Blake Newsletter
Volume 5 Issue 2
Table
of Contents
1.
Writing up the family story
2.
yDNA tester from Somerset, England
3.
Family Finder Summary
4.
Return to active Blake research
1.
Writing up the family story
The editor, Elizabeth (Blake) Kipp, has taken a leave
of absence to write up her family story. With high hopes of completing back to
the 4x great grandparents I am still deep into the collateral lines coming down
from my great grandparents. The process when it began on the 12th of
December 2015 was simply to write up what I have complete with all the images
of documents acquired and photographs. As the days passed it became more and
more complicated as I uncovered vast amounts of material that I had set aside for
just such a moment. I scanned nearly 1000 pages of letters from my mother to me
over a 25 year period which greatly enhanced the family story for future
generations of my parents/grandparents. Another 500 pages of letters sent to my
grandfather/father from their siblings/cousins in England also proved to add
greatly to the stories. The interesting part about my family is that we (my
siblings and myself) are the only descendants of our parents and our
grandparents making for an hour glass image of these generations as they move
both forward and back in time.
2.
yDNA tester from Somerset, England
We now have in our study an individual who has done
his yDNA with known roots in Somerset, England. I actually never postulated any
possible results for this individual in my mind. As the readers know, I am of
the opinion that the Blake surname has arisen in various places in England for
reasons totally unknown to me at this moment in time. Finding all the Blake
entries on the 1330-1550 England’s Emigrant Database opened my eyes to the
possibilities for Blake descendants into the 21st century. I expect
a lot of variety and the results do not disappoint. Since this individual
belongs to E-L117 haplogroup one is left to consider the possibility that he is
a descendant of a member of the Roman Legions who lived in the Balkans. Thank
you very much to the individual who has done the test.
3.
Family Finder Summary
I still have not created a publishable summary of the
Family Finder Results in the Blake Study. Fourty two members of the group have
completed this testing. The individuals who are matching the most are people
related to me with one section of them descendant of the Blake family at Upper
Clatford/Andover (Hampshire, England). There is a second group that is
descendant of Theophilus Blake. There are several groups of two individuals. I
shall continue to investigate how I can display these results in a meaningful
way.
4.
Return to active Blake research
I shall now be returning to more active research on
our Blake one name study as I consider all of you to be part of the adventure
of looking at the Blake family around the world. I also hope to start blogging
once again with some of my finds on Blake and will continue the transcriptions
of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills. I shall continue to publish just
two pages unless I receive copy that pertains to our one name study that I
believe will interest Blake members.
Elizabeth Kipp, kippeeb@rogers.com
Member: Guild of one name studies, Member #4600
