Blake family in the Calne, Wiltshire area in the 1200s,1300s,1400s

I did a search on Blake in Wiltshire; just a blanket search to see what I would find.  I have done this before when I was looking for a specific item but this time I am just observing and each year the National Archives of the UK does more indexing and more putting up on line of relevant documents. 

Using the Advanced Search and then selecting Find words and inserting Blake into All of these words and inserting Wiltshire into Any of these words,  I came up with 867 articles in the search with 321 from the National Archives holdings and 546 from other archives. I was given a list by century:

Dates unknown (17)
1950+ (13)
1925 - 1949 (58)
1900 - 1924 (156)
1800 - 1899 (292)
1700 - 1799 (260)
1600 - 1699 (163)
1500 - 1599 (39)
1400 - 1499 (11)
1300 - 1399 (27)
1200 - 1299 (1)
1100 - 1199 (1) 

I ticked off 1100 - 1199, 1200 - 1299, 1300 - 1399 to have a refined look plus today I have added in Dates unknown just to have a look at that material. There are a couple of collections which have Blake in the Title of the collection held at the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre. The odds of my going there are pretty slim so will pass on them for the moment. Another one labeled Blake family is held at the Somerset Heritage Centre and mentions pedigrees and notes concerning the Blakes of Wiltshire, Hampshire and Somerset. This work is covered also at the Blake Museum. The next items I will add into my chart which I produced looking at the dates mentioned above. The next item is again a research portfolio on the Blake family of Winterbourne Earls and Laverstock at the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre and again would be an interesting read. The next refers to a Blake widow and I tend not to record these unless I have a first name and the name of the Blake to whom she was married. Most of the records following are for Salisbury and the Poor Relief Register and unknown dates but likely to be after my preferred dates. Moving on the next record is interesting. The one following does not have the surname Blake (middle name). The next undated but in the reign of Edward III. The last four are from the 1800s and 1900s and ignored. 

In this set of records the earliest that can definitely be attached to a place is 1302 and the latest 1472. 

A William le Blake is mentioned only one time in 1302 (he was murdered whilst on the King's business but the petition for oyer and terminer was created at Hungerford which is itself rather interesting. 

 

A Robert le Blake (in the Quemerford, Calne area) is mentioned four times with a Robert Blake mentioned twice in this same time period 1334-1363 and area of Calne. 

 

to be continued