I decided to start a new post as I go through the results for members who believe themselves to be descendant (generally family lore which I do tend to listen to) or I have perhaps put you into this category or Barrie Blake before me. Since I do not identify people in our study and look only at the results, all members of this group belong to I-M253. I have discovered that four members have completed Y-700 which is great news. I tend to leave this project to Bill Bleak but have decided to wade into it because of the chapter in the book. Only one member actually does list Robert de Blakeland which is a synonym for the Blake family of Calne. It is a name that I mostly find in American Blake family histories - when we visited back in 2005 NEHGS (and we have been there many times after) I discovered 16 family histories at that time on their shelf under Blake. I did review them all as we were there for several days and it was curiosity at that time - I was very much a newbie in genealogy then and when Gary Boyd Roberts asked if I had any questions - I said no I knew my line and where it had arisen and where it had been for a very long time especially as my father was born in England and I sat at my grandfather's knee as a young child listening to the story of our family. I suggested if there was time designated to me that he would give it to my husband who had a lot of questions. A marvelous Gary Boyd Roberts; absolutely a fountain of knowledge dealing with the early families into the New England colonies. Other than the Dissenters from England/Scotland in Edward's family (and he had many at the 8x and 9x great grandparent level all in his mother's line) his lines were all from Europe primarily 30% German, 30% Dutch, 15% French, 10% Scandinavian (Swedish primarily) and the remaining 5% Eastern Europe (Poland) and 10% England/Scotland/Ireland. So just a very small percentage and mostly quite ancient in his lines having come to the New England Colonies in the 1600s. So Edward learned a great deal from him and discovered sources he had not yet uncovered. Hence our many trips to this repository through the years. I did not get a tally, Edward probably did, of the number of days we spent in the United States from our first trip there in the late 1960s. In a given year it would have been less than 50 probably but it was for so many years. In all those New England small towns people were so helpful with finding the graveyards way back in the woods sometimes.
So a look at the Haplogroup I-M253 but as I ran my eyes down the table I discovered that there were nine new members so I guess the first process will be to assign them if I am able. Sometimes it takes me a few goes to get them assigned.
A slight detour but I will publish this and carry on with that assignment and be back later. I have put everyone into a group. Two of the groups I just created R-M343 and J-M304. They are both new and I will do a description in a bit.
There were three new members to the I-M253 group which is the one that I am looking at as a possibility for the Calne Blake family. I will stay with that group and review all of the data and especially the BigY-700. My life has been pretty busy with my cataract surgery and before that I was pretty much living the groups up to different individuals within the study. For instance there is a leader for B I-M223 and for D1-R-M269 (will correct that heading) as well as AI-P37 (my brothers' group) and D5-R-M269 as well as E R-M512/R-M198 East Anglia. So a fair amount of coverage and the smaller groups I just slot people into them and hope to find someone within the group who might be able to manage it as these people likely all match each other. I will take time before the next newsletter and make sure that that is true that within these groups people are matching each other. The two groups, one with four people, I will try to work on in the upcoming time before the newsletter. I do write four newsletters a year for the four different projects that I work on so time is limited as I am also writing books. As I approach 80 I want to get it all written down in case someone picks it up in the future although will deposit everything with the Guild of one-name studies of which I am member #4600.
But that is exciting to have new people.
Now what is known about I-M253? This is a large group and in general these members have listed the Blake family of Calne or discussed it with Barrie Blake back in the past or I have slotted in because you match. I have postulated that the Richard le Blague/Blaake/Blake as the progenitor of the Blake Pedigree Chart produced by the College of Arms from material held by the Daniel Blake family of London, England in 1690 with additions into the 1700s. My comments on this particular Pedigree are many and easily found in my blogs. I do have a disagreement with some of it. But the progenitor is this Richard le Blake and I have postulated that he was from Normandy; applied for a license to set up a market in England in 1274 which was granted. I believe he arrived sometime after this date and located along the Hampshire coast for a period of time and gradually moved inward to Wargrave, Berkshire (this is near Windsor, the seat of power) and then continued this movement towards Speen Berkshire (there was a Blake family there in the 1500s that was associated/related? to the Blake family at Andover (my line). This movement continued until we find them, I postulate that, near Calne and indeed in Calne Wiltshire where a John Blake serves in Parliament which is written up in the Parliamentary Archives (there was a father John Blake I and his son John Blake II who both represented Calne and environs in the Parliament in the late 1300s into the early 1400s).
So a little bit of background on why I am pursuing the information for this group and it is due to family lore to a great extent. In my own line my grandfather along with mentioning that the early British were descendants of one of the Lost Tribes of Israel, the suspicion that the Andover Family was related to the Calne Blake family but I would say that both of these were not something that he was totally attached to but rather repeated it probably as it was said to him as a child. What he was attached to was Nicholas Blake who lived at Old Hall, Enham and just who his descendants were and who his parents were. Strange really perhaps as this man left his will in 1547. Finding a number of cherished documents that repeated this idea that the Andover Blake family was descended from the Calne family in the male line (I argue that this descent was in the female line) I decided to take it on and mention it in the Andover Blake book. I am taking this month of February to concentrate on that very notion and the next item to look at was the Y-DNA and surprise surprise there are four Y-700 results so should be interesting along with the other twelve results. This group has really grown.
Back to what is known about I-M253. It is generally considered to be Scandinavian arising about the same time as the Bronze Age so it not an old haplogroup and likely arose about 4600 years ago. That is 2600 years (Before the Common Era) and what was happen in the world at that time? Farming and the building up of small communities was starting to be found rather than the hunter-gatherer prior to the Neolithic Period.
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