Looking at the parishes around Bodmin/St Breock

A system constantly in evolution as I extract the data from the Cornwall records. I will now start to extract the baptisms, marriages, and burials from the parishes around Bodmin/St Breock and these include:

St Minver                                    B-126, MM-35, MF-46, B-90
Egloshayle                                  B-42, MM-22, MF-24, B-29
Withiel                                         B-8, MM-3, MF-4, B-4
St Wenn                                       B-43, MM-14, MF-6, B-23
St Issey                                        B-10, MM-4, MF-6, B-14
St Kew                                         B-15, MM-4, MF-8, B-16
St Mabyn                                     B-8, MM-6, MF-11, B-4
St Endellion                                 B-51, MM-10, MF-4, B-23
Padstow                                        B-37, MM-17, MF-19, B-30
St Ervan                                        B-11, MM-5, MF-2, B-11
Helland                                         B-8, MM-8, B-3
Lanivet                                          B-5, MM-5, MF-5, B-5
St Tudy                                          B-2, MM-4, MF-2, B-2

I would estimate a couple of weeks work here. I think it may take six months in total to work on Cornwall. Although I began last year at the end of July I have done almost nothing for six months whilst my back was recovering. As I work on each county I am looking at everything that is available to me from the earliest records up to the latest census (and Free BMD although I do not record any births or marriages for living people in a public way). I tend to stick with the Canadian standard of 100 years for births, 75 years for marriages and 20 years for deaths.

Gradually I am building the trees that I find at Bodmin/St Breock and will continue with these parishes. Then I will move back to Landrake and environs to make sure I have extracted everything from this area into my trees. From there I will select on the basis of numbers of Blake entries in the baptisms/marriages/burials and then collect around these centres.

Do I see a pattern yet in how I will publish these interesting trees? No not yet but the Blake family in Cornwall is there from the beginning of the parish registers. Are they a unique founder in the British Isles? That is really the rationale for this exercise to prove that there were a number of ancient founding lines of Blake in the British Isles that are unconnected. That these lines are descendant of both immigrant Blake lines as exposed in the Britian's Immigrant Database lately published and of ancient lines in the British Isles that took on the Blake surname. Why they took on the Blake surname is an interesting query that especially catches my notice as my own line at Upper Clatford/Andover/PentonMewsey is, as a result of yDNA testing, ancient to the British Isles dating back thousands of years so they have, in the 1300s taken on the surname Blake and why did they do that? Can I find that answer for my own line and also discover the descendants of the Blake immigrants (at least 31 distinct lines) who came to England in the 1200s to 1400s.

600 plus emails

In case anyone has been writing to me the last six months whilst I have been somewhat out of action, I will get to your email but I have over 600 emails in my inbox. It is a slow process working my way through all of them and apologies for the delay.

I should say though that I do not have material on the Blake family in Ireland other than the books of Martin Blake published in the early part of the 1900s. These books are an excellent source looking at the Galway Blake family which is really quite huge in Ireland (the best way to determine if you are descendant of the Galway Blake family (at least two particular lines) is to do your yDNA. That at least gets you into the ballpark and from there, as the project grows, we hope to be able to come up with interesting results for the many Blake founder lines. I hope to get into the Irish Blake records but I am still beavering away in the counties of England and at the moment looking solely at the Blake family of Cornwall. It is an isolated county and hence much easier for me to look at. I would love to do Hampshire/Wiltshire/Somerset but it is an enormous task and will have to be done in sections as I now believe that there are a number of founder lines (including my own) and some of them are ancient to the British Isles like my I2a1b1a3 and have acquired the surname perhaps through marriage or as a characteristic surname which it is. However, Blake seems to be well established as a surname by the late 1200s/early 1300s so I suspect that adoption of it as a characteristic surname may not have occurred after this time period.

Although I have returned to research once again catching up on six months worth of emails is going to be a rather long task and do write me again as I am tending to respond to my daily emails on a regular basis picking up on the older ones as time permits. It is amazing to think I am retired as I am a rather busy retired person.

This hobby of genealogy has rather taken over my life which is surprising in itself as I was never into genealogy prior to my sudden entry into it. My cousin George DeKay can probably take most of that credit as he wanted me to write a profile of my Pincombe family for the Westminster/Delaware History Book and requested that of me in 2003. That along with the trip to London, UK in 2001 which kindled my interest in the whole idea of actually doing genalogy (although it did take a couple of years and I did fight the thought initially!). I belonged to the camp that said I already know everything about my family and in truth I did know quite a bit as what I had been told as a child matched what I found. What was missing were the details before my great grandparents in many cases completely lost to my parents and grandparents although my grandfather certainly knew his family history very well and what he remembered proved to be absolutely correct and substantiated by records. The same was true of my mother's memories of her families although she did not know all of them but what she did know was quite accurate.

John Pincombe (1728 - 1795)

52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 8

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

My choice for the 52 Ancestor Challenge this week is John Pincombe. He was baptized 13 Feb 1728 at Bishops Nympton the son of John Pincombe and Grace Manning. He married Mary Charley 8 Nov 1767 at Bishops Nympton and until I went to the Society of Genealogists in London, UK I was unsure of his death date but there I found an envelope of transcriptions made by the earlier researchers in the Pincombe one name study prior to the bombing of the Exeter Record Office in World War II. What a find that was and the transcription reads:

 This information from the Principal Registry Exeter.

John Pincombe of Bishops Nympton
John Pincombe, proved (at Exeter CC) 7 May 1795

John Pincombe of Bishops Nympton, yeoman
Will dated 14 Jun 1794
To my wife Mary £200 and goods

To my son John P. an estate called Lambescombe in North Molton
on condition he pays his two sisters £20 each in five years 

To my son Robert Pincombe £ 80 when he is 21 and £ 5 yearly until then

To my two sons William and Robert Pincombe half each of 
the copyhold estate called West Wood in Bishops Nympton when
they are 21

To my son Thomas £ 300 when he is 21 and £ 5 a year until then

To my daughter Grace Pincombe £ 110

Residue to my son William Executor

Witnesses W. Bowden, Grace Down

Seal (a stag)

Proved 7 May 1795 by William Pincombe Executor

Because the will was dated I knew he had died after 14 Jun 1794 and been buried before 7 May 1795 which left me with just one burial for John Pincombe which was 9 Aug 1794 at Bishops Nympton.

John and his wife Mary had six children John, William Mary, Grace, Robert and Thomas. Robert was my 3x great grandfather. Mary married George Zeale 20 May 1794 and this explains perhaps why there isn't a bequest to Mary in the will other than payment by one of her brothers. Mary died in childbirth and was buried 28 Mar 1795 at Bishops Nympton. Grace married Richard Headdon 14 Apr 1806 at North Molton and one of her children married John Bond (Ann Headdon married John Bond 13 Apr 1836 at North Molton). Their son John Joseph Bond was a Mormon and he married Mary Jane Blake (daughter of William Blake and Sarah Barrow) and along with their daughter Lucy Ann made the trek to Utah where their daughter Sarah Jane was born 26 Jan 1865 at Kaysville. Descendants of this family continue to live in Utah.

Linking John back to the earlier Pincombe lines in Bishops Nympton proved to be a long task. I transcribed the entire set of parish registers for Bishops Nympton (952 pages in a word document) and then knowing that I had every Pincombe entry extracted them and put the family together. In general it was felt by several researchers known to me that all the Pincombes who lived at Bishops Nympton in the 1700s/1800s were descendant of John Pincombe and Johane Blackmoore who had married 25 Sep 1655 at Bishops Nympton. This couple had had six children: William, Johan and Wilmote (twins), John, Thomas and Hugh. John died at the age of 13 years. These lines became quite separated from each other over time including living in different villages so that it became difficult to put them back together. However, I did succeed by purchasing all the parish registers needed.

Hence John was the son of John Pincombe and Grace Manning who had married 20 Mar 1725 at Bishops Nympton. Then that John was the son of William Pincombe and Mary Vicary. This William Pincombe was the eldest son of John Pincombe and Johane Blackmoore. Then that John was the son of William Pincombe and Wilmote (unknown). This William was the first Pincombe born at Bishops Nympton in the Parish Registers and he was the son of Richard Pincombe and Ann (unknown). This Richard was the son of William Pincombe and Emotte Snow although I hedge on it somewhat because there is no mention of Richard's son William in William's will of 1602. Then William was the son of Thomas Pencombe and Johane (unknown). Thomas being the son of (unknown) Pencombe who came to North Molton in 1485 with Lord de la Zouch.

I do want to read the North Molton Manor Books if they have survived to learn more about the line at North Molton but the extant records appear to permit this line as written. Earlier researchers came to a somewhat similar conclusion with regard to the Bishops Nympton family being descendant of the North Molton Pincombe family.

I did transcribe the parish registers at North Molton and marriages, baptisms and burials in the 1500s follow.

Marriages
15 Nov 1539 Margaret Pincumbe married Philip ____ydon
1 Jul 1560 John Pyncombe married Emet Hodge
29 Nov 1561 Ales Pyncombe married William Locke
26 May 1567 Margerett Pyncombe married William Squire
20 Jul 1567 Mary Pyncombe married George Squire

Baptisms and Burials
6 Jun 1543 Agnes Pyncombe daughter of William Pyncombe
8 Dec 1547 Mary Pyncombe daughter of William Pyncombe
8 Jul 1555 Marye Pyncombe daughter of John Pyncombe; buried 7 Dec 1555
5 Apr 1561 Johane Pyncombe daughter of John Pyncombe
18 Jan 1563 Marye Pyncombe daughter of John Pyncombe; buried 3 Feb 1563
29 Jun 1574 Peternell Pyncombe daughter of John Pyncombe
28 May 1592 Phillip Pyncombe son of George Pyncombe
9 Dec 1594 Emott Pyncombe daughter of George and Dorothie Pyncombe
15 Apr 1597 William Pyncombe son of George and Dorothie Pyncombe
9 Nov 1599 Johane Pyncombe daughter of George and Dorothie Pyncombe

18 Feb 1563 Elizabeth Pyncombe wife of William Pyncombe buried
13 Feb 1564 William Pyncombe buried
25 Mar 1565 William Pyncombe buried

 Ancestry of John Pincombe

1. Elizabeth BLAKE
2. Helen Louise PINCOMBE (b 18 Oct 1916) - Westminster Township Middlesex County Ontario Canada
3. John Routledge PINCOMBE (b 10 Sep 1872)- Lobo Township Middlesex County Ontario Canada
4. William Robert PINCOMBE (b 11 Jun 1837)- Molland Devon England
5. John PINCOMBE (b 5 Jul 1808)- Bishops Nympton Devon England
6. Robert PINCOMBE (b 4 Oct 1775) - Bishops Nympton Devon England
7. John PINCOMBE (b 13 Feb 1728) - Bishops Nympton Devon England
8. John PNCOMBE (b 12 Jun 1692) - Bishops Nympton Devon England
9. William PINCOMBE (b 18 Oct 1656) - Bishops Nympton Devon England
10. John PINCOMBE (b 19 Jan 1622) - Bishops Nympton Devon England
11. Willyam PINCOMBE (b 23 Mar 1599) - Bishops Nympton Devon England
12. Richarde PINCOMBE (bc 1570) - East Buckland Devon England
13. Willyam PYNCOMBE (bc 1530) - East Buckland Devon England
14. Thomas PENCOMBE (bc 1500) - Filleigh Devon England

Looking at the ancestry of John one notes that my line was at Filleigh and then East Buckland. The parish registers for these two are simply not available prior to 1685 for Filleigh and 1684 for East Buckland. As I glance through the material I notice that there is a South Molton and District Archive: Local History Society and they have a newsletter. I think I should join this group and will look into that.

Who was the Pincombe who came to North Molton in 1485 with Lord de la Zouche. I have found some earlier records. There is one rather interesting entry in the Calendar of Patent Rolls for Thomas Pencombe. The earliest records in North Devon use the Pencombe spelling.

The online repository that has the Calendar of Patent Rolls (http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/patentrolls/)  is a freely searchable set of files made available as a project of Professor G.R. Boynton and the University of Iowa Libraries. It is from the time of Richard II:

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

Is it significant that this too was a Thomas Pencombe? There is a Bromyard in Herefordshire and ust four miles away is the village of Pencombe. In the Directory of 1851 (E.C. Lascelles) there is not any one of the Pencombe name but there is a farm called Pencombe Court where a farmer William Goode resides. The church there is said to be an ancient stone structure.

Lately I received an email from someone in Sweden who has traced his ancestry back into the 1700s and probably they were on the land back into the 1600s. However, he matched my 5th cousin with his yDNA test. We both found that rather interesting and he wanted to know if at some time there was a Pincombe who had moved to Sweden and since we were talking 1600s I really do not have any ideas on that but did put forward the notion that we might both be descendant of the Vikings! He was writing to my cousin but I have not yet heard back from him. Since I tried to write this cousin many years ago unsuccessfully it would be interesting to see if he will respond now.

This particular email came at a time when I had really set aside the yDNA Pincombe project because of the non match between Pincombe and Pinkham. The two earlier researchers had put these two families together but the yDNA results for Pinkham descendants in the United States was remarkably different from my cousin's results. I think I need to just sit back and wait to see what comes out of this project.

This is my mother's maiden surname and in memory of her I have attempted to carry on her research into her own family line. She knew her line back to John Pincombe and Grace Manning having seen it in a family Bible which has been since lost to time. I never saw that particular Bible. The one that I saw was the property of my great grandfather William Pincombe and contains the only document that is now extant for his marriage to Grace Gray the records having been destroyed when the local church burned to the ground with all the records.

St Breock baptisms

St Breock baptisms prior to the mid 1800s are on Find My Past and I extracted about 100 of them. Now that I have so much information for the Bodmin/St Breock area I think my next step should be to do the rest of the parishes in the area of these two parishes and then merge families. Carrying on in too logical a fashion could create a lot of work for me later sorting items and finding duplicates. Whenever I get a large centre now in Cornwall I shall do that.

There are a number of distinct families in these areas through more than one hundred years of parish registers and they are using similar forenames so need to have a good look at them to see if I can find a founding family for them. That is the intent of all this effort after all. Now just need to get someone to test their yDNA for the Blake line in this area!

I still think yDNA hasn't sold itself yet in the British Isles. I suspect people are more interested in the autosomal DNA as it helps to relate collateral lines coming down from a common ancestor. The yDNA though is still I think the best test to do. I have to agree with the speaker at Roots Tech 2015 on that one for sure. She put yDNA as first, atDNA as second and mtDNA comes in a weak third. Do mtDNA if it interests you in finding out your deep ancestry was her comment. Since that was my original purpose in doing DNA in the beginning I certainly belong in that category - wanting to know the route out of Africa for my mtDNA and of course our yDNA through my brother's testing.

Bodmin and St Breock, Cornwall Marriages

Working on the St Breock marriages and there are 54 with a male Blake and 61 with a female Blake from the beginning of the registers in the 1500s to the late 1800s/early 1900s. There were 49 male Blake marriages at Bodmin and 42 female Blake marriages at Bodmin. As I work through all of these marriages I will eventually plot them on a map of Cornwall just to see if anything interesting emerges from such charting. St Breock and Bodmin are just seven miles apart and my grandfather used to walk to Kimpton to visit with my grandmother before they were married and that was 5 miles so it is rather reasonable that these two places would be well known by people living in these villages.

Would all of these families be descendant of John Blake from Breton coming to Bodmin earlier in the 1500s? Would a number of people have chosen the surname Blake just because of their fair colouring? On the reverse of that would a number of people have chosen the surname Blake for their swarthy colouring?

Blake appears to be a surname that was occurring around England by the end of the 1200s and with a lot of particular areas in England by the 1300s and 1400s. With the parish registers we are into the middle to latter part of the 1500s so would people have just spontaneously chosen Blake as their surname or are all of these individuals descendant of particular Blake lines from the continent?

My own line in Hampshire is sitting there in the mid 1400s with earlier Blake members in the Andover area back into the early 1300s but linking these requires a look at the Manor Records hopefully that will be true.

But the yDNA of my Blake line is pointing to an ancient line in the British Isles so at some point my line took on the surname Blake presumably and why did they do that? Along with being interested in the surname Blake I have acquired a rather strong interest in uncovering this mystery in my line back in the 1300s. Finding an Irish Blake at Salisbury is rather interesting and his forename Richard most interesting given that Robert Blake born circa mid 1400s has a son Richard and the Richard Blake from Ireland is found at Salisbury 7 Sep 1441 on the England's Immigrants database blogged earlier: http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2015/02/englands-immigrants-database-1330-1550.html

Not sure how long it will take me to work through these parish register records on the OPC Cornwall database as I have 124 parishes with baptisms, 159 parishes with marriages, 140 parishes with burials, banns in 46 parishes and non comformist baptisms in 32 parishes. I am now working on about the 12th in each of these columns (baptisms, marriages and burials).

I also want to continue working on the wills hoping to do 3 to 4 per week and still writing my 52 ancestor challenge every Monday. There are probably not enough hours in the day to do everything that I would like to do! However, will just beaver away at it all and see what happens.

Blake marriages in Cornwall up to 1575

I checked to see how many Blake marriages there were in the OPC Cornwall records up to 1575 and I found seven marriages (all from Phillimore's Marriages but a couple from parish registers as well).

Thomas Blake married Elizabeth (surname blank) September 1551 at Landulph

Robtus Blake married Johana German 14 (month missing) 1561 at St Breward

Robertus Blake married Marina Shorte 8 (month missing) 1563 at St Breward

Patrik Blake married Sedwell Truskot 15 Oct 1570 at Botus Fleming

Robert Blake married Joanna (surname blank) 12 Nov 1571 at Lanteglos by Camelford

Thomas Blake married Elnor Hama 8 Jul 1571 at St Columb Minor (parish register)\
Thomas Blake married Elnor Hama 8 Jul 1571 at St Breock (Phillimore)
Thomas Blake married Elnor Haman 8 Jul 1571 at St Columb Minor (Phillimore)

William Blake married Johan Luter 4 Feb 1575 at St Minver (parish register, Phillimore)


Looking at Bodmin with respect to the mentioned parishes:

Landulph is 23 miles from Bodmin

St Breward is 6 miles from Bodmin

Botus Fleming is 21 miles from Bodmin

Lanteglos by Camelford is 10 miles from Bodmin

St Columb Minor is 15 miles from Bodmin

St Minver is 10 miles from Bodmin

The forenames for these men include Thomas, Robert, Patrick and William.

There were also six baptisms found for Blake up to 1575 (parish registers unless otherwise noted):

 William Blake son of John baptized 1540 at Illogan (Bawden's Transcripts)

Joachim Blake son of James baptized 13 Jul 1546 at St Just in Roseland

John Blake son of James resident at Maker and baptized 21 Aug 1556 at Menheniot

William Blake son of John baptized 29 Jul 1565 at Bodmin

Humfricus Blake son of Robti baptized 23 Mar 1568 at St Breward

Nicolas Blake son of Patrik baptized 4 Jan 1571 at Botus Fleming


Looking at Bodmin with respect to the mentioned parishes:

Illogan is 25 miles from Bodmin

St Just in Roseland is 25 miles from Bodmin

Menheniot is 14 miles from Bodmin

St Breward is 6 miles from Bodmin

Botus Fleming is 21 miles from Bodmin


There were sixteen burials up to 1575 (parish registers unless otherwise noted):

John Blake son of John buried 12 May 1545 at St Just in Roseland

Joane Blake buried 15 Aug 1553 at St Just in Roseland

Richard Blake buried 28 Oct 1558 at Marhamchurch (Furze Transcripts)

Thomas Blake son of William buried 15 Sep 1559 at St Minver

John Blake buried 24 Feb 1561 at St Breock (unknown source)

Alson Blake wife of John buried 17 Feb 1561 at St Breock (unknown source)

Thomasine Blake wife of Robert buried 26 Mar 1561 at St Breward

Constance Blake daughter of John buried 25 Oct 1562 at St Breock (unknown source)

Jane Blake wife of Thomas buried 11 Dec 1562 at St Breock (unknown source)

Johanna Blake daughter of Robert buried 4 May 1563 at St Breward

John Blake son of Robert buried Jan 1563 at St Breock (unknown source)

Margerye Blake buried 4 Mar 1564 at St Breock (unknown source)

William Blake son of Roger buried 16 Apr 1570 at St Ewe

Robert Blake buried 23 Apr 1572 at St Breock (unknown source)

Richard Blake son of Davy buried 1 Jul 1575 at Sheviock


Looking at Bodmin with respect to the mentioned parishes:


St Just in Roseland is 25 miles from Bodmin

Marhamchurch is 25 miles from Bodmin

St Minver is 10 miles from Bodmin

St Breock is 7 miles from Bodmin

St Breward is 6 miles from Bodmin

St Ewe is 14 miles from Bodmin

Sheviock is 20 miles from Bodmin

Looking at the distances are there two distinct Blake families or a family that is quite mobile? After all John Blake came from Breton before 16 Feb 1525 in the England's Immigrant Database. His entire record reads:

Person ID     64393
Page Number     rot.1
Forename        John
Surname          Blake
Origin nationality standard    Breton
Origin region    Brittany
Origin region standard   Brittany
Origin region modern    France
Gender      Male
DOB type     Exact
DOD type     Exact
Wealth type   Wages
Wealth total s     20
Wealth payable d    8
Residence County   Cornwall
Residence Town    Trigg hundred
Residence Ward   Bodmin
Document - ID Document 2645
Archive TNA
Reference E 179/87/131
Document Type      Tax assessment
Document Start Date   1525 02  16
Document Start Date Type      Before
Document End Date Type   Exact
Content Start Date Type     Exact
Content End Date Type   Exact
Document Notes     Assessment for Trigg hundred, Cornwall

Interesting that his wealth is 20 shillings (or 240 pence) and his tax payable is 8 s or 3% of  his worth. 3% taxes is not too bad actually.

Interesting thoughts from this exercise would be that John as a forename still existed in the mid 1500s and were they descendant of the John Blake who came from Brittany? Were all these Blakes related mentioned above? Could a family in two generations move that far from their base at Bodmin (if that was their base)? I descend from Blake on my paternal side and they never moved more than 2 km from Andover in nearly 500 years (at least the mid 1400s to the early 1900s) and my Pincombe on my maternal side were found in South Molton area or within 5 km from 1485 to the mid 1800s although prior to that they may have come from Herefordshire to North Molton (a distance of 232 kilometres) in 1485.

Do records exist from this early time frame that can be examined? The Cornwall OPC site has a number of extra items so checked out the 1569 Muster Rolls:

1569 Trigg Hundred St Minver Willm Blake a b bill

1569 Lesnewth Hundred Lanteglos by Camelford Thomas Blake alm rivet bill

1569 Lesnewth Hundred Lanteglos by Camelford Robert Blake a b bill

1569 Lesnewth Hundred Poundstock John Blake a b bow, 2 arr

1569 Lesnewth Hundred Advent John Blake bill pr splints

1569 East Hundred St Germans Ric Blake a b bill

1569 East Hundred Sheviock Davy Blake a b bill

1569 Powder Hundred St Stephen in Brannel John Blake a b bill

1569 Powder Hundred St Ewe Richarde Blake a b

1569 Pydar Hundred St Breock John Blake a h bill harq

1569 Pydar Hundred St Breock Thomas Blake a b alm rivet fur

1569 Pydar Hundred St Breock Willm Blake a b

1569 Pydar Hundred St Columb Major Ric Blake a ar bill pr splints 12 arrows

1569 Pydar Hundred Padstow John Blake a ar bow 4 arr

1569 Pydar Hundred St Eval Michell Blake a b bill

1569 Penwith Hundred Illogan Willm Blake a b bill

1569 West Hundred Lanreath Thomas Blake a b bill

I found this list to be rather rewarding and breaking it down into parishes:

St Minver         (10 miles)                                              Willm Blake

Lanteglos by Camelford       (10 miles)                         Thomas Blake, Robert Blake

Poundstock            (22 miles)                                        John Blake

Advent                    (9 miles)                                        John Blake

St Germans             (19 miles)                                       Ric Blake

Sheviock                 (20 miles)                                      Davy Blake

St Stephen in Brannel       (13 miles)                            John Blake

St Ewe                (15 miles)                                           Richarde Blake

St Breock             (7 miles)                                          John Blake, Thomas Blake, Willm Blake

St Columb Major         (11 miles)                                Ric Blake

Padstow                    (12 miles)                                    John Blake

St Eval                    (13 miles)                                     Michell Blake

Illogan                 (29 miles)                                        Willm Blake

Lanreath             (10 miles)                                         Thomas Blake


A total of 5 with forename John, 3 with forename William, 3 with forename Thomas, 3 with forename Ric/Richarde, 1 with forename Robert, 1 with forename Davy and 1 with forename Michell. A total of 17 males  and where there are multiple names at a parish they are father and sons perhaps or brothers possibly. Interesting to find 5 with the forename John. I have gone back in and added in the distance from Bodmin and note that not one is listed as Bodmin in this Muster Roll. The furthest away is 29 miles or 46 kilometres.

Are these men all descendants of John Blake from Breton? There are 14 distinct groups and they could be sons/grandsons/great grandsons of John. This list could include teenage boys as well who could be serving apprenticeships in different parishes. So I am led to the thought that I could be looking at the spread of a family over time especially given that England in this time period was recovering from massive losses of people due to the Bubonic Plague in 1348 (estimated that half of the population died). The plague returned in 1361-62 and it is estimated that 20% of the population perished (these figures from Wikipedia and there is an impressive list of references: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death_in_England ). There would not be a reason even as late as the 1500s to limit family sizes as England's population did not recover until on into the 17th and 18th centuries.

Does this Muster Roll cover all of Cornwall?  The information was taken from this website: http://www.icmacentre.ac.uk/soldier/database/ and is titled the soldier in later Mediaeval England. The records are taken from muster rolls housed at The National Archives (UK) for the years 1369 - 1453 (Blakes listed in this database and mentioned in an earlier blog http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/03/mediaeval-soldiers-database-muster-roll.html). I note that there was a group serving with Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter, at Harfleur Normandy which included: Hugo Blake, John Blake, Thomas Blake, Henry Blake and John Blake. However no home location is given for these men. There is so much data on Blake though in this early time period that it makes sense to postulate that Blake is a characteristic surname and we can expect to find a number of founders. Did it become an exclusive surname though by this time period in that no one would have taken it on by the 1200s unless it was actually their surname? It does appear to have French/Dutch/Flemish origins in this very early time period but also the Irish Blake who came to Salisbury but was he simply a Blake who had gone from England at an earlier time period and then returned in the next generation of his family? All interesting thoughts as I learn more about the early history of the Blake family.

I think perhaps the Muster Rolls that I found are from somewhere else. I did locate the page in this website:

http://www.cornwall-opc-database.org/extra-searches/muster-rolls/muster-rolls-background/

The muster included all able men between the ages of 16 and 60 with a couple of exclusions. Most of the men in this list were actually able bodied as the hundreds of Powder, Pydar, West and East limited themselves to able bodied males only.

Blake family at Bodmin, Cornwall, England

Finding the rather interesting record of a John Blake from Breton at Bodmin, Cornwall before 16 Feb 1525 in the England's Immigrant Database was timely in terms of my working on Cornwall. The parish records for Bodmin do go back into the 1500s with a John Blake baptizing William Blake 29 Jul 1565. The earliest marriage at Bodmin for Blake is Robert Blake marrying Kathren Cocke 28 May 1581. They baptize a son Roger 21 Oct 1582. No marriages though for a William Blake until 1636 at Bodmin. But if one is looking at Bodmin then closeby there is also St Breock, Egloshayle, Helland, Cardinham, Lanhydrock, Lanivet and Withiel. As I reach these parishes I shall try to link the information together knowing that they are closeby.

I am just working on the Bodmin parish records and entering them into Legacy. My plan for looking at Cornwall is slowly changing from the original thought of working first on Cornwall itself and then I moved to thinking about the Blake families at Landrake and I have now returned to looking at the entire county once again as I enter all the records that are listed on the OPC Cornwall website for Blake. Cornwall is my test county partly because it shares just the one border with Devon and was more or less isolated at the far southwest of England. Going to Wales was also a possibility and I will watch for that as I work my way through. But in general it was an isolated area and so a good spot to begin and try to work out a plan for looking at Blake families in particular areas. I would have loved to have chosen Hampshire but one  needs to look at Wiltshire/Dorset/Berkshire/Sussex/Surrey and even London when one is doing Hampshire.

Will of William Blake, Cardboard Maker, Dursley, Gloucestershire - Diocese of Bristol Wills on Ancestry, probated 25 Jun 1787

William Blake of Dursley is the testator. He is married to Sarah. On Family Search I found the baptism of Mary 16 Apr 1755 and Betty 18 June 1758 at Dursley. They would appear to be the youngest daughters.

On Ancestry I found Ann baptized 3 Jul 1744 at Dursley, There was also a William Blake baptized January 1749 at Dursley son of William and Sarah Blake. There was also a Catherine Blake baptized 8 Aug 1742 at Eastington daughter of William and Sarah Blake. Sarah is missing but by the naming in the will she would have been born after Ann and before Mary so between 1744 and 1755. Eastington (near Stonehouse is 5 miles from Dursley).

William Blake married Sarah Stephens 25 Dec 1740 at Eastington, Gloucestershire. The marriage lines mention that William Blake was of the parish of Dursly. In the baptismal at Eastington in 1742 Catherine is noted as a daughter of William and Sarah Blake of Dursley.

There was a William Blake (and his twin John) baptized 22 Mar 1710 son(s) of John and Ann Blake. A John Blake and Ann Cishall were married 26 Jan 1707 at Dursley.

This does not lead me back to any of the other wills for Gloucestershire at a quick glance. The next will is for a William Blake (administration) and was submitted by his sister Sarah Millard at Dursley.  On Ancestry I found that Sarah Blake married Edward Millard 18 Feb 1781 at Dursley. The marriage lines are witnessed by William Blake and Benj Hill. There is also a marriage 7 Aug 1781 at Dursley between William Blake and Hannah Samuels.

Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 18 Feb 2015
Source: Diocese of Bristol Wills on Ancestry
Testator: William Blake
Place: Dursley, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 5 Apr 1786, probated 25 Jun 1787
Condition: 18th century English, legible copy


1    In the Name of God Amen I William Blake of
2    Dursley in the County of Gloucester Cardboard Maker being (I bless God)
3    of sound and disposing Mind Memory and Understanding do make
4    publish and declare this to be my last Will and Testament in manner
5    following (that is to say) First I will and Direct that all my just
 6    debts and Funeral Expences be paid and discharged And Subject
7    thereto and charged and chargeable therewith, I Give and Bequeath
8    unto my dear Wife the use of all and singular my Household Goods
9    Plate Linen and Furniture and all other my Personal Estate of what
10    nature or kind soever for and during the Term of her natural Life,
11    And my Will is that she may use and employ my Stock in Trade
12    and Monie part of my said personal Estate in Trade to the best
13    advantage she can the better to enable her to maintain herself And
14    I Will that a true and perfect Inventory and Appraisement be taken
15    of all my said Household Goods Plate Linen and Furniture and other
16    my Personal Estate as soon as may be after my decease which I
17    direct shall be signed by my said Wife and delivered to my Son in
18    Law Thomas Lockier to be at any time inspected by any or either of
19    my Daughters hereinafter named: And from and after her decease
20    I Give and Bequeath the Sum of Ten Pounds part of my said
21    Personal Estate to each and every of my daughters Catherine Ann
22    Sarah Mary and Elizabeth and I direct that the Receipt of my said Daughter Catherine for her said Legacy shall be sufficient alone without her Husband who shall not intermeddle herein All the rest and residue of my said
23    personal Estate from and after the decease of my said Wife I
24    Give and Bequeath unto such of my said daughters and in such
25    Shares parts and proportions as my said Wife shall at any time
26    during her natural Life by her last Will and Testament in Writing
27    or by any Writing purporting to be her last Will and Testament to
28    be by her Sealed and Delivered in the presence of two or more
29    credible Witnesses Give or Bequeath the same And for want or
30    default of such Gift or Bequest I give and Bequeath the same
31    rest and residue of my said personal Estate (from and after the
32    decease of my said Wife) unto all and every my said daughters
33    equally to be divided between them share and share alike And
34    I do hereby make nominate constitute and appoint my said Wife
35    the Executrix of this my last Will and Testament And Lastly
36    revoking all former and other Wills by me at any time heretofore
37    made I declare this to be my last Will and Testament In
38    Witness whereof I the said William Blake the said Testator have to
39    this my last Will and Testament set my Hand and Seal the Fifth
40    day of April in the Twenty Sixth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign
41    Lord King George the Third And in the Year of our Lord One Thousand
42    William Blake
43    Seven Hundred and Eighty Six
44    Signed Sealed Published and Declared                                      
45    by the said Testator William Blake as and for
46    his last Will and Testament in the presence
47    of us The Interlineation on the other side being
48    first made
49    Conway Whithorne
50    J Hill
51    25th June 1787
52    The above named Sarah Blake the widow
53    and sole Executrix was duly sworn
54    before me
55    James Webster Surrogate
56    Sworn to less
57    than £100
58    This Will was proved the 25th June 1787 Before the Reverend James
59    Webster Surrogate to the Worshipful Edward Cooke Master of arts Vicar
60    general in Spirituals of the Right Reverend Father in God Samuel by
61    divine Permission Lord Bishop of the Diocese of Gloucester and of his
62    Episcopal Consistory Official principal lawfully constituted by Sarah
63    Blake the widow and sole Executrix etc to whom and having first Sworn well
64    and faithfully to administer the said Will and also to Exhibit an Inventory
65    and Render an Account etc

Administration of William Blake of Prestbury, Gloucestershire - Diocese of Bristol Wills on Ancestry, probated 20 Apr 1706

Will for William Blake of Presbury and mentioned the administrator is his wife Margaret Blake and Henry Hathaway. William was a yeoman. Also mentioned is his Grandson William Blake as administrator.

There isn’t a marriage at Prestbury for a William and Margaret Blake in this time frame:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2014/08/prestbury-gloucestershire-records-on.html
A longer look at the Blake families in Prestbury when I am doing reconstruction.

Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 14 Feb 2015
Source: Ancestry – Diocese of Bristol Wills
Testator:  William Blake
Place: Prestbury, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Probate
Date of document: 15 Apr 1706, probated 20 Apr 1706
Condition: 18th century English, legible copy

1 Noverint universi per p[re]sentes nos Will[ia]m Blake de Presbury in
2 Coun Glouc yeoma[n] Margaretem Blake de ead[em] wid and Henricum
3 Hathaway de Civit Glouc yeoma[n]
4 teneri et firmiter obligari rendo in depo pre et duo dno Edw
5 permisene dia Glouc Epo[m] Qungentij
6 libris bone et legalis monete Angliae solvendis eisdem duo Epo aut
7 suo certo Attornat Executor vel Administrator suis ad quam quidem solutionem bene
8 et fideliter faciendam Obligamus nos et quemlibet no[str]um per se pro toto et in solidum
9 Here[de]s Executor et Administrator n[ost]ros et cujuslibet n[ost]rum firmiter per presents
10 sigillis no[str]is sigillatas Dat quinto die mensis Aprilis
11 Annoque Regni duo ura Anne
12 dei gracia Angliae Scotice Francice et Hibernie Regis  fidei defenser
13 etc Quinto Annoque d[omi]ni 1706
14 The Condic[i]on of this Obligacon is such that if the abovebound William Blake
15 Grand Son and Administrator of all and singuler the goods ch[at]ells
16 and credits of William Blake late of Prestbury above s[ai]d deceased
17 doe make or cause to be made a true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the goods
18 chattels and credits of the said deceased which have or shall come to the hands pos[sess]ion
19 or knowledge of him the said William Blake above bound or
20 into the hands and possession of any person or persons for him and the same so
21 made doe exhibit or cause to be exhibited into the Registry of Glouc
22 at or before the last day of May next
23 ensuing And the same goods chattels and credits and all other the goods chattels and credits
24 of the said deceased at the time of his death which at any time after shall come to the
25 hands or possession of the said Will[ia]m Blake or into the hands and
26 possession of any other person or persons for him doe well and truly administer
27 according to law And further doe make or cause to be made a true and just accompt
28 of his s[ai]d Ad[ministra]con at or before the last day of Aprill Anno 1707
29 and all the rest and residue of the said goods chattels and credits which shall be found
30 remaining upon the said Administrators accompt the same being first examined and
31 allowed of by the Judge or Judges for the time being of the said Court shall deliver
32 and pay unto such person or persons respectively as the said Judge or Judges by his
33 or their decree or sentence p[ur]suant to the true intent and meaning of a late Act of
34 Parliament made in the two and twentieth and three and twentieth yeares of the raigne
35 of o[u]r Late Soveraigne L[or]d King Charles the second (Intituled An Act for the better
36 settling of Intestates (Istates) shall limit and appoint And if it shall hereafter
37 appeare that any last will and Testament was made by the said deceased and the
38 Executor or Executors therein named doe exhibit the same into the said Court making
39 request to have it allowed and approved accordingly if the said Administrator
40 above bounden being thereunto required doe render and deliver the said Lines of Ad[ministrat]con
41 (approbacion of such Testament being first had and made) in the said County Then this
42 Obligacon to be void and of none effect or otherwise remaine in full force and virtue
43 Sealed and Delivered
44 in the presence of
45 Rob[er]t Moore N P
46 Marg[are]t Blake’s mark
47 Henr Halaway his mark

John Butt (1776 - 1850)

52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 7

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

John Butt is one of my ancestors that I knew for quite a long time and possibly for much longer than I really realize. His eldest son Charles was known to my grandfather as a child. Charles was a Methodist Lay Preacher and an agricultural labourer. He lived to be 86 years old and it was his 80th birthday party at Turnworth that my grandfather remembered. Quite likely this was the furtherest that my grandfather had ever been away from home at Upper Clatford. He never really mentioned that but he remembered his great grandfather Charles who could tell him about life in England from the early 1800s on.

John Butt was baptized 10 May 1776 at Winterborne Clenstone. That was the main reason that I took on OPC for Winterborne Clenstone way back in 2007. He was the son of John Butt and Mary Rolles who were themselves married 9 Aug 1762 at Winterborne Clenstone. This John had been baptized 6 May 1736 at Winterborne Stickland and was the son of William Butt and Susanna Foster and they had been married 31 Jan 1729 at Winterborne Stickland. I was unable to trace back further from this point until I met a cousin at Genes Reunited and she had been into the Dorset Record Office and traced the family back much further. The father of this William Butt was also a William Butt and he was married to Elizabeth Lemon. They were married at Winterborne Houghton 27 Jul 1696 and their eldest son William had been baptized 28 May 1697 at Winterborne Houghton. The father William had been baptized 24 Aug 1665 at Winterborne Stickland the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Butt.  Thomas was baptized 31 Mar 1622 at Winterborne Houghton the son of Robert Butt and Susan Cantrell who were themselves married 13 Apr 1607 at Winterborne Stickland. Richard Cantrell the father of Susan had been buried 15 Dec 1591 Winterborne Stickland.

We traveled through the Winterborne Valley when we visited England in 2008. There was a light mist over the valley and the hills roll away from you into valleys. It was a beautiful sight standing on the knoll where the church of St Nicholas stands in Winterborne Clenstone. I was too new to genealogy to really learn as much as I would now from such a visit. I did photograph a number of the memorial stones in the small cemetery just above the Winterborne (a small river) and at the base of the hill away from the Church. The Church is a Heritage building and used for services only a couple of times a year. It is in beautiful condition and looks out loftily over the valleys and hills that surround it.

Richard Cantrell is my 10th great grandfather and the furtherest I have information for this line back.  No ideas on the father of Robert Butt my 9x great grandfather. I do not know a lot about this family although I believe they were always agricultural labourers working in this Winterborne Valley. Robert and Susan had eight children - 7 sons and 1 daughter. I have trace downs for several of the sons - Simon, Thomas and John. They remained in this beautiful valley until the mills of Lancashire beckoned some of them away in the mid 1800s and Charles (my 3x great grandfather)'s brothers went off to Australia (George and Stephen and there are thousands of descendants there) and Canada (Joseph and there are thousands of descendants here). Charles and Robert remained in England and I have lately met an ancestor of Robert's line on My Heritage. Charles had two sisters with Bethaniah dying as an infant and Maria married to James Vacher.

John Butt (1776-1850) married Jean Durnford 14 Oct 1800 at Winterborne Stickland. Jean was the daughter of Thomas Durnford and Mary Ball and for me this line remains a brickwall. Jean was baptized at Winterborne Stickland 29 Sep 1771.

There isn't a lot of information on this Butt family other than my small bit of family lore but they have spread far around the world. Surprisingly one of my mother's best friends Teresa Butt was actually my father's third cousin but he didn't know that although may have suspected it from the surname. Joseph Butt had emigrated to Canada with his wife Sarah Arnold (Charles and Joseph had married Arnold sisters). Then three of Charles' children married three Knight siblings making this quite a combination of double and triple cousins! No one, other than myself, though have tested their atDNA to my knowledge thus far. Although I do have five people on my Family Finder with the Arnold surname but none with the Butt surname.

Charles' daughter Louisa was one of my known ancestors as my father knew of Louisa (she died before he was born) probably from his great grandfather Samuel Knight whom he knew as a child. Samuel and Louisa were married 7 Sep 1849 at Winterborne Stickland and I visited their memorial stone in 2008 at St Mary the Virgin parish Church in Turnworth Dorset. Their eldest daughter Maria Jane was my great grandmother and she married Edward Blake at Upper Clatford. They had twelve children and the eldest daughter Louisa Mary lived with her grandparents at Turnworth, married there and looked after Samuel until he died. My grandfather Samuel was Maria Jane's second son.

Ancestry of John Butt

1. Elizabeth BLAKE
2. Ernest Edward George BLAKE (b 20 Aug 1904) - Eastleigh Hampshire England
3. Samuel George BLAKE (b 10 Feb 1875) - Upper Clatford Hampshire England
4. Maria Jane KNIGHT (b 27 Jan 1849) - Turnworth Dorset England
5. Louisa BUTT (b 27 Jan 1827) - Winterborne Stickland Dorset England
6. Charles BUTT (b 21 Dec 1801) - Winterborne Stickland Dorset England
7. John BUTT (b 10 May 1776) - Winterborne Clenstone Dorset England
8. John BUTT (b 6 May 1736) - Winterborne Stickland Dorset England
9. William BUTT (b 10 Dec 1696) - Winterborne Houghton Dorset England
10. William BUTT (b 24 Aug 1665) - Winterborne Houghton Dorset England
11. Thomas BUTT (b 31 Mar 1622) - Winterborne Houghton Dorset England
12. Robert BUTT (b c 1570) 

It does seem like a long way to go back in an agricultural labourer's family and I really have no ideas on this family back into the 1600s. Were they always labourers or did they at one time farm and being younger sons did not inherit any leases or the like so had to make their own way in the world? They did it very well and the Butt family is huge around the world. A couple of years before I started into genealogy (2001 I think) there was a Butt family reunion in England. I would dearly have loved to attend that reunion and perhaps one day there will be another!

England's Immigrants Database 1330-1550

A rather tantalizing new set of documents (England's Immigrants Database 1330-1550) is available for searching:

http://www.englandsimmigrants.com/search/results?keyword=blake&startDate=1300&endDate=1600&col1=name&col2=nationality&col3=date&col4=origin&col5=residence&page=1

I, of course, searched on Blake and Pincombe. Pincombe does not appear as that spelling or as Pencomb/Pencombe/Pincomb.

This is the citation for this particular set of documents.  England’s Immigrants 1330 – 1550 (www.englandsimmigrants.com, version 1.0, 15 February 2015), http://www.englandsimmigrants.com/contact

The project is a collaboration between the University of York, The National Archives and the Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield.

Finding Richard le Blake coming from Normandy in 1274 had started my thinking outside of the box with respect to Blake in the British Isles. This set of documents further intensifies this thinking process as I found  54 entries in the database. In all likehood a number of the entries are for the same person but it does appear that there are 31 distinctive individuals (I excluded the four wives as I could not tell if they were actually English or immigrants with their husbands plus there are four female names mentioned so could be duplicating) coming to England from The Netherlands (6 one noted as Fleming), Normandy, France, Breton (2), Scotland (2) and Ireland (1). Only 13 have their place of origin noted. The male forenames include: Adam, Hayn, Henry, Herman, Hugh, John, Lodewicus, Patrick, Peter, Philip, Richard, Robert, Stephen, Thomas, Walter, and William. There are four female names: Agnes, Alice, Gunna (wife of Herbert) and Katherine. Four females are listed but only as the wife of and in this case wife of Henry Blake (2 entries), of Peter Blake and of John Blake.

It is possible to download all of the results into a spreadsheet so I have put only basic details into this blog:

Surname    Forename    Nationality    Day    Month    Year    Residence
Blake    Adam        8    Aug    1456    London
Blake    Agnes        aft 29    Sep    1441    London
Blake    Alice        21    Apr    1440    Gloucestershire, St Nicholas
Blake    Gunna    Dutch    12    Jul    1440    Huntingdonshire, Huntingdon
Blake    Hayn        27    Sep    1456    Kent, Ospringe
Blake    Henry            Oct    1441    London, Castle Baynard ward
Blake    Henry        18    Jan    1443    London, Castle Baynard ward
Blake    Henry        aft 29    Sep    1441    London
Blake    Henry        5    Sep    1449    London, Farringdon without ward
Blake    Henry        aft 3     Dec    1450    Kent
Blake    Herman    Dutch    12    Jul    1440    Huntingdonshire, Huntingdon
Blake    Hugh        5    Sep    1449    London
Blake    John        9    Oct    1441    London, Cripplegate ward
Blake    John        11    Oct    1441    London, Queenhithe ward
Blake    John        18    Jan    1443    London, Cripplegate ward
Blake    John        aft 29    Sep    1441    London
Blake    John        18    Jan    1443    London, Queenhithe ward
Blake    John        aft 29    Sep    1441    London
Blake    John        aft 29    Sep    1441    London
Blake    John        aft 29    Sep    1441    London
Blake    John    Scot    26    Sep    1465    Lincolnshire, Rathby
Blake    John    Dutch    11    Jul    1440    Hampshire, King's Somborne hundred
Blake    John        10    Aug    1441    Gloucestershire, All Saints
Blake    John    Fleming    24   Jul    1484    Devon, Exeter
Blake    John    Norman    18    Apr    1524    Dorset, Eastbury
Blake    John    Breton    bef 16    Feb    1525    Cornwall, Bodmin
Blake    John    Dutch            c 1524    Essex, Aveley
Blake    Katherine        14    Jul    1467    London
Blake    Lodewicus    Dutch    18    Aug    1441    Northamptonshire, Yarwell
Blake    Lodwico    Dutch    24    May    1440    Northamptonshire, Yarwell
Blake    Patrick        7    Apr    1440    Essex, High Roding
Blake    Patrick        aft 29    Sep    1441    London
Blake    Peter        6    Sep    1463    Bedfordshire
Blake    Peter        20    Sep    1455    Bedfordshire, Dunstable
Blake    Peter        10    Jul    1406   
Blake    Philip        5    Jul    1440    Shropshire, Shrewsbury
Blake    Richard    Scot    15    Sep    1451    Northumberland, Newcastle upon Tyne
Blake    Richard    Irish    10    Jul    1440    Wiltshire, Salisbury
Blake    Richard    Irish    10    Aug    1441    Gloucestershire, St Leonard
Blake    Richard    Irish    7    Sep    1441    Wiltshire, Salisbury
Blake    Robert        28    Aug    1441    Warwickshire, Coventry
Blake    Robert        21    Apr    1440    Gloucestershire, Holy Trinity
Blake    Robert        10    Aug    1441    Gloucestershire, Holy Trinity
Blake    Robert    French    19    Sep    1441    Wiltshire, Great Somerford
Blake    Stephen        11    Jul    1440    Hampshire, Millbrook
Blake    Thomas        aft 29    Sep    1441    London
Blake    Walter        18    Jan    1443    London, Billingsgate ward
Blake    Walter        aft 29    Sep    1441    London
Blake    William        18    Jan    1443    London, Tower ward
Blake    William    Breton    4    Apr    1524    Devon, Morchard Bishop
Blake    wife of Henry Blake            Oct    1441    London, Castle Baynard ward
Blake    wife of Henry Blake        18    Jan    1443    London, Castle Baynard ward
Blake    wife of Walter Blake        18    Jan    1443    London, Billingsgate ward
Blake    wife of John Blake        18    Jan    1443    London

Comparing this information to the map which I prepared from the occurrence of Blake in the Calendar of Patent Rolls is rather interesting as well.

http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/01/calendar-of-patent-rolls-summary-of.html

The entries in the Calendar of Patent Rolls range between 30 Jan 1230 and 16 Jun 1452. There is some overlap with this new database in terms of time. The Immigrants' database entries range between 10 Jul 1406 (one entry only) and then from 7 Apr 1440 to 16 Feb 1525 with the bulk of the entries between 1440 and 1443. Some of these people could be related especially where no nationality is given. For instance two Bretons William Blake and John Blake settled in Morchard Bishop, Devon and Bodmin Cornwall 1 Apr 1524 and before 16 Feb 1525 respectively. But tantilizingly is this the Cornwall/Devon Blake family that I am busy attempting to put together? There was also a John Blake, noted as Fleming, in Exeter Devon 24 Jul 1484 so a further Blake line to distract me.

Of special interest to me are the entires for Hampshire and Wiltshire where we can see that Richard Blake, noted as Irish, can be located at Salisbury Wiltshire 10 Jul 1440. There is a Stephen Blake, no nationality noted, 11 Jul 1440 at Millbrook Hampshire. John Blake, Dutch, 11 Jul 1440 at King's Somborne hundred, Hampshire. Robert Blake, French, 19 Sep 1441 at Great Somerford, Wiltshire. But as is often the case for immigrants to England, London has the largest number of Blake immigrants with about half of them being listed as living in London.

Another interesting immigrant is John Blake, Norman, 18 Apr 1524 at Eastbury, Dorset. Is he related to Richard le Blake who arrived in 1274? I can not find Blake as a surname in the modern French population but the possibility that it is an earlier form of the present day surname of Blanch[er] (both meaning fair blanc and blak) still remains.

The England's Immigrants Database being available has occurred at a rather interesting time. The Y haplogroup table has now been updated to show the effect of the YFull, Big Y, Gen 2.0, Britains DNA testing and other projects as noted on the website below. Within the haplogroup to which my Blake line belongs one can find (https://sites.google.com/site/compositeytree/home):

I2a1b M423 (19096091 G->A)
• • • • •I2a1b1 L161.1/S185.1 (22513718 C->T)
• • • • • •I2a1b1a L1498/Y4008 (18668472 C->T)
• • • • • • •I2a1b1a1 FGC7218/Y5280 (21354226 G->A) YFull subgroup                   Irish
• • • • • • •I2a1b1a2 FGC14448/Y5450 (7158983 A->G) YFull subgroup                   Irish
• • • • • • •I2a1b1a3 FGC7108/S2640 (14107847 G->A)
• • • • • • • •I2a1b1a3a FGC7197/S7703 (17494645 G->C)
• • • • • • • • •I2a1b1a3a1 S7714 (21345894 T->A)
• • • • • • • • • •I2a1b1a3a1a S8889 (4310132 A->G)

At this moment in time the S2640 has been assigned by BritainsDNA as the subtype but there are a number of other markers within this testing that further define our haplogroup. But the three markers mentioned above are ancestral in my paternal line (namely S7703, S7714 and S8889). This is a very very small haplogroup (0.9% of the I haplogroup which is only 18.1% of the entire database for Y DNA so a very small number) but is most commonly found in Ireland (however this chart does show that only I2a1b1a1 and I2a1b1a2 are said to be Irish) with my group I2a1b1a3 not being assigned to a particular ethnic group. Looking at the anonymized chart which BritainsDNA provided of the  15 testers in S185 looking at S2640 4 were ancestral and 11 derived; those derived belonging to I2a1b1a3. For S7703 5 were ancestral, with the other 10 derived; those derived belonging to I2a1b1a3a. For S7714  11 were ancestral with 4 only being derived; those derived belonging to I2a1b1a3a1. For S8889 13 were ancestral with 2 only being derived; those derived belonging to I2a1b1a3a1a. Of the 15 testers, my line does not have any matches since the four that have S2640 with my line also show new mutations beyond S2640. Although it could be that no one has tested yet to show that some of the other mutations in our signature do constitute a further subgrouping within I2a1b1a3 namely I2a1b1a3b. Still more to come in this field of yDNA testing!

Interesting that on this day I should find that a Richard Blake has come from Ireland to Salisbury Wiltshire 10 Jul 1440 (17 miles from Andover). However, I also find a John Blake, Dutch, even closer 11 Jul 1440 at King's Somborne hundred, Hampshire (about 9 miles from Andover).

On the one hand it might have been quite interesting to be descendant of Richard le Blake whose pedigree chart at 12 feet by 4 feet is an amazing piece of Blake family memoribilia but on the other hand finding a reason for my Blake line to be most commonly found in Ireland and an individual with the Blake surname bringing it to Salisbury Wiltshire is positively intriguing!

Knowing that Robert Blayke left his will in 1521 at Knights Enham (likely born circa mid 1400s as he was quite elderly) further intensifies this thought as he named his son Richard. So finding a Richard in 1440 at Salisbury from Ireland is certainly an interesting happening. Why would he go to Andover when he is in Salisbury? Good question but having driven in that part of the country certainly the green fields around Andover must have been very inviting. The route between Salisbury and Andover is all agricultural and the land looks particularly benevolent in terms of crops and flocks of sheep!

As more and more documents come on line from this early time period perhaps it will be possible to piece together the lives of our ancestors backwards into the past. It still continues to amaze me that this Blake line of mine was so long in the Andover area but the land was rich, they were farmers and it was a fairly quiet valley in terms of wars throughout England's history. 

Blake family at Landrake, Cornwall

Working my way through the records on the OPC Cornwall site and using Find My Past I discovered an interesting set of marriages at Sheviock.

John Blake married Penticost Paschoe 20 May 1609

Pentecost Blake married William Dewstowe 20 Jan 1634

S Blake married Dowell Dewstowe 11 May 1637

I am formulating an assumption that Pentecost Blake and S Blake are both daughters of John and Pentecost. I found online a comment that Dewstowe and Denstowe are possibly variants. That brought me to the memory that Philip Blake married Elizabeth Denstowe 21 Mar 1754 at Plymouth. Philip having kindly left a will in 1808 which lists all of his children (12 in total). I have been wondering if Philip is the son of Richard Blake and Elizabeth Blake who married 28 Sep 1732 at St Earney or was he the Philip son of Henry Blake married to Thomazine Palmer as claimed by an online tree by Charles Speed at World Connect? 

Of interest the Blake family at Sheviock is descendant of John Blake and Grace Smyth with their son Thomas marrying Judith Martyn 10 Mar 1695 at Maker. Judith in her will probated in 1748 mentions her children Thomas, Richard and Elizabeth (married surname Nucella). But no details on those children particularly.

Will of William Blake, Little Sodbury, Gloucestershire - Diocese of Bristol Wills on Ancestry, probated 10 Sep 1580

This rather ancient will of William Blake of Little Sodbury might fit in with the other wills in this area but will wait until I work on the Gloucester Blake family to discuss that. He mentions Edmonde Myles, no information, and William Wayde alias Blake and again no idea on relationships. His wife was Isbell and perhaps William was her son and she a widow marrying.

Otherwise I am working on the Cornwall Blake family (Landrake area) and hope to eventually publish my descendancy charts for that in the next week or so although each day I find more information to flesh out the details. 

Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 9 Feb 2015
Source: Diocese of Bristol Wills on Ancestry
Testator: William Blake
Place: Little Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 23 Aug 1579, probated 10 Sep 1580
Condition: 16th century English, legible copy

[Top]: 202
[Margin]: Will[ia]m Blake

1    In the name of god amen I wylly[a]m blake of the
2    p[ar]yshe of lytell sodbury the xxiij daye of
3    Auguste In the yere of o[u]r lorde god anno M
4    lxxix beyng sycke of body but holle and
5    p[er]fect In my[n]de and memory laude and prayse
6    be to god In primis I beseche o[u]r savior Jesu[s]
7    chryste to receive my sowle In whos
8    blude shedyng I truste to be saved and
9    suche goods as god hathe lente me to be
10    devided as herewythe follow[e]th It[em] I geve
11    to o[u]r pyshe churche a busshell ofe barly
12    It[em] I geve to olde Sodbury churche a busshell
13    of barly It[em] I geve to Edmonde Myles
14    a quivne with the p[er]formynce and o
15    whiche   It[em] I geve
16    to wyllyam wayde other wyse blake too grette
17    pan[n]es of brasse and the grete croke iij
18    platters upon the cobberte The Resudue of
19    my goods not bequeathed I geve to Isbell my
20    whife and to wyllam wayde alias blake and to
21    ether of them and to the longeste lyver of
22    them who I orden to be my executors
23    to see this my wyll p[er]formed my detts
24    payd and my body honestely broghte too
25    Earthe thes beyng wytnes Charles
26    powell vicar Jhon dyer herry stanburn
27    Willa[m] blake
28    de sodburie
29    _____  ____   ____
30   probat[um]  x sept
31    1580 apud sodburie

Sarah Moggridge (1731 - 1807)

52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 6

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

Purely accidental that I have chosen another 4x great grandmother but Sarah Moggridge rather intrigued me.The surname was a new one for me although I had seen it in Devon near Bishops Nympton. The discovery of my Somerset ancestors was a real surprise. Etched in stone on the memorial stone of John Pincombe and Elizabeth Rew (my emigrant ancestors from Devon) were the words "Native of Devon." A good deal of lost time was spent initially looking for an Elizabeth Rew/Rue (the spelling of her name appeared to be in doubt on this side of the Atlantic). But eventually I learned about PCC wills and quickly found a will for a John Rew probated in 1848 where he mentioned his daughter Elizabeth Pincombe. In his will he asked to be taken back from Sheepwash where he was living with his son Thomas and family to Selworthy to be buried as close as possible to his wife. That was my first clue that Elizabeth Rew was from Somerset. Serendipitously I surmised that perhaps the reason that I found John Pincombe and his sons John and William on the 1841 census at Molland Devon by themselves (wife and Elizabeth, an infant, missing) was because Thomas and his sister Elizabeth Pincombe had gone to Selworthy to bring John to live with Thomas. I indeed did find them on the census at Upper Hopcott Farm, Wootton Courtney with the aunt of Elizabeth Ann (Siderfin) Nurcombe, an uncle Robert Siderfin, Elizabeth's brother Thomas and a number of children belonging to all of these families.

Further research brought me back to Selworthy as the place of birth for Elizabeth Rew as the daughter of John Rew and Elizabeth Siderfin (married 30 Jan 1792 at Selworthy). John Rew was the son of John Rew and Sarah Moggridge (married 25 Jun 1761 at Selworthy). I have the fiche for this parish register and it reads:

The Banns of Marriage between John Rue and Sarah Moggridge were duly published in this Church Sunday the 31st of May for the 7th of June and for the 14th of June in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty one by me Nath: Brice Curate

John Rue and Sarah Moggridge were married with Banns the 25th of June in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Sixty one Nath: Brice Curate.

This marriage was solemnized between us John Rew Sarah Rew in the presence of Betty Brice and William Hide.

Searching through the Selworthy Parish Registers I did find a Sarah Moggridge baptized 28 Dec 1731 daughter of Symon and Mary Mogridge. I found a burial for Sarah at Selworthy 31 May 1807 which read Sarah Rew widow 74 years which gives her a birth year of 1732. Moggridge is not a common name in the Selworthy Parish Records and I found just the two baptisms in this register  one for older sister Mary and Sarah. Simon Mogridge married Mary Phelp 9 Feb 1724 at Selworthy (and this is the only Moggridge marriage in this time period) and both are buried at Selworthy Simon 9 Nov 1766 and Mary Mogridge 11 Jul 1762.

Sarah and John baptized six children at Selworthy:

Mary 26 Jul 1762
Sarah 7 Feb 1764 (married William Bricknole 19 Sep 1778 at Selworthy)
John Rew 27 Feb 1766 (married Elizabeth Siderfin 30 Jan 1792 at Selworthy)
William Rew  13 Dec 1767
Betty 26 Dec 1769 (married John Kent 8 Jun 1805 at Selworthy)
Thomas 5 Apr 1772 (married Ann Horn 25 Oct 1803 at Selworthy)

Although Simon Mogridge married at Selworthy he does not appear in the baptisms at Selworthy. I found just one Symon Mogridge baptized in the latter part of the 1600s and that was at Culbone and I do not have the parish registers for Culbone so have not yet been able to verify that entry. It is from Marth Southwood's excellent transcriptions for west Somerset parishes:

http://www.wsom.org.uk/Registers/CulBap16861741.htm

Symon Mogridge son of David and Emot Mogridge baptized 28 Mar 1686. Two other sons Henry and John were baptized 2 Oct 1684 and 27 Dec 1692 and that is the extent of the baptisms for this couple at Culbone.

I do have the Porlock parish registers and did find Moggridge/Mogridge family members there. A number of entries are there for this family and another researcher looking at Mogridge/Moggridge has a blog discussing the Moggridge family.

http://mogbloglife.blogspot.ca/search/label/Moggridge

http://mogbloglife.blogspot.ca/search/label/Mogridge

He corrected me on one of my Moggridge lines and I have changed that item and thank you to him for the information.

I have not yet found the marriage of David and Emot.

Ancestry of Sarah Moggridge (beginning with myself):

1. Elizabeth BLAKE
2. Helen Louise PINCOMBE (b 18 Oct 1916) - Westminster Township Middlesex County Ontario Canada
3. John Routledge PINCOMBE (b 10 Sep 1872)- Lobo Township Middlesex County Ontario Canada
4. William Robert PINCOMBE (b 11 Jun 1837)- Molland Devon England
5. Elizabeth (Betsey) REW (b 20 Dec 1801) - Selworthy Somerset England
6. John REW (b 27 Feb 1766) - Selworthy Somerset England
7. Sarah MOGGRIDGE (b 28 Dec 1731) - Selworthy Somerset England
8. Symon MOGRIDGE (b 28 Mar 1686) - Culbone Somerset England
9. David Mogridge ?



I reread the microfiche and do not feel any further ahead with the earlier ancestry of this family. Philip mentions Wootton Courtney in his blog and I also have the fiche for this parish.

Wootton Courtney Baptisms:

John Moggeridge son of Philip baptized 5 Sep 1630
Isott Moggeridge daughter of Philip baptized 28 Oct 1632
Robert Mogeradge son of Philip baptized 28 Mar 1635
Philip Mogridge son of Philip and Joan baptized 13 Feb 1636
Robert Mogridge son of Philip and Joan baptized 19 Aug 1638
Margaret Moggeridge daughter of Philip and Joan baptized 10 Jun 1640

Elizabeth Moggeridge daughter of David and Elizabeth baptized 25 Jul 1702
Robert Moggeridge son of David and Elizabeth baptized 1 Sep 1705
David Moggeridge son of David and Elizabeth baptized 14 Sep 1709
Joan Moggeridge daughter of David and Elizabeth baptized 23  May 1714
Henry Mogridge son of David and Elizabeth baptized 7 Feb 1718


William Moggridge son of John and Joan baptized 2 May 1743
Alice Moggridge daughter of Joan and Joan 21 Jan 1744
Robert Moggridge son of John and Joan 4 Feb 1746
Betty Moggridge daughter of John and Joan 4 May 1749

James Moggridge son of Henry and Joan 28 Jan 1764
Robert Moggeridge son of Henry and Joan 21 Nov 1766
Betty Moggeridge daughter of Henry and Joan 12 Mar 1769
Henry Moggridge son of Henry and Joan 28 Feb 1771
William Moggridge son of Henryu and Joan baptized 27 Feb 1774


Joan Moggridge daughter of William and Ann baptized Feb 1770
Ann Moggeridge daughter of William and Ann baptized 8 Nov 1772
 
Thomas and John Moggridge sons of William and Ann baptized 8 Jan 1774

Wootton Courtney Marriages

2 Nov 1695 Timothy Rew and Grace Moggeridge (parents of my John Rew so a second line)
25 Oct 1742 John Moggridge and Joan Allen
30 Apr 1757 Christopher Vicary and Elizabeth Mogridge
27 Apr 1769 William Moggridge and Ann Parish
22 Nov 1769 William Baker and Betty Moggridge
14 Apr 1777 William Moggridge and Sarah Roberts
15 Nov 1779 Henry Mogridge and Elizabeth Richards
12 Mar 1789 William Mogridge and Joan Brooks
16 May 1801 Thomas Hole and Joan Mogeridge

Burials at Wootton Courtney
2 May 1636 Robert Moggridge
27 Feb 1636 Philip Moggridge son of Philip
2 Aug 1638 Robert Moggeridge
15 Feb 1653 Philip Mogridge
22 Dec 1654 Joan Mogridge
11 Aug 1723 Robert Moggridge son of David
7 Nov 1732 David Moggeridge
10 Mar 1749 Joan Moggridge
15 Dec 1754 Elizabeth Moggridge
30 Apr 1760 John Moggridge
27 Feb 1763 Betty Moggeridge
23 Jan 1774 Ann Moggridge
23 Jan 1774 Thomas Moggridge
23 Jan 1774 John Moggridge
2 May 1774 James Moggridge
4 Jul 1774 Joan Moggridge
18 Dec 1774 William Moggridge
3 Nov 1776 Henry Moggridge
6 May 1787 Betty Moggridge
16 Jun 1801 Henry Moggridge
8 Feb 1806 Sarah Moggridge
22 Feb 1817 William Moggridge 73 years
26 Jan 1819 Elizabeth Moggridge 87 years 


I am left thinking that Grace Moggeridge is perhaps a descendant of Philip and Joan Moggeridge (perhaps a grand daughter since she married in 1695 and they had children between 1630 and 1640. She was perhaps born circa 1665 to 1675. She would need to be a daughter of John as he was the only son who survived.

Simon, the father of Sarah Moggridge, was possibly the Simon baptized in 1686 at Culbone. Culbone is seven miles from Wootton Courtenay and 3 miles from Porlock. I do have the parish registers for Porlock and the transcription for the early records but I really need to read them for myself to see all the Moggridge/Moggeridge entries.

It is rather interesting that the Rew family is found at Sheepwash and my Pincombe family at Molland in the 1800s and the Moggridge family lived at Molland in the 1700s. One wonders at the coincidence of that actually.

Will of William Blake, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire - Diocese of Bristol Wills on Ancestry, no probate given

A very old will by William Blake of Winchcombe. He does not appear to name any children unless Agnes Marymon is his daughter. The other bequests are to males not carrying the Blake surname. He mentions his wife Jone. There is also mention of a water blake.

Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 8 Feb 2015
Source: Diocese of Bristol Wills on Ancestry
Testator: William Blake
Place: Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 1546, probated unknown
Condition: 16th century English, legible copy

[Top]: 1546/230
[Top]: Will[ia]m Blake

1    In die no[min]e Ame[n]: In the yere of our Lorde god M v xlvj in the xxxviij
2    yere of the reigne of our superior Lorde beynge henry the viij th kyng of
3    Englande France and Irelande defender of the faith and in extc (imme
4    djatly next under god) Supreme hed of the Church of Englande,
5    Irelande: I willi[a]m blake of Wynchombe sycke in body but hole and p[er]fecte
6    in mynde and of good reme[m]bra[n]ce do ordeyne and make this my testam[en]t
7    and last wyll in forme and man[ne]r folowynge:
8    Fyrst I bequeath my sole to almighty god to oure lady synt marey and
9    to all the company in hevyn and my body to be buryed in the paresh
10    churche yarde of synt peters in wynchombe
11    It[em] I bequethe to the mother churche iiij d
12    It[em] I bequeth to my son morcey my best gowne a wolsted doublet and
13    a payre of hosn
14    It[em] to Agnes Marymon my spare payr of sheets
15    It[em] to Oswalde myllys my letherne cote
16    It[em] to walt vycarey a peyre of hosn
17    And all the rest of my goods moveable and unmoveable I geve unto
18    Jone my wife makynge her my full Executrixs to dispose me to the
19    honor of god and to her _____ mak Mr George Roo Mr Archie Bur
20    mart and watr blake my ov[er]sears to ____ my wyff for _____ tho[se]
21    beynge testes Jhon Dyston, Jhon bere with other mee

Will of Valentine Blake, clerk, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire - Diocese of Bristol Wills on Ancestry, probated 20 Sep 1615

The testator Valentine Blake is a clerk at Winchcombe. He names his wife as Elizabeth and his sons Valentine the eldest and John the youngest. In 1614 both sons are less than 21 years of age.

In the Annals of Winchcombe and Sudeley, chapter xxiv, mention is given of a school and the appointment of Valentine Blake as schoolmaster in 1539. Since the present testator is said to be 50 years of age in 1612 this eliminates him but could it be that he is a descendant of this schoolmaster (Valentine was born at Fladbury Worcestershire circa 1562). It is 12 miles from Fladbury to Winchcombe. I did not pursue that thought at this time.

http://archive.org/stream/annalswinchcomb00dentgoog/annalswinchcomb00dentgoog_djvu.txt

The testator is listed in the Clergy of the Church of England Database as being a curate at Winchcombe with Gretton 1603-1613. His Record ID 221643.


FindingRef     GDR/114/page 208
Title     CASE: William Browne & Peter Bowle v John Browne: Testamentary (Margaret Page): 18 June 1612
Date     1612
Description     DEPONENTS Mary Craker, widow, of Winchcombe. Lived there 20 years. Born Peopleton, Worcs. Aged 40. Valentine Blake, curate of Winchcombe. Lived there 15 years. Born Fladbury, Worcs. Aged 50. Bridget Ardway, single, of Winchcombe. Lived there 7 years. Born Bengeworth, Worcs. Aged 24. On the part of Browne & Bowle


Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 1 Feb 2015
Source: Diocese of Bristol Wills on Ancestry
Testator: Valentine Blake
Place: Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 24 Jun 1614, probated 20 Sep 1615
Condition: 17th century English, legible copy

[Top]: 178
[Top]: Testamentum sive ultima volu[n]tas Valentine Blake clerci

1    T[estate]r Vallantine Blake clirc
2    debts owinge unto mee Valentine Blake of Winchcombe in
3    the Countie of Glouc[este]r clerke the xxiij th daie of June 1614
4    Anno Regni Jacobi Regis [a]n[g]li[, scotia, hibernie] duodecimo
5    By speciallitie
6    Imprimis my Ante Cotterely of Dumble Milles by her husbandes
bond due at Mic[hael]mas next    x li
7    It[em] then for the use thereof    xx s
8    It[em] John Sewell and by his bonde nowe in suite    v li
9    lent him since in monie w[i]thout specialltie    x s
10    It[em] Richarde Harvie by his bonde    iiij li
11    It[em] for the use thereof    viij s
12    It[em] Richarde Barnes of Didbroke by his bonde    iij li
13    It[em] for the use thereof    vj s
14    It[em] Hewbie Grendmye by his bonde    xl s
15    It[em] for the use thereof    iiij s
16    It[em] John Williams of Condicote by his bonde    xvj li
17    It[em] An Shilie by her husbandes bonde    iij li
18    It[em] Bartholomew Blake by his bonde    iij li
19    It[em] John Harrison and Morris by their bonde    iij li
20    It[em] Thomas Hide by his bonde    xxx s
21    It[em] for the use thereof for two yeares and allredy    vj s
22    It[em] Giles Brodeware the elder by his bill    xlj s
23    in Gages     Somme    55 li 5 s
24    Mr Richard Powell upon iij peeces of silv[e]r plate    vij li
25    Richard Gibbes on viij peeces of pewt[e]r    xx s
26    Thomas Higges on a paire of Sheetes    xx s
27    Mrs Aven on iiij silv[e[r spones    xx s
28    John Burton on a Ringe    xx s
29    John Trewman on a bras pot    x s
30    w[i]thout specialltie          Some    vj li x s
31    John Harrison of ould debt    iij li
32    It[em] more for the use thereof hee is to cure
my fyll corne and hae    iiij li
33    It[e]m more for my shie pasture which hee is beehinde with mee    xvij s
34    It[em] Elizabeth Boughe my sest[e]r    vij li
35    It[em] Ursula Bucbee of Dumblely milles due at michelmas    iiij li
36    It[em] for the use thereof    iiij s
37    It[em] Will[ia]m Bowler    iij li
38    It[em] Simons Ricketts    xl s
39    It[em] Steeven Coffon    xxx s
40    It[em] for the use thereof due at michelmas    iiij s
41    It[em] John Cowell    xx s
42    It[em] Daniell Trappe    xx s
43    It[em] Thomas Hickes in monie lent    xx s
44    It[em] him more for ij yeres lent for his tithes    xvj s
45    Some    xxx li x s
46    more w[i]thout specialltie
47    It[em] widow Carpent[e]r    xx s
48    It[em] Anthonie Thune    xx s
49    It[em] Thomas Milton in mony lent    xiij s
50    It[em] Edmunde Katernes for ij calves    x s
51    It[em] Rob[er]t Jones in monie lent    xiij s viij d
52    It[em] Hendrie Hide of Getton in monie lent    x s iiij d
53    It[em] Mr Williams in monie lent as two times    x s
54    It[em] Richarde Gibbes for malt    x s
55    It[em] monie for my lords lente cloth    x s
56    It[em] Oliver Best for ij buchelles of Barley    vj s
57    It[em] him more in monie    iiij s
58    It[em] Will[ia]m Heath    vj s
59    It[em] John Drone    v s
60    It[em] Water Terneley for whom I gave my word to gibbes    iiij s
61    It[em] Mr Woodley for haye    viij s
62    It[em] lent him more in monie    vj s vj d
63    It[em] W[ilia]m Barkesdale in monie lent    vj s vj d
64    It[em] James Aishley in monie lent    vj s viij d
65    It[em] Thomas Bint of Parsher    iiij s
66    It[em] Nathanaell Stowe in monie lent and for other reccivinges    x s
67    It[em] __an Tierlen in monie at div[er]se times    vij s vj d
68    It[em] for an axelhed towards w[hi]ch he sharpened ij d beefends    viij d
69    It[em] more for est[e]r reccvinnges too yeares    ij s
70    Some    vij li xv s ij d

Section omitted as this was in tabular form and does not come across when extracted as text in a readable format but names found here are as follows: Richard Contas and Philip his sonne, Richard More in Hawkins, William Cotton, Grettan Gage, Widow Bendlow, Richard Smith, William Greeneny, Hendri Trinton, John Dolbins, John Hale, George Bowlets, Richard Hide, Henry Barkedale, Harry Best, Oliver Best, Widow Pendry,
   
91    A note of my cattell
92    vj kine
93    1 melch heifer 2 yeres ould
94    1 yeareling
95    1 allmost a yere ould
96    and two weaning calves
97    Bokes lent to Mr Williams which hee keepeth
98    Babington on genesis    iiij s
99    T__ebules works on St James and other places    j s vj d
100    a boke of common places valet     vj s viij d
101    Buishopes ____ szmons on Some psalmes    xvj d
102    an other boke of comon places called Syntagma valet    v s
103    one ould latin fza__ booke valet _______   
104    calvin upon the epistles Santi pauli pred[e]s[tin]ati[on] etc valet     vj s viij d
105    I doe owe for 13 logges of wodde to Mr Thorne
106    besides I ow nothing to any but good wil to all 24 Juinij 1614   
    [Testamentum sive ultima volu[n]tas Valentine Blake clerci]
107    In dei nomine Amen I Valentine Blake of Winchcombe Clerke in the County
108    of Glouc[est]er doe this p[re]sent 24 of June 1614 make and ordaine this my last will
109    and testam[en]t in man[ner] and forme following First I commend and bequeath my
110    soule to almighty God my maker and by faith in Jesus Christ my only savior[u]r
111    I hope to bee saved and my body to the earth to bee buried in the Chancell of
112    Winchcombe at my seates end there and as for my worldly goodes I bequeath
113    them as followeth first I give to the repacons of the Church of Winchomb
114    aforesaid x s It[em] I give to the pore people of Winchcombe xiij s iiij d
115    to bee paied them on the daie of my buriall I give and bequeath to Valentine  
116    my eldest sonne lij li half all my bokes j fth[er]bed, j boulst[e]rs, j pillow, j
117    pillow cover j cord of blankets and a coverlet and iij paire of flaxen and
118    one paire of hemp sheets one wied bed in the Chambr where fud is made
119    my best cofer and also my best bras pot my table bord w[it]h the forme
120    3 rond stowles and my best chaer It[em] I give unto my iongest sonne John
121    l li j featherbed j boulstrs j pillow j pillow cuver j courd of blankets one bolster
122    iij paire of sheetes ij of flax j of hemp iij forme stowles j chuner my second
123    best cofer and also the other half of all my books and one chare It[em] I
124    give unto my sayd sonnes j peece of gould of a peece of xx s a peece to bee kept
125    of them for a remembrance of mee my will is that they shalbe paid their porc[i]ons
126    affare as my debtes may bee taken up and resoved and it may be put out
127    for their p[ro]fit in some mennes handses And if it shall happen that each of my said
128    sonnes to dye before they come to the age of xxi yeares or bee married that then his
129    por[t]ion that shall he die shall come and remaine to him that shall survive
130    The residue of all my goodes not given nor bequeathed and chattels
131    whatsoever I give to Elizabeth my loving wif whom I mak my sole
132    executrix of this my last will and testam[en]t putting her in trust that and
133    my afforesaide two sonnes their porcion of legacies and to she then put
134    out to some honest trade as shall like her or her friendes best and to see
135    mee comely and honestly buried
136    per me Valentine Blake clerce
137    It[em] more debts owinge unto me 24 Junij 1614
138    Humfrie Goldeneye xiij s j d in monie lent
139    It[em] Henry Cowell x s in monie lent
140    It[em] Will[ia]m Cowell x s viij d in mony lent
141    It[em] Humfri Goldeneye for the re_ennyes xiij s j d
142    per me Valentine Blake
143    Probatum fuit humoi testamentum apud Glouc
144    vicesimmo die Septembris anno domini 1615 coram
145    A[r]ch[ibald]e Cerman cleric derbio [sp] prius Milems [sp] Glouc
146    Ep[isco]p[i] Vicario in spiritualis g[ener]alis __ p[er] eum approbatu[m] et  
147    Insinuatum commissaque fuit et est Adm[inistrac]io et
148    Debite prius jurat