It is gusty and white outside my window but you can see the houses across the road. We, as a family, traveled from here to London so many times over the past fifty years through all sorts of dreadful weather. The children were so anxious to see their grandparents that they just didn't care; they just wanted to go. And go we did and return through some equally dreadful weather. Canada does get a lot of storms in the winter although it has been so calm the last couple of years but we have had breaks like that before.
I dug snow yesterday; that was my daily accomplishment for the most part. I kept my patio and porch clear and just now the city grader went through and filled the end of the laneway. I expect the company will be along to clear that one of these hours - there is a lot to do for sure. Surprisingly though between last night when they cleared and this morning a pile of snow is once again at the end of my laneway after the company cleared it. Strange really - strong wind? The house next door to me sold and I do know there is a company wanting to buy the whole set of carriage homes. I do want to sell when I want to sell and that is in four years give or take. There are still another five to buy before you can demolish them and build condos or whatever. I have to say it would be a good spot for condos and I do not really care what happens. We bought this house new in 1978 and it will be 50 years old in 2028. It is solid construction but I can see the value in having condos with young working people using the train to go downtown. Housing is at a premium for sure in Canada. There is so much we can be doing internally that external trade is just something that can sit on the sidelines as far as I am concerned for a few years whilst companies decide what they want to lose and how they want to fight it if they do not want to lose it. Fourty one million consumers (and Canada is a growing country) is a lot to lose as a value in a company already established. When they held the meeting to discuss the effect of the train on the local area back in 2019 it was certainly mentioned that there would be people who wanted to do just that - build condos. Patience is what is required as a community ages.
We are getting buried in snow and soon it will be to the top of the raspberry vines that I clipped off for spring growth. That will mean lots of moisture for the spring. It does help with spring forest fires for sure to have the ground fairly wet. Although sometimes the runoff is so fast that all you get is erosion and not great protection! but even at nearly 80 I can still move a lot of snow. It is just comfortable to have the company do it and good for business in Canada for the old to engage available industrial assistance.
Today I will probably along with the cleaning continue to look at the Blake Family Chart that the Blake Museum at Bridgwater holds in their collection. I would like to examine the second scenario presented for the Pedigree of the Blake family at Calne and this one includes the Blake in Somerset. But it does have this small section on the Blake family of Andover which I will examine and review against the know wills for these individuals mentioned. I can see errors but I will redraw it as it should be coming down from Robert Blake who left his will in 1521 (probated early 1522) in Latin which I transcribed a while ago so does need scrutiny but he is definitely the patriarch of this family at Andover in this time frame. His ancestry is unknown - is he a son of the Richard Blake who arrived from Ireland in 1441 and 1451 on the Emigrants Database? I have debated that especially as Robert's eldest son was Richard. There is a match in the yDNA database for a Blake in the Dublin area of Ireland who matches interestingly but his kit has never moved beyond 12 markers. Another Western Hunter Gatherer in the British Isles with the surname Blake! Whether or not I can find any ancestors to Robert at Knights Enham remains to be seen. I have not even looked at that yet during this period of searching. Getting back to someone born in the 1400s is something in itself. His oldest son Richard died in 1522 and Richard's sons and daughter were already young adults as far as I am able to ascertain. So Robert was a good age when he died in 1521. I estimate his year of birth to be in the 1440s to 1460s.
Writing this on Sunday and just about to begin my look at the second PDF for the Blake Family Chart.
The Note reads: The exact connection of the Hampshire Blakes with those of Wiltshire is not yet fully established; the link here suggested seems the most probable.
1st generation:
The top row has (unknown) Blake of Whiteparish, Wiltshire died before 1471 his wife is unknown but she married second Thomas Newman of Andover (there is a note: Came into Hants in 1471). The implication being that this young woman came as a widow to Hampshire with her two sons. This particular line occurs often in the books written on the Blake family by American descendants. I assume they are using the works of the fraudulent genealogist Horatio Gates Somerby. The material of HG Somerby was published in the 1880s and interesting this was the time that Nicholas Blake of Enham was then being discussed when my grandfather was a child living in Upper Clatford which is just immediately south of Andover (other side of the highway).
2nd generation:
The two sons:
William Blake of Old Hall, Eastontown, Kings, Knights Enham, Hants married Mary daughter of Humphrey Coles
Robert Blake of Enham married (unknown) daughter of (unknown) Snell
3rd generation:
Children of William in 2nd generation:
1. Henry Blake 2. Nicholas Blake married Margaret daughter of unknown 3. Margery Blake
decessit of Enham d 31 May 1546 baptized 1541 sine prole Will 20 Jun 1547 Margaret married 2. Richard Munday
4. Robert Blake
decessit sine prole
Children of Robert in the 2nd generation:
1. William Blake (died 10 Jun 1552) married daughter of Robert Boswell
2. John Blake
3. Richard Blake
4. Robert Blake of Enham
4th generation:
Children of Nicholas Blake and Margaret daughter of unknown:
1. William Blake of Enham married Avice daughter of Sir Ripley of New Forest, Hampshire
d 1582
buried at Andover
2. Edmund Blake of Collingborn
3. Alice Blake married Christopher son of William Godwin
4. Elizabeth
5. Ezod buried at Enham 1547
5th generation [there is only information for William Blake married to Avice in this chart]:
1. John Blake of Eastontown near Andover married Mary daughter of Wm Blake of Eastontown (Issue: 2 sons, 1 daughter)
2. William Blake of Eastontown married Joan daughter of M Cobb of Swarroton (Issue: 3 sons)
3. Thomas Blake
4. Robert Blake
5. Edward Blake
6. James Blake
7. Peter Blake of Inner Temple
8. Agnes Blake married Roger Hyde of Hampshire
There that is everything that appears to be written in the chart. Bold is my addition along with the numbers for clarity. The broken line goes back to:
I do think this dotted line is implying that Robert son of Henry Blake and Margaret Bellett has a brother (unknown) Blake with the writing (for further details of the Wiltshire and Hampshire branches see Sheet No 2) being part of this dotted line to the second pdf.
I have not really looked at this chart in depth with regard to what was written about the Hampshire family - I glanced and thought this is full of errors and I am thinking that the author of this chart (if it was Edward J Blake of Crewkerne) was attempting to correct two items in total. The original Blake Pedigree Chart created for the Daniel Blake family in 1690 with additions and the work of Horatio Gates Somerby that he himself did not publish but created it for a Blake family in the United States. So an interesting thought actually that I have not had before. The author of the Blake Family Chart realized that one could not attach a son William to the family of Roger Blake and Mary (Baynard) Blake first and foremost and it is actually good to see that he made that decision as it just, with the available records, make sense. He would have had access to these same records as I have. One wonders what I would have thought if there hadn't been a yDNA Study of Blake with quite a few known lines being established within the project. The wills though do contradict what is written here so perhaps he only looked at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills and not the wills that would have been held at that time by the Churches in the various dioceses. I am not actually sure when these wills were handed over to the Hampshire Record Office. Certainly the diocesan wills in Somerset and Devon were in the Record Office before World War II unfortunately as that record office was bombed and the wills destroyed.
I will now go back to the wills as I have transcribed them but it will take a bit of time working through the latin will of Robert that I transcribed a number of years ago but have now spent a year working on my latin so should be even better.
The first will in Andover area for a Blake is Robert Blake in 1522. I will continue to work on this both the latin and the transcription through the day but this is the large cleaning day so will be sporadic.
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
[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 Ego 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
Will carry on tomorrow at this point, the cleaning took me all day as usual but I thought I might come back to this a bit.
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