Lent 2 today and we have moved to a new person writing the Lent without borders email. I found the theme to be very interesting "creational love dwelling among us" considering this last year of our lives as we begin to live again after COVID. The need to protect the earth has become one of my most prominent thoughts amongst others. God ever watching and waiting for us to become a more perfect people by His definition not ours one might note; He is demanding but the rewards have been endless throughout time. On this Sunday as every Sunday and every day for that matter for the last year Prayers for Ukraine and her peoples. Glory to Ukraine.
Yesterday good accomplishment on the Siderfin in some ways although I had already extracted them from Carhampton but needed to ensure that there were no odd spellings or partial names that could be Siderfin elsewhere in these records (Somerset Lay Subsidy 1641-2). I once again find the Saffin/Saffyn family and have recorded them. Are they a different spelling for Siderfin in some of these areas? Not sure yet. The biggest accomplishment though was mostly on my whole look at Somerset in the context of both of my one name studies (Blake and Pincombe) as I extracted Blake along with all the other names that I am interested in from the Somerset Lay Subsidy of 1641. The extant records for Somerset Lay Subsidy 1641-2 only capture 1/3 of the people according to the writeup but it just happens to capture the areas in Somerset that most interest me although missing some of it. 1641 is a bit late for the beginning of the Blake family in Somerset as I really need to be back in the late 1400s into the early 1500s but it is an interesting survey and I found a number of entries:
Hundred Parish Surname Forename Suffix £ s d Note
Cannington Hundred Plansfeild in Over Stowey Blake Humphrey jun G 4
Cannington Hundred Edstock and Beer in Cannington Blake William L 1
Carhampton Hundred Avell in Dunster Blake John 4 6 sub collector
Carhampton Hundred Withicombe Blake Agnes widow 10
Carhampton Hundred Carhampton Blake Gregory 7
Carhampton Hundred Mynehead Blake John 3 5
Carhampton Hundred Dunster Blake Francis 2
Carhampton Hundred Dunster Blake Richard 6
Huntspill and Puriton Hundred Puriton Blake Humphrey L 1 cert.
Kingsbury West Hundred Wellington Blake Robert 5 3
Kingsbury West Hundred Buckland St Mary Blake Robert 1 1
Kingsbury West Hundred Lideard Episcopi Blake James 10 3
North Petherton Hundred North Petherton Blake Samuel L petty collector
North Petherton Hundred Hamm (in Bridgwater) Blake James L 1
North Petherton Hundred Poulett Blake Samuel L 2
North Petherton Hundred Poulett Blake Nicholas L 1
North Petherton Hundred Bridgewater Borough Blake Humphry mayor G 4
North Petherton Hundred Bridgewater Borough Blake Robert gent L 1
Taunton Hundred Kingston Blake John 7 8
Taunton Hundred Trull Blake Edith 2 6
Taunton Hundred Blagdon Blake William 6 6
Taunton Hundred Duddlstone Blake John 2 10 rator
Taunton Hundred St James Extra Portam Blake Agnes wid
Taunton Hundred Liddeard Puncherton (in Bishops Lydeard) Blake John 6 11
Williton Hundred Halse and Dodington Blake Ann 2 0
Williton Hundred Halse and Dodington Blake Robert 3 7
Williton Hundred Nether Stowey Blake Edmund 1 0
Williton Hundred Kilve Blake William 1 8
Williton Hundred Sandford Brett and Torweston Blake James 4 4
Williton Hundred Watchett Blake John 6
Williton Hundred Crocombe Blake John 2 0
Williton Hundred Crocombe Blake William 1 0
Williton Hundred Old Cleve Blake Cicely wid 1 6
Williton Hundred Old Cleve Blake Laurence 4 6
Now completed I will save this for the Blake Newsletter looking at the Somerset Lay Subsidies. These are all Blake members that I would expect to find in the various locations in this time frame. by 1641 this family found in the early 1500s has increased rapidly. A project that needs to be done once I get to the Family History Library. I would also like to find a Devon Lay subsidy prior to 1485 just to confirm my thoughts on the Tyncombe family of Gidleigh and area.
Always another project generated whenever I look at data in the past. It is a never ending work in progress which I find to be quite interesting. I would say that aside from a deep interest in science particularly Chemistry and DNA; my other love of learning is history- factual and at any point in time. I find ancient history to be absolutely fascinating and every new find contributes better to our understanding of our place on earth and how we have altered the planet not, at the moment, in a productive way but the children and grandchildren will be much more guarded with the planet and change will come that will restore some of the planet and hopefully all of it.
Today Church at 10:30 on You Tube and before that I am adding to my exercise routines jumping jacks - I have been doing a set of 50 eight times a day but reading online advice it would appear that 100 three times a day is a good benchmark to reach for. So today I will attempt to do 75 in a set and four times a day. It will take time to reach that goal just as it took time to reach 50 so I will be staggering it over the days until I can accomplish 75 in a set four times a day. Why ever do I push myself; probably because I am an exercise fanatic which extends way back into my childhood and until I am no longer able to manage I will try.
God bless the World and all of His peoples. On to breakfast but first that set of jumping jacks to start off the exercise day and that was successfully completed. The next session though is key as getting past 50 having eaten a large breakfast is more difficult although will spread it out so that I have a couple of hours in between. What a beautiful Sunday although somewhat cloudy but the trees have their branches lifted high waiting for that thrust of spring to waken them up once again from their long winter slumber.
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