Joseph Blake, the testator, is married to Ursula and this is perhaps the marriage of Joseph Blake and Ursula Lock 7 Mar 1791 at St George, Hanover Square (Pimlico mentioned in the will is in this parish).
Joseph mentions his brothers Benjamin of Hillingdon and William of Gosport and a deceased brother James. He also mentions three sisters unnamed at this point in the will. His brother James had a son Benjamin also a legatee in the will.
Mary Day mother of John Day is one of his sisters. I did not yet find a marriage of a Mary Blake to John Day.
An interesting tree online has a Joseph Blake marrying a Temperance Trimby 25 Jan 1777 at St Peter's Stourton Wiltshire and the groom was of Boldre, Southampton. This Temperance was buried 15 Jun 1790 at New Windsor, Berkshire. The groom was a millwright of Boldre. Interesting although it is still quite a long way from Gosport where William Blake his brother is located.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 7 Apr 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1608/17
Testator: Joseph Blake, Gentleman
Place: New Windsor, Berkshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 13 Aug 1818, probated 3 Sep 1818
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Condition: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Joseph
[Margin]: Blake
[Margin]: 7
1 This is the last Will and Testament of me Joseph Blake
2 of New Windsor in the County of Berks Gentleman I give and bequeath unto my dear wife Ursula
3 Blake the Interest of all and singular my principal monies standing in my Name in the Five per
4 cent Navy Annuities To hold to her and her assigns for and during the Term of her natural life
5 And from and after her decease then I give and bequeath the same and every part thereof to my
6 two Brothers Benjamin Blake of Hillingdon in the County of Middlesex Yeoman and William
7 Blake of Gosport in the County of Hants Yeoman To hold to them and the Survivor of them
8 share and share alike for and during the Term of their natural lives and from and after the
9 decease of both my said Brothers the said Benjamin Blake and William Blake then I give and
10 bequeath all and every my Principal money standing in my Name in the said Five per Cent
11 Navy Annuities equally between and amongst the Eldest Sons of my late Brother James Blake
12 the said Benjamin Blake and my late three Sisters as shall be then living To hold to them and
13 their assigns share and share alike (save and except a certain Legacy hereinafter mentioned) I give unto my
14 Ex[ecutr]ix and Ex[ecut]or hereinafter mentioned all that my Leaseholds House and premises situate at Pimlico
15 in the County of Middlesex now in the occupation of Mrs Pitt which I hold of the Right honorable Earl
16 Grosvenor To hold to them and the Survivor of them upon trust to sell and dispose of the same either by public
17 Sale or private contract and the Money thereby arising I direct to be vested in the Bank of England
18 in the said Five per Cent Navy Annuities in their joint Names for the benefit of my said wife Ursula
19 Blake for and during the Term of her natural life and from and after her decease then I give and
20 bequeath the said Money arising from such Sale to such person and persons and in the same
21 manner as I have hereinbefore disposed of my other personal property I give unto my
22 Nephew John Day Son of John and Mary Day (after the death of my said wife) the Sum of
23 two hundred pounds and as to the rest and residue of my personal Estate of what nature or kind
24 soever ready Money Securities for Money household Furniture and every other thing whatever
25 I give and bequeath unto my said dear Wife subject to the payment of all my just debts Funeral
26 and Testamentary Expences I nominate constitute and appoint my said dear Wife and my good
27 Friend William Mallison of Windsor Castle in the said County of Berks Gentleman Ex[ecutr]ix and Ex[ecut]or
28 of this my will hereby revoking all former wills by me at any time heretofore made and declaring
30 this to be my last In witness whereof I the said Joseph Blake the Testator hath hereunto set
31 my hand and Seal the thirtyieth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
32 hundred and eighteen J. Blake Signed Sealed published and declared by the said
33 Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who in his presence at his
34 request and in the presence of each other have subscribed our Names as witness hereto Geo:
35 Hyde New Windsor Berks Taylor I B Watmore Sol[icito]r Windsor Berks
36 Proved at London 3d Sept[embe]r 1818 before the worshipful Samuel Rush Meyrick doctor of Laws and Surr[ogate] by the
37 Oaths of Ursula Blake the Relict and William Mallinson (in the will William Mallison) the Ex[ecut]ors
38 to whom adm[inistrati]on was granted being first sworn duly to adm[iniste]r
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Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Will of James Blake, late Brewer Romsey Extra formerly Gosport - National Archives 11/2126/302, probated 5 Feb 1851
James Blake is the testator and I do not know the ancestry of James. He is involved in the brewery business though which reminds me of the Robert Blake line at Andover/John Blake line at Abbots Ann. He is not likely a descendant of Charles Blake just because I know the line of James son of Charles Blake and Jane Gilbert. This nine page will (from the National Archives copy) is the most detailed I have seen with regard to management of a trust fund for his family. James has been most precise. He has not mentioned any siblings intentionally but the reference to Thomas Blake Barrow allowed me to find a likely sister Elizabeth (mother of Thomas Blake Barrow). Later in my researching I will try to pinpoint the family line as also there is a mention of the King family which might be helpful.
James Blake married Mary Naish 19 Sep 1809 at Romsey (M13669-3 Family Search). Samuel was baptized 29 Oct 1810 (RG4_0401 Family Search) son of James and Mary Blake. Mary Anne Blake was baptized 29 Dec 1816 at Gosport daughter of James Blake and Mary Nash. James Blake son of James and Mary Blake baptized 4 Apr 1819 at Portsea (I04385-6 Family Search). Alfred Blake 21 Jul 1824 at High Street Independent Gosport with a date of birth 19 Dec 1819. Eliza Blake was baptized 21 Jul 1824 at the same place with a date of birth 14 Feb 1822. Frederick William Blake was baptized 24 Jul 1824 at Gosport (RG4_0401). Thomas Naish Blake was baptized 22 Mar 1827 at Gosport son of James and Mary Blake. Thomas Naish is on the 1841 census at living at High Street, Newport with the Silcock family (Obadiah and Elizabeth) as well as George Granger and Sarah Saunders. Obadiah Silcock is a grocer and Thomas is a visitor. Interestingly right next door is John Blake with his wife Caroline L Blake, son William G Blake, son Robert Ellmon Blake and he is a brush maker (2 servants and Hannah White who is 60 and independent). Perhaps a coincidence as there are a number of Blake families living on the Isle of Wight. In 1891 Thomas Naish Blake is married to Fanny (37 years of age) and he is a brewer and it is said he was born at Alverstoke Hampshire. He was married at Chelsea to Fannie Leahy june quarter 1880. He was buried at Alverstoke at the age of 79 years march quarter 1906.
There are several James Blake born in this area between 1750 and 1790 so will need more information before I can locate him into a particular family line.
There was a Thomas Blake Barrow christened 15 Oct 1769 at Saint Marys Portsea son of Thomas Barrow (C06261-1 Family Search). I find a marriage 1 Sep 1768 of Thomas Barrow and Elizabeth Blake at Saint Marys Portsea. He appears to have been buried 27 Nov 1824 at Alverstoke (I04160-3 Family Search). There isn't a birth near to that time and James does mention the will of Thomas Blake Barrow. If it is the same person christening in 1769 then he would be 55 years of age in 1824.This will is online at the National Archives and I have now purchased the same. Although I had decided not to veer from my straight course through the Blake wills of Hampshire, I will transcribe this will next although it will follow the wills of Peter Blake and Alexander Blake which I have transcribed in order thus far and prepared for the next two postings. Since it is 13 pages I may not have it ready by Saturday but time will tell.
The S & T N Blake Brewery continued in business until 1947 and was located at South Cross Street, Gosport. Mentioned in the History, Gazetteer and Directory of the county of Hampshire (by William White). Mentioned in the writeup on the Church at Gosport (page 16) At the corner of Upper South Street and South Cross Street there was Blake's Brewery, and there was a Malt house near the corner of New Road (Holy Trinity Gosport in the County of Hampshire, Church, Parish and People 1696 - 1954 by Catherine M Barclay).
http://www.breweryhistory.com/Defunct/Pics/HantsGosportBritannia.htm
This is a picture of the front of Blake's Brewery on South Cross Street Gosport.
Just as a verification of the public acclaim of Blake Brewery in Gosport the following from webpage:
http://www.tilesoc.org.uk/tile-gazetteer/hampshire.html
Gosport’s own breweries, notably Blake’s, also attempted to entice customers into their pubs with colourful ceramics. Of their thirty Gosport pubs, the King’s Head in Brockhurst Road and the former Royal Oak in Avery Lane (both west of the centre), and the Royal Arms in Stoke Road (west of the High Street) have fancy displays of tiling in green and yellow featuring the Blake’s name.
And perhaps the most helpful in my searching thus far is this particular document:
coastlinemarch2011.pdf
which states: Of the breweries which no longer remain, the most significant must be that of James Blake and Thomas Barrow: South Cross Street Brewery, c. 1814 to 1935, the largest commercial brewery formerly on the site of Gosport’s Police Station and Magistrates’ Court. Which rather answers the question of how Thomas Barrow was involved with James Blake. He was his brother in law. Discovering who James Blake is in terms of his parents will have to wait for the moment.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 1 Oct 2012
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/2126/302
Name of testator: James Blake, Gentleman, late Brewer of Romsey Extra
Place: Romsey Extra, Hampshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Dated:, 25 Dec 1847, probated 5 Feb 1851
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Condition: cramped English writing, 19th century, bold copy
[In margin] James
[In margin] Blake
[In margin] 69
1 This is the last Will and Testament
2 of me James Blake late of Gosport in the County of Southampton
3 Brewer but now of Greatbridge in the Parish of Romsey Extra in the
4 same County Gentleman I give to my dear wife Mary Blake all my
5 household furniture plate linen china books pictures and other house
6 hold effects to and for her own absolute use I also give to my said
7 dear wife the sum of one hundred pounds to and for her own im-
8 mediate use Whereas a part of the premises whereon my business of
9 a Brewer at Gosport aforesaid is carried on is held by me under a
10 contract for or purchase thereof from the executors or other Trustees
11 of the will of the late Mr. Thomas Blake Barrow at a price of one
12 thousand pounds but intermediately to the completion of such contract
13 as Tenant only thereof at a cost equal to the interest on the said
14 purchase money and a further portion of the said premises is subject
15 as to one part thereof to a mortgage in favor of John Naish for a
16 sum of three hundred and fifty pounds and as to the other part
17 thereof namely the dwelling house in which I lately resided adjoin-
18 ing the said Brewery and forming par thereof to a mortgage in favor
19 of Thomas Naish of four hundred and fifty pounds besides interest on
20 the same principal sums respectively Now in case such purchase shall
21 not have been completed at my death I direct my Trustees and execu-
22 tors hereinafter named as soon as conveniently may be after my de-
23 cease by and out of my estate other than the premises wherein my
24 said business at Gosport is carried on as aforesaid or the stock in Trade
25 capital and effects employed by me in such business and other than
26 the dwelling house in which I lately resided to complete the said pur-
27 chase by payment of the purchase money and the expenses of such
28 completion and I direct them also out of the same funds to pay
29 my general debts and my funeral and testamentary expenses But I
30 direct that the debts owing by me in the same business shall be
31 paid out of the capital employed in the said business and I direct my
32 Trustees to obtain the necessary conveyance of the premises the com-
33 pletion of the purchase whereof shall be so made either to themselves
34 or otherwise as occasion may under the provision herein after made
35 require I give to the said Mary Blake and to my son Frederick Wil-
36 liam Blake and John Richard King of the Town and County of the
37 Town of Southampton Brewer and Spirit Merchant and George
38 Turner the younger of Portsea in the said County of Southampton
39 Draper their heirs executors and administrators all my real estate wha-t
40 soever and wheresoever (inclusive of the premises the subject of the
41 contract for purchase where I have hereinbefore directed the com-
42 pletion and the aforesaid premises wherein my business is carried on
43 and my dwelling house and All my personal Estate other than
44 that herein before specifically bequeathed as aforesaid To hold the
45 same real and personal estate to them their heirs executors and ad-
46 ministrators according to the respective natures of the same upon the
47 Trusts and for the intents and purposes following (that is to say) Up-
48 on Trust to call in and convert into money my said personal estate
49 and stand possessed thereof for the intent and purposes hereinafter
50 declared and upon further Trust that the Trustees or Trustee for the
51 time being hereof do and shall pay or otherwise permit and suffer
52 the said Mary Blake to receive and take the rents and profits of
53 my said real estate (subject nevertheless as to the said premises where
54 in my business is carried on and the several Public Houses Malt
55 houses and premises connected therewith to the provisions herein
56 after contained) for and during the Term of her natural life she
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57 nevertheless keeping doing and discharging the interest which may
58 from time to time accrue due on any mortgages or principal sums
59 charges or secures thereon respectively and after her decease Upon
60 Trust that the Trustees or Trustee for the time being of this my will do
61 and shall convert my said real estate into money and for that purpose
62 (subject as to my Brewery business at Gosport aforesaid the the proper-
63 ty counsisted therewith and my several messuages public houses and
64 malt houses to the provisions hereinafter contained giving to my
65 sons Samuel and Thomas Naish the right of presumption thereof
66 upon the conditions hereinafter mentioned) do and shall make sale
67 and dispose of so much of the same real and personal estate as shall
68 not consist of money or securities for money hereinafter described at
69 such time and in such parts and with such condition and whether
70 by public auction or private contract and in such manner in all res-
71 pects as to the Trustees or Trustee for the time being of this my will
72 shall seem meet with power to my said Trustees or Trustee to com-
73 pound for any debt which may be owing to me at my decease or
74 accept security for the same and to submit to arbitration any ques-
75 tion which may arise in relation to my estate and the better to
76 enable them to obtain payment of any money which may be
77 owing to me on mortgage I give to my Trustees their heirs executors
78 and administrators according to their respective natures the estates
79 vested in me on mortgage and in case my sons Samuel Blake
80 and Thomas Naish Blake or either of them should be desirous of
81 continuing and carrying on upon the conditions hereinafter men-
82 tioned the business of a Brewer carried on by me at Gosport afore-
83 said and of such desire shall on my decease give notice to my said
84 Trustees I direct that immediately upon my decease a valuation
85 be put upon the Brewery and premises whereon such business is
86 so carried on including therein the portion thereof the purchase
87 whereof I have herein before directed to be completed and also the
88 dwelling house in which I lately resided in South Street Gosport
89 and also including the plant utensils stock in trade and effects em-
90 ployed by me in the said business and the debts due from and in res-
91 pect of the said business but I direct that in respect of the Goodwill
92 of the said business no valuation shall be put upon the same as
93 in reference to my said two sons but instead thereof and as a com-
94 pensation for the same there shall be paid to my said wife du-
95 ring her lifetime out of the profits of the said business one clear
96 yearly annuity of one hundred and fifty pounds by equal quarterly
97 payments from the time of my decease Provided nevertheless and
98 I hereby direct that out of the provision made by this my will
99 for my said wife I direct my said Trustees during the life of my
100 said wife to pay to each of my daughters Mary Ann Blake and
101 Eliza Blake the sum of one hundred pounds per annum during
102 such time as each of my said daughters shall remain sole and
103 unmarried Provided and I hereby declare that the said Samuel
104 Blake in the event of his electing jointly with the said Thomas
105 Naish Blake to purchase and carry on the said business upon the
106 Terms herein mentioned shall submit my said son Thomas Naish
107 Blake into Partnership in the said business and to an equal share
108 and participation in the net profits thereof upon being thereunto
109 requested by the said Thomas Naish Blake and upon condition
110 that the said Thomas Naish Blake shall consent to the several
111 payments out of his moiety of the profits of the said business here-
112 inafter mentioned and also on condition of the said Thomas Naish
113 Blake contributing equally with the said Samuel Blake in the
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114 payment of the aforesaid annual sums to my said wife and in the
115 event of my dying before the said Thomas Naish Blake shall have
116 attained the age of twenty seven years I direct that the said Tho-
117 mas Naish shall pay unto the Trustees or Trustee of this my will
118 such portion of his moiety of the net profits of the said Trade or
119 Business as shall exceed the sum of three hundred pounds in each
120 and every year until he shall attain the age of twenty seven
121 years and from thenceforth shall in like manner pay to my said
122 Trustees or Trustee such portion of his moiety of the net profits of
123 the said Trade or Business as shall exceed the sum of five hundred
124 pounds in each and every year until the said Thomas Naish Blake
125 shall attain the age of Thirty years and from thenceforth shall in
126 like manner pay to my said Trustees or Trustee such portions of his
127 moiety of the net profits of the said Trade or Business as shall ex-
128 ceed the sum of six hundred pounds in each and every year until
129 the said Thomas Naish Blake shall attain the age of thirty five
130 years at which time the whole moiety of the net profits of the said
131 Business shall belong to the said Thomas Naish Blake such sev-
132 eral sums to be paid by equal half yearly payments the first payment
133 thereof to be made at the expiration of six calendar months from
134 the time when the said Thomas Naish Blake shall become pos-
135 sessed of a share in the said business and I direct and declare that
136 the Trustees and Trustee of this my will shall stand possessed of the
137 said several sums of money so directed to be paid to them by my
138 said son Thomas Naish Blake out of his share of the profits of
139 the said business in manner last aforesaid Upon Trust to invest
140 the same in Government or real securities and to pay the interest
141 dividends and proceeds thereof to my said wife for her life and af-
142 ter her decease Upon Trust to pay either from the principal
143 trust so to be invested or form the interest or dividends thereof as the
144 case may require unto each of my said daughters Mary Ann Blake
145 and Eliza Blake so much and such sum or sums of money yearly
146 and every year as shall added to and united with interest at the
147 rate of five pounds per centum per annum on their shares in the
148 said Trust funds hereinafter bequeathed to them be necessary to
149 make up to each of them an annual sum of one hundred and
150 fifty pounds so long as they my said daughters shall respectively
151 remain sole and unmarried and so soon as the principal sums to
152 be invested by my said Trustees as lastly hereinbefore mentioned
153 shall be in amount sufficient to secure to each of my said daughters
154 when added to and united with interest at five pounds per centum
155 per annum on their shares in the Trust funds bequeathed to them
156 respectively by this my will the annual Income of one hundred and
157 fifty pounds Then I direct that my said Trustees shall pay and di-
158 vide the surplus of the said monies so to be paid to them by the
159 said Thomas Naish Blake as aforesaid equally unto between
160 and amongst my five several children Mary Ann Blake James
161 Blake Alfred Blake Eliza Blake and Frederick Blake and
162 and on the marriage of either or both of my said daughters I direct
163 that my said Trustees shall pay and divide the principal monies
164 invested for the purpose of increasing as aforesaid the Income
165 until marriage of such daughter or daughters so marrying equal-
166 ly unto between and amongst my said five several last named
167 children and on the death of either or both of them my said
168 daughters whilst unmarried I direct my said Trustees to pay and
169 divide the said last mentioned principal monies unto between and
170 amongst the survivors or survivor of them my said last named
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171 five several children And I further direct and declare that in case
172 the said Trade or Business shall be carried on after my decease by the
173 said Samuel Blake and not by the said Samuel Blake and Thomas Naish Blake in
174 copartnership the said Samuel Blake shall pay to my said Trustees
175 or Trustee such sum or sums of money as the said Thomas Naish
176 Blake would have been required to pay to my said Trustees or Trus-
177 tees respect of his share of the profits of the said Trade or business
178 pursuant to the direction lastly herein before contained in case the
179 said Thomas Naish Blake had carried on or joined in carrying on
180 the said Trade or business after my decease and my said Trustees or
181 Trustee shall stand possessed of the monies so to be paid by the said
182 Samuel Blake in manner last aforesaid Upon the same Trustees
183 are hereinbefore declared respecting the monies directed to be paid
184 by the said Thomas Naish Blake as last aforesaid And I direct
185 that the valuation hereinbefore directed to be made shall be made
186 by two valuers or an Umpire and according to the usual course
187 of valluation one of the valuers therein being nominated by my
188 Trustees or Trustee for the time being and the other by my said
189 sons or my son desiring to purchase as aforesaid and the Umpire
190 to be elected by the valuers and I direct that the property the subject
191 of such valuation shall be offered by way of sale and in priority
192 to any other sale thereof at the amount of such valuation in equal
193 proportions to my said two sons Samuel and Thomas Naish or
194 in case either of them shall decline to purchase or shall have
195 previously died than to the other of them and (should my said sons
196 of son for the purpose of this my will require an investment of
197 such portion of the trust funds thereof) upon the terms of the
198 whole purchase money for the same being allowed during their
199 direction of the Trustees or Trustee for the time being hereof and
200 the continuance of such purposes to remain on the security of
201 mortgage of the premises so to be purchased and the Warrant
202 of Attorney of my said sons or son in such sum as my Trustees or
203 Trustee shall think right for further collaterally serving such
204 purchase money and also for serving the said annuity payable
205 to my said wife during her life And I declare that subject to the
206 purposes of security affording any unforseen or particular occa-
207 sion for calling the same in (of which emergency however I
208 constitute my Trustees or Trustee for the time being sole Arbiters)
209 It is my desire that such purchase money shall be allowed to
210 remain on such security during the lifetime of my said wife
211 Provided nevertheless and I hereby direct that all such purchase
212 money as aforesaid shall bear interest at the rate of five pounds
213 per centum per annum and be secured by proper deeds of mort-
214 gage to my said Trustees and with powers of sale for better secu-
215 ring the principal monies and interest the subject thereof and pore-
216 ces of distress for securing the interest and with the usual cove-
217 nant for payment of the mortgage money so to be acrured and
218 convenants for the insurance and keeping in repair of the premises
219 and with provision giving to my said Trustees acces to and
220 liberty of inspecting the books of the said Brewery Business to
221 be carried on by my said son or sons on the said premises and
222 I also direct that in the event of my said son Thomas Naish
223 Blake becoming a partner with my said son Samuel he shall
224 secure the payment of the said several sums hereby stipulated
225 to be paid to my said Trustees out of the moiety or half part of
226 the net profits of him the said Thomas Naish Blake of and in
227 the said Trade or Business by this Warrant of Attorney in such
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228 sum of money as my said Trustees shall require and shall also
229 join with my said son Samuel in a Warrant of Attorney to secure
230 the annual sum herebefore given to my said wife out of the
231 profits of the said Business and in case my said son Samuel shall
232 alone carry on the said Trade or Business then I direct that he
233 shall secure the payment of the said annual sums so hereby
234 directed to be paid to my said Trustees by my said son Thomas
235 Naish Blake by his Warrant of Attorney and in case my said
236 sons Samuel and Thomas Naish or either of them shall elect to
237 carry on the said Trade or Business of a Brewer on the Terms
238 and conditions hereinbefore mentioned Then I direct that the
239 same persons or person who shall be appointed to make and shall
240 make the before mentioned valuation shall also put a valuation
241 separately upon each of the messuages or public houses malthouses
242 and premises belonging to me in Gosport Bingham Town and the
243 neighbourhood or otherwise belonging to or enjoyed by me in
244 connection with the business of a Brewer carried on by me at
245 Gosport aforesaid and that a fair rental shall by the same per-
246 sons or person be affixed to each of the said last mentioned
247 messuages or public houses malt houses and premises and I direct
248 that a Lease of the said several messuages public houses malt
249 houses and premises shall be executed to my sons or son who
250 shall have elected to carry on the said Business of a Brewer as
251 aforesaid by the Trustees of this my will for a Term to expire at
252 the end of five years after the decease of my said wife at the
253 rental to be affixed to the same premises by the said valuers du-
254 ring the lifetime of my said wife and after her decease at a
255 rental which shall be equivalent to Interest at the rate of five
256 pounds per cent per annum upon the amount of valuation which
257 shall be affixed to the said messuages public houses malt hou-
258 ses and premises by the said valuers and which said Lease
259 shall contain all usual and necessary clauses and covenants and
260 especially covenants on the part of the Lessees or Lessee for pay-
261 ment of rent and taxes and for keeping the said hereditaments in
262 good and tenantable repair and Insured from loss by fire at the
263 amount of the said valuation thereof and the said Lease shall
264 also contain a covenant on the part of the said Lessees or Lessee to
265 become the purchasers or purchaser of the said messuages public
266 houses malt houses and premises thereby intended to be demised at
267 the expiration of five years from the decease of my said wife at the
268 amount of the valuation which shall be put upon the same immedi-
269 ately after my decease as aforesaid and I direct that on payment of
270 the amount of such last mentioned valuation the Trustees of this my
271 will have convey and assure the said several messuages public houses
272 malt houses and premises to my said sons or son who shall have
273 executed the said Lease or a counterpart thereof Provided always
274 and in case my said sons Samuel and Thomas Naish or either of them
275 shall not within the space of Two Calendar months after such valua-
276 tion as aforesaid shall have been made have elected to exercise their
277 right of pre emption hereinbefore provided for and have communicated
278 such election to the Trustees or Trustee for the time being hereof Then
279 I direct and declare that it shall and may be lawful for the Trustees or
280 Trustee for the time being of this my will and I do hereby authorize
281 them him or her to cov[en]ent and carry on my said Business for the
282 purpose of carrying out the Trusts and intents of this my will in
283 reference to the provision for my said wife and daughters and I direct
284 and declare that any losses which may be sustained in carrying out
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285 my said Business by my said Trustees or Trustee shall be borne and
286 sustained by my said Trust estate unless such losses shall arise by
287 their his or her wilful neglect or default and I further declare that
288 my said Trustees or Trustee in their or his discretion shall be at
289 liberty to offer my said Brewery Business and the property connected
290 therewith and the dwelling house in which I lately resided and also all
291 my other said property in case my said sons or son shall not exercise
292 the right of pre emption thereof as aforesaid to any other person or per-
293 sons upon the same Terms and conditions as the same are hereby di-
294 rected to be offered to my said sons and to take such security for the pu-
295 rchase moneys of the same as are hereinbefore directed and authorized
296 to be taken from my said sons Provided always that in the event of
297 my said sons or either of them not exercising the right of pre-emption
298 hereinbefore given and in case my said Trustees or Trustee shall deem
299 it most expedient for the benefit of my estate absolutely to make
300 sale and dispose of the said Brewery Business and the property connect-
301 ed therewith and the dwelling house in which I lately resided and
302 the said messuages public houses malthouses and premises or any
303 part thereof either by public auction or private route act Then I direct
304 that the property as to which such election shall not have been
305 made as aforesaid or which shall not be required by my said Trus-
306 tees or Trustee for the purposes aforesaid shall become subject to the
307 general Trusts of sale and conversion hereinbefore declared thereof
308 but so nevertheless that the same Trusts may so far as regards the
309 property the subject of such election be exercised by my said Trustees or
310 Trustee in the lifetime of my said wife and I direct that no purchaser
311 under such Trusts shall be bound to enquire as to whether such
312 election shall in fact have been had and I direct my said Trustees or
313 Trustee to stand possessed of the money to be produced by every such
314 sale and conversion as last aforesaid including therein such sale to my
315 said sons or son as aforesaid and of my residuary personal estate
316 hereinbefore directed to be converted Upon the Trusts and for the pur-
317 poses hereinafter directed that is to say Upon Trust to invest the
318 same in the names of the said Trustees or Trustee in the public
319 stocks or funds of Great Britain or on Government or real Securities
320 with power from time to time to vary the securities whereon any
321 part of my estate may be from time to time invested and I direct my
322 said Trustees or Trustee to stand possessed of all such residuary monies
323 stocks funds and securities Upon Trust to pay the interest dividends
324 and annual produce thereof and the rents to be reserved on any
325 Lease granted under the aforesaid power (if any) to my said wife
326 for her life for her own sole and separate use and benefit and from
327 and after the decease of my said wife I direct my said Trustees to
328 stand possessed of the whole of the said trust funds and of the
329 money to arise from the sale of my said real estate hereinbefore di-
330 rected to be converted on the decease of my said wife In Trust for
331 such of them my seven children the said Samuel Blake Mary Ann
332 Blake James Blake Alfred Blake Eliza Blake Frederick William
333 Blake and Thomas Naish Blake as shall be living at my decease
334 and the issue then living of such of them as may have died leaving
335 issue such issue however taking only equally between them the
336 shares of their respective parents But inasmuch as I have already
337 advanced from time to time certain of my children different sums
338 of money and in different proportions and I may hereafter continue
339 in the like course of advancing I direct that what shall at my de-
340 decease be found in my private Ledger debited by me in account
341 against such children respectively shall be brought into account
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342 by such children respectively or by the issue of any deceased child by way
343 of hotchpot and set off against their shares of the said Trust funds and it
344 be allowed for by them in account by way of deductions charges accord-
345 ingly Provided always and I do hereby declare it to be my will and
346 meaning that my said son Samuel Blake and Thomas Naish Blake
347 shall not be entitled to share with their brothers and sisters any part
348 of the monies which I may have saved and accumulated out of the
349 profits of the business carried on by me at Gosport and at Ryde from
350 and after the first day of November one thousand and eight hundred and
351 forty six and which savings and accumulations will be directed and
352 shown by me by entries in my private book of account and I direct
353 that out of the monies constituting such savings and accumulations
354 the Trustees or Trustee of this my will shall pay to each of my said
355 daughters the sum of three hundred pounds or such proportionate
356 part thereof as the same will amount to and shall and do pay and
357 devise the residue of such monies equally between and amongst my
358 said two daughters and my sons James Blake Alfred Blake and Fred-
359 erick William Blake share and share alike any thing hereinbefore con-
360 tained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided further and I
361 direct that in the event of my said sons Samuel and Thomas
362 Naish or either of them exercising the option of purchase hereinbe-
363 fore given to him his share in the said Trust funds shall in the first
364 place be taken and satisfied so far as the same will extend for that
365 purpose out of the respective subjects of such purchase and in the first
366 place out of the said Brewery property the subject of the valuation first-
367 ly hereinbefore directed in priority to the said messuages and public
368 houses the subject of such further valuation as aforesaid and any
369 loss in the securities for the purchase monies of such subjects of purchase
370 respectively shall in the first place fall on the shares or share of the
371 said Samuel Blake and Thomas Naish Blake or either of them
372 electing to carry on the said business and I direct as respects the share
373 of my son Frederick William Blake in the said Trust fund, it shall be
374 lawful for my said Trustees at any time with the consent in writing
375 of my said dear wife first had and obtained to raise out of the said
376 Trust property to advance and pay to my son the said Frederick William
377 Blake a proportion not exceeding two third parts in value of the
378 share and interest of him the said Frederick William Blake under
378 my said will for the purpose of advancing him in his profession
380 otherwise he paying to any said Trustees interest for the sum so ad-
381 vanced at five per cent during the life of my said wife Provided and
382 I do hereby declare that the receipt of the Trustees or Trustee for the
383 time being hereof for any money forming part of the Trust monies
384 hereof whether payable by the purchasers of my real estate under
385 the Trusts for sale hereinbefore contained the general conversion of
386 my estate the change of the securities on which any part thereof may
387 be invested or otherwise howsoever shall be a sufficient discharge for
388 the same and no persons paying such money to such Trustees or
389 Trustee and taking the receipts in writing of such Trustees or Trustee
390 for the same shall be responsible for the application thereof Pro-
391 vided that it shall be lawful for the Trustees or Trustee for the time
392 being hereof subject as to the share of my said sons Samuel and
393 Thomas Naish in the event of their exercising the option of pre-
394 emption thereinbefore given to them as aforesaid to the declarations
395 hereinbefore contained to make any appropriation or division of
396 the securities or hereditaments in or upon which the Trust funds
397 hereof may at any time be Invested for the purpose of distribution
398 of the same among the parties was shall become entitled to any portion because
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399 of the same and all parties taking any interest hereunder shall be bound
400 by the same appropriation and that notwithstanding any subsequent fail-
401 ure or depreciation in the value of such securities or hereditaments or
402 any other loss or amount affecting the same or from any other cause
403 whatsoever and I direct and declare that in case the Trustees or
404 Trustee for the time being of this my will or any Trustees or Trustee to
405 be appointed under the present provision shall be or become unwill
406 ling or unable to act in the aforesaid trusts before the same shall be
407 fully performed then and in every such case it shall be lawful for
408 the surviving or acting Trustee or Trustees for the time being of this
409 my will of if there be none such for the unwilling or incapacitated
410 Trustees or Trustee or in case all the Trustees shall have departed
411 this life then for the executors or administrators of the last surviving
412 Trustee to nominate any fit person or persons to supply the place or
413 places of the Trustee or Trustees so dying or becoming unwilling or
414 unable to act as aforesaid and that immediately after every such
415 nomination the said Trust premises shall be conveyed and trans-
416 ferred so and in such manner as that the same may rest in the
417 surviving or continuing Trustee or Trustees and in such new Trus-
418 tees and Trustees jointly or in such new Trustee or Trustees solely as
419 the case may require and such new Trustee or Trustees shall be enti-
420 tled to exercise the same powers and authorities in relation to the
421 said Trusts as if he or they had been appointed a Trustee of Trus-
422 tees by this my will and I hereby further declare that the Trustee
423 and Trustees for the time being of this my will shall be charged
424 and chargeable only with such monies as they respectively shall
425 actually receive by virtue of the Trusts hereby reposed in them res-
426 pectively not withstanding their joining in any receipt or other ack
427 nowledgement for the sake of conformity only and shall not be answerable
428 for any Banker Broker or any other person with whom or in
429 whose hands the said Trust monies or any part thereof shall be
430 placed for safe Custody or otherwise nor for the insufferance of any security on which the
431 same shall be invested or for any other loss misfortune or dam-
432 age which may happen in the execution of the aforesaid Trusts or
433 any of them or in relation thereto except the same shall happen
434 by or through his or their own wilful default and also that it
435 shall be lawful for the said Trustees respectively by or out of the
436 monies which shall come to their hands to retain and allow to
437 each other all costs charges damages and expences and fees to
438 Counsel for advice which they respectively may sustain or expend
439 in or about the execution of the said Trusts or in relation thereto
440 And I nominate and appoint my said wife Mary Blake and the
441 said Frederick William Blake John Richard King and George
442 Turner the younger joint Executrix and Executors in Trust
443 of this my will In witness whereof I the said Testator James
444 Blake have to the first twelve sheets of this my will and also at
445 the foot or end hereof set my hand this seventh day of April in
446 the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty
447 James Blake [signed] Signed by the said Testator James Blake
448 as and for his last Will and Testament in the joint presence of
449 us who in his presence at his request and in the presence of each
450 other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses thereto
451 the several interlineations and erasures appearing in the first
452 ninth and eleventh pages hereof and also on this thirteenth and
453 last page or sheet of paper and against which we have respective-
454 ly placed our Initials having been first made Kate King [signed] of
455 Southampton Spinster James Hoskins [signed] of Gosport Solicitor
456 This
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457 This is a Codicil to the last Will and Testament of me James Blake
458 late of Gosport in the County of Southampton Brewer but now of Greatbridge
459 in the Parish of Romsey Extra in the same county Gentleman which codicil
460 bears date on or about the seventh day of April one thousand eight hundred
461 and fifty Whereas by my said will I have declared it to be my will and mean-
462 ing that my sons Samuel Blake and Thomas Naish Blake shall not be
463 entitled to share with their brothers and sisters in any part of the monies
464 which I may have saved and accumulated out of the profits or of the bus-
465 inesses carried on by me at Gosport and at Ryde from and after the first
466 day of November one thousand eight hundred and forty six and which
467 savings and accumulation would be denoted and shown by me by En-
468 tries in my private book of account and I directed that out of the monies
469 constituting such saving and accumulation the Trustee or Trustees of
470 my said will should pay to each of my said daughters the sum of three
471 hundred pounds or such proportionate part thereof as the same would
472 amount to and should pay and divide the residue of such monies
473 equally between and amongst my said two daughters and my sons
474 James Blake Alfred Blake and Frederick William Blake share and share
475 alike Now I do hereby revoke and make void the whole of the said
476 declaration in reference to the said Savings and accumulations and I
477 do hereby direct and declare it to be my will and meaning that after
478 the decease of my said wife and before the general residue of my estate
479 and effects shall be equally divided between my seven children name-
480 ly Samuel Blake Mary Ann Blake James Blake Alfred Blake Eliza
481 Blake Frederick William Blake and Thomas Naish Blake the Trustees
482 or Trustee of my said will shall pay to each of my said daughters Ma-
483 ry Ann Blake and Eliza Blake the sum of three hundred pounds to
484 and for her own absolute use and benefit And I do hereby in all
485 other respects ratify and confirm my said will In witness whereof
486 the said Testator James Blake have set and subscribed my name
487 at the foot of the first sheet hereof and at the end of this my codicil
488 the fourteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand
489 eight hundred and fifty James Blake [signed] Signed by the said testa-
490 tor James Blake as and for a Codicil to his last Will and Testament
491 in the joint presence of us who in his presence at his request and in
492 the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as
493 witnesses thereto James Hoskins [signed]Solicitor Gosport
494 Ann Croucher [signed] Servant to Mr. Blake
495 Proved at London with a Codicil 5th February 1851 before
496 the Judge by the oaths of Mary Blake widow the relict John Richard
497 King and George Turner the Younger three of the executors to whom
498 Admon was granted having been first sworn by Commission duly to
499 Administer Frederick William Blake the son the other executor and
500 one of the Residuary Legatees In Trust having first renounced as
501 well the probate and execution of the said will and codicil as Letters
502 of Admon (with the said will and codicil annexed) of the Goods of the
503 said deceased (as by Acts of Court appears).
James Blake married Mary Naish 19 Sep 1809 at Romsey (M13669-3 Family Search). Samuel was baptized 29 Oct 1810 (RG4_0401 Family Search) son of James and Mary Blake. Mary Anne Blake was baptized 29 Dec 1816 at Gosport daughter of James Blake and Mary Nash. James Blake son of James and Mary Blake baptized 4 Apr 1819 at Portsea (I04385-6 Family Search). Alfred Blake 21 Jul 1824 at High Street Independent Gosport with a date of birth 19 Dec 1819. Eliza Blake was baptized 21 Jul 1824 at the same place with a date of birth 14 Feb 1822. Frederick William Blake was baptized 24 Jul 1824 at Gosport (RG4_0401). Thomas Naish Blake was baptized 22 Mar 1827 at Gosport son of James and Mary Blake. Thomas Naish is on the 1841 census at living at High Street, Newport with the Silcock family (Obadiah and Elizabeth) as well as George Granger and Sarah Saunders. Obadiah Silcock is a grocer and Thomas is a visitor. Interestingly right next door is John Blake with his wife Caroline L Blake, son William G Blake, son Robert Ellmon Blake and he is a brush maker (2 servants and Hannah White who is 60 and independent). Perhaps a coincidence as there are a number of Blake families living on the Isle of Wight. In 1891 Thomas Naish Blake is married to Fanny (37 years of age) and he is a brewer and it is said he was born at Alverstoke Hampshire. He was married at Chelsea to Fannie Leahy june quarter 1880. He was buried at Alverstoke at the age of 79 years march quarter 1906.
There are several James Blake born in this area between 1750 and 1790 so will need more information before I can locate him into a particular family line.
There was a Thomas Blake Barrow christened 15 Oct 1769 at Saint Marys Portsea son of Thomas Barrow (C06261-1 Family Search). I find a marriage 1 Sep 1768 of Thomas Barrow and Elizabeth Blake at Saint Marys Portsea. He appears to have been buried 27 Nov 1824 at Alverstoke (I04160-3 Family Search). There isn't a birth near to that time and James does mention the will of Thomas Blake Barrow. If it is the same person christening in 1769 then he would be 55 years of age in 1824.This will is online at the National Archives and I have now purchased the same. Although I had decided not to veer from my straight course through the Blake wills of Hampshire, I will transcribe this will next although it will follow the wills of Peter Blake and Alexander Blake which I have transcribed in order thus far and prepared for the next two postings. Since it is 13 pages I may not have it ready by Saturday but time will tell.
The S & T N Blake Brewery continued in business until 1947 and was located at South Cross Street, Gosport. Mentioned in the History, Gazetteer and Directory of the county of Hampshire (by William White). Mentioned in the writeup on the Church at Gosport (page 16) At the corner of Upper South Street and South Cross Street there was Blake's Brewery, and there was a Malt house near the corner of New Road (Holy Trinity Gosport in the County of Hampshire, Church, Parish and People 1696 - 1954 by Catherine M Barclay).
http://www.breweryhistory.com/Defunct/Pics/HantsGosportBritannia.htm
This is a picture of the front of Blake's Brewery on South Cross Street Gosport.
Just as a verification of the public acclaim of Blake Brewery in Gosport the following from webpage:
http://www.tilesoc.org.uk/tile-gazetteer/hampshire.html
Gosport’s own breweries, notably Blake’s, also attempted to entice customers into their pubs with colourful ceramics. Of their thirty Gosport pubs, the King’s Head in Brockhurst Road and the former Royal Oak in Avery Lane (both west of the centre), and the Royal Arms in Stoke Road (west of the High Street) have fancy displays of tiling in green and yellow featuring the Blake’s name.
And perhaps the most helpful in my searching thus far is this particular document:
coastlinemarch2011.pdf
which states: Of the breweries which no longer remain, the most significant must be that of James Blake and Thomas Barrow: South Cross Street Brewery, c. 1814 to 1935, the largest commercial brewery formerly on the site of Gosport’s Police Station and Magistrates’ Court. Which rather answers the question of how Thomas Barrow was involved with James Blake. He was his brother in law. Discovering who James Blake is in terms of his parents will have to wait for the moment.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 1 Oct 2012
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/2126/302
Name of testator: James Blake, Gentleman, late Brewer of Romsey Extra
Place: Romsey Extra, Hampshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Dated:, 25 Dec 1847, probated 5 Feb 1851
Read: Electronic file images
Condition: cramped English writing, 19th century, bold copy
[In margin] James
[In margin] Blake
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1 This is the last Will and Testament
2 of me James Blake late of Gosport in the County of Southampton
3 Brewer but now of Greatbridge in the Parish of Romsey Extra in the
4 same County Gentleman I give to my dear wife Mary Blake all my
5 household furniture plate linen china books pictures and other house
6 hold effects to and for her own absolute use I also give to my said
7 dear wife the sum of one hundred pounds to and for her own im-
8 mediate use Whereas a part of the premises whereon my business of
9 a Brewer at Gosport aforesaid is carried on is held by me under a
10 contract for or purchase thereof from the executors or other Trustees
11 of the will of the late Mr. Thomas Blake Barrow at a price of one
12 thousand pounds but intermediately to the completion of such contract
13 as Tenant only thereof at a cost equal to the interest on the said
14 purchase money and a further portion of the said premises is subject
15 as to one part thereof to a mortgage in favor of John Naish for a
16 sum of three hundred and fifty pounds and as to the other part
17 thereof namely the dwelling house in which I lately resided adjoin-
18 ing the said Brewery and forming par thereof to a mortgage in favor
19 of Thomas Naish of four hundred and fifty pounds besides interest on
20 the same principal sums respectively Now in case such purchase shall
21 not have been completed at my death I direct my Trustees and execu-
22 tors hereinafter named as soon as conveniently may be after my de-
23 cease by and out of my estate other than the premises wherein my
24 said business at Gosport is carried on as aforesaid or the stock in Trade
25 capital and effects employed by me in such business and other than
26 the dwelling house in which I lately resided to complete the said pur-
27 chase by payment of the purchase money and the expenses of such
28 completion and I direct them also out of the same funds to pay
29 my general debts and my funeral and testamentary expenses But I
30 direct that the debts owing by me in the same business shall be
31 paid out of the capital employed in the said business and I direct my
32 Trustees to obtain the necessary conveyance of the premises the com-
33 pletion of the purchase whereof shall be so made either to themselves
34 or otherwise as occasion may under the provision herein after made
35 require I give to the said Mary Blake and to my son Frederick Wil-
36 liam Blake and John Richard King of the Town and County of the
37 Town of Southampton Brewer and Spirit Merchant and George
38 Turner the younger of Portsea in the said County of Southampton
39 Draper their heirs executors and administrators all my real estate wha-t
40 soever and wheresoever (inclusive of the premises the subject of the
41 contract for purchase where I have hereinbefore directed the com-
42 pletion and the aforesaid premises wherein my business is carried on
43 and my dwelling house and All my personal Estate other than
44 that herein before specifically bequeathed as aforesaid To hold the
45 same real and personal estate to them their heirs executors and ad-
46 ministrators according to the respective natures of the same upon the
47 Trusts and for the intents and purposes following (that is to say) Up-
48 on Trust to call in and convert into money my said personal estate
49 and stand possessed thereof for the intent and purposes hereinafter
50 declared and upon further Trust that the Trustees or Trustee for the
51 time being hereof do and shall pay or otherwise permit and suffer
52 the said Mary Blake to receive and take the rents and profits of
53 my said real estate (subject nevertheless as to the said premises where
54 in my business is carried on and the several Public Houses Malt
55 houses and premises connected therewith to the provisions herein
56 after contained) for and during the Term of her natural life she
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57 nevertheless keeping doing and discharging the interest which may
58 from time to time accrue due on any mortgages or principal sums
59 charges or secures thereon respectively and after her decease Upon
60 Trust that the Trustees or Trustee for the time being of this my will do
61 and shall convert my said real estate into money and for that purpose
62 (subject as to my Brewery business at Gosport aforesaid the the proper-
63 ty counsisted therewith and my several messuages public houses and
64 malt houses to the provisions hereinafter contained giving to my
65 sons Samuel and Thomas Naish the right of presumption thereof
66 upon the conditions hereinafter mentioned) do and shall make sale
67 and dispose of so much of the same real and personal estate as shall
68 not consist of money or securities for money hereinafter described at
69 such time and in such parts and with such condition and whether
70 by public auction or private contract and in such manner in all res-
71 pects as to the Trustees or Trustee for the time being of this my will
72 shall seem meet with power to my said Trustees or Trustee to com-
73 pound for any debt which may be owing to me at my decease or
74 accept security for the same and to submit to arbitration any ques-
75 tion which may arise in relation to my estate and the better to
76 enable them to obtain payment of any money which may be
77 owing to me on mortgage I give to my Trustees their heirs executors
78 and administrators according to their respective natures the estates
79 vested in me on mortgage and in case my sons Samuel Blake
80 and Thomas Naish Blake or either of them should be desirous of
81 continuing and carrying on upon the conditions hereinafter men-
82 tioned the business of a Brewer carried on by me at Gosport afore-
83 said and of such desire shall on my decease give notice to my said
84 Trustees I direct that immediately upon my decease a valuation
85 be put upon the Brewery and premises whereon such business is
86 so carried on including therein the portion thereof the purchase
87 whereof I have herein before directed to be completed and also the
88 dwelling house in which I lately resided in South Street Gosport
89 and also including the plant utensils stock in trade and effects em-
90 ployed by me in the said business and the debts due from and in res-
91 pect of the said business but I direct that in respect of the Goodwill
92 of the said business no valuation shall be put upon the same as
93 in reference to my said two sons but instead thereof and as a com-
94 pensation for the same there shall be paid to my said wife du-
95 ring her lifetime out of the profits of the said business one clear
96 yearly annuity of one hundred and fifty pounds by equal quarterly
97 payments from the time of my decease Provided nevertheless and
98 I hereby direct that out of the provision made by this my will
99 for my said wife I direct my said Trustees during the life of my
100 said wife to pay to each of my daughters Mary Ann Blake and
101 Eliza Blake the sum of one hundred pounds per annum during
102 such time as each of my said daughters shall remain sole and
103 unmarried Provided and I hereby declare that the said Samuel
104 Blake in the event of his electing jointly with the said Thomas
105 Naish Blake to purchase and carry on the said business upon the
106 Terms herein mentioned shall submit my said son Thomas Naish
107 Blake into Partnership in the said business and to an equal share
108 and participation in the net profits thereof upon being thereunto
109 requested by the said Thomas Naish Blake and upon condition
110 that the said Thomas Naish Blake shall consent to the several
111 payments out of his moiety of the profits of the said business here-
112 inafter mentioned and also on condition of the said Thomas Naish
113 Blake contributing equally with the said Samuel Blake in the
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114 payment of the aforesaid annual sums to my said wife and in the
115 event of my dying before the said Thomas Naish Blake shall have
116 attained the age of twenty seven years I direct that the said Tho-
117 mas Naish shall pay unto the Trustees or Trustee of this my will
118 such portion of his moiety of the net profits of the said Trade or
119 Business as shall exceed the sum of three hundred pounds in each
120 and every year until he shall attain the age of twenty seven
121 years and from thenceforth shall in like manner pay to my said
122 Trustees or Trustee such portion of his moiety of the net profits of
123 the said Trade or Business as shall exceed the sum of five hundred
124 pounds in each and every year until the said Thomas Naish Blake
125 shall attain the age of Thirty years and from thenceforth shall in
126 like manner pay to my said Trustees or Trustee such portions of his
127 moiety of the net profits of the said Trade or Business as shall ex-
128 ceed the sum of six hundred pounds in each and every year until
129 the said Thomas Naish Blake shall attain the age of thirty five
130 years at which time the whole moiety of the net profits of the said
131 Business shall belong to the said Thomas Naish Blake such sev-
132 eral sums to be paid by equal half yearly payments the first payment
133 thereof to be made at the expiration of six calendar months from
134 the time when the said Thomas Naish Blake shall become pos-
135 sessed of a share in the said business and I direct and declare that
136 the Trustees and Trustee of this my will shall stand possessed of the
137 said several sums of money so directed to be paid to them by my
138 said son Thomas Naish Blake out of his share of the profits of
139 the said business in manner last aforesaid Upon Trust to invest
140 the same in Government or real securities and to pay the interest
141 dividends and proceeds thereof to my said wife for her life and af-
142 ter her decease Upon Trust to pay either from the principal
143 trust so to be invested or form the interest or dividends thereof as the
144 case may require unto each of my said daughters Mary Ann Blake
145 and Eliza Blake so much and such sum or sums of money yearly
146 and every year as shall added to and united with interest at the
147 rate of five pounds per centum per annum on their shares in the
148 said Trust funds hereinafter bequeathed to them be necessary to
149 make up to each of them an annual sum of one hundred and
150 fifty pounds so long as they my said daughters shall respectively
151 remain sole and unmarried and so soon as the principal sums to
152 be invested by my said Trustees as lastly hereinbefore mentioned
153 shall be in amount sufficient to secure to each of my said daughters
154 when added to and united with interest at five pounds per centum
155 per annum on their shares in the Trust funds bequeathed to them
156 respectively by this my will the annual Income of one hundred and
157 fifty pounds Then I direct that my said Trustees shall pay and di-
158 vide the surplus of the said monies so to be paid to them by the
159 said Thomas Naish Blake as aforesaid equally unto between
160 and amongst my five several children Mary Ann Blake James
161 Blake Alfred Blake Eliza Blake and Frederick Blake and
162 and on the marriage of either or both of my said daughters I direct
163 that my said Trustees shall pay and divide the principal monies
164 invested for the purpose of increasing as aforesaid the Income
165 until marriage of such daughter or daughters so marrying equal-
166 ly unto between and amongst my said five several last named
167 children and on the death of either or both of them my said
168 daughters whilst unmarried I direct my said Trustees to pay and
169 divide the said last mentioned principal monies unto between and
170 amongst the survivors or survivor of them my said last named
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171 five several children And I further direct and declare that in case
172 the said Trade or Business shall be carried on after my decease by the
173 said Samuel Blake and not by the said Samuel Blake and Thomas Naish Blake in
174 copartnership the said Samuel Blake shall pay to my said Trustees
175 or Trustee such sum or sums of money as the said Thomas Naish
176 Blake would have been required to pay to my said Trustees or Trus-
177 tees respect of his share of the profits of the said Trade or business
178 pursuant to the direction lastly herein before contained in case the
179 said Thomas Naish Blake had carried on or joined in carrying on
180 the said Trade or business after my decease and my said Trustees or
181 Trustee shall stand possessed of the monies so to be paid by the said
182 Samuel Blake in manner last aforesaid Upon the same Trustees
183 are hereinbefore declared respecting the monies directed to be paid
184 by the said Thomas Naish Blake as last aforesaid And I direct
185 that the valuation hereinbefore directed to be made shall be made
186 by two valuers or an Umpire and according to the usual course
187 of valluation one of the valuers therein being nominated by my
188 Trustees or Trustee for the time being and the other by my said
189 sons or my son desiring to purchase as aforesaid and the Umpire
190 to be elected by the valuers and I direct that the property the subject
191 of such valuation shall be offered by way of sale and in priority
192 to any other sale thereof at the amount of such valuation in equal
193 proportions to my said two sons Samuel and Thomas Naish or
194 in case either of them shall decline to purchase or shall have
195 previously died than to the other of them and (should my said sons
196 of son for the purpose of this my will require an investment of
197 such portion of the trust funds thereof) upon the terms of the
198 whole purchase money for the same being allowed during their
199 direction of the Trustees or Trustee for the time being hereof and
200 the continuance of such purposes to remain on the security of
201 mortgage of the premises so to be purchased and the Warrant
202 of Attorney of my said sons or son in such sum as my Trustees or
203 Trustee shall think right for further collaterally serving such
204 purchase money and also for serving the said annuity payable
205 to my said wife during her life And I declare that subject to the
206 purposes of security affording any unforseen or particular occa-
207 sion for calling the same in (of which emergency however I
208 constitute my Trustees or Trustee for the time being sole Arbiters)
209 It is my desire that such purchase money shall be allowed to
210 remain on such security during the lifetime of my said wife
211 Provided nevertheless and I hereby direct that all such purchase
212 money as aforesaid shall bear interest at the rate of five pounds
213 per centum per annum and be secured by proper deeds of mort-
214 gage to my said Trustees and with powers of sale for better secu-
215 ring the principal monies and interest the subject thereof and pore-
216 ces of distress for securing the interest and with the usual cove-
217 nant for payment of the mortgage money so to be acrured and
218 convenants for the insurance and keeping in repair of the premises
219 and with provision giving to my said Trustees acces to and
220 liberty of inspecting the books of the said Brewery Business to
221 be carried on by my said son or sons on the said premises and
222 I also direct that in the event of my said son Thomas Naish
223 Blake becoming a partner with my said son Samuel he shall
224 secure the payment of the said several sums hereby stipulated
225 to be paid to my said Trustees out of the moiety or half part of
226 the net profits of him the said Thomas Naish Blake of and in
227 the said Trade or Business by this Warrant of Attorney in such
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228 sum of money as my said Trustees shall require and shall also
229 join with my said son Samuel in a Warrant of Attorney to secure
230 the annual sum herebefore given to my said wife out of the
231 profits of the said Business and in case my said son Samuel shall
232 alone carry on the said Trade or Business then I direct that he
233 shall secure the payment of the said annual sums so hereby
234 directed to be paid to my said Trustees by my said son Thomas
235 Naish Blake by his Warrant of Attorney and in case my said
236 sons Samuel and Thomas Naish or either of them shall elect to
237 carry on the said Trade or Business of a Brewer on the Terms
238 and conditions hereinbefore mentioned Then I direct that the
239 same persons or person who shall be appointed to make and shall
240 make the before mentioned valuation shall also put a valuation
241 separately upon each of the messuages or public houses malthouses
242 and premises belonging to me in Gosport Bingham Town and the
243 neighbourhood or otherwise belonging to or enjoyed by me in
244 connection with the business of a Brewer carried on by me at
245 Gosport aforesaid and that a fair rental shall by the same per-
246 sons or person be affixed to each of the said last mentioned
247 messuages or public houses malt houses and premises and I direct
248 that a Lease of the said several messuages public houses malt
249 houses and premises shall be executed to my sons or son who
250 shall have elected to carry on the said Business of a Brewer as
251 aforesaid by the Trustees of this my will for a Term to expire at
252 the end of five years after the decease of my said wife at the
253 rental to be affixed to the same premises by the said valuers du-
254 ring the lifetime of my said wife and after her decease at a
255 rental which shall be equivalent to Interest at the rate of five
256 pounds per cent per annum upon the amount of valuation which
257 shall be affixed to the said messuages public houses malt hou-
258 ses and premises by the said valuers and which said Lease
259 shall contain all usual and necessary clauses and covenants and
260 especially covenants on the part of the Lessees or Lessee for pay-
261 ment of rent and taxes and for keeping the said hereditaments in
262 good and tenantable repair and Insured from loss by fire at the
263 amount of the said valuation thereof and the said Lease shall
264 also contain a covenant on the part of the said Lessees or Lessee to
265 become the purchasers or purchaser of the said messuages public
266 houses malt houses and premises thereby intended to be demised at
267 the expiration of five years from the decease of my said wife at the
268 amount of the valuation which shall be put upon the same immedi-
269 ately after my decease as aforesaid and I direct that on payment of
270 the amount of such last mentioned valuation the Trustees of this my
271 will have convey and assure the said several messuages public houses
272 malt houses and premises to my said sons or son who shall have
273 executed the said Lease or a counterpart thereof Provided always
274 and in case my said sons Samuel and Thomas Naish or either of them
275 shall not within the space of Two Calendar months after such valua-
276 tion as aforesaid shall have been made have elected to exercise their
277 right of pre emption hereinbefore provided for and have communicated
278 such election to the Trustees or Trustee for the time being hereof Then
279 I direct and declare that it shall and may be lawful for the Trustees or
280 Trustee for the time being of this my will and I do hereby authorize
281 them him or her to cov[en]ent and carry on my said Business for the
282 purpose of carrying out the Trusts and intents of this my will in
283 reference to the provision for my said wife and daughters and I direct
284 and declare that any losses which may be sustained in carrying out
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285 my said Business by my said Trustees or Trustee shall be borne and
286 sustained by my said Trust estate unless such losses shall arise by
287 their his or her wilful neglect or default and I further declare that
288 my said Trustees or Trustee in their or his discretion shall be at
289 liberty to offer my said Brewery Business and the property connected
290 therewith and the dwelling house in which I lately resided and also all
291 my other said property in case my said sons or son shall not exercise
292 the right of pre emption thereof as aforesaid to any other person or per-
293 sons upon the same Terms and conditions as the same are hereby di-
294 rected to be offered to my said sons and to take such security for the pu-
295 rchase moneys of the same as are hereinbefore directed and authorized
296 to be taken from my said sons Provided always that in the event of
297 my said sons or either of them not exercising the right of pre-emption
298 hereinbefore given and in case my said Trustees or Trustee shall deem
299 it most expedient for the benefit of my estate absolutely to make
300 sale and dispose of the said Brewery Business and the property connect-
301 ed therewith and the dwelling house in which I lately resided and
302 the said messuages public houses malthouses and premises or any
303 part thereof either by public auction or private route act Then I direct
304 that the property as to which such election shall not have been
305 made as aforesaid or which shall not be required by my said Trus-
306 tees or Trustee for the purposes aforesaid shall become subject to the
307 general Trusts of sale and conversion hereinbefore declared thereof
308 but so nevertheless that the same Trusts may so far as regards the
309 property the subject of such election be exercised by my said Trustees or
310 Trustee in the lifetime of my said wife and I direct that no purchaser
311 under such Trusts shall be bound to enquire as to whether such
312 election shall in fact have been had and I direct my said Trustees or
313 Trustee to stand possessed of the money to be produced by every such
314 sale and conversion as last aforesaid including therein such sale to my
315 said sons or son as aforesaid and of my residuary personal estate
316 hereinbefore directed to be converted Upon the Trusts and for the pur-
317 poses hereinafter directed that is to say Upon Trust to invest the
318 same in the names of the said Trustees or Trustee in the public
319 stocks or funds of Great Britain or on Government or real Securities
320 with power from time to time to vary the securities whereon any
321 part of my estate may be from time to time invested and I direct my
322 said Trustees or Trustee to stand possessed of all such residuary monies
323 stocks funds and securities Upon Trust to pay the interest dividends
324 and annual produce thereof and the rents to be reserved on any
325 Lease granted under the aforesaid power (if any) to my said wife
326 for her life for her own sole and separate use and benefit and from
327 and after the decease of my said wife I direct my said Trustees to
328 stand possessed of the whole of the said trust funds and of the
329 money to arise from the sale of my said real estate hereinbefore di-
330 rected to be converted on the decease of my said wife In Trust for
331 such of them my seven children the said Samuel Blake Mary Ann
332 Blake James Blake Alfred Blake Eliza Blake Frederick William
333 Blake and Thomas Naish Blake as shall be living at my decease
334 and the issue then living of such of them as may have died leaving
335 issue such issue however taking only equally between them the
336 shares of their respective parents But inasmuch as I have already
337 advanced from time to time certain of my children different sums
338 of money and in different proportions and I may hereafter continue
339 in the like course of advancing I direct that what shall at my de-
340 decease be found in my private Ledger debited by me in account
341 against such children respectively shall be brought into account
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342 by such children respectively or by the issue of any deceased child by way
343 of hotchpot and set off against their shares of the said Trust funds and it
344 be allowed for by them in account by way of deductions charges accord-
345 ingly Provided always and I do hereby declare it to be my will and
346 meaning that my said son Samuel Blake and Thomas Naish Blake
347 shall not be entitled to share with their brothers and sisters any part
348 of the monies which I may have saved and accumulated out of the
349 profits of the business carried on by me at Gosport and at Ryde from
350 and after the first day of November one thousand and eight hundred and
351 forty six and which savings and accumulations will be directed and
352 shown by me by entries in my private book of account and I direct
353 that out of the monies constituting such savings and accumulations
354 the Trustees or Trustee of this my will shall pay to each of my said
355 daughters the sum of three hundred pounds or such proportionate
356 part thereof as the same will amount to and shall and do pay and
357 devise the residue of such monies equally between and amongst my
358 said two daughters and my sons James Blake Alfred Blake and Fred-
359 erick William Blake share and share alike any thing hereinbefore con-
360 tained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided further and I
361 direct that in the event of my said sons Samuel and Thomas
362 Naish or either of them exercising the option of purchase hereinbe-
363 fore given to him his share in the said Trust funds shall in the first
364 place be taken and satisfied so far as the same will extend for that
365 purpose out of the respective subjects of such purchase and in the first
366 place out of the said Brewery property the subject of the valuation first-
367 ly hereinbefore directed in priority to the said messuages and public
368 houses the subject of such further valuation as aforesaid and any
369 loss in the securities for the purchase monies of such subjects of purchase
370 respectively shall in the first place fall on the shares or share of the
371 said Samuel Blake and Thomas Naish Blake or either of them
372 electing to carry on the said business and I direct as respects the share
373 of my son Frederick William Blake in the said Trust fund, it shall be
374 lawful for my said Trustees at any time with the consent in writing
375 of my said dear wife first had and obtained to raise out of the said
376 Trust property to advance and pay to my son the said Frederick William
377 Blake a proportion not exceeding two third parts in value of the
378 share and interest of him the said Frederick William Blake under
378 my said will for the purpose of advancing him in his profession
380 otherwise he paying to any said Trustees interest for the sum so ad-
381 vanced at five per cent during the life of my said wife Provided and
382 I do hereby declare that the receipt of the Trustees or Trustee for the
383 time being hereof for any money forming part of the Trust monies
384 hereof whether payable by the purchasers of my real estate under
385 the Trusts for sale hereinbefore contained the general conversion of
386 my estate the change of the securities on which any part thereof may
387 be invested or otherwise howsoever shall be a sufficient discharge for
388 the same and no persons paying such money to such Trustees or
389 Trustee and taking the receipts in writing of such Trustees or Trustee
390 for the same shall be responsible for the application thereof Pro-
391 vided that it shall be lawful for the Trustees or Trustee for the time
392 being hereof subject as to the share of my said sons Samuel and
393 Thomas Naish in the event of their exercising the option of pre-
394 emption thereinbefore given to them as aforesaid to the declarations
395 hereinbefore contained to make any appropriation or division of
396 the securities or hereditaments in or upon which the Trust funds
397 hereof may at any time be Invested for the purpose of distribution
398 of the same among the parties was shall become entitled to any portion because
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399 of the same and all parties taking any interest hereunder shall be bound
400 by the same appropriation and that notwithstanding any subsequent fail-
401 ure or depreciation in the value of such securities or hereditaments or
402 any other loss or amount affecting the same or from any other cause
403 whatsoever and I direct and declare that in case the Trustees or
404 Trustee for the time being of this my will or any Trustees or Trustee to
405 be appointed under the present provision shall be or become unwill
406 ling or unable to act in the aforesaid trusts before the same shall be
407 fully performed then and in every such case it shall be lawful for
408 the surviving or acting Trustee or Trustees for the time being of this
409 my will of if there be none such for the unwilling or incapacitated
410 Trustees or Trustee or in case all the Trustees shall have departed
411 this life then for the executors or administrators of the last surviving
412 Trustee to nominate any fit person or persons to supply the place or
413 places of the Trustee or Trustees so dying or becoming unwilling or
414 unable to act as aforesaid and that immediately after every such
415 nomination the said Trust premises shall be conveyed and trans-
416 ferred so and in such manner as that the same may rest in the
417 surviving or continuing Trustee or Trustees and in such new Trus-
418 tees and Trustees jointly or in such new Trustee or Trustees solely as
419 the case may require and such new Trustee or Trustees shall be enti-
420 tled to exercise the same powers and authorities in relation to the
421 said Trusts as if he or they had been appointed a Trustee of Trus-
422 tees by this my will and I hereby further declare that the Trustee
423 and Trustees for the time being of this my will shall be charged
424 and chargeable only with such monies as they respectively shall
425 actually receive by virtue of the Trusts hereby reposed in them res-
426 pectively not withstanding their joining in any receipt or other ack
427 nowledgement for the sake of conformity only and shall not be answerable
428 for any Banker Broker or any other person with whom or in
429 whose hands the said Trust monies or any part thereof shall be
430 placed for safe Custody or otherwise nor for the insufferance of any security on which the
431 same shall be invested or for any other loss misfortune or dam-
432 age which may happen in the execution of the aforesaid Trusts or
433 any of them or in relation thereto except the same shall happen
434 by or through his or their own wilful default and also that it
435 shall be lawful for the said Trustees respectively by or out of the
436 monies which shall come to their hands to retain and allow to
437 each other all costs charges damages and expences and fees to
438 Counsel for advice which they respectively may sustain or expend
439 in or about the execution of the said Trusts or in relation thereto
440 And I nominate and appoint my said wife Mary Blake and the
441 said Frederick William Blake John Richard King and George
442 Turner the younger joint Executrix and Executors in Trust
443 of this my will In witness whereof I the said Testator James
444 Blake have to the first twelve sheets of this my will and also at
445 the foot or end hereof set my hand this seventh day of April in
446 the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty
447 James Blake [signed] Signed by the said Testator James Blake
448 as and for his last Will and Testament in the joint presence of
449 us who in his presence at his request and in the presence of each
450 other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses thereto
451 the several interlineations and erasures appearing in the first
452 ninth and eleventh pages hereof and also on this thirteenth and
453 last page or sheet of paper and against which we have respective-
454 ly placed our Initials having been first made Kate King [signed] of
455 Southampton Spinster James Hoskins [signed] of Gosport Solicitor
456 This
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457 This is a Codicil to the last Will and Testament of me James Blake
458 late of Gosport in the County of Southampton Brewer but now of Greatbridge
459 in the Parish of Romsey Extra in the same county Gentleman which codicil
460 bears date on or about the seventh day of April one thousand eight hundred
461 and fifty Whereas by my said will I have declared it to be my will and mean-
462 ing that my sons Samuel Blake and Thomas Naish Blake shall not be
463 entitled to share with their brothers and sisters in any part of the monies
464 which I may have saved and accumulated out of the profits or of the bus-
465 inesses carried on by me at Gosport and at Ryde from and after the first
466 day of November one thousand eight hundred and forty six and which
467 savings and accumulation would be denoted and shown by me by En-
468 tries in my private book of account and I directed that out of the monies
469 constituting such saving and accumulation the Trustee or Trustees of
470 my said will should pay to each of my said daughters the sum of three
471 hundred pounds or such proportionate part thereof as the same would
472 amount to and should pay and divide the residue of such monies
473 equally between and amongst my said two daughters and my sons
474 James Blake Alfred Blake and Frederick William Blake share and share
475 alike Now I do hereby revoke and make void the whole of the said
476 declaration in reference to the said Savings and accumulations and I
477 do hereby direct and declare it to be my will and meaning that after
478 the decease of my said wife and before the general residue of my estate
479 and effects shall be equally divided between my seven children name-
480 ly Samuel Blake Mary Ann Blake James Blake Alfred Blake Eliza
481 Blake Frederick William Blake and Thomas Naish Blake the Trustees
482 or Trustee of my said will shall pay to each of my said daughters Ma-
483 ry Ann Blake and Eliza Blake the sum of three hundred pounds to
484 and for her own absolute use and benefit And I do hereby in all
485 other respects ratify and confirm my said will In witness whereof
486 the said Testator James Blake have set and subscribed my name
487 at the foot of the first sheet hereof and at the end of this my codicil
488 the fourteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand
489 eight hundred and fifty James Blake [signed] Signed by the said testa-
490 tor James Blake as and for a Codicil to his last Will and Testament
491 in the joint presence of us who in his presence at his request and in
492 the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as
493 witnesses thereto James Hoskins [signed]Solicitor Gosport
494 Ann Croucher [signed] Servant to Mr. Blake
495 Proved at London with a Codicil 5th February 1851 before
496 the Judge by the oaths of Mary Blake widow the relict John Richard
497 King and George Turner the Younger three of the executors to whom
498 Admon was granted having been first sworn by Commission duly to
499 Administer Frederick William Blake the son the other executor and
500 one of the Residuary Legatees In Trust having first renounced as
501 well the probate and execution of the said will and codicil as Letters
502 of Admon (with the said will and codicil annexed) of the Goods of the
503 said deceased (as by Acts of Court appears).
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Will of William Blake, Peruke Maker and belonging to His Majesty's Ship Terrible of Gosport, Hampshire, National Archives PROB 11/819 Image Reference 142/159, probated 3 Dec 1755
Another will for a William Blake married to Mary (unknown). Not being of military background I am realizing that perhaps the "Terrible" is stationed at Gosport and his wife could be elsewhere. Although his executor James Rimes is at Gosport.
Checking on Find my Past I do not find any Blake entries at Gosport between 1700 and 1755. There was a William Blake buried 6 Aug 1770 at Gosport but this William was buried in 1755.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 15 May 2012
Source: The National Archives PROB 11/819 Image Reference 142/159
Place: Gosport, Hampshire, England
Testator: William Blake, Peruke Maker and belonging to His Majesty's Ship Terrible of Gosport, Hampshire
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 3 Feb 1755, probated 3 Dec 1755
Read: Electronic copy
Condition: image, small script, contrast medium
[In margin] William Blake
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 I William Blake of Gosport in the County of Southampton
3 peruke maker and belonging to his Majesties Ship
4 Terrible being in Bodily health and of Sound and disposing
5 Mind and Memory and considering the perils and dangers
6 of the Seas and other Uncertainties after my decease make
7 publish and declare this my last Will and Testament in
8 manner following that is to say first I recommend my
9 soul to God that gave it and my Body to commit to the
10 earth or Sea as it shall please God to order and as for
11 and concerning all my Worldly Estate I give bequeath and
12 despose thereof as followweth that is to Say all and Singular
13 my Wages Sum and Sums of Money Lands Tenements Goods
14 Chattels and Estate whatsoever as Shall be any ways
15 and owing or belonging unto me at the time of my
16 decease I do give devise and bequeath the same unto
17 my loving Wife Mary Blake and I do hereby nominate
18 and appoint my friend James Rimes of Gosport abovesaid
19 peruke maker Executor of this my last Will and Testament
20 hereby revoking all former and other Wills Testaments
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21 and Testaments and Goods of Gift by me at any time heretofore
22 made and I do ordain and ratify these presents to stand and
23 be for and as my only last Will and Testament And Witness whereof
24 to this my said Will I have set my hand and Seal the third day
25 of February in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven
26 hundred and fifty five and in the twenty eighth year of the
27 Reign of his Majesty King George the Second over Great
28 Britain etc W[illia]m Blake Signed Sealed Published and declared
29 in the presence of the William Andrews on Higgens 1755
30 This Will was proved at London the third day of
31 December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred
32 and fifty five before the Right Honourable Sir George Leese
33 Knight Doctor of Laws Master Keeper or Commissary of the
34 Prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted by the
35 Oath of James Rimes the Sole Executor named in the said Seale
36 to whom Administration was granted of all and Singular
37 the Goods Chattels and Credits of the deceased having
38 been first Sworn by Commission duly to administer
Checking on Find my Past I do not find any Blake entries at Gosport between 1700 and 1755. There was a William Blake buried 6 Aug 1770 at Gosport but this William was buried in 1755.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 15 May 2012
Source: The National Archives PROB 11/819 Image Reference 142/159
Place: Gosport, Hampshire, England
Testator: William Blake, Peruke Maker and belonging to His Majesty's Ship Terrible of Gosport, Hampshire
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 3 Feb 1755, probated 3 Dec 1755
Read: Electronic copy
Condition: image, small script, contrast medium
[In margin] William Blake
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 I William Blake of Gosport in the County of Southampton
3 peruke maker and belonging to his Majesties Ship
4 Terrible being in Bodily health and of Sound and disposing
5 Mind and Memory and considering the perils and dangers
6 of the Seas and other Uncertainties after my decease make
7 publish and declare this my last Will and Testament in
8 manner following that is to say first I recommend my
9 soul to God that gave it and my Body to commit to the
10 earth or Sea as it shall please God to order and as for
11 and concerning all my Worldly Estate I give bequeath and
12 despose thereof as followweth that is to Say all and Singular
13 my Wages Sum and Sums of Money Lands Tenements Goods
14 Chattels and Estate whatsoever as Shall be any ways
15 and owing or belonging unto me at the time of my
16 decease I do give devise and bequeath the same unto
17 my loving Wife Mary Blake and I do hereby nominate
18 and appoint my friend James Rimes of Gosport abovesaid
19 peruke maker Executor of this my last Will and Testament
20 hereby revoking all former and other Wills Testaments
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21 and Testaments and Goods of Gift by me at any time heretofore
22 made and I do ordain and ratify these presents to stand and
23 be for and as my only last Will and Testament And Witness whereof
24 to this my said Will I have set my hand and Seal the third day
25 of February in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven
26 hundred and fifty five and in the twenty eighth year of the
27 Reign of his Majesty King George the Second over Great
28 Britain etc W[illia]m Blake Signed Sealed Published and declared
29 in the presence of the William Andrews on Higgens 1755
30 This Will was proved at London the third day of
31 December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred
32 and fifty five before the Right Honourable Sir George Leese
33 Knight Doctor of Laws Master Keeper or Commissary of the
34 Prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted by the
35 Oath of James Rimes the Sole Executor named in the said Seale
36 to whom Administration was granted of all and Singular
37 the Goods Chattels and Credits of the deceased having
38 been first Sworn by Commission duly to administer
Friday, May 11, 2012
Will of William Blake, Gentleman, Gosport Hampshire, National Archives PROB 11/561, Image Reference 112/104, probated 4 Dec 1717
Gosport is situated on the western side of the entrance to Portsmouth Harbour. The Blake family in Gosport could be descendant of the Wiltshire or the Hampshire Blake family or any other. The name Gosport came from the story of King Stephen being able to land there during a storm and he called it "God's Port" and so it became Gosport. We could see Gosport from our Ferry when we came back from the Isle of Wight on our tour of England. The cliffs are still substantial along the Hampshire coast and I was most impressed thinking that truly as elegant as the white cliffs of Dover until I saw the Dover Cliffs on our next trip to England. But still the cliffs along the Hampshire coast are quite spectacular.
As I complete the wills that I have thus far for Hampshire some of these families may or may not link together. I will do a summary post at the end as I look at all of them one after the other.
The Blake families in the Andover area were large in the 1500s and early 1600s. The younger sons may have moved towards the larger cities to the south of Hampshire but equally there was a gradual migration of Blake families down from the Calne Wiltshire area in this same time period moving into Salisbury and then down into the New Forest area and thence to Southampton and Christchurch and Portsmouth and area.
The helpful forenames of his close Blake family will probably help me zero in on this family eventually. His brother John with children John Junior, Henrietta and Bridget (wife was Bridget as well) and brother Thomas with children Elizabeth, Joanna and Martha. His wife's niece Mary Breder and nephew John Breder.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 10 May 2012
Source: The National Archives PROB 11/561, Image Reference 112/104 (images by me)
Name of testator: William Blake, Gentleman now Purser of His Majesty's Ship Boyne of Gosport, Hampshire
Place: Gosport, Hampshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 29 Dec 1714, probated 4 Dec 1717
Read: Electronic file
Condition: 18th century, round script, dark
[In margin] Tm. Gulielmi Blake
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 The Twenty ninth day of December in the first year
3 of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George by the grace of
4 God King of Great Britain France and Ireland defender
5 of the Faith etc And in the year of our Lord one Thousand
6 seven hundred and fourteen I William Blake of Gosport
7 in the County of South[amp]ton Gent now Purser of his Majestys
8 Ship Boyne being in good health of body and of sound
9 and disposing mind and memory and considering the
10 perils and dangers of the seas and other uncertainties of
11 this transitory life doe for preventing controversies after
12 my decease make publish and declare this my present last
13 Will and Testament in manner and form following That
14 is to say my Soul I recommend to Almighty God that gave
15 it hoping through the meriterious passion and death of my
16 blessed Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ to have full and
17 free pardon and remission of my sins and to inherit
18 everlasting Life and my Body I commit to the Earth or
19 Sea as it shall please God to order And as for and
20 concerning all such Temporal Estate it hath and shall
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21 please God to bestow on me I do give and dispose
22 thereof as followeth that is also to say First I will
23 that all lawful debts and funeral charges (if any) be paid
24 and discharged within convenient time after my decease
25 Item all that my Annuity or Stipend of fifty pounds per
26 Annum issuing and payable forth of his Majesties Exchequer
27 for all the residue and remainder of the Term of ninety
28 and nine years that shall be to come and unexpired at the
29 time of my decease I give devise and bequeath to my dearly
30 Beloved wife Jane To have and to hold to the said Jane Blake
31 and her Assignes for and during the term of her natural life
32 only and after her decease Then I give and bequeath the
33 said Annuity to John Blake Jun[io]r Henrietta Blake and Bridget
34 Blake the son and daughters of my welbeloved Brother John
35 Blake and to the Survivors and Survivor of them in even and
36 equal por[t]ions and if it shall hapen that the said John
37 Blake Jun[io]r Henrietta Blake and Bridget Blake do dye before
38 they or any or either of them be possessed of the said
39 Annuity then it is my Will and I do hereby ordain and decree
40 that the somme shall descend and come to my said brother
41 John Blake and in case of the death of the said John my
42 Brother before he's possessed of the Annuity aforesaid I do
43 hereby father ordain declare and decree that the same
44 shall descend and come to my Brother Thomas Blake and
45 his heirs Then I give and bequeath to my Brother John
46 Blake my diamond Rose Ring as also I give him and his
47 Wife Bridget and their Son John and their daughters Henrietta
48 and Bridget to each of them five pounds to buy Mourning
49 As also I give to my aforesaid Nephew John Blake Jun[io]r
50 my Silver Batch and Snuff Box Then I give to my Brother
51 Tho: Blake and to his wife and to his three daughters Blake
52 Elizabeth Joanna and Martha to each of them one Guinea
53 to buy a mourning Ringes Item I give to my Wife's Nephew
54 John Breder and to her Niece Mary Breder one guinea
55 to each of them to buy a Ring Item all and singular my
56 Tickets of and in any Publick or National Lottery or Lotterys
57 whatsoever whether domestick or Forreign all and every
58 the Interest advantages and produce whatsoever arising and
59 to arise by and from them and every or any of them I give
60 devise and bequeath to my said Wife Jane and to my Brother
61 John Blake to be divided in even and equal shares or
62 proportions betwixt them And in case of the decease of my said
63 Wife Jane then my said Brother John is to have all the said
64 Lottery Ticketts and benfit that shall arise from and on the
65 same And then all the Rest residue and remainder of
66 the summe and sums of money whatever due and to be due
67 and payable to me for and in respect of my Wages and
68 pay Allowance Bill of Bills Tobacco Sold and issues Prize money
69 and other claims and demands in any of his Majesties Ships
70 or Ship whatsoever and also all the rest and remainder of my
71 goods Chattells Implements of household stuff wearing apparel
72 both Linnen and woollen plate Matches Rings Jewells and Credits whatsoever
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73 wheresoever which shall be due owing and belonging or
74 of right to me appertaining of the time of my decease
75 I do give devise and bequeath the same one every part and parcell
76 thereof to my said Wife and to her heirs (note the diamond
77 Rose Ring which I have given to my Brother and the
78 Batch and Snuff Box which I have given to my Nephew
79 John they are so to have and not my Spouse or Wife) And
80 I do by these presents nominate constitute and appoint my
81 said Wife Jane Blake sole Executrix of this my said last
82 Will and Testament And also my said Brother John Blake
83 Trustee and Overseer of the same earnestly praying and
84 intreating his care and diligence in seeing and causing the
85 same to be duly and rightly executed according to the contents
86 purpose and true meaning thereof hereby also revoking and
87 making void all former and other Wills Testaments and Goods
88 of Gift By me at any time heretofore made either by word of
89 muth of in writing And I do ordain and ratify these presents
90 to stand and be for and as my only last Will and Testament
91 In Witness whereof to this my said Will contained in two
92 Sheets of paper I the said William Blake has set my
93 hand and seal the day and year first above written W[illia]m
94 Blake. Signed sealed and published in the presence of us
95 James Harkes Walter Kinkes Frances Sandgell
96 Mem[oran]d[um] the 26th day of March 1717 the Testator William
97 Blake did then recognize to have written the name W[illia]m
98 Blake against the seal hereunto affixed and did so now
99 publish and declare that these presents contained in two
100 sheets of paper to be his last Will and Testament in the
101 presence of us and sealed the same accordingly Mary
102 Fox W[illia]m Wise
As I complete the wills that I have thus far for Hampshire some of these families may or may not link together. I will do a summary post at the end as I look at all of them one after the other.
The Blake families in the Andover area were large in the 1500s and early 1600s. The younger sons may have moved towards the larger cities to the south of Hampshire but equally there was a gradual migration of Blake families down from the Calne Wiltshire area in this same time period moving into Salisbury and then down into the New Forest area and thence to Southampton and Christchurch and Portsmouth and area.
The helpful forenames of his close Blake family will probably help me zero in on this family eventually. His brother John with children John Junior, Henrietta and Bridget (wife was Bridget as well) and brother Thomas with children Elizabeth, Joanna and Martha. His wife's niece Mary Breder and nephew John Breder.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 10 May 2012
Source: The National Archives PROB 11/561, Image Reference 112/104 (images by me)
Name of testator: William Blake, Gentleman now Purser of His Majesty's Ship Boyne of Gosport, Hampshire
Place: Gosport, Hampshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 29 Dec 1714, probated 4 Dec 1717
Read: Electronic file
Condition: 18th century, round script, dark
[In margin] Tm. Gulielmi Blake
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 The Twenty ninth day of December in the first year
3 of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George by the grace of
4 God King of Great Britain France and Ireland defender
5 of the Faith etc And in the year of our Lord one Thousand
6 seven hundred and fourteen I William Blake of Gosport
7 in the County of South[amp]ton Gent now Purser of his Majestys
8 Ship Boyne being in good health of body and of sound
9 and disposing mind and memory and considering the
10 perils and dangers of the seas and other uncertainties of
11 this transitory life doe for preventing controversies after
12 my decease make publish and declare this my present last
13 Will and Testament in manner and form following That
14 is to say my Soul I recommend to Almighty God that gave
15 it hoping through the meriterious passion and death of my
16 blessed Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ to have full and
17 free pardon and remission of my sins and to inherit
18 everlasting Life and my Body I commit to the Earth or
19 Sea as it shall please God to order And as for and
20 concerning all such Temporal Estate it hath and shall
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21 please God to bestow on me I do give and dispose
22 thereof as followeth that is also to say First I will
23 that all lawful debts and funeral charges (if any) be paid
24 and discharged within convenient time after my decease
25 Item all that my Annuity or Stipend of fifty pounds per
26 Annum issuing and payable forth of his Majesties Exchequer
27 for all the residue and remainder of the Term of ninety
28 and nine years that shall be to come and unexpired at the
29 time of my decease I give devise and bequeath to my dearly
30 Beloved wife Jane To have and to hold to the said Jane Blake
31 and her Assignes for and during the term of her natural life
32 only and after her decease Then I give and bequeath the
33 said Annuity to John Blake Jun[io]r Henrietta Blake and Bridget
34 Blake the son and daughters of my welbeloved Brother John
35 Blake and to the Survivors and Survivor of them in even and
36 equal por[t]ions and if it shall hapen that the said John
37 Blake Jun[io]r Henrietta Blake and Bridget Blake do dye before
38 they or any or either of them be possessed of the said
39 Annuity then it is my Will and I do hereby ordain and decree
40 that the somme shall descend and come to my said brother
41 John Blake and in case of the death of the said John my
42 Brother before he's possessed of the Annuity aforesaid I do
43 hereby father ordain declare and decree that the same
44 shall descend and come to my Brother Thomas Blake and
45 his heirs Then I give and bequeath to my Brother John
46 Blake my diamond Rose Ring as also I give him and his
47 Wife Bridget and their Son John and their daughters Henrietta
48 and Bridget to each of them five pounds to buy Mourning
49 As also I give to my aforesaid Nephew John Blake Jun[io]r
50 my Silver Batch and Snuff Box Then I give to my Brother
51 Tho: Blake and to his wife and to his three daughters Blake
52 Elizabeth Joanna and Martha to each of them one Guinea
53 to buy a mourning Ringes Item I give to my Wife's Nephew
54 John Breder and to her Niece Mary Breder one guinea
55 to each of them to buy a Ring Item all and singular my
56 Tickets of and in any Publick or National Lottery or Lotterys
57 whatsoever whether domestick or Forreign all and every
58 the Interest advantages and produce whatsoever arising and
59 to arise by and from them and every or any of them I give
60 devise and bequeath to my said Wife Jane and to my Brother
61 John Blake to be divided in even and equal shares or
62 proportions betwixt them And in case of the decease of my said
63 Wife Jane then my said Brother John is to have all the said
64 Lottery Ticketts and benfit that shall arise from and on the
65 same And then all the Rest residue and remainder of
66 the summe and sums of money whatever due and to be due
67 and payable to me for and in respect of my Wages and
68 pay Allowance Bill of Bills Tobacco Sold and issues Prize money
69 and other claims and demands in any of his Majesties Ships
70 or Ship whatsoever and also all the rest and remainder of my
71 goods Chattells Implements of household stuff wearing apparel
72 both Linnen and woollen plate Matches Rings Jewells and Credits whatsoever
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73 wheresoever which shall be due owing and belonging or
74 of right to me appertaining of the time of my decease
75 I do give devise and bequeath the same one every part and parcell
76 thereof to my said Wife and to her heirs (note the diamond
77 Rose Ring which I have given to my Brother and the
78 Batch and Snuff Box which I have given to my Nephew
79 John they are so to have and not my Spouse or Wife) And
80 I do by these presents nominate constitute and appoint my
81 said Wife Jane Blake sole Executrix of this my said last
82 Will and Testament And also my said Brother John Blake
83 Trustee and Overseer of the same earnestly praying and
84 intreating his care and diligence in seeing and causing the
85 same to be duly and rightly executed according to the contents
86 purpose and true meaning thereof hereby also revoking and
87 making void all former and other Wills Testaments and Goods
88 of Gift By me at any time heretofore made either by word of
89 muth of in writing And I do ordain and ratify these presents
90 to stand and be for and as my only last Will and Testament
91 In Witness whereof to this my said Will contained in two
92 Sheets of paper I the said William Blake has set my
93 hand and seal the day and year first above written W[illia]m
94 Blake. Signed sealed and published in the presence of us
95 James Harkes Walter Kinkes Frances Sandgell
96 Mem[oran]d[um] the 26th day of March 1717 the Testator William
97 Blake did then recognize to have written the name W[illia]m
98 Blake against the seal hereunto affixed and did so now
99 publish and declare that these presents contained in two
100 sheets of paper to be his last Will and Testament in the
101 presence of us and sealed the same accordingly Mary
102 Fox W[illia]m Wise
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