Even though I am a Conservative voter normally, I again voted Liberal. I do not want the Carbon Tax eliminated. It is at least a good sized band-aid and starts us on that path to do our best for the environment for the future of our country.
I actually found it hard to believe that Alberta and Saskatchewan would come down so hard on the Trudeau government. After all they bought a pipeline (and I am glad that they did)! We have no idea what condition that pipeline would now be in if it had been left in the hands of the past owner. Would they have continued to just drain the money away and out of our country without putting good improvements into the existing pipeline? It is something to contemplate. Granted there hasn't been a movement towards building the twin to that pipeline but that isn't the fault of the Trudeau government; it is the courts that decide the fate of such things. I am still hoping that the Consortium of Aboriginal Peoples will buy that pipeline and built the twin and put the profits into renewable energy as they mentioned. They think in terms of 50 years not one government mandate and moving off of fossil fuels is definitely supported by the Aboriginal Peoples (and myself). They could do it seamlessly whereas a government mandate would likely complicate it given that they have at most a four year mandate.
Although the idea of Proportional Representation has been tossed about
at various times in Canada, I think that the results of last night's
vote must point to a real difficulty with that type of democratic
process in a country such as ours which has large regional interests. To
give one section of the country with very centralized ambitions more
seats than they would qualify for in a first past the post election is
not fair to the rest of the country. Where the vote does shift back and
forth between political parties, like in most parts of the country, one can see that Proportional Representation would be an
interesting way to form a government but would likely result in far more
minority governments. Unless our parliament can learn to manage
minority governments without squabbling constantly about trivial issues,
our best bet continues to be First Past the Post.
This Blog will talk about researching my English ancestors from Canada but also the ancestors of our son in law whose families stretch back far into Colonial French Canada. My one name study of Blake and of Pincombe also dominate my blog these days.
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Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Newsletters
Finally the Blake Newsletter Volume 8, Issue 4, 2019 is published. It is taking me several days now to pull these publications together but I find it to be my time well spent.
The good news is that I may have an article for the next Blake Newsletter that I have not written. I am always ready to include other's research in the newsletter. It will be under their name and with their email as the contact person for that portion. I do reserve the right to refuse an article but I can hardly imagine that that will happen!
I am thinking of having a Query page in the Newsletter if anyone is interested in submitting a query for the Pincombe-Pinkham Newsletter, the Blake Newsletter or the H11 Newsletter. It should be lengthy enough to include sufficient information but not over one page. Again your name and your email will be on the query as I do not want to serve as a go-between for any of this type of research. I can publish the results of the Query if the submitter is willing to prepare that material.
I want to publish all of the transcriptions that I have done over the past sixteen years and these newsletters are giving me that opportunity. I have a lot more to transcribe and my desk is gradually becoming clearer so that I can do that. I am not closing my books on looking further back in time on my lines but that will become secondary as I gather up the loose ends and tie down what I have managed to glean from the records. I will be stricter now on what I find and try to have DNA results to back up these thoughts. I have a great deal of DNA information now on my family with my grandparent's phased.
I am in the process now of updating that phasing with all of the new results of the past six months. I also plan to go to the great grandparents and have eight colours instead of four on the charts. I want to move gradually back in time. As more and more people test particularly at My Heritage I am getting a lot more DNA information on my great grandparents and great great grandparents with relevant matches to them. I ignore anything smaller than 7 centimorgans which was again the recommendation of our last lecturer at the BIFHSGO Conference (Blaine Bettinger). For the X chromosome I pretty much ignore anything smaller than 15 centimorgans. I prefer a 20 centimorgan match or higher before I actually make a decision although the X chromosome is now pretty much set with a few good matches. I am starting to work on the Buller - Pincombe portion which is shared with my brothers as I can see that it will be possible to readily separate Welch-Cheatle-Taylor on the Buller side and Gray-Cobb-Routledge on the Pincombe side. The Rawlings that I inherited from my Father I am still sorting through (it will include the Rawlings-Lywood lines of my great grandmother but also the DNA inherited by her unknown father from his unknown mother). I do have a number of matches that are not Rawlings-Lywood but I haven't really done anything with them yet. I really would need the descendant of one of her half-siblings to do much with that. If the surname that she was given as her third forename is an indicator of paternity, then she possibly had seven paternal half-siblings (six half sisters and one half brother). Her natural mother (and the mother who raised her) had four other children (three who lived to adulthood and had children) and I do see some of those matches. I do have several interesting matches on My Heritage but they do not have the X chromosome displayed in the results. My grandmother had a very happy life and her step father was wonderful to all of his children from what I have heard. She worked as a cook at a manor house in Kimpton until she married when she was 27. But I should probably try to work this out when the information might still be available.
The good news is that I may have an article for the next Blake Newsletter that I have not written. I am always ready to include other's research in the newsletter. It will be under their name and with their email as the contact person for that portion. I do reserve the right to refuse an article but I can hardly imagine that that will happen!
I am thinking of having a Query page in the Newsletter if anyone is interested in submitting a query for the Pincombe-Pinkham Newsletter, the Blake Newsletter or the H11 Newsletter. It should be lengthy enough to include sufficient information but not over one page. Again your name and your email will be on the query as I do not want to serve as a go-between for any of this type of research. I can publish the results of the Query if the submitter is willing to prepare that material.
I want to publish all of the transcriptions that I have done over the past sixteen years and these newsletters are giving me that opportunity. I have a lot more to transcribe and my desk is gradually becoming clearer so that I can do that. I am not closing my books on looking further back in time on my lines but that will become secondary as I gather up the loose ends and tie down what I have managed to glean from the records. I will be stricter now on what I find and try to have DNA results to back up these thoughts. I have a great deal of DNA information now on my family with my grandparent's phased.
I am in the process now of updating that phasing with all of the new results of the past six months. I also plan to go to the great grandparents and have eight colours instead of four on the charts. I want to move gradually back in time. As more and more people test particularly at My Heritage I am getting a lot more DNA information on my great grandparents and great great grandparents with relevant matches to them. I ignore anything smaller than 7 centimorgans which was again the recommendation of our last lecturer at the BIFHSGO Conference (Blaine Bettinger). For the X chromosome I pretty much ignore anything smaller than 15 centimorgans. I prefer a 20 centimorgan match or higher before I actually make a decision although the X chromosome is now pretty much set with a few good matches. I am starting to work on the Buller - Pincombe portion which is shared with my brothers as I can see that it will be possible to readily separate Welch-Cheatle-Taylor on the Buller side and Gray-Cobb-Routledge on the Pincombe side. The Rawlings that I inherited from my Father I am still sorting through (it will include the Rawlings-Lywood lines of my great grandmother but also the DNA inherited by her unknown father from his unknown mother). I do have a number of matches that are not Rawlings-Lywood but I haven't really done anything with them yet. I really would need the descendant of one of her half-siblings to do much with that. If the surname that she was given as her third forename is an indicator of paternity, then she possibly had seven paternal half-siblings (six half sisters and one half brother). Her natural mother (and the mother who raised her) had four other children (three who lived to adulthood and had children) and I do see some of those matches. I do have several interesting matches on My Heritage but they do not have the X chromosome displayed in the results. My grandmother had a very happy life and her step father was wonderful to all of his children from what I have heard. She worked as a cook at a manor house in Kimpton until she married when she was 27. But I should probably try to work this out when the information might still be available.
Sunday, October 6, 2019
Blake Newsletter, Volume 8, Issue 4, 2019
Blake Newsletter
Table of Contents
1. Blake family queries and controversies
2. Blake Pedigree Chart – Blake Museum at Bridgwater, Somerset
3. Blake Surname Study – Progress
4. Blake autosomal DNA Study at FT DNA (Family Finder)
5. Andover, Hampshire, England Parish Registers
1. Blake family queries and controversies
I quite regularly receive emails from descendants of Blake families proposing possible ancestries for their lines. I do try to answer these queries in a timely fashion but once again my mailbox has reached nearly 1400 emails. I could just file the emails away each day but I want to be able to read them over individually and respond and sometimes this can take quite a bit of time (I do answer my Guild enquiries as received but the answer can be quite brief with more to follow as I work my way through the query). At this time my Inbox is dating back to the latter part of 2018 so nearly a year’s worth of emails to respond to and file. My actual aims with regard to the one-name study are pretty solid now. I intend to complete the transcription of all the wills in my possession and these still number well over 1000. I want to assemble all of the marriages that I have collected as a result of the Marriage Challenges conducted by the Guild of One-name Studies researchers on location in the United Kingdom. I plan to blog these marriages and likely put them in this Newsletter as well. That is all that I plan to do with regard to the Blake one-name Study. I will leave it to others to examine the records and attempt to put together lineages for all of these Blake lines that have been uncovered by yDNA testing. For my line, tested by my brothers with a Y-500 completed at FT DNA, I-PH3480 which is a yDNA group said to be ancient to the British Isles and one of the first yDNA haplogroups to have entered Europe. This particular haplogroup is found in southern England and western Ireland looking at results acquired thus far in the yDNA study. Eventually I plan to transcribe the Andover Manor Books (Latin) to learn more about the John Blake who lived in the area and could be the ancestor of my supposed furtherest back ancestor Robert Blake who left his will in 1521 (he was quite elderly likely born between 1425 and 1450) and was living in the Andover area. My grandfather (Samuel George Blake) was born in the Andover, Hampshire area (1875) as was his family tracing back within 2 kilometres of Andover into the 1400s. My father (Ernest Edward George Blake) was born in Eastleigh, Hampshire (1904) where his father worked for the Railway as a Blacksmith.
I became interested in Blake and doing the one-name Study to help correct mistakes in the historical writings for the Blake family of Andover. Horatio Gates Somerby (1805 – 1872) fraudulently took Nicholas Blake (my likely 12x great grandfather) and claimed that he had had a brother Humphrey who moved to Somerset and was the founder of the Somerset Blake line at Overstowey and Plainsfield. A number of noted genealogists have corrected this error and for the most part writings on line have declared this linking of the Andover Blake family and the Overstowey/Plainsfield Blake family to be incorrect. Yet, I still do receive from individuals trees that take their line back to Nicholas Blake of Andover named incorrectly as the brother of this Humphrey Blake. I mention once again in this Newsletter that this information is incorrect and one should not use the works of Horatio Gates Somerby to trace back a Blake family line prior to emigration to the American Colonies. I do occasionally have an email from Blake members in England that have come across his study but that is quite rare.
2. Blake Pedigree Chart – Blake Museum at Bridgwater, Somerset. This is a recent addition to their website: http://www.bridgwatermuseum.org.uk/
The Blake Museum has given me permission to put these charts in the newsletter and will look at Blake Pedigree Chart 7 in this Newsletter. The chart is referring to the Blake family found in Somerset. This Blake family is well documented with a number of wills that I have already transcribed and can be found on my blog (http://kippeeb.blogspot.com) .
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I intend to look at the family of the green circled member of this particular section of the Blake tree at the Bridgwater Museum. Richard Blake owned property at Charlinch which he mentions in his will. His Nuncupative Will was written at Enmore 1 Sep 1657 (Enmore is five miles from Over Stowey).
Will of Richard Blake (dated 1 Sep 1657, probated 21 Dec 1659)
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 24 Oct 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/296/522
Testator: Richard Blake
Place: Enmor, Somerset, England
[Margin]: T[estament] Richard Blake
1 The last Will and Testament
2 Nuncupative of Richard Blake Late of Enmore in the Countye of Somersett dec[ease]d
3 Published and declared the First day of September In the yeare of our Lord One
4 Thousand Sixe hundred Fifty Seaven in words as followeth (viz[ a vi]t) The said deceased
5 being the day and yeare aforesaid sicke of Body But of sound and perfect mynde and Memory
6 did give and bequeath unto Humphrey Blake and Arthur Blake Sonnes of Humphrey
7 Blake his brother All that his Tenement lyeing at Charlinch in the said words (viz[ a vi]t)
8 I doe give and bestowe All my right Title and interest in my Tenement att Charlinch
9 To my cousin Humphrey Blake and Arthur Blake being the Two lives nominated and
10 Expressed on my Lease thereof They paying All my debts And as for all the rest of his goods
11 and chattels hee gave and bequeathed unto his brother John Blake in these words (viz[ a vi]t)
12 And for all the rest of my goods As corne Sheepe horses debts oweing and All other
13 things whatsoever I give and bestowe to my Brother John Blake of Overstowey or words
14 to the same or like Effect, Spoken in the p[re]sence and heareing of Daniell Spark, John Hall
15 The Nine and Twentith day of December In the yeare of our Lord One Thousand
16 Sixe hundred Fifty and Nyne att London before the Judge for p[ro]bate of Wills and granting
17 lawfully authorized Administration with the Will annexed of Richard Blake deceased issued forth
18 to Humphrey Blake the Father and executor lawfully assigned to Humphrey Blake and Arthur
19 Blake Minors The Kinsmen and principall Legataees named in the said Will To Administer all
20 and singular the goods ch[at]ells and debts of the said dece[ase]d according to the Tenor and Effect of the said
21 Nuncupative Will And to and for the sole use benefit and behoofe and dureing the Minoritye
22 of the said Minors hee being by Comission sworne truly to Administer the same There being a
23 Sentence definitive read and promulgated for the validity and confirma[t]ion of the said Will
According to Chart 7 Richard Blake (testator) was baptized 6 Dec 1629 thus making him 28 years of age when his will was written. His will dated 1 September 1657 was not probated until 21 December 1659.
The above image is from the Over Stowey Parish Registers and one can see by the date Anno Domini 1630 that the items preceding that date are from 1629. At the top of the image (cropped) one finds “Richard son of Humphry Blake was Baptized ye 6 day of December.”
According to Chart 7 for the Blake family, Richard Blake (baptized 6 Dec 1629 (Old Style)) was the son of Humphrey Blake and Elizabeth Giles. In the cropped image below (green circle), Humphrey Blake of Plainsfield, Overstowey is said to be baptized 13 Nov 1580 (with a short arrow above the line coming down from Nicholas Blake of London and Anne Meadows of Sussex). I could not find that baptism in the online databases or at Family Search online. I will go to the Family Search Library one of these days as they do have access to the Over Stowey Registers on their site computers.
It is generally said that the parents of this Humphrey Blake were Humphrey Blake and Agnus/Ann James who married 23 Oct 1578 at Over Stowey. If we follow the line across into the next image, namely Image 10, then one can see that there are a number of children beneath this line all attributed to Humphrey Blake and Agnus/Ann James.
Using the chart (cropped from Blake_8.pdf) and the chart above (cropped from Blake _9.pdf) you can see that they come together with Richard Blake (baptized 7 Sep 1585) repeated on both charts (red outline). Following the green line towards the right does attribute these children to Humphrey Blake and Agnus, d of ___ James. This particular Humphrey Blake did leave a will dated 21 Sep 1618 (he was buried 20 Mar 1619 (Old Style)) and probated 27 Jun 1620. Unfortunately the original will was lost in the bombing of the Exeter Record Office during World War II. Luckily an abstract can be found in the Second Series of Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills, F. Brown (a copy is on Internet Archive): https://archive.org/details/abstractssomers00browgoog/page/n26 .
B.121 Humphry Blake the Elder. Will dated September 21, 1618 and proved June 27, 1620 by his son Humphry Blake [71 Soame]. To be buried at Over Stowey. Advowson of Aisholt to my son Edmund, in default to Mary my daughter, then to my son Robert. Elizabeth wife of Humphry my son. To Ann Blake, my wife 100 marks. My son Richard. My son John. Robert Perry, gent. Humphry Blake of Bridgewater, gent. William Blake. Richard Blake, of Stogumber, gent. Robert Blake.
Although it would be so much better to see the entire will, Humphry has mentioned in the will his daughter Mary, his sons Edmund, Robert, Humphry, Richard, and John. Looking at the two images above and remembering that Humphry has married twice, Humphry and his first wife Agnus James had the following children: Humphry (married to Elizabeth Giles), John, Richard, Jane, Robert, and Arthur. By his second wife Ann: Edmund and Mary (plus an infant Edmund who died young). Not mentioned in the will his daughter Jane (likely also died young but burial date not given) and his son Arthur (died as an infant).
The parents of this Humphry Blake can not be seen on this chart but can be seen on the one below:
This particular cropping of Image 1 is also very interesting. There is another chart which does predate this one likely as it was originally produced in 1690 with additions (in the 1700s) (chart below). The green circles point out the exact sample couple.
This colourful Chart was produced by the College of Arms for the Daniel Blake family of London, UK in 1690 originally. The chart itself is 12 feet by four feet and can be purchased as eight images from the Wiltshire Record Office. The top of the College of Arms’ chart begins with a Richard Blake and the addition of Robert E Blake as his father is somewhat interesting in the Chart held by the Bridgwater Museum. I have discussed before that Richard is likely the Richard le Blak who came from Rouen, France in 1274 to set up a market in England. This document following gave him the right to do so.
"Licence, until Michaelmas, for Walter le Aketon, merchant of Rouen, to
come to England to trade and to carry his wools and merchandise to the
usual fairs and markets by the public streets and common ways, provided
he do not carry or cause to be carried his wools or merchandise out of the
kingdom, nor deal with the Flemings or others of the power of the countess
of Flanders in the kingdom, or in any way communicate with them, during
the contention between the king and the said countess.
[30 May 1274 Westminster, 2 Edward I, volume 1, pages 51 - 52, Calendar of Patent Rolls]
The like for the following :—
Peter de Bules, merchant of Rouen
……….
Richard le Blak, merchant of Rouen.
………
Gilbert Bonnavel, merchant of Amiens"
My reason for believing that is because of an entry at the top of the Chart held by the Wiltshire Record Office which reads:
“R Blake gave certain Lands in Essex to the Knights Templars in the Regis of King Edw I which may be seen by the Records in the Tower of London _ilt Esc[h]aetr 31 Ed I no 77” This caption is beside Richard Blake on the first image of the Blake Pedigree prepared by the College of Arms.
Interestingly I do find a grant of Land in Eastwood (Essex) by Roger le Blake of Madebrook to the Knights Templars 20 Nov 1302 listed in the holdings of The National Archives (UK). The summary "Roger le Blake of Madebrook to grant land in Eastwood to the master and brethren of the Knights Templars in England, retaining a cottage and land in Thundersley and Eastwood. Essex" C 143/41/23 with date 31 Edward I. I do have a photograph of this particular document. It is possible to find Eastwood and Thundersley on Google maps in Essex and Madebrook is now the name of a pub located in Madeley which is near Telford in Shropshire.
Interesting but will leave any discussion on the first few generations noted on the Chart to another time as I do have documents that can assist with looking at that history.
Looking at the red circled part of the tree, Humphrey Blake was named as the son of John Blake the elder and his wife Johan. John was buried 10 Dec 1576 at Over Stowey, his wife Johan was buried 27 Jun 1595 at Over Stowey.
John Blake’s will was dated 25 November 1576 according to the Bridgewater Museum chart. Clifford L. Stott did obtain a copy of this will and cited it in its entirety in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register of 2009, Volume 163, Issue 1, 85-97 (“Humphrey Blake and his Descendants in New England and South Carolina”). I have included the will as transcribed in this blog:
“In the name of god Amen the five and tweutithe day of the Monthe of November in the yeare of our lord god a Thousande fyve hundered Seayentie sixe I John Blacke of Plainesfelde in the diocese of Bath and Welles being my Whole mynde and good and perfect remembrance lawde and prayse be unto almightie god do make and ordeine this my Testament rendering herein my last will in manner and forme followinge. That is to say First I commend my Sowle unto almightie god my maker and Redemr surelie trusting to be pourged front my synnes and to obtaine eternall lyef onelie by Faith for the death and merite of or Savior Jesus Christ And I will my bodye to be buried in the chancell of overstowey As touching my temporall gooddes Imprimus I gyve and beveathe unto St Andrew his Church at Wells twelve pence Item I gyve and bequeath unto the poore of overstowey tenne Shillinges Item I gyve and bequeath to the poore of Netherstowey tenne Shillinges Item I gyve and bequeath to the poore of Spraxton tenne Shillinges I gyve bequeathe and Assigne unto Humfrey Black my eldest sonne and to his heires for ever All those Tenements followinge scituate and lyinge in Plainsfeld in the parish of overstowey in the countie of Somersett namelie the Tenements which have in the tenure of occupation of otywel Artur Richarde Morley Henrie Croker Richarde Luker John Hunniball and John Pvne And also I gyve and bequeath unto the saide Humphrey my sonne and to his heires for ever All that my landes wch lyeth in the parrissh of Ashoult nowe in the tenure of Humfrey Luker To have and to holde all the prmisses in free Socage of the manor of Estgrenewiche. Item I gyve bequeathe and Assigne unto William Blacke my sonne and to his heyres for ever All my lande wch scituating lying and being wthin the parrissh of Busshops ly[diarde in the Countie aforesaide at Busshops Woods Busshops downe or elswhere in the saide parrissh Also I gyve bequeath and Assigne unto the saide William my sonne and to his heires for evr one Tente [tenement] scituate lying and being in plainesfylde aforsaide nowe in the tenure and occupation of Robert Jenckins or his Assignes Also I gyve bequeathe and Assigne unto the saide william my some and to his heires for ever all my lands in Padnall whin the parrisshe of Spaxton in the Countie aforesaide nowe in the tenure and occupacion of John Burnall To have and to holde all and singular the prmisses in free Socage of the Manor of Eastgrenewiche. Item I gyve bequeathe and Assigne unto Richarde Blacke my sonne and to his heires for ever All my Lande scituatinge lyeing and beinge in Wurstin in the parrisshe of Burnam [Burnham on Sea] in the county aforesaide late in the tenure and occupacon of Nicholas Sheperd but nowe in the tenure of one Smithes of the widdow Evcretts children To have and to holde all the prmisses in free Socage of the manor of Eastgenewiche Item I gyve bequeath and Assigne unto Johan my wieff and to Richarde my sonne iontelie [jointly] duringe my wieffs naturall lief All that my State tytle and interest which I have in the Rectorie or personage of overstowey wthall and singuler thappurtennces emolumets profitte and comodities thereof And I will and my mynd is that all and singuler pemisses do remayne unto Richard my sonne after the deceasse of the saide Johan my wieff unto the wch Richarde I assigne the premisses in manner above written Item I gyve and bequeath unto Humfrey my soime fowre oxen the Best which shall remayne after the heriatts Be chosen And I gyve and Bequeathe unto the saide Humfrye all my plough geare one of my silver saltsellers with a Cover my second Best Fetherbedd performed with the furniture therto belonginge and also the Bedstede twoo bedds standinge over the hall performed with the bedsteddes also sixe calves of the last yeares fall and six silver Spoones the second best Item I gyve & bequeathe unto Alice Richards my daughter tenne shillinges and to everie of her children sixe shillinges eight pence Item I gyve and bequeathe unto Anne Saunders my Daughter tenne Shillinges Item I gyve and Bequeathe unto Isabell Bellick [Zellick] my daughter tenne shillinges and to her son tenne shillinges Item I gyve and bequeathe unto everie one of my God children twelve pence all my other gooddes Cattell and Debtes not gyven or bequeathed my debtes paide legacies satisfied and funerall expense accoplisshed I gyve and bequeathe unto Johan my wieff william my some and to Richarde my some which John [Johan] William and Richarde I make & ordayne my Executor' ioyntlie [jointly] to pay my debtes and to Receyve my Debts And I constitue and appointe the right worshipfull Mr Thorns Mallen Esquire Robert Blacke and Robert Zellick overseers unto whom my humble and ernest suite is that they will see that this my Testament performed accordinge to my true purporte and meaning And I will that my Goodes gyven and bequeathed unto my Executours be equallie devided amongest them by Robert Blacke and Robert Zellick whom I beseche to take suche order which the advise of Mr Mallen as that things may be indifferently handled with quietnes witnesses Samuel Mercer Robert Bockinge Ottywell Artur and Richard Black Robert Black Thoms Black Humfrie william and Richard Black.”
The will was probated, according to the author Clifford L. Stott, 25 January 1577. John, in his will, mentions his wife Johan and children: Humphrey Blake, Alice Richards, Anne Saunders, Isabel [Elizabeth] Zellick, William Blake, Richard Blake and Robert Blake. The College of Arms’ Chart shows the children of John and Anne Blake as: Humphrey Blake, William Blake, Richard Blake, Robert Blake, Alice Blake, Anne Blake, Isobel Blake, and Mary Blake. Mary is not mentioned in the will (baptized 1558 and buried 6 Sep 1660 (perhaps this date should be 1560). The parish records are not online but are available at Family Search Record Offices so will check that one of these days.
Moving back to the parents of John the Bridgewater Museum chart lists Humphrey Blake (of Overstowey) and his wife Anne. Humphrey also left his will dated 19 Nov 1558 and probated 11 May 1559. The original of this will was lost in the bombing of the Exeter Record Office during World War II. However an abstract was produced in Series 1 of the Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills, F. Brown:
Humfrey Blake, of Overstowey, Somerset, Gent. Will dated 19 Nov 1 Eliz: proved 11 May 1559. To be buried in the parish church of Overstowey, with such orisons [and etc] prayers to be said [and etc] done for me at my Buriall, months mind [and etc] in the daye of my annyversarie as shall be thought most mete by my Executors, [and etc]. To the Parson of Aissheholt to pray for me, 10 s. To Anstice Blake, one of the daughters of Robert Blake, for her advancement in marriage, £6. 6. 8. To Jone Slocombe, daughter of George Slocumbe, 20 s. To Agnes Mannynge, my daughter, £4. To Catherine Cabull, 6 s 8 d. To Alice Cabull, my sister, 6 s 8 d. To John Blake the elder, my son, £100. To Robert Blake my son, £100. To Thomas Blake, my son, £20. To Eleanor Langham, my daughter, 10 s. To Alice Slocombe, my daughter, 6 s 8 d. Manor of Tuxwell, Somerset, to my son Robert Blake [and etc], his heirs, [and etc], then to Thomas, my son, then to John Blake the younger, my son. To John Blake the elder, my son, [and etc] his heirs, lands, [and etc], in Bishops Lydiard. My friend, Humphrey Coles, esq., £5, to see my will performed, [and etc]. Residue to Anne my wife, [and etc] my son John Blake the younger, Executors. Overseers, John Blake the elder, Robert Blake, William Luker.
Humfrey (Humphrey) mentions in his will his wife Anne, his daughters Agnes, Eleanor, Alice and his sons Robert (grandfather of Robert Blake, Admiral and General at Sea during the Commonwealth), Thomas, Robert, John the elder and John the younger. The Chart held by the Bridgwater Museum lists John Blake the younger, Agnis Blake, Eleanor Blake, Alice Blake, John Blake the elder, Thomas Blake and Robert Blake. The marriage names for the daughters and the lands granted appear with the relevant son on the Bridgwater Museum Pedigree Chart.
At this point in the trace-back Horatio Gates Somerby decided to make this Humphrey a brother of Nicholas Blake of Andover, Hampshire. Fortunately Nicholas left his will probated 20 Jun 1547.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 6th May 2009
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/31/549
Name of Testator: Nic[h]olas Blake
Place: Enham (near Andover), Hampshire, England
Dated: 31 May 1547, probated 20 Jun 1547
[Left hand corner] Test[at]or Nicho[las] Blake
1 In the name of God amen In the yere of our Lord god a Thousand fyve hundred
2 Fourtie and sevyn and the last day of May I Nicolas Blake of the p[ar]ishe of Enh[a]m in the Dioc[ese] of Wynchest[e]r
3 being sicke of body but of good and p[er]fite remembrance make and ordeyn this my last will and testament
4 in maner and fourme folowing First I Bequith my soule to almightie god to oure Blessed Lady and to all the
5 Blessed company of heaven. And my body to be buried w[i]t[h]in the Church of Saint Michaell Th[e ]archangell Item
6 I geve to the Trinite Church of Wynchester vj d Item I geve to the church of Andever oon quarter of whete
7 It[e]m I give to Enh[a]m Church a quarter of wheat Item I geve and bequeth to Will[ia]m Blake my eldest sonne
8 the halfe of the Farme of Andever of my Lord Sandys holding which Robert Boswell occupyeth Also I geve
9 and bequeth to the said Will[ia]m the Tenement in Kings Enham of my Lord Sandys holding w[i]t[h] all the La[m]mes
10 lande lying in Andever feld that the said William nowe occupieth and holdith Also I geve to the said Will[ia]m
11 Blake my sonne my Leasse of the Tenement of the Lord Sandys called the olde hall w[i]t[h] all the app[ur]ten[an]cs ther unto
12 belonginge or lying in Knyghts Enh[a]m Also I geve to the said William Blake my free holde in Knyights Enh[a]m w[i]t[h] all
13 the appurten[an]cs there unto belonging Item I geve and bequeth to Edmund Blake my sonne the Leasse of the
14 Farme of Andever called Semers Farme w[i]t[h] all the appurten[an]cs ther[e ]unto belonging and walworth of my
15 Lord Sandys holding And a leasse of a Tenement in Kyngs Enh[a]m which is John Catts gentilman holde w[i]t[h]
16 all the appurten[an]cs ther[e ]unto belonging Also I geve to the said Edmund my sonne my freeholde in Andever
17 with seven acres and a half of arable land that Thomas Wescombe now holdeth with all the rest of myn[e]
18 erable lands grains pastures and com[m]ons of pastures of what nature kynde name and degre soever they be
19 which I do holde and kepe of any man[ner] at the making of this my last wille and testament Also I wille that
20 the forsaid Thomas Wescombe shal[l ]have the forsaid house that he dwelleth in for the terms of thurtie yeres
21 next folowing paying yerely therfor and to agree w[i]t[h] Margaret Blake my wife and Edmund Blake my son[ne]
22 Item I geve to Elizabeth Blake my daughter one hundreth of shepe and Twentie poundes of money at the day of
23 her mariage and her apparill. Item I give and bequeth to Alice my daughter twentie shepe and fyve quarters of
24 barley to be delivered at Michelmas next commyng Item I give to Sir Thomas Upton my curate to pray for my soule
25 and all Christ[ai]n soules x s. Also yf that it fortune Edmund Blake my sonne to dye before he be of lawfull age Then I wille
26 that my freholde w[i]t[h] all the other leases geven and bequethed by me to the said Edmond to remayn to William Blake
27 my sonne his heires and assignes And the goods to remayne to Alice Goodwyn and Elizabeth Blake my daughters equally
28 to be devided betwixt them And if it fortune the said Alice and Elizabeth to dye Then I will the said goodes to be devided
29 betwene the children of William Blake my son Provided also I will that Margaret Blake my wife shall have and
30 kepe all my free landes tenements holds leases with all th[e ]appurtenancs to them belonging which I doe holde of any man[ne]r
31 of man[ner] at the making of this my last will and testament during the terme of her life The residue of my goods and
32 c[h]attalls not gevyn or bequethed I geve and bequeth to Margaret Blake my wife and Edmunde Blake my sonne
33 whom I make and ordeyn myn executors of this my last will and testament Also I make and ordeyn William
34 Hopkins and Willi[a]m Aldred my Overseers of this my last will and testament for to se it p[er]formed according to
35 my mynde above specified Witnesse to this Sir Thomas Upton Curate Stevyn Smyth Will[ia]m Blake w[i]t[h] other
36 Probatum fuit test[ament]um suprascripti defuncti h[ab]entis etc xxth die mensis Juinij Anno D[o]m[in]o Mill[es]imo quingen[tesimo]
37 xlvij [1547] Coram d[o]m[in]o apud London aucto[ritate] d[o]m[in]o n[ost]ri Regis etc Iurament[o] Margarete Relicte executoris in h[uius]mo[d]i test[ament]o no[m]i[n]at[i] In persona
38 Stephe[n] Smyth procur[atoris] sui in hac p[ar]te Ac approbatum et insinuatum Com[m]issa fuit admi[ni]stracio o[mn]i[u]m et singulorom bonorum Jurium
39 Et creditorum d[i]c[t]i defuncti prefat[o] executrici In p[er]sona die proc[urato]ris De b[e]n[e] et fidel[ite]r admi[ni]strando Ac de pleno et fideli In[venta]rio secondo die post
40 festum s[an]c[t]e Anne prox[imum] futur[um] exhibend[o] necnon de plano et vero compoto reddend[o] Ad s[an]c[t]a dei Ev[a]ngelia in debit iuris forma jurat
41 Reservata po[tes]tate Edmund Blake executori etiam in h[uius]mo[d]i test[ament]o no[m]i[n]at cum venerit etc
Although it is always possible that Nicholas might not mention his brother in his will since he does not mention his brother Robert, I will also place his mother’s will in this account (this transcription was completed by Charlou Dolan:
LDS FHL Film, 186,682, Will #163
Date of Will: 28 Mar 1527
Place: Enham, Hampshire, England
Consistory Court of Winchester, Register D, folio 118:
In dei no'ie Amen The yere of o'r lorde gode ml vc xxvii the xxviii day of m'che I Johane Blake, wydow w't a hole mynde & a gudde memory make my last wyll & testament in this man'
First I com'end my soule to all myghty gode, o'r lady seynt mary & to all the seynts in hevyn and my body to be buryed in the Churche or in the churche litten of seynt Michaell of Enahm[sic]
It'm I gyve & bequeth unto the mother churche of seynt Swyth' xiid
It'm I gyve & bequeth to the churche of Enah'm vis viiid
It'm I guve & bequeth xxvis viiid to be distribute unto pore people in peny dole
It' I gyve & bequeth to my Curate S Ryc Mersser xxd
It' I gyve & bequeth to S John Batte xxd
It'm I gyve & bequeth to the maynteyning of the morow masse prest in Andov' xxd
It'm I gyve & bequeth to the mayntenyng of Jhus masse in the churche of Andov' xxd
It'm I gyve & bequeth to the p'ror of Freers Augustines in Wync' xxd
It'm I gyve & bequeth to s John' whight freer xxd
It'm I gyve & bequeth to ev'y freer of the seid augustines that ys a prest iiiid & to ev'r noves iid of theseid place
It'm I gyve & bequeth to my douzter Elsabeth mylne xxli shepe beside those she hath All'redy & one cow th't I bouzt of her & xiiis iiid of money & my gretyst panne & foure platters
It'm I give & bequeath unto my son Nycholas Blake the tabull in the hall & one clothe called the hallyng & ii Iron rakks
It'm I gyve & bequeath unto my son Rob't Blake one Iron broche & xviii shepe the wheiche shepe he hath in his kepying
It'm I gyve & bequeth to Thoms Iesra off foskett one Iron broche
The residue of my goods moveable & unmoveable above not legate I gyve & bequeth unto my children Nycholas Blake Robt Blake & to Thoms Iesra of Foskett & theseid goods to be devyded amongs them equally evy of them lyke moche
It'm I make my sones Nycholas Blake & Robt Blake my trewe executors and Thomas Iesa of Foskett my supviso'r that he se my last wyll & testament Implete & fulfilled & theseid execut to dispose for the heithe of my soule as the shall se most expedyent
These witnesse S Ryc Mersser
S John Batte
Nycholas Blake
Robt Blake w't
I now have a copy of this will but have not yet transcribed it. Jone Blake mentions her children: Nycholas Blake, Robert Blake, and Elsabeth Mylne. If she had a son Humphrey I rather think she would have mentioned that she did.
There is another will of the likely husband of Jone but I will not insert it here. He mentions his sons Robert Blake, Nicholas Blake and his daughter Elizabeth Blake.
This is the most interesting part of this walk back in time looking at each ancestral line. This chart at the Bridgwater Museum agrees with the chart produced by the College of Arms in that the father of Humphrey is said to be John Blake. Obviously this chart held by the Bridgwater Museum was not prepared from any of Horatio Gates Somerby’s notes. The author of this chart is not known to me.
The chart prepared by the College of Arms has this caption in the circle for John Blake:
John Blague 2nd son from whom the Blakes of Somersetshire are descended of which Family was General Robert Blake famous Soldier and Sea Commander.
He is listed as the son of William Blague of Lacock in County Wiltshire and his wife Margaret daughter of William Browne of Wablyn. I will do more on this particular line at a later date.
3. Blake Surname Study – Progress: One Name Blake Study at the Guild of One-name Studies was originally undertaken by another researcher. In 2011, I became the researcher for the Blake-one-name Study at the Guild. There was already a pre-existing yDNA project run by Bill Bleak and he continues as the main administrator of the project. As can be seen below 23 members of the study have completed a Big Y (SNPs testing for deep clade determination) making it virtually impossible to do more than has been done with some of the groups.
Project Statistics
Total Members 193
Big Y 23
Combined GEDCOMs Uploaded 12
Paternal Ancestor Information 129
Predicted Y-DNA Haplogroups 25
Y-DNA12 111
Y-DNA25 94
Y-DNA37 91
Y-DNA67 66
Y-DNA111 38
The task of managing these groups is large and I will gradually work away at converting them to the new standard of placing individuals by their deep haplogroup testing. I have not made any progress since the last report. If anyone is willing to look at the R1b groups and come up with a better display I would greatly appreciate it. I would recommend that all members join the relevant haplogroup project to learn more about your haplogroup.
4. Blake autosomal DNA Study at FT DNA (Family Finder)
In some cases these are large matches and in other cases relatively small but that is the way with the inheritance of autosomal DNA. With each generation chunks of autosomal DNA can either be broken into smaller units or passed as a large chunk relatively intact. It is a purely random event. Due to privacy concerns it is not possible to produce a chart of the members who do have matches with other members of the group but each member is able to check that for themselves in their account. What would be helpful is adding a family tree to your account thus making it much more possible to find matching autosomal DNA cousins in your research.
5. Andover, Hampshire, England Parish Registers (Baptisms – set 6)
Andover, Hampshire, England has often been said to be the “home of the Blakes” when I have been writing to people in Hampshire through the years. I would say that Calne, Wiltshire perhaps has a stronger hold on that particular title although there are a number of other areas in England where the Blake family has been for centuries. When I decided to transcribe the Parish Registers of Andover I was surprised to find that yes there are a number of Blake entries but there are far more Blake entries in Parish Registers in other parts of England as mentioned. In this issue, I will publish the baptisms for Blake in the Parish Registers. These records are taken from fiche which have scans of the original parish registers. The registers for baptisms begin in 1588 and have provided me with a lot of details on the Blake family in Andover in the late 1500s and into the 1600s/1700s. Eventually I hope to complete my project of transcribing these Parish Registers for St Marys Andover beyond the early to mid 1700s.
Baptismal Registers commenced in 1588 and I will start publishing these transcriptions for Andover.
Number Surname Forename status Fathers surname Fathers forename Mothers surname Mothers forename Year Month Day Year Month Day Details
1800 Chard Margerye daughter Chard Edward 1623 May 4
1801 Chard Dorothy daughter Chard Edward 1623 May 4
1802 Livelocke Dorothy daughter Livelocke 1623 May 4
1803 Shercomb Shercomb Walter 1623 May 12
1804 Chylds Michaell son Chylds William 1623 May 15
1805 Chylds Margerye daughter Chylds William 1623 May 15
1806 Bayly William son Bayly William 1623 June 8
1807 Row Thomas son Row William 1623 June 12
1808 Hunton Joseph son Hunton Philipe 1623 July 20
1809 Shoringer Shoringer 1623 July 25 at Henry Kings
1810 Swetapple William son Swetapple Robert 1623 August 17
1811 Bath Samuell son Bath Thomas 1623 August 25
1812 Deane John son Deane William 1623 September 13
1813 Helliar Nicholas son Hellier Nicholas 1623 September 15
1814 Chard Elizabeth daughter Chard William 1623 September 29
1815 Tomlin Samuell son Tomlin William 1623 October 2
1816 Swetapple Robert son Swetapple Robert 1623 October 5
1817 Dunman Elenor daughter Dunman John 1623 October 9
1818 Rathband Thomas son Rathband John 1623 October 12
1819 Chenell Mary daughter Chenell Robert 1623 October 14
1820 Templer Elizabeth daughter Templer Richard 1623 October 15
1821 Nash Robert son Nash Valentine 1623 October 25
1822 Edmonds Elizabeth daughter Edmonds 1623 October 27
1823 Baverstock Mary daughter Baverstock John 1623 November 1
1824 Bath Thomas daughter Bath Thomas 1623 November 5
1825 Elington daughter Elington Philipp 1623 November 10
1826 Moringe William son Moringe Edward 1623 December 3
1827 Chenell son Chenell Robert 1623 December 12
1828 Barwick Mary daughter Barwick William 1623 December 22
1829 Noyce Elenor daughter Noyce John 1623 December 30
1830 Julians William son Julians William 1623 December 30
1831 Tanner Mary daughter Tanner William 1623 January 1
1832 No…. Peter son No… Richard 1623 January 8
1833 Goodale Hobart son Goodale Richard 1623 January 10
1834 James John son James William 1623 January 12 William junior
1835 Rives Richard son Rives John 1623 January 17
1836 Kent Alse daughter Kent Peter 1623 February
1837 Warner Mary daughter Warner John 1623 February 6
1838 Baker Elizabeth daughter Baker Robert 1623 February
1839 Board Mary daughter Board Phylipp 1623 February 17
1840 Blake Rebecca daughter Blake John 1623 February 24
1841 Taylor John son Taylor Thomas 1623 February 27
1842 Buckler Mary daughter Buckler John 1623 March
1843 W. Elizabeth daughter W. Robert 1623 March
1844 Cletsam Robert son Cletsam Rowland 1623 March 15
1845 Miller William son Miller William 1623 March
1846 Hacker Mary daughter Hacker John 1624 March 25
1847 Sweetapple Hugh son Sweetapple Paul 1624 April 4
1848 Dowse Mary daughter Dowse Thomas 1624 April 10
1849 Scullard Mary daughter Scullard John 1624 April 18
1850 Hinxman Richard son Hinxman Joseph 1624 April 19
1851 Sweetapple Elenor daughter Sweetapple Michaell 1624 July 11
1852 Cornelius Robert son Cornelius Christopher 1624 July 14
1853 Godwin Elizabeth daughter Godwin Thomas 1624 July 17
1854 Cobb Joane daughter Cobb Edward 1624 July 17
1855 Dyres Robert son Dyres Robert 1624 July 24
1856 Noyce Helen daughter Noyce John 1624 September 1
1857 Petty Mary daughter Petty Thomas 1624 September 12
1858 Harris Joane daughter Harris Thomas 1624 September 19
1859 Wateridge Joane daughter Wateridge Nicholas 1624 September 20
1860 Francis Dorothy daughter Francis John 1624 September 21
1861 Bunnye Elizabeth daughter Bunnye Thomas 1624 October 17
1862 Hinksman Thomas son Hinksman Thomas 1624 October 22
1863 Seward Ann daughter Seward Mathew 1624 October 24
1864 Baker George son Baker Robert 1624 October 28
1865 Horne Andrew son Horne James 1624 October 29
1866 Mountayne Thomas son Mountayne Robert 1624 October 31
1867 Tomes Mary daughter Tomes John 1624 October 31
1868 Lovegrove Mary daughter Lovegrove John 1624 November 1
1869 Figgish Mary daughter Figgish Thomas 1624 November 1
1870 Blake John son Blake Mr. William 1624 November 1
1871 Calvard John son Calvard Burnard 1624 November 3
1872 Beare Elizabeth daughter Beare Sylvester 1624 November 13
1873 West Margarie daughter West Joseph 1624 November 14
1874 Segroove Richard son Segroove Rowland 1624 December 5
1875 Penton Alexander son Penton Thomas 1624 December 13
1876 Childs Patience daughter Childs Maurice 1624 December 14
1877 Church Joseph son Church Thomas 1624 December 19
1878 Julians Thomas son Julians Zaccharus 1624 December 21
1879 Blacke William son Blacke William 1624 December 29 father is the younger
1880 Godden Sara daughter Godden Robert 1624 January 1
1881 Powell Mary daughter Powell Henry 1624 January 2
1882 Arthur Joane daughter Arthur John 1624 February 3 of Andover
1883 Greene Andrew son Greene Fenex 1624 February 10 of Andover
1884 Shutter Christopher son Shutter Mr. John 1624 February 24
1885 Sooner Rebecke daughter Sooner John 1624 February 28
1886 Dobby Francis daughter Dobby John 1624 March 1 of Chilbolton
1887 Welles Robertt son Welles Henry 1624 March 8 of Chilbolton
1888 Wayght Patianc daughter Wayght Mr. Bartholomew 1624 March 10
1889 Sherkoom Andrew son Sherkoom Walter 1624 March 13
1890 Heller Alce daughter Heller Nicholas 1624 March 13
1891 Philpott Mary daughter Philpott Richard 1624 March 14
1892 Chanell Richard son Chanell Robertt 1624 March 15
1893 Walterman Hue son Walterman John 1624 March
1894 .ende Peeter son .ende John 1624 March 22
1895 Mary daughter 1624 March
1896 Hacker son William 1625
1897 Thomas 1624
1898 Mary 1624
1899 J. 1624
1900 Richard 1624
1901 Venables Rachell daughter Venables Mr. richard 1625 May 24
1902 James Dority daughter James John 1625 June 7
1903 Stoner Thomas son Stoner Robert 1625 June 10
1904 Higginsonn Mary daughter Higginsonn Mr. Robert 1625 June 19
1906 Beare George son Beare John 1625 June 25
1907 Sprattbeary Richard son Sprattbeary Richard 1625 June 9
1908 James Jone daughter James William 1625 July 22
1909 Noyse Ralphe son Noyse Thomas 1625 July 29
1910 Tomkines Martha daughter Tomkines Gyles 1625 July 31
1911 Hacker Jone daughter Hacker John 1625 August 3
1912 Thurman Jone daughter Thurman Nicholas 1625 August 3 of Chilbolton
1913 Chandler Anthonie son Chandler John 1625 August 10
1914 Whatly ..cceher daughter Whatly Thomas 1625 August 20 of Chisswirl
1915 Mackyn Mackyn Francis 1625 September
1916 Froude Ann daughter Froude George 1625 September 17
1917 Woodhouse Mary daughter Woodhouse 1625 September 17
1918 Whittley Richard son Whittley John 1625 September 25
1919 Symens Febe daughter Symens Elis 1625 October 7
1920 Clarke Jane daughter Clarke Richard 1625 October 9
1921 Gage Dority daughter Gage John 1625 October 11
1922 Russell Patience daughter Russell William 1625 October 12
1923 Butler Helen daughter Butler Henry 1625 October 20
1924 Dabye Thomas son Dabye William 1625 November 12 of Foskott
1925 Harper William son Harper John 1625 November of Inham
1926 James son 1625
1927 P 1625
1928 … 1625
1929 … 1625
1930 Sallis Edward son Sallis Robertt 1625 December 11
1931 Longe Elizabeth daughter Longe Thomas 1625 December 11
1932 Ward Ward Robert 1625 December
1933 Bath Andrew son Bath Thomas 1625 December 18
1934 Bradborne Richarde son Bradborne Richard 1625 December 18 of Charllton
1935 Horne Phelipae daughter Horne James 1625 December 19
1936 Moring Elizabeth daughter Moring Edward 1625 December 21
1937 Hulatt John son Hulatt John 1625 December 28 of Chilbolton
1938 Bord William son Bord Roger 1625 January 1
1939 Wild …b.t son Wild John 1625 January 7
1940 … 1625 January 11
1941 Raty 1625
1942 Inerman Inerman William 1625 January
1943 Smithe Smithe ….am 1625 January 29
1944 ….ambs …ambs 1625 February
1945 … 1625
1946 … 1625
1947 … 1625
1948 Blake Nicholas son Blake Mr. William 1625 February 25 of Eastown
1949 Venabels Elizabeth daughter Venabels Mr. Nicholas 1625 February 20
1950 Livelocke Dority daughter Livelocke Richard 1625 February 20
1951 Dowse Nicholas son Dowse John 1625 February 22
1952 Reeves William son Reeves John 1625 February 23
1953 Prince John son Prince John 1625 February 26
1954 Helyer Ann daughter Helyer Hugh 1625 March 4 of Coomb Farmm
1955 Beasen John son Beasen John 1625 March 5
1956 Knightt Joseph son Knightt Stephen 1625 March 20
1957 Backer Elias son Backer Robert 1625 March 20
1958 Mountayne John son Jountayne Robert 1626 March 26
1959 Barnabie Robertt son Barnabie Balden 1626 March 31
1960 West George son West Anthoney 1626 April 4
1961 Rime Elizabeth daughter Rime William 1626 April 7 Woodhouse
1962 Waltredge Richard son Waltredge Walter 1626 April 30
1963 Frowk daughter Frowk George 1626 May 21
1964 Julians Abigall daughter Julians William 1626 May 14
1965 Stronber daughter Stronber Anr 1626 May 25
1966 Bord Philip son Bord Mr. Phillipp 1626 June 1
1967 Barrick Joice daughter Barrick William 1626 June 8
1968 Skadsden Elizabeth daughter Skadsden 1626 June 20
1969 Bampton William son Bampton Andrew 1626 June 24
1970 Tomkins John son Tomkins Gyles 1626 June 25
1971 Grantham George son Grantham Richard 1626 June 29
1972 Blake Jone daughter Blake Robertt 1626 July 1 of Fox.tt
1973 Jenkens Mary daughter Jenkens Richard 1626 July 7
1974 Godden Thomas son Godden Thomas 1626 Juy 8
1975 Fraunces Alce daughter Fraunces John 1626 July 8 Charllton
1976 Nash Jone daughter Nash Valintayne 1626 July 16
1977 Sines Robartt son Sines Henry 1626 July 26
1978 Bath Mary daughter Bath William 1626 July 28 William the younger
1979 Horn John son Horn Samuel 1626 August 5 of Charltton
1980 Cleettson John son Cleettson Richard 1626 August 8
1981 James Jone daughter James William 1626 August 11
1982 Alfard John son Alfard Benjamin 1626 August 27
1983 Thurmand William son Thurmand Nicholas 1626 August 29
1984 Feelder Jone daughter Feelder Richard 1626 August 29
1985 Fear…y Thomas bastard son Fear…y Amos 1626 September 3
1986 Gooddall Dority daughter Gooddall Richard 1626 September 9
1987 West John son West Robert 1626 September 10
1988 Sweettapell Mary daughter Sweettapell Mr. Pall 1626 September 10
1989 Sweettapell Elizabeth daughter Sweettapell Richard 1626 September 19
1990 Donford John son Donford William 1626 September 24
1991 Henxmann William son Henxmann Mr. Joseph 1626 October 9
1992 Lively William son Lively William 1626 October 10 of Charllton
1993 Huntt Edward son Huntt Petter 1626 October 15
1994 Bath Dority daughter Bath Christopher 1626 October 21
1995 Bentton Mary daughter Bentton Robert 1626 October 25
1996 Brod …rity daughter Brod William 1626 November 3
1997 Bunnye ..lener daughter Bunnye Thomas 1626 November 3
1998 Deane Thomas son Deane William 1626 November 11
1999 Seward Ann daughter Seward Mathew 1626 November 19
2000 Tomlin Bengamenn son Tomlin William 1626 November 26
2001 Yonge daughter Yonge Thomas 1626 November
2002 Philipp bastard son 1626 December 5
2003 Noyse Raphe son Noyse Thomas 1626 December 25 of Charlton
2004 Salmaan Doritye daughter Salmann Peetter 1626 December 26 of Wildhern
2005 Foster John son Foster John 1626 December 26
2006 Smithe Richard son Smithe Robert 1626 January 14 Nustrcott
2007 Godden John son Godden Robert 1626 January 14
2008 Torner John son Torner John 1626 January 15
2009 Ruttley Briidgett daughter Tuttley John 1626 January 22
2010 Bath John son Bath Peeter 1626 January 23
2011 Turner Richard son Turner John 1626 January 26
2012 Sommers Alce daughter Sommers John 1626 January 28
2013 Livlock Mary daughter Livlock William 1626 January 29
2014 Warner John son Warner John 1626 February 15
2015 Rowbottom Petter son Rowbottom John 1626 February 20
2016 Husse John son Husse Augustin 1626 February 20
2017 Dr…h Mary bastard dau 1626 February 24
2018 Pedling Henry son Pedling John 1626 March 4
2019 Tanner Richard son Tanner William 1626 March 12
2020 Clemantt son 1626 March 20
2021 Childes Patiance daughter Childes Morise 1626 March 22
2022 Payn Elizabeth daughter Payn Robartt 1626 March 24
2023 Budgley Alce daughter Budgley Thomas 1627 April 21
2024 Chard Ann daughter Chard Edward 1627 April 26
2025 Pettman John son Pettman Edward 1627 May 28
2026 Horne Martha daughter Horne James 1627 May 11 James the younger
2027 Twitchin Mary daughter Twitchin Mr. Andrew 1627 May 28
2028 House Ezekell son House Nicholas 1627 May 20 NH
2029 Carddey Susana daughter Carddey John 1627 June 10
2030 Jones Mary daughter Jones William 1627 June 18
2031 Venables Catteren daughter Venables Mr. Nicholas 1627 June 25
2032 Church John son Church Thomas 1627 June 26
2033 Venables Catteren daughter Venables Mr. Nicholas 1627 June 25
2034 Church John son Church Thomas 1627 June 26
2035 Knyghtt Elizabeth daughter Knyghtt William 1627 July 1
2036 Godden Elias son Geddon John 1627 July 8
2037 Frowde George son Frowde George 1627 July 8
2038 Dowse Elizabeth daughter Dowse Thomas 1627 July 22
2039 Sweettapell Nicholas son Sweettapell Miecl 1627 July 30
2040 Smith John son Smith John 1627 August 5
2041 Cooke Herkelas son Cooke Thomas 1627 August 19
2042 Julians Andrew son Julians Ezekell 1627 August 26
2043 Hopgood Richard son Hopgood Richard 1627 September 4
2044 Walterman Dority daughter Waterman John 1627 September 4 of Hatherden
2045 Dowse William son Dowse William 1627 September 9
2046 Scullard Edmon son Scullard John 1627 September 16
2047 Tredgoulde Thomas son Tredgoulde William 1627 September 23
2048 Ecton Richard son Ecton Richard 1627 September 30
2049 Judge John son Judge John 1627 October 7
2050 Spratbeary Elizabeth daughter Spratbeary Richard 1627 October 7
2051 Phillpott John son Phillpott Wrichard 1627 October 9
2052 James William son James William 1627 October 23
2053 Beare Alic daughter Beare John 1627 October 30
2054 Baverstock John son Baverstock John 1627 November 1
2055 Feelder Mary daughter Feelder Richard 1627 November 3
2056 Cooke Mary daughter Cooke John 1627 November 4
2057 Cornelis Jone daughter Cornelis Christofer 1627 November 8
2058 Blake Dority daughter Blake William 1627 November 14 of Woodhouse
2059 Chandlar John son Chandlar John 1627 November 24
2060 Watredge Ann daughter Watredge Waltredge 1627 December 8
2061 Bath Sara daughter Bath Richard 1627 December 26
2062 Langly Elizabeth bastard daughter Langly Elizabeth 1627 December 28
2063 Raty Thomas son Raty Thomas 1627 December 30
2064 Sweetapell Margarett daughter Sweettapell Robert 1627 December 31
2065 James William son James William 1627 January 1
2066 Buttler John son Buttler Henry 1627 January 9
2067 Hacker Alce daughter Hacker John 1627 February 2
2068 Sommers John son Sommers John 1627 February 3
2069 Knowles Joane daughter Knowles John 1627 February 3
2070 Ammey bastard child Margarett 1627 February borne at John Welles February 6
2071 Hid John son Hid Christopher 1627 February 12
2072 Huntt son Huntt Peetter 1627 February 16
2073 Knightt Richard son Knightt Richard 1627 February 17
2074 Palmer Palmer Gylbord 1627 February 19
2075 Mountayne Sary daughter Mountayne Robartt 1627 February 24
2076 Matkin Henry son Matkin Mr. Frances 1627 February 25
2077 Sargantt Peeter son Sargantt Thomas 1627 February 25
2078 Noyse Thomas son Noyse Thomas 1627 February 29 of Charlton
2079 Moringe Clemantt son Moringe Edward 1627 March 2
2080 Walterman Elizabeth daughter Walterman Thomas 1627 March 2
2081 Holdway Annes daughter Holdway Henry 1627 March 8 of Kings Enham
2082 Raty Jone daughter Raty John 1627 March 9
2083 Milles Richard son Milles Richard 1627 March 15
2084 Somersett James son Somersett Edward 1627 March 16
2085 Kentt William son Kentt Peeter 1627 March 17
2086 Olderwell John son Olderwell Robert 1628 March 25
2087 Bradborn Bradborn Richard 1628 April 15
2088 Brod son Brod William 1628 April 19
2089 Noyse Sicley daughter Noyse Mr. Robartt 1628 April 24 of Hatherden baptized at home
2090 Salman Jone daughter Salmann Peeter 1628 May 4
2091 Hitchcocke Reioy daughter Hitchcocke Thomas 1628 May 11
2092 Cooper William son Cooper William 1628 May 11 of Widhern
2093 Arnall Sary daughter Arnall William 1628 May 14
2094 Dabby Phillip son Dabby John 1628 May 17 the …er of Charlton
2095 Raty Dorothy daughter Raty William 1628 May 20
2096 Miller .nen daughter Miller William 1628 May 22
2097 Pressey Mary daughter Pressey William 1628 June 17
2098 Reeves Alce daughter Reeves John 1628 June 23
2099 Durnford daughter Durnford William 1628
Any submissions, queries for the journal please submit to Elizabeth (Blake) Kipp by the 15th of December for the 1st January issue.
Elizabeth Kipp, kippeeb@rogers.com
Member #4600: Guild of one name studies – studying Blake and Pincombe
Blog: http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/
Table of Contents
1. Blake family queries and controversies
2. Blake Pedigree Chart – Blake Museum at Bridgwater, Somerset
3. Blake Surname Study – Progress
4. Blake autosomal DNA Study at FT DNA (Family Finder)
5. Andover, Hampshire, England Parish Registers
1. Blake family queries and controversies
I quite regularly receive emails from descendants of Blake families proposing possible ancestries for their lines. I do try to answer these queries in a timely fashion but once again my mailbox has reached nearly 1400 emails. I could just file the emails away each day but I want to be able to read them over individually and respond and sometimes this can take quite a bit of time (I do answer my Guild enquiries as received but the answer can be quite brief with more to follow as I work my way through the query). At this time my Inbox is dating back to the latter part of 2018 so nearly a year’s worth of emails to respond to and file. My actual aims with regard to the one-name study are pretty solid now. I intend to complete the transcription of all the wills in my possession and these still number well over 1000. I want to assemble all of the marriages that I have collected as a result of the Marriage Challenges conducted by the Guild of One-name Studies researchers on location in the United Kingdom. I plan to blog these marriages and likely put them in this Newsletter as well. That is all that I plan to do with regard to the Blake one-name Study. I will leave it to others to examine the records and attempt to put together lineages for all of these Blake lines that have been uncovered by yDNA testing. For my line, tested by my brothers with a Y-500 completed at FT DNA, I-PH3480 which is a yDNA group said to be ancient to the British Isles and one of the first yDNA haplogroups to have entered Europe. This particular haplogroup is found in southern England and western Ireland looking at results acquired thus far in the yDNA study. Eventually I plan to transcribe the Andover Manor Books (Latin) to learn more about the John Blake who lived in the area and could be the ancestor of my supposed furtherest back ancestor Robert Blake who left his will in 1521 (he was quite elderly likely born between 1425 and 1450) and was living in the Andover area. My grandfather (Samuel George Blake) was born in the Andover, Hampshire area (1875) as was his family tracing back within 2 kilometres of Andover into the 1400s. My father (Ernest Edward George Blake) was born in Eastleigh, Hampshire (1904) where his father worked for the Railway as a Blacksmith.
I became interested in Blake and doing the one-name Study to help correct mistakes in the historical writings for the Blake family of Andover. Horatio Gates Somerby (1805 – 1872) fraudulently took Nicholas Blake (my likely 12x great grandfather) and claimed that he had had a brother Humphrey who moved to Somerset and was the founder of the Somerset Blake line at Overstowey and Plainsfield. A number of noted genealogists have corrected this error and for the most part writings on line have declared this linking of the Andover Blake family and the Overstowey/Plainsfield Blake family to be incorrect. Yet, I still do receive from individuals trees that take their line back to Nicholas Blake of Andover named incorrectly as the brother of this Humphrey Blake. I mention once again in this Newsletter that this information is incorrect and one should not use the works of Horatio Gates Somerby to trace back a Blake family line prior to emigration to the American Colonies. I do occasionally have an email from Blake members in England that have come across his study but that is quite rare.
2. Blake Pedigree Chart – Blake Museum at Bridgwater, Somerset. This is a recent addition to their website: http://www.bridgwatermuseum.org.uk/
The Blake Museum has given me permission to put these charts in the newsletter and will look at Blake Pedigree Chart 7 in this Newsletter. The chart is referring to the Blake family found in Somerset. This Blake family is well documented with a number of wills that I have already transcribed and can be found on my blog (http://kippeeb.blogspot.com) .
* Used with permission
I intend to look at the family of the green circled member of this particular section of the Blake tree at the Bridgwater Museum. Richard Blake owned property at Charlinch which he mentions in his will. His Nuncupative Will was written at Enmore 1 Sep 1657 (Enmore is five miles from Over Stowey).
Will of Richard Blake (dated 1 Sep 1657, probated 21 Dec 1659)
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 24 Oct 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/296/522
Testator: Richard Blake
Place: Enmor, Somerset, England
[Margin]: T[estament] Richard Blake
1 The last Will and Testament
2 Nuncupative of Richard Blake Late of Enmore in the Countye of Somersett dec[ease]d
3 Published and declared the First day of September In the yeare of our Lord One
4 Thousand Sixe hundred Fifty Seaven in words as followeth (viz[ a vi]t) The said deceased
5 being the day and yeare aforesaid sicke of Body But of sound and perfect mynde and Memory
6 did give and bequeath unto Humphrey Blake and Arthur Blake Sonnes of Humphrey
7 Blake his brother All that his Tenement lyeing at Charlinch in the said words (viz[ a vi]t)
8 I doe give and bestowe All my right Title and interest in my Tenement att Charlinch
9 To my cousin Humphrey Blake and Arthur Blake being the Two lives nominated and
10 Expressed on my Lease thereof They paying All my debts And as for all the rest of his goods
11 and chattels hee gave and bequeathed unto his brother John Blake in these words (viz[ a vi]t)
12 And for all the rest of my goods As corne Sheepe horses debts oweing and All other
13 things whatsoever I give and bestowe to my Brother John Blake of Overstowey or words
14 to the same or like Effect, Spoken in the p[re]sence and heareing of Daniell Spark, John Hall
15 The Nine and Twentith day of December In the yeare of our Lord One Thousand
16 Sixe hundred Fifty and Nyne att London before the Judge for p[ro]bate of Wills and granting
17 lawfully authorized Administration with the Will annexed of Richard Blake deceased issued forth
18 to Humphrey Blake the Father and executor lawfully assigned to Humphrey Blake and Arthur
19 Blake Minors The Kinsmen and principall Legataees named in the said Will To Administer all
20 and singular the goods ch[at]ells and debts of the said dece[ase]d according to the Tenor and Effect of the said
21 Nuncupative Will And to and for the sole use benefit and behoofe and dureing the Minoritye
22 of the said Minors hee being by Comission sworne truly to Administer the same There being a
23 Sentence definitive read and promulgated for the validity and confirma[t]ion of the said Will
According to Chart 7 Richard Blake (testator) was baptized 6 Dec 1629 thus making him 28 years of age when his will was written. His will dated 1 September 1657 was not probated until 21 December 1659.
The above image is from the Over Stowey Parish Registers and one can see by the date Anno Domini 1630 that the items preceding that date are from 1629. At the top of the image (cropped) one finds “Richard son of Humphry Blake was Baptized ye 6 day of December.”
According to Chart 7 for the Blake family, Richard Blake (baptized 6 Dec 1629 (Old Style)) was the son of Humphrey Blake and Elizabeth Giles. In the cropped image below (green circle), Humphrey Blake of Plainsfield, Overstowey is said to be baptized 13 Nov 1580 (with a short arrow above the line coming down from Nicholas Blake of London and Anne Meadows of Sussex). I could not find that baptism in the online databases or at Family Search online. I will go to the Family Search Library one of these days as they do have access to the Over Stowey Registers on their site computers.
It is generally said that the parents of this Humphrey Blake were Humphrey Blake and Agnus/Ann James who married 23 Oct 1578 at Over Stowey. If we follow the line across into the next image, namely Image 10, then one can see that there are a number of children beneath this line all attributed to Humphrey Blake and Agnus/Ann James.
Using the chart (cropped from Blake_8.pdf) and the chart above (cropped from Blake _9.pdf) you can see that they come together with Richard Blake (baptized 7 Sep 1585) repeated on both charts (red outline). Following the green line towards the right does attribute these children to Humphrey Blake and Agnus, d of ___ James. This particular Humphrey Blake did leave a will dated 21 Sep 1618 (he was buried 20 Mar 1619 (Old Style)) and probated 27 Jun 1620. Unfortunately the original will was lost in the bombing of the Exeter Record Office during World War II. Luckily an abstract can be found in the Second Series of Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills, F. Brown (a copy is on Internet Archive): https://archive.org/details/abstractssomers00browgoog/page/n26 .
B.121 Humphry Blake the Elder. Will dated September 21, 1618 and proved June 27, 1620 by his son Humphry Blake [71 Soame]. To be buried at Over Stowey. Advowson of Aisholt to my son Edmund, in default to Mary my daughter, then to my son Robert. Elizabeth wife of Humphry my son. To Ann Blake, my wife 100 marks. My son Richard. My son John. Robert Perry, gent. Humphry Blake of Bridgewater, gent. William Blake. Richard Blake, of Stogumber, gent. Robert Blake.
Although it would be so much better to see the entire will, Humphry has mentioned in the will his daughter Mary, his sons Edmund, Robert, Humphry, Richard, and John. Looking at the two images above and remembering that Humphry has married twice, Humphry and his first wife Agnus James had the following children: Humphry (married to Elizabeth Giles), John, Richard, Jane, Robert, and Arthur. By his second wife Ann: Edmund and Mary (plus an infant Edmund who died young). Not mentioned in the will his daughter Jane (likely also died young but burial date not given) and his son Arthur (died as an infant).
The parents of this Humphry Blake can not be seen on this chart but can be seen on the one below:
This particular cropping of Image 1 is also very interesting. There is another chart which does predate this one likely as it was originally produced in 1690 with additions (in the 1700s) (chart below). The green circles point out the exact sample couple.
This colourful Chart was produced by the College of Arms for the Daniel Blake family of London, UK in 1690 originally. The chart itself is 12 feet by four feet and can be purchased as eight images from the Wiltshire Record Office. The top of the College of Arms’ chart begins with a Richard Blake and the addition of Robert E Blake as his father is somewhat interesting in the Chart held by the Bridgwater Museum. I have discussed before that Richard is likely the Richard le Blak who came from Rouen, France in 1274 to set up a market in England. This document following gave him the right to do so.
"Licence, until Michaelmas, for Walter le Aketon, merchant of Rouen, to
come to England to trade and to carry his wools and merchandise to the
usual fairs and markets by the public streets and common ways, provided
he do not carry or cause to be carried his wools or merchandise out of the
kingdom, nor deal with the Flemings or others of the power of the countess
of Flanders in the kingdom, or in any way communicate with them, during
the contention between the king and the said countess.
[30 May 1274 Westminster, 2 Edward I, volume 1, pages 51 - 52, Calendar of Patent Rolls]
The like for the following :—
Peter de Bules, merchant of Rouen
……….
Richard le Blak, merchant of Rouen.
………
Gilbert Bonnavel, merchant of Amiens"
My reason for believing that is because of an entry at the top of the Chart held by the Wiltshire Record Office which reads:
“R Blake gave certain Lands in Essex to the Knights Templars in the Regis of King Edw I which may be seen by the Records in the Tower of London _ilt Esc[h]aetr 31 Ed I no 77” This caption is beside Richard Blake on the first image of the Blake Pedigree prepared by the College of Arms.
Interestingly I do find a grant of Land in Eastwood (Essex) by Roger le Blake of Madebrook to the Knights Templars 20 Nov 1302 listed in the holdings of The National Archives (UK). The summary "Roger le Blake of Madebrook to grant land in Eastwood to the master and brethren of the Knights Templars in England, retaining a cottage and land in Thundersley and Eastwood. Essex" C 143/41/23 with date 31 Edward I. I do have a photograph of this particular document. It is possible to find Eastwood and Thundersley on Google maps in Essex and Madebrook is now the name of a pub located in Madeley which is near Telford in Shropshire.
Interesting but will leave any discussion on the first few generations noted on the Chart to another time as I do have documents that can assist with looking at that history.
Looking at the red circled part of the tree, Humphrey Blake was named as the son of John Blake the elder and his wife Johan. John was buried 10 Dec 1576 at Over Stowey, his wife Johan was buried 27 Jun 1595 at Over Stowey.
John Blake’s will was dated 25 November 1576 according to the Bridgewater Museum chart. Clifford L. Stott did obtain a copy of this will and cited it in its entirety in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register of 2009, Volume 163, Issue 1, 85-97 (“Humphrey Blake and his Descendants in New England and South Carolina”). I have included the will as transcribed in this blog:
“In the name of god Amen the five and tweutithe day of the Monthe of November in the yeare of our lord god a Thousande fyve hundered Seayentie sixe I John Blacke of Plainesfelde in the diocese of Bath and Welles being my Whole mynde and good and perfect remembrance lawde and prayse be unto almightie god do make and ordeine this my Testament rendering herein my last will in manner and forme followinge. That is to say First I commend my Sowle unto almightie god my maker and Redemr surelie trusting to be pourged front my synnes and to obtaine eternall lyef onelie by Faith for the death and merite of or Savior Jesus Christ And I will my bodye to be buried in the chancell of overstowey As touching my temporall gooddes Imprimus I gyve and beveathe unto St Andrew his Church at Wells twelve pence Item I gyve and bequeath unto the poore of overstowey tenne Shillinges Item I gyve and bequeath to the poore of Netherstowey tenne Shillinges Item I gyve and bequeath to the poore of Spraxton tenne Shillinges I gyve bequeathe and Assigne unto Humfrey Black my eldest sonne and to his heires for ever All those Tenements followinge scituate and lyinge in Plainsfeld in the parish of overstowey in the countie of Somersett namelie the Tenements which have in the tenure of occupation of otywel Artur Richarde Morley Henrie Croker Richarde Luker John Hunniball and John Pvne And also I gyve and bequeath unto the saide Humphrey my sonne and to his heires for ever All that my landes wch lyeth in the parrissh of Ashoult nowe in the tenure of Humfrey Luker To have and to holde all the prmisses in free Socage of the manor of Estgrenewiche. Item I gyve bequeathe and Assigne unto William Blacke my sonne and to his heyres for ever All my lande wch scituating lying and being wthin the parrissh of Busshops ly[diarde in the Countie aforesaide at Busshops Woods Busshops downe or elswhere in the saide parrissh Also I gyve bequeath and Assigne unto the saide William my sonne and to his heires for evr one Tente [tenement] scituate lying and being in plainesfylde aforsaide nowe in the tenure and occupation of Robert Jenckins or his Assignes Also I gyve bequeathe and Assigne unto the saide william my some and to his heires for ever all my lands in Padnall whin the parrisshe of Spaxton in the Countie aforesaide nowe in the tenure and occupacion of John Burnall To have and to holde all and singular the prmisses in free Socage of the Manor of Eastgrenewiche. Item I gyve bequeathe and Assigne unto Richarde Blacke my sonne and to his heires for ever All my Lande scituatinge lyeing and beinge in Wurstin in the parrisshe of Burnam [Burnham on Sea] in the county aforesaide late in the tenure and occupacon of Nicholas Sheperd but nowe in the tenure of one Smithes of the widdow Evcretts children To have and to holde all the prmisses in free Socage of the manor of Eastgenewiche Item I gyve bequeath and Assigne unto Johan my wieff and to Richarde my sonne iontelie [jointly] duringe my wieffs naturall lief All that my State tytle and interest which I have in the Rectorie or personage of overstowey wthall and singuler thappurtennces emolumets profitte and comodities thereof And I will and my mynd is that all and singuler pemisses do remayne unto Richard my sonne after the deceasse of the saide Johan my wieff unto the wch Richarde I assigne the premisses in manner above written Item I gyve and bequeath unto Humfrey my soime fowre oxen the Best which shall remayne after the heriatts Be chosen And I gyve and Bequeathe unto the saide Humfrye all my plough geare one of my silver saltsellers with a Cover my second Best Fetherbedd performed with the furniture therto belonginge and also the Bedstede twoo bedds standinge over the hall performed with the bedsteddes also sixe calves of the last yeares fall and six silver Spoones the second best Item I gyve & bequeathe unto Alice Richards my daughter tenne shillinges and to everie of her children sixe shillinges eight pence Item I gyve and bequeathe unto Anne Saunders my Daughter tenne Shillinges Item I gyve and Bequeathe unto Isabell Bellick [Zellick] my daughter tenne shillinges and to her son tenne shillinges Item I gyve and bequeathe unto everie one of my God children twelve pence all my other gooddes Cattell and Debtes not gyven or bequeathed my debtes paide legacies satisfied and funerall expense accoplisshed I gyve and bequeathe unto Johan my wieff william my some and to Richarde my some which John [Johan] William and Richarde I make & ordayne my Executor' ioyntlie [jointly] to pay my debtes and to Receyve my Debts And I constitue and appointe the right worshipfull Mr Thorns Mallen Esquire Robert Blacke and Robert Zellick overseers unto whom my humble and ernest suite is that they will see that this my Testament performed accordinge to my true purporte and meaning And I will that my Goodes gyven and bequeathed unto my Executours be equallie devided amongest them by Robert Blacke and Robert Zellick whom I beseche to take suche order which the advise of Mr Mallen as that things may be indifferently handled with quietnes witnesses Samuel Mercer Robert Bockinge Ottywell Artur and Richard Black Robert Black Thoms Black Humfrie william and Richard Black.”
The will was probated, according to the author Clifford L. Stott, 25 January 1577. John, in his will, mentions his wife Johan and children: Humphrey Blake, Alice Richards, Anne Saunders, Isabel [Elizabeth] Zellick, William Blake, Richard Blake and Robert Blake. The College of Arms’ Chart shows the children of John and Anne Blake as: Humphrey Blake, William Blake, Richard Blake, Robert Blake, Alice Blake, Anne Blake, Isobel Blake, and Mary Blake. Mary is not mentioned in the will (baptized 1558 and buried 6 Sep 1660 (perhaps this date should be 1560). The parish records are not online but are available at Family Search Record Offices so will check that one of these days.
Moving back to the parents of John the Bridgewater Museum chart lists Humphrey Blake (of Overstowey) and his wife Anne. Humphrey also left his will dated 19 Nov 1558 and probated 11 May 1559. The original of this will was lost in the bombing of the Exeter Record Office during World War II. However an abstract was produced in Series 1 of the Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills, F. Brown:
Humfrey Blake, of Overstowey, Somerset, Gent. Will dated 19 Nov 1 Eliz: proved 11 May 1559. To be buried in the parish church of Overstowey, with such orisons [and etc] prayers to be said [and etc] done for me at my Buriall, months mind [and etc] in the daye of my annyversarie as shall be thought most mete by my Executors, [and etc]. To the Parson of Aissheholt to pray for me, 10 s. To Anstice Blake, one of the daughters of Robert Blake, for her advancement in marriage, £6. 6. 8. To Jone Slocombe, daughter of George Slocumbe, 20 s. To Agnes Mannynge, my daughter, £4. To Catherine Cabull, 6 s 8 d. To Alice Cabull, my sister, 6 s 8 d. To John Blake the elder, my son, £100. To Robert Blake my son, £100. To Thomas Blake, my son, £20. To Eleanor Langham, my daughter, 10 s. To Alice Slocombe, my daughter, 6 s 8 d. Manor of Tuxwell, Somerset, to my son Robert Blake [and etc], his heirs, [and etc], then to Thomas, my son, then to John Blake the younger, my son. To John Blake the elder, my son, [and etc] his heirs, lands, [and etc], in Bishops Lydiard. My friend, Humphrey Coles, esq., £5, to see my will performed, [and etc]. Residue to Anne my wife, [and etc] my son John Blake the younger, Executors. Overseers, John Blake the elder, Robert Blake, William Luker.
Humfrey (Humphrey) mentions in his will his wife Anne, his daughters Agnes, Eleanor, Alice and his sons Robert (grandfather of Robert Blake, Admiral and General at Sea during the Commonwealth), Thomas, Robert, John the elder and John the younger. The Chart held by the Bridgwater Museum lists John Blake the younger, Agnis Blake, Eleanor Blake, Alice Blake, John Blake the elder, Thomas Blake and Robert Blake. The marriage names for the daughters and the lands granted appear with the relevant son on the Bridgwater Museum Pedigree Chart.
At this point in the trace-back Horatio Gates Somerby decided to make this Humphrey a brother of Nicholas Blake of Andover, Hampshire. Fortunately Nicholas left his will probated 20 Jun 1547.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 6th May 2009
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/31/549
Name of Testator: Nic[h]olas Blake
Place: Enham (near Andover), Hampshire, England
Dated: 31 May 1547, probated 20 Jun 1547
[Left hand corner] Test[at]or Nicho[las] Blake
1 In the name of God amen In the yere of our Lord god a Thousand fyve hundred
2 Fourtie and sevyn and the last day of May I Nicolas Blake of the p[ar]ishe of Enh[a]m in the Dioc[ese] of Wynchest[e]r
3 being sicke of body but of good and p[er]fite remembrance make and ordeyn this my last will and testament
4 in maner and fourme folowing First I Bequith my soule to almightie god to oure Blessed Lady and to all the
5 Blessed company of heaven. And my body to be buried w[i]t[h]in the Church of Saint Michaell Th[e ]archangell Item
6 I geve to the Trinite Church of Wynchester vj d Item I geve to the church of Andever oon quarter of whete
7 It[e]m I give to Enh[a]m Church a quarter of wheat Item I geve and bequeth to Will[ia]m Blake my eldest sonne
8 the halfe of the Farme of Andever of my Lord Sandys holding which Robert Boswell occupyeth Also I geve
9 and bequeth to the said Will[ia]m the Tenement in Kings Enham of my Lord Sandys holding w[i]t[h] all the La[m]mes
10 lande lying in Andever feld that the said William nowe occupieth and holdith Also I geve to the said Will[ia]m
11 Blake my sonne my Leasse of the Tenement of the Lord Sandys called the olde hall w[i]t[h] all the app[ur]ten[an]cs ther unto
12 belonginge or lying in Knyghts Enh[a]m Also I geve to the said William Blake my free holde in Knyights Enh[a]m w[i]t[h] all
13 the appurten[an]cs there unto belonging Item I geve and bequeth to Edmund Blake my sonne the Leasse of the
14 Farme of Andever called Semers Farme w[i]t[h] all the appurten[an]cs ther[e ]unto belonging and walworth of my
15 Lord Sandys holding And a leasse of a Tenement in Kyngs Enh[a]m which is John Catts gentilman holde w[i]t[h]
16 all the appurten[an]cs ther[e ]unto belonging Also I geve to the said Edmund my sonne my freeholde in Andever
17 with seven acres and a half of arable land that Thomas Wescombe now holdeth with all the rest of myn[e]
18 erable lands grains pastures and com[m]ons of pastures of what nature kynde name and degre soever they be
19 which I do holde and kepe of any man[ner] at the making of this my last wille and testament Also I wille that
20 the forsaid Thomas Wescombe shal[l ]have the forsaid house that he dwelleth in for the terms of thurtie yeres
21 next folowing paying yerely therfor and to agree w[i]t[h] Margaret Blake my wife and Edmund Blake my son[ne]
22 Item I geve to Elizabeth Blake my daughter one hundreth of shepe and Twentie poundes of money at the day of
23 her mariage and her apparill. Item I give and bequeth to Alice my daughter twentie shepe and fyve quarters of
24 barley to be delivered at Michelmas next commyng Item I give to Sir Thomas Upton my curate to pray for my soule
25 and all Christ[ai]n soules x s. Also yf that it fortune Edmund Blake my sonne to dye before he be of lawfull age Then I wille
26 that my freholde w[i]t[h] all the other leases geven and bequethed by me to the said Edmond to remayn to William Blake
27 my sonne his heires and assignes And the goods to remayne to Alice Goodwyn and Elizabeth Blake my daughters equally
28 to be devided betwixt them And if it fortune the said Alice and Elizabeth to dye Then I will the said goodes to be devided
29 betwene the children of William Blake my son Provided also I will that Margaret Blake my wife shall have and
30 kepe all my free landes tenements holds leases with all th[e ]appurtenancs to them belonging which I doe holde of any man[ne]r
31 of man[ner] at the making of this my last will and testament during the terme of her life The residue of my goods and
32 c[h]attalls not gevyn or bequethed I geve and bequeth to Margaret Blake my wife and Edmunde Blake my sonne
33 whom I make and ordeyn myn executors of this my last will and testament Also I make and ordeyn William
34 Hopkins and Willi[a]m Aldred my Overseers of this my last will and testament for to se it p[er]formed according to
35 my mynde above specified Witnesse to this Sir Thomas Upton Curate Stevyn Smyth Will[ia]m Blake w[i]t[h] other
36 Probatum fuit test[ament]um suprascripti defuncti h[ab]entis etc xxth die mensis Juinij Anno D[o]m[in]o Mill[es]imo quingen[tesimo]
37 xlvij [1547] Coram d[o]m[in]o apud London aucto[ritate] d[o]m[in]o n[ost]ri Regis etc Iurament[o] Margarete Relicte executoris in h[uius]mo[d]i test[ament]o no[m]i[n]at[i] In persona
38 Stephe[n] Smyth procur[atoris] sui in hac p[ar]te Ac approbatum et insinuatum Com[m]issa fuit admi[ni]stracio o[mn]i[u]m et singulorom bonorum Jurium
39 Et creditorum d[i]c[t]i defuncti prefat[o] executrici In p[er]sona die proc[urato]ris De b[e]n[e] et fidel[ite]r admi[ni]strando Ac de pleno et fideli In[venta]rio secondo die post
40 festum s[an]c[t]e Anne prox[imum] futur[um] exhibend[o] necnon de plano et vero compoto reddend[o] Ad s[an]c[t]a dei Ev[a]ngelia in debit iuris forma jurat
41 Reservata po[tes]tate Edmund Blake executori etiam in h[uius]mo[d]i test[ament]o no[m]i[n]at cum venerit etc
Although it is always possible that Nicholas might not mention his brother in his will since he does not mention his brother Robert, I will also place his mother’s will in this account (this transcription was completed by Charlou Dolan:
LDS FHL Film, 186,682, Will #163
Date of Will: 28 Mar 1527
Place: Enham, Hampshire, England
Consistory Court of Winchester, Register D, folio 118:
In dei no'ie Amen The yere of o'r lorde gode ml vc xxvii the xxviii day of m'che I Johane Blake, wydow w't a hole mynde & a gudde memory make my last wyll & testament in this man'
First I com'end my soule to all myghty gode, o'r lady seynt mary & to all the seynts in hevyn and my body to be buryed in the Churche or in the churche litten of seynt Michaell of Enahm[sic]
It'm I gyve & bequeth unto the mother churche of seynt Swyth' xiid
It'm I gyve & bequeth to the churche of Enah'm vis viiid
It'm I guve & bequeth xxvis viiid to be distribute unto pore people in peny dole
It' I gyve & bequeth to my Curate S Ryc Mersser xxd
It' I gyve & bequeth to S John Batte xxd
It'm I gyve & bequeth to the maynteyning of the morow masse prest in Andov' xxd
It'm I gyve & bequeth to the mayntenyng of Jhus masse in the churche of Andov' xxd
It'm I gyve & bequeth to the p'ror of Freers Augustines in Wync' xxd
It'm I gyve & bequeth to s John' whight freer xxd
It'm I gyve & bequeth to ev'y freer of the seid augustines that ys a prest iiiid & to ev'r noves iid of theseid place
It'm I gyve & bequeth to my douzter Elsabeth mylne xxli shepe beside those she hath All'redy & one cow th't I bouzt of her & xiiis iiid of money & my gretyst panne & foure platters
It'm I give & bequeath unto my son Nycholas Blake the tabull in the hall & one clothe called the hallyng & ii Iron rakks
It'm I gyve & bequeath unto my son Rob't Blake one Iron broche & xviii shepe the wheiche shepe he hath in his kepying
It'm I gyve & bequeth to Thoms Iesra off foskett one Iron broche
The residue of my goods moveable & unmoveable above not legate I gyve & bequeth unto my children Nycholas Blake Robt Blake & to Thoms Iesra of Foskett & theseid goods to be devyded amongs them equally evy of them lyke moche
It'm I make my sones Nycholas Blake & Robt Blake my trewe executors and Thomas Iesa of Foskett my supviso'r that he se my last wyll & testament Implete & fulfilled & theseid execut to dispose for the heithe of my soule as the shall se most expedyent
These witnesse S Ryc Mersser
S John Batte
Nycholas Blake
Robt Blake w't
I now have a copy of this will but have not yet transcribed it. Jone Blake mentions her children: Nycholas Blake, Robert Blake, and Elsabeth Mylne. If she had a son Humphrey I rather think she would have mentioned that she did.
There is another will of the likely husband of Jone but I will not insert it here. He mentions his sons Robert Blake, Nicholas Blake and his daughter Elizabeth Blake.
This is the most interesting part of this walk back in time looking at each ancestral line. This chart at the Bridgwater Museum agrees with the chart produced by the College of Arms in that the father of Humphrey is said to be John Blake. Obviously this chart held by the Bridgwater Museum was not prepared from any of Horatio Gates Somerby’s notes. The author of this chart is not known to me.
The chart prepared by the College of Arms has this caption in the circle for John Blake:
John Blague 2nd son from whom the Blakes of Somersetshire are descended of which Family was General Robert Blake famous Soldier and Sea Commander.
He is listed as the son of William Blague of Lacock in County Wiltshire and his wife Margaret daughter of William Browne of Wablyn. I will do more on this particular line at a later date.
3. Blake Surname Study – Progress: One Name Blake Study at the Guild of One-name Studies was originally undertaken by another researcher. In 2011, I became the researcher for the Blake-one-name Study at the Guild. There was already a pre-existing yDNA project run by Bill Bleak and he continues as the main administrator of the project. As can be seen below 23 members of the study have completed a Big Y (SNPs testing for deep clade determination) making it virtually impossible to do more than has been done with some of the groups.
Project Statistics
Total Members 193
Big Y 23
Combined GEDCOMs Uploaded 12
Paternal Ancestor Information 129
Predicted Y-DNA Haplogroups 25
Y-DNA12 111
Y-DNA25 94
Y-DNA37 91
Y-DNA67 66
Y-DNA111 38
The task of managing these groups is large and I will gradually work away at converting them to the new standard of placing individuals by their deep haplogroup testing. I have not made any progress since the last report. If anyone is willing to look at the R1b groups and come up with a better display I would greatly appreciate it. I would recommend that all members join the relevant haplogroup project to learn more about your haplogroup.
4. Blake autosomal DNA Study at FT DNA (Family Finder)
In some cases these are large matches and in other cases relatively small but that is the way with the inheritance of autosomal DNA. With each generation chunks of autosomal DNA can either be broken into smaller units or passed as a large chunk relatively intact. It is a purely random event. Due to privacy concerns it is not possible to produce a chart of the members who do have matches with other members of the group but each member is able to check that for themselves in their account. What would be helpful is adding a family tree to your account thus making it much more possible to find matching autosomal DNA cousins in your research.
5. Andover, Hampshire, England Parish Registers (Baptisms – set 6)
Andover, Hampshire, England has often been said to be the “home of the Blakes” when I have been writing to people in Hampshire through the years. I would say that Calne, Wiltshire perhaps has a stronger hold on that particular title although there are a number of other areas in England where the Blake family has been for centuries. When I decided to transcribe the Parish Registers of Andover I was surprised to find that yes there are a number of Blake entries but there are far more Blake entries in Parish Registers in other parts of England as mentioned. In this issue, I will publish the baptisms for Blake in the Parish Registers. These records are taken from fiche which have scans of the original parish registers. The registers for baptisms begin in 1588 and have provided me with a lot of details on the Blake family in Andover in the late 1500s and into the 1600s/1700s. Eventually I hope to complete my project of transcribing these Parish Registers for St Marys Andover beyond the early to mid 1700s.
Baptismal Registers commenced in 1588 and I will start publishing these transcriptions for Andover.
Number Surname Forename status Fathers surname Fathers forename Mothers surname Mothers forename Year Month Day Year Month Day Details
1800 Chard Margerye daughter Chard Edward 1623 May 4
1801 Chard Dorothy daughter Chard Edward 1623 May 4
1802 Livelocke Dorothy daughter Livelocke 1623 May 4
1803 Shercomb Shercomb Walter 1623 May 12
1804 Chylds Michaell son Chylds William 1623 May 15
1805 Chylds Margerye daughter Chylds William 1623 May 15
1806 Bayly William son Bayly William 1623 June 8
1807 Row Thomas son Row William 1623 June 12
1808 Hunton Joseph son Hunton Philipe 1623 July 20
1809 Shoringer Shoringer 1623 July 25 at Henry Kings
1810 Swetapple William son Swetapple Robert 1623 August 17
1811 Bath Samuell son Bath Thomas 1623 August 25
1812 Deane John son Deane William 1623 September 13
1813 Helliar Nicholas son Hellier Nicholas 1623 September 15
1814 Chard Elizabeth daughter Chard William 1623 September 29
1815 Tomlin Samuell son Tomlin William 1623 October 2
1816 Swetapple Robert son Swetapple Robert 1623 October 5
1817 Dunman Elenor daughter Dunman John 1623 October 9
1818 Rathband Thomas son Rathband John 1623 October 12
1819 Chenell Mary daughter Chenell Robert 1623 October 14
1820 Templer Elizabeth daughter Templer Richard 1623 October 15
1821 Nash Robert son Nash Valentine 1623 October 25
1822 Edmonds Elizabeth daughter Edmonds 1623 October 27
1823 Baverstock Mary daughter Baverstock John 1623 November 1
1824 Bath Thomas daughter Bath Thomas 1623 November 5
1825 Elington daughter Elington Philipp 1623 November 10
1826 Moringe William son Moringe Edward 1623 December 3
1827 Chenell son Chenell Robert 1623 December 12
1828 Barwick Mary daughter Barwick William 1623 December 22
1829 Noyce Elenor daughter Noyce John 1623 December 30
1830 Julians William son Julians William 1623 December 30
1831 Tanner Mary daughter Tanner William 1623 January 1
1832 No…. Peter son No… Richard 1623 January 8
1833 Goodale Hobart son Goodale Richard 1623 January 10
1834 James John son James William 1623 January 12 William junior
1835 Rives Richard son Rives John 1623 January 17
1836 Kent Alse daughter Kent Peter 1623 February
1837 Warner Mary daughter Warner John 1623 February 6
1838 Baker Elizabeth daughter Baker Robert 1623 February
1839 Board Mary daughter Board Phylipp 1623 February 17
1840 Blake Rebecca daughter Blake John 1623 February 24
1841 Taylor John son Taylor Thomas 1623 February 27
1842 Buckler Mary daughter Buckler John 1623 March
1843 W. Elizabeth daughter W. Robert 1623 March
1844 Cletsam Robert son Cletsam Rowland 1623 March 15
1845 Miller William son Miller William 1623 March
1846 Hacker Mary daughter Hacker John 1624 March 25
1847 Sweetapple Hugh son Sweetapple Paul 1624 April 4
1848 Dowse Mary daughter Dowse Thomas 1624 April 10
1849 Scullard Mary daughter Scullard John 1624 April 18
1850 Hinxman Richard son Hinxman Joseph 1624 April 19
1851 Sweetapple Elenor daughter Sweetapple Michaell 1624 July 11
1852 Cornelius Robert son Cornelius Christopher 1624 July 14
1853 Godwin Elizabeth daughter Godwin Thomas 1624 July 17
1854 Cobb Joane daughter Cobb Edward 1624 July 17
1855 Dyres Robert son Dyres Robert 1624 July 24
1856 Noyce Helen daughter Noyce John 1624 September 1
1857 Petty Mary daughter Petty Thomas 1624 September 12
1858 Harris Joane daughter Harris Thomas 1624 September 19
1859 Wateridge Joane daughter Wateridge Nicholas 1624 September 20
1860 Francis Dorothy daughter Francis John 1624 September 21
1861 Bunnye Elizabeth daughter Bunnye Thomas 1624 October 17
1862 Hinksman Thomas son Hinksman Thomas 1624 October 22
1863 Seward Ann daughter Seward Mathew 1624 October 24
1864 Baker George son Baker Robert 1624 October 28
1865 Horne Andrew son Horne James 1624 October 29
1866 Mountayne Thomas son Mountayne Robert 1624 October 31
1867 Tomes Mary daughter Tomes John 1624 October 31
1868 Lovegrove Mary daughter Lovegrove John 1624 November 1
1869 Figgish Mary daughter Figgish Thomas 1624 November 1
1870 Blake John son Blake Mr. William 1624 November 1
1871 Calvard John son Calvard Burnard 1624 November 3
1872 Beare Elizabeth daughter Beare Sylvester 1624 November 13
1873 West Margarie daughter West Joseph 1624 November 14
1874 Segroove Richard son Segroove Rowland 1624 December 5
1875 Penton Alexander son Penton Thomas 1624 December 13
1876 Childs Patience daughter Childs Maurice 1624 December 14
1877 Church Joseph son Church Thomas 1624 December 19
1878 Julians Thomas son Julians Zaccharus 1624 December 21
1879 Blacke William son Blacke William 1624 December 29 father is the younger
1880 Godden Sara daughter Godden Robert 1624 January 1
1881 Powell Mary daughter Powell Henry 1624 January 2
1882 Arthur Joane daughter Arthur John 1624 February 3 of Andover
1883 Greene Andrew son Greene Fenex 1624 February 10 of Andover
1884 Shutter Christopher son Shutter Mr. John 1624 February 24
1885 Sooner Rebecke daughter Sooner John 1624 February 28
1886 Dobby Francis daughter Dobby John 1624 March 1 of Chilbolton
1887 Welles Robertt son Welles Henry 1624 March 8 of Chilbolton
1888 Wayght Patianc daughter Wayght Mr. Bartholomew 1624 March 10
1889 Sherkoom Andrew son Sherkoom Walter 1624 March 13
1890 Heller Alce daughter Heller Nicholas 1624 March 13
1891 Philpott Mary daughter Philpott Richard 1624 March 14
1892 Chanell Richard son Chanell Robertt 1624 March 15
1893 Walterman Hue son Walterman John 1624 March
1894 .ende Peeter son .ende John 1624 March 22
1895 Mary daughter 1624 March
1896 Hacker son William 1625
1897 Thomas 1624
1898 Mary 1624
1899 J. 1624
1900 Richard 1624
1901 Venables Rachell daughter Venables Mr. richard 1625 May 24
1902 James Dority daughter James John 1625 June 7
1903 Stoner Thomas son Stoner Robert 1625 June 10
1904 Higginsonn Mary daughter Higginsonn Mr. Robert 1625 June 19
1906 Beare George son Beare John 1625 June 25
1907 Sprattbeary Richard son Sprattbeary Richard 1625 June 9
1908 James Jone daughter James William 1625 July 22
1909 Noyse Ralphe son Noyse Thomas 1625 July 29
1910 Tomkines Martha daughter Tomkines Gyles 1625 July 31
1911 Hacker Jone daughter Hacker John 1625 August 3
1912 Thurman Jone daughter Thurman Nicholas 1625 August 3 of Chilbolton
1913 Chandler Anthonie son Chandler John 1625 August 10
1914 Whatly ..cceher daughter Whatly Thomas 1625 August 20 of Chisswirl
1915 Mackyn Mackyn Francis 1625 September
1916 Froude Ann daughter Froude George 1625 September 17
1917 Woodhouse Mary daughter Woodhouse 1625 September 17
1918 Whittley Richard son Whittley John 1625 September 25
1919 Symens Febe daughter Symens Elis 1625 October 7
1920 Clarke Jane daughter Clarke Richard 1625 October 9
1921 Gage Dority daughter Gage John 1625 October 11
1922 Russell Patience daughter Russell William 1625 October 12
1923 Butler Helen daughter Butler Henry 1625 October 20
1924 Dabye Thomas son Dabye William 1625 November 12 of Foskott
1925 Harper William son Harper John 1625 November of Inham
1926 James son 1625
1927 P 1625
1928 … 1625
1929 … 1625
1930 Sallis Edward son Sallis Robertt 1625 December 11
1931 Longe Elizabeth daughter Longe Thomas 1625 December 11
1932 Ward Ward Robert 1625 December
1933 Bath Andrew son Bath Thomas 1625 December 18
1934 Bradborne Richarde son Bradborne Richard 1625 December 18 of Charllton
1935 Horne Phelipae daughter Horne James 1625 December 19
1936 Moring Elizabeth daughter Moring Edward 1625 December 21
1937 Hulatt John son Hulatt John 1625 December 28 of Chilbolton
1938 Bord William son Bord Roger 1625 January 1
1939 Wild …b.t son Wild John 1625 January 7
1940 … 1625 January 11
1941 Raty 1625
1942 Inerman Inerman William 1625 January
1943 Smithe Smithe ….am 1625 January 29
1944 ….ambs …ambs 1625 February
1945 … 1625
1946 … 1625
1947 … 1625
1948 Blake Nicholas son Blake Mr. William 1625 February 25 of Eastown
1949 Venabels Elizabeth daughter Venabels Mr. Nicholas 1625 February 20
1950 Livelocke Dority daughter Livelocke Richard 1625 February 20
1951 Dowse Nicholas son Dowse John 1625 February 22
1952 Reeves William son Reeves John 1625 February 23
1953 Prince John son Prince John 1625 February 26
1954 Helyer Ann daughter Helyer Hugh 1625 March 4 of Coomb Farmm
1955 Beasen John son Beasen John 1625 March 5
1956 Knightt Joseph son Knightt Stephen 1625 March 20
1957 Backer Elias son Backer Robert 1625 March 20
1958 Mountayne John son Jountayne Robert 1626 March 26
1959 Barnabie Robertt son Barnabie Balden 1626 March 31
1960 West George son West Anthoney 1626 April 4
1961 Rime Elizabeth daughter Rime William 1626 April 7 Woodhouse
1962 Waltredge Richard son Waltredge Walter 1626 April 30
1963 Frowk daughter Frowk George 1626 May 21
1964 Julians Abigall daughter Julians William 1626 May 14
1965 Stronber daughter Stronber Anr 1626 May 25
1966 Bord Philip son Bord Mr. Phillipp 1626 June 1
1967 Barrick Joice daughter Barrick William 1626 June 8
1968 Skadsden Elizabeth daughter Skadsden 1626 June 20
1969 Bampton William son Bampton Andrew 1626 June 24
1970 Tomkins John son Tomkins Gyles 1626 June 25
1971 Grantham George son Grantham Richard 1626 June 29
1972 Blake Jone daughter Blake Robertt 1626 July 1 of Fox.tt
1973 Jenkens Mary daughter Jenkens Richard 1626 July 7
1974 Godden Thomas son Godden Thomas 1626 Juy 8
1975 Fraunces Alce daughter Fraunces John 1626 July 8 Charllton
1976 Nash Jone daughter Nash Valintayne 1626 July 16
1977 Sines Robartt son Sines Henry 1626 July 26
1978 Bath Mary daughter Bath William 1626 July 28 William the younger
1979 Horn John son Horn Samuel 1626 August 5 of Charltton
1980 Cleettson John son Cleettson Richard 1626 August 8
1981 James Jone daughter James William 1626 August 11
1982 Alfard John son Alfard Benjamin 1626 August 27
1983 Thurmand William son Thurmand Nicholas 1626 August 29
1984 Feelder Jone daughter Feelder Richard 1626 August 29
1985 Fear…y Thomas bastard son Fear…y Amos 1626 September 3
1986 Gooddall Dority daughter Gooddall Richard 1626 September 9
1987 West John son West Robert 1626 September 10
1988 Sweettapell Mary daughter Sweettapell Mr. Pall 1626 September 10
1989 Sweettapell Elizabeth daughter Sweettapell Richard 1626 September 19
1990 Donford John son Donford William 1626 September 24
1991 Henxmann William son Henxmann Mr. Joseph 1626 October 9
1992 Lively William son Lively William 1626 October 10 of Charllton
1993 Huntt Edward son Huntt Petter 1626 October 15
1994 Bath Dority daughter Bath Christopher 1626 October 21
1995 Bentton Mary daughter Bentton Robert 1626 October 25
1996 Brod …rity daughter Brod William 1626 November 3
1997 Bunnye ..lener daughter Bunnye Thomas 1626 November 3
1998 Deane Thomas son Deane William 1626 November 11
1999 Seward Ann daughter Seward Mathew 1626 November 19
2000 Tomlin Bengamenn son Tomlin William 1626 November 26
2001 Yonge daughter Yonge Thomas 1626 November
2002 Philipp bastard son 1626 December 5
2003 Noyse Raphe son Noyse Thomas 1626 December 25 of Charlton
2004 Salmaan Doritye daughter Salmann Peetter 1626 December 26 of Wildhern
2005 Foster John son Foster John 1626 December 26
2006 Smithe Richard son Smithe Robert 1626 January 14 Nustrcott
2007 Godden John son Godden Robert 1626 January 14
2008 Torner John son Torner John 1626 January 15
2009 Ruttley Briidgett daughter Tuttley John 1626 January 22
2010 Bath John son Bath Peeter 1626 January 23
2011 Turner Richard son Turner John 1626 January 26
2012 Sommers Alce daughter Sommers John 1626 January 28
2013 Livlock Mary daughter Livlock William 1626 January 29
2014 Warner John son Warner John 1626 February 15
2015 Rowbottom Petter son Rowbottom John 1626 February 20
2016 Husse John son Husse Augustin 1626 February 20
2017 Dr…h Mary bastard dau 1626 February 24
2018 Pedling Henry son Pedling John 1626 March 4
2019 Tanner Richard son Tanner William 1626 March 12
2020 Clemantt son 1626 March 20
2021 Childes Patiance daughter Childes Morise 1626 March 22
2022 Payn Elizabeth daughter Payn Robartt 1626 March 24
2023 Budgley Alce daughter Budgley Thomas 1627 April 21
2024 Chard Ann daughter Chard Edward 1627 April 26
2025 Pettman John son Pettman Edward 1627 May 28
2026 Horne Martha daughter Horne James 1627 May 11 James the younger
2027 Twitchin Mary daughter Twitchin Mr. Andrew 1627 May 28
2028 House Ezekell son House Nicholas 1627 May 20 NH
2029 Carddey Susana daughter Carddey John 1627 June 10
2030 Jones Mary daughter Jones William 1627 June 18
2031 Venables Catteren daughter Venables Mr. Nicholas 1627 June 25
2032 Church John son Church Thomas 1627 June 26
2033 Venables Catteren daughter Venables Mr. Nicholas 1627 June 25
2034 Church John son Church Thomas 1627 June 26
2035 Knyghtt Elizabeth daughter Knyghtt William 1627 July 1
2036 Godden Elias son Geddon John 1627 July 8
2037 Frowde George son Frowde George 1627 July 8
2038 Dowse Elizabeth daughter Dowse Thomas 1627 July 22
2039 Sweettapell Nicholas son Sweettapell Miecl 1627 July 30
2040 Smith John son Smith John 1627 August 5
2041 Cooke Herkelas son Cooke Thomas 1627 August 19
2042 Julians Andrew son Julians Ezekell 1627 August 26
2043 Hopgood Richard son Hopgood Richard 1627 September 4
2044 Walterman Dority daughter Waterman John 1627 September 4 of Hatherden
2045 Dowse William son Dowse William 1627 September 9
2046 Scullard Edmon son Scullard John 1627 September 16
2047 Tredgoulde Thomas son Tredgoulde William 1627 September 23
2048 Ecton Richard son Ecton Richard 1627 September 30
2049 Judge John son Judge John 1627 October 7
2050 Spratbeary Elizabeth daughter Spratbeary Richard 1627 October 7
2051 Phillpott John son Phillpott Wrichard 1627 October 9
2052 James William son James William 1627 October 23
2053 Beare Alic daughter Beare John 1627 October 30
2054 Baverstock John son Baverstock John 1627 November 1
2055 Feelder Mary daughter Feelder Richard 1627 November 3
2056 Cooke Mary daughter Cooke John 1627 November 4
2057 Cornelis Jone daughter Cornelis Christofer 1627 November 8
2058 Blake Dority daughter Blake William 1627 November 14 of Woodhouse
2059 Chandlar John son Chandlar John 1627 November 24
2060 Watredge Ann daughter Watredge Waltredge 1627 December 8
2061 Bath Sara daughter Bath Richard 1627 December 26
2062 Langly Elizabeth bastard daughter Langly Elizabeth 1627 December 28
2063 Raty Thomas son Raty Thomas 1627 December 30
2064 Sweetapell Margarett daughter Sweettapell Robert 1627 December 31
2065 James William son James William 1627 January 1
2066 Buttler John son Buttler Henry 1627 January 9
2067 Hacker Alce daughter Hacker John 1627 February 2
2068 Sommers John son Sommers John 1627 February 3
2069 Knowles Joane daughter Knowles John 1627 February 3
2070 Ammey bastard child Margarett 1627 February borne at John Welles February 6
2071 Hid John son Hid Christopher 1627 February 12
2072 Huntt son Huntt Peetter 1627 February 16
2073 Knightt Richard son Knightt Richard 1627 February 17
2074 Palmer Palmer Gylbord 1627 February 19
2075 Mountayne Sary daughter Mountayne Robartt 1627 February 24
2076 Matkin Henry son Matkin Mr. Frances 1627 February 25
2077 Sargantt Peeter son Sargantt Thomas 1627 February 25
2078 Noyse Thomas son Noyse Thomas 1627 February 29 of Charlton
2079 Moringe Clemantt son Moringe Edward 1627 March 2
2080 Walterman Elizabeth daughter Walterman Thomas 1627 March 2
2081 Holdway Annes daughter Holdway Henry 1627 March 8 of Kings Enham
2082 Raty Jone daughter Raty John 1627 March 9
2083 Milles Richard son Milles Richard 1627 March 15
2084 Somersett James son Somersett Edward 1627 March 16
2085 Kentt William son Kentt Peeter 1627 March 17
2086 Olderwell John son Olderwell Robert 1628 March 25
2087 Bradborn Bradborn Richard 1628 April 15
2088 Brod son Brod William 1628 April 19
2089 Noyse Sicley daughter Noyse Mr. Robartt 1628 April 24 of Hatherden baptized at home
2090 Salman Jone daughter Salmann Peeter 1628 May 4
2091 Hitchcocke Reioy daughter Hitchcocke Thomas 1628 May 11
2092 Cooper William son Cooper William 1628 May 11 of Widhern
2093 Arnall Sary daughter Arnall William 1628 May 14
2094 Dabby Phillip son Dabby John 1628 May 17 the …er of Charlton
2095 Raty Dorothy daughter Raty William 1628 May 20
2096 Miller .nen daughter Miller William 1628 May 22
2097 Pressey Mary daughter Pressey William 1628 June 17
2098 Reeves Alce daughter Reeves John 1628 June 23
2099 Durnford daughter Durnford William 1628
Any submissions, queries for the journal please submit to Elizabeth (Blake) Kipp by the 15th of December for the 1st January issue.
Elizabeth Kipp, kippeeb@rogers.com
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