I, of course, welcome all emails to me both from the Guild Website and to my personal email account. If I do not respond in a timely fashion then please do write to me again. I publish three different newsletters so at any one time I am preparing for the next issue of one of them (Blake Newsletter now in its 8th volume, Pincombe-Pinkham Newsletter now in its 4th volume and the H11 Newsletter now in its 3rd volume). I also do transcription and paper research which takes up a great deal of my time.
I would like to mention though that for this study I do not do any present day research for others. If you have a query where you want me to look at your ancestry then I would need you to have the preliminary research back to your grandparents and given that it is now 2019 and a new generation is born since I started doing genealogy in 2003 then your great grandparents. The Blake charts that have been created by others and sent to me and those that I have created myself need you to have gotten back into the mid 1800s. Even with that knowledge, I probably can not help you unless you are related to me and the best approach is to do an autosomal DNA test and see the Blake matches within your matches or a yDNA study at FT DNA and join the Blake project. With that information in hand I will look at your information and see if it overlaps with anything that I have on hand. Telling me that your father/grandfather born in 1945 was a Blake doesn't go very far unfortunately. Family Lore can be helpful but an awful lot of people think they are descendant of the family that Robert Blake, Lord High Admiral is descendant (namely the Blake family in Somerset); others believe that they descend from the ancient Blake family at Calne Wiltshire. In the yline my family does not descend from either of these two lines and fortunately my grandfather clearly stated that. His family was from Andover forever he said and interestingly enough his yDNA (my brothers tested) points to an ancient British line known as the Deer People who inhabited Britain 8000 years ago. Hence the surname, like every surname indeed, was acquired. England did not have surnames before the coming of the Normans in 1066 and the following is information I found after this time:
There has been a lot of family lore about the Blake family in the United Kingdom with respect to their origins. In my blog on "Calendar of Patent Rolls - Summary of Blake entries (http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/01/calendar-of-patent-rolls-summary-of.html)" I have written up my findings when I extracted the Blake/Blak/le Blake/le Blak surname from these early records which are from the reigns of Henry III (1216-1272) right through to the reign of Henry VI (1422-1462). In all I found 210 items that dealt with the Blake family. The earliest document for a William le Blake was from 30 Jan 1230 and involved a land dispute. The next item was from 1274 for a Richard le Blak a merchant listed as being of Rouen (then the was capital of Normandy). An amazing find considering the Blake Pedigree Chart which is held by the Swindon and Wiltshire Record Office. The furtherest back listed member of the Blake Pedigree Chart was a Richard Blake/Blaake/Blague living in the time of Edward I and Edward II and deeding property in Essex to the Knights Templar. Although I also discovered that this is an error and that the actual Blake member deeding property in Essex was a Roger Blake from Herefordshire, none the less this very early record does give one pause for thought.
But one does note that these early Blake records are beginning in the 1200s and the Normans arrived in 1066.
England's Immigrants database 1330 - 1550 is interesting (https://www.englandsimmigrants.com/)
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 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 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
A number of the entries do bear the continental origin of the individual.
If you have a lengthy tree which you are willing to share then I am very pleased to add it to the repository of trees.
I am always looking for other like minded people to join me in this study. Since I am nearly 74 years of age I will step down one of these days and having someone eager to take up the mantle is an exciting thought. I intend that access to my information will be online for a good period of time after I step down.
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