of my
11 Spirit Stores No 3 Dolphin Street charging the last named stock with the sum of
12 two shillings and sixpence per week to be paid unto Mary Thomas late Servant in
13 my employ for her life I give unto my Son Joseph Hammond Blake two
14 policies on the life of James Thomas Martin Esq[ui]er for Eight hundred pounds
15 one No 2011 in the Asylum Office Exchange Bristol for the sum of Five hundred
16 and fifty pounds without participation of profits due Nov[embe]r 9th annual premium
17 £10.6.3 and the other in the Equitable Office London No 4500 for Two hundred
18 and fifty pounds with participation in profits now value Two hundred and
19 ninety three pounds 15/. Annual premium £5.18.0 due Oct[obe]r 8th I also charge
20 the Stock and Business of the Spirit Stores with those two sums of £10.6.3and £5.18.0
21 making Sixteen pounds 4/3 to be paid annually I also charge the said Stock and
22 Business with Twenty pounds per annum to be paid by quarterly instalments
23 unto my Son before named while he continue a minor I give devise and be-
24 queath unto George Willis Beebee now in my employ and if he continue to be
25 at my decease and if not unto my Son Joseph Hammond Blake a house
26 garden and outbuildings known by the name of No 2 Albert Buildings
27 Catherine Place Stokes Croft Bristol now in the occupation of Mrs Perry sub-
28 ject nevertheless to the mortgage, ground rent or other debts that may be
29 chargeable thereon I give unto my Wife All my Residuary Estate and
30 appoint my Wife Harriet Blake Trustee and Executrix of this my Will And
31 hereby revoking all former Wills to declare this to be my last Will and Testa-
32 ment In witness whereof The said Robert Blake the Testator have to this
33 set my name this fourteenth day of September One thousand eight hun-
34 dred and fifty three Robt Blake Signed and declared by the said Robert
35 Blake the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of usq
36 present at the same time who in his presence at his request and in the presence
37 of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses
38 Luke Arnold Thomas Pope Arnold
39 Proved at London 17th June 1854 before the Judge by the Oath of Harriet
40 Blake Widow the Relict the sole Executrix to whom Admon was granted
41 having been first sworn by Commission duly to administer
Saturday, May 17, 2014
Will of Robert Blake, gentleman, Bedminster, Bristol, Gloucestershire - The National Archives PROB 11/2094/89, probated 5 Jun 1849
Robert Blake is the testator. He names his brothers as George Blake, John Blake and Richard Blake. His children are Charles Blake and Mary Anne Blake. His wife is Gwina Blake.
Marriage of Robert Blake to Gwenna/Gwinna Morgan 24 Mar 1799/14 Apr 1799 at Bristol (both dates are listed in Family Search). Baptism of Charles son of Robert and Gwina Blake 14 July 1811 at Bristol. Baptism of George Blake 19 Nov 1809 son of Robert and Gwina Blake. Baptism of James Blake 12 Apr 1807 son of Robert and Gwina Blake (All C01716-7 Family Search). Plus a son Robert
Robert mentions his property at Bicknoller and there was a will left by Joan Blake, widow, 1828 at Bicknoller listed in the Somerset Wills (B747, box/folio 73/750). This will likely destroyed in the bombing of the Exeter Record Office during WWII. Mentioning the Bicknoller area does bring one to think whether this is a collateral line to Admiral Robert Blake.
Going to the parish Records for Bicknoller found in the following blog and taken from Martin Southwood’s excellent site http://www.wsom.org.uk/Registers/ and blogged:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2012/04/parish-records-in-overstowey-somerset.html
The marriage of Richard Blake of Stogumber and Joan Gardner 3 Feb 1777 and the baptism of their children Robert 26 May 1779, Richard 22 May 1782, John 18 Nov 1784, George 14 Jan 1788 (all mentioned in Robert’s will). There are several other children that are perhaps children of this couple mentioned on the webpage.
Richard Blake (father) was perhaps buried 27 Jun 1798 and Joan Blake, age 74, buried 19 Mar 1828 which would jive with the will mentioned above for a Joan Blake, widow.
On the 1851 census at 3 Fenland Cottage, Mary Ann Blake, head, single, 48, Proprietor, born at Brisol; Gwina Blake, mother, widow, 74, Annuitant, born at Glamorganshire, Wales; Edwina Maria Blake, niece, unmarried, 12, scholar, born at London; Robert Charles Blake, nephew, unmarried, 8 years, scholar, born at London. There is also a visitor perhaps Mary Williams, 59, widow, dress maker, born in Bristol.
On the 1861 census Mary Ann has married Thomas Hickling and she is 57 years of age. Her mother Gwinna Blake is still living and is 87 years of age, an annuitant, born at Glamorganshire Petynt; also living there Mary Ann Blake, niece, 23, unmarried, a milliner born at Bedminster; Mary Ann Blake, niece, 10 years, scholar, born at Bethnal Green, Middlesex; and Elizabeth Blake, niece, 8, scholar, born at Clifton, Gloucestershire. They are living at 7 Duke Street.
The marriage of Mary Ann Blake and Thomas Hickling 30 Jul 1859 at St Andrews Clifton, Gloucestershire. Thomas the son of John Hickling and Mary Ann the daughter of Robert Blake. Thomas was widowed.
I found the baptism of Mary Ann Blake, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Blake at St Matthias Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets 6 Apr 1851. Baptized just one week later James Blake son of Charles and Elizabeth Blake but he was 4 years of age in 1851.
I found George Blake at Bicknoller on the 1851 census. He is actually living next door to John and Amelia Siderfin (3rd cousins several time removed of mine). At this time he is a widower, 64 years of age and living with him his daughter Mary 26 and Sarah J 24. George and his daughter Mary were born at Stogumber and the younger daughter Sarah born at Bicknoller.
Trying to take this family back, could they be descendants of Richard Blake and Ann Jessop who married 30 Nov 1643 at Kilve and had two sons John and Richard. These families have not been traced down in the Portbury records for the collateral lines of Admiral Robert Blake.
http://www.portbury-hundred.co.uk/admiralreport.htm
I did transcribe the will of Richard Blake married to Ann Jessop:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/10/will-of-richard-blake-gentleman.html
Perhaps later wills will clear up the mystery of the ancestry of this Robert Blake.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 9 May 2014
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/2094/89
Testator: Robert Blake, gentleman
Place: Bedminster, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 16 Sep 1848, probated 5 Jun 1849
Condition: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Robert
[Margin]: Blake
[Margin]: 22
1 This is the Last Will and Testament
2 of me Robert Blake of Number 12 Barford Place in the parish of Bedminster
3 in the City and County of Bristol Gentleman I direct that my debts funeral and
4 also testamentary expences be fully paid and satisfied by my Executors herein
5 after named with all convenient speed after my decease I give and bequeath
6 unto my Brothers George Blake John Blake and Richard Blake the sum
7 of five pounds each to procure mourning I give and devise all that my
8 messuage or dwelling house situate and being Number 19 Wellington Street
9 in the parish of Bedminster in the said City and County of Bristol with the
10 right members and appurtenances thereunto belonging unto my Son Charles
11 Blake his heirs and assigns for ever I give devise and bequeath unto my
12 daughter Mary Ann Blake and my friend Charles Getchell of Bicknoller
13 near Taunton in the County of Somerset Farmer their heirs and assigns
14 all those my two messuages or dwellinghouses called of known by the
15 names of Freeland Villa and Freeland House situate at the Hotwells in
16 the parish of Clifton in the said City of Bristol Upon the trusts neverthe-
17 less and to and for the intents and purposes and with under and subject
18 to the powers provisoes declarations and directions hereinafter mentioned
19 expressed declared and contained of and concerning the same that is to
20 say Upon trust that they the said Mary Ann Blake and Charles Getchell
21 and the survivor of them and the heirs executors administrators and
22 assigns of such survivor do and shall from time to time by with and out of
23 the rents issues and profits of the said messuages or dwellinghouses pay unto
24 my Wife Gwina Blake one annuity or yearly sum of Fifteen pounds
25 of lawful money of Great Britain and Ireland by equal quarterly pay-
26 ments that is to say on the twenty fifth day of March the twenty fourth
27 day of June the twenty ninth day of September and the twenty fifth
28 day of December the first quarterly payment to begin and be made on such
29 of the said days as shall first happen after my decease And I
30 also unto my said son Charles Blake One Annuity or yearly sum
31 of fifteen pounds of like lawful money to be paid as aforesaid and I
32 direct the said annual sum hereinbefore given to my said Wife
33 be for her separate use and benefit And that the receipts of the said
34 Annuitants shall be good and effectual discharges for the same And
35 in case the said two messuages or dwellinghouses should through
36 being void or otherwise not produce a sufficient amount to pay the
37 said Annuities Then I direct my said daughter Mary Ann Blake
38 to pay the deficiency out of her own proper monies And I further
39 declare that any sale mortgage charge or disposition in the way of
40 authorization which either of the said Annuitants shall make or
41 attempt or agree to make of the said Annuities or if either of them
42 shall at time become Bankrupt or take the benefit of any Act of
43 Parliament for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors Then and in any of
44 the said cases the said annual sum shall cease determine and be
45 void and shall sink into and become part of the residue of my real
46 and personal estate And I hereby declare that if the said Mary Ann
47 Blake and Charles Getchell or the survivor of them or the heirs
48 executors or administrators of such survivor shall at any time
49 invest upon real or government securities a sufficient sum the
50 interest whereof shall be adequate to pay the said Annuities and
51 declare the trusts thereof accordingly Then and in that case the
52 said annual sum for which the same shall be respectively
53 expressed to be in satisfaction shall be no longer a charge on
54 my said two messuages or dwellinghouses called or known by
55 the names of Freeland Villa and Freeland House And I do
56 hereby expressly declare my mind and will to be that the provision
57 hereinbefore made to or for the receipt of my said Wife shall be accepted
58 and taken in lieu clear and full satisfaction of all such soever and whether
60 at the Common Law or by Custom or otherwise as she my said Wife
61 may have wherein claimed or demanded in upon or out of all or any of the
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62 the said messuages lands tenaments and hereditaments whereof during the
63 coverture between us I have been now am or hereafter may be seized for any
64 estate or freehold or inheritance And I direct that my said Wife do and shall
65 accordingly within six calendar months after my decease at the expence of
66 my estate make an effectual release in the law to my said trustees or the
67 survivor of them or the heirs executors administrators or assigns of such
68 survivor as by them her or him or their her or his counsel in the law
69 shall be reasonably required of all such Dower or thirds and claim of
70 dower and Thirds And in case my said Wife shall demure or refuse to make
71 and execute such release of dower then I do hereby declare that the Annuity
72 hereinbefore given as a provision for my said Wife shall be absolutely
73 null and void That as to all the Rest Residue and Remainder of
74 my Real and Personal Estate of what nature sort kind or denomi-
75 nation soever and whether Freehold Leasehold or Copyhold and all
76 monies and securities for money by Mortgage or otherwise I give devise
77 and bequeath the same unto my dear daughter Mary Ann Blake her
78 heirs executors administrators and assigns And it is my Will and I direct
79 that my brother George Blake shall if he is so willing continue to
80 reside in my Estate at Bicknoller aforesaid at the present rental provided
81 the rent be paid half yearly and whenever the same is due and payable
82 and that he keeps the premises and land in good repair and condition
83 and does not commit any waste I give devise and bequeath all the
84 estates which are vested in me as mortgagee unto my said daughter
85 Mary Ann Blake her heirs executors administrators and assigns accord-
86 ing to the nature and quality thereof respectively (but subject to the
87 equities of redemption affecting the same and on payment of the
88 principal monies interest and costs secured thereon to recovery reassign and
89 resecure the same estates to the persons entitled thereto Provided always
90 and I declare that if the trustees appointed by this my Will or to be appointed
91 as hereinafter is mentioned or any of them or their or any of their heirs
92 executors administrators and assigns shall happen to die or shall discontinue
93 or be desirous of being discharged from or fuse or seizure or be incapable
94 to accept or to act in the trusts hereby in them respectively reposed as afores-
95 aid before the said trusts shall be fully executed then and in such case
96 and when and so often as the same shall happen it shall be lawful
97 for the surviving or continuing trustee by Deed or Instrument in writing
98 executed in the presence of an attested by two witnesses from time to time
99 to appoint any fit and proper person or persons to occupy the place of
100 the trustee or trustees so dying disclaiming or desiring to be discharged
101 or refusing declining or becoming incapable to accept the said trusts or to
102 act as aforesaid And when and so often as any new trustee or trustees
103 shall be nominated and appointed as aforesaid all the trust estates monies
104 and premises the trustee or trustees whereof shall so die disclaim or desire
105 to be discharged or refuse or decline or become incapable to accept the said
106 trusts or to act as aforesaid shall be thereupon with all convenient speed
107 conveyed assigned and transferred in such sort and manner and so as that
108 the same shall and may be legally and effectually vested in the person
109 or persons so to be appointed as aforesaid Either solely or jointly with
110 the surviving or continuing trustee or trustees as occasion shall require
111 to the uses upon the trusts and for the purposes hereinbefore expressed
112 and declared of and concerning the said trust estates monies and prem-
113 ises or such of them as shall be then subsisting undetermined and
114 capable of taking effect and the person or persons so to be appointed
115 as aforesaid shall have all the powers and authorities of the trustee
116 or trustees in whose room he or they shall be substituted or appointed
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117 provided always And I do hereby declare that if the said two several messuages
118 called or known by the names of Freeland Villa and Freeland House therein
119 before devised or either of them shall become untenanted it shall be
120 lawful for the said Mary Ann Blake and Charles Getchell or the survivor
121 of them or the heirs or assigns of such survivor by Deed or Demise to lease
122 the premises which shall for the time being be untenanted to any person
123 or persons whomsoever for any term or number of years not exceeding seven
124 years to be computed from the making thereof so that there be contained in every such
125 Lease or Demise a condition for reentry on nonpayment of the rent or tents thereby
126 reserved for the space of twenty one days next after the same shall become
127 payable And so that the Lesee named therein do thereby covenant for payment
128 of the said rent and do execute a Counterpart thereof provided also and I do
129 hereby further Will and declare that neither of the Trustees hereby appointed
130 nor any Trustee or Trustees to be hereafter appointed by virtue of the
131 provision hereinbefore contained shall be charged or chargeable with
132 or for any sum or sums of money other than what they shall respectively
133 actually receive by virtue of the Trusts in them hereby reposed notwithstand-
134 ing they or any of them shall join in any receipt for the sake of conformity
135 And that one of them shall not be answerable or accountable for the
136 other of them of for the acts receipts neglects or defaults of the other of
137 them but each only for his her or their own acts receipts neglects and defaults
138 And also that it shall be lawful for them with and out of the monies
139 which shall come to their respective hands by virtue of the trusts afore-
140 said to retain to and reimburse himself herself and themselves respectively
141 and so allow to his her or their Co Trustee or Co Trustees all such costs
142 charges or expences as they or any of them shall of may respectively
143 sustain expend or be put unto in or about the execution of the trusts
144 them hereby reposed or in anywise relating thereto And hereby revoking
145 all wills by me at any time heretofore made I do hereby declare this to be
146 my last Will and Testament and appoint the said Mary Ann Blake and
147 Charles Getchell Executrix and Executor thereof In witness whereof
148 I the said Robert Blake the Testator have to this my last Will and
149 Testament contained in this and the four preceeding sheets of paper set
150 my hand this sixteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one
151 thousand eight hundred and forty eight Robert Blake Signed
152 and declared by the above named Robert Blake the Testator as and for
153 his last Will and Testament in the presence of us present as the same
154 time who have at his request and in his presence and in the presence
155 of each other subscribed our names as witnesses James Geo Hobbs
156 Solicitor Bristol Joseph Allchurch 10 Somerset Place ______ Banker
157 Proved at London 5th June 1849 before the Judge by the Oaths
158 Mary Ann Blake Spinster the daughter and Charles Gatchell in the Will
159 written Getchell the Executors to whom Admon was granted having been
160 first sworn by Common duly to administer
Marriage of Robert Blake to Gwenna/Gwinna Morgan 24 Mar 1799/14 Apr 1799 at Bristol (both dates are listed in Family Search). Baptism of Charles son of Robert and Gwina Blake 14 July 1811 at Bristol. Baptism of George Blake 19 Nov 1809 son of Robert and Gwina Blake. Baptism of James Blake 12 Apr 1807 son of Robert and Gwina Blake (All C01716-7 Family Search). Plus a son Robert
and Family Search has his birth as 5 Nov 1799
and his baptism 29 Sep 1805 at Bristol, Gloucestershire (C0171607, Item 4).
Robert mentions his property at Bicknoller and there was a will left by Joan Blake, widow, 1828 at Bicknoller listed in the Somerset Wills (B747, box/folio 73/750). This will likely destroyed in the bombing of the Exeter Record Office during WWII. Mentioning the Bicknoller area does bring one to think whether this is a collateral line to Admiral Robert Blake.
Going to the parish Records for Bicknoller found in the following blog and taken from Martin Southwood’s excellent site http://www.wsom.org.uk/Registers/ and blogged:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2012/04/parish-records-in-overstowey-somerset.html
The marriage of Richard Blake of Stogumber and Joan Gardner 3 Feb 1777 and the baptism of their children Robert 26 May 1779, Richard 22 May 1782, John 18 Nov 1784, George 14 Jan 1788 (all mentioned in Robert’s will). There are several other children that are perhaps children of this couple mentioned on the webpage.
Richard Blake (father) was perhaps buried 27 Jun 1798 and Joan Blake, age 74, buried 19 Mar 1828 which would jive with the will mentioned above for a Joan Blake, widow.
On the 1851 census at 3 Fenland Cottage, Mary Ann Blake, head, single, 48, Proprietor, born at Brisol; Gwina Blake, mother, widow, 74, Annuitant, born at Glamorganshire, Wales; Edwina Maria Blake, niece, unmarried, 12, scholar, born at London; Robert Charles Blake, nephew, unmarried, 8 years, scholar, born at London. There is also a visitor perhaps Mary Williams, 59, widow, dress maker, born in Bristol.
On the 1861 census Mary Ann has married Thomas Hickling and she is 57 years of age. Her mother Gwinna Blake is still living and is 87 years of age, an annuitant, born at Glamorganshire Petynt; also living there Mary Ann Blake, niece, 23, unmarried, a milliner born at Bedminster; Mary Ann Blake, niece, 10 years, scholar, born at Bethnal Green, Middlesex; and Elizabeth Blake, niece, 8, scholar, born at Clifton, Gloucestershire. They are living at 7 Duke Street.
The marriage of Mary Ann Blake and Thomas Hickling 30 Jul 1859 at St Andrews Clifton, Gloucestershire. Thomas the son of John Hickling and Mary Ann the daughter of Robert Blake. Thomas was widowed.
I found the baptism of Mary Ann Blake, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Blake at St Matthias Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets 6 Apr 1851. Baptized just one week later James Blake son of Charles and Elizabeth Blake but he was 4 years of age in 1851.
I found George Blake at Bicknoller on the 1851 census. He is actually living next door to John and Amelia Siderfin (3rd cousins several time removed of mine). At this time he is a widower, 64 years of age and living with him his daughter Mary 26 and Sarah J 24. George and his daughter Mary were born at Stogumber and the younger daughter Sarah born at Bicknoller.
Trying to take this family back, could they be descendants of Richard Blake and Ann Jessop who married 30 Nov 1643 at Kilve and had two sons John and Richard. These families have not been traced down in the Portbury records for the collateral lines of Admiral Robert Blake.
http://www.portbury-hundred.co.uk/admiralreport.htm
I did transcribe the will of Richard Blake married to Ann Jessop:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/10/will-of-richard-blake-gentleman.html
Perhaps later wills will clear up the mystery of the ancestry of this Robert Blake.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 9 May 2014
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/2094/89
Testator: Robert Blake, gentleman
Place: Bedminster, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 16 Sep 1848, probated 5 Jun 1849
Condition: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Robert
[Margin]: Blake
[Margin]: 22
1 This is the Last Will and Testament
2 of me Robert Blake of Number 12 Barford Place in the parish of Bedminster
3 in the City and County of Bristol Gentleman I direct that my debts funeral and
4 also testamentary expences be fully paid and satisfied by my Executors herein
5 after named with all convenient speed after my decease I give and bequeath
6 unto my Brothers George Blake John Blake and Richard Blake the sum
7 of five pounds each to procure mourning I give and devise all that my
8 messuage or dwelling house situate and being Number 19 Wellington Street
9 in the parish of Bedminster in the said City and County of Bristol with the
10 right members and appurtenances thereunto belonging unto my Son Charles
11 Blake his heirs and assigns for ever I give devise and bequeath unto my
12 daughter Mary Ann Blake and my friend Charles Getchell of Bicknoller
13 near Taunton in the County of Somerset Farmer their heirs and assigns
14 all those my two messuages or dwellinghouses called of known by the
15 names of Freeland Villa and Freeland House situate at the Hotwells in
16 the parish of Clifton in the said City of Bristol Upon the trusts neverthe-
17 less and to and for the intents and purposes and with under and subject
18 to the powers provisoes declarations and directions hereinafter mentioned
19 expressed declared and contained of and concerning the same that is to
20 say Upon trust that they the said Mary Ann Blake and Charles Getchell
21 and the survivor of them and the heirs executors administrators and
22 assigns of such survivor do and shall from time to time by with and out of
23 the rents issues and profits of the said messuages or dwellinghouses pay unto
24 my Wife Gwina Blake one annuity or yearly sum of Fifteen pounds
25 of lawful money of Great Britain and Ireland by equal quarterly pay-
26 ments that is to say on the twenty fifth day of March the twenty fourth
27 day of June the twenty ninth day of September and the twenty fifth
28 day of December the first quarterly payment to begin and be made on such
29 of the said days as shall first happen after my decease And I
30 also unto my said son Charles Blake One Annuity or yearly sum
31 of fifteen pounds of like lawful money to be paid as aforesaid and I
32 direct the said annual sum hereinbefore given to my said Wife
33 be for her separate use and benefit And that the receipts of the said
34 Annuitants shall be good and effectual discharges for the same And
35 in case the said two messuages or dwellinghouses should through
36 being void or otherwise not produce a sufficient amount to pay the
37 said Annuities Then I direct my said daughter Mary Ann Blake
38 to pay the deficiency out of her own proper monies And I further
39 declare that any sale mortgage charge or disposition in the way of
40 authorization which either of the said Annuitants shall make or
41 attempt or agree to make of the said Annuities or if either of them
42 shall at time become Bankrupt or take the benefit of any Act of
43 Parliament for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors Then and in any of
44 the said cases the said annual sum shall cease determine and be
45 void and shall sink into and become part of the residue of my real
46 and personal estate And I hereby declare that if the said Mary Ann
47 Blake and Charles Getchell or the survivor of them or the heirs
48 executors or administrators of such survivor shall at any time
49 invest upon real or government securities a sufficient sum the
50 interest whereof shall be adequate to pay the said Annuities and
51 declare the trusts thereof accordingly Then and in that case the
52 said annual sum for which the same shall be respectively
53 expressed to be in satisfaction shall be no longer a charge on
54 my said two messuages or dwellinghouses called or known by
55 the names of Freeland Villa and Freeland House And I do
56 hereby expressly declare my mind and will to be that the provision
57 hereinbefore made to or for the receipt of my said Wife shall be accepted
58 and taken in lieu clear and full satisfaction of all such soever and whether
60 at the Common Law or by Custom or otherwise as she my said Wife
61 may have wherein claimed or demanded in upon or out of all or any of the
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62 the said messuages lands tenaments and hereditaments whereof during the
63 coverture between us I have been now am or hereafter may be seized for any
64 estate or freehold or inheritance And I direct that my said Wife do and shall
65 accordingly within six calendar months after my decease at the expence of
66 my estate make an effectual release in the law to my said trustees or the
67 survivor of them or the heirs executors administrators or assigns of such
68 survivor as by them her or him or their her or his counsel in the law
69 shall be reasonably required of all such Dower or thirds and claim of
70 dower and Thirds And in case my said Wife shall demure or refuse to make
71 and execute such release of dower then I do hereby declare that the Annuity
72 hereinbefore given as a provision for my said Wife shall be absolutely
73 null and void That as to all the Rest Residue and Remainder of
74 my Real and Personal Estate of what nature sort kind or denomi-
75 nation soever and whether Freehold Leasehold or Copyhold and all
76 monies and securities for money by Mortgage or otherwise I give devise
77 and bequeath the same unto my dear daughter Mary Ann Blake her
78 heirs executors administrators and assigns And it is my Will and I direct
79 that my brother George Blake shall if he is so willing continue to
80 reside in my Estate at Bicknoller aforesaid at the present rental provided
81 the rent be paid half yearly and whenever the same is due and payable
82 and that he keeps the premises and land in good repair and condition
83 and does not commit any waste I give devise and bequeath all the
84 estates which are vested in me as mortgagee unto my said daughter
85 Mary Ann Blake her heirs executors administrators and assigns accord-
86 ing to the nature and quality thereof respectively (but subject to the
87 equities of redemption affecting the same and on payment of the
88 principal monies interest and costs secured thereon to recovery reassign and
89 resecure the same estates to the persons entitled thereto Provided always
90 and I declare that if the trustees appointed by this my Will or to be appointed
91 as hereinafter is mentioned or any of them or their or any of their heirs
92 executors administrators and assigns shall happen to die or shall discontinue
93 or be desirous of being discharged from or fuse or seizure or be incapable
94 to accept or to act in the trusts hereby in them respectively reposed as afores-
95 aid before the said trusts shall be fully executed then and in such case
96 and when and so often as the same shall happen it shall be lawful
97 for the surviving or continuing trustee by Deed or Instrument in writing
98 executed in the presence of an attested by two witnesses from time to time
99 to appoint any fit and proper person or persons to occupy the place of
100 the trustee or trustees so dying disclaiming or desiring to be discharged
101 or refusing declining or becoming incapable to accept the said trusts or to
102 act as aforesaid And when and so often as any new trustee or trustees
103 shall be nominated and appointed as aforesaid all the trust estates monies
104 and premises the trustee or trustees whereof shall so die disclaim or desire
105 to be discharged or refuse or decline or become incapable to accept the said
106 trusts or to act as aforesaid shall be thereupon with all convenient speed
107 conveyed assigned and transferred in such sort and manner and so as that
108 the same shall and may be legally and effectually vested in the person
109 or persons so to be appointed as aforesaid Either solely or jointly with
110 the surviving or continuing trustee or trustees as occasion shall require
111 to the uses upon the trusts and for the purposes hereinbefore expressed
112 and declared of and concerning the said trust estates monies and prem-
113 ises or such of them as shall be then subsisting undetermined and
114 capable of taking effect and the person or persons so to be appointed
115 as aforesaid shall have all the powers and authorities of the trustee
116 or trustees in whose room he or they shall be substituted or appointed
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117 provided always And I do hereby declare that if the said two several messuages
118 called or known by the names of Freeland Villa and Freeland House therein
119 before devised or either of them shall become untenanted it shall be
120 lawful for the said Mary Ann Blake and Charles Getchell or the survivor
121 of them or the heirs or assigns of such survivor by Deed or Demise to lease
122 the premises which shall for the time being be untenanted to any person
123 or persons whomsoever for any term or number of years not exceeding seven
124 years to be computed from the making thereof so that there be contained in every such
125 Lease or Demise a condition for reentry on nonpayment of the rent or tents thereby
126 reserved for the space of twenty one days next after the same shall become
127 payable And so that the Lesee named therein do thereby covenant for payment
128 of the said rent and do execute a Counterpart thereof provided also and I do
129 hereby further Will and declare that neither of the Trustees hereby appointed
130 nor any Trustee or Trustees to be hereafter appointed by virtue of the
131 provision hereinbefore contained shall be charged or chargeable with
132 or for any sum or sums of money other than what they shall respectively
133 actually receive by virtue of the Trusts in them hereby reposed notwithstand-
134 ing they or any of them shall join in any receipt for the sake of conformity
135 And that one of them shall not be answerable or accountable for the
136 other of them of for the acts receipts neglects or defaults of the other of
137 them but each only for his her or their own acts receipts neglects and defaults
138 And also that it shall be lawful for them with and out of the monies
139 which shall come to their respective hands by virtue of the trusts afore-
140 said to retain to and reimburse himself herself and themselves respectively
141 and so allow to his her or their Co Trustee or Co Trustees all such costs
142 charges or expences as they or any of them shall of may respectively
143 sustain expend or be put unto in or about the execution of the trusts
144 them hereby reposed or in anywise relating thereto And hereby revoking
145 all wills by me at any time heretofore made I do hereby declare this to be
146 my last Will and Testament and appoint the said Mary Ann Blake and
147 Charles Getchell Executrix and Executor thereof In witness whereof
148 I the said Robert Blake the Testator have to this my last Will and
149 Testament contained in this and the four preceeding sheets of paper set
150 my hand this sixteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one
151 thousand eight hundred and forty eight Robert Blake Signed
152 and declared by the above named Robert Blake the Testator as and for
153 his last Will and Testament in the presence of us present as the same
154 time who have at his request and in his presence and in the presence
155 of each other subscribed our names as witnesses James Geo Hobbs
156 Solicitor Bristol Joseph Allchurch 10 Somerset Place ______ Banker
157 Proved at London 5th June 1849 before the Judge by the Oaths
158 Mary Ann Blake Spinster the daughter and Charles Gatchell in the Will
159 written Getchell the Executors to whom Admon was granted having been
160 first sworn by Common duly to administer
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