Thank you God for another beautiful sunny day and 0 degrees celsius. Winter is here just hasn't snowed yet. We will enjoy the crisp fresh air. The starkness of Fall always surprises me because it follows the beauty of summer and yet when those empty branches are covered with beautiful white snow it has an ethereal look that is almost more beautiful than the colours of summer. It is stunning and so white and expansive. But I live in a country which traditionally is covered with snow up to six months of the year.
Back into the times of the Henrys in England and see what I can learn about the presence of Blake across the counties of England. I know they are there in London both in a government capacity and in business, they are in the Midlands and the same and gradually they are into the Hampshire/Wiltshire area but still in Hampshire they appear to be solely in the Southampton area. I think these Blakes are Norman Blakes coming across from Rouen to set up markets in England possibly to acquire wool and dominate the wool market; no idea on that but certainly the Blake family of Rouen was involved in the wool trade.
The Chapter I already wrote on the Le Blak family of Rouen will need some tweaking with the new information although nothing changes for how I see that family evolving in England. I am just trying to resolve why the wills of the Blake family in Speen, Berkshire mentions the Blake family in Andover and vice versa in the mid 1500s. Along with that why does a Western Hunter Gatherer descendant take on the surname Blake at Andover (Enham to be exact). Does it matter really? It becomes more of a query because my grandfather (whose grandsons carry the Western Hunter Gatherer haplogroup) talked about Nicholas Blake who left his will in 1547 at Old Hall, Enham and the Blake family was talking about him in the latter part of the 1800s. American Blake descendants were looking for their ancestral home and Horatio Gates Somerby gave them one which was fraudulent. Stealing one's ancestry should really be a crime but doesn't become one until money changes hands. One can not promise information and then provide fraudulent news.
The truth will always set you free I think myself. Although it was not Horatio Gates Somerby who published these books publicly. They were done as private printing and perhaps it was justified in his mind that he was making people happy; no idea on that. The books were published after he passed away. But fraudulence is fraudulence and one has to thank Paul Reed, an American genealogist, for pointing out the discrepancy which was always obvious but one just had to look in the right place.
So the trek continues on Blake and will until my document arrives - an Inheritance Dispute in the Pincombe family of South Molton. Mind you as this is most interesting working through the Close Rolls I suspect when the document arrives I will start transcribing it and not refer to it until I have completed that task unless it proves to be absolutely fascinating and I feel the need to relate it to the blog and discuss it with the AI. Saturday likely will be my day to discuss the Close Rolls and all the other material I have collected up for the first three generations of the Blake family at Andover. We will see what kind of holes can be poked into my argument and what sorts of research paths might be interesting. I already have a few thoughts just to really shake the apple tree with regard to some of my research information thus far.
Exercises all completed and another good day. One hour of exercise first thing which was a cardio load of 33 and represents 4% of my weekly cardio. It required 20% less of my energy to do the exercises than it was using the last few days. One can measure the extent of one's heavier cardio commitment perhaps caused by stress which was brought to my attention by the AI when I was still using that coaching ability. It was handy to know but eventually I found it to be more than I wanted to hear all the time. I am not an athlete - just an ordinary person getting my exercise. I did find the Coach very interesting and helpful. Just took up too much time. It depends on what you want to hear in your day. But interesting my exercise first thing in the morning represents 28% of my weekly cardio exercise commitment. My running on my non cleaning days is another big factor which is offset by my work load when I am cleaning and not quite equal as the running does give me a higher cardio load overall since cleaning does not equal running!
Another Remembrance Day yesterday and as all the days we remember those who protected us with the strength of their youth and when their strength was taken from them threw that torch to the youth of tomorrow to hold high the truths that freedom is always better than tyranny. Democracy can be messy as one sorts through where one puts the money to get the biggest support for the masses. The masses are important because they do the work - they troop out to work every day and do the jobs that those who are in authority do not do but they are not so much the risk takers that those in authority are. The buy off is always there - the workers and the bosses. When they work together they can do anything when they are abrasive then the ability to work can be less efficient which is bad coming from a family that owned a small family business. Decisions have to made that best suit the climate of the work times and productivity - we are always victims of productivity unfortunately both the workers and management. But they can not survive without each other.
Breakfast soon and solitaire puzzles next.
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