Church on You Tube

My Church Service on YouTube was again full of singing and prayers and a wonderful sermon once again. 

The truckers did not disturb our service I was very glad to see. I honestly do not see why they made this huge trek to Ottawa. I can not see their side of the discussion at all. It makes no sense to argue against a mandate that is also in place on the United States side of the border. We are also tired of the lockdown and the methods put in place are going to shorten that lockdown not lengthen it. Their running around the country without masks is only going to increase the presence of the virus. We can come out of this but not quite so easily in mid-winter in Canada. I do hope they will show more respect for the people of Ottawa and leave today. They say they come to bring freedom but instead we have had to shut down in order to protect ourselves from any potential virus they may have. Are they testing? At least they could do that every day. They acquired so much money in their GoFuneMe campaign. We will not be able to open schools in the areas they are occupying so they are denying children their education. They are very selfish.  

Perhaps today I can work on some of the wills I found that I could not locate a transcription. They were in the batch that I acquired on my trip to Kew in 2010. There are about ten of them and I may well have transcribed them I just couldn't locate them in my rapid check through so today I can do a more leisurely look and transcribe any that I have not yet done. Then I can do the same with the wills I acquired in 2013 from Kew. Once that is completed then I have two projects to work on with the wills. I can start to create my large files of transcriptions blocking them into family lines where that is possible and by county. I can also work on the wills not yet transcribed as the second project.

I will also work away on the Siderfin book and my newsletters of course. Tomorrow the H11 Newsletter and the Kipp-Kip Family Newsletter will be published.

Out of touch with reality

I listened to quite a bit of the newscast today and I think what amazed me was how out of touch these protesters are with reality. They invade our city; go into our mall without masks and then say that only 1% of the protesters were trouble makers. Pardon me there were hundreds of them in the mall without masks. We have a city bylaw that you must wear a mask in the mall. They should all be fined and the Fund they built up could certainly pay the city easily a million dollars for the extra policing that was required and whatever the fines are for not wearing a mask in the mall. Our mall had to close and all those people lost work time.  

Then there was the complaint that people had to urinate in the corners because there weren't enough porta-potties. All those trucks that came here could have brought some with them. Why should we go out and find them; we didn't particularly want them to block up our streets in the winter they way they have. They were spoiling our Winterlude weekend to look at the sculptures. I can hardly believe the stupidity which came from them with regard to the desecration of our flag, our monuments and our tomb of the unknown soldier. They were not exercising freedom; they were robbing us of our freedom. And they are still at it apparently as some say they will stay on and on.  The Charter of Rights and Freedoms is an interesting historical document. But it doesn't give anyone the right to take a freedom that infringes on another's freedom. Democracy is about protecting everyone's rights and freedoms. The only real personal freedom that is total is inside the four walls of your house. Outside of that your freedom only exists where it is not infringing another person's freedom. 

Tonight I see that one of the organizers says they are not leaving "until all of you and all of your kids are free." They will likely spoil our opening tomorrow as well because it can't happen with them wandering around without masks and trying to go into stores/restaurants etc without a mask. Have they tested themselves every day to see if they have the virus? And just a word to the organizers - we are free. For a city of one million we have mostly kept the numbers of cases low here and we do not need them to bring any viruses here with them and run around without masks and infect us with their viruses. 

When does it end

Rideau Mall was closed down yesterday because the protestors refused to put their masks on to go into the mall. Ontario still has that rule; what right do they have to defy it. An opportunity to collect fines for sure when the government is short of money but they were just made to leave. They could have COVID and they could be spreading it and creating a super spreader event. They do not care about Canada; only about themselves. That is anarchy not democracy. In a democratic country we care about following the rules; that is what makes democracy work. There are rules that govern all of our actions; wake up and smell the roses instead of creating trouble in our area. Stay home inside your own four walls where freedom is abundant and stop creating trouble for our stores and businesses. Plus the havoc you have created on the roads is ridiculous.

Hope they all go home today; why should Ottawa have gridlock in the entire down town area. Why should we have big trucks in our downtown city streets polluting the air because it is cold here minus 22 this morning and possibly colder downtown haven't checked the weather yet. They were honking horns although I can not hear them out here but still why should we have to endure this ridiculous demonstration that basically has nothing to do with the government in Ottawa. Health care is enacted by the provinces other than the cross border mandate to be vaccinated which goes both ways to and from the United States. Just get vaccinated or stay home where you do not infect the old and the infirm. Really disgusted this morning. Plus demonstrators desecrated the war memorial and danced on the tomb of the unknown soldier - they should be fined and made to clean up any messes. 

They are spoiling business days for the stores and shops in downtown Ottawa after all the lock downs that we have had. Go home and be a menace there; stop bothering our city. 

Yesterday I worked away on the Blake wills getting them in order and ensuring that I have completed what I thought I had. I want to get back to transcribing a will a day and it will take me maybe four years to get them all done. Looking forward to getting that done. 

Today is Sunday and Church on You-Tube. Looking forward to that as well and hopefully no interference from the demonstrators. 

Ottawa under seige

Perhaps it is a bit dramatic but Ottawa is under seige and the Bible Reading for today fitted our state here. The truckers objecting to the Vaccine Mandate do not love their neighbours as themselves. The unvaccinated ones are quite willing to go out into the world; catch COVID by chance and then infect all those around them. They are not wearing masks; what protects the old and the infirm from them. Absolutely nothing. 

Daily Bible Reading - 1 Corinthians 12: 31-13:13 

Just a short excerpt from the beginning of the reading:

  What if I could speak
all languages of humans
   and of angels?
If I did not love others,
   I would be nothing more
than a noisy gong
   or a clanging cymbal.

And that dear people of Canada is what we have in the downtown streets of Ottawa at the moment - a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. They are blocking up all the streets; depriving all of those stores of their living and we have been locked down enough for sure. They are thinking of only themselves; the United States will not permit unvaccinated drivers to cross their border into the United States. I fail to see the point they are trying to make. It is utterly selfish and ludicrous. Read your history; you had to be vaccinated against smallpox to enter this country when I was a child in the 50s and 60s. Take yourself sixty years on and now you need to be vaccinated against another worldwide scourge called COVID. Stop being bullies; respect your fellow citizen. If you want absolute freedom then stay home. You have 100% freedom in those four walls so long as you pay your bills!

Please leave Ottawa; let the people open their businesses and make money. Do the job that you trained to do and help fill the shelves. 

 

And on they roll

They continue to converge on Ottawa these truckers. They are insulting the rest of us who got vaccinated. If unvaccinated they are timebombs waiting to go off when COVID enters into their sphere. They will carry huge virus loads infecting everyone around them. What gives them the right to do that? Nothing actually. It is just so wrong; no one has the freedom to infect another person and that is basically what they are claiming. Unvaccinated people are infecting the old and the compromised without a care. They think only of themselves and their supposed liberty to do whatever they want. That isn't democracy it is anarchy.  

Democracy is there to provide the best possible way of life for the greatest number of people who are part of that democracy. When a small group of people decide that it is their way and no other they represent this minority that try to deny to the vast number of people their right to be healthy or whatever for their own selfish interest. 

Must get myself organized for the day and have my breakfast!

Dawn is breaking

Not so cold this morning just minus 21 degrees celsius. Dawn is just breaking in the east a beautiful red glow and it is cloudy.  Not so cold today and no snow promised. Sounds like a great day.

Yesterday I completed the cleaning and now four days without dust. Since I have a slight allergy to dust it is comfortable knowing that there are four days without my stirring it up. I wonder if everyone has a slight allergy to dust and it just increases slowly as we age to be honest. 

The truckers continue to head for Ottawa and those unvaccinated are presumably going into stores and talking to people; hopefully wearing masks and if they get the virus they will have 100 to 1000 times the virus load to spread around. Really one's freedom ends where it infringes on another's freedom. That is what democracy is about. Right now they are clogging the highways which is inappropriate at any time but especially in the winter. They intend to gridlock Ottawa which, as a resident, is totally unacceptable. Why make one million people suffer just because they do not want to get vaccinated. 

When I was a child you couldn't even come into Canada without a smallpox vaccination; what is their beef really? They just want to cause trouble and the anarchists are always waiting in the wings for just such a thing so that they can then commit violence hopefully unnoticed because that is how they operate. They just hang around waiting for someone to get something going and into action they go. Then we have violence. The greatest freedom that you can enjoy is inside of your own four walls and that is where you belong if you do not get vaccinated. You are a ticking time bomb waiting to go off. And the worst part of all of this is that you infect the ones that you have convinced to not get vaccinated, your friends, your older relatives maybe vaccinated but their systems are less able to fight the virus and they may succumb. Freedom could become a very lonely life.

What is Freedom?

As far as I can see this idea that freedom includes defying public health needs is absolutely ludicrous. Since when do people have the right to endanger the people around them because they can not be bothered getting vaccinated. We have health rules to protect the majority of the people and hopefully all the people but for some their health is on the edge and that is life when you are old or compromised by health problems. It is a sad thing but reality. 

These truckers should not be permitted to form a long convoy and block the highways; they are violating the freedom of all the people who have taken the time to get vaccinated. They are violating the freedom of people to go out and about once that is permitted again. They are ticking time bombs waiting for the virus to strike at them with no immunity and then carry on the infection a hundredfold; at least with the vaccine we have some and are less likely to clutter up the hospitals. 

Do not blame our health care system. It is meant for ordinary times; this is catastrophic times and the best service that we can provide to protect our health care is getting vaccinated so that we do not clutter up the hospitals and especially the ICUs. The man/woman power to run those ICUs is large and what right do people have to purposely leave themselves open to infection for themselves and all of us?  The staff at the hospital has put in two long years in this fight and it isn't over. You can not fix a system that was never meant to handle a pandemic. For that we must prepare. One of the carry-aways from the pandemic has to be the means to quickly build temporary pandemic hospitals and isolate these people from the general population. Train people to help in hospitals so there is an army of people out there who can come in and take over from exhausted personnel. We must be much more ready for the next pandemic. To the government don't throw out medical supplies that are coming to their best before date; send them to the hospitals to be used and buy more for storage. 

Those are some of our freedoms; protect ourselves from the possible dangers in life. Don't block up our highways across the country to make a senseless protest on Parliament Hill. Get vaccinated and stop violating the freedoms of people who did do so.

We have a lot of freedoms; so many rights but health care should always be able to enforce necessary items during morbid times in order to protect the many. 

Another favourite Bible passage - 1 Timothy 6:6-21

 Bible Reading for today from 1 Timothy 6: 6

And religion does make your life rich, by making you content with what you have. We didn’t bring anything into this world, and we won’t take anything with us when we leave. So we should be satisfied just to have food and clothes. People who want to be rich fall into all sorts of temptations and traps. They are caught by foolish and harmful desires that drag them down and destroy them. The love of money causes all kinds of trouble. Some people want money so much that they have given up their faith and caused themselves a lot of pain.

Yesterday I completed the main floor and on to the basement today. Totally completed although I thought of a couple of things that I did not do last night falling asleep - need to dust the top of the refrigerator and the top of the storage cupboard. Meant to do that but forgot. 

The Probate Index is nearly 200 lines so a few more wills than I thought and still I am only at mid 2020 but I know I did not transcribe a lot of wills in the last year. No time for that.

Cold out today at minus 27 degrees celsius at 7:30 am and feels like minus 36 apparently. It is going to be mostly sunny although just looks cold out there at the moment!

Probate Index continues

 At a quick check there are maybe 15 wills that I have not yet built into an excel file for the Probate Index. This will be a short submission but I hope to begin anew transcribing wills and maybe do one a day. It will still take a long time to transcribe all the wills (about 1500) but my eyes will thank me. 

Still dark out there at 7:05 am but only minus 15 degrees celsius. We are to have snow today although I do not know how much is expected. There is also a cold warning to come with minus 27 degrees celsius tonight. The humidity is high but that cold we do not get much snow. 

The top floor was cleaned yesterday and completely finished so the main floor today and the basement tomorrow. The schedule keeps me on track for sure. Then in my rest periods I can do some work. I generally work 45 minutes and work about the same at my desk. I must keep reminding myself to post the two newsletters on the 1st of February. Time is passing quickly this last couple of weeks. Possibly being busy or just that is generally the way my life has moved anyway. 

I am nearly 76.5 years old now. I can remember both of my grandparents at this age. They were busy people; did a lot of walking and enjoyed their lives. Both had lost their spouse but did not seem too lonely in their old age. My grandfather lived with us and my grandmother lived with her son and his wife. Living alone is not very practical at this age. There is just too much to do in a house. It is nice to be with family and I appreciate my daughters letting that happen. Although Edward found it hard to do very much the last year of his life he was a lot of company for me and we talked more than perhaps we had in years because I stopped doing all my transcription and the like and would sit with him while he watched the TV in the morning and afternoon. I watched a lot of cooking shows; not my favourite but they were interesting. Edward liked The View as well and daily we would watch some of our old movies on VHS and DVD. 

Not likely enough snow for Worry Free to come so will be out there moving what there is later today.

Beautiful morning and minus 30 degrees celsius

 How lucky we are to be inside and warm with the temperature minus 30 degrees outside. However, our ancestors managed very well by using what was available to protect themselves from the cold. Edward and I did do some wilderness type camping and it is interesting learning to survive on your own in the woods with just your tent and canoe and what you brought with you. Even the water was from a crystal clear lake in Northern Ontario. We mostly boiled it but sometimes I would drink it in wonder mostly that one could do that. That was fifty years ago and more now.

Yesterday was another perfect service on You-Tube with lots of singing and prayers that filled my heart with a sense of wonder that God has given us so much in this life and asks for very little back. Our admiration perhaps but mostly that we live by the commandments which Jesus brought to us - love God with all our heart, soul and mind and love our neighbours as ourselves. Our neighbours are the whole world and only with love can we eliminate hunger, poverty and war. Most of all war because war creates hunger and poverty for so many. 

Today I shall hopefully resolve any difficulty there might be with my not being billed by Enbridge. Perhaps I am an alarmist but I need to check and not suddenly discover trouble brewing in the wings. Well I could not find the spot on the Enercare website just a general contact me so I went to Enbridge and talked to an agent online and told her about the problem of Enercare not being paid for the rent on the furnace and the water heater but the agent said that Enercare knew and it was okay as my bill should come out soon. Plus I have paid them so the money is there as soon as the bill is prepared. Good news and I can go on with my work such as it is! Important to me and used by others so is a progressive task that fills a void.

I also started a new file for the Probate Database at the Guild. This is my thirteenth submission and I have no idea how many wills I have transcribed since mid 2019. I realize that most days my life has been a bit of a blur for the last ten years ever since Edward took his first fainting spell/fall going up the steps at the back door after gardening. I am so glad I was there because he had been mentioning dizziness but this was a full blown passing out episode that lasted only a brief amount of time but was my first warning that not all was well in Edward's world. Up until then I just thought it was aging and we needed more exercise as he spent a lot of time at his desk. I also did but I am an up and down person so in any hour I probably am in motion for 10 to 25 percent of that time. My family always says I have ADHD undiagnosed! But in reality I am not impulsive. I tend to be organized and have good time management skills. I focus much too deeply on a task and I am a great multitasker. But I do have excessive activity and restlessness so if that criteria defines ADHD then I plead guilty. I suspect it is more autism than ADHD that governs my every day activities but again untested. The only thing I ever got diagnosed was the multiple sclerosis and I do not actually think I have that. I am much too healthy I think.

On to the day and I begin as always with breakfast.

Sunday and I will watch Church on You-Tube

I had two sudden realizations when I awoke the first a very good one and the second one a worry.

The good one is of course this is Sunday and Church on You-Tube once again and the realization that once Edward is interred in the Columbarium at Christ Church Cathedral I will feel like I am there with him every Sunday at the service on You-Tube. Being 76 is not easy is some ways; it is less possible for me to manage things as I once could have done. But that was a very cheery thought and glad that I had it. Plus I have the service to look forward to today. 

Edward and I watched a serial "Waiting for God" a few years back. I loved that show. Life just looked so much easier living in a pleasant room with a patio and lots of walking space around the building. Meals all prepared but there was also a small kitchen area in the unit. Edward and I both thought that was what we might like to do and we did do a bit of searching around back in 2014 and 2015 for such a place. But we didn't find one just like it and Edward just really preferred all his space so did not pursue it any further. But the one room stuck with me and I can see myself eventually being somewhere that I can go for a walk whenever it occurs to me and still feel comfortable. I do not like to wander about too much. Plus I only drive very locally where I know the area perfectly. In essence though we are waiting for God as our days become much longer on this earth. One never knows the time or the place my father used to say. The last time I visited my Father about four days before he passed away we were chatting (me mostly because he found talking difficult) and his eyes told me that his time was coming. There was excitement in those eyes as he talked about his parents a little and I know he is happy with them once again. He was 94 years of age when he passed but had been in care for a number of years.

The second one that is a worry is Enbridge not billing me because they also bill for subsiduary companies that provide me with a rental furnace and rental water heater. That realization sent my mind into overload for sure and I did write to Enercare to let them know and see if I can pay that direct until this business of not being billed by Enbridge is resolved. Enercare sent me a letter early in December letting me know that rates would be going up for the rental furnace which is fine; I am sure everything is going to cost more money. When our furnace failed back in 2014 or thereabouts we decided to rent the furnace and try that out because it sounded like the care plan would be helpful to us as we aged. It has been good and we could always buy the furnace if we sold the house and the new owner preferred to own the furnace but in the meantime Enercare maintained the furnace for us through the years (as they had before because we always had a careplan but this just sounded more convenient). But now with Enbridge not billing me (and I have been calling them a number of times about that) that is a real worry. Hopefully I can just solve this quickly. I have been paying Enbridge what I paid last year plus 10% so I will soon have a credit in my account for two months as I just paid the second month last week. When I called at the end of December when their bill did not come, the individual I spoke to said their billings were late. So I patiently waited and then part way through January I tried the online system and I did not receive the same information so I called Customer Care and they gave me a Case Number and said it should be resolved by the end of January or up to 30 days. But that would mean two months not paid to the subsiduary companies I am realizing this morning. So I contacted Enercare directly on their website and will pay them directly until this is resolved or of course whatever they decide.

Noticing that other people have talked about this non-billing issue in other parts of the province. I was already receiving an e-bill but the system I was on was being merged with another asset and I guess the road has been bumpy. I wish the woman I first spoke to had explained carefully instead of just laughing and saying that the billings were late. I need precise information as I knew there was something at the back of my mind bothering me but it took a bit to force it out. I am thinking about too many things; my life is still so incredibly busy which I enjoy but I also need to keep track of things. 

Probate Index started and this is file 13. I have given the Guild thousands of lines of probate index. There will be a lot more by the time I complete the wills. .

Where to start

I am having an interesting day of doing virtually nothing. I am trying to decide what to do this next week as I have the two newsletters ready to go and I had thought I would be working fulltime getting them ready. 

I could start transcribing wills again and perhaps that would be a good move. Looking back  I was still transcribing in 2017 generally with a few in 2018 and 2019. Checking my Kew file for 2013 wasn't helpful. I did submit the names in the will to the Probate Database at the Guild and that has brought me to my stopping point which was the will of Samuel Blake probated in 1697. I was working my way through the On Board Wills and I have two more to do there (Samuel Blake 1763 and William Blake 1694). That will was blogged on 4 October 2017. But in 2019 I was working on Kent Wills so not my stopping point afterall and there are a goodly number of those that I have not submitted to the Probate Index.

I believe I can see my path now; I must do the Probate index Excel file and then move back to work on the sections of the Wills that I have not yet done. I believe I will do a folder by folder verification looking at the folders I created after the huge download at Kew in 2013. That will clearly let me see what remains to be done with the PCC wills. Then I have another 1000+ that I collected elsewhere that I have mostly not done yet unless they were really old and I wanted them for a specific purpose. It is a long time since I have thought about the wills. 

Once completed I will create *.pdf files of them and will contemplate how to put them together in a meaningful way. Diocese or County - I suspect County would be the most useful way to put them together although I tend to work with Diocese probably because I am an Anglican and I do think in terms of Diocese for religious documents. But for anyone looking at a will in a particular area they are probably going to look by County. It might be possible to do two lists but with so many wills it would be a lot of work. Will have to contemplate that for a bit. 

My first task will be to create the Excel file for the Probate Index and get that submitted. Because my name is attached to these records I do get requests for information. I then have to explain that yes I have transcribed a particular will but I am not related to these people nor do I know anything particularly about them unless they fitted into a family that became well enough known that I can put them altogether. I do write a fairly long preamble to the transcription but I am considering mentioning that this is all that I know about a particular testator. 

Tomorrow probably I will begin. Must go and do my calisthenics. I am now into sort of my winding down plan where I take any project to its final state and then load it up on my website. Eventually I will have to see if Family Search wants any of my transcriptions or Internet Archive. I estimated that my winding down plan might take me as much as ten years which would see me 86 before I had completed all the work. I was meant to start the winding down plan a couple of years ago but time escaped me for quite a while. 

With the changes in how I live in life though I actually have more time to work on genealogy and especially long projects. Basically I have all day to apply to it and six to seven hours is really enough in one day. Some times I think I may have bitten off to large a task but I am not a panic driven person tending to just take it one step at a time. So if the eyes hold out and the brain remains functional I am good to go! This lovely post will remind me of what I am doing as I put together a plan. Mustn't forget the taxes though and figuring out why Enbridge isn't billing me. I am still paying Enbridge as the gas is flowing into my house fortunately given the cold temperatures. But it would be much easier if they would bill me. Very nerve wracking all of that!

Brief Power Failure

 Woke up early before 6:30 and there was a brief power outage and back on before 7:30. Great work by the crews. House got surprisingly cold though in just that hour but it was minus 31 degrees celsius and now minus 29 degrees celsius. Furnace back on though and warming the house up again. We generally keep it around 21 degrees celsius and it had slipped to 19 degrees celsius in just the one hour. Possibly it hadn't been on though just before the failure so ready to heat but then the failure. Makes sense.

Yesterday I completed the lookups for the H11 Newsletter and the short article that I wrote about H11 as recorded in my 23 and Me account. So that one is already for the 1st of February as well. Perhaps I can start looking at the Blake wills (I think I have about 1500 wills still to transcribe from the PCC wills and some county wills that I acquired either by purchase or through Ancestry). The wills do reveal a lot of information and one is always lucky to find them in their line going back. 

Delayed garbage day today. I did not disarm the system when I woke up and the hydro failure followed that rather quickly so was rather glad to be able to do that so I can put out the green bin. I tend not to put it out the night before as the raccoons rather enjoy the table scrapings and peelings of preparation. So must get that out now that power is restored and I can disarm the system. Never thought about that before; I guess it would set off if I tried to go out with it armed!

We have settled into lots of snow and the car being in the garage is such a treat. Winter has been most pleasant thus far.

Edward's Celebration of Life

Edward's Celebration of Life and Interment is gradually coming together. Mind you it will not be before May with Omicron so much a part of our lives these days. It will be just family in the Chapel at Christ Church Cathedral. He loved the music and choirs there and we have been attending from the mid 1990s until he had his pacemaker inserted. We still went after the pacemaker but not so regularly. His recovery period was short in actual fact but he liked to be busy and out and about and so we did that. He really enjoyed the organ prelude and postlude and all the music in between and the choir singing chants. Edward sang in Orleans United Church Choir for fifteen years and several times he did sing solos. He was also Treasurer at Orleans United for ten years. After he drifted away in the mid 1990s and we went to Dominion Chalmers for about three years I think until that minister retired (he was an excellent Old Testament Scholar and I loved his sermons) and then we went regularly to Christ Church which we had been attending perhaps once a month from the mid 1990s on until we went there regularly in the late 1990s. 

His interment will be in the Columbarium at Christ Church Cathedral. It took me a very long time to make that decision knowing that it was not his particular choice. It was mine as I have been a lifelong Anglican and far from home and family the Church is my home. I really felt I had to do Beechwood but finally I just could not do that. He never liked to be alone and in the Cathedral the music flows most days and the Choirs practice. It is a wonderful place to rest in peace I think. 

I have struggled these nine months to settle all of this and I do have my doubts on occasion because I always did what Edward asked me to do but I finally said to myself my daughters knew his preference and they are with me on this but when I pass then they can make the decision that best suits them and I will be happy with that. But in my lifetime I am simply much more comfortable with this decision. 

For some reason Enbridge has not billed me since November and I hope that I finally have a solution to that. I have been working with the online contact on their site which does give you a real agent when the online bot can not solve the problem but that was not getting my billing done so I called Customer Care and I now have a Case Number and hopeful date of the end of January for my billing to come up to date. I have paid the normal plus 15% just in case so I am paid up when the bill finally comes. With the temperature at minus 31 degrees celsius it is critical to have one's furnace for sure. It is a mystery to me that I am not being billed and this is the second month without a billing. The cold weather of the last couple of weeks has really brought it home to me how much we do need our heat in this country. Plus my grandson is here half the week. It is the strangest thing when I first called after the bill in December was not received the person I spoke to said the billings were just slow but yesterday the individual did not say quite the same thing so I decided to go to Customer Care which was very helpful. I guess if I can not get it solved I will ask my son-in-law to take over dealing with it. He and my grandson are here staying at the house part of every week. 

Working on H11 Newsletter and nearly finished with the task of looking at every member of the study's earliest ancestor information. I should be finished this morning or afternoon. Then just the article to write about the material I found yesterday which was rather interesting and it is good to go. But it turns out that I already put that article into an earlier newsletter; I thought it rang a bell and on checking there it was. Actually I saw it a little bit differently but not enough to republish it! But I am early again. Amazing!

Continuing to work on H11 Newsletter

Yesterday I managed the basement cleaning as well as finishing 7/8ths of the lookups for the H11 Newsletter. I should easily complete that later today as well as searching out any new news items for H11. Barry Hinman often sent me items and I will miss his steady input into the study. It is amazing how many people one meets online.

Four days without dust are now about to be my gain from doing the cleaning three days in a row. Much appreciated especially during the winter when I am not outside as much. A lot of paper rearranging today I suspect as I look for a couple of items I am missing in my sack of papers. 

Generally I do not answer my phone unless I know who it is. But I was a bit distracted working away and automatically answered it (613-716-2449). No reply to my hello and I gave it a couple of seconds and then hung up.

I did find an interesting article that I will use one section for this latest H11 newsletter. I may yet get a couple of maps done. Will have to see how the time passes between now and the 1st of February when it is due. The article is interesting because it has a set of pie-charts from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic to the Stone Age. The charts show very little H in the Baltic States during the Mesolithic to early/middle Neolithic (3%), then 9% by the Late Neolithic and during the Bronze Age a sudden leap to 47%. Mind you we are looking at small numbers 31 samples in the Mesolithic-Early/Middle Neolithic, then 11 samples in the Late Neolithic and 17 samples in the Bronze Age. The Mesolithic-Early/Middle Neolithic shows 3% K,  29% U4, 26% U5a, 32% U5b. The Late Neolithic shows a different picture because the number of groups has nearly doubled showing 9% T2, 9% W, 18% U2, 9% U5a, 9% U5b, 9% K, 9% H, 18% I, 9% J, 9% T2. The Bronze Age shows 47% H, 6% J, 6% T1, 18% T2, 23% U5a. So are we picking up a migration period with the Late Neolithic with individuals moving away by the Bronze Age. The peoples of the Baltic State in some ways remained constant with U5a found in all three time frames along with H for approximately 29% Mesolithic-Early/Middle Neolithic to 18% Late Neolithic and 70% during the Stone Age. I must admit my curiosity was stirred as to what happened to cause such a dramatic change. The study of history will take an enormous change during this next generation as the study of population structure may dominate the interests of people. DNA has evolved in more ways than one! 

Up before the dawn and working away

 Woke up early so decided to do some work on one of my Healthcare projects. All completed and moving on to the next item on my agenda which is the H11 Newsletter. Yesterday I completed another section of lookups but still quite a bit to do. I am still just a little over half of the way through the roster. The changes are significant in some cases but in many cases the information remains the same as before. 

More snow in the night and a storm today for a while apparently. Ottawa appears to be a microcosm with heavier snow in the city than in the outlying areas. We will see how that goes. Already there has been a couple of centimetres of snow through the night. 

The Siderfin book still untouched. Three days of cleaning does quite eat into my week although I do like to do house cleaning. It is good exercise and keeps me from sitting for so very long although my FitBit helps with that as well. I am up every hour for at least five or ten minutes. 

The basement cleaning today and then complete for another week. I always look forward to four dust free days before we begin again. 

A few new matches on My Heritage I have not yet worked through. No new matches on 23 and Me (I only look at the ones, for the most part, where I share 30 cM or more on one length of chromosome. I aim for 40 cM for two lengths or more. But having the phasing in a condition where it appears to work well I spend a little less time looking at matches I must admit.

Beautiful sun today but piles of snow

We got a lot of snow yesterday; apparently 47 centimetres. I am very glad that I pay a company to clear the laneway and walks. Even at that we spent about an hour clearing out the back patio of snow. It is nice to see the good cover for the plants. Another snowfall expected on Wednesday but less; predicted to be around 5 centimetres which means the company will clear again - great news. 

A little more done on H11 yesterday. I am about halfway through the group checking the location of their last known maternal ancestor. I may do little plots on maps if there is time. Maps always make an interesting addition plus you get to really look at the locations and can see the flow that probably brought individual lines from Ukraina Ice Refuge to the last known area. 

I did not yet manage to get to the Siderfin Book. I have been busy setting up to work on the taxes. Learned a whole lot and now just have to figure it all out. I do not expect to submit my taxes or Edward's taxes before April. With that in mind I feel less pressured to get them done as I always submitted right at the beginning of March all these years. Can not think why I did that now; put myself under so much pressure to get it done. Really one has a lot of time to work away at it slowly. Then you are less stressed when you finally submit.

Cleaning day two and the living room has the robot running around it for another 20 minutes or so. Then dust that room while the robot charges up and then the remainder gets the same robotic treatment.  I do enjoy the robot and so does my spine. I suppose it is because I have osteoporosis that the constant strain of running a vacuum is a problem for me. But at 76 one is aging and eventually must succumb to something. Living to be 76 has been a wonder really. I never expected to do that and it is a gift from God for sure. All things come from God and when our time comes we will return to Him. 

Other than that I move forward to finish the cleaning and work on H11 in my breaks from cleaning. The middle floor is in some ways the easiest to do. There isn't too much to move these days; the couches are two seaters which move a lot easier than a large couch. There are three less bookcases in the living room. Everything moves except the two large bookcases and I just haven't tried to move them as they are likely pretty heavy. The children's toys I just move out of the room and wash them off to bring them back in so that they are fresh and ready for them. The TV is mounted to the wall which I am so very happy about. It makes cleaning so much easier. 

Breakfast finished and moving on to the day. I captured all of my posts to the end of December for my story and 2021 is completed. 2022 is started and also captured right up to today's post. The digital age will leave a lot of written material behind individuals who do write things down. One wonders what will happen to all these thoughts. I scanned my mother's letters in case she has a granddaughter or grandson one day who would like to read her 25 years of letters to me. I did not intentionally keep all those letters but when I had read them and also read them to my children I put them into a drawstring bag that I had and they collected up through the years until the bag was full and then I found another to fill. No idea why I did that; perhaps it was being so far from the one person who knew me better than myself. I just wanted to keep a little of her especially after she passed. The letters became so much more important and then one day I scanned them so that I could share them with anyone in the family who wanted them. My mother's father died when she was eight and I would say you could see the sadness in her eyes even all those years later when she was older and would mention him. She is with him now and very happy I am sure.

Snow today

 Snowing and as always it is a beautiful sight watching all that snow come down. We are meant to get up to 40 centimetres which will be a great bonus to the plants as it protects them from the cold. The other bonus is minus 9 degrees celsius; when it snows it is generally warmer!

Yesterday I did not do very much on my research. I had a phone call from another researcher and decided to answer it. He has a similar surname to mine except the addition of one letter on the end. His is a distinct group though so I suspect is an ancient family name that got chosen for some particular reason. Blake has many founding lines in England. But I directed him to the Calendar of Patent Rolls (as memory serves I think I may have done that a few years ago as well) to check out an entry that he wondered about in Sussex. The Le Blak/Le Blac family that came from Rouen, Normandy to England in the 1200s did appear to be a number of distinct individuals who settled in southern England. They were involved in the wool market in Rouen and came to England to continue that association. I am not descended from that line on the male side at least. There is a possibility that Richard Blake's wife Jone Blake was a descendant of that line although she may also have been his second or third cousin descending from Robert Blake who left his will in 1521 at Knights Enham near Andover, Hampshire, England. I sent him some material and a website that I found where he might be able to search some of the records. 

Today begins the cleaning cycle once again - top floor. I think that repetitive activity is good for the brain actually. It has drawbacks because you get used to always doing something one way and then the adjustment can be very difficult. I was used to just doing everything that Edward wanted and so I had to work my way through all of that after he died. For one's own survival one must move forward and forge a new life for oneself after the loss of a spouse. My mother always told me that I needed to be more independent and certainly when my father went into hospital when she was 75 she quickly adapted her life to that change much quicker than I did for sure but perhaps that was because she was not widowed; my father lived for seven years after he was hospitalized. I think though my mother was a more independent person than I am. 

I shall work in my break time from cleaning on H11 compilation for the next newsletter and perhaps finally get to the Siderfin book. We will see how the day passes. I do not have to worry about the snow; Worry Free will clear my laneway and walks/porch. The car is in the garage so an easy job for them to just clear the snow back from the garage door to the street. 

I must try to write to my Knight cousin as well. She lives in BC and I appear to be the only cousin she has found thus far on 23 and Me. 

Fun watching as the dawn arrives on these winter mornings.

Time with God

 My time with God is special to me and today's service was filled with my favourite hymns, beautiful music and song by the choir and a very interesting sermon once again. All of the sermons at the Cathedral are interesting and cause me to contemplate our role in this world. The story of the woman without warm gloves or coat in Ottawa is heart breaking really; today it is minus 26 degrees celsius with brilliant sunshine but that cold is bitter. Ottawa is cold in the winter. 

I sometimes contemplate what is God thinking as He looks upon the world. But deep in my heart I do not really believe He interferes in the world of mankind. He listens but he does not interfere; the faith that we learned from our parents or perhaps as an adult provides the nudge that pushes us in the direction God believes we should be headed; our prayers work in unison with the Medical profession as they provide life saving care but the answer is sometimes to return to God and not to remain within the bosom of one's family. That is life I believe. If our prayers are answered it is because we have worked hard at whatever life gives us to do; done the right thing or the help that we received was able to make the difference. Our input is very important and part of the process. The prayers though are very important; God needs to know that we understand His part in our world and that we can do this; we can follow the teachings of Jesus and make the world a better place. 

God has granted me another beautiful Sunday. As the week goes forward I shall continue with my work plan. I need to get back to transcribing Blake wills. I still have thousands of them to do. I feel as if I am, in my own way, helping to make a difference in our world especially given the faith of our ancestors recorded for all time in those wills. Life is really about our gifts that we give to the world in order to make it a better place. Our ancestors wanted that for us; they fought wars to give it to us and we need to ensure that the next generations protect and care for this world that was and is a gift to us; not ours to plunder and destroy.

Sunday and Church on YouTube

 One of the marvels for me of the 21st century has been being able to attend Church on You-Tube. I am by nature reclusive and my widowhood has made that more so.  I am a busy person with my now four newsletters (four times per year) and my two one-name studies and H11 mtDNA study. Not really a lot of spare time in my life by the time I do a couple of hours of exercise a day and keep up the house cleaning and such. After each day of cleaning I tend to yearn for the one room life style - all I really need is one room but I still have too much stuff for one room. When and if I move into a small apartment I do not want it to be over-crowded.

Yesterday I managed about one third of the database for the H11 group. It will take perhaps three or four days to put the newsletter together but the month is only half through so plenty of time for that. 

I did not work on the Siderfin book as it turned out; I underestimated how much time it would take me to pull out all the information for the H11 Newsletter. Perhaps today I will spend a little time on the Siderfin book. 

The Bible Reading for today was thought provoking. One thing that I learned when I joined the Worldwide Anglican online group in 1995 was that we are all sinners because we do not adhere to the teachings of Jesus who gave up everything in his life. There have been many people throughout the last two thousand years who have strictly followed the teachings of Jesus and have achieved sainthood within the Catholic Church. I do wonder if people really understand what the Church is about; it isn't a social club; we are meant to be making the world a better place and I fail in that too. It is somewhat frightening to see the Church become less prominent in our world. God no longer walks and talks with mankind; nor does He interfere in life events; He sent us Jesus and we are meant to follow the teachings of Jesus. What will the world be like in ten years; a hundred years or a thousand years? One wonders. The Catholic Church is not a democracy. The fundamental beliefs of the Catholic Church will go on forever carefully preserved by the faithful. 

Looking back at my ancestors mostly I am finding their wills telling me their religious feelings. Although I know these tend to be a bit "bookplate" because that was (and in many ways) still is the way that we create but some wills do lack these words asking God to receive their souls so the presence of the religious part of old wills was a conscious request on the part of people making their wills. Some do not give money to the Church and express no concerns on where they will be buried although I actually did not find any wills in my lines going back that did not contain these words directed solely at God. 

It is funny now looking back on my eventually coming to the pursuit of my ancestors. Initially I was convinced that I knew all that I was going to be able to find out about my ancestors and that persisted well into 2003. It was my cousin George Dekay asking me to create a Profile for my Pincombe family that brought it home to me that not everyone has the same storyline for the same family. He did have someone else who would write the Profile but that individual thought that my grandfather had owned a grocery store on Wharncliffe Road. Actually that was my uncle and it became my duty to preserve the family story suddenly and in a moment. I accepted the challenge immediately and with a group of other Pincombe descendants we created a Pincombe Profile. I wrote it but it was based on what I was told by each of those family groups about their individual Pincombe families. I do like to have it right if that is at all possible. Just before the due date for the Profile I discovered that our mutual 3x great grandmother was Elizabeth Siderfin and I did send the information off to my cousin but he was probably pretty busy because that one short line did not make it into the Profile. I was disappointed but I should have phoned rather than emailing. I really like emailing and use that as my method of communicating most times. It is rare for my phone to ring and for me to call; it is my texting machine primarily. 

Sometimes I think when someone comes forward to take on the Kip-Kipp Family Newsletter that I will create a Siderfin Newsletter although there are many names I could choose closer to my generation - Rawlings or Lywood or Rew and a couple of other interesting ones. But who knows what the future holds in terms of what I will do with what I have gathered up. Right now Newsletters are the right way to go but I also have all of Edward's material to go through and my days are full and likely will be to the end of my days. Hopefully my brain will remain sharp and able to manage all of this material. I try very hard not to get distracted by details.

A really cold Saturday

Saturday at 8:00 a.m. and it is minus 26 degrees celsius. Another really cold weekend but still pretty much normal weather this time of year. I remember the first January I spent here and I never had experienced such cold day after day. The secret of course is having the appropriate clothes to go out in such weather with children. Once gained; I never looked back although I do find this cold these days with my osteoarthritis in my knees and most other joints I suspect but those have been x-rayed and shown to be osteoarthritic. My fourty five minute walk in the morning helps that a lot actually. Then my calisthenics in the afternoon and running 5 kilometres at night is most helpful but always being careful not to strain those knees. I keep thinking I am 77 but actually I am 76 headed towards 77 in the fall. No idea on why I think I am 77. Strange really or maybe not I am getting older and probably one year here or there in my memory is not a big deal!

Today I should work on the Siderfin book and H11 Newsletter compilation. Probably if I break that up into roughly 45 minute sections I will find it more conducive to good constructive work. I used to work for three or four hours at a stretch but I find it more helpful to get up and walk around for 15 minutes every hour. Better for the knees likely and overall better just to take the breaks. 

Other than that this is just another interesting sunny day in mid winter. When one reaches the middle of January I tend to start thinking about spring. Not that I want to hasten winter away I actually enjoy these long dark cold days with more than twelve hours of darkness. Edward did not he wanted spring to come as soon as possible and he would be thinking about his garden about now. Talking about what he wanted to plant or re-organize. But also working away on his genealogy. Of all of his pursuits the genealogical adventures that we took probably meant the most to him outside of being a scientist turned librarian of necessity - one must put food on the table as he said. Those genealogical adventures started very early in our marriage pretty much as soon as we bought a car. He worked with Ed Phelps at UWO mostly because we were at so many farm auctions and found really interesting artifacts that interested Edward initially in case he found something to help him with his Kipp family but then if not giving the material/item to Ed Phelps. I can scarcely remember him but then I did not generally go with him when they had discussions/chats. I was more into astronomy and the RASC in London which Edward also enjoyed. Plus I sewed a lot and knitted. What a changed person I am. In my late 50s I planned my retirement around sewing and knitting and relearning smocking as I had not done any for years. But my cousin George Dekay needed a profile for my Pincombe family and he managed to persuade me to do that and so I left behind all those enjoyable hobbies that I had and joined the path to finding one's ancestors in 2003. Funny really when I look back that I changed so suddenly and it is like an addiction once one is immersed in all of this genealogy you just keep finding items that interest you and follow them up. In my case it brought back my interest in my family names - Blake and Pincombe and so my one-name studies were born and still pretty much dominate my life. 

Will I ever sew/knit/smock again? No ideas on that my fingers keep pretty active typing but those hobbies are excellent for arthritic fingers. My grandmothers and my mother did a lot of knitting and sewing and other needlework and in the case of my mother into her 80s. 

Off to breakfast - hot oatmeal with flax, cranberries and raisins and when cooked adding wheat germ, wheat bran and blueberries. I suppose I should grow bored after so many years of eating the same breakfast but I still enjoy it very much.  

H11 Newsletter and The Siderfin Family of West Somerset book

 Today, thus far my accomplishment level with regard to the H11 Newsletter and the book republishing on my blog of The Siderfin Family of West Somerset has been pretty much nil. I am also trying to get the Columbarium purchase completed and preliminary organization of the Celebration of Life and Internment Service for Edward will begin in February. However, I will be in Deep River so will have to do that on the Thursday or Friday when I come to Ottawa for my grandson's therapy sessions for his Autism. I am also trying to plan my own cremation and internment and I will begin that process in June after Edward's Celebration of Life. 

There are only six new members of the H11 study since November. I will get them assigned to their subclades and can then begin the process of looking at each and every member to see if there are any changes in their genealogical information. It takes quite a while to go through several hundred samples. I do feel that the new mtDNA chart that FT DNA has produced is very good. I would like to see more deeper subclades in H11 under their subclades but it all takes time. A little difference in the way that kits are moved into their subclade and now that I am used to it; I think it works very well. It will take me quite a bit of time to go through all these samples as I am resolved to open every kit this time and not assume that what I have recorded is still correct. I shall check. I do find working on this H11 subclade to be quite interesting. For the most part it is European in background with perhaps a little overlap into Asia but not very much (people from the western edges of Asia may not have tested in large numbers so can not be assumed to be absolute). My subclade still continues to be in Ayrshire/Argyllshire and Northern Ireland which is actually a nice treat since the actual birth location of my great grandmother is still based only on her death registration and the census listing Birmingham, England. 

The Siderfin book I opened to have a look as I have not worked on it for a couple of months. The will of Robert Siderfin is interesting and not included in the original book. I found quite a bit of information I can see and so will move on to the next will  by Christian Siderfin in 1648. That will be my work tomorrow along with working on the H11 compilation for the Newsletter in early February. 

Somehow I thought that I would be working on the Kip-Kipp Family Newsletter for a much longer time. But it is ready to go and I will publish it on the Kip-Kipp yDNA project on the 1st of February and hopefully I will not forget.

 

Sorting Day

 Today is a sorting day. I have five stacks of paper that I need to go through and discard or save what I need to do the Income Tax and otherwise run the house. I just didn't want to think about any of that the last nine months. I had everything organized to pay all the bills and keep everything going so looking at the paperwork was something that I just didn't do. Mostly it is Edward's paperwork as he did keep everything and probably I will for a while do the same. But some paperwork can go and it will. But in actual fact it will just go into yet another bin of paper that I will eventually go through one more time next summer sometime. There is a lot of genealogy stuff of Edwards that will go to the Library along with the rest of the journals. I have just let them collect this past six months. Almost all of the journals are now finished as Edward paid them yearly without renewals set up. But still a couple are coming and he may have been a life member and I need to check that and let the individual groups know. 

Yesterday saw the cleaning finished which was very nice so that we now have four days without dust as I call it. A dust free atmosphere is not possible but lessening it makes the living much better I think. 

I have not accomplished anything particularly with my genealogy. There just always seems to be other things to do at the moment but tomorrow I will work on the H11 Newsletter and I am very early doing that as usually it is closer to the end of the month. No new large matches but that is all caught up now for a while. Generally I have five to ten matches a week that go into my Current Work waiting to be entered into my system. Yesterday there was an interesting match on Ancestry which was quite large compared to his likely sister. Still not sure where they match as the shared matches consist of just one person also matching at the same level as the sister and no others. But they all match all four of us on Ancestry. Now that you can only view easily fourth cousin and up readily in the matching that tool is a little less useful but overall Ancestry is interesting. Rarely now does anyone put their match up on Gedmatch from Ancestry that matches us. But I am starting to move past that just a little as I have a lot of good matches that have let the phasing be a more completed task. I still have little areas here and there but for the most part it does look like I have captured the DNA into two sets of chromosomes that were passed to my parents. Since we do not have any first cousins I will have more difficulty going back to the great grandparents and hence creating the DNA that passed from them to my grandparents, their children. 

I do find it interesting doing grandparent phasing I must admit. If I ever did win the lottery I would try to have the DNA of all of my grandparents done as they were all casket burials and that potentially could be possible although do not know the legality of it all. All four of my grandparents are buried at Woodland Cemetery in London, Ontario in two lots - one Blake and one Pincombe. I wonder if people are doing that actually or does it sound too macabre. It is very respectful I think as it gives you a part of your grandparents that lasts forever and becomes part of your family history passing down from generation to generation. My grandfather used to like to recite the names of his Blake ancestors (and sometimes although I can not remember it clearly) he talked about his Knight ancestors - I can remember him talking about his grandfather Samuel Knight (he was named after him) and even the father of Samuel whose name I did not retain but now know to be Ellis Knight. He said that they had a baker's dozen of children (i.e. 13 children) and that did stick and I did find 13 children! He knew a lot about location as well but I only retained Blandford Forum as it was such an unusual name but Turnworth where Samuel Knight lived is very close by and my great grandmother Maria Jane Knight was born there. 

Speaking of Maria Jane Knight I once again failed to find her death registration. I think I have a dozen Maria Blake death registrations now. My father used to say that after his grandfather Blake died Maria lived with each of her children for different parts of the year for quite a while. She didn't want to come to Canada so they sent some money for her instead. She had a number of children but two died young, two daughters died in childbirth, one son died in his early twenties. one moved to South Africa and two moved to Canada. That left four and the eldest daughter was raised by her Knight grandparents at Turnworth (Louisa) where she married, the eldest son John lived at Eastleigh, Sarah the youngest daughter lived at Upper Clatford and Thomas the youngest son lived at Dorchester. The 1921 census may be the answer and would have been cheaper than buying the death registration! I shouldn't be so stubborn and keep thinking it must be this one or that one! I must try the census and see what I can find as all four of them will be there. Perhaps that will be a task today in between sorting. 

Day three and the cleaning will be finished

 Another good cleaning day yesterday saw even the pantry reorganized in the kitchen. Light snow falling right now and it is most welcomed. This polar vortex sucks the very life out of the snow on the ground rendering our light snow cover thus far too inadequate to protect the elements beneath it. Perhaps we will get a few good centimetres of snow today. 

Today the basement and it has begun with the robot vacuuming the rug we have at the one end for our exercise room. I do tend to be an exercise fanatic but also I really enjoy running as well as calisthenics, yoga. All are good for you but especially good for you when you are into your 70s and if I hit my 80s then I will relate on its value at that age but suspect that it is irreplaceable at any age. I am careful to protect my joints though so that I hopefully avoid things like hip/knee replacement. I stopped running on the pavement long ago and concentrated on a good basement run. Works well for me. My resting heart rate tends to be in the low 50s which is good news for sure for anyone my age. 

Today the cleaning gets the best of my time but I may try to make a forage into some of my research. Working in another nearly 30 matches a couple of days ago where a couple of them were obvious in their ancestry showed me that the latest rendition of the phasing of my grandparent's (and hence my parent's DNA) is pretty accurate. There are still points here and there where I find it iffy although these points do tend to be not too badly supported in their placement. 

I also need to start looking at my H11 Newsletter for 1st of February as this is a round-up issue in which I again postulate on possible names for subclades and if areas are given in the details then also location. Location has proven to be quite interesting for some but for others it is just ballpark where you have a very large area and people from all over that large area in a particular subclade. The project continues to grow with 387 in the mtDNA H11 project and another 38 have joined with their Family Finder results. I suspect that they have uploaded from another site where they know their mtDNA is H11 and are checking out the newsletter and members. I do not reply to emails from people offering me their results from another site mostly because I just do not have enough time plus I will not share any results that are on my project. 

Snow falling a little harder now so hopefully a few centimetres of fresh cover to protect the ground under the snow from that polar vortex that is sitting on top of us at the moment. Mind you it is just minus 13 degrees celsius now but the windchill is minus twenty degrees celsius.

Can running bring you closer to God?

 The Anglican Journal often presents me with stories that immediately claim my thoughts and agreement in this case. Running is perhaps one of the most fundamental of human exercises - at some point in our lives we have all probably run. Toddlers when they first walk often do a sort of run-walk as they learn to navigate the world on two feet. But I especially enjoyed what Rev. Greg Powell, a United Church minister in BC had to say on the subject. 

I have been running most of my life. Not that sidewalk pounding marathon type; I am not that type of an athlete just that slow prodding run for initially a mile when I was young and gradually moving it up to 10 km in my 50s and now back to five kilometres at 77 years of age. I hope to run all of my life but if that isn't possible I will still have that wondrous memory of the wind streaming through my hair and the feeling that God is with me as I run. Is he really? Well, to be honest, I do not believe that God interferes in the activities of mankind these days but that doesn't mean He isn't still with us in our minds and our spirits. 

The Anglican Journal is always a very interesting read and I am happy to see it in my mailbox every month.

Minus 26 degrees celsius with a windchill of minus 34

 A cold morning today and surprisingly a bit cloudy at 8:00 a.m. The polar vortex is upon us and the furnace has been running steadily for quite a while. Nice that the car is in the garage although it is still pretty cold even there. The atmosphere is shrinking what snow there is and the laneway looks fairly clear this morning. The snow will be like fine powder with all moisture sucked out of it. 

Yesterday I accomplished all of the cleaning - the top floor is completely cleaned except for all the closets which remain full of Edward's boxes and other belongings. I would like to give his clothes to the Union Mission especially coats and boots but they are not accepting donations because of COVID. I will keep them all a little longer. 

Today the main floor and the robot vacuum is streaking across the floor at the moment sucking up the dust. Robot vacuums are such a great idea. Still need to do the corners somewhat although surprisingly there isn't much dust there but the robot doesn't dust the baseboards or the furniture or wash walls or windows. One day I suppose but not yet. 

After such an intense week of working on the Kip-Kipp Family Newsletter my mind went into a quiet area and I did not accomplish much yesterday in terms of my work as I call my pursuit into my parent's surnames. Surnames are relatively new as the world goes. Blake is an old one found in the records in the 1100s in France particularly but also in England. The 1330-1550 English Emigrants Database has nearly 40 Blake males who emigrated to England from the Continent. Pincombe may also be old but I have not found it earlier than the 1100s either. You find the original Pencombe spelling in Herefordshire in the Bromyard area. St John Parish Church in the parish of Pencombe with Grendon Warren dates back to the 12th century for the original building. The earliest record for a holder of the surname thus far:

1395 20 May Westminster (membrane 5)
Licence, for 100 s. paid in the hanaper by Philip Webbe, chaplain of a
chantry of St. Mary in the parish church of Bromyord, for the alienation
in mortmain by John Falke of a messuage in Bromyord, and by John
Hunte or another there, and by Thomas Pencombe and Robert Stanford
of five messuages and half an acre of meadow in the same place, not held in
chief, to the said chaplain and his successors, in aid of their maintenance.
18 Richard II, volume 5, page 582

Surnames themselves mostly tell you so much about your family revealing ethnicity and location but there can be surprising twists especially finding so many with the surname Blake on the Continent.

The Oldest Genealogy

The Bible Reading today included the oldest genealogy in the world:

 Luke 3:18-38

Everyone thought Jesus was the son of Joseph. But his family went back through Heli, Matthat, Levi, Melchi, Jannai, Joseph, Mattathias, Amos, Nahum, Esli, Naggai, Maath, Mattathias, Semein, Josech, Joda; Joanan, Rhesa, Zerubbabel, Shealtiel, Neri, Melchi, Addi, Cosam, Elmadam, Er, Joshua, Eliezer, Jorim, Matthat, Levi; Simeon, Judah, Joseph, Jonam, Eliakim, Melea, Menna, Mattatha, Nathan, David, Jesse, Obed, Boaz, Salmon, Nahshon; Amminadab, Admin, Arni, Hezron, Perez, Judah, Jacob, Isaac, Abraham, Terah, Nahor, Serug, Reu, Peleg, Eber, Shelah; Cainan, Arphaxad, Shem, Noah, Lamech, Methuselah, Enoch, Jared, Mahalaleel, Kenan, Enosh, and Seth.

The family of Jesus went all the way back to Adam and then to God.

Although a very late comer to genealogy (it was 2003 when my cousin George Dekay asked me to write a profile of my Pincombe family for the Westminster-Delaware Township History Book), I am actually a one-namer in that my interest is in the history of my parent's surnames - Blake and Pincombe. But there are occasions when I actually do do genealogy - generally when I get a DNA match which I can place from a DNA viewpoint into a family line but there is enough information that I  might be able to actually find the Most Recent Common Ancestor (MRCA). 

I have begun to share the Kip-Kipp Family Newsletter with some of Edward's closest relatives. These tributes to my husband will tend to be family oriented although this Newsletter will belong mostly to the Kip-Kipp yDNA study at FT DNA. 

Monday and so the cleaning week begins once again with the top floor. Fortunately this is a smallish home in that it is a carriage home but to be honest it feels huge most of the time. I really only need one room in which to live. Gradually I will continue to downsize until that can come to fruition. Then I can work away all day on this material although I will need another room to store all of the material but gradually it too will diminish as the ages also claim me. That is life; the tree of life became an important symbol to Edward and he purchased a number of symbols to adorn the walls. Probably I would not have purchased them but Edward liked possessions; a feature of growing up without very many possessions perhaps. Not sure; I was not wealthy as a child nor as an adult but my desire for possessions is quite low. It is perhaps one's nature and most people that I have met do like to have lots of possessions. That is for sure a feature of being a so-called have nation.

Another beautiful day although cloudy and minus 13 degrees celsius at 8:00 am. There is a cold warning today as the polar vortex dips down once again into Eastern Ontario. The sky has that look of a winter storm  but no precipitation mentioned. Just cold today.

Why is the practice of religion declining in Canada?

 I read an article saying that some of our Churches could disappear by 2040. That does sadden me. For sure, the Roman Catholic Church will survive perhaps because it has an unbroken tradition that keeps people strong. I realize the pain there is in all of that if you do not fit into the narrow criteria that defines us. People have been different in many ways for centuries and the Roman Church has lived with those differences without supporting them. The Roman Catholic Church will not change I do believe and their numbers, although diminished in many of the wealthy countries, in the Church remains strong in all other countries. Why am I not Roman Catholic? I am Catholic; I made my pilgrimage to Rome and worshipped at the feet of Peter. I attended St Peters Basilica every day that we were there to worship at the many altars remembering all of my family and praying that our world would be forever in God's heart. As I viewed the ancient relics in the Vatican Museum and gazed up at the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel I could sense the hundreds of years of worship which have happened in that place (perhaps it was the adoration of those around me mostly Italian as we were there in November). When the Pope waved out the window; I waved back; he was also my Pope. But I am Anglican; the faith of my ancestors runs in my veins and perhaps stronger now as I have read their own personal wills talking about their faith and their burial. Their wills were written with their love of God first and paramount so that there was no mistaking their adoration for Jesus who had died for their sins. But long ago the Anglican Church was excommunicated and as a Church we accept that and have moved along through the centuries continuing to respect and love the Pope although have no choice in his selection. Perhaps there is a lesson in that; the Church that Jesus founded is not a democracy - God is at its head and we believe in the Trinity - God is God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. Even after all those years since Excommunication my Grandfather taught me that to take the mass in the Roman Catholic Church was to deny Elizabeth her rightful place as Queen of England and that happened over four hundred years ago now but when he was being taught back in the school room of the Upper Clatford Parish Church (Anglican) that was what he learned in the 1870s and 1880s. Love and respect the Pope; but Elizabeth was our Queen. Did it weaken the Anglican Church? probably a little.

It is wondrous to wake up each day and know that God is with us. The sermon today reminded me again that loving God is so much a part of us. But like the young man mentioned; God is in the world and I believe that He demands we live the perfect life that Jesus lived (I certainly fall short but each day I do try). We must first love the Lord our God with all our heart and all our soul and with all our mind and with all our strength. The second is like onto it we must love our neighbours as ourselves. God does not interfere in the lives of mankind any more; He sent us Jesus to teach us how to live; we must always fight the good fight and our fight at the moment is COVID. 

Yesterday I completed the Kip-Kipp Family Newsletter which did rather surprise me. The material was all there and I had decided on a Newsletter of 16 to 20 pages at the moment. I am on page 16 and there will be a few fill-in items but I reached a good stopping point and called the section What do we know about Hendrick Hendricksen Kip part 1 (1600? - 1643). The next section will complete Hendrick and will be part II (1643-1685). I never really thought about it before but he would have been around 85 years of age when he died.

People's rights

Living in a democracy isn't so much about people's rights as about people's responsibilities. It is the responsibility of everyone living in a democracy to protect and defend our country from decay. Not getting immunized against COVID-19 is causing decay so the obvious answer is to legislate it as far as I am concerned. No one has the right to infect other people. Especially given that once again so many of the elderly are coming down with COVID. I do realize that vaccinated people can get COVID-19 but healthy vaccinated people are not succumbing to severe forms of COVID. Take the time to get vaccinated and stop placing people around you at risk. Legislating it is a good idea; after all when I was a child you could not enter this country without a smallpox vaccination; if you had a communicable disease then the Health Department could quarantine your house and make you stay inside until everyone was healthy again. Democracy must be made up of responsible people not people demanding rights for themselves that take away other people's rights to a more equitable life.

My rant for the day as I return to working on the Kip-Kipp Family Newsletter. I can see that it is a task that will own me for a while. It is a lot of work finding the material and then editing the material into the Newsletter. But it is the bulk of the research material and the faster I get into it all the sooner that I will be able to separate out the original images and find a repository for them. I am working on the furtherest back known to the family - Hendrick Hendricksen Kip - patriarch of the Kip family in America and from whom all Kip-Kipp are descended if they trace back to the New Amsterdam colony where he arrived sometime between 1637 and 1643. 

The first week of 2022

The first week of 2022 has passed so quickly. We are in the midst of our fifth wave of COVID-19 with the Omicron variant although it seems just like the fourth wave that quieted down and then flared up again; will it be the last? I am hoping for that; that we would just progress forward onto that sunny uplifted plain where COVID-19 is something that we talk about and not live through. Life will be simpler after COVID but also more complex. Countries are very much in debt; taxes will go up and life will be a little harder for people but they will have survived. 

Yesterday I worked mostly on the Kip-Kipp Family Newsletter. As I get into it more and more I realize I am really only doing what Edward would have had me doing if he was still with us. The plan had been for him to direct from his hospital bed in our living room. This is really Plan B although never discussed. For me it was always going to be Plan A in my mind. Moving forward from that has been a nine month struggle but gradually I am getting organized into that and Plan B is coming to fruition. 

I was up early putting a box of broken glass out for garbage pickup. I forgot it last night and suddenly remembered around 6. Still dark with a fresh snowfall not yet dented by any cars. Still falling gently around me as I pulled out the box and then filled the green bin with compost packages from the freezer. We freeze our food preparation waste and then put it out in the morning so that the racoons do not throw our green bin to open it. They tend not to be about in the day fortunately. 

Today will also be a day to work on the Kip-Kipp Family Newsletter. I would like to finish the section of Hendrick Hendricksen Kip although it is likely another day or two on that. Edward had acquired a lot of information on this ancient ancestor from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. An earlier book had given this man a glamorous storyline back in his ancestry but Edward was not able to find any of that information including in a book of Heraldry on French lines. The yDNA points to this particular line as having been within 100 km of Amsterdam back thousands of years and includes the skeletal remains of individuals found in an ice cave in Liechtenstein and about 3000 years old. I still remember being on the R1b list when a comment came out who is N18407 on the FT DNA site. I mulled that around for a couple of seconds and realized it was Edward's kit number and he matched this ancient skeleton found in the ice cave. He was thrilled at that information and worked away on that new knowledge. Finding his Kipp line was important to him and the DNA testing gave him  his answer although he still wanted to discover Isaac's father and perhaps our daughter will find that information in the years to come. She has become more and more interested this past six months in what he was doing. I would not have said that either of our daughters would be interested in genealogy, and like me, they are not from the standpoint of making a family tree. But this deep ancestry knowledge found in our DNA is quite fascinating; it is a fascination that will last me as long as my brain functions I rather think. 

Seven now and on to the day; breakfast awaits.

 

Four days without dust

 I always celebrate four days without dust after cleaning for three days. If I had the ability I would clean in one day and have six days without dust! However, this is working very well. 

Finally decided to order a death certificate that I think is for my great grandmother Maria Jane (Knight) Blake. I think she died at her youngest daughter's home in Fulham, Middlesex in 1916 not long after her husband died also in 1916. Her name was particularly common in this time period making it difficult to determine which death registration was for her and I was a novice way back in 2003 when I first started to try and find it. I have six or seven certificates for a Maria Blake none of which is correct! Finally I decided to order this one I found about ten years ago and the *.pdf will arrive in six days. Much nicer than ordering it through the post. 

Today I shall begin working again on the Kip-Kipp Newsletter and see how that progresses. I am somewhat convinced that this is a good path. I will get this done and then write to the Kipp that Edward asked me to write to around this time last year. I just couldn't think of what to say but the Newsletter might help as I can include it as an attachment. I didn't write to Edward's contacts and so I do not know any of them particularly other than one we met in Toronto years ago now. 

The car in the garage is working very well. It took a while to bring that to fruition but I am glad that it is in there now. We used to park it in the garage all the time but gradually the garage filled with a snow blower and then a table saw and the items grew and grew until there was no room for a car. It makes it so much easier to have the laneway cleared by the snow removal company and the sidewalks and porch cleared as well. 

Other than that we are in a slight warming trend today and then plunging back into polar vortex cold for a bit. Normal weather for January for sure except not always a little respite of warm weather (i.e. minus 4 degrees celsius at 7:30 a.m. which feels like minus ten apparently. We are in a downward trend though with the temperature dropping steadily all day with about 2 centimetres of snow.

The basement cleaning today and another successful cleaning of the house

 At age 76 I did think if I should be blessed with such a long life I would still be cleaning the house. I enjoy cleaning actually; it feels rewarding as you see the neatening up in front of you as you move forward across the rooms. Not that they are very messy these days; mostly everything is in order but over the week things move; change or get altered and straightening it all up again gives one a feeling of tidiness about one. Do we need to have it tidy? Not sure; but from a young age tidiness was drilled into me and one can not generally escape what one is trained to do!

Yesterday in my break periods I worked on the latest twenty five matches and have about half of them entered into my system. A couple of really interesting new matches that I have not really seen before in terms of placement. One really exciting large match which fitted perfectly into my present phasing diagrams. I will complete that task today in my breaks. 

I am coming close to having enough data that I can create each of my grandparent's DNA that was passed to my parents so in essence I am creating my parent's DNA one might say. Going back to the great grandparents remains a tempting task which I may, if spare time ever comes to me, work on. 

I need to get back to the Kip-Kipp Newsletter as I have had a number of thoughts on items to put into it. Plus I need to locate some material in Edward's files that I will also put in. Time moves onward so must not delay on that. 

As well I need to work on the H11 Newsletter. This is the large one for the year which is interesting but represents such a small portion of the actual H11 in the FT DNA database that I sometimes wonder at the value of the work but nonetheless I will do it because there are over 300 people now in the group including myself that are interested in what we are able to see. Unfortunately this I do not publish to the blog as the information is restricted and only the members of the project can view it although I am very cautious not to publish any kit numbers so that the Newsletters can continue to be visible to the project members. 

Other than that it is another beautiful January day minus 6 degrees celsius at 7:50 am. We are to have a short warming trend and then back into the polar vortex for a bit. This is our normal January weather as I have seen it for the past fourty six years. When we first moved here I could not imagine such cold but now I am used to it and surprised when we do not have it. Mind you I do not go out in the snow with a toddler these days so do not experience that cold first hand so much anymore! But I would miss the snow for sure; it is part of my everyday life.

Cleaning Day number two

 Today is cleaning the main floor and the nice thing the car is in the garage. No more ice scraping and there was some ice last night I think. Hard to tell once the snow has come unless the car is out there and you can see it on the car! 

I also have to get to work on the mounds of paper that I have accumulated this past nine months. Some of it is journals which I will pass to the OGS Library for their collection. All of those journals ceased at the end of December (I think). No renewals went through though and I never got around to reading any of those American Genealogy Journals. Too much else to read unfortunately. 

I signed up for 50 plus Webinars this year thus far. I do have a membership with Legacy Webinars although I tend to watch them after the fact. Maybe I will watch them in real time this year. 

Other than that the day has begun and it is cloudy and minus 12 degrees celsius. Warming up slightly and I think there is a warmer day tomorrow and then back into the cold once again. 

Garage clean out

Managed to get out and walk every day last week and we also cleaned out the garage so that we can put the car in. That has been something thought about for a while. But mostly it has been a slow week of rest and relaxation (except we did clean the house). Today the sun is shinning brightly although it is minus 19 degrees celsius at 8:30 a.m. A typical winter day for us really especially in January when the cold freeze comes and it has arrived just a mite early this year as generally it is mid January when we see such cold temperatures. This will not be a good day to work outside but will be a great day to have a walk mid afternoon when it might be above minus 10; will wait and see on that. I do love a good walk in the winter or any time of year. 

Today is a cleaning day and a look at papers day as I gear up to do the Income Tax. I have done the Taxes now for 55 years and this will be 56 years but the last time to do Edward's taxes. Still in the front of our memories and for the rest of our days. He was unforgettable and always such a busy person. Sarcoidosis is a strange disease which seems like a silent killer in some people when it attacks the liver but others recover and go ahead with their lives. I had never heard of it before Edward I do not think. But it is fairly rare. 

Now that we are really into January it is time to start getting the things done that I had planned to do in January. 

Church on You-Tube and the Bible Reading John 1:1-18

 I shall attend Church today on You-Tube. Although I love Christmas with family I miss being at Church. I could just go and be away from all of the festivities for that hour but I am meant to be a mother with her children first; that is my first duty as I see it especially now that my days of being a wife are past. But today, the first Sunday in the New Year I can be at Church. 

Another one of my favourite Bible Readings where Jesus is the Word brought down from Heaven so that we would understand better the role of God in our lives. 

In the beginning was the one
   who is called the Word.
The Word was with God
   and was truly God.
From the very beginning
   the Word was with God.

And with this Word,
   God created all things.
Nothing was made
   without the Word.
Everything that was created
   received its life from him,
and his life gave light
   to everyone.
The light keeps shining
   in the dark,
and darkness has never
   put it out.

In these dark times of COVID there are so many opportunities to turn to God; time is very much with us. God is our Strength and our Redeemer. 

And the Epiphany Service was beautiful; the modern electronic world is so very wonderful. I started early into computers with Fortran programing way back in the mid 1960s on Hollerith Cards and then dumb terminals attached to main frames. We bought our first computer in the early 1980s and have been online from then on (not me but my husband and daughters) with Bulletin Boards and such. I came online in 1995 when they felt I needed to have an email address. I am sure they regretted that as I was soon having 100 emails a day with Anglicans Online. However, it also meant that we graduated to three computers quite soon after!

Blake Newsletter, Volume 11, Issue 1, 2022

  Blake Newsletter

Table of Contents
1.    Who were Robert Blayke and Richard Blake who left their wills in 1521 and 1522?
2.    Blake Surname Study – Progress
3.    Blake autosomal DNA Study at FT DNA (Family Finder)
4.    Andover, Hampshire, England Parish Registers – baptisms
5.    Andover, Hampshire, England Parish Registers - marriages

1.    Who were Robert Blayke and Richard Blake who left their wills in 1521 and 1522?

Finding these two wills (albeit Latin predominated) was an interesting experience. I had probably ignored them in searches for a while before I finally looked at them. Getting back to Nicholas Blake had been relatively easy as the wills take you back there step by step. But getting beyond the mother of Nicholas Blake was not something I put a lot of time into originally. I knew that Nicholas Blake lived at Old Hall since I was a child but it took a lot of thinking and recalling to remember the context in which I had remembered that information. It had been mentioned to me by both my paternal grandfather (Samuel George Blake) and my father (Ernest Edward George Blake). Since they had both been born in England and knew my great grandfather Edward Blake very well I have always been prone to accepting all the information that was passed to me as a child as absolutely correct and that has proven to be the case in my trace-back from Edward Blake to his ancestors. I was very lucky in having that information at the start of my research into Blake as one of my one-name studies. I was late coming to Blake as a one-name study as I did not begin until 2011 although my trip into genealogy land began in 2003 with my cousin George DeKay asking me to write a profile of my Pincombe family (my mother’s line) for the Westminster Township History Book which he was editing. My father and his parents had come to Canada when my father was nine years of age in 1913 so they do not appear in a book of early ancestors here in Canada for that very reason. My husband gifted me with a book on the Blake family that actually had Nicholas Blake of Old Hall in it not long before I took on the one-name study. It was this book which prompted me to do the study as I knew that my Blake line was from Hampshire not Calne, Wiltshire as the book claimed. Hence the trip to remove the genealogical connection from my line to Calne, Wiltshire Blake family and hopefully replace it with the accurate ancestral line. But also born at that time was a desire to learn more about all of these founding Blake families hence the one-name study at the Guild of one-name Studies.

The testator Robert Blake has sons Thomas and Richard and he writes his will 16 Dec 1521. He lives at Enham. He mentioned Andrew Blake, William Blake and Robert Blake not noting any relationship. The will of Richard Blayke was written 12 Apr 1522. He appears to be giving a ring to his sister (unnamed) although this particular line is difficult to transcribe.
His son Thomas’ will is also interesting in that Robert assigns Rawkins in Knights Enham to Thomas and later Thomas mentions the same property in his will of 1541 passing it to his son John.
This reminds me of an interesting online tree that used to be available but has disappeared in the past couple of years. It referred to a marriage of Robert Blake and Maude Snell in 1486 at Benham, Hampshire and their three sons William, Richard and Thomas – that I have actually found a will mentioning Richard and Thomas as sons of a Robert Blake and including a William (and Andrew) mentioned is perhaps amazing in itself. I did not capture a copy of that webpage to see who had put that information online (very much a novice in those days) as it is sometime since I have seen it.
 

Names mentioned in the will:
Robert Blake, testator
John Howton, debtor
Thomas Blake, son
Andrew Blake
Thomas Longe
Richard Goldyng
Robert Tary
Robert Galavay
William Gelzeyr
William Blake
William Fuynere
Robert Blake
Richard Blake, son, executor
Johannis Battey, vicar, witness
Thomas Blake, witness
Robert Tary, witness

Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 3 Jan 2014
Source: Hampshire Record Office, 1522B-04
Testator: Robert Blake
Place: Enham, Hampshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 16 Dec 1521
Condition: 16th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: 1522B-04
1    In die no[m]i[n]e Ame[n] xvj die dece[m]b[r]is An[n]o d[omi]ni M ccccc xxj Ergo robertij  blayke co[m]pos me[n]t[i]s et sane memoyre
2    asti[pula]tus testame[n]tu[m] [i]n hunc modu[m] In primis do et lego a[n]i[m]am mea[m] deo p[at]ri o[mn]ipote[n]ti corpus qu[e] meu[m] sepeliendu[m] [i]n cimit[t]erio
3    p[ar]ochialij eccl[es]i[a]e s[an]cti michaels de Enh[a]m It[e]m do et lego ad mat[ri]ce ecclesie xii d It[e]m do et lego ecclesie de enh[a]m
4    xl s et una[m] vaccam It[e]m do et lego ecclesis de andever xl oves vef p[or]cus eap quod er iij £ quas yearly kyne
5    habet i[n] custodia Item do et lego uxori mee x £ q[uod] joh[han]es howton debet It[e]m do et lego uxori mee x quarte
6    rodas frume[n]ti et xx ordeu[m] It[e]m do et lego tome filio meo cc omn[ia] It[e]m do et lego andre blayke una[m] tenem[entum]
7    gra[tia] victus It[e]m do et lego tome longe unu[s] diplade et una came[ra]cia It[e]m do et lego tome filio mee una bictel[  ] and una whipblade
8    cu[m] p[ar]ts et un[u]m par[ ] notay monay It[e]m do et lego thome filio una ara[bilis] terra que vocato bene semers
9    cu[m] ______ It[e]m do et lego Wyllimo gelzeyr una[m] toga[m] It[e]m do et lego rycardo goldyng alia[m] toga[m] It[e]m do et lego
10    Robarto tary una tunica[m] It[e]m do et lego unicum que suor[or] meor[um] videlicet viro[rum] ac mulier[is] una[m] ane[llus] It[e]m do et
11    lego tome filio meo duas diplades ab It[e]m do et lego robarto Galavay una[m] toga[m] It[e]m do et lego tome
12    filio meo duas diplades It[e]m do et lego Wyllmo blayke una[m] vacca[m] It[e]m do et lego tome filio meo duas pullos
13    et duo verv[ex] It[e]m wyllmo Fuynere debet m[eo] ppt viij modios frume[n]tie et quoliket modio[s] xvi s It[e]m Assigno
14    Tome filio meo una t[enement]a que vacat[o] Rawkynys It[e]m do et lego volo q[uod] una[m] p[re]sbite[r] celebr[at] et in ecclie par[is]h de Enh[a]m
15    p[ro] salute a[n]i[m]e meo et p[ro] ecclie _______ p[ro] spac[iu]m un[ius] anni It[e]m do et lego robarto blayke una[m] vacca[m] et residuum om[n]i[um] bonor[um]
16    meor[um] test[amentu]m mobilium q[uam] immobilium It[em] do et lego ricardo filio meo quo[s] ordino meos veros executores ut
17    ip[s]e disponat p[ro] salute a[n]i[m]e meo hiis testib[u]s d[omi]no johane battey thoma blayke robarto tary
18    et aliis
19    Also I reserve to my sonne Richarde my farme and my tenemente that I do dwelth nowe

No probate is written on this copy of the will that I purchased from the Hampshire Record Office.
The will of Thomas Blake who died in 1541.

The testator is Thomas Blake of Enham and he names his children John, Robert and Margaret. His wife is unnamed and not mentioned in this will. Thomas names Silys Munday as one of his legatees and is she perhaps his daughter with husband Richard Munday?
Margaret Blake, his daughter, is a possibility as the wife of Nicholas Blake I am just noting. She would have been over 21 at the time of probate although Robert is under age as his ability to manage the will was reserved. I will discuss this another time but it is rather interesting especially as her surname is Blake. The will of Nicholas’ mother was written in 1527 when he was already over 21 and Thomas was an uncle to Nicholas. Interesting thoughts do emerge when one starts to put items together. As well, after the death of Nicholas (husband of Margaret), Margaret married Richard Munday. Was he the same Richard Munday married to Silys her sister? Interesting really and marriage between them would have been a very practical step to take care of both sets of children who were first cousins. It also makes me think that Robert (will 1542) and Nicholas (will 1457) were brothers although I discuss this later in this article.
 

This Thomas, present testator, is likely the son of Robert Blake (will mentioned above). Robert names his son Thomas and gives him Rawkins for his own use for ever. Thomas has passed this to John his other son. Thomas then is an uncle to Nicholas Blake son of Richard Blake whose will was probated in 1522 and will be inserted next.
 

Names mentioned in the will:
Thomas Blake, testator
Johannis Blake, son of testator
Lord Sandy, Lord of the manor
Rychard Munday, overseer
Robert Blake, son of testator, executor
Margaret Blake, daughter of testator, executrix
Thomas Brotwynge Vycare off Andev[er]
Sy[r] Johan[nes] Patye mo[r]row masse pryst

Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 17 Feb 2014
Source: Hampshire Record Office, 1541U-06
Testator: Thomas Blake
Place: Enham, Hampshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 15 Oct 1540, probated 15 Jun 1541
Condition: 16th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: 1541U-06
1    Jn die no[m]i[n]e Ame[n] Jn the yere off owr Lorde MDXLI the 15th
2    day off October J Thomas Blake sykke off bodye and hole off mynde
3    and memorye make my testament and last Wyll yn maner and foorme
4    foloynge first j bequeth my sowle unto almygthty god to owr Lady
5    saynt marye and to the hole c[o]mpanye off heven And my bodye
6    to be buryede yn the chyrchyard off Andev[e]r j bequethe and gyve
7    unto the hye altare off the sayd churche off andev[er] xij d Item
8    to alys munday j bequethe a cowe and vj yoongs j wyll also that
9    at my morytlie myade be bestoede upon the powr pepull a
10    quarter off whete Item j wyll th[a]t Joh[ann]is my soone have and holde
11    the howse at Enam callyd Rawkyns w[i]th all the aporte[nancs] and th[a]t he
12    also have and ynioy all the grownde and landys ther w[i]thyn the sayd
13    Enam the w[hi]ch j do holde off my lorde Sandy he yn as good a state
14    and ryghte as j have the same ferdermore j gyve unto rychard
15    Munday and Jhon[nes] Blake my soone x ps for to ov[er]see thys my testament
16    And also j make my soone Robert and my dowrther Margaret myn
17    executors off all my goods not bequeathed moveabyll and unmoveabyll
18    provydyde th[a]t my dettys due unto the sayd rycharde munday the
19    w[hi]ch ys 6 nobles iij s iiij d and unto John[nes] Blake my sonne the w[hi]ch ys
20    x ps be payd off my goods by my execytors The rest off
21    all my goods and catell j gyve holely unto my execytors
22    to se yt bestoed and dysposyd for the helthe off my sowle att
23    ther al byteremente and plesuere In wytnesse off all thys ys m[r]
24    Thomas Brotwynge Vycare off Andev[er] and Sy[r] Johan[nes] Patye mo[r]row masse
25    pryst ther the w[hi]ch were att the makyinge hereof present
26    P[ro]bat[um] approbat[um] et insinuat[um] fuit p[rese]ns testam[entum] apud
27    winton cora[m] Mag[is]tro Edmundo Stuarde doctere
28    Rev[er]end in xxo pris etc xv t[h] die Junij Anno d[omi]ni
29    1542 Comissaq[ue] fuit adm[in]strat[io] om[nium] et sing[u]lor bonor[um]
30    sup[ra]script[um] defuncti Margaret Blake un[a] execut[oribus]
31    in h[uis]mo[d]i test[amentum] no[m]i[n]at[orum] insat[  ] etc Res[er]uata p[otes]tat cons[er]ter
32    administer[ando] conf[e]rend Roberto Blake alteri execut[oribus] etc
 

From the Hampshire Record this is 1522B/03. The Will of Richard Blayke (Blake) of Knights Enham, Hampshire.
 

Richard identifies his brother as Thomas, he further identifies his eldest son as Robert and possibly he is identifying his other son as Nichi (Nicholas). He does mention a daughter but not by name. In the will of Jone Blake she mentions all three of her children Robert, Nicholas and Elizabeth. If I am correct in my interpretation then this is the husband of Jone Blake who left her will in 1527 and mentioned in the last issue of the newsletter.
Both of Richard’s sons left wills and I have blogged the will of Nicholas who left his will in 1547 (and located in the last issue of the newsletter).
Names mentioned in the will:
Richardus Blayke, testator
Thomas Blake, brother of testator
Robert Blake, eldest son of testator
Nichl Blake, son of testator
Wife of testator, living, not named
Daughter of testator, living, not named
Johne Battey, Curate, witness
Thomas Blake, witness
Richard Goldyn, witness
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 13 Aug 2013
Source: Family Search – 186681, A-658 and Item 195
Testator: Richard Blayke
Place: Knights Enham, Hampshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 12 April 1522, probated 23 May 1522
Condition: 16th century English, legible copy
Wrapper: 1522 Rich[ard]us Blake De Enham
Wrapper: P[ro]batu[m] fuit  xxiij de Maij mu[ ]day infra villa de Andev[er]
1    In die no[min]e Ame[n] xij  die m[en]si[s] d’Ap[ri]lis  Anno d[omi]ni M ccccc xxij Ergo Richardus blayke cy[m]pos
2    me[n]t[i]s sane q[ue] memorie t[ame]n eg[e]r corpore condo et ordino testament[um] meu[m] de mea[m] labor[aci]on[em] volu[n]tat[em]
3    in h[u]nc modu[m] In p[ri]mis et lego A[n]i[m]am mea[m] deo patri o[mni]pote[n]ti be[ate] marie v[ir]gini o[mn]ibus s[anc]tis
4    Corpus q[ue] meu[m] sepeliendu[m] in cimitt[er]io p[a]rochialis eccl[es]ie s[anc]ta michaelie archang[e]li de
5     enham It[e]m lego mat[ric]e eccl[es]ie winton xij d It[e]m lego p[re]dute eccl[es]ie de enham xl d
6    It[e]m do eccl[es]ie p[a]rochiali[s] de Andov[er] xx d It[e]m lego fr[atr]i meo Thome Blayke xl s
7    ut ip[s]e videar ____ mea vlv volunt[at]us suit testam[entu]s in Jurius duslerat et p[er]vient
cum tenementas It[e]m volo q[uod] Uxor[i] mea habeat
8    Firmam mea p[ro] tempo exp[re]sso in endentua iux[ta] as[s]ignatorum Roberti Blayke pri[mi]s
9    mei nichi et uxori mee de h[er]edibus u[ost]ris fait It[e]m do p[ar]ochiali presbicto[rum] xl d w[i]t[h]
10    ip[s]e oret p[ro] salute ai[nim]e mee It[e]m volo q[uod] uxor mea h[ab]eat custodia[t] talus mei
11    dura[n]te vita sua et post decessu[m] p[r]imo yedder sup[ra]dict eccl[es]ie de enham It[e]m lego
12    unicuiq[u]e Filiora[m] meor[um] cowes It[e]m do matri mee xl d ac volo q[uod] h[ab]eat victu et
13    vestitu[m] de bo__e meus q[uod] duo vixit It[e]m lego et unicuiq[ue] filior[am] meor[um] unden
14    vacta[ ] et vi[su]m lactu[ ] cum p[er]tin[en]ces Residuum v[er]o omn[ium] bonor[um] meor[um] do et lego uxori
15    mee qua[m] ordino de constituo executore[m] mea[m] et mi[ni]strare ut ipsa h[ab]eat acinde
16    Disponat p[re]sente die mee et sua ep[iscop]a utilitate s[ic]ut ei melius videbit[ur] insutu[r]
17    expedire deo place[r]e et an[im]e mee p[ro]fice[re] d[omi]ni dat[um] die Anno sup[ra]dict[i]s p[ertin]entibus
18    d[omi]no J[o]h[n]e battey curat[e] Thoma Blayke and Richarde Goldyn cum aliis dimis[s]is
19    P[ro]batu[m] fuit xxiij de me[n]sis maij in Enham
20    cum du sup[ra]dicta in Capella infra villa de Andev[er]
21    Ergo fuit B bo____
22    iiij Juin


 
 
Robert Blayke’s will (1521) and Richard Blake’s will (1522) both mention St Michaels Church Enham as their burial place. Thomas was to be buried at St Marys Andover.

The Blake Pedigree Chart held by the Blake Museum in Bridgwater also has a reference to Robert Blake married to [unknown] Snell and that he is of Enham. Children listed in this chart include William who married a daughter of Robert Boswell), John, Richard and Robert of Enham. The will firmly establishes that Robert’s children were Thomas and Richard (Part 2 of the large family tree https://www.bridgwatermuseum.org.uk/museum-collections/index_htm_files/Blake_2.pdf ). Although a William Blake and a Robert Blake are mentioned in the will he does not name them as his sons.

 

In my own mind, I feel I have established that Robert Blake who left his will in 1521 was the father of Richard Blake who left his will in 1522. I also believe that Richard was married to Jone Blake who left her will in 1527 and hence the father of Nicholas Blake who left his will in 1547. There is also Thomas Blake who left his will in 1541 and does appear to be the son of Robert Blake as well (mentioned in the will and the property Rankyns is passed from Robert to Thomas and then Thomas to his son John which is clearly established by his will). Later this property takes a surprising turn but will wait for another issue to discuss that individual.

The other will that is available is the will of Robert Blake, brother to Nicholas and hence nephews to Thomas as their father was Richard Blake brother to Thomas and sons of Robert Blake.

This will with Robert Blake of Enham near Andover was written 28 April 1542 and probated 22 June 1542, I am most fortunate that it is in English as wills prior to the early 1540s were all in Latin. The full transcript of this will is very revealing as I had only seen an abstract and it proved to be a very short abstract in reality.

Robert lists his sons as Robert, John, William, John, Richard and Thomas. This order is somewhat different from what I have seen in other accounts and differs from the one I published on my blog which had been created by Charlou Dolan. But she was working with an abstract.

The mention of the mill at Clatford is interesting as this property stayed in the Blake family well into the 1700s.

Robert does not identify Nicholas Blake as his brother but their mother had named her sons as Robert and Nicholas. The will of Jone Blake, widow, was located in the last issue of the Blake Newsletter.

Robert does not mention his sister Elizabeth so she has perhaps died. His wife was named Agnes and I find the reference to Richard Andrew interesting. Since he is holding money for his sons is he perhaps his brother in law? Would be interesting to discover that. There is a will for a Richard Andrew of Freefolk in Hampshire which was probated 9 Jun 1542. Freefolk is 6 miles north west from the railway station at Andover Road. His will could be quite revealing.

Robert six sons leave a lot of descendants in the Andover area into the 1600s. I have not yet traced his line down and hope to do that one of these days. I do have the work that Charlou Dolan did and I have blogged it:

http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2011/02/robert-blake-family-at-knights-enham.html

Still working on the Probate to see if all his sons were of age at the time of writing the will. This is my line at Upper Clatford as the wife of Richard Blake was possibly Jone Blake daughter of this Robert’s eldest son Robert but could also have been William’s daughter. Richard descends from Nicholas Blake as his grandson with William being his father (Nicholas had two sons William and Stephen but have not yet found any children for Stephen). I had forgotten this thought and will pursue this possibility as I look at Richard Blake (son of William, son of Nicholas) in the future.

Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 2 Jan 2014
Source: Hampshire Record Office, 1542B-06
Testator: Robert Blake
Place: Enham near Andover, Hampshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 28 April 1542, probated 22 Jun 1542
Condition: 16th century English, legible copy

[Margin]: 1542B/6

1    In the Name of god Amen the xxviij day of Ap[r]ell the yere of o[u]r Lorde m ccccc xlii I Robert Blake of
2    yeh[a]m [i]n p[ar]yshe of Andever in gud rem[em]brace of mynde mak my testame[n]t and last wyll [i]n forme and man[ner]
3    followyng Fyrst I beque[a]th my soll to almyghty god to o[u]r lady seynt mary and to all the holy c[om]pany of hevyn and
4    my body to be buryd [i]n the church lytte off Andever It[e]m I gyve to the fine church of Wychest viij d It[e]m to
5    the church of o[u]r lady [i]n Andever on[e] sheepe It[e]m to the church of yeham on[e] sheepe It[e]m to Rob[ert] my eld[e]st
6    son ij holds on[e] callyd Whyte harys and the other clarks It[e]m to John my second son I geve the holde wh[i]ch I dwellyn
7    callyd Relands It[e]m to agnes my wyff on[e] holde at penton and the on[e] halfe of all thyngs ther B[e]lo[n]gi[n]g
8    for the terme of her widdohede and the other halfe of the f[o]re sayd holds I wyll yt John my yonger son and Thomas
9    hys brother shall occupy wyth her And aft[er] her widdohede estate to Remayne holl unto the forsayd
10    John and Thomas my sonnes It[e]m I geve to Wyllya[m] and to Richard my yongest sonnes on[e] myll at clatford
11    and x li of mony lyyng [i]n the ha[n]ds of Rycharde Andrew esquire It[e]m I geve to agnes my wyff
12    ij kyne and all the howsolde stuff yf she lievs wyth hee The Resydew of my godds not bequeathed I geve
13    and beque[a]th to Robert John Wyllya[m] John Thomas and Rychard my sones wh[i]ch I mak my executors
14    they to do w[i]t[h] resyd for the helth of my soll as they shal thinke best Wytnes herof Nicholas Blake
15    Willya[m] Fletwode and Robert Kygall and Robert Palford Wt then Also hyt ys my Wyll th[a]t Nicholas Blake
16    Wyllya[m] Fletwode Robert Kygall and Robert Palford shall equally devyde my godds amongs my forsayd
17    chylderne and end s[u]m of them to have vj s vij d for ther labors
18    Probatum fuit [su]p[ra]sc[ri]ptum test[amentu]m xxij th die mensis juinij A[nn]o d[omi]ni
19    supradicto in Ecclesie    Sancta winton coram venerabili
20    viro magistro edmundo stuarde Regr doctore etc
21    Commissaq[ue] fuit adminstratio omn[ium] et singulorum bonorum
22    dicti defuncti executori ___________ in hu[ius]modi testamento
23    _______ _____ cum fideliter ______ _____ _______    
24    informa ______ jurats salvo iure comissaq[ue]     

I shall have to work on the Probate for this one but my biggest interest is in the mention of Nicholas Blake. Searching through the Discovery Catalogue on the National Archives site (UK) there is a Nicholas Blake listed as a bailiff of Andover C 1/1061/22 (1538-1544). This is prior to the death of my Nicholas Blake. This, however, does not help with proving that Robert (will dated 1542) and Nicholas (will dated 1547) were brothers. The dates of the will and the ages of their children does make them contemporaries though and both living at Enham. Is that sufficient evidence?

An interesting view into the time period from 1521 to 1542 in terms of wills and the changes in England at that time.

Gradually over time I would like to look at some of these blocks of wills that I have transcribed in the various “Blake” lines in England by looking at one or another of the particular testators within a family grouping.


 
2.    Blake Surname Study – Progress

I have given this a lot of thought and believe I will remain with the present categories since they refer to particular lines. I need to do more research into the explosion in yDNA results over the past couple of years and consider whether deep ancestry in these lines is an appropriate way to look at the results. There can be a number of changes on a more recent level that would detract from the overall Blake line that is being examined.  

3.    Blake Autosomal Study at FT DNA (Family Finder)

Useful on an individual basis but I can not report on matching as that would interfere in the privacy of the individual members. 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.

4.    Andover, Hampshire, England, Parish Registers - Baptisms

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
4201    Harden    Selathyell    son    Harden    Selathyell            1665    May    1                
4202    Howse    William    son    Howse    Zekell            1665    May    4                
4203    Carpender    Mary    daughter    Carpender    John            1665    May    8                Wildherne
4204    Hooper    Mary    daughter    Hooper    Thomas            1665    May    15                
4205    Courtney    William    son    Courtney    John            1665    May    16                
4206    Goddin    Peeter    son    Goddin    Peeter            1665    May    17                Hatherdeene
4207    New    Robert    son    New    Robert            1665    May    17                
4208    New    Andrew    son    New    Robert            1665    May    17                
4209    Croutch    Joane    daughter    Croutch    Michaell            1665    May    28                
4210    Juliance    Susanna    daughter    Juliance    William            1665    June    11                
4211    Alford    Mary    daughter    Alford    William            1665    June    26                
4212    Reavers    Elizabeth    daughter    Reavers    Joan            1665    June    26                
4213    Earle    Dorothy    daughter    Earle    Thomas            1665    June    29                
4214    Munday    Joane    daughter    Munday    William            1665    July    9                Charlton
4215    Munday    Francis    son    Munday    widdow            1665    July    10                Charlton
4216    Loving            Loving    William            1665    July    16                
4217    Leatch    James    son    Leatch    Thomas            1665    July    30                
4218    Gardner    John    son    Gardner    John            1665    August    3                
4219    Goodall    Richard    son    Goodall    Richard            1665    August    14                junior
4220    Long    Robert    son    Long    William            1665    August    15                
4221    Collince    Mary    daughter    Collince    William            1665    August    20                
4222    Jellife    Richard    son    Jellife    Richard            1665    August    27                the younger
4223    Jellife    Ellenor    daughter    Jellife    Richard            1665    August    27                the younger
4224    Spanwell    Dorothy    daughter    Spanwell    Zidrake            1665    September    10                
4225    Goodall    Francis    Goodall    Francis                1665    September    11                
4226    Tredgoule    Mary    daughter    Tredgoule    Thomas            1665    September    17                Charlton
4227    Noyse    Francis    son    Noyse    George            1665    September    19                
4228    Burd    John    son    Burd    Robert            1665    September    20                
4229    Seuior    Ellenor    daughter    Seuior    Richard            1665    September    26                
4230    Burger    Hennery    son    Burger    Hennery            1665    September    27                
4231    Dummer    Sarah    daughter    Dummer    Richard            1665    September    28                
4232    Ratty    Thomas    son    Ratty    Thomas            1665    October    8                Charlton
4233    James    Elizabeth    daughter    James    Peeter            1665    October    10                
4234    Barnard    James    son    Barnard    Thomas            1665    October    10                
4235    Cornelius    Francis    son    Cornelius    Francis            1665    October    14                
4236    Percie    Mary    daughter    Percie    James            1665    October    19                
4237    Feilder    Joseph    son    Feilder    Thomas            1665    October    20                
4238    Stronger    Mary    daughter    Stronger    Richard            1665    October    28                
4239    Francis    John    son    Francis    John            1665    October    23                
4240    Gearle    Martha    daughter    Gearle    John            1665    November    2                
4241    Scullard    William    son    Scullard    William            1665    November    2                junior
4242    Goulden    Sarah    daughter    Goulden    John            1665    November    5                Woodhouse
4243    Greene    Robert    son    Greene    Robert            1665    November    5                Charlton
4244    Stanniford    John    son    Stanniford    John            1665    November    16                
4245    Wells    Thomas    son    Wells    Richard            1665    December    2                
4246    Shorte            Shorte    Paull            1665    December    8                
4247    Keale    Katherin    daughter    Keale    John            1665    December    15                
4248    Cooke    Allexzander    son    Cooke    Richard            1665    December    16                
4249    Cannings    Ann    daughter    Cannings    John            1665    December    16                Charlton
4250    Grace    Mary    daughter    Grace    Thomas            1665    December    17                
4251    Helliar            Helliar    John            1665    December    18                
4252    Mountaine    Bridgat    daughter    Mountaine    Richard            1665    December    22                
4253    Barwick    Edward    son    Barwick    Thomas            1665    January    12                
4254    Medhurst    John    son    Medhurst    Thomas            1665    January    14                
4255    Overton    John    son    Overton    John            1665    January    18                
4256    Reanalls    Daniell    son    Reanalls    Daniell            1665    January    22                
4257    Sutton    William    son    Sutton    William            1665    January    25                
4258    Tomson    Nicholas    son    Tomson    Nicholas            1665    January    27                
4259    Emmett    Francis    son    Emmett    Barnard            1665    January    31                
4260    Cannings            Cannings    Addum            1665    January    31                
4261    Ratty    Joan    daughter    Ratty    Shadrach            1665    February    2                
4262    Knowles    Margeret    daughter    Knowles    William            1665    February    2                
4263    Bosell    Barthemia    daughter    Bosell    Robert            1665    February    2                
4264    Goddin    Jane    daughter    Goddin    George            1665    February    5                
4265    Pitman    Thomas    son    Pitman    Thomas            1665    February    5                
4266    Waight    Martha    daughter    Waight    Richard            1665    February    7                
4267    Meales    Richard    son    Meales    Thomas            1665    February    12                
4268    Palmor    John    son    Palmor    John            1665    February    14                junior
4269    Church    Christian    daughter    Church    Phillip            1665    February    22                
4270    Garrat    Mary    daughter    Garrat    Robert            1665    February    27                
4271    Lively            Lively    John            1665    February    17                junior, Charlton
4272    Hacker    John    son    Hacker    John            1665    March    20                
4273    Blake    Peeter    son    Blake    Mr. Peeter            1666    March    27                
4274    Goddin    Liddia    daughter    Goddin    William            1666    March    28    1665    March    15    
4275    Dewe    Rebecka    daughter    Dewe    John            1666    April    5                
4276    Hunt    Joseph    son    Hunt    Edward            1666    April    11                
4277    Ratty    John    son    Ratty    Edward            1666    April    15                Charlton
4278    Barnard    Robert    son    Barnard    John            1666    April    15                
4279    Miller    Mary    daughter    Miller    John            1666    April    16                the elder
4280    Harfeild    Joane    daughter    Harfeild    Mr. Michaell            1666    April    16                
4281    Deane    John    son    Deane    John            1666    April    20                junior
4282    Popinioy    George    son    Popinioy    Mr. John            1666    April    25                
4283    Pyper    Mary    daughter    Pyper    John            1666    April    28                
4284    Orum    Ambrose    son    Orum    William            1666    May    3                
4285    James    Joseph    son    James    Hugh            1666    May    5                Hatherdeene
4286    Long    John    son    Long    John            1666    May    6                
4287    New    Andrew    son    New    Robert            1666    May    15                
4288    Wimbolton    Elizabeth    daughter    Wimbolton    Mr. William            1666    May    17                
4289    Kingsmell    John    son    Kingsmell    Mr. John            1666    May    17                
4290    Noyse    Thomas    son    Noyse    Edward            1666    May    17                Foxcote
4291    Veare    Richard    son    Veare    James            1666    May    20                
4292    Bird    Robert    son    Bird    Widow Joane            1666    May    23                
4293    Wayman    John    son    Wayman    John            1666    May    26                
4294    Dowty    Bridgat    daughter    Dowty    Robert            1666    May    27                
4295    Scoddin    John    son    Scoddin    John            1666    June    4                
4296    Salmon    Sarah    daughter    Salmon    John            1666    June    4                Wildherne
4297    Salmon    Rachaell    daughter    Salmon    John            1666    June    4                Wildherne
4298    Purde    Hope    daughter    Purde    George            1666    June    12                
4299    Gibence    Hennery    son    Gibence    Hennery            1666    June    11                
4300    Payne    Peeter    son    Payne    Edward            1666    June    12                
4301    Barnibe    Ellinor    daughter    Barnibe    John            1666    June    15                
4302    Banks    Ann    daughter    Banks    Allexzander            1666    June    27                
4303    Joanes    John    son    Joanes    Hennery            1666    June    29                
4304    Dickman    Peeter    son    Dickman    Anthony            1666    July    8                Woodhouse
4305    Minchin    Sarah    daughter    Minchin    Thomas            1666    July    8                
4306    Beard    Dianna    daughter    Beard    John            1666    July    9                
4307    Chard    Richard    son    Chard    Edward            1666    July    28                junior
4308    Knightly    John    son    Knightly    John            1666    August    12                
4309    Hobbs    Edward    son    Hobbs    Edward            1666    August    12                
4310    Cornelius    Thomas    son    Cornelius    George            1666    August    13                
4311    Cooper    Edward    son    Cooper    Edward            1666    August    17                
4312    Knight    John    son    Knightly    Thomas            1666    August    18                senior
4313    Turner    William    son    Turner    Thomas            1666    August    26                
4314    Prince    Mary    daughter    Prince    John            1666    August    31                senior
4315    White    Joane    daughter    White    John            1666    September    2                Wildherne
4316    Parr    Jane    daughter    Parr    Hennery            1666    September    2                Woodhouse
4317    Scullard    William    son    Scullard    Zakaria            1666    September    9                junior
4318    Treackle    Robert    son    Treackle    Thomas            1666    September    10                
4319    Hopkince    Christopher    son    Hopkince    Christopher            1666    September    14                
4320    Knowles    William    son    Knowles    William            1666    September    20                
4321    Broade    Mary    daughter    Broade    William            1666    September    20                
4322    Budgly    Thomas    son    Budgly    Richard            1666    September    25                
4323    Wats    Edward    son    Wats    Edward            1666    October    2                Wildherne
4324    Flitwood    John    son    Flitwood    William            1666    October    5                
4325    Croutch    Mary    daughter    Croutch    Mathew            1666    October    7                Charlton
4326    Earle    Dorathy    daughter    Earle    Thomas            1666    October    9                
4327    Homes            Homes    Mr. Samuell            1666    October    14                
4328    Hide    Francis    son    Hide                1666    October    18                
4329    Goddin    Robert    son    Goddin    Robert            1666    November    4                
4330    Smith    John    son    Smith    Richard            1666    November    5                pedler
4331    Cleeve    Ann    daughter    Cleeve    Peeter            1666    November    9                
4332    Munday    Jesper    son    Munday    Jesper            1666    November    15                Foxcote
4333    Percie    Ellenor    daughter    Percie    Francis            1666    November    15                
4334    Wesson    Joseph    son    Wesson    Joseph            1666    November    17                
4335    Hatchat    John    son    Hatchat    James            1666    November    25                
4336    Barlo    Thomas    son    Barlo    Mr. William            1666    November    26                
4337    Alford    William    son    Alford    William            1666    November    27                
4338    Miller            Miller    Thomas            1666    November    5                
4339    Hust    William    son    Hust    Richard            1666    December    12                senior
4340    Knight    Elizabeth    daughter    Knightly    Thomas            1666    December    12                
4341    Manfeild    Alce    daughter    Manfeild    William            1666    December    18                
4342    Westcome    Elizabeth    daughter    Westcome    Thomas            1666    December    18                
4343    Juliance    Joseph    son    Juliance    William            1666    December    25                
4344    Seagrove    Joanna    daughter    Seagrove    John            1666    December    26                
4345    Hunt    Mary    daughter    Hunt    John            1666    January    1                
4346    Martaine    Susanna    daughter    Martaine    Richard            1666    January    2                
4347    Beare    Joseph    son    Beare    William            1666    January    8                
4348    Beare    Sarah    daughter    Beare    William            1666    January    8                Charlton
4349    Payge    Ann    daughter    Payge    William            1666    January    13                
4350    Abbott    John    son    Abbott    John            1666    January    15                junior
4351    Kill    Edward    son    Kill    Richard            1666    January    16                
4352    Manfeild    William    son    Manfeild    George            1666    January    21                
4353    Breckstone    Richard    son    Breckstone    John            1666    January    24                
4354    Leatch    Thomas    son    Leatch    Thomas            1666    January    24                
4355    Barbur    Peeter    son    Barbur    Peeter            1666    January    29                
4356    Croutch    Michaell    son    Croutch    Michaell            1666    February    7                
4357    Saywell    Robert    son    Saywell    Robert            1666    February    12                
4358    Munday    Elizabeth    daughter    Munday    Richard            1666    February    24                
4359    Smith    William    son    Smith    William            1666    February    25                
4360    Tomsin    John    son    Tomsin    Nicholas            1666    March    3                
4361    Baverstock    Hanna    daughter    Baverstock    William            1666    March    6                
4362    Goodall    Mary    daughter    Goodall    Richard            1666    March    10                
4363    Tamage    Mary    daughter    Tamage    Edward            1666    March    15                
4364    Carpender    William    son    Carpender    Richard            1666    March    20                Wildherne
4365    Baswell    Hercules    son    Baswell    Robert            1666    March    21                
4366    Francis    Thomas    son    Francis    John            1667    March    25                
4367    Foster    Barbarah    daughter    Foster    Thomas            1667    March    25                
4368    Head            Head    Anthony            1667    March    26                
4369    Popinioy    Liddia    daughter    Popinioy    John            1667    April    4                
4370    Overton            Overton    John            1667    April    6                
4371    Aberie    Mary    daughter    Aberie    Isack            1667    April    10                
4372    Smale    Ann    daughter    Smale    Thomas            1667    May    24                
4373    Hobgood    Amy    daughter    Hobgood    William            1667    May    25                
4374    Noyse    Sarah    daughter    Noyse    Edward            1667    May    24                of Foxcote
4375    Beavice    Mary    daughter    Beavice    Thomas            1667    May    26                of Woodhouse
4376    Thorne    Elizabeth    daughter    Thorne    Richard            1667    May    26                
4377    Hooper    John    son    Hooper    John            1667    May    27                
4378    Miller    Ann    daughter    Miller    John            1667    May    29                gent
4379    Watkince    Ann    daughter    Watkince    Samuell            1667    June    9                
4380    Meales    Mary    daughter    Meales    George            1667    June    18                
4381    Stanniford    Elizabeth    daughter    Stanniford    John            1667    June    23                
4382    Clarke    Mary    daughter    Clarke    Richard            1667    July    4                
4383    Newman    Susanna    daughter    Newman    Andrew            1667    July    10                
4384    Drewlie    Richard    son    Drewlie    John            1667    July    15                
4385    Samborne    Christian    daughter    Samborne    Mr. James            1667    July    16                
4386    Barwick    Dorathy    daughter    Barwick    Thomas            1667    July    17                
4387    Burrat    George    son    Burrat    John            1667    July    23                
4388    Froud    Elizabeth    daughter    Froud    Thomas            1667    July    23                
4389    Gray    Nicholas    son    Gray    Francis            1667    July    24                
4390    Moring    Elizabeth    daughter    Moring    Zidrack            1667    July    24                
4391    Purvior    Mary    daughter    Purvior alias Philpot    Christopher or William 1667    August    3 of Enham
4392    Long    Mary    daughter    Long    William            1667    August    4                
4393    Grace    Thomas    son    Grace    Thomas            1667    August    6                
4394    Miller    William    son    Miller    William            1667    August    18                
4395    Figgis    Elizabeth    daughter    Figgis    Thomas            1667    August    18                
4396    Whetly    Prudence    daughter    Whetly    John            1667    August    25                
4397    Blake    Elizabeth    daughter    Blake    Mr. Peeter            1667    August    27                
4398    Waight    Mary    daughter    Waight    Joseph            1667    August    29                
4399    Noyse    George    son    Noyse    George            1667    September    10                
4400    Hust    Roger    son    Hust    Richard            1667    September    12                the elder
4401    Kingsmell    John    son    Kingsmell    Mr. John            1667    September    15                
4402    Goddin    John    son    Goddin    George            1667    September    16                
4403    Hunniwell    Martaine    son    Hunniwell    Martaine            1667    September    16                
4404    Humphry    Sarah    daughter    Humphry    Robert            1667    September    22                
4405    Whetly    William    son    Whetly    John            1667    September    29                
4406    Purde    John    son    Purde    John            1667    October    2                
4407    Scullard    Elizabeth    daughter    Scullard    Zakery            1667    October    2                
4408    Burger    Hennery    son    Burger    Hennery            1667    October    2                
4409    Courtney    Ellenor    daughter    Courtney    John            1667    October    3                
4410    Golding    Lydia    daughter    Golding    William            1667    October    3                
4411    Ruddle    Margeret    daughter    Ruddle    Sebastin            1667    October    3                
4412    Munday    Alce    daughter    Munday    John            1667    October    6                of Charlton
4413    Feilder    John    son    Feilder    Thomas            1667    October    9                
4414    Medhust    Mary    daughter    Medhust    Thomas            1667    October    9                
4415    Goodall    Robert    son    Goodall    Francis            1667    October    21                
4416    Eaten            Eaten    Thomas            1667    October    21                
4417    Baker    Susanna    daughter    Baker    Richard            1667    October    22                
4418    Pearce            Pearce    Richard            1667    October    23                
4419    Munday    Thomas    son    Munday    William            1667    October    25                of Woodhouse
4420    Collince    Thomas    son    Collince    William            1667    October    27                
4421    Keate    Allexsander    son    Keate    John            1667    October    27                
4422    Batcher    Robert    son    Batcher    Edward            1667    November    4                
4423    Lorum    John    son    Lorum    William            1667    November    18                
4424    Bunny alias Painter    Nicholas    son    Painter    Nicholas            1667    November    18                
4425    Sweetaple    Elizabeth    daughter    Sweetaple    Thomas            1667    November    20                
4426    Bugly    Martha    daughter    Bugly    Richard            1667    December    5                
4427    Shorte    William    son    Shorte    Pall            1667    December    9                
4428    Treacle    John    son    Treacle    Thomas            1667    December    10                
4429    Mondy    Ann    daughter    Mondy    John            1667    December    10                
4430    Bent    Richard    son    Bent    Thomas            1667    December    15                
4431    Hampsheere            Hampsheere    Lancelot            1667    December    16                
4432    Hardin    Ruth    daughter    Hardin    Selathyell            1667    December    22                of Woodhouse
4433    Wesson    William    son    Wesson    Joseph            1667    December    17                
4434    Knightly    Joseph    son    Knightly    Thomas            1667    December    26                
4435    Board    Hanna    daughter    Board    John            1667    December    26                
4436    S___borough    John    son    S____borough    John            1667    December    28                
4437    Hatchat    Robert    son    Hatchat    Thomas            1667    December    29                
4438    Hatchat    Thomas    son    Hatchat    Thomas            1667    December    29                
4439    Hobgood    John    son    Hobgood    John            1667    December    29                
4440    Brown    Thomas    son    Brown    Thomas            1667    December    29                
4441    Abbat    John    son    Abbat    John            1667    January    9                
4442    Knight    Thomas    son    Knight    Thomas            1667    January    1                
4443    Wimbolton    William    son    Wimbolton    William            1667    January    2                
4444    Bur_ie    John    son    Bur_ie    John            1667    January    4                
4445    Cannon    Sarah    daughter    Cannon    Addum            1667    January    12                
4446    Manfeild    Ann    daughter    Manfeild    William            1667    January    16                
4447    Cooke            Cooke    Richard            1667    February    4                
4448    Greene    Beniamin    son    Greene    John            1667    February    4                
4449    Waight    Margeret    daughter    Waight    Richard            1667    February    4                
4450    Harfeild    Elizabeth    daughter    Harfeild    Michaell            1667    February    16                
4451    Bramble    Rubin    son    Bramble    Rubin            1667    February    26                
4452    Grunsell    Francis        Grunsell    William            1667    February    26                
4453    Francis    Thomas    son    Francis    John            1667    March    11                of Charlton
4454    Tredgoule    Elizabeth    daughter    Tredgoule    Roger            1667    March    15                
4455    Cartor    William    son    Cartor    Gyles            1667    March    17                
4456    Gearle    John    son    Gearle    John            1667    March    17                
4457    Midlin    Michaell    son    Midlin    Michaell            1667    March    20                
4458    Tarlton    Elizabeth    daughter    Tarlton    John            1668    March    26                
4459    Butler    Joane    daughter    Butler    James            1668    March    30                
4460    Day    Joane    daughter    Day    Thomas            1668    April    12                of Woodhouse
4461    Meales    Sarah    daughter    Meales    Thomas            1668    April    15                
4462    Ratty    Hester    daughter    Ratty    Edward            1668    April    23                of Charlton
4463    Cooke    Mary    daughter    Cooke    John            1668    May    7                junior
4464    Hellior    William    son    Hellior    William            1668    May    12                of Charlton
4465    Penton    Sarah    daughter    Penton    William            1668    May    12                
4466    Pitman    Edward    son    Pitman    John            1668    May    13                
4467    Cooper    Elizabeth    daughter    Cooper    Edward            1668    May    20                
4468    Tredgoule    Martha    daughter    Tredgoule    Thomas            1668    May    21                
4469    Miller    John    son    Miller    John            1668    May    21                
4470    Painter    Robert    son    Painter    Robert            1668    May    18                
4471    New    Mary    daughter    Newman    Robert            1668    May    22                
4472    Cooke            Cooke    Charles            1668    June    1                
4473    Alford            Alford    Richard            1668    June    3                
4474    Hide    Judeth    daughter    Hide    John            1668    June    8                
4475    Dewe    Mary    daughter    Dewe    John            1668    June    11                
4476    Whetland    John    son    Whetland    John            1668    June    29                junior
4477    Noyse    Edward    son    Noyse    Richard            1668    July    2                of Foxcote
4478    Penton    Robert    son    Penton    Robert            1668    July    3                
4479    Gibbince    Ann    daughter    Gibbince    Hennery            1668    July    5                
4480    Cooke    Ann    daughter    Cooke    Edward            1668    July    6                
4481    Flitwood    Thomas    son    Flitwood    William            1668    July    8                
4482    Knowles    Ellenor    daughter    Knowles    William            1668    July    9                
4483    Deane    George    son    Deane    John            1668    July    12                senior
4484    Goddin    Ann    daughter    Goddin    Richard            1668    August    10                stranger
4485    Dennet    Robert    son    Dennet    Robert            1668    August    16                
4486    Hayward    Susanna    daughter    Hayward    Thomas            1668    August    17                
4487    Goodall    William    son    Goodall    Richard            1668    August    23                senior
4488    Richeson    Thomas    son    Richeson    Thomas            1668    August    27                
4489    Earle    Thomas    son    Earle    Thomas            1668    August    30                
4490    Wayman    Elizabeth    daughter    Wayman    John            1668    August    30                
4491    Potter    William    son    Potter    William            1668    September    3                
4492    Scullard    Zachary    son    Scullard    Zachary            1668    September    15                
4493    Turner    Mary    daughter    Turner    Thomas            1668    September    15                
4494    Willmot    John    son    Willmot    Jesper            1668    September    15                
4495    Doubty    Elizabeth    daughter    Doubty    Robert            1668    September    16                
4496    Tomson    Elizabeth    daughter    Tomson    Nicholas            1668    September    21                
4497    Hedges    Jane    daughter    Hedges    John            1668    September    22                
4498    Ogborne    Elizabeth    daughter    Ogborne    Peeter            1668    October    4                
4499    Ogborne    Thomas    son    Ogborne    Peeter            1668    October    4                
4500    Miller    Mary    daughter    Miller    William            1668    October    4                                            

5.    Andover, Hampshire, England Parish Registers    - marriages
    
I will publish the marriages for Blake in the Parish Registers of St Marys Andover. These records are taken from fiche which have scans of the original parish registers. The registers for marriages begin in 1587 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.

Marriage Registers commenced in 1587

Number    Groom Surname    Groom Forename    Parish    Brides Surname    Brides Forename    Parish    Grooms Father    Brides Father    Year    Month    Day    Details
901    Baverstock    John        Tredgoule    Hanna                1657    February    17    
902    Leatch    William        Millet    Mary                1657    March    3    
903    Jesper    Gyles        Deare    Alce                1658    March    29    
904    Goddin alias Cleeve    John        Knight    Rebecka                1658    April    11    
905    Burges    John    Denssey    Butcher    Mary                1658    April    12    
906    Vinson    Hennery        Watterdeg    Abigall                1658    April    11    
907    Cornelius    George        Carde    Ann                1658    May    3    
908    Eamer    William    Tale    Goodall    Mary    Thrapton            1658    May    15    
909    Crouch    Michaell        Fry    Joane                1658    June    9    
910    Seaward    Robert        White    Joane                1658    July    1    
911    Cooke    John        Miles    Elizabeth                1658    July    22    
912    Merrick    George        Mantye    Jane                1658    September    3    
913    Halle    Roger        Hopkince    Bridget                1674    July    22    
914    Hinxman    Thomas        Suttin    Dorothy                1674    August    10    at Foxcott
915    Wight    William        Blackman    Margret                1674    August    23    
916    Pittman    John        Haveret    Kethen                1674    September    14    at Quarly
917    Tredgold    John        Bathe    Dorothy                1674    October    8    at Foxcott
918    Annets    William    Charlton    Collince    Prsidence                1674    October    17    
919    Kent    Abraham        Smith    Ealce                1674    October    20    at Foxcott
920    Fletwood    Beniamin        Monke    An                1674    October    29    at Foxcott
921    Annett alias Alderman    Nicholas        Goodall    An                1674    November    23    at Foxcott
922    Downton    Thomas        Blainshot    Joane                1674    December    6    
923    Tarry    Thomas        Numan    Elizabeth                1674    December    22    at Foxcott
924    Smith    Rowland        Knight    Frances                1674    January    4    
925    Grigory    William        Knowles    Joane                1675    August    10    
926    Hinxman    Mr. Joseph        Samborin    Mrs. Martha                1675    August    23    
927    Weatland    John        Donmar    Sara                1675    September    28    
928    Cortny    John        Beales    Mary                1675    October    3    
929    Farr    thomas        Wigmore    Susanna                1675    October    2    
930    Knight    Nicholas        Goodanofe    Mary                1675    October    10    
931    Westton    William        Abery    Mary                1675    October    12    
932    Chube    Richard        Chanell    Diana                1675    October    19    
933    Bazer    Joseph        James    Ann                1675    October    19    
934    Medhurst    John        Longe    Joane                1675    October    20    
935    Rutter    William        Jones    Ealce                1675    November    2    
936    Savedg alias Woolby    Thomas        Rusell    Martha                1675    December    2    at Foxcott
937    Barrat    Frances        Purdue    An                1675    December    15    
938    Scolerd    William        Geale    Joane                1675    January    3    
939    Cooper    Izake        Browne    Joane                1675    February    1    
940    Flower    Nicholas        Wilkinc    Kathern                1676    March    27    
941    Lovegrove    William        Shaperd    Mary                1676    March    30    
942    Scolerd    Edward        Blainshot    Emblim                1676    May    1    
943    Ealce    William        James    Joane                1676    June    2    
944    Leane    William        Hust    Patience                1676    July    25    
945    W_eman    John        Feges    Rachell                1676    August    8    
946    Nue    Andrew        Backer    Katherin        Nue, Wrades        1676    August    9    widow
947    Kent    Thomas        Cabell    Mary                1676    November    20    
948    Colly    William        Middlin    Margery                1676    December    3    
949    Colle    Daniell    Penton Mewsey    Beare    Ealce    Penton            1676    December    8    
950    Bulpit    Thomas    Tetcom    Hilyer    Elizabeth    Charlton            1676    January    1    
951    King    John        Morell    Sarah                1676    January    16    
952    Grace    Richard        Chobe    An                1676    January    16    at Foxcott
953    Trege    Nathanell        Fletwood    Joane                1676    January    20    
954    Paine    George        Hichince    Mary                1676    January    20    
955    Seemor    Thomas        Minchin    Margery                1676    February    7    
956    Glass    William        Meller    Joane                1676    February    19    
957    Iremonger    Richard    Bickelbery    Tarant    Hanna    Within            1676    February    25    
958    Knight    Petter        Rowle    An                1677    May    3    
959    Paine    Thomas        Hayword    Sarah                1677    June    11    
960    Short    George        Cooke    Bridget                1677    June    14    
961    Pecke    Edward    M_pson, Wiltshire    Bishop    Joane    Woodhay            1677    September    29    
962    Watts    William        Picke    Joan                1677    October    2    
963    Butler    Richard        Fleetwood    Christian                1677    October    14    bachelor, widow
964    Lord    Thomas        Hopgood    Alse                1677    October    21    widower
965    Bath    John        Foster    Mary    Charlton            1677    November    6    widower
966    Honeywell    Richard        Drew    Mary                1677    November    26    
967    Brunson    William        Woods    Margaret                1677    December    10    
968    Dolin    John        Frumton    Elioner                1677    December    20    
969    Scullard    Thomas        Sparkman    Elizabeth                1677    December    25    widow
970    Watts alias Mercier    Henery        Hunt    Jane                1677    January    1    
971    Cloksell    John        Barber    Mary                1677    February    4    at Foxcott
972    Joanes    Richard        Turner    Dorothy                1678    May     1    
973    Kempe    Richard    Hunton, Crawly    Hatchet    Alce    Wanstone, Sutton Cotton            1678    May    9    
974    Munday    John    Bidsden, Ludgershall, Wiltshire    Hopkins    Bridget    Shadeson, Kimpton    1678    May    13    at Foxcott
975    Sharp    George        Seagrove    Mary                1678    July    16    widow
976    Noyse    Thomas        Piper    Sarah                1678    August    12    at Foxcott
977    North    William    St Mary Winchester    Folds    Dorothy                1678    August    12    
978    Hind    William    Burslane    Hughs    Elizabeth    Burslane            1678    August    17    
979    Heath    Edward    Newbury, Berkshire    Pain    Hannah                1678    August    19    
980    Genene    Richard        Blake    Marget                1678    August    27    widower,widow
981    Harris    John    St Mark, D_____    Palmer    Marget                1678    October    1    at Foxcott
982    Hayward    Thomas        Janeway    Sybella                1678    October    17    at Foxcott
983    Milles    Richard        Hutchens    Elizabeth                1678    October    20    
984    Oates    Edward    ____hurst    Cooper    Joan                1678    October    28    
985    Chivers    Thomas    Oxforde    Shepherd    Hannah                1678    September    16    
986    Dever    John        Cheater    Mary                1678    November    16    at the parish church of Monxton
987    Zilloway    Roger        Silverthorn    Anne                1678    November    16    
988    Thurman    Thomas        Robinson    Anne                1678    November    16    at Knights Enham
989    Painter    Robert        Longland    Elizabeth                1678    February    9    
990    Mason    William        Goodall    Alce                1678    February    13    
991    Luanden    Thomas        Goodall    Elizabeth                1678    February    14    
992    Purdue    George        Mundy    Mary                1678    February    18    
993    Barret    William    Wherwell    Fielder    Anne    Goodworth Clatford            1678    February    26    
994    Croutch    William    Ludgershall, Wiltshire    Cooke    Elizabeth    Shadeson            1678    February    26    
995    Williams    John        Milles    Joane                1679    April    21    
996    Bealle    William        Gardner    Mary                1679    April    21    
997    Hewet    Joseph        Noys    Jane                1679    April    24    
998    Todd    Thomas        Hobbs    Mary                1679    May    3    
999    Welloway    John        Andrews    Grace                1679    June    8    
1000    Frampton    Robert        Sutton    Anne                1679    June    13    
1001    Trigge    Nathaniel        Hall    Margery                1679    June    25    
1002    Smith    Richard        Glass    Jane                1679    July    28    
1003    Neue    John    Upper clatford    Gillbert    Mary                1679    September    22    
1004    Francis    John        Spannell    Hester                1679    November    4    
1005    Noyse    Thomas        Harison alias Harrise    Em                1679    November    20    
1006    Placesl    Stephen        Norrice    Margaret                1679    November    24    
1007    Silverthorn    Henery        Godden    Ann                1679    November    30    
1008    Green    Robert        Daukens    Grace                1679    December    18    
1009    Burt    Robert        Clitsom    Dorothy                1679    January    18    
1010    Elcock    Thomas        Gudge    Mary                1679    January    18    widow
1011    Read    Edward        Tyly    Anne                1679    February    7    by license
1012    Goodall    William        Pitman    Katherin                1679    February    8    
1013    Standen    John    New Alresford    Blake    Lucy    Eastontowne            1679    February    9    
1014    White    Stephen        Smith    Dorcas                1679    February    23    
1015    Potecary    George        Long    Mary                1680    April    25    
1016    Wise    Stephen        Vidler    Anne                1680    July    12    
1017    Wheatland    William        Wilde    Dorothy                1680    July    25    
1018    Bird    Roger        Bray    Jone                1680    September    16    at Foxcott
1019    James    William        Knight    Anne                1680    September    29    by license
1020    Hapgood    John        Deare    Elizabeth                1680    October    12    
1021    Cooper    William    Kempton    Bat    Jane    Kempton            1680    October    26    at Foxcott
1022    Messer    Peter    Walts    Hapgood    Mary    Wildhearne            1680    November    3    by license
1023    Farre    John        Hylliar    Mar                1680    November    9    junior, by licence
1024    Gladdee    John        Hays    Margaret                1680    November    20    by license
1025    Draiton    Richard        Roly    Mary                1680    December    26    
1026    Tarlton    Abraham            Jane                1680    December    26    
1027    Holdway    John        Bath    Mary                1680    December    26    
1028    Banks    Alexander        Froud    Jane                1680    January    24    
1029    Barnard    Maurice        Dalby    Margaret                1680    February    16    by license
1030    Brown    Robert        Badgerly    Elizabeth                1680    February    18    by license
1031    Cooke    Thomas        Cole    Alice                1680    February    19    by license
1032    Hartfield    Michaell        Benet    Jone                1681    April    4    
1033    Tredgoll    William        Farre    Anne                1681    April    4    
1034    Clarke    John        Hapgood    Elizabeth                1681    April    5    
1035    Cooke    Thomas        Bevis    Millesant                1681    May    1    
1036    Knapper    George        Emmot    Mary                1681    May    10    
1037    Pain    Richard    Tangly    Smith    Anne    Anton            1681    May    16    by license
1038    Norrice    Thomas        Painter    Mary                1681    May    22    
1039    Moore    Edward        Jelise    Joyce                1681    July    25    by license
1040    Orum    Thomas    Abbots Ann    ___y    Alice    Abbots Ann            1681            
1041    Ogborn    Peter        Kempen    Joan                1681    July    31    
1042    Turner    John        Badcock    Mary                1681    September    29    
1043    Dines    Nathaniell        Bath    Mary                1681    November    9    
1044    Bear    William        Grace    Joan                1681    November    15    
1045    Morrant    Thomas        Roges    Jane                1681    November    21    
1046    Baker    John        Chard    Mary                1681    January    8    
1047    Sparkman    Leonard        Purde    Mary                1681    January    11    by license
1048    Abry    John        Drew    Grecian                1681    January    16    
1049    Fry alias West    John        Kent    Mary                1681    January    24    
1050    Piper    Robert        Tredgoll    Dorothy                1681    February    3    senior
1051    Pain    George        Jud    Mary                1681    February    8    
1052    Pain    Thomas        Hunt    Anne                1682    April    16    
1053    Dudman    Edward        Crouch    Jane                1682    July    2    
1054    Gudge    Richard        Beale    Joan                1682    July    2    
1055    Wheatland    John    Abbots Ann    Horn    Elizabeth                1682    July    21    at Foxcott
1056    Drewly    Joseph        Medhurst    Ann                1682    July    21    at Foxcott
1057    Staniford    John        Noyes    Elizabeth                1682    July    30    at Foxcott
1058    Strong    Richard        Knight    Ellen                1682    July    31    junior, by licence
1059    Figgus    Robert        Spannell    Elizabeth                1682    August    1    at Foxcott
1060    Bennet    Edward    Monxton    Livelock    Elizabeth    Monxton            1682    August    5    
1061    Spring    William        Purdy    Drothy                1682    August    20    
1062    Spring    Richard        Knapper    Elizabeth                1682    August    23    
1063    Leach    Thomas        Clark    Mrs. Hannah                1682    September    17    by license
1064    Carter    Francis        Gyat    Joan                1682    October    1    by license
1065    Golding    Richard        Chandler    Dorothy                1682    October    24    
1066    Perman    John        Langly    Anne                1682    November    7    by license
1067    Keell    John        Jackman    Hannah                1682    November    12    by license
1068    Fortescue    John        Cooper    Elizabeth                1682    November    23    by license
1069    Franklin    John        Grace    Mary                1682    November    27    by license
1070    New    Robert        Squib    Elizabeth                1682    December    3    
1071    Elton    William        Flood    Sarah                1682    December    14    
1072    Jaques    John        Hayward    Mary                1682    December    26    
1073    Drewly    Thomas        Mountain    Mary                1682    December    26    
1074    Thurman    Thomas        Woods    Bridget                1682    January    28    
1075    Lemmond    William        Cooke    Elizabeth                1682    February    11    
1076    Willias alias Knight    Richard        Pearce    Anne                1682    February    18    
1077    Barton    Matthew        Jellese    Martha                1683    April    9    
1078    Speering    Christopher        Templer    Anne                1683    April    9    
1079    Hacker    John        Bunny    Anne                1683    April    10    
1080    Pitman    John        Edington    Dorothy                1683    April    10    
1081    Godden    John        Beales    Jone                1683    April    15    
1082    Rowlins    Robert        Page    Agnis                1683    April    24    by license
1083    Durnford    Andrew        Philpot    Martha                1683    May    6    
1084    Newman    Christopher        Green    Anne                1683    May    23    by license
1085    Carpenter    Isaac        Day    Elizabeth                1683    May    24    
1086    Holmes    Robert        Spannell    Dorothy                1683    May    27    
1087    Mearsh    Richard        Mephey    Katherin                1683    May    28    
1088    Wight    Joseph        Sanders    Mary                1683    May    28    by license
1089    Crouch    William        Ratty    Jone                1683    May    28    
1090    Burnnand    George        Hilliar    Elinor                1683    June    3    by license
1091    Banton    Andrew        Channell    Bridget                1683    June    11    
1092    Rae    John        Marshall    Mary                1683    June    14    
1093    Neale    John        Meales    Margery                1683    June    25    
1094    Cooke    Edmund        Wells    Priscilla                1683    July    1    
1095    Noys    Alaxander        Lywood    Jane                1683    July    22    
1096    Joules    Nicholas        Bampton    Christian                1683    August    20    
1097    Fay    David    Upper clatford    Long    Sarah    Upper Clatford            1683    September    13    by license
1098    Lamput    John        Tredgoll    Bridget                1683    September    16    
1099    Bricknell    Richard        Edny    Martha                1683    September    17    by license
1100    Newman    Edward        Sere    Rebecca                1683    September    24                


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Member #4600: Guild of one name studies – studying Blake and Pincombe
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