This is the will of Samuel Blake, Surgeon, who died intestate. There is a will in 1763 for Anne Blake at Chipping Sodbury as well but I do not think this is his wife mentioned below.
At this time I think I will leave him as being unrelated to the other Blake families at Chipping Sodbury until I am working on the family trees in this area.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 5 Nov 2014
Source: Ancestry – Diocese of Bristol Wills
Testator: Samuel Blake, Surgeon
Place: Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Probate
Date of document:19 Mar 1743/44, administered 26 Mar 1744
Condition: 18th century English, legible copy
1 Know all Men by these Presents that We Anne
2 Blake of Chipping Sodbury in the County of Gloucester
3 Widow Thomas Blanchard of the same Taylor and Abraham
4 Tanner of the same Brickmaker
5 are held and firmly bound unto Martin Lord Bishop of
6 the Diocese of Gloucester
7 in the penal sum of five hundred pounds
8 of good and lawful Money of Great Britain to be paid unto the said Lord
9 Bishop or his Successors or to his Attorney his Executors Adminstrators or Assigns
10 To which Payment well and truly to be made We oblige ourselves
11 and every of us by himself for
12 the whole our and every of our Heirs Executors and Administrators firmly by
13 these Presents Sealed with our Seals dated the nineteenth day of
14 March in the seventeenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign
15 Lord George the Second by the Grace of God of Great Britain
16 France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so
17 forth And in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and fourty four
18 The Condition of this Obligation is such That if the above bounden Anne
19 Blake Relict and Administrator of all and singular the Goods
20 Chattles and Credits of Samuel Blake late of Chipping Sodbury aboves[ai]d deceased do
21 make or cause to be made a true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the Goods
22 Chattles and Credits of the said deceased which have or shall come to the Hands
23 Possession or Knowledge of her the said Anne Blake
24 or into the Hands and Possession of any Person or Persons for
25 her and the same so made do exhibit or cause to be exhibited into the Registry
26 of the Bishop of Gloucester at or before the
27 last day of March next ensuing and the same Goods
28 Chattles and Credits and all other the Goods Chattles and Credits of the said deceased
29 at the time of his death which at anytime after shall come to the hands or Possession
30 of the said Anne Blake or into the hands
31 and Possession of any other Person or Persons for her do well and truly administer
32 according to Law And further do make or cause to be made a true and just Accompt
33 of her said Administration at or before the last day of January next
34 and all the Rest and Residue of the said Goods Chattles and Credits which shall be
35 found remaining upon the said Administrators Accompt the same being first
36 examined and allowed of by the Judge or Judges for the time being of the said
37 Court shall deliver and pay unto such Person or Persons respectively as the said
38 Judge or Judges by his or their Decree or Sentence pursuant to the true Intent and
39 Meaning of a late Act of Parliament made in the two and twentieth and three and
40 twentieth Years of the Reign of our late Sovereign Lord King Charles the Second
41 Intituled an Act for the better settling of Intestates Estates which limit and appoint
42 And if it shall hereafter appear that any last Will and Testament was made by the
43 said deceased and the Executor or Executors therein named do exhibit the same into
44 the said Court making Request to have it allowed and approved accordingly if the
45 said Anne Blake
46 above bounden being thereunto required do render and deliver the said Letters of
47 Administration (Approbation of such Testament being first had and made) in the
48 said Court then this Obligation to be void or else to remain in full Force and Virtue.
49 Anne Blake
50 Signed and delivered (being first
51 duly stamped) in the presence of
52 Francis Gold Thomas Blanchard
53 Samuell Hoptkins Abraham Tanner
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55
56 Sir Henry Penrice Knight Doctor of Laws Vicar General in Spirituals of
57 The Right Rev and Father in God Martin by Divine permission Lord Bishop of the
58 Diocese of Gloucester and of his Episcopal CVonsistory Official principal (lawfully
60 constituted To William Hughes Francis Gold and Henry Sharp Clerks Greeting We
61 do by these presents commit our power and authority to you in whose fidelity
62 we can confide to receive the Corporal Oath of Ann Blake widow and relict of
63 Samuel Blake late of Chipping Sodbury in the Diocese of Gloucester Chirurgeon
64 deceased well and truly to administer all and Singular the Goods rights and
65 Credits of the said Deceased and to exhibit an Inventory and render an Account
66 according to the Tenor of this underwritten Oath and moreover to see the Bond
67 annexed to these presents Signed Sealed and delivered by the said Ann Blake
68 together with two more good and sufficient Bondsmen and what ye Shall do in
69 the promises ye are to rectifie it to us our Surrogate or other competent Judge
70 in this behalf together with these presents on or before the eighth Day of
71 March next ensuing Given under the Seal of our Office this 21st Day of
72 February 1743
73 W: Mount Register
74 [Margin] Mrs Ann Blake
75 The Oath
76 You Shall Swear that you believe your late Husband died intestate that you
77 will well and faithfully administer his goods by paying his Debts so far as
78 his Goods will extend and the Law bind you that you will exhibit unto the
79 Registry of the Bishop of Gloucester a true and perfect Inventory of the
80 Goods Rights and Credits of the said Deceased and moreover render a true
81 just Account when you Shall be Swore to lawfully required So help you God
Kiss the Book
83 The twenty sixth Day of March 1744
84 The above named Ann Blake was duly Sworn
85 according to the tenor of the above Commission
86 Before me
87 Francis Gold Clerk
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Thursday, November 6, 2014
Returning to Blake Wills
Finally after more than three months I am getting back to blogging once again. I spent most of two months just walking about on my feet whenever I was awake as that worked best for my recovery! I am still limited somewhat at the computer but hope to do a will a day except when I am working on family reconstruction.
I have decided that Family Reconstruction is perhaps one of the very important parts of my Blake one name study. I think looking at the work that Martin Blake did on the Galway Blake family I am likely right in that regard. The drawback for me is my limited oral knowledge of any Blake family in England other than my own. But I shall forge ahead and continue working on the Cornwall family as it is most interesting. I think what I ponder is the age of these family lines - is the Devon line the oldest one and does it predate the line in Somerset which takes me back to the Blake family near Calne which appears to have the deepest roots for this perhaps continuous family. My own line at Andover is back to the mid 1400s but given the yDNA results my line has likely taken on the Blake surname prior to that time and likely towards the end of the 1200s or into the early 1300s. Why did they take it on is the mystery? Did my ancient ancestor marry a Blake descendant of Richard le Blak[e] as this family was living not far away from Andover. Richard le Blak[e] appears to be the progenitor of the Blake family near Calne if one looks at the Pedigree Chart of the Blake family held at the Swindon and Wiltshire Record Office.
Exciting time for my line as I try to work my way back and discover if that is a possibility. English people did not have surnames until the arrival of the Normans in 1066 and it was a gradual assumption of surnames through the centuries that followed until most English people had acquired or were made to acquire a surname in the latter part of the 1400s into the 1500s. Since my ancient ancestor did have a piece of property at Knights Enham I expect that there was less of a random picking of a surname but more inclined towards a marriage with someone who already had a surname. Time will tell on that.
I hope to blog the next will later today and it is an administration for a Samuel Blake in 1744 at Chipping Sodbury.
I have decided that Family Reconstruction is perhaps one of the very important parts of my Blake one name study. I think looking at the work that Martin Blake did on the Galway Blake family I am likely right in that regard. The drawback for me is my limited oral knowledge of any Blake family in England other than my own. But I shall forge ahead and continue working on the Cornwall family as it is most interesting. I think what I ponder is the age of these family lines - is the Devon line the oldest one and does it predate the line in Somerset which takes me back to the Blake family near Calne which appears to have the deepest roots for this perhaps continuous family. My own line at Andover is back to the mid 1400s but given the yDNA results my line has likely taken on the Blake surname prior to that time and likely towards the end of the 1200s or into the early 1300s. Why did they take it on is the mystery? Did my ancient ancestor marry a Blake descendant of Richard le Blak[e] as this family was living not far away from Andover. Richard le Blak[e] appears to be the progenitor of the Blake family near Calne if one looks at the Pedigree Chart of the Blake family held at the Swindon and Wiltshire Record Office.
Exciting time for my line as I try to work my way back and discover if that is a possibility. English people did not have surnames until the arrival of the Normans in 1066 and it was a gradual assumption of surnames through the centuries that followed until most English people had acquired or were made to acquire a surname in the latter part of the 1400s into the 1500s. Since my ancient ancestor did have a piece of property at Knights Enham I expect that there was less of a random picking of a surname but more inclined towards a marriage with someone who already had a surname. Time will tell on that.
I hope to blog the next will later today and it is an administration for a Samuel Blake in 1744 at Chipping Sodbury.
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Will of Richard Blake, Innholder, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire - Diocese of Bristol Wills found on Ancestry, probated 29 Apr 1724
Richard Blake is the testator and he is an Innholder at Chipping Sodbury. He mentions his son Thomas and his wife Mary in his will below.
The portbury-hundred website (http://www.portbury-hundred.co.uk/admiralreport.htm) lists Richard as #98, born in 1668 and died in Chipping Sodbury 9 Apr 1724 at the age of 56 years. Richard married to Mary is listed as having three children: Joseph (died 18 May 1715 in Chipping Sodbury, Samuel (born 1692 and died in 1715 at Chipping Sodbury) and Richard born in 1700 and there is further information on Richard. This Richard is said to be a son of Ambrose Blake who was known to be born at Pynhills (Wiltshire) around 1620. Richard is said to have two brothers Henry and Ambrose both of whom have descendancies in the chart above. The great grandson of Richard was said to be the Richard who married Anne Augustine Harwood, daughter of Rev Charles Harwood, Dean of Chichester. There is some information on this family already blogged:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/search/label/Harwood
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/search/label/Harward
Earlier I did conclude that this line as written in the portbury-hundred website seems to be a reasonable lineage but one is left to wonder why did Richard not mention his son Richard in his will below. A couple of possibilities include he is a well established merchant in Bristol already, he has received his portion to set him up as a merchant or he has inherited from another relative and is passed by in this will. Presumably Thomas will remain with the Inn in Chipping Sodbury which his mother is inheriting. No will is listed for this Thomas.
There are other Blake wills at Chipping Sodbury. However, I can not clearly fit them into this particular lineage.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 1 Oct 2014
Source: Ancestry – Diocese of Bristol Wills
Testator: Richard Blake, Inholder
Place: Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 16 Apr 1724; probated 29 Apr 1724
Condition: 18th century English, legible copy
1 In the name of God Amen I Richard Blake
2 of Chipping Sodbury in the County of Glouc Inholder
3 being Sick in body but of sound and disposing mind
4 and memory do make my last will and Testament
5 in manner and Form following
6 Imp[rim]is I will that my debts and funeral Expences shall
7 be paid by my Executrix hereinafter named
8 Item I give and bequeath unto my beloved son Thomas
9 Blake the sum of five pounds
10 Item all the rest and residue of my Goods and Chattles
11 of what kind soever I give and bequeath unto my dearly
12 beloved wife Mary whom I do hereby constitute and
13 appoint sole and only Executrix of this my last Will and
14 Testament And lastly I do hereby revoke recall and
15 make utterly null and void all and every Former and
16 other will Legacy bequest or Executor by me at any
17 time heretofore made given appointed or named
18 ratifying and confirming this and no other to be
19 my last Will and Testam[en]t In Testament whereof I have
20 hereunto set my hand and Seal this Sixteenth day of
21 April Anno d[omi]ni 1724
22 The Mark of
23 Rich
24 Richard Blake
25 Signed Sealed published pronounced
26 and declared by the above named
27 Richard Blake as his last Will
28 and Testament in the presence of us
29 who set our hands in the pre[se]nce
30 of the Testator
31 Georg Hardwicke
32 Jno Shellard
33 Joseph Hughes
The portbury-hundred website (http://www.portbury-hundred.co.uk/admiralreport.htm) lists Richard as #98, born in 1668 and died in Chipping Sodbury 9 Apr 1724 at the age of 56 years. Richard married to Mary is listed as having three children: Joseph (died 18 May 1715 in Chipping Sodbury, Samuel (born 1692 and died in 1715 at Chipping Sodbury) and Richard born in 1700 and there is further information on Richard. This Richard is said to be a son of Ambrose Blake who was known to be born at Pynhills (Wiltshire) around 1620. Richard is said to have two brothers Henry and Ambrose both of whom have descendancies in the chart above. The great grandson of Richard was said to be the Richard who married Anne Augustine Harwood, daughter of Rev Charles Harwood, Dean of Chichester. There is some information on this family already blogged:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/search/label/Harwood
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/search/label/Harward
Earlier I did conclude that this line as written in the portbury-hundred website seems to be a reasonable lineage but one is left to wonder why did Richard not mention his son Richard in his will below. A couple of possibilities include he is a well established merchant in Bristol already, he has received his portion to set him up as a merchant or he has inherited from another relative and is passed by in this will. Presumably Thomas will remain with the Inn in Chipping Sodbury which his mother is inheriting. No will is listed for this Thomas.
There are other Blake wills at Chipping Sodbury. However, I can not clearly fit them into this particular lineage.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 1 Oct 2014
Source: Ancestry – Diocese of Bristol Wills
Testator: Richard Blake, Inholder
Place: Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 16 Apr 1724; probated 29 Apr 1724
Condition: 18th century English, legible copy
1 In the name of God Amen I Richard Blake
2 of Chipping Sodbury in the County of Glouc Inholder
3 being Sick in body but of sound and disposing mind
4 and memory do make my last will and Testament
5 in manner and Form following
6 Imp[rim]is I will that my debts and funeral Expences shall
7 be paid by my Executrix hereinafter named
8 Item I give and bequeath unto my beloved son Thomas
9 Blake the sum of five pounds
10 Item all the rest and residue of my Goods and Chattles
11 of what kind soever I give and bequeath unto my dearly
12 beloved wife Mary whom I do hereby constitute and
13 appoint sole and only Executrix of this my last Will and
14 Testament And lastly I do hereby revoke recall and
15 make utterly null and void all and every Former and
16 other will Legacy bequest or Executor by me at any
17 time heretofore made given appointed or named
18 ratifying and confirming this and no other to be
19 my last Will and Testam[en]t In Testament whereof I have
20 hereunto set my hand and Seal this Sixteenth day of
21 April Anno d[omi]ni 1724
22 The Mark of
23 Rich
24 Richard Blake
25 Signed Sealed published pronounced
26 and declared by the above named
27 Richard Blake as his last Will
28 and Testament in the presence of us
29 who set our hands in the pre[se]nce
30 of the Testator
31 Georg Hardwicke
32 Jno Shellard
33 Joseph Hughes
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Will of Joanna Blake, widow, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire - Diocese of Bristol Wills on Ancestry, probated 30 Jun 1790
Joanna Blaake is the testatrix of this will. Joanna mentions her grandson Christopher Ludow is the father of Daniel Ludlow her great grandson. Her “son in law” is perhaps Daniel Ludlow the elder who is also her executor and trustee. The story around Christopher Ludlow, surgeon, at Chipping Sodbury is a rather sad one. Christopher Ludlow married Elizabeth Maria Blanchard 5 Jun 1776 at Chipping Sodbury. Their son Daniel was baptized 21 May 1777 at Chipping Sodbury and this is the Daniel mentioned in the will below as the great grandson of Joanna Blake. Christopher died in January 1784. The story of Christopher’s wife Elizabeth Maria Blanchard is a frequent find on the internet so will not relate it here. From an online tree “Genealogia Ludlow” I found the following that Christopher’s father was Daniel Ludlow and his mother was Rachel Hardwicke. His paternal grandfather was said to be Ebenezer Ludlow and that he had six brothers named Ebenezer, Daniel, Septimus, William, George and James. At some point the possibility is that Joanna’s daughter married a Ludlow but could not find a Ludlow-Blake marriage. The other possibility is that Joanna married a second time to a Blake.
http://familytrees.genopro.com/44165/public_html/genealogia/
Going back further in this online information Ebenezer’s father was said to be Christopher Ludlow and his Mother Anne Hellier and his paternal grandparents were Stephen Ludlow and Ann Younge. He had four brothers William, Joseph, Stephen and John and two sisters Ann and Elizabeth.
Although I have republished this particular blog there are very few changes. A second copy of the will was also available and it matched the first. Will blogged earlier here:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2014/07/will-of-joanna-blake-widow-of-chipping.html
Source: Will #83, Consistory Court of Gloucester, GDR/Wills/1790 (83)
Ancestry.com. Gloucestershire, England, Wills and Inventories, 1541-1858 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
Original data: Gloucestershire Probate Records. Diocese of Gloucestershire, Finding Reference GDR, Wills and Inventories. Gloucestershire Archives, Gloucester, UK.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 29 Jul 2014
Source: Ancestry – Diocese of Bristol Wills
Testator: Joanna Blake
Place: Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Probate
Date of document: 10 Jan 1788; probated 30 Jun 1790
Condition: 18th century English, legible copy
1 This is the last Will and Testament of me
2 Joanna Blaake of Chipping Sodbury in the county of Gloucester widow made this
3 Tenth day of January in the year of our lord One thousand seven
4 hundred and eighty eight in manner following (that is to say) I give and
5 bequeath All my goods chattels effects and personal estate whatsoever or
6 wheresoever the same may be found or be arising unto Daniel Ludlow the
7 elder of Chipping Sodbury aforesaid gentleman Upon the trusts herein
8 after declared expressed or mentioned of or concerning the same as afore-
9 said In trust that he the said Daniel Ludlow the elder, his executors
10 or administrators do and shall by with and out of the same premises
11 discharge my just debts funeral expences and the charges of proving
12 this my Will And from and after the discharge of the trusts applied
13 and subject in the mean time thereto In trust to apply the residue of
14 such goods chattels and personal estate for the use of my great grandson
15 Daniel Ludlow son of Christopher Ludlow Surgeon deceased either in
16 his education during his minority or otherwise and in such way and
17 manner as he the said Daniel Ludlow the elder his executors or
18 administrators shall in his or their discretion respectively see fit and think
19 most for the benefit and advantage of my said great grandson And hereby
20 revoking all former Wills by me at any time heretofore made I do publish
21 and declare this present writing contained in one sheet of paper to be my
22 last Will and testament and do make ordain nominate constitute and
23 appoint the said Daniel Ludlow the elder whole and sole executor hereof
24 In Witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed and affixed my hand and
25 seal the day and year above written
26 Jo: Blaake
27 Signed Sealed Published and Declared
28 by the Testatrix Joanna Blaake, as and for her
29 last Will and Testament in the presence of us
30 who in her and each other’s presence and at her request have subscribed our names as Witnesses
31 thereto
32 James Ludlow
33 S: H: Ludlow
34 30th June 1790
35 The above named Daniel Ludlow the
36 sole Executor was duly Sworn
37 Before me
38 Tho: Rudge Sur:
39 Sworn to less than 100 £
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40 This Will was proved on the 30th day of June 1790 Before the Rev[eren]d Tho[ma]s Rudge Surrogate
41 to the Worshipful Edward Cooke M A Vicar General Spirituals of the Right Rev[eren]d Father in
42 God Richard by divine Permission Lord Bishop of the Diocese of Gloucester and of his Episcopal
43 Consistory Official Principal lawfully constituted to Daniel Ludlow the sole Executor to whom
44 having first sworn well and faithfully to Administer the said Will and also to Exhibit an
45 Inventory and render an Account
46 Reg[istere]d
http://familytrees.genopro.com/44165/public_html/genealogia/
Going back further in this online information Ebenezer’s father was said to be Christopher Ludlow and his Mother Anne Hellier and his paternal grandparents were Stephen Ludlow and Ann Younge. He had four brothers William, Joseph, Stephen and John and two sisters Ann and Elizabeth.
Although I have republished this particular blog there are very few changes. A second copy of the will was also available and it matched the first. Will blogged earlier here:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2014/07/will-of-joanna-blake-widow-of-chipping.html
Source: Will #83, Consistory Court of Gloucester, GDR/Wills/1790 (83)
Ancestry.com. Gloucestershire, England, Wills and Inventories, 1541-1858 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
Original data: Gloucestershire Probate Records. Diocese of Gloucestershire, Finding Reference GDR, Wills and Inventories. Gloucestershire Archives, Gloucester, UK.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 29 Jul 2014
Source: Ancestry – Diocese of Bristol Wills
Testator: Joanna Blake
Place: Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Probate
Date of document: 10 Jan 1788; probated 30 Jun 1790
Condition: 18th century English, legible copy
1 This is the last Will and Testament of me
2 Joanna Blaake of Chipping Sodbury in the county of Gloucester widow made this
3 Tenth day of January in the year of our lord One thousand seven
4 hundred and eighty eight in manner following (that is to say) I give and
5 bequeath All my goods chattels effects and personal estate whatsoever or
6 wheresoever the same may be found or be arising unto Daniel Ludlow the
7 elder of Chipping Sodbury aforesaid gentleman Upon the trusts herein
8 after declared expressed or mentioned of or concerning the same as afore-
9 said In trust that he the said Daniel Ludlow the elder, his executors
10 or administrators do and shall by with and out of the same premises
11 discharge my just debts funeral expences and the charges of proving
12 this my Will And from and after the discharge of the trusts applied
13 and subject in the mean time thereto In trust to apply the residue of
14 such goods chattels and personal estate for the use of my great grandson
15 Daniel Ludlow son of Christopher Ludlow Surgeon deceased either in
16 his education during his minority or otherwise and in such way and
17 manner as he the said Daniel Ludlow the elder his executors or
18 administrators shall in his or their discretion respectively see fit and think
19 most for the benefit and advantage of my said great grandson And hereby
20 revoking all former Wills by me at any time heretofore made I do publish
21 and declare this present writing contained in one sheet of paper to be my
22 last Will and testament and do make ordain nominate constitute and
23 appoint the said Daniel Ludlow the elder whole and sole executor hereof
24 In Witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed and affixed my hand and
25 seal the day and year above written
26 Jo: Blaake
27 Signed Sealed Published and Declared
28 by the Testatrix Joanna Blaake, as and for her
29 last Will and Testament in the presence of us
30 who in her and each other’s presence and at her request have subscribed our names as Witnesses
31 thereto
32 James Ludlow
33 S: H: Ludlow
34 30th June 1790
35 The above named Daniel Ludlow the
36 sole Executor was duly Sworn
37 Before me
38 Tho: Rudge Sur:
39 Sworn to less than 100 £
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40 This Will was proved on the 30th day of June 1790 Before the Rev[eren]d Tho[ma]s Rudge Surrogate
41 to the Worshipful Edward Cooke M A Vicar General Spirituals of the Right Rev[eren]d Father in
42 God Richard by divine Permission Lord Bishop of the Diocese of Gloucester and of his Episcopal
43 Consistory Official Principal lawfully constituted to Daniel Ludlow the sole Executor to whom
44 having first sworn well and faithfully to Administer the said Will and also to Exhibit an
45 Inventory and render an Account
46 Reg[istere]d
Friday, July 18, 2014
Will of Anne Blake, widow, Bristol Gloucestershire late of Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire - Diocese of Bristol Wills on Ancestry, probated 23 Nov 1763
This blog replaces the earlier blog for this will of Anne Blake. No new information other than dates was acquired.
Anne Blake, widow, is the testatrix. She lived at Chipping Sodbury and now at Bristol. Her kinswoman Mary Day (mother of John Day) and wife of John Day soapmaker along with her son John are her legatees. Interestingly there is a reference to a Mary Day mother of John Day who was a sister to Joseph Blake of New Windsor, Berkshire. This Joseph may have married in 1777 but still somewhat late for the calendar date where this document is listed in Volume II Calendar of Gloucestershire Wills of 1763.
Blog for Joseph Blake:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/04/will-of-joseph-blake-gentleman-new.html
An interesting Bristol Stray listed by a researchers on the Bristol and Somerset L Archives:
John Day St Thomas Bristol married Mary Prewett 30 Mar 1749.
Gloucestershire Parish Registers. Marriages. Edited by WPW Phillimore volume XVI, 1912. John Day of Letchlade and Mary Ludlow of Great Hendred Berkshire by license 20 May 1725 at Fairford (page 95). Same book John Day of Letchlade and Ann Hitchman of Cullum by license 28 Feb 1730.
The Day family is also mentioned in the will of Nicholas Blake, yeoman of Wootton Rivers, Wiltshire blogged earlier:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2012/10/will-of-nicholas-blake-yeoman-of.html
No ideas on the name of her husband but of note two sons of Richard Blake and Mary Blake at Chipping Sodbury were buried there – Joseph in 1715 and Samuel no date given in the blog looking at Gloucestershire memorials:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2014/04/1248-blake-family-gloucestershire-notes.html
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 15 May 2014
Source: Ancestry – Diocese of Bristol Wills
Testator: Anne Blake, widow
Place: Bristol, Gloucestershire, England late of Chippen Sodbury, Gloucestershire
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 22 Oct 1757, probated 23 Nov 1763
Condition: 18th century English, legible copy
1 In the name of God Amen
2 Anne Blake late of Chippen Sodbury in the County of Gloucester
3 but now of the parish of Saint Thomas within the City of
4 Bristol widow being in bodily health and of sound and disposing
5 mind memory and understanding (praise God for it) Do
6 make and ordain this my last will and Testament in man[n]er
7 following (that is to say) In the First place I resign my Soul
8 into the hands of almighty God who created it and my body
9 I com[m]itt to the Earth from whence it came to be decently
10 interred at the discression of my Executrix hereinafter
11 named and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it
12 hath pleased almighty God of his Infinite goodness and
13 mercy to bless me I give and dispose thereof as followeth
14 (to witt) I give devise and bequeath unto my Kinsman John Day
15 (son of my kinsman in Law John Day of the said parish of Saint
16 Thomas within the City of Bristol aforesaid soapmaker on
17 the body of my near kinswoman Mary his now wife begotten)
18 All that my Freehold Messuage or Tenement Closes
19 pieces and parcells of ground Lands hereditaments and
20 premises with their and every of their appurten[an]ces situate
21 lying and being within the parish of Little Sodbury in the said
22 county of Gloucester and also all other my Freehold Lands
23 Tenements and hereditaments whatsoever and wheresoever
24 which I now am or shall or may at the time of my death be
25 seized of interested in or intituled unto To hold to him
26 the said John Day the son his heirs and assigns for ever
27 Also I give and bequeath unto my said well beloved
28 kinswoman Mary Day All and singular my Leasehold Lands
29 Tenements and premises with their and every of their appurten[an]ces
30 Anne Blake
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31 And also all my Goods Chattells monys plate personal estate
32 whatsoever and wheresoever which I shall or may be
33 possessed of interested in or intitled unto at the time of
34 my death To hold unto my said Loving Kinswoman Mary
35 Day her Executors administrators and assigns for ever and
36 I do hereby make ordain constitute and appoint my said
37 kinswoman Mary Day sole Executrix of this my last will
38 and Testament and I do hereby revoke and make void all
39 former wills by me made and do publish and declare this
40 to be my last Will and Testament in witness whereof I the
41 said Anne Blake the Testatrix have to this my last will and
42 Testament contained in these two sheets of paper affixed
43 together to the bottom of the First sheet sett my hand and to
44 this last sheet my hand and affixed my seal this Twenty second
45 day of October in the year of our Lord God one thousand
46 seven hundred and Fifty seven and in the thirty First year
47 of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the second by the
48 grace of God King of Great Britain France and Ireland
49 defender of the Faith and so forth
50 Anne Blake
51 Signed Sealed published and declared by
52 the hereinbefore named Anne Blake
53 the Testatrix as and for her last will and
54 Testament in the presence of us who
55 have subscribed our names as
56 Witnesses hereto in her presence and
57 at her request this 22nd day of October 1757
58 Rich: Hill
59 William Sharborne
60 W M Jones
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61 This Will was proved the 23rd day of November in the Year of Our Lord 1763 before
62 the Worshipful James Benson Doctor of Laws Vicar General in Spiritual of
63 the Right Reverend Father in God William by Divine Permission Lord Bishop of the
64 Diocese of Gloucester and of his Episcopal Consistory Official Principal Lawfully
65 Constituted by Mary Day Sole Executrix of Will and to whom and having first sworn
66 well and faithfuly to administer to the said Will and also to exhibit an Inventory
67 and render an Account and forth
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68 James Brown Doctor of Laws Vicar General in Spirituals of the Right Reverend
69 Father in God William by Divine permission Lord Bishop of the Diocese of Gloucester
70 and of his Episcopal Consistory Official principal lawfull constituted To the Reverend
71 John Price Thomas Broughton and Humphry Brent Coopey Clerks Greeting We
72 do by these presents Commit Our power and Authority to you jointly and severally
73 in whole Fidelity We confide to receive the corporal Oath of Mary Dayk, the Wife
74 of John Day of the City of Bristol Soapmaker The sole Executrix named in the last
75 Will and Testament of Anne Blake late of Chipping Sodbury in the County and
76 Diocese of Gloucester Widow deceased Well and faithfully to administer to All
77 and Singular the Goods Chattels Rights and Credits of the said deceased And also
78 to exhibit in presenting and render an Account according to the Tenor of the
79 Underwritten Oath And what ye do in the premises ye are duely to certify to
80 the Bar Surrogate or other Competent Judge in this Behalf together with These
81 presents on or before the last Day of December and ensueing the Date hereof
82 Given Under the Seal of Our Office this Eighteenth Day of November in the
83 year of our Lord God One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty Three
84 Wm Mount Register
85 The Oath
86 Mary Day
87 you shall swear That you Believe the paper Writing hereunto annexed
88 contains the last Will and Testament of Anne Blake late of Chipping Sodbury
89 in the County and Diocese of Gloucester Widow deceased That you are the
90 Executrix therein named That you will well and faithfully administer to her
91 Will by paying her Debts and Legacys so far as the Goods will extend and the
92 law bind you That You will exhibit an Inventory into the Registry of the Bishop
93 of Gloucester and render an Account of your Administration when you are
94 hereunto lawfully required
95 So help you God Kiss the Book
96 The Twenty third Day of November 1763
97 The above named Mary Day was duely sworn
98 according to the Tenor of the above Commission before me
99 Hum: Brent Coopey a Commissioner
Anne Blake, widow, is the testatrix. She lived at Chipping Sodbury and now at Bristol. Her kinswoman Mary Day (mother of John Day) and wife of John Day soapmaker along with her son John are her legatees. Interestingly there is a reference to a Mary Day mother of John Day who was a sister to Joseph Blake of New Windsor, Berkshire. This Joseph may have married in 1777 but still somewhat late for the calendar date where this document is listed in Volume II Calendar of Gloucestershire Wills of 1763.
Blog for Joseph Blake:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/04/will-of-joseph-blake-gentleman-new.html
An interesting Bristol Stray listed by a researchers on the Bristol and Somerset L Archives:
John Day St Thomas Bristol married Mary Prewett 30 Mar 1749.
Gloucestershire Parish Registers. Marriages. Edited by WPW Phillimore volume XVI, 1912. John Day of Letchlade and Mary Ludlow of Great Hendred Berkshire by license 20 May 1725 at Fairford (page 95). Same book John Day of Letchlade and Ann Hitchman of Cullum by license 28 Feb 1730.
The Day family is also mentioned in the will of Nicholas Blake, yeoman of Wootton Rivers, Wiltshire blogged earlier:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2012/10/will-of-nicholas-blake-yeoman-of.html
No ideas on the name of her husband but of note two sons of Richard Blake and Mary Blake at Chipping Sodbury were buried there – Joseph in 1715 and Samuel no date given in the blog looking at Gloucestershire memorials:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2014/04/1248-blake-family-gloucestershire-notes.html
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 15 May 2014
Source: Ancestry – Diocese of Bristol Wills
Testator: Anne Blake, widow
Place: Bristol, Gloucestershire, England late of Chippen Sodbury, Gloucestershire
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 22 Oct 1757, probated 23 Nov 1763
Condition: 18th century English, legible copy
1 In the name of God Amen
2 Anne Blake late of Chippen Sodbury in the County of Gloucester
3 but now of the parish of Saint Thomas within the City of
4 Bristol widow being in bodily health and of sound and disposing
5 mind memory and understanding (praise God for it) Do
6 make and ordain this my last will and Testament in man[n]er
7 following (that is to say) In the First place I resign my Soul
8 into the hands of almighty God who created it and my body
9 I com[m]itt to the Earth from whence it came to be decently
10 interred at the discression of my Executrix hereinafter
11 named and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it
12 hath pleased almighty God of his Infinite goodness and
13 mercy to bless me I give and dispose thereof as followeth
14 (to witt) I give devise and bequeath unto my Kinsman John Day
15 (son of my kinsman in Law John Day of the said parish of Saint
16 Thomas within the City of Bristol aforesaid soapmaker on
17 the body of my near kinswoman Mary his now wife begotten)
18 All that my Freehold Messuage or Tenement Closes
19 pieces and parcells of ground Lands hereditaments and
20 premises with their and every of their appurten[an]ces situate
21 lying and being within the parish of Little Sodbury in the said
22 county of Gloucester and also all other my Freehold Lands
23 Tenements and hereditaments whatsoever and wheresoever
24 which I now am or shall or may at the time of my death be
25 seized of interested in or intituled unto To hold to him
26 the said John Day the son his heirs and assigns for ever
27 Also I give and bequeath unto my said well beloved
28 kinswoman Mary Day All and singular my Leasehold Lands
29 Tenements and premises with their and every of their appurten[an]ces
30 Anne Blake
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31 And also all my Goods Chattells monys plate personal estate
32 whatsoever and wheresoever which I shall or may be
33 possessed of interested in or intitled unto at the time of
34 my death To hold unto my said Loving Kinswoman Mary
35 Day her Executors administrators and assigns for ever and
36 I do hereby make ordain constitute and appoint my said
37 kinswoman Mary Day sole Executrix of this my last will
38 and Testament and I do hereby revoke and make void all
39 former wills by me made and do publish and declare this
40 to be my last Will and Testament in witness whereof I the
41 said Anne Blake the Testatrix have to this my last will and
42 Testament contained in these two sheets of paper affixed
43 together to the bottom of the First sheet sett my hand and to
44 this last sheet my hand and affixed my seal this Twenty second
45 day of October in the year of our Lord God one thousand
46 seven hundred and Fifty seven and in the thirty First year
47 of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the second by the
48 grace of God King of Great Britain France and Ireland
49 defender of the Faith and so forth
50 Anne Blake
51 Signed Sealed published and declared by
52 the hereinbefore named Anne Blake
53 the Testatrix as and for her last will and
54 Testament in the presence of us who
55 have subscribed our names as
56 Witnesses hereto in her presence and
57 at her request this 22nd day of October 1757
58 Rich: Hill
59 William Sharborne
60 W M Jones
[Page 3]
61 This Will was proved the 23rd day of November in the Year of Our Lord 1763 before
62 the Worshipful James Benson Doctor of Laws Vicar General in Spiritual of
63 the Right Reverend Father in God William by Divine Permission Lord Bishop of the
64 Diocese of Gloucester and of his Episcopal Consistory Official Principal Lawfully
65 Constituted by Mary Day Sole Executrix of Will and to whom and having first sworn
66 well and faithfuly to administer to the said Will and also to exhibit an Inventory
67 and render an Account and forth
[Page 4]
68 James Brown Doctor of Laws Vicar General in Spirituals of the Right Reverend
69 Father in God William by Divine permission Lord Bishop of the Diocese of Gloucester
70 and of his Episcopal Consistory Official principal lawfull constituted To the Reverend
71 John Price Thomas Broughton and Humphry Brent Coopey Clerks Greeting We
72 do by these presents Commit Our power and Authority to you jointly and severally
73 in whole Fidelity We confide to receive the corporal Oath of Mary Dayk, the Wife
74 of John Day of the City of Bristol Soapmaker The sole Executrix named in the last
75 Will and Testament of Anne Blake late of Chipping Sodbury in the County and
76 Diocese of Gloucester Widow deceased Well and faithfully to administer to All
77 and Singular the Goods Chattels Rights and Credits of the said deceased And also
78 to exhibit in presenting and render an Account according to the Tenor of the
79 Underwritten Oath And what ye do in the premises ye are duely to certify to
80 the Bar Surrogate or other Competent Judge in this Behalf together with These
81 presents on or before the last Day of December and ensueing the Date hereof
82 Given Under the Seal of Our Office this Eighteenth Day of November in the
83 year of our Lord God One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty Three
84 Wm Mount Register
85 The Oath
86 Mary Day
87 you shall swear That you Believe the paper Writing hereunto annexed
88 contains the last Will and Testament of Anne Blake late of Chipping Sodbury
89 in the County and Diocese of Gloucester Widow deceased That you are the
90 Executrix therein named That you will well and faithfully administer to her
91 Will by paying her Debts and Legacys so far as the Goods will extend and the
92 law bind you That You will exhibit an Inventory into the Registry of the Bishop
93 of Gloucester and render an Account of your Administration when you are
94 hereunto lawfully required
95 So help you God Kiss the Book
96 The Twenty third Day of November 1763
97 The above named Mary Day was duely sworn
98 according to the Tenor of the above Commission before me
99 Hum: Brent Coopey a Commissioner
Saturday, July 12, 2014
Will of Joanna Blake, widow, of Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire - Diocese of Bristol Wills on Ancestry, probated 30 Jun 1790
Joanna Blaake is the testatrix of this will. Joanna mentions her grandson Christopher Ludow is the father of Daniel Ludlow her great grandson. Her “son in law” is perhaps Daniel Ludlow the elder who is also her executor and trustee. The story around Christopher Ludlow, surgeon, at Chipping Sodbury is a rather sad one. Christopher Ludlow married Elizabeth Maria Blanchard 5 Jun 1776 at Chipping Sodbury. Their son Daniel was baptized 21 May 1777 at Chipping Sodbury and this is the Daniel mentioned in the will below as the great grandson of Joanna Blake. Christopher died in January 1784. The story of Christopher’s wife Elizabeth Maria Blanchard is a frequent find on the internet so will not relate it here. From an online tree “Genealogia Ludlow” I found the following that Christopher’s father was Daniel Ludlow and his mother was Rachel Hardwicke. His paternal grandfather was said to be Ebenezer Ludlow and that he had six brothers named Ebenezer, Daniel, Septimus, William, George and James. At some point the possibility is that Joanna’s daughter married a Ludlow but could not find a Ludlow-Blake marriage. The other possibility is that Joanna married a second time to a Blake.
http://familytrees.genopro.com/44165/public_html/genealogia/
Going back further in this online information Ebenezer’s father was said to be Christopher Ludlow and his Mother Anne Hellier and his paternal grandparents were Stephen Ludlow and Ann Younge. He had four brothers William, Joseph, Stephen and John and two sisters Ann and Elizabeth.
Source: Will #83, Consistory Court of Gloucester, GDR/Wills/1790 (83)
Ancestry.com. Gloucestershire, England, Wills and Inventories, 1541-1858 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
Original data: Gloucestershire Probate Records. Diocese of Gloucestershire, Finding Reference GDR, Wills and Inventories. Gloucestershire Archives, Gloucester, UK.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 4 Jul 2014
Source: Ancestry – Diocese of Bristol Wills
Testator: Joanna Blake
Place: Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Probate
Date of document: 10 Jan 1788; probated 30 Jun 1790
Condition: 18th century English, legible copy
1 This is the last Will and Testament of me
2 Joanna Blaake of Chipping Sodbury in the county of Gloucester widow made this
3 Tenth day of January in the year of our lord One thousand seven
4 hundred and eighty eight in manner following (that is to say) I give and
5 bequeath All my goods chattels effects and personal estate whatsoever
6 wheresoever the same may be found or be arising unto Daniel Ludlow the
7 elder of Chipping Sodbury aforesaid gentleman Upon the trusts herein
8 after declared expressed or mentioned of or concerning the same as afore-
9 said In trust that he the said Daniel Ludlow the elder, his executors
10 or administrators do and shall by with and out of the same premises
11 discharge my just debts funeral expences and the charges of proving
12 this my Will And from and after the discharge of the trusts applied
13 and subject in the mean time thereto In trust to apply the residue of
14 such goods chattels and personal estate for the use of my great grandson
15 Daniel Ludlow son of Christopher Ludlow Surgeon deceased either in
16 his education during his minority or otherwise and in such way and
17 manner as he the said Daniel Ludlow the elder his executors or
18 administrators shall in his or their discretion respectively see fit and think
19 and for the benefit and advantage of my said great grandson And hereby
20 revoking all former Wills by me at any time heretofore made I do publish
21 and declare this present writing contained in one sheet of paper to be my
22 last Will and testament and do make ordain nominate constitute and
23 appoint the said Daniel Ludlow the elder whole and sole executor hereof
24 In Witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed and affixed my hand and
25 seal the day and year above written
26 Jo: Blaake
27 Signed Sealed Published and Declared
28 by the Testatrix Joanna Blaake, as and for her
29 last Will and Testament in the presence of us
30 who in her and each other’s presence and at her request have subscribed our names as Witnesses
31 thereto
32 James Ludlow
33 S: H: Ludlow
34 30th June 1790
35 The above named Daniel Ludlow the
36 sole Executor was duly Sworn
37 Before me
38 Tho: Rudge Sur:
39 Sworn to less than 100 £
http://familytrees.genopro.com/44165/public_html/genealogia/
Going back further in this online information Ebenezer’s father was said to be Christopher Ludlow and his Mother Anne Hellier and his paternal grandparents were Stephen Ludlow and Ann Younge. He had four brothers William, Joseph, Stephen and John and two sisters Ann and Elizabeth.
Source: Will #83, Consistory Court of Gloucester, GDR/Wills/1790 (83)
Ancestry.com. Gloucestershire, England, Wills and Inventories, 1541-1858 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
Original data: Gloucestershire Probate Records. Diocese of Gloucestershire, Finding Reference GDR, Wills and Inventories. Gloucestershire Archives, Gloucester, UK.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 4 Jul 2014
Source: Ancestry – Diocese of Bristol Wills
Testator: Joanna Blake
Place: Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Probate
Date of document: 10 Jan 1788; probated 30 Jun 1790
Condition: 18th century English, legible copy
1 This is the last Will and Testament of me
2 Joanna Blaake of Chipping Sodbury in the county of Gloucester widow made this
3 Tenth day of January in the year of our lord One thousand seven
4 hundred and eighty eight in manner following (that is to say) I give and
5 bequeath All my goods chattels effects and personal estate whatsoever
6 wheresoever the same may be found or be arising unto Daniel Ludlow the
7 elder of Chipping Sodbury aforesaid gentleman Upon the trusts herein
8 after declared expressed or mentioned of or concerning the same as afore-
9 said In trust that he the said Daniel Ludlow the elder, his executors
10 or administrators do and shall by with and out of the same premises
11 discharge my just debts funeral expences and the charges of proving
12 this my Will And from and after the discharge of the trusts applied
13 and subject in the mean time thereto In trust to apply the residue of
14 such goods chattels and personal estate for the use of my great grandson
15 Daniel Ludlow son of Christopher Ludlow Surgeon deceased either in
16 his education during his minority or otherwise and in such way and
17 manner as he the said Daniel Ludlow the elder his executors or
18 administrators shall in his or their discretion respectively see fit and think
19 and for the benefit and advantage of my said great grandson And hereby
20 revoking all former Wills by me at any time heretofore made I do publish
21 and declare this present writing contained in one sheet of paper to be my
22 last Will and testament and do make ordain nominate constitute and
23 appoint the said Daniel Ludlow the elder whole and sole executor hereof
24 In Witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed and affixed my hand and
25 seal the day and year above written
26 Jo: Blaake
27 Signed Sealed Published and Declared
28 by the Testatrix Joanna Blaake, as and for her
29 last Will and Testament in the presence of us
30 who in her and each other’s presence and at her request have subscribed our names as Witnesses
31 thereto
32 James Ludlow
33 S: H: Ludlow
34 30th June 1790
35 The above named Daniel Ludlow the
36 sole Executor was duly Sworn
37 Before me
38 Tho: Rudge Sur:
39 Sworn to less than 100 £
Monday, June 16, 2014
Will of Anne Blake, widow - Ancestry - Diocese of Bristol Wills
Anne Blake, widow, is the testatrix. She lived at Chipping Sodbury and now at Bristol. Her kinswoman Mary Day (mother of John Day) and wife of John Day soapmaker along with her son John are her legatees. Interestingly there is a reference to a Mary Day mother of John Day who was a sister to Joseph Blake of New Windsor, Berkshire. This Joseph may have married in 1777 but still somewhat late for the calendar date where this document is listed in Volume II Calendar of Gloucestershire Wills of 1763. The will itself is undated.
Blog for Joseph Blake:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/04/will-of-joseph-blake-gentleman-new.html
An interesting Bristol Stray listed by a researchers on the Bristol and Somerset L Archives:
John Day St Thomas Bristol married Mary Prewett 30 Mar 1749.
Gloucestershire Parish Registers. Marriages. Edited by WPW Phillimore volume XVI, 1912. John Day of Letchlade and Mary Ludlow of Great Hendred Berkshire by license 20 May 1725 at Fairford (page 95). Same book John Day of Letchlade and Ann Hitchman of Cullum by license 28 Feb 1730.
The Day family is also mentioned in the will of Nicholas Blake, yeoman of Wootton Rivers, Wiltshire blogged earlier:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2012/10/will-of-nicholas-blake-yeoman-of.html
No ideas on the name of her husband but of note two sons of Richard Blake and Mary Blake at Chipping Sodbury were buried there – Joseph in 1715 and Samuel no date given in the blog looking at Gloucestershire memorials:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2014/04/1248-blake-family-gloucestershire-notes.html
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 15 May 2014
Source: Ancestry – Diocese of Bristol Wills
Testator: Anne Blake, widow
Place: Bristol, Gloucestershire, England late of Chippen Sodbury, Gloucestershire
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 1763, probated 1763
Condition: 18th century English, legible copy
1 In the name of God Amen
2 Anne Blake late of Chippen Sodbury in the County of Gloucester
3 but now of the parish of Saint Thomas within the City of
4 Bristol widow being in bodily health and of sound and disposing
5 mind memory and understanding (praise God for it) Do
6 make and ordain this my last will and Testament in man[n]er
7 following (that is to say) In the First place I resign my Soul
8 into the hands of almighty God who created it and my body
9 I com[m]itt to the Earth from whence it came to be decently
10 interred at the discression of my Executrix hereinafter
11 named and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it
12 hath pleased almighty God of his Infinite goodness and
13 mercy to bless me I give and dispose thereof as followeth
14 (to witt) I give devise and bequeath unto my Kinsman John Day
15 (son of my kinsman in Law John Day of the said parish of Saint
16 Thomas within the City of Bristol aforesaid soapmaker on
17 the body of my near kinswoman Mary his now wife begotten)
18 All that my Freehold Messuage or Tenement Closes
19 pieces and parcells of ground Lands hereditaments and
20 premises with their and every of their appurten[an]ces situate
21 lying and being within the parish of Little Sodbury in the said
22 county of Gloucester and also all other my Freehold Lands
23 Tenements and hereditaments whatsoever and wheresoever
24 which I now am or shall or may at the time of my death be
25 seized of interested in or intituled unto To hold to him
26 the said John Day the son his heirs and assigns for ever
27 Also I give and bequeath unto my said well beloved
28 kinswoman Mary Day All and singular my Leasehold Lands
29 Tenements and premises with their and every of their appurten[an]ces
30 Anne Blake
Blog for Joseph Blake:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/04/will-of-joseph-blake-gentleman-new.html
An interesting Bristol Stray listed by a researchers on the Bristol and Somerset L Archives:
John Day St Thomas Bristol married Mary Prewett 30 Mar 1749.
Gloucestershire Parish Registers. Marriages. Edited by WPW Phillimore volume XVI, 1912. John Day of Letchlade and Mary Ludlow of Great Hendred Berkshire by license 20 May 1725 at Fairford (page 95). Same book John Day of Letchlade and Ann Hitchman of Cullum by license 28 Feb 1730.
The Day family is also mentioned in the will of Nicholas Blake, yeoman of Wootton Rivers, Wiltshire blogged earlier:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2012/10/will-of-nicholas-blake-yeoman-of.html
No ideas on the name of her husband but of note two sons of Richard Blake and Mary Blake at Chipping Sodbury were buried there – Joseph in 1715 and Samuel no date given in the blog looking at Gloucestershire memorials:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2014/04/1248-blake-family-gloucestershire-notes.html
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 15 May 2014
Source: Ancestry – Diocese of Bristol Wills
Testator: Anne Blake, widow
Place: Bristol, Gloucestershire, England late of Chippen Sodbury, Gloucestershire
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 1763, probated 1763
Condition: 18th century English, legible copy
1 In the name of God Amen
2 Anne Blake late of Chippen Sodbury in the County of Gloucester
3 but now of the parish of Saint Thomas within the City of
4 Bristol widow being in bodily health and of sound and disposing
5 mind memory and understanding (praise God for it) Do
6 make and ordain this my last will and Testament in man[n]er
7 following (that is to say) In the First place I resign my Soul
8 into the hands of almighty God who created it and my body
9 I com[m]itt to the Earth from whence it came to be decently
10 interred at the discression of my Executrix hereinafter
11 named and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it
12 hath pleased almighty God of his Infinite goodness and
13 mercy to bless me I give and dispose thereof as followeth
14 (to witt) I give devise and bequeath unto my Kinsman John Day
15 (son of my kinsman in Law John Day of the said parish of Saint
16 Thomas within the City of Bristol aforesaid soapmaker on
17 the body of my near kinswoman Mary his now wife begotten)
18 All that my Freehold Messuage or Tenement Closes
19 pieces and parcells of ground Lands hereditaments and
20 premises with their and every of their appurten[an]ces situate
21 lying and being within the parish of Little Sodbury in the said
22 county of Gloucester and also all other my Freehold Lands
23 Tenements and hereditaments whatsoever and wheresoever
24 which I now am or shall or may at the time of my death be
25 seized of interested in or intituled unto To hold to him
26 the said John Day the son his heirs and assigns for ever
27 Also I give and bequeath unto my said well beloved
28 kinswoman Mary Day All and singular my Leasehold Lands
29 Tenements and premises with their and every of their appurten[an]ces
30 Anne Blake
Saturday, April 19, 2014
#1248 The Blake Family - Gloucestershire Notes and Queries Volume 3
1248. The Blake Family (Discussion inserted)
1. In St. Stephen's Church, Bristol, there is a marble tablet with the following inscription: "Near this place, in the same vault with his father and mother, William and Rebecca Blake, lie the remains of Richard Blake, Esquire, who died August 6th, 1829, aged 69." And above, on a small tablet, is an inscription to his widow, Anne Augusta, described as the daughter of the Very Reverend Charles Harward, of Hayne, County Devon, Dean of Chichester, etc. She died November 4th, 1847, aged 84. Arms - Ar. a chev. between 3 garbs sa. empaling gu. a crosse crosslet or. Creet - On a cap of maintenance gu. turned up erm. a martlet sa.
The will of Anne Augusta Blake was blogged:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2014/04/will-of-anne-augusta-blake-widow.html
Richard Blake, husband of Anne Augusta Blake, was the son of William and Rebecca Blake according to the memorial in St Stephen's Church, Bristol. Now, the question is, can I discover the parents of William Blake. Richard would have been born circa 1760. The coat of arms mentioned on the memorial tablet do not appear to be the registered arm of the Harward family. The first mentioned coat of arms does belong to the Blake family. An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families ....., volume 2 has "Gu. on a cross croslet arg. betw. four gouttes d'eau five annulets az. Harward, Hayne, Co. Devon; a heiress m. Blake." I have little knowledge of heraldry although I am starting to look at a little because of the Blake coats of arms. I did find on Family Search the baptism of Richard Blake 1 Dec 1760 at Bristol with parents William and Rebecca Blake. They also baptized a son William 3 Dec 1757 and a daughter Rebecca 21 Apr 1759 both at Bristol. Interestingly there is a marriage of a William Blake to Rebecca Milles 12 Jun 1754 at Duloe, Cornwall. Since this is a known Blake area it is possible that this line is from Cornwall. There is a will for William Blake (1792) at Bristol to come.
2. In St. Werburgh's Church, Bristol, there was this inscription: "To the memory of Mr Richard Blake, many years an inhabitant of this parish, who died the 3rd day of January, 1771, aged 70. In the same vault where his remains are deposited, also are interred Mary Blake, his mother, Samuel and Mary Greenway, whose ony daughter he married, and five of his children, who died in their infancy. Likewise the remains of Mary, his wife, who died the 21st October, 1781, aged 82."
I found this reference most interesting as I am in the midst of transcribing the will of Mary, the widow of this Richard Blake who was the father of Susanna Woodward and Hannah Deverell. The mother of this Richard was Mary Greenway and in the will of Mary there is mention of a Joseph Greenway. Put together with the reference at Chipping Sodbury, is this the same family? That Richard would have been born circa 1646, died 1724 (aged 78). Chipping Sodbury is nine miles ENE of Bristol. Still to come is the will of Richard Blake who died in 1771 and another Richard Blake will from 1642 which may help to fill this family line in.
3. In Chipping Sodbury Church there are (or were) the following inscriptions: " To the memory of his father, Richard Blake, late of this town, and of his brothers Joseph and Samuel, whose remains are interred near this place. This monument is erected by Richard Blake, of the city of Bristol." "In memory of Richard Blake, Senior, who was buried April 19th, A.D. 1724, aged 78." "In memory of Joseph Blake, son of Richard and Mary Blake, of this borough, who deceased the 18th day of May, A.D. 1715, in the 23rd year of his age." "Thomas Coombe died September 26th, 1724, aged 42. Joanna Coombe, his wife, died February 27, 1748/49, aged 63. Joanna Blake, relict of Robert Blake, and daughter of Thomas and Joanna Coombe, died April 20th, 1790, aged 82."
From Aubrey's Collections for North Wilts I find that Robert Hungerford, of Studley, near Calne, by his will (1754) bequeated his parsonage of Avon (between Chippenham and Christian Malford) to his nephew George, after of Studley, for his life - in tail to Robert Blake, of Sodbury, who had married one of his nieces.
4. In St. John's Church, Glastonbury, there was an inscription to Elizabeth, the wife of Francis Blake, of Clifton, Gent.; she died January 1st, 1736, aged 50. This Francis Blake died at Glastonbury in 1768, having been ten times mayor of that borough, from 1717 to 1768. He had a son William, who predeceased him, having resided in the parish of Clifton.
For Francis Blake buried at Glastonbury this is a known Blake line which is collateral to the Admiral Robert Blake line according to the Potbury Blake website: http://www.portbury-hundred.co.uk/admiralreport.htm . This Francis Blake who was married to Elizabeth Porch 14 Feb 1708 at Wells. He was the son of Roger Blake and Susannah Taylor with Roger's father being Humphry the elder who married Elizabeth Upton. This Humphry was the son of Humphry Blake who married Elizabeth Giles. Continuing back this Humphrey was the son of Humphrey Blake and Agnus/Ann James. Then John Blake the elder and his wife Johan were the parents of Humphrey and this John Blake was a brother to Admiral Robert Blake. I have blogged on this line several times and I am confident that indeed this Francis Blake is related to Admiral Robert Blake.
I shall be glad to be supplied with any information relative to any of these Blakes, and particularly as to the parentage of Francis and Elizabeth Blake, and whether they were connected with the Bristol and Gloucestershire family. Francis was, I know, related to the Blakes of Spaxton, Somerset, and bore for arms, Ar. a chev. between 3 garbs, sa.
Edward Fry Wade, Axbridge, Somerset.
1. In St. Stephen's Church, Bristol, there is a marble tablet with the following inscription: "Near this place, in the same vault with his father and mother, William and Rebecca Blake, lie the remains of Richard Blake, Esquire, who died August 6th, 1829, aged 69." And above, on a small tablet, is an inscription to his widow, Anne Augusta, described as the daughter of the Very Reverend Charles Harward, of Hayne, County Devon, Dean of Chichester, etc. She died November 4th, 1847, aged 84. Arms - Ar. a chev. between 3 garbs sa. empaling gu. a crosse crosslet or. Creet - On a cap of maintenance gu. turned up erm. a martlet sa.
The will of Anne Augusta Blake was blogged:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2014/04/will-of-anne-augusta-blake-widow.html
Richard Blake, husband of Anne Augusta Blake, was the son of William and Rebecca Blake according to the memorial in St Stephen's Church, Bristol. Now, the question is, can I discover the parents of William Blake. Richard would have been born circa 1760. The coat of arms mentioned on the memorial tablet do not appear to be the registered arm of the Harward family. The first mentioned coat of arms does belong to the Blake family. An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families ....., volume 2 has "Gu. on a cross croslet arg. betw. four gouttes d'eau five annulets az. Harward, Hayne, Co. Devon; a heiress m. Blake." I have little knowledge of heraldry although I am starting to look at a little because of the Blake coats of arms. I did find on Family Search the baptism of Richard Blake 1 Dec 1760 at Bristol with parents William and Rebecca Blake. They also baptized a son William 3 Dec 1757 and a daughter Rebecca 21 Apr 1759 both at Bristol. Interestingly there is a marriage of a William Blake to Rebecca Milles 12 Jun 1754 at Duloe, Cornwall. Since this is a known Blake area it is possible that this line is from Cornwall. There is a will for William Blake (1792) at Bristol to come.
2. In St. Werburgh's Church, Bristol, there was this inscription: "To the memory of Mr Richard Blake, many years an inhabitant of this parish, who died the 3rd day of January, 1771, aged 70. In the same vault where his remains are deposited, also are interred Mary Blake, his mother, Samuel and Mary Greenway, whose ony daughter he married, and five of his children, who died in their infancy. Likewise the remains of Mary, his wife, who died the 21st October, 1781, aged 82."
I found this reference most interesting as I am in the midst of transcribing the will of Mary, the widow of this Richard Blake who was the father of Susanna Woodward and Hannah Deverell. The mother of this Richard was Mary Greenway and in the will of Mary there is mention of a Joseph Greenway. Put together with the reference at Chipping Sodbury, is this the same family? That Richard would have been born circa 1646, died 1724 (aged 78). Chipping Sodbury is nine miles ENE of Bristol. Still to come is the will of Richard Blake who died in 1771 and another Richard Blake will from 1642 which may help to fill this family line in.
3. In Chipping Sodbury Church there are (or were) the following inscriptions: " To the memory of his father, Richard Blake, late of this town, and of his brothers Joseph and Samuel, whose remains are interred near this place. This monument is erected by Richard Blake, of the city of Bristol." "In memory of Richard Blake, Senior, who was buried April 19th, A.D. 1724, aged 78." "In memory of Joseph Blake, son of Richard and Mary Blake, of this borough, who deceased the 18th day of May, A.D. 1715, in the 23rd year of his age." "Thomas Coombe died September 26th, 1724, aged 42. Joanna Coombe, his wife, died February 27, 1748/49, aged 63. Joanna Blake, relict of Robert Blake, and daughter of Thomas and Joanna Coombe, died April 20th, 1790, aged 82."
From Aubrey's Collections for North Wilts I find that Robert Hungerford, of Studley, near Calne, by his will (1754) bequeated his parsonage of Avon (between Chippenham and Christian Malford) to his nephew George, after of Studley, for his life - in tail to Robert Blake, of Sodbury, who had married one of his nieces.
4. In St. John's Church, Glastonbury, there was an inscription to Elizabeth, the wife of Francis Blake, of Clifton, Gent.; she died January 1st, 1736, aged 50. This Francis Blake died at Glastonbury in 1768, having been ten times mayor of that borough, from 1717 to 1768. He had a son William, who predeceased him, having resided in the parish of Clifton.
For Francis Blake buried at Glastonbury this is a known Blake line which is collateral to the Admiral Robert Blake line according to the Potbury Blake website: http://www.portbury-hundred.co.uk/admiralreport.htm . This Francis Blake who was married to Elizabeth Porch 14 Feb 1708 at Wells. He was the son of Roger Blake and Susannah Taylor with Roger's father being Humphry the elder who married Elizabeth Upton. This Humphry was the son of Humphry Blake who married Elizabeth Giles. Continuing back this Humphrey was the son of Humphrey Blake and Agnus/Ann James. Then John Blake the elder and his wife Johan were the parents of Humphrey and this John Blake was a brother to Admiral Robert Blake. I have blogged on this line several times and I am confident that indeed this Francis Blake is related to Admiral Robert Blake.
I shall be glad to be supplied with any information relative to any of these Blakes, and particularly as to the parentage of Francis and Elizabeth Blake, and whether they were connected with the Bristol and Gloucestershire family. Francis was, I know, related to the Blakes of Spaxton, Somerset, and bore for arms, Ar. a chev. between 3 garbs, sa.
Edward Fry Wade, Axbridge, Somerset.
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