Robert Blake, testator, was a Mariner living in Barnstape, Devon. He is perhaps the Robert Blake baptized 27 Jul 1744 at Barnstaple son of John and Susanna Blake. Although his will was duly probated and listed in the Index to Death Duty Registers, I did not find his burial.
Likely his daughter Ann Blake was baptized 6 Nov 1765 at Barnstaple daughter of Robert and Ann.
A Susanna Blake was baptized 24 Jan 1773 at Barnstaple daughter of Robert and Ann. Susanna was buried 2 Oct 1775 at Barnstaple.
Possibly his daughter Jenny (Jane) Blake was baptized 28 Jul 1776 at Barnstaple daughter of Robert and Ann.
A Susanna Blake was baptized 15 Apr 1781 at Barnstaple daughter of Robert and Ann.
A Robert Blake married Ann Dimon 23 Oct 1764 at Barnstaple. The records on Find My Past do not mention if he was a Mariner.
Ann Blake married Charles Jordan 6 Aug 1786 at Barnstaple.
Jane Blake married Walter Gribble 11 Oct 1797 at Barnstaple.
Susanna Blake married John Pearse 13 Jan 1804 at Barnstaple.
I do not normally trace down the children of Blake unless their father was a Blake. That includes me as it turns out since my husband’s surname is Kipp.
Two sons were born to a Robert and Ann (Dimon likely in the case of John) Blake and baptized at Barnstaple:
John Dymon Blake was baptized 8 Nov 1767
George Blake was baptized 17 Dec 1768
I did not locate any burials for John Dymon Blake or George Blake.
I did not find a reasonable marriage for the possible parents of Robert Blake, John and Susanna Blake.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 4 Jan 2020
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1566/154
Testator: Robert Blake, Mariner
Place: Barnstaple, Devon
Type of Record: Memorandum
Date of document: 27 Apr 1804, probated 10 Mar 1815
[Margin]: Robert Blake 39
1 I Robert Blake of Barnstaple in the County of
2 Devon Mariner do make my last Will and Testament in manner
3 following that is First I give and bequeath unto my daughter Jane
4 wife of Walter Gribble of Barnstaple aforesaid Mariner the Sum of
5 twenty pounds of lawful British Money Current in England to be
6 paid her by my Executrix hereinafter mentioned within one Month
7 next after my decease Item I give and bequeath unto my daughter
8 Susanna Wife of John Pearse of Barnstaple aforesaid Mariner
9 the one fourth part of the Brigantine Jupiter together with the
10 one fourth part of her Stores Rigging and Stock and all my right
11 Title Property and Interest I have in the said Brigantine Jupiter
12 to be delivered to my said daughter Susanna Pearse by my Executrix
13 hereinafter mentioned immediately after my decease Item I give
14 and bequeath unto my two daughters Jane Gribble and Susanna
15 Pearse and unto my two sons in law Walter Gribble and John
16 Pearse a Suit of Mourning each to be provided by my Executrix
17 herein after mentioned immediately after my decease Item I give
18 and bequeath unto my Grandson Robert Gribble my Watch and
19 Silver Buckles to be delivered to him by my Executrix when
20 he attains his age of twenty one years or before as to her shall
21 seem meet Also I further order and direct that my Executrix do
22 maintain educate and bring up my said Grandson Robert Gribble
23 until he shall attain his age of fourteen Years and then I give and
24 bequeath my said Grandson Twenty pounds of lawful British
25 money to bind him out as an Apprentice and for finding him
26 apparel during his Apprenticeship which Sum to be paid by my
27 Executrix and she to bind him to such Master or Mistress as she
28 shall approve of Item I give and bequeath unto my daughter Anne
29 Jordan All that Messuage Tenement or dwelling house situate in
30 Well Street wherein I now reside and which I hold for the
31 remainder of a Term of Sixty Years by and under the Feoffees of
32 the Long Bridge of Barnstaple aforesaid to hold the same with
33 all and singular its appurts unto my said daughter Anne Jordan
34 for and during her natural life or until her second Marriage
35 and from and immediately after her decease or second Marriage
36 which shall first happen Then I give and bequeath the said
37 Messuage Tenement or dwelling house with its Appurts unto my
38 daughter Susanna Pearse during the then rest residue and the
39 remainder of the said Term of Years that may then be to come
40 and unexpired I give and bequeath unto my said daughter Anne
41 Jordan the moderate use of all my household Goods plate Bed
42 and Table linens and Furniture of every description whatsoever
43 during her natural life or until her second Marriage and from
44 and immediately after her decease or second Marriage which shall
45 first happen I give and bequeath all my said household Goods
46 and Furniture Plate Bed and Table Linen as aforesaid unto my
47 two daughters Jane Gribble and Susanna Pearse equally between
48 them share and share alike Item I give and bequeath unto John
49 Dennis of Barnstaple aforesaid Ironmonger and John Baker of
50 the same place Tanner and to the Survivor of them and to the
51 Executors Admors and Assigns of such Survivor All such Sum
52 and Sums of Money as I now or may hereafter have laid out placed
53 or vested in the Stocks Funds or upon Government Security or
54 Securitys and all and every or any which Stock Funds or Government
55 Security or Securities shall and may be from time to time or at any
56 time by and with the Consent and Approbation of my daughter
57 Anne Jordan alter or transferred assigned and disposed of and the
58 monies thereby arriving again invested and placed out upon new
59 or other Security or Securities Stocks Funds or Government Security
60 or Securities as to them the said John Dennis and John Baker or
61 the Survivor of them or the Exors Admors and Assigns of such Survivor
62 shall seem meet (by and with the Consent and Approbation of
63 my daughter Anne Jordan during her natural life or until her second
64 marriage that is that they the said John Dennis and John Baker
65 and the Survivor of them and the Exors Admors and Assigns of such
66 survivor do and shall from and immediately after my decease during
67 the natural Life of my daughter Anne Jordan or until her second
68 marriage which shall fir happen pay all the dividends Interest
69 and annual produce of all such Sum or Sums of Money as shall
70 or may be invested or placed in the Stocks Funds or on Government
71 Security or Securities (as the same shall become due) into the hands
72 of my said daughter Anne Jordan or into the hands of such person
73 or persons as she shall by any Note in Writing to be by her signed
74 with her own hand from time to time direct and appoint and from
75 and immediately after the decease or second Marriage of my daughter
76 Anne Jordan which shall first happen Then and as for and concerning
77 all such Sum or Sums of Money as placed or invested in the Stocks
78 Funds or on Government Security or Securities as aforesaid shall or
79 may be invested or placed And also all such dividends or annual
80 produce as shall happen to be then due and owing In Trust for
81 One Moiety or half of all such dividends and annual produce of
82 all such Sum and Sums of Money be invested or placed as aforesaid
83 for my daughter Jane wife of Walter Gribble during her natural life
84 and from and immediately after her decease In Trust that they the
85 said John Dennis and John Baker and the Survivor of them and the
86 Exors Admors and Assigns of such Survivor shall and do from and
87 immediately after the decease of my daughter Jane Gribble pay assign
88 transfer and make over the Moiety or one half of all such capital
89 Stock Funds or Government Security or Securities wherein or upon
90 which the same shall or may be invested or placed together with all
91 such dividends or annual produce as may then happen to be due
92 after the decease of my daughter Jane Gribble to all and every of her
93 Children then living equally between them share and share alike but
94 if one Child only shall be then living then to such only Child and to
95 his or her Exors Admors or Assigns but if one or more of my daughter
96 Jane Gribble’s Children shall die before my daughter Jane Gribble
97 leaving Issue lawfully begotten then the Issue of such her Child or
98 Children so dying to be entitled to the Share or Share of his her or
99 their parent or parents so dying as aforesaid and from and immediately
100 after the decease or second Marriage of my daughter Anne Jordan
101 which shall first happen Then as for and concerning the other Moiety
102 or one half of the dividends or annual produce of such Sum and
103 Sums so invested or placed in the Funds Stocks or upon Government
104 Security or Securities as aforesaid In Trust that they the said John
105 Dennis and John Baker and the Survivor them and the Exors
106 Admors and Assigns of such Survivor do and shall from thenceforth
107 during the natural Life of my daughter Susanna Pearse pay the other
108 Moiety or one half of all such dividends or annual produce thereof
109 (as the same shall become due) into the hands of my daughter
110 Susanna Pearse during her natural life and from and immediately
111 after her decease In Trust that they the said John Dennis and John
112 Baker and the Survivor of them and the Exors Admors and Assigns
113 of such Survivor shall from and immediately after the decease of my
114 said daughter Susanna Pearse pay assign transfer and make over the
115 other Moiety or one half of all such Capital Stocks Funds or Government
116 Security and Securities wherein or upon which the same shall or may
117 be invested or placed together with all such dividends or annual
118 produce as may then happen to be due after the death of my said
119 daughter Susanna Pearse to all and every of her Children then living
120 equally between them share and share alike but if one Child only
121 shall be then living then to such only Child and to his or her Exors
122 Admors or Assigns But if one of more of my daughter Susanna
123 Pearse’s children shall die before his her or their Mother leaving Issue
124 lawfully begotten then the Issue of her Child or Children so dying to be entitled to the share or shares of his her or their parent or parents so dying as
125 aforesaid But if either of my Children Jane Gribble or Susanna Pearse
126 shall die without Issue lawfully begotten Then In Trust that they the said
127 John Dennis and John Baker and the Survivor of them and the Exors
128 Admors and Assigns of such Survivor shall from and immediately after
129 the decease of either of them so dying without Issue pay assign
130 transfer and make over such the Moiety of her as dying without Issue
131 of all such Capital Stock Funds or Government Security or Securities as
132 aforesaid together with all such dividends or annual produce as may
133 then happen to be due to all and every of the Children of the Survivor
134 of them then living equally between them share and share alike if
135 but one Child then living then to such only Child and to his or her
136 Exors Admors and Assigns Item all the rest residue and remainder
137 of my Good Chattels personal and testamentary Estate and Effects
138 whatsoever and wheresoever and of what kind or Sort soever after the
139 payment of my just debts Legacies and Funeral Expences) I give and
140 bequeath the same and every part and parcel thereof unto my daughter
141 Anne Jordan and I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint my
142 said daughter Anne Jordan whole and sole Executrix of this my last
143 Will and Testament But in case my said daughter Anne Jordan shall
144 marry or intermarry again after my decease then from and immediately
145 on such second Marriage taking place or effect I then nominate constitute and
146 appoint my two daughters Jane Gribble and Susanna Pearse joint and
147 Sole Executrixes of this my last Will and Testament immediately on
148 such second marriage and I hereby revoke and make void all former
149 and other Will and Wills by me at any time or times heretofore made
150 and Lastly I hereby declare that they the said John Dennis and John
151 Baker or either of them or their or either of their Exors Admors or
152 assigns shall not be charged with or accountable for any more Monies
153 Estate or Effects than he or they shall respectively receive by Virtue of
154 this my Will nor the one of them for the other nor for the acts deeds
155 receipts defaults or disbursement for one for the other but each of
156 them for his own Acts deeds receipts defaults or disbursements
157 and that it shall be lawful to and for each of them my Trustees
158 and the Survivor of them and the Exors Admors and Assigns of such
159 survivor in the first place by and out of the Trust Estate to deduct
160 and reimburse him and themselves all such loss Costs Charges and
161 Expences as they or either of them shall sustain expend or be
162 put at for or by reason of the Trust hereby in them reposed or
163 in the management thereof In Witness whereof I the said Robert
164 Blake the Testator to this my last Will and Testament contained
165 in this and the three preceding Sheets of paper have set my hand
166 and my hand and Seal to this last Sheet the twenty seventh day
167 of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
168 and four Robert Blake Signed sealed published and
169 declared by the said Robert Blake the Testator as and for his
170 Last Will and Testament in the presence of us who have hereunto
171 subscribed our Names as Witness in his presence and at his request
172 and in the presence of each other Samuel Lee W Westelley
173 Whereas I Robert Blake of Barnstaple in the County of
174 Devon Mariner ave made my last Will and Testament in writing
175 bearing date the twenty seventh day of April in the year of our Lord one
176 thousand eight hundred and four Now by this Codicil to my said
177 Last Will and Testament I do give and devise all that my Messuage
178 or dwellinghouse with the outhouses Curtilage and Garden and other
179 appurts thereunto belonging situate lying and being in Barnstaple
181 aforesaid in a certain Street there called Silver Street and now in the
182 several occupations of William Watts and John Pearse (and which
183 I lately purchased of Mr John Hodge) unto my daughter Ann
184 Jordan *in my said will named and unto her heirs and assigns for
185 ever and I hereby ratify and confirm my said Will and all the Gifts
186 Devises Bequests Matter and Things therein contained (whereby
187 altered) And I do hereby decare this Writing to be a Codicil to my
188 said Will and direct it to be accepted and taken as part thereof as
189 fully as if the same had been actually inserted therein and also
190 direct it to be annexed thereto In Witness whereof I the said
191 Robert Blake have to this Codicil to my said last Will and Testament
192 set my hand and Seal this fifth day of March in the Year of
193 our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seven Robert Blake
194 Signed sealed published and declared by the above named Robert
195 Blake as and for a Codicil to his last Will and Testament in the
196 presence of us who have hereunto subscribed our Names as
197 Witnesses thereto in his presence at his request in the presence of each other Robert Westacott
198 Robert Yeo John Foller
199 Whereas I Robert Blake of Barnstaple in the County
200 of Devon Mariner have made and duly executed my last Will
201 and Testament in writing bearing the twenty seventh day of April
202 in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and four and
203 have also made and duly executed a Codicil annexed thereunto bearing
204 date the fifth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand
205 eight hundred and seven and whereas by my said Will I have
206 given and bequeathed unto my daughter Jane the then Wife but
207 now Widow of Walter Gribble of Barnstaple aforesaid Mariner
208 the Sum of twenty pounds to be paid her by my Executrix thereinafter
209 mentioned within one Month next after my deceae Now I do hereby
210 revoke and make void the said Legacy of twenty pounds so made and
211 bequeathed by my said Will unto my said daughter Jane Gribble
212 in as far as concerns the time and manner of payment of the same
213 and instead thereof I do will and direct that the said Sum of
214 twenty pounds shall be paid to my said daughter Jane Gribble
215 by my said Executrix in my said Will mentioned in weekly Sums
216 after the rate of two shillings a week until the whole Sum of twenty
217 pounds be fully paid the first weekly payment of two shillings to commence
218 and be made within one week next after my decease And I do ordain
219 and declare this present Writing to be a second Codicil to my said Will
220 and that the same shall be annexed thereto and taken part thereof
221 and do confirm my said Will and former Codicil in every particular
222 thereof that is not hereby altered In Witness whereof I have to this
223 Codicil set my hand and Seal the seventh day of October in the
224 year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fourteen Robert
225 Blake Signed sealed published and declared by the said Robert
226 Blake as and for a Codicil to be annexed to his last Will and Testament
227 in the presence of us who have hereunto subscribed our Names as
228 witnesses thereto in his presence at his request and in the presence of
229 each other William Gribble William Henry Thorne
230 Proved at London with two Codicils 10th March 1815 before the
231 Judge by the Oath of Anne Jordan Widow the daughter and sole
232 Executrix to whom Admon was granted having been first sworn by
233 Comm[issi]on duly to administer
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Will of Andrew Blake, Merchant, Waterford, Ireland - The National Archives PROB 11/1761, probated 17 Oct 1829
Andrew Blake, the testator, was the son of James Blake and his wife Mary Walsh. James Blake died in the West Indies having left a will dated 18 August 1824. In that will he provided for his grandson James Blake as mentioned in the will below.
Using this information and “A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain and Ireland by Bernard Burke (published 1906), it was perhaps possible to locate this Blake line as descendant of the Galway Blake family.
“Nicholas Blake settled in Barbados and was an ancestor of James Blake of Waterford who left the West Indies and settled in that city; his son Andrew Blake of Waterford and Ballinamona, Kilkenny, married Mary daughter of Patrick Galway of Waterford.”
The will of James Blake is also available and will be transcribed next. He was the father of the present testator Andrew Blake.
Excerpt from The Law Reports (Ireland), Volume 19, edited by William Green: By the will of James Blake, dated the 18th August, 1824, the lands of Kilmaguage, of which he was seized in fee, were devised to his grandson James Blake afterwards known as James Stanislaus Blake for life with remainder to his first and other sons in tail mail, and with power to him to charge the lands with a jointure of £60 a year and with any sum as portions for his younger children not exceeding the sum of £400 of the late Irish currency.
There does not appear to be any extant original documents linking James Blake to Nicholas Blake son of John Blake, Mayor of Galway.
Andrew Blake, the testator, lists his sons James, Patrick, Andrew, Francis and John and daughter Grace in the will below. He identifies his wife as Mary and she is likely Mary Galway daughter of Patrick Galway.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 9 Feb 2017
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1761
Name of testator: Andrew Blake, Merchant
Place: Waterford, Ireland
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 14 Apr 1829, probated 17 Oct 1829
[In margin] Andrew Blake 42
[Top] Extracted from the Registry of His Majesties Court of Prerogative in Ireland
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 I Andrew Blake of the City of Waterford Merchant do make this my last Will and
3 Testament in manner following Whereas I am seized in fee of the lands of Ballinamona in
4 the County of Kilkenny subject to a Jointure or Annuity of eighty pounds late currency
5 to my dear Wife Mary Blake under her marriage Settlement of the sixth day of April
6 One thousand Eight hundred and fifteen Now I charge and incumber all my said lands
7 of Ballynamona and all my Estate title and Interest therein and I direct to be paid and
8 payable out of the same and out of the rents issues and profits of said lands of Ballynamona or any
9 part thereof during the natural life of my said dear Wife Mary Blake in case she
10 shall survive me one Annuity or yearly sum of forty pounds St[erlin]g of ____ lawful money
11 of Ireland clear of all deductions and which said Annuity or yearly sum shall be
12 paid unto my said Wife or her Assigns for her own use and benefit during her
13 natural life by equal half yearly payments at every first day of July and first day of
14 Janvier in each and every year the first payment to be made to her on such of said days
15 which first occur after the day of my decease the said sum of forty pounds yearly
16 be paid to her in increase and augmentation of the said Jointure provided for her by
17 her Marriage Settlement hereinbefore mentioned and in case any half yearly payment
18 of said Annuity of forty pounds shall at any time be in arrear and unpaid for the space
19 of twenty one days next after any of the days appointed for the payment thereof as afores[ai]d
20 then and in such case and as often as the same shall so happen that is shall and may be
21 lawful for my said Wife and her Assigns into and upon the said town lands and premises
22 of Ballynamona to enter and distrain and the distress and distresses thereas there found
23 to detail and keep until such arrears and all charges damages and expences
24 affording the taking and keeping of such distress and distresses shall be fully paid and
25 satisfied and in default of payment to sell the same according to law provided always
26 and this Annuity of forty pounds is given by me in manner aforesaid to my said Wife
27 upon the express condition that the same shall be in full bar and discharge of
28 any claim which she could or might have to any part of my personal property
29 whatsoever save as hereinafter mentioned and more particularly to any claim or
30 demand which she could or might have to any share in or of or to my property
31 in the French funds either by the laws of France or this County and in case my
32 said Wife should claim to be entitled to any such share or proportion of my said
33 property in the French funds or other my personal property in France or elsewhere
34 save as aforesaid that then and in such case this devise of said forty pounds per
35 annum to be wholly void and of no effect and the said forty pounds annuity is to
36 sink into the Inheritance of said lands of Ballynamona for the benefit of the person or
37 persons who shall for the time being be entitled to said lands and the possession
38 thereof under the provisions of this my Will and I charge and incumber my said lands
39 of Ballynamona subject to such annual Sum of forty pounds or payable to my said
40 Wife for her natural life with the annual sum of three pounds for ever to be paid
41 and payable from time to time and at all times hereafter to some unbeneficed Roman
42 Catholic priest of the Diocese of Waterford and to be paid to her every fourteenth
43 day of May in every year for ever in order and for the purpose of the Roman Catholic
44 Priest celebrating Masses for my Soul or the Souls of my family publicly in some
45 one of the Parish Chapels of the City of Waterford such Roman Catholic Priest to be
46 named from time to time for that purpose after my death by my said Wife Mary
47 Blake is she be then living or if dead and at all times hereafter after my death and
48 the death of my said Wife to be named by such person or persons who shall become
49 entitled to the possession of said lands of Ballynamona and the rents issues and
50 profits thereof and subject to the said several devises of forty pounds and three pounds
51 as aforesaid and also subject to the several charges of eight hundred pounds hereinafter
52 mentioned I give and devise my said lands of Ballynamona and all my Estate and
53 Interest therein to my eldest Son James Blake and his Assigns for the time of his
54 natural life with Impeachment of Waste with remainder after his death to the
55 use of the first Son of the body of the said James Blake lawfully to be begotten and
56 the heirs male of the body of such first son lawfully issuing and for default of such
57 issue to the use of the second third fourth and fifth and all and every other the son and
58 Sons of my said Son James Blake lawfully to be begotten severally successively and in
59 remainder one after another as they shall severally be in priority of birth and the
60 heirs male of the body and bodies of all and every such Son and Sons issuing the
61 elder of such Sons and the heirs male of his and their body and bodies being always
62 preferred and to take before the younger of said Sons and the heirs male of his and
63 their body and bodies issuing And for want and in default of such issue of my said
64 Son James Blake then I devise said lands to my two sons Patrick Blake and Andrew
65 Blake and their assigns respectively for and during the terms of their several natural
66 lives each of his own share for his own life in equal shares and proportions as
67 tenants in common and not as joint tenants and of the first and every other Son
68 and Sons of the said Patrick and Andrew Blake respectively of their bodies to be
69 begotten and of the heirs male of such several and respective sons of their bodies lawfully
70 issuing the elder of such Sons and their issue male to take according to seniority of
71 age and priority of birth and that each of my said Sons Patrick and Andrew and
72 their said several sons and their issue male shall hold and enjoy a moiety of
73 said lands respectively in case my eldest Son James dies without issue male in same
74 manner as my said son James and his said Sons and their issue male would and
75 might hold the whole of said lands under the limitations of this my Will But in
76 case either of my said Sons Patrick or Andrew shall be without leaving any such
77 son of his body or having such the said son or sons shall be without leaving
78 issue
79 male as aforesaid than the Moiety of said lands hereby limited to said Patrick or Andrew
80 respectively shall in such event go to the other of them or the Son of such of them as
81 shall become entitled to the other moiety or the male issue of such Son lawfully
82 begotten And in default of such son or sons and their male issue of my said sons Patrick
83 and Andrew I then devise my said lands of Ballynamona to my Son John and his
84 Assigns for the term of his natural life with a like remainder to his first and other
85 Son and their issue male in manner as the said lands are limited to the first and other
86 Sons of my said Son James Blake and their issue male And in default of such
87 issue of my said Son John then I devise said lands to the use of my Son Francis and his
88 Assigns during the term of his natural life with remainder to his first and every
89 other son and their male issue in like manner as the said lands are limited to my
90 said Son James Blake and in default of such issue of my said Son Francis then to my
91 own right heirs for ever But I hereby declare it to be Will and desire and
92 said devise of said lands of Ballynamona in Settlement as aforesaid is made subject
93 to the previous hereinafter mentioned to the rents issues and profits above being
94 made applicable to the payment of my debts and funeral expences after the
95 application of my personal Estate for that purpose and said lands not to be sold for any of such
96 purposes and in order to make a provision for my said younger Children Patrick Andrew
97 John and Francis and my daughter Grace Blake and any other younger child or
98 children who shall be living at the time of my death or born in due time afterwards in
99 addition to their several and respective shares of my personal fortune as residuary
100 legatees as hereinafter mentioned I hereby devise my said lands of Ballynamona in
101 manner hereinbefore mentioned subject expressly to and charged and chargeable
102 with the sum of eight hundred pounds to be paid and payable to each of my said younger
103 children at the age of twenty one years if a Son and if a daughter at the age of
104 twenty one years or day of Marriage which ever shall first happen provided
105 always that if any of my said younger children shall die if a Son before the age
106 of twenty one years or if a daughter before the age of twenty one years or day of
107 Marriage then my Will is that such younger childs share of eight hundred
108 pounds shall not be raised or payable at all out of the rents issues and profits of
109 said lands but same shall sink into the Inheritance of said lands for the benefit
110 of the person or persons who shall be then entitled to same provided also that in
111 case any of my said younger Son or their issue shall at any time under the
112 limitations of this my Will become entitled to my said lands and thereby become an
113 elder Son or represent such elder Son that there and in such case such fortune or sum
114 of eight hundred pounds shall not be raised or paid to such son so becoming entitled
115 to said lands but same shall sink in the inheritance of said lands provided also and
116 my Will is that it may and shall be lawful for my said Son James Blake and for
117 all and every other his said Sons and their Sons and issue male as aforesaid as and
118 when they shall severally and successively by virtue of this my Will be entitled in
119 possession to the freehold of the said lands of Ballynamona when and after they shall
120 have attained the age of twenty one years and be so in possession as aforesaid or
121 entitled as aforesaid although entitled to an Estate for life only by Indenture to be
122 dated and delivered by him or them and attested by two or more credible subscribing
123 Witnesses to devise or lease or appoint by way of devise or lease the said lands of
124 Ballynamona to any person for any term of lives or years if lives not exceeding
125 three lives and if for years not exceeding a term of thirty one years in possession and
126 not in reversion or by way of future interest so as every such devise lease or grant
127 to be made as aforesaid shall be made at the best improved rent of the time of
128 making such rent to be incident to the reversion without taking any fine premium
129 or foregift for the same and so as said lease contained the usual provisos and covenants
130 between Land Lord and tenant Provided always that it may be lawful for such of
131 my sons who shall become seized of such Estate for his life in possession to charge said
132 lands or otherwise limit same for the purpose of making a settlement by way of Jointure
133 for such Wife as he shall either thereafter marry or shall have been theretofore
134 married to at the rate of ten pounds per Annum for every one hundred pounds fortune
135 or portion which she shall actual receive or which he shall have received with
136 such Wife and which shall be made applicable to and in fact bona fide applied im paying
137 off incumbrances created by this my Will in exoneration of said lands of Ballynamona
138 by the payment of the portions hereinbefore created for my said younger children and I
139 hereby further declare it to be my Will and intention that in as much as my said
140 Eldest Son James Blake has been provided for by his Grandfathers Will for his
141 present maintenance and support until the period hereinafter mentioned and
142 appointed by me for his entering into the actual receipt of the rents issues and profits of
143 said lands of Ballynamona after the payment of my debts and other charges hereby
144 created by me on said lands Now my Will is and I direct that the rents issues and
145 profits of said lands of Ballynamona after my death subject however to the payment
146 of said sum of forty pounds a year for my Wifes life and subject to the payment of the
147 annual sum of three pounds for ever shall be allowed to accumulate for the purpose
148 of forming a fund for the payment of my debts in case same shall not be paid out of my
149 personal Estate which personal fortune I charge with the payment of my said debts
150 only and also as a fund for the payment of the several charges and fortunes of eight
151 hundred pounds to each and every of my younger children as aforesaid and such
152 rents issues and profits shall be put out at Interest upon good and sufficient security for
153 the purpose of Creating such fund so that my said lands or any part thereof shall not
154 be sold mortgaged or otherwise disposed of for the payment of said charges or portions for
155 my said younger children in as much as I expressly hereby exempt my personal fortune
156 and Assetts from the payment of the said portions or fortunes of eight hundred pounds
157 for such of my said younger children so I do also expressly direct that these particular
158 sums of eight hundred pounds for each of my said Children which I do charge upon
159 said lands shall be only raised by the accumulation of the rents and profits of same and
160 not by any sale or other disposition of said lands which subject to such application
161 of the rents and profits I have limited in strict settlement to my said Sons as
162 aforesaid And I further Will and direct that each and every of my said younger children
163 who shall be so entitled to such legacy charge or portion of eight hundred pounds
164 respectively shall be paid their respective shares of eight hundred pounds according
165 to their seniority out of such rents or the accumulation as aforesaid and also
166 that they shall during their minorities or for such other period as shall expire
167 before they shall be entitled to be paid their said portions pursuant to the directions
168 of this my Will be paid interest on their said charges or portions at the rate of
169 four pounds per cent per annum for their support and maintenance until they
170 shall be so paid their said legacies and I hereby as to all the rest residue and remainder
171 of my property of what nature or kind soever direct same to be divided between all my
172 children including my eldest Son share and share alike as residuary legatees It being my Will and intention
173 that my said Children shall have my personal property after payment of my debts and
174 funeral Expences divided equally between them share and share alike it being also
175 my Intention that said Sums of Eight hundred which I have charged the rents of said
176 lands with for my younger children shall be in augmentation of such their respective
177 shares of my personal property and that the land itself subject to such charges shall
178 go in settlement to my eldest Son for the time being in augmentation of his share of
179 my said personal property And I desire that the interest of such shares of said
180 residuary property shall be as well as the Interest on their said portions or charges
181 of Eight hundred pounds or so much thereof as shall be deemed necessary for the
182 purpose applied to the support and education of my said younger children until their
183 respective ages of twenty one years if sons and of twenty one years or days of marriage
184 if daughters and I hereby appoint my dear Wife Mary Blake
185 Executors of this my Will And I nominate my said dear Wife Guardian of the person
186 and fortunes of my said children And all and each of them I hereby give and bequeath
187 to my dear Wife Mary Blake all my household furniture plate linen and china of
188 every nature and kind whatsoever to and for her own use for here hereby specifically bequeathed
189 the same to her free clear and discharged from the payment of my debts legacies or
190 funeral expences In Witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and
191 affixed my seal this fourteenth day of April One thousand eight hundred and twenty
192 nine Andrew Blake Signed Sealed Published and declared by the said
193 Andrew Blake as and for his last Will and testament in our presence who in his presence
194 and in the presence of each other at his request have subscribed our Names hereto as
195 Witnesses this fourteenth day of April One thousand Eight hundred and twenty nine
196 James Lee Thomas Power Michael Farrell
197 Having made my Will this day I omitted in it Michael Farrell as one
198 whom I would not wish to forget as I conceive he was a faithful honest and an
199 attentive Servant for upwards of thirty years in my Employment I beg and
200 earnestly request of my trustee and beg that she may allow him during his natural
201 life provided he should be in my Employment at my decease the yearly sum of thirteen
202 pounds per annum out of the issues and profits of the lands of Ballynamona in the
203 County of Kilkenny Given under my hand this 14th April 1829
204 Andrew Blake Witness prost Thomas Power
205 Proved at London with a Codicil 17th October 1829 before the Judge by the
206 Oath of Mary Blake Widow the Relict the sole Executrix to whom Administration
207 was granted being first sworn by Commission duly to administer
Using this information and “A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain and Ireland by Bernard Burke (published 1906), it was perhaps possible to locate this Blake line as descendant of the Galway Blake family.
“Nicholas Blake settled in Barbados and was an ancestor of James Blake of Waterford who left the West Indies and settled in that city; his son Andrew Blake of Waterford and Ballinamona, Kilkenny, married Mary daughter of Patrick Galway of Waterford.”
The will of James Blake is also available and will be transcribed next. He was the father of the present testator Andrew Blake.
Excerpt from The Law Reports (Ireland), Volume 19, edited by William Green: By the will of James Blake, dated the 18th August, 1824, the lands of Kilmaguage, of which he was seized in fee, were devised to his grandson James Blake afterwards known as James Stanislaus Blake for life with remainder to his first and other sons in tail mail, and with power to him to charge the lands with a jointure of £60 a year and with any sum as portions for his younger children not exceeding the sum of £400 of the late Irish currency.
There does not appear to be any extant original documents linking James Blake to Nicholas Blake son of John Blake, Mayor of Galway.
Andrew Blake, the testator, lists his sons James, Patrick, Andrew, Francis and John and daughter Grace in the will below. He identifies his wife as Mary and she is likely Mary Galway daughter of Patrick Galway.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 9 Feb 2017
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1761
Name of testator: Andrew Blake, Merchant
Place: Waterford, Ireland
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 14 Apr 1829, probated 17 Oct 1829
[In margin] Andrew Blake 42
[Top] Extracted from the Registry of His Majesties Court of Prerogative in Ireland
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 I Andrew Blake of the City of Waterford Merchant do make this my last Will and
3 Testament in manner following Whereas I am seized in fee of the lands of Ballinamona in
4 the County of Kilkenny subject to a Jointure or Annuity of eighty pounds late currency
5 to my dear Wife Mary Blake under her marriage Settlement of the sixth day of April
6 One thousand Eight hundred and fifteen Now I charge and incumber all my said lands
7 of Ballynamona and all my Estate title and Interest therein and I direct to be paid and
8 payable out of the same and out of the rents issues and profits of said lands of Ballynamona or any
9 part thereof during the natural life of my said dear Wife Mary Blake in case she
10 shall survive me one Annuity or yearly sum of forty pounds St[erlin]g of ____ lawful money
11 of Ireland clear of all deductions and which said Annuity or yearly sum shall be
12 paid unto my said Wife or her Assigns for her own use and benefit during her
13 natural life by equal half yearly payments at every first day of July and first day of
14 Janvier in each and every year the first payment to be made to her on such of said days
15 which first occur after the day of my decease the said sum of forty pounds yearly
16 be paid to her in increase and augmentation of the said Jointure provided for her by
17 her Marriage Settlement hereinbefore mentioned and in case any half yearly payment
18 of said Annuity of forty pounds shall at any time be in arrear and unpaid for the space
19 of twenty one days next after any of the days appointed for the payment thereof as afores[ai]d
20 then and in such case and as often as the same shall so happen that is shall and may be
21 lawful for my said Wife and her Assigns into and upon the said town lands and premises
22 of Ballynamona to enter and distrain and the distress and distresses thereas there found
23 to detail and keep until such arrears and all charges damages and expences
24 affording the taking and keeping of such distress and distresses shall be fully paid and
25 satisfied and in default of payment to sell the same according to law provided always
26 and this Annuity of forty pounds is given by me in manner aforesaid to my said Wife
27 upon the express condition that the same shall be in full bar and discharge of
28 any claim which she could or might have to any part of my personal property
29 whatsoever save as hereinafter mentioned and more particularly to any claim or
30 demand which she could or might have to any share in or of or to my property
31 in the French funds either by the laws of France or this County and in case my
32 said Wife should claim to be entitled to any such share or proportion of my said
33 property in the French funds or other my personal property in France or elsewhere
34 save as aforesaid that then and in such case this devise of said forty pounds per
35 annum to be wholly void and of no effect and the said forty pounds annuity is to
36 sink into the Inheritance of said lands of Ballynamona for the benefit of the person or
37 persons who shall for the time being be entitled to said lands and the possession
38 thereof under the provisions of this my Will and I charge and incumber my said lands
39 of Ballynamona subject to such annual Sum of forty pounds or payable to my said
40 Wife for her natural life with the annual sum of three pounds for ever to be paid
41 and payable from time to time and at all times hereafter to some unbeneficed Roman
42 Catholic priest of the Diocese of Waterford and to be paid to her every fourteenth
43 day of May in every year for ever in order and for the purpose of the Roman Catholic
44 Priest celebrating Masses for my Soul or the Souls of my family publicly in some
45 one of the Parish Chapels of the City of Waterford such Roman Catholic Priest to be
46 named from time to time for that purpose after my death by my said Wife Mary
47 Blake is she be then living or if dead and at all times hereafter after my death and
48 the death of my said Wife to be named by such person or persons who shall become
49 entitled to the possession of said lands of Ballynamona and the rents issues and
50 profits thereof and subject to the said several devises of forty pounds and three pounds
51 as aforesaid and also subject to the several charges of eight hundred pounds hereinafter
52 mentioned I give and devise my said lands of Ballynamona and all my Estate and
53 Interest therein to my eldest Son James Blake and his Assigns for the time of his
54 natural life with Impeachment of Waste with remainder after his death to the
55 use of the first Son of the body of the said James Blake lawfully to be begotten and
56 the heirs male of the body of such first son lawfully issuing and for default of such
57 issue to the use of the second third fourth and fifth and all and every other the son and
58 Sons of my said Son James Blake lawfully to be begotten severally successively and in
59 remainder one after another as they shall severally be in priority of birth and the
60 heirs male of the body and bodies of all and every such Son and Sons issuing the
61 elder of such Sons and the heirs male of his and their body and bodies being always
62 preferred and to take before the younger of said Sons and the heirs male of his and
63 their body and bodies issuing And for want and in default of such issue of my said
64 Son James Blake then I devise said lands to my two sons Patrick Blake and Andrew
65 Blake and their assigns respectively for and during the terms of their several natural
66 lives each of his own share for his own life in equal shares and proportions as
67 tenants in common and not as joint tenants and of the first and every other Son
68 and Sons of the said Patrick and Andrew Blake respectively of their bodies to be
69 begotten and of the heirs male of such several and respective sons of their bodies lawfully
70 issuing the elder of such Sons and their issue male to take according to seniority of
71 age and priority of birth and that each of my said Sons Patrick and Andrew and
72 their said several sons and their issue male shall hold and enjoy a moiety of
73 said lands respectively in case my eldest Son James dies without issue male in same
74 manner as my said son James and his said Sons and their issue male would and
75 might hold the whole of said lands under the limitations of this my Will But in
76 case either of my said Sons Patrick or Andrew shall be without leaving any such
77 son of his body or having such the said son or sons shall be without leaving
78 issue
79 male as aforesaid than the Moiety of said lands hereby limited to said Patrick or Andrew
80 respectively shall in such event go to the other of them or the Son of such of them as
81 shall become entitled to the other moiety or the male issue of such Son lawfully
82 begotten And in default of such son or sons and their male issue of my said sons Patrick
83 and Andrew I then devise my said lands of Ballynamona to my Son John and his
84 Assigns for the term of his natural life with a like remainder to his first and other
85 Son and their issue male in manner as the said lands are limited to the first and other
86 Sons of my said Son James Blake and their issue male And in default of such
87 issue of my said Son John then I devise said lands to the use of my Son Francis and his
88 Assigns during the term of his natural life with remainder to his first and every
89 other son and their male issue in like manner as the said lands are limited to my
90 said Son James Blake and in default of such issue of my said Son Francis then to my
91 own right heirs for ever But I hereby declare it to be Will and desire and
92 said devise of said lands of Ballynamona in Settlement as aforesaid is made subject
93 to the previous hereinafter mentioned to the rents issues and profits above being
94 made applicable to the payment of my debts and funeral expences after the
95 application of my personal Estate for that purpose and said lands not to be sold for any of such
96 purposes and in order to make a provision for my said younger Children Patrick Andrew
97 John and Francis and my daughter Grace Blake and any other younger child or
98 children who shall be living at the time of my death or born in due time afterwards in
99 addition to their several and respective shares of my personal fortune as residuary
100 legatees as hereinafter mentioned I hereby devise my said lands of Ballynamona in
101 manner hereinbefore mentioned subject expressly to and charged and chargeable
102 with the sum of eight hundred pounds to be paid and payable to each of my said younger
103 children at the age of twenty one years if a Son and if a daughter at the age of
104 twenty one years or day of Marriage which ever shall first happen provided
105 always that if any of my said younger children shall die if a Son before the age
106 of twenty one years or if a daughter before the age of twenty one years or day of
107 Marriage then my Will is that such younger childs share of eight hundred
108 pounds shall not be raised or payable at all out of the rents issues and profits of
109 said lands but same shall sink into the Inheritance of said lands for the benefit
110 of the person or persons who shall be then entitled to same provided also that in
111 case any of my said younger Son or their issue shall at any time under the
112 limitations of this my Will become entitled to my said lands and thereby become an
113 elder Son or represent such elder Son that there and in such case such fortune or sum
114 of eight hundred pounds shall not be raised or paid to such son so becoming entitled
115 to said lands but same shall sink in the inheritance of said lands provided also and
116 my Will is that it may and shall be lawful for my said Son James Blake and for
117 all and every other his said Sons and their Sons and issue male as aforesaid as and
118 when they shall severally and successively by virtue of this my Will be entitled in
119 possession to the freehold of the said lands of Ballynamona when and after they shall
120 have attained the age of twenty one years and be so in possession as aforesaid or
121 entitled as aforesaid although entitled to an Estate for life only by Indenture to be
122 dated and delivered by him or them and attested by two or more credible subscribing
123 Witnesses to devise or lease or appoint by way of devise or lease the said lands of
124 Ballynamona to any person for any term of lives or years if lives not exceeding
125 three lives and if for years not exceeding a term of thirty one years in possession and
126 not in reversion or by way of future interest so as every such devise lease or grant
127 to be made as aforesaid shall be made at the best improved rent of the time of
128 making such rent to be incident to the reversion without taking any fine premium
129 or foregift for the same and so as said lease contained the usual provisos and covenants
130 between Land Lord and tenant Provided always that it may be lawful for such of
131 my sons who shall become seized of such Estate for his life in possession to charge said
132 lands or otherwise limit same for the purpose of making a settlement by way of Jointure
133 for such Wife as he shall either thereafter marry or shall have been theretofore
134 married to at the rate of ten pounds per Annum for every one hundred pounds fortune
135 or portion which she shall actual receive or which he shall have received with
136 such Wife and which shall be made applicable to and in fact bona fide applied im paying
137 off incumbrances created by this my Will in exoneration of said lands of Ballynamona
138 by the payment of the portions hereinbefore created for my said younger children and I
139 hereby further declare it to be my Will and intention that in as much as my said
140 Eldest Son James Blake has been provided for by his Grandfathers Will for his
141 present maintenance and support until the period hereinafter mentioned and
142 appointed by me for his entering into the actual receipt of the rents issues and profits of
143 said lands of Ballynamona after the payment of my debts and other charges hereby
144 created by me on said lands Now my Will is and I direct that the rents issues and
145 profits of said lands of Ballynamona after my death subject however to the payment
146 of said sum of forty pounds a year for my Wifes life and subject to the payment of the
147 annual sum of three pounds for ever shall be allowed to accumulate for the purpose
148 of forming a fund for the payment of my debts in case same shall not be paid out of my
149 personal Estate which personal fortune I charge with the payment of my said debts
150 only and also as a fund for the payment of the several charges and fortunes of eight
151 hundred pounds to each and every of my younger children as aforesaid and such
152 rents issues and profits shall be put out at Interest upon good and sufficient security for
153 the purpose of Creating such fund so that my said lands or any part thereof shall not
154 be sold mortgaged or otherwise disposed of for the payment of said charges or portions for
155 my said younger children in as much as I expressly hereby exempt my personal fortune
156 and Assetts from the payment of the said portions or fortunes of eight hundred pounds
157 for such of my said younger children so I do also expressly direct that these particular
158 sums of eight hundred pounds for each of my said Children which I do charge upon
159 said lands shall be only raised by the accumulation of the rents and profits of same and
160 not by any sale or other disposition of said lands which subject to such application
161 of the rents and profits I have limited in strict settlement to my said Sons as
162 aforesaid And I further Will and direct that each and every of my said younger children
163 who shall be so entitled to such legacy charge or portion of eight hundred pounds
164 respectively shall be paid their respective shares of eight hundred pounds according
165 to their seniority out of such rents or the accumulation as aforesaid and also
166 that they shall during their minorities or for such other period as shall expire
167 before they shall be entitled to be paid their said portions pursuant to the directions
168 of this my Will be paid interest on their said charges or portions at the rate of
169 four pounds per cent per annum for their support and maintenance until they
170 shall be so paid their said legacies and I hereby as to all the rest residue and remainder
171 of my property of what nature or kind soever direct same to be divided between all my
172 children including my eldest Son share and share alike as residuary legatees It being my Will and intention
173 that my said Children shall have my personal property after payment of my debts and
174 funeral Expences divided equally between them share and share alike it being also
175 my Intention that said Sums of Eight hundred which I have charged the rents of said
176 lands with for my younger children shall be in augmentation of such their respective
177 shares of my personal property and that the land itself subject to such charges shall
178 go in settlement to my eldest Son for the time being in augmentation of his share of
179 my said personal property And I desire that the interest of such shares of said
180 residuary property shall be as well as the Interest on their said portions or charges
181 of Eight hundred pounds or so much thereof as shall be deemed necessary for the
182 purpose applied to the support and education of my said younger children until their
183 respective ages of twenty one years if sons and of twenty one years or days of marriage
184 if daughters and I hereby appoint my dear Wife Mary Blake
185 Executors of this my Will And I nominate my said dear Wife Guardian of the person
186 and fortunes of my said children And all and each of them I hereby give and bequeath
187 to my dear Wife Mary Blake all my household furniture plate linen and china of
188 every nature and kind whatsoever to and for her own use for here hereby specifically bequeathed
189 the same to her free clear and discharged from the payment of my debts legacies or
190 funeral expences In Witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and
191 affixed my seal this fourteenth day of April One thousand eight hundred and twenty
192 nine Andrew Blake Signed Sealed Published and declared by the said
193 Andrew Blake as and for his last Will and testament in our presence who in his presence
194 and in the presence of each other at his request have subscribed our Names hereto as
195 Witnesses this fourteenth day of April One thousand Eight hundred and twenty nine
196 James Lee Thomas Power Michael Farrell
197 Having made my Will this day I omitted in it Michael Farrell as one
198 whom I would not wish to forget as I conceive he was a faithful honest and an
199 attentive Servant for upwards of thirty years in my Employment I beg and
200 earnestly request of my trustee and beg that she may allow him during his natural
201 life provided he should be in my Employment at my decease the yearly sum of thirteen
202 pounds per annum out of the issues and profits of the lands of Ballynamona in the
203 County of Kilkenny Given under my hand this 14th April 1829
204 Andrew Blake Witness prost Thomas Power
205 Proved at London with a Codicil 17th October 1829 before the Judge by the
206 Oath of Mary Blake Widow the Relict the sole Executrix to whom Administration
207 was granted being first sworn by Commission duly to administer
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Will of Sarah Blake, widow, Maldon, Essex - The National Archives PROB 11/1708/416, probated 27 Feb 1826
Locating the husband of Sarah Blake was not possible initially as he was not named in the will.
Her niece Elizabeth Simpson, married to William Woolley Simpson, was also not found although I did find the Will of her husband and they were living at Montagu Place Russell Square Middlesex as well as his being an Auctioneer at Bucklersbury London. It is a short will which leaves everything to his wife Elizabeth; will dated 12 Oct 1847 and probated 9 Dec 1847.
The marriage of Mr John Wyatt Lee of Maldon, Essex to Ann Dunkin (daughter of John Dunkin Esquire of Woodham Mortimer) at Woodham Mortimer 17 October 1805 (Find My Past).
One of the names of the great nephews of Sarah Blake is William Staddon Blake Lee and googling this name reveals a William Staddon Blake who lived in St Mary Woolnoth and St Mary Woolchurch, London. He was in 1795 one of the churchwardens.
There is a will for William Stadden Blake of Change Alley in the City of London, Engraver. He mentions his wife Sarah Blake. His will was probated 10 November 1814. His will was written 2 Nov 1795. I will transcribe his will next. It is interesting sometimes how one can discover more about individuals who leave their wills. I did find the baptism of William Stadden Blake son of William and Fanny Blake of Saff[ron]hill, St Andrew Holborn, 14 Jan 1747 (Ancestry.ca). Cornhill is approximately 1 mile away from Saffron Hill.
Names mentioned in the will:
Sarah Blake, testatrix, Maldon, Essex
Francis Maria Lee, executrix, sister, Maldon, Essex
John Rowe, tenant, Change Alley, Cornhill, London
George Turney, tenant, Change Alley, Cornhill, London
Elizabeth Simpson, niece, Bucklersbury, London
William Woolley Simpson, Auctioneer, husband of Elizabeth, Bucklersbury, London
John Wyatt Lee, nephew
Thomas Lee, son of John Wyatt Lee, great nephew
David Stringlet, tenant, Great Totham, Essex
John Dunkin Lee, son of John Wyatt Lee, great nephew
William Staddon Blake Lee, son of John Wyatt Lee, great nephew,
Samuel Willett, executor, Barnards Inn, Middlesex, gentleman
George May, executor, Maldon, Surgeon
Mary Lee, daughter of John Wyatt Lee, great niece
Nancy Lee, daughter of John Wyatt Lee, great niece
Joanna Dunkin Lee, daughter of John Wyatt Lee, great niece
Elizabeth Frances Lee, daughter of John Wyatt Lee, great niece
Emma Lee, daughter of John Wyatt Lee, great niece
Robert Clarke, Little Totham, Essex, Farmer
Hannah Fanks, Castle Street, Southwark Bridge
Ann Cotter, wife of Joseph Cotter, Great Totham, Essex
Joseph Cotter, Great Totham, Essex, husband of Ann, Innholder
Elizabeth Sly, Purleigh, Essex
Elizabeth Goddard, residing with Lady Julia Howard
Ann Goddard, sister of Elizabeth Goddard
Elizabeth Foster, servant
Mary Wood, servant to Francis Maria Lee
Hannah Ruggles, residing with the testatrix
Betsy Stotherd, witness
Wm Wright, witness, Sol[icito]r Maldon
Z: W: Digby, witness, Clerk to Wm Wright
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 6 Apr 2014
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1708/416
Testator: Sarah Blake, Widow
Place: Maldon, Essex, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 10 Jun 1825, probated 27 Feb 1826
Condition: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Sarah
[Margin]: Blake
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1 In the Name of God Amen I
2 Sarah Blake of Saint Mary Islington in the County of Middlesex but me residing
3 at Maldon in the County of Essex Widow being of sound mine memory and
4 understanding (praised be God for the same) do make publish and declare my last
5 Will and Testament in manner following (that is to say) in the first place I direct
6 all my just debts Funeral and Testamentary Expenses to be paid off and discharged
7 by my Executrix and Executors hereinafter appointed from and out of my personal
8 Estate And I give devise and bequeath unto my Sister Francis Maria Lee of Maldon
9 aforesaid Spinster all those my two Leasehold Messuages or dwellinghouses with the
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10 outbuildings and appurtenances thereto respectively belonging being Numbers 16 and 18 in
11 Change Alley Cornhill in the City of London now in the occupations of John Rowe
12 and George Turney To hold the same unto the said Francis Maria Lee her Executors
13 Administrators and Assigns to and for her and their own absolute use and benefit for the
14 residue of my Estate Term and interest therein respectively And I also give and bequeath
15 unto my said Sister Francis Maria Lee all my Principal Money Stocks of Funds
16 standing in my Name in the Long Annuities in the Books of the Governor and
17 Company of the Bank of England to and for her own absolute use and benefit and direct
18 the same to be paid or transferred to her within six months next after my decease
19 and I give and bequeath unto my Niece Elizabeth Simpson Wife of William Woolley
20 Simpson of Bucklersbury in the said City of London Auctioner the Sum of two thousand
21 pounds Stock part of the money Stock or Trust standing in my name in the new four
22 per cent Annuities to and for her own absolute use and benefit and direct the same
23 to be paid or transferred to her within six Calendar months next after my decease but
24 in case she shall happen to depart this life in my lifetime hereby the said Legacy
25 would lapse then I give and bequeath the said two thousand pounds Stock in the
26 now four per cent Annuities unto the said William Woolley Simpson absolutely
27 and direct the same to be paid or transferred to him within six Calendar months
28 next after my decease And I give and bequeath unto my Nephew John Wyatt Lee
29 the Legacy or Sum of One thousand pounds and direct the same to be paid to him
30 within six Calendar Months next after my decease to and for his absolute use and
31 and benefit And I give and devise unto Thomas Lee Son of the said John Wyatt Lee All
32 that my Messuage or dwellinghouse with the Outbuildings Yards Gardens and the
33 several pieces or parcels of Land thereto belonging containing by Estimation thirty
34 acres (be the same more or less) with the Appurtenances (part Freehold and part
35 Copyhold) situate and being in the parish of Great Totham in the said County of
36 Essex now in the occupation of David Stringlet To hold the same unto the same
37 Thomas Lee his heirs and Assigns for ever And I give and bequeath unto John
38 Dunkin Lee another Son of my said Nephew John Wyatt Lee All those my ten
39 shares (of One hundred pounds each) of and in the Capital Stock of a certain Company
40 called or known by the Name of the West Middlesex Waterworks Company and direct
41 that the same shall become vested in and be paid or Assigned and transferred to him
42 when he shall attain the Age of twenty one Years and the Interest dividends and
43 produce thereof in the meantime I direct to be paid to his Father the said John
44 Wyatt Lee to be applied by him for and towards his maintenance benefit and
45 Education and I give and bequeath unto William Staddon Blake Lee another Son
46 of the said John Wyatt Lee All and every my shares (being about twenty one in number
47 of and in the Capital Stock of a certain Company called the London Dock Company And
48 also all my shares and Interest or Interests in the Capital Stock of a certain Company
49 called the Waterloo or Stand Bridge Company and direct that the same respectively shall
50 become vested in and be paid or Assigned and transferred to him when he shall attain the
51 age of twenty one years And the Interest dividends and produce thereof respectively in
52 the meantime I direct to be paid to his Father the said John Wyatt Lee to be applied
53 by him for and towards his maintenance benefit and education provided always And
54 in case either or both of them the said John Dunkin Lee and William Stadden Blake
55 Lee shall happen to depart this life under the Age of twenty one years then I give and
56 bequeath the shares of the Stock of him of them so dying unto all his or their surviving
57 Brothers and Sisters in equal shares and proportions share and share alike and in
58 case there shall be but one Survivor then I give and bequeath the whole to such
60 only Surviving Child to and for his or her own absolute use and benefit and direct that
61 such accruing share or shares shall become vested in and be paid to assigned and
62 transferred to them him or her as and when they severally attain the Age of twenty one
63 Years and the Dividends Interest or produce thereof in the meantime I direct to be paid
64 to the said John Wyatt Lee to be by him applied for and towards their his or her
65 maintenance benefit and Education and I give and bequeath unto my Sister the said
66 Francis Maria Lee Samuel Willett of Barnards Inn in the said County of Middlesex
67 Gentleman and George May of Maldon aforesaid Surgeon the Sum of two thousand
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68 five hundred pounds upon trust that they the said Francis Maria Lee Samuel
69 Willett and George May or the Survivors or Survivor of them or the Executors or Admors
70 of such Survivor do and shall lay out and invest the same in their his or her own
71 names or name in some or one of the public Stocks or Funds or upon Government or
72 Real Security at Interest and from time to time to call in alter and transpose such Stocks
73 Funds and Securities as they she or he shall think fit and proper and do and shall pay the
74 Interest dividends and annual produce thereof as and when the same shall become due
75 and be received into the proper hands of the said John Wyatt Lee to be by him applied
76 for and towards the maintenance benefit and Education of his daughters Mary Lee
77 Nancy Lee Joanna Dunkin Lee Elizabeth Frances Lee and Emma Lee until they
78 shall severally and respectively attain the age of twenty one years and Marry with
79 the consent of my said Trustees or Trustee for the time being or the majority of them
80 or until such time or period as they shall (from any other cause than marriage)
81 severally cease to be maintained and supported by and at the Expence of the said John
82 Wyatt Lee their Father And when and as they shall severally and respectively attain
83 the age of twenty one Years and marry with such Consent as aforesaid or as and
84 when they shall (from any other cause than Marriage) severally cease to be
85 maintained and supported by their said Father then I do hereby declare and direct that
86 that the said Francis Maria Lee Samuel Willett and George May or the
87 Survivors or Survivor of them or the Executors or Administrators of such Survivor
88 shall stand and be possessed of the said Sum of two thousand five hundred pounds
89 or the Stocks Funds and Securities in or upon which the same shall be laid out and
90 invested as aforesaid in trust for and to pay or assign and transfer the same unto the
91 said Mary Lee Nancy Lee Joanna Dunkin Lee Elizabeth Frances Lee and Emma
92 Lee in equal shares and proportions share and share alike to and for their
93 respective absolute use and benefit nevertheless I do hereby declare my Mind and Will
94 to be that the said several and respective shares shall become vested in the said daughters
95 of the said John Wyatt Lee as and when they severally attain the age of twenty one
96 years notwithstanding the payment thereof is postponed till the time of their
97 marriage or (from any other cause) ceasing to be maintained and supported by
98 their said Father provided always and I do hereby further declare and direct that if
99 any one of more of them the said Mary Lee Nancy Lee Joanna Dunkin Lee Elizabeth Frances
100 Lee and Emma Lee shall happen to depart this life under the Age of twenty one
101 Years then the share or shares of her or them so dying shall go accrue and belong
102 to the Survivors of them in equal shares and in case of only one Survivor then the whole
103 shall go and accrue to such Survivor and shall vest in and be paid or assigned and
104 transferred to them or her at the same time or times and be subject to the same
105 contingency as is hereinbefore declared or expressed relative to her or their original
106 share or shares and the dividends and Interest thereof in the mean time shall be
107 paid and applied for their benefit as aforesaid And I give devise and bequeath unto
108 my Friend the said Samuel Willett All those two Leasehold Messuages or dwelling
109 houses with the Outbuildings Yards Gardens and Appurtenances thereto belonging
110 being Numbers 29 and 30 in Queens Row Walworth in the County of Surrey To
111 hold the same unto the said Samuel Willett his Executors Administrators and
112 Assigns to and for his and their own absolute use benefit and disposal for the
113 residue of my Estate Term and Interest therein respectively and I also give and
114 bequeath unto the said Samuel Willett the Legacy or Sum of One hundred pounds
115 and I give and bequeath unto my Friend the said George May the Sum of Fifty
116 pounds and I give and bequeath unto my Friend Robert Clarke of Little Totham
117 in the said County of Essex Farmer to Hannah Fanks of Castle Street Southwark
118 Bridge to Ann Cotter wife of Joseph Cotter of Great Totham aforesaid Innholder
119 and to Elizabeth Sly of Purleigh in the said County of Essex the Sum of Five Guineas
120 each as a token of my respect for them and I give and bequeath unto Elizabeth
121 Goddard now residing with Lady Julia Howard the Sum of nineteen Guineas
122 and I give and bequeath to Ann Goddard the Sister of the said Elizabeth Goddard
123 the Sum of Five Guineas and I give and bequeath unto my Servant Elizabeth
124 Foster the Sum of ten Guineas and I give and bequeath unto Mary Wood the
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125 Servant of my said Sister Frances Maria Lee the Sum of Five Guineas all which said
126 several last mentioned Legacies I will and direct shall be paid to the said several and
127 respective Legatees thereof within one Calendar months next after my decease and I
128 give and bequeath unto Hannah Ruggles now residing with me all my Clothes and
129 Linen And I give and bequeath unto my said Sister Francis Maria Lee All and
130 singular my ready money and Securities for Money debts and the rest and residue of
131 my personal estate whatsoever and wheresoever to and for her own absolute use benefit
132 and disposal And I hereby nominate constitute and appoint the said Francis Maria
133 Lee Samuel Willett and George May Executrix and Executors of this my Will And
134 do hereby declare my Will to be that my said Trustees and Executrix and Executors and
135 and their respective Executors and Administrators shall be charged and Chargeable
136 respectively for such monies only as they respectively shall actually receive by virtue
137 of this my Will notwithstanding their or any of their giving or signing or joining
138 in any receipt or receipts for the sake of Conformity And that no one or more of
139 them shall be answerable or accountable for the acts receipts neglects of defaults of
140 the others or other of them but each and every of them for her and his own acts
141 receipts neglects and defaults only and that they or any or either of them shall not
142 be answerable or accountable for any Banker Broker or other person with or to
143 whom or in whose hands any part of the said Trust monies shall or may be
144 intrusted paid or deposited for safe custody or otherwise in the Execution of the
145 Trusts of this my Will nor for the rise or fall in the price or value of Stocks or the
146 insufficiency or deficiency in Title or value of any Security and Securities in or upon
147 which the said Trust monies or any part thereof shall be laid out or invested nor
148 for any other loss of misfortune which may happen to the same trust monies
149 or any part thereof except the same shall happen by or through his her or
150 their own respective wilful act neglect or default and also that it shall be
151 lawful for my said Trustees and Executrix and Executors and their respective
152 Executors and Administrators by and out of the monies which shall come to
153 their hands by virtue of the trusts aforesaid to retain to and reimburse themselves
154 respectively and also to allow their respective Co Trustee and Executrix and Executor or respective Co Trustees and Executrix and Executors
155 All Costs Charges damages and Expenses which they or any or either of them shall
156 or may pay sustain or be put unto in the Execution of this my Will and the trusts
157 hereby in them reposed and I hereby revoke and make void all former Wills by me
158 at any time heretofore made and declare this alone to be and contain my last
159 Will and Testament In witness whereof I have to this my Will contained in five
160 Sheets of paper set my hand and Seal to wit my hand to the four preceding sheets
161 and my hand and Seal to this fifth and last sheet hereof the tenth day of June in
162 the Year one thousand eight hundred and twenty five Sarah Blake
163 Signed Sealed published and declared by the said Sarah Blake as and for her last Will
164 and Testament in the presence of us who have hereunto at her request in her
165 presence and in the presence of each other Subscribed our names as Witnesses
166 Betsy Stotherd Wm Wright Sol[icito]r Maldon Z: W: Digby his Clerk
167 Proved at London 27th February 1826 before the Worshipful Jesse Addams d[octo]r of Laws
168 and Surr[ogate] by the Oaths of Frances (in the will written Francis) Maria Lee Spinster the
169 Sister Samuel Willett and George May Esq[uie]rs the Ex[ecuto]rs to whom Adm[inistrati]on was granted
170 being first Sworn duly to adm[iniste]r
Her niece Elizabeth Simpson, married to William Woolley Simpson, was also not found although I did find the Will of her husband and they were living at Montagu Place Russell Square Middlesex as well as his being an Auctioneer at Bucklersbury London. It is a short will which leaves everything to his wife Elizabeth; will dated 12 Oct 1847 and probated 9 Dec 1847.
The marriage of Mr John Wyatt Lee of Maldon, Essex to Ann Dunkin (daughter of John Dunkin Esquire of Woodham Mortimer) at Woodham Mortimer 17 October 1805 (Find My Past).
One of the names of the great nephews of Sarah Blake is William Staddon Blake Lee and googling this name reveals a William Staddon Blake who lived in St Mary Woolnoth and St Mary Woolchurch, London. He was in 1795 one of the churchwardens.
There is a will for William Stadden Blake of Change Alley in the City of London, Engraver. He mentions his wife Sarah Blake. His will was probated 10 November 1814. His will was written 2 Nov 1795. I will transcribe his will next. It is interesting sometimes how one can discover more about individuals who leave their wills. I did find the baptism of William Stadden Blake son of William and Fanny Blake of Saff[ron]hill, St Andrew Holborn, 14 Jan 1747 (Ancestry.ca). Cornhill is approximately 1 mile away from Saffron Hill.
Names mentioned in the will:
Sarah Blake, testatrix, Maldon, Essex
Francis Maria Lee, executrix, sister, Maldon, Essex
John Rowe, tenant, Change Alley, Cornhill, London
George Turney, tenant, Change Alley, Cornhill, London
Elizabeth Simpson, niece, Bucklersbury, London
William Woolley Simpson, Auctioneer, husband of Elizabeth, Bucklersbury, London
John Wyatt Lee, nephew
Thomas Lee, son of John Wyatt Lee, great nephew
David Stringlet, tenant, Great Totham, Essex
John Dunkin Lee, son of John Wyatt Lee, great nephew
William Staddon Blake Lee, son of John Wyatt Lee, great nephew,
Samuel Willett, executor, Barnards Inn, Middlesex, gentleman
George May, executor, Maldon, Surgeon
Mary Lee, daughter of John Wyatt Lee, great niece
Nancy Lee, daughter of John Wyatt Lee, great niece
Joanna Dunkin Lee, daughter of John Wyatt Lee, great niece
Elizabeth Frances Lee, daughter of John Wyatt Lee, great niece
Emma Lee, daughter of John Wyatt Lee, great niece
Robert Clarke, Little Totham, Essex, Farmer
Hannah Fanks, Castle Street, Southwark Bridge
Ann Cotter, wife of Joseph Cotter, Great Totham, Essex
Joseph Cotter, Great Totham, Essex, husband of Ann, Innholder
Elizabeth Sly, Purleigh, Essex
Elizabeth Goddard, residing with Lady Julia Howard
Ann Goddard, sister of Elizabeth Goddard
Elizabeth Foster, servant
Mary Wood, servant to Francis Maria Lee
Hannah Ruggles, residing with the testatrix
Betsy Stotherd, witness
Wm Wright, witness, Sol[icito]r Maldon
Z: W: Digby, witness, Clerk to Wm Wright
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 6 Apr 2014
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1708/416
Testator: Sarah Blake, Widow
Place: Maldon, Essex, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 10 Jun 1825, probated 27 Feb 1826
Condition: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Sarah
[Margin]: Blake
[Margin]: 27
1 In the Name of God Amen I
2 Sarah Blake of Saint Mary Islington in the County of Middlesex but me residing
3 at Maldon in the County of Essex Widow being of sound mine memory and
4 understanding (praised be God for the same) do make publish and declare my last
5 Will and Testament in manner following (that is to say) in the first place I direct
6 all my just debts Funeral and Testamentary Expenses to be paid off and discharged
7 by my Executrix and Executors hereinafter appointed from and out of my personal
8 Estate And I give devise and bequeath unto my Sister Francis Maria Lee of Maldon
9 aforesaid Spinster all those my two Leasehold Messuages or dwellinghouses with the
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10 outbuildings and appurtenances thereto respectively belonging being Numbers 16 and 18 in
11 Change Alley Cornhill in the City of London now in the occupations of John Rowe
12 and George Turney To hold the same unto the said Francis Maria Lee her Executors
13 Administrators and Assigns to and for her and their own absolute use and benefit for the
14 residue of my Estate Term and interest therein respectively And I also give and bequeath
15 unto my said Sister Francis Maria Lee all my Principal Money Stocks of Funds
16 standing in my Name in the Long Annuities in the Books of the Governor and
17 Company of the Bank of England to and for her own absolute use and benefit and direct
18 the same to be paid or transferred to her within six months next after my decease
19 and I give and bequeath unto my Niece Elizabeth Simpson Wife of William Woolley
20 Simpson of Bucklersbury in the said City of London Auctioner the Sum of two thousand
21 pounds Stock part of the money Stock or Trust standing in my name in the new four
22 per cent Annuities to and for her own absolute use and benefit and direct the same
23 to be paid or transferred to her within six Calendar months next after my decease but
24 in case she shall happen to depart this life in my lifetime hereby the said Legacy
25 would lapse then I give and bequeath the said two thousand pounds Stock in the
26 now four per cent Annuities unto the said William Woolley Simpson absolutely
27 and direct the same to be paid or transferred to him within six Calendar months
28 next after my decease And I give and bequeath unto my Nephew John Wyatt Lee
29 the Legacy or Sum of One thousand pounds and direct the same to be paid to him
30 within six Calendar Months next after my decease to and for his absolute use and
31 and benefit And I give and devise unto Thomas Lee Son of the said John Wyatt Lee All
32 that my Messuage or dwellinghouse with the Outbuildings Yards Gardens and the
33 several pieces or parcels of Land thereto belonging containing by Estimation thirty
34 acres (be the same more or less) with the Appurtenances (part Freehold and part
35 Copyhold) situate and being in the parish of Great Totham in the said County of
36 Essex now in the occupation of David Stringlet To hold the same unto the same
37 Thomas Lee his heirs and Assigns for ever And I give and bequeath unto John
38 Dunkin Lee another Son of my said Nephew John Wyatt Lee All those my ten
39 shares (of One hundred pounds each) of and in the Capital Stock of a certain Company
40 called or known by the Name of the West Middlesex Waterworks Company and direct
41 that the same shall become vested in and be paid or Assigned and transferred to him
42 when he shall attain the Age of twenty one Years and the Interest dividends and
43 produce thereof in the meantime I direct to be paid to his Father the said John
44 Wyatt Lee to be applied by him for and towards his maintenance benefit and
45 Education and I give and bequeath unto William Staddon Blake Lee another Son
46 of the said John Wyatt Lee All and every my shares (being about twenty one in number
47 of and in the Capital Stock of a certain Company called the London Dock Company And
48 also all my shares and Interest or Interests in the Capital Stock of a certain Company
49 called the Waterloo or Stand Bridge Company and direct that the same respectively shall
50 become vested in and be paid or Assigned and transferred to him when he shall attain the
51 age of twenty one years And the Interest dividends and produce thereof respectively in
52 the meantime I direct to be paid to his Father the said John Wyatt Lee to be applied
53 by him for and towards his maintenance benefit and education provided always And
54 in case either or both of them the said John Dunkin Lee and William Stadden Blake
55 Lee shall happen to depart this life under the Age of twenty one years then I give and
56 bequeath the shares of the Stock of him of them so dying unto all his or their surviving
57 Brothers and Sisters in equal shares and proportions share and share alike and in
58 case there shall be but one Survivor then I give and bequeath the whole to such
60 only Surviving Child to and for his or her own absolute use and benefit and direct that
61 such accruing share or shares shall become vested in and be paid to assigned and
62 transferred to them him or her as and when they severally attain the Age of twenty one
63 Years and the Dividends Interest or produce thereof in the meantime I direct to be paid
64 to the said John Wyatt Lee to be by him applied for and towards their his or her
65 maintenance benefit and Education and I give and bequeath unto my Sister the said
66 Francis Maria Lee Samuel Willett of Barnards Inn in the said County of Middlesex
67 Gentleman and George May of Maldon aforesaid Surgeon the Sum of two thousand
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68 five hundred pounds upon trust that they the said Francis Maria Lee Samuel
69 Willett and George May or the Survivors or Survivor of them or the Executors or Admors
70 of such Survivor do and shall lay out and invest the same in their his or her own
71 names or name in some or one of the public Stocks or Funds or upon Government or
72 Real Security at Interest and from time to time to call in alter and transpose such Stocks
73 Funds and Securities as they she or he shall think fit and proper and do and shall pay the
74 Interest dividends and annual produce thereof as and when the same shall become due
75 and be received into the proper hands of the said John Wyatt Lee to be by him applied
76 for and towards the maintenance benefit and Education of his daughters Mary Lee
77 Nancy Lee Joanna Dunkin Lee Elizabeth Frances Lee and Emma Lee until they
78 shall severally and respectively attain the age of twenty one years and Marry with
79 the consent of my said Trustees or Trustee for the time being or the majority of them
80 or until such time or period as they shall (from any other cause than marriage)
81 severally cease to be maintained and supported by and at the Expence of the said John
82 Wyatt Lee their Father And when and as they shall severally and respectively attain
83 the age of twenty one Years and marry with such Consent as aforesaid or as and
84 when they shall (from any other cause than Marriage) severally cease to be
85 maintained and supported by their said Father then I do hereby declare and direct that
86 that the said Francis Maria Lee Samuel Willett and George May or the
87 Survivors or Survivor of them or the Executors or Administrators of such Survivor
88 shall stand and be possessed of the said Sum of two thousand five hundred pounds
89 or the Stocks Funds and Securities in or upon which the same shall be laid out and
90 invested as aforesaid in trust for and to pay or assign and transfer the same unto the
91 said Mary Lee Nancy Lee Joanna Dunkin Lee Elizabeth Frances Lee and Emma
92 Lee in equal shares and proportions share and share alike to and for their
93 respective absolute use and benefit nevertheless I do hereby declare my Mind and Will
94 to be that the said several and respective shares shall become vested in the said daughters
95 of the said John Wyatt Lee as and when they severally attain the age of twenty one
96 years notwithstanding the payment thereof is postponed till the time of their
97 marriage or (from any other cause) ceasing to be maintained and supported by
98 their said Father provided always and I do hereby further declare and direct that if
99 any one of more of them the said Mary Lee Nancy Lee Joanna Dunkin Lee Elizabeth Frances
100 Lee and Emma Lee shall happen to depart this life under the Age of twenty one
101 Years then the share or shares of her or them so dying shall go accrue and belong
102 to the Survivors of them in equal shares and in case of only one Survivor then the whole
103 shall go and accrue to such Survivor and shall vest in and be paid or assigned and
104 transferred to them or her at the same time or times and be subject to the same
105 contingency as is hereinbefore declared or expressed relative to her or their original
106 share or shares and the dividends and Interest thereof in the mean time shall be
107 paid and applied for their benefit as aforesaid And I give devise and bequeath unto
108 my Friend the said Samuel Willett All those two Leasehold Messuages or dwelling
109 houses with the Outbuildings Yards Gardens and Appurtenances thereto belonging
110 being Numbers 29 and 30 in Queens Row Walworth in the County of Surrey To
111 hold the same unto the said Samuel Willett his Executors Administrators and
112 Assigns to and for his and their own absolute use benefit and disposal for the
113 residue of my Estate Term and Interest therein respectively and I also give and
114 bequeath unto the said Samuel Willett the Legacy or Sum of One hundred pounds
115 and I give and bequeath unto my Friend the said George May the Sum of Fifty
116 pounds and I give and bequeath unto my Friend Robert Clarke of Little Totham
117 in the said County of Essex Farmer to Hannah Fanks of Castle Street Southwark
118 Bridge to Ann Cotter wife of Joseph Cotter of Great Totham aforesaid Innholder
119 and to Elizabeth Sly of Purleigh in the said County of Essex the Sum of Five Guineas
120 each as a token of my respect for them and I give and bequeath unto Elizabeth
121 Goddard now residing with Lady Julia Howard the Sum of nineteen Guineas
122 and I give and bequeath to Ann Goddard the Sister of the said Elizabeth Goddard
123 the Sum of Five Guineas and I give and bequeath unto my Servant Elizabeth
124 Foster the Sum of ten Guineas and I give and bequeath unto Mary Wood the
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125 Servant of my said Sister Frances Maria Lee the Sum of Five Guineas all which said
126 several last mentioned Legacies I will and direct shall be paid to the said several and
127 respective Legatees thereof within one Calendar months next after my decease and I
128 give and bequeath unto Hannah Ruggles now residing with me all my Clothes and
129 Linen And I give and bequeath unto my said Sister Francis Maria Lee All and
130 singular my ready money and Securities for Money debts and the rest and residue of
131 my personal estate whatsoever and wheresoever to and for her own absolute use benefit
132 and disposal And I hereby nominate constitute and appoint the said Francis Maria
133 Lee Samuel Willett and George May Executrix and Executors of this my Will And
134 do hereby declare my Will to be that my said Trustees and Executrix and Executors and
135 and their respective Executors and Administrators shall be charged and Chargeable
136 respectively for such monies only as they respectively shall actually receive by virtue
137 of this my Will notwithstanding their or any of their giving or signing or joining
138 in any receipt or receipts for the sake of Conformity And that no one or more of
139 them shall be answerable or accountable for the acts receipts neglects of defaults of
140 the others or other of them but each and every of them for her and his own acts
141 receipts neglects and defaults only and that they or any or either of them shall not
142 be answerable or accountable for any Banker Broker or other person with or to
143 whom or in whose hands any part of the said Trust monies shall or may be
144 intrusted paid or deposited for safe custody or otherwise in the Execution of the
145 Trusts of this my Will nor for the rise or fall in the price or value of Stocks or the
146 insufficiency or deficiency in Title or value of any Security and Securities in or upon
147 which the said Trust monies or any part thereof shall be laid out or invested nor
148 for any other loss of misfortune which may happen to the same trust monies
149 or any part thereof except the same shall happen by or through his her or
150 their own respective wilful act neglect or default and also that it shall be
151 lawful for my said Trustees and Executrix and Executors and their respective
152 Executors and Administrators by and out of the monies which shall come to
153 their hands by virtue of the trusts aforesaid to retain to and reimburse themselves
154 respectively and also to allow their respective Co Trustee and Executrix and Executor or respective Co Trustees and Executrix and Executors
155 All Costs Charges damages and Expenses which they or any or either of them shall
156 or may pay sustain or be put unto in the Execution of this my Will and the trusts
157 hereby in them reposed and I hereby revoke and make void all former Wills by me
158 at any time heretofore made and declare this alone to be and contain my last
159 Will and Testament In witness whereof I have to this my Will contained in five
160 Sheets of paper set my hand and Seal to wit my hand to the four preceding sheets
161 and my hand and Seal to this fifth and last sheet hereof the tenth day of June in
162 the Year one thousand eight hundred and twenty five Sarah Blake
163 Signed Sealed published and declared by the said Sarah Blake as and for her last Will
164 and Testament in the presence of us who have hereunto at her request in her
165 presence and in the presence of each other Subscribed our names as Witnesses
166 Betsy Stotherd Wm Wright Sol[icito]r Maldon Z: W: Digby his Clerk
167 Proved at London 27th February 1826 before the Worshipful Jesse Addams d[octo]r of Laws
168 and Surr[ogate] by the Oaths of Frances (in the will written Francis) Maria Lee Spinster the
169 Sister Samuel Willett and George May Esq[uie]rs the Ex[ecuto]rs to whom Adm[inistrati]on was granted
170 being first Sworn duly to adm[iniste]r
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Will of Mary Blake, Goldwell House Speenhill, Berkshire - The National Archives PROB 11/1371/178, probated 15 Mar 1802
This is the will of Mary Blake, wife of Captain John Blake of the Honourable East India Company, and mother of Arabella Blake, spinster, whose will was blogged yesterday:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2014/03/will-of-arabella-blake-spinster-upton.html
All the details on Mary can be found in this earlier blog after her marriage.
She was the daughter of Charles Tymewell of Peckham, Surrey, Gent and Arabella (widow of John Hitchin, Gent) of Peckham, Surrey.
There is a baptism for a Charles Timewell at Saint Olave, Southwark, Surrey 22 Feb 1694 (also born 22 Feb 1694) son of Charles Timewell and Priscilla (an earlier baptism 31 Dec 1690 also for Charles Timewell with the same parents). Peckham is south of Southwark (a couple of miles).
From the Allegations for marriage licences issued by the vicar-general, Volume 2:
25 Oct 1687 Charles Tymewell of St Olave’s Southwark, Surrey, Feltmaker, bachelor about 27 and Mrs Priscilla Collins of Christ Church, Surrey, Spinster about 21 years with the consent of her father Robert Collins, Christ Church.
Another record from the newspaper.com site: Charles Tymewell and Arabella his wife were married 9 May 1721 at St Ann’s Church near Aldersgate. Their daughter Mary Tymewell was born ….. The rest of the text is missing. If this is the present testator then she was born after 1721 and that would have made her less than 76 years of age when she wrote the will. At that time some of her grandsons were over 21 years of age and so the age would seem to fit. She married John Blake in 1743 and with a birth year of 1721 or later her age would be 22 years or less when she married and their first child was born in 1744 (Sally Hitchen Blake baptized 12 Oct 1744).
Is the Charles Tymewell married to Priscilla the father of Charles the father of Mary the testatrix? Mary’s father Charles would have had to be born/baptized 1694 which would make him 27 years of age when he married Arabella but she was named as his third wife. The earliest that he would have married would likely be 1715 plus or minus a couple of years. I am not actually tracing the Tymewell family however, so will leave it with this information gleaned thus far.
The Will of Charles Tymewell was probated 26 Sep 1727 and a quick glance at his will written in Peckham, Surrey and he is mentioned as a Gentleman. He remembered members of the Tudman family. He remembers his daughter Mary and she is a young child. He leaves her three thousand pounds. He also remembers his daughter in law (child of Arabella Hitchin who was a widow when she married him) with a property in Somerset. This will was probated but not administered until Mary Blake (wife of John Blake) was granted administration of her mother’s estate intestate which included administering her father’s estate. Always nice to have these little notes written on the probate to help link families.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 29 March 2014
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1371/178
Testator: Mary Blake
Place: Goldwell House Speenhill, Berkshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 7 Jul 1797, probated 15 Mar 1802
Condition: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Mary
[Margin]: Blake
1 I Mary Blake
2 of Goldwell house Speenhill in the County of Berks Widow
3 being of sound mind memory and understanding do make
4 this my last Will and Testament in manner Following
5 that is to say, first I will and direct that all my Just debts
6 and Funeral Expences shall be fully paid and satisfied and
7 subject thereto I give and dispose of my Estate and Effects as
8 follows I give devise and bequeath all my Freehold
9 copyhold and leasehold Estates whatsoever and
10 wheresoever with all and every the appurtenances
11 thereto belonging subject nevertheless to the payment
12 of my debts and the pecuniary legacies hereafter given in case my personal Estates not hereafter
13 specifically bequeathed shall not be sufficient to
14 answer and pay the same unto my daughter
15 Arabella Blake and her assigns for and during the
16 term of her natural life and from and after her
17 death then I give devise and bequeath my said Freehold
18 Copyhold and Leasehold Estates unto my Son in Law
19 Henry Hinde Pelly Esq[uie]r his heirs Executors Admors
20 and Assigns for ever or for such Term Estate and
21 Interest as shall then be to come therein I give
22 to my said Son in Law Henry Hinde Pelly Esq[uie]r one
23 hundred pounds I give to my daughter Sally Hitchin
24 Pelly his Wife one hundred pounds I give to my
25 Grand daughter Mary Pelly daughter of the said
26 Henry Hinde Pelly and Sally Hitchin Pelly his Wife
27 the Capital Sum of two hundred pounds South Sea
28 Stock (part of the South Sea Stock) now standing in my Name and I do direct
29 that the same be transferred within twelve Calendar
30 Months after my decease to her the said Mary
31 Pelly I give to my Grandson Raymond Pelly son of the
32 said Henry Hinde Pelly and Sally Hitchin Pelly his
33 Wife the like Capital Sum of two hundred pounds
34 South Sea Stocks now standing in my Name and
35 I do direct that the same together with the dividends
36 to accrue due thereon after my decease shall be
37 transferred and paid to him when he shall attain his
38 age of twenty one years and I do hereby authorize
39 empower and direct my said Executors from time to
40 time during the Minority of my said Grandson to lay
41 out and invest the dividends to accrue due on the said
42 Sum of two hundred pounds South Sea Stock in the
43 purchase of South Sea Stock to accumulate for the
44 benefit of my said Grandson I give to my said
45 daughter Arabella Blake one thousand pounds now
46 lent on Mortgage to Mr John Dearing of Canterbury also
47 the Capital Sum of sixteen hundred pounds three
48 pounds per cent Consolidated Bank Annuitys part of
49 two thousand four hundred pounds three per Cent
50 Consolidated Bank Annuities
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51 now standing in my Name and all my
52 share and Interest in Bricker Barn Turnpike I
53 give to the said Henry Hinde Pelly his Executors and
54 Administrators the Capital Sum of one thousand
55 pounds East India Stock standing in my Name
56 upon Trust that he and they do and shall from
57 time to time during the natural life of my daughter
58 Mary Tymewell the Wife of George Anson Nutt
60 Esq[uie]r pay to or otherwise permit and suffer my said
61 daughter and her assigns to receive and take the
62 Interest dividends and Annual produce thereof to
63 and for her own sole separate and peculiar use
64 independent of and not to be subject or liable to the
65 debts Controul or Engagements of her said husband
66 and for that purpose my Will is and I direct that
67 her Receipt alone shall be a sufficient discharge
68 for such Interest Dividends and annual produce
69 and from and after the death of my said daughter
70 Mary Tymewell Nutt upon Trust that he and they
71 do and shall transfer assign and pay the said
72 Capital Sum of one thousand pounds East India
73 Stock and the Interest dividends and Annual
74 produce to accrue due after the death of my said
75 daughter unto and among all and every the
76 Child and Children of my said daughter Mary
77 Tymewell Nutt if more than one equally share
78 and share alike and if but one then to such only
79 one the Shares of such Children having a Son or
80 Sons to be assigned transferred and paid to him
81 and them at his and their age or respective ages
82 of twenty one years and of such of them being a
83 daughter or daughters at the like age or ages
84 of twenty one years or day or days of Marriage
85 which shall first happen and if any or either of such
86 Children shall die before such age or Marriage then
87 my Will is and I do direct that the shares of such of them
88 so dying shall go to the Survivors or Survivor of them
89 and be assigned transferred and paid at the same
90 time and be again subject and liable to the same
91 chance of accurer by Survivorship as their original
92 shares of the said Trust Monies due before directed to be
93 assigned transferred and paid and under subject to and
94 in case all such Children shall dye before such age or
95 Marriage of there shall not be any such Child then
96 upon Trust that he and they do and shall assign
97 transfer and pay the said Trust Monies and every
98 part thereof unto such person or persons and at such
99 time or times and in such manner as my said daughter
100 Mary Tymewell Nutt shall notwithstanding her
101 Coverture by any deed or deeds writing or writings
102 or by her last Will and Testament in Writing
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103 duly executed in the presence of and attested by two
104 or more credible Witnesses direct or appoint and in
105 default of such direction or appointment do and shall
106 assign transfer and pay the same and every part
107 thereof unto the Executors or Administrators of my
108 said daughter Mary Tymewell Nutt and my Will is
109 and I do hereby authorize and empower the said
110 Henry Hinde Pelly his Executors or Admors from time
111 to time after the death of my said daughter Mary
112 Tymewell Nutt during the Minority of the Child
113 or Children of my said daughter Mary Tymewell
114 Nutt to lay out and invest the Interest dividends
115 and annual produce of the said Capital Sum
116 of one thousand pounds East India Stock in some or
117 one of the public Stocks or Funds to accumulate for
118 the benefit of the parties who shall be entitled to the
119 Capital of the said Trust Monies and that such
120 accumulated Stocks or Funds shall be assigned and
121 transferred with the Capital of the said Trust Monies
122 to the party or parties who by virtue of this my
123 Will shall be entitled to such Capital I give to my
124 Grandson Henry Anson Nutt Son of George Anson Nutt
125 and Mary Tymewell Nutt his wife the Capital Sum
126 of two hundred pounds South Sea Stock now standing
127 in my Name And I do direct that the same together
128 with the Interest and dividends to accrue due thereon
129 after my death shall be transferred and paid to him
130 when he shall attain his age of twenty one years and
131 I do hereby authorize empower and direct my said
132 Executors from time to time during the Minority of
133 my said Grandson Henry Anson Nutt to lay out and
134 Invest the Interest and dividends to accrue due on the
135 said Sum of two hundred pounds South Sea Stock in
136 the purchase of South Sea Stock to accumulate for the
137 benefit of my said Grandson I give to John Joseph
138 Blake the adopted Son of my Son John Bradby
139 Blake Esq[uie]r the Capital Sum of eight hundred pound
140 three pound per Cent Consolidated Bank Annuities
141 I give ti my daughter Mary Tymewell Nutt
142 four hundred pound South Sea Stock I give to Miss
143 Mary See who now lives with me fifty pounds I
144 give to my Maid Servant Eleanor Brenillead
145 the Sum of one hundred pounds and as to all the
146 rest and Residue and Remainder of my Estates and
147 Effects whatsoever and wheresoever which I shall
148 be seized possessed of or intitled unto at the time of
149 my death I give devise and bequeath the same
150 and every part thereof unto my said daughter
151 Arabella Blake her heirs Executors Admors and
152 Assigns for ever or far Estate term and Interest as
153 shall be there to come therein and lastly I do
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154 hereby make constitute and appoint the said
155 Henry Hinde Pelly Esquire and my said daughter
156 Arabella Blake Executor and Executrix of this my last
157 Will and Testament hereby revoking and declaring
158 void all former and other Wills and Codicils by me at
159 any time heretofore made and do declare this only to
160 be my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof
161 I the said Mary Blake have to this my last Will and
162 Testament set my hand and seal this seventh day of
163 June in the year of our Lord one thousand seven
164 hundred and ninety seven Mary Blake Signed
165 Sealed published and declared by the said Mary
166 Blake as and for her last Will and Testament in the
167 presence of us who in her presence at her request
168 and in the presence of each other have hereunto
169 subscribed our Names as Witnesses Margaret Brown
170 Mary Lee Jere[mia]h Flack
171 This Will was proved at London on the
172 fifteenth day of March in the Year of our Lord one
173 thousand eight hundred and two before the Right
174 honorable Sir William Wynne Knight doctor of Laws
175 Master Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative
176 Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted by the Oaths
177 of Henry Hinde Pelly Esq[uie]r and Arabella Blake spinster
178 the daughter of the deceased the Executors named
179 in the said Will to whom administration was granted
181 of all and Singular the Goods Chattels and Credits of
182 the said deceased they having been first sworn (to wit)
183 the said Henry Hinde Pelly before the Worshipful
184 Charles Cooke and the said Arabella Blake before the
185 Worshipful Samuel Pearce parson doctor of Law and
186 Surrogate duly to administer
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2014/03/will-of-arabella-blake-spinster-upton.html
All the details on Mary can be found in this earlier blog after her marriage.
She was the daughter of Charles Tymewell of Peckham, Surrey, Gent and Arabella (widow of John Hitchin, Gent) of Peckham, Surrey.
There is a baptism for a Charles Timewell at Saint Olave, Southwark, Surrey 22 Feb 1694 (also born 22 Feb 1694) son of Charles Timewell and Priscilla (an earlier baptism 31 Dec 1690 also for Charles Timewell with the same parents). Peckham is south of Southwark (a couple of miles).
From the Allegations for marriage licences issued by the vicar-general, Volume 2:
25 Oct 1687 Charles Tymewell of St Olave’s Southwark, Surrey, Feltmaker, bachelor about 27 and Mrs Priscilla Collins of Christ Church, Surrey, Spinster about 21 years with the consent of her father Robert Collins, Christ Church.
Another record from the newspaper.com site: Charles Tymewell and Arabella his wife were married 9 May 1721 at St Ann’s Church near Aldersgate. Their daughter Mary Tymewell was born ….. The rest of the text is missing. If this is the present testator then she was born after 1721 and that would have made her less than 76 years of age when she wrote the will. At that time some of her grandsons were over 21 years of age and so the age would seem to fit. She married John Blake in 1743 and with a birth year of 1721 or later her age would be 22 years or less when she married and their first child was born in 1744 (Sally Hitchen Blake baptized 12 Oct 1744).
Is the Charles Tymewell married to Priscilla the father of Charles the father of Mary the testatrix? Mary’s father Charles would have had to be born/baptized 1694 which would make him 27 years of age when he married Arabella but she was named as his third wife. The earliest that he would have married would likely be 1715 plus or minus a couple of years. I am not actually tracing the Tymewell family however, so will leave it with this information gleaned thus far.
The Will of Charles Tymewell was probated 26 Sep 1727 and a quick glance at his will written in Peckham, Surrey and he is mentioned as a Gentleman. He remembered members of the Tudman family. He remembers his daughter Mary and she is a young child. He leaves her three thousand pounds. He also remembers his daughter in law (child of Arabella Hitchin who was a widow when she married him) with a property in Somerset. This will was probated but not administered until Mary Blake (wife of John Blake) was granted administration of her mother’s estate intestate which included administering her father’s estate. Always nice to have these little notes written on the probate to help link families.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 29 March 2014
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1371/178
Testator: Mary Blake
Place: Goldwell House Speenhill, Berkshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 7 Jul 1797, probated 15 Mar 1802
Condition: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Mary
[Margin]: Blake
1 I Mary Blake
2 of Goldwell house Speenhill in the County of Berks Widow
3 being of sound mind memory and understanding do make
4 this my last Will and Testament in manner Following
5 that is to say, first I will and direct that all my Just debts
6 and Funeral Expences shall be fully paid and satisfied and
7 subject thereto I give and dispose of my Estate and Effects as
8 follows I give devise and bequeath all my Freehold
9 copyhold and leasehold Estates whatsoever and
10 wheresoever with all and every the appurtenances
11 thereto belonging subject nevertheless to the payment
12 of my debts and the pecuniary legacies hereafter given in case my personal Estates not hereafter
13 specifically bequeathed shall not be sufficient to
14 answer and pay the same unto my daughter
15 Arabella Blake and her assigns for and during the
16 term of her natural life and from and after her
17 death then I give devise and bequeath my said Freehold
18 Copyhold and Leasehold Estates unto my Son in Law
19 Henry Hinde Pelly Esq[uie]r his heirs Executors Admors
20 and Assigns for ever or for such Term Estate and
21 Interest as shall then be to come therein I give
22 to my said Son in Law Henry Hinde Pelly Esq[uie]r one
23 hundred pounds I give to my daughter Sally Hitchin
24 Pelly his Wife one hundred pounds I give to my
25 Grand daughter Mary Pelly daughter of the said
26 Henry Hinde Pelly and Sally Hitchin Pelly his Wife
27 the Capital Sum of two hundred pounds South Sea
28 Stock (part of the South Sea Stock) now standing in my Name and I do direct
29 that the same be transferred within twelve Calendar
30 Months after my decease to her the said Mary
31 Pelly I give to my Grandson Raymond Pelly son of the
32 said Henry Hinde Pelly and Sally Hitchin Pelly his
33 Wife the like Capital Sum of two hundred pounds
34 South Sea Stocks now standing in my Name and
35 I do direct that the same together with the dividends
36 to accrue due thereon after my decease shall be
37 transferred and paid to him when he shall attain his
38 age of twenty one years and I do hereby authorize
39 empower and direct my said Executors from time to
40 time during the Minority of my said Grandson to lay
41 out and invest the dividends to accrue due on the said
42 Sum of two hundred pounds South Sea Stock in the
43 purchase of South Sea Stock to accumulate for the
44 benefit of my said Grandson I give to my said
45 daughter Arabella Blake one thousand pounds now
46 lent on Mortgage to Mr John Dearing of Canterbury also
47 the Capital Sum of sixteen hundred pounds three
48 pounds per cent Consolidated Bank Annuitys part of
49 two thousand four hundred pounds three per Cent
50 Consolidated Bank Annuities
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51 now standing in my Name and all my
52 share and Interest in Bricker Barn Turnpike I
53 give to the said Henry Hinde Pelly his Executors and
54 Administrators the Capital Sum of one thousand
55 pounds East India Stock standing in my Name
56 upon Trust that he and they do and shall from
57 time to time during the natural life of my daughter
58 Mary Tymewell the Wife of George Anson Nutt
60 Esq[uie]r pay to or otherwise permit and suffer my said
61 daughter and her assigns to receive and take the
62 Interest dividends and Annual produce thereof to
63 and for her own sole separate and peculiar use
64 independent of and not to be subject or liable to the
65 debts Controul or Engagements of her said husband
66 and for that purpose my Will is and I direct that
67 her Receipt alone shall be a sufficient discharge
68 for such Interest Dividends and annual produce
69 and from and after the death of my said daughter
70 Mary Tymewell Nutt upon Trust that he and they
71 do and shall transfer assign and pay the said
72 Capital Sum of one thousand pounds East India
73 Stock and the Interest dividends and Annual
74 produce to accrue due after the death of my said
75 daughter unto and among all and every the
76 Child and Children of my said daughter Mary
77 Tymewell Nutt if more than one equally share
78 and share alike and if but one then to such only
79 one the Shares of such Children having a Son or
80 Sons to be assigned transferred and paid to him
81 and them at his and their age or respective ages
82 of twenty one years and of such of them being a
83 daughter or daughters at the like age or ages
84 of twenty one years or day or days of Marriage
85 which shall first happen and if any or either of such
86 Children shall die before such age or Marriage then
87 my Will is and I do direct that the shares of such of them
88 so dying shall go to the Survivors or Survivor of them
89 and be assigned transferred and paid at the same
90 time and be again subject and liable to the same
91 chance of accurer by Survivorship as their original
92 shares of the said Trust Monies due before directed to be
93 assigned transferred and paid and under subject to and
94 in case all such Children shall dye before such age or
95 Marriage of there shall not be any such Child then
96 upon Trust that he and they do and shall assign
97 transfer and pay the said Trust Monies and every
98 part thereof unto such person or persons and at such
99 time or times and in such manner as my said daughter
100 Mary Tymewell Nutt shall notwithstanding her
101 Coverture by any deed or deeds writing or writings
102 or by her last Will and Testament in Writing
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103 duly executed in the presence of and attested by two
104 or more credible Witnesses direct or appoint and in
105 default of such direction or appointment do and shall
106 assign transfer and pay the same and every part
107 thereof unto the Executors or Administrators of my
108 said daughter Mary Tymewell Nutt and my Will is
109 and I do hereby authorize and empower the said
110 Henry Hinde Pelly his Executors or Admors from time
111 to time after the death of my said daughter Mary
112 Tymewell Nutt during the Minority of the Child
113 or Children of my said daughter Mary Tymewell
114 Nutt to lay out and invest the Interest dividends
115 and annual produce of the said Capital Sum
116 of one thousand pounds East India Stock in some or
117 one of the public Stocks or Funds to accumulate for
118 the benefit of the parties who shall be entitled to the
119 Capital of the said Trust Monies and that such
120 accumulated Stocks or Funds shall be assigned and
121 transferred with the Capital of the said Trust Monies
122 to the party or parties who by virtue of this my
123 Will shall be entitled to such Capital I give to my
124 Grandson Henry Anson Nutt Son of George Anson Nutt
125 and Mary Tymewell Nutt his wife the Capital Sum
126 of two hundred pounds South Sea Stock now standing
127 in my Name And I do direct that the same together
128 with the Interest and dividends to accrue due thereon
129 after my death shall be transferred and paid to him
130 when he shall attain his age of twenty one years and
131 I do hereby authorize empower and direct my said
132 Executors from time to time during the Minority of
133 my said Grandson Henry Anson Nutt to lay out and
134 Invest the Interest and dividends to accrue due on the
135 said Sum of two hundred pounds South Sea Stock in
136 the purchase of South Sea Stock to accumulate for the
137 benefit of my said Grandson I give to John Joseph
138 Blake the adopted Son of my Son John Bradby
139 Blake Esq[uie]r the Capital Sum of eight hundred pound
140 three pound per Cent Consolidated Bank Annuities
141 I give ti my daughter Mary Tymewell Nutt
142 four hundred pound South Sea Stock I give to Miss
143 Mary See who now lives with me fifty pounds I
144 give to my Maid Servant Eleanor Brenillead
145 the Sum of one hundred pounds and as to all the
146 rest and Residue and Remainder of my Estates and
147 Effects whatsoever and wheresoever which I shall
148 be seized possessed of or intitled unto at the time of
149 my death I give devise and bequeath the same
150 and every part thereof unto my said daughter
151 Arabella Blake her heirs Executors Admors and
152 Assigns for ever or far Estate term and Interest as
153 shall be there to come therein and lastly I do
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154 hereby make constitute and appoint the said
155 Henry Hinde Pelly Esquire and my said daughter
156 Arabella Blake Executor and Executrix of this my last
157 Will and Testament hereby revoking and declaring
158 void all former and other Wills and Codicils by me at
159 any time heretofore made and do declare this only to
160 be my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof
161 I the said Mary Blake have to this my last Will and
162 Testament set my hand and seal this seventh day of
163 June in the year of our Lord one thousand seven
164 hundred and ninety seven Mary Blake Signed
165 Sealed published and declared by the said Mary
166 Blake as and for her last Will and Testament in the
167 presence of us who in her presence at her request
168 and in the presence of each other have hereunto
169 subscribed our Names as Witnesses Margaret Brown
170 Mary Lee Jere[mia]h Flack
171 This Will was proved at London on the
172 fifteenth day of March in the Year of our Lord one
173 thousand eight hundred and two before the Right
174 honorable Sir William Wynne Knight doctor of Laws
175 Master Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative
176 Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted by the Oaths
177 of Henry Hinde Pelly Esq[uie]r and Arabella Blake spinster
178 the daughter of the deceased the Executors named
179 in the said Will to whom administration was granted
181 of all and Singular the Goods Chattels and Credits of
182 the said deceased they having been first sworn (to wit)
183 the said Henry Hinde Pelly before the Worshipful
184 Charles Cooke and the said Arabella Blake before the
185 Worshipful Samuel Pearce parson doctor of Law and
186 Surrogate duly to administer
Friday, March 28, 2014
Will of Arabella Blake, spinster, Upton, Essex - The National Archives PROB 11/1439/159, probated 5 Mar 1806
Arabella Blake, spinster, is the testatrix of this present will. She lived at Upton, Essex. I found an interesting webpage on The Descendants of John Pelly and the Pelly family is mentioned in this will.
http://www.pennyghael.org.uk/Pelly.pdf
Henry Hinde Pelly (son of John Pelly and Elizabeth Hinde) married Sally Hitchen Blake who was the daughter of a Captain John Blake (wife unknown) and they married 13 Jul 1776. Sally was said to be born in 1744 and died on 15 May 1824 (aged 80). This couple (Henry Hinde Pelly and Sally Hitchen Blake) had four children according to this document namely John Henry Pelly, William Pelly, Charles Pelly and Francis Pelly. The will mentions Henry Hinde Pelly and his wife Sally Hitchen Pelly and their children Charles, John Henry, Francis and Raymond and possibly a daughter Mary who married Benjamin Harrison.
John Henry Pelly (nephew to Arabella Blake) has a rather interesting life story:
http://www.oxforddnb.com/templates/article.jsp?articleid=21815&back=
Pelly, Sir John Henry, first baronet (1777–1852), merchant, born on 31 March 1777, was the eldest son of Henry Hinde Pelly (1744/5–1818) of Upton House, Essex, a captain in the service of the East India Company, and Sally Hitchen, the daughter of John Blake. His grandfather John Pelly was also a captain in the company's service, and his grandmother was Elizabeth, the daughter and heir of Henry Hinde of Upton. John is said to have been in his youth in the navy. If so, he quitted it without obtaining a commission. It is more probable that he was with his father in the company's service; that he had nautical experience of some sort appears certain. Having settled in business in London, he became in 1806 a director of the Hudson's Bay Company, of which he was afterwards successively deputy governor and governor. On 13 July 1807 he married Emma (d. 1856), the sixth daughter of Henry Boulton of Thorncroft, Surrey, the governor of the Corporation of Working Mines and Metals in Scotland and a director of the Sun Fire Office. They had eight sons and two daughters who survived infancy. In 1823 Pelly was elected elder brother of Trinity House, and, some years later, deputy master. In 1840 he was a director of the Bank of England, and in 1841 governor.
As governor of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1835 Pelly is remembered for having sent out the exploring parties which, under Peter Warren Dease and Thomas Simpson (1808–1840), two of the company's agents, did so much for the discovery of the north-west passage and of the coastline of North America. His share in this work is commemorated by Cape Pelly which marks the eastern extremity of Dease and Simpson Strait. In August 1838 he and Simpson travelled to St Petersburg to negotiate with Baron von Wrangel of the Russian American Company. These talks led in 1839 to the Hudson's Bay Company's leasing the Alaskan peninsula from the Russians. On 6 July 1840 Pelly was created a baronet, on the recommendation of Lord Melbourne. The duke of Wellington was on friendly terms with him. He died at Upton House on 13 August 1852.
J. K. Laughton, rev. Elizabeth Baigent
Sources
GM, 2nd ser., 38 (1852), 527 • Annual Register (1852), 300 • Burke, Peerage • T. Simpson, Narrative of the discoveries on the north coast of America …, 1836–9 (1843) • DCB, vol. 8
Archives
BL, corresp. with W. E. Gladstone, Add. MSS 44364–44368 • BL, corresp. with Sir Robert Peel, Add. MSS 40411–40592 • U. Southampton L., letters to first duke of Wellington
Likenesses
H. P. Briggs, oils, Hudson's Bay Company, London
© Oxford University Press 2004–14
All rights reserved: see legal notice Oxford University Press
J. K. Laughton, ‘Pelly, Sir John Henry, first baronet (1777–1852)’, rev. Elizabeth Baigent, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21815, accessed 27 March 2014]
Sir John Henry Pelly (1777–1852): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/21815
Now, to try to discover who Captain John Blake was, the father, of the testator and grandfather of John Henry Pelly above. Another record shows that Captain John Blake was with the Honourable East India Company Service. I should be able to learn more about him on Find My Past but first to continue checking the names on google.
Going to Family Search I did find a baptism for Mary Tymewell Blake 20 Jan 1758 (born 23 Dec 1757) at St James Westminster, Middlesex, England with father John Blake and mother Mary. There is a baptism for Sally Hitchen Blake 12 Oct 1744 at Saint Andrew Holborn, London. No baptism for Arabella located.
http://books.google.ca/books?id=0RAwAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA50&lpg=PA50&dq=John+Blake+%2B+Mary+Tymewell&source=bl&ots=nUJh5mhhEQ&sig=-5IB1yAKvjCUZJgag7ojn8LUXek&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Xos0U-q0MK78yAHrqYCIDQ&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=John%20Blake%20%2B%20Mary%20Tymewell&f=false
I did find a marriage for John Blake to Mary Tymewell 17 Nov 1743 at Westminster Abbey, London, England. The published registers for Westminster Abbey (The Marriage, Baptismal, and Burial Registers of the Collegiate Church or Abbey of St Peter Westminster, edited and annotated by Joseph Lemuel Chester, Private Edition, London, 1876, London: Mitchell and Hughes, Printers, Wardour Street, W.), show that John Blake was of St Andrews Holborn and Mary Tymewell of Camrewell, Surrey. There is a footnote attached to this particular entry which reads “He, son of Captain John Blake and Mary his wife, was born at Limehouse, Middlesex 27 Aug 1713, and became, like his father, a captain in the merchant service. His residence was sometime at Watcombe, in Brockenhurst, Hampshire and afterwards in Parliament Street, Westminster. He died 25 Feb 1790. She only daughter and heir of Charles Tymewell of Peckham, co. Surrey, Gent., by (apparently) his third wife, Arabella, widow of John Hitchin, of the same place, Gent., and was born about 1723. After her husband’s death she resided at Goldwell House, Speen Hill, Berkshire. Her will, dated 7 June 1797, was proved 15 March 1802. Their eldest surviving daughter and coheir married Henry Hinde Pelly, Esquire., and was mother of Sir John Henry Pelly, first Baronet of Upton, Essex.”
This is a tremendous find since most records do not have any information on the parents of Arabella, her brother John Bradby and sisters Sally Hitchen and Mary Tymewell. I also have not transcribed this will although I did think that I had all of Berkshire completed! I have downloaded the will from Ancestry and will do it next. From the register I have now learned that Captain John Blake is the son of another Captain John Blake and checking Family Search for his birth 27 Aug 1713 and there is a baptism for John Blake at Saint Dunstan, Stepney, London son of John and Mary Blake 29 Aug 1713. There is a marriage of John Blake and Mary Daberon 24 Mar 1702 at Saint Bride Fleet Street, London.
A little more information on a random search for Watcombe, Brockenhurst, Hampshire yielded a rather interesting comment about Watcombe Farm at Brockenhurt which was sold in 1759 by Captain John Blake (India Service). The farm was described as a mansion in a 1751 lease (Hampshire Record Office apparently. http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1000499 The Hampshire Record Office has an item 6M80/3/B86 which is described as a Counterpart lease for 1000 years of Watcombe Lane, in front of the mansion house of John Blake, leading from Brockenhurst into the New Forest, dated 22 Oct 1751 and Jeremiah Cray of Ibsley, esq and John Blake, of Brockenhurst, esq were mentioned in the document. A second document 6M80/E/T273 is a Bargain and sale of Watcombe House and lands, Brockenhurst, dated 2 Aug 1759 with John Blake of Watcombe, Brockenhurst and John Howard of Bedfordshire, esquire being mentioned.
Probably if I can acquire records from the Honourable East India Company Service I will be able to learn more about this Blake family. They are now traced back to the baptism of John Blake 29 Aug 1713 at Saint Dunstan, Stepney, London and possibly the son of John Blake and Mary Daberon. There were a number of Blake marriages at Saint Dunstan Stepney which I mentioned in my blog post for John Blake mariner of Stepney:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2012/11/will-of-john-blake-mariner-of-stepney.html
More to come when I blog the will of Arabella’s mother.
Names mentioned in the will:
Arabella Blake, Upton, Essex, testatrix
Sally Hitchen Pelly, sister
Charles Pelly, nephew, godson
Mary Harrison, niece, wife of Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison, esquire, husband of Mary
John Henry Pelly, nephew
Francis Pelly, nephew
Raymond Pelly, nephew
Mary Tymewell Nutt, sister
Mrs Joan Dearing, mortgagee
Henry Anson Nutt, nephew
Charles Nutt, nephew
John Joseph Blake, adopted nephew
John Bradby Blake, brother, deceased
Henry Hinde Pelly, esquire, brother in law, executor
Mary See
Mary Nutt, step-niece
George Anson Nutt, esquire, brother in law
Catherine Arabella Browne, god daughter
Jeremiah Flack
Ellen Flack
Edmund Robinson, witness
Chris Lee, witness
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 27 March 2014
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1439/159
Testator: Arabella Blake, spinster
Place: Upton, Essex, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 13 May 1805, probated 5 Mar 1806
Condition: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Arabella
[Margin]: Blake
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 I Arabella Blake of Upton in the County of
3 Essex Spinster being of sound Mind Memory and
4 Understanding do make this my last Will and
5 Testament in manner following I direct that all
6 my just debts and Funeral Expences shall be fully
7 paid and satisfied and subject thereto I dispose of
8 my Estate as follows I Give unto my dear Sister
9 Sally Hitchen Pelly the Capital Sum of Three
10 hundred pounds Old South Sea Annuities standing
11 in my Name I give unto my Nephew and
12 Godson Charles Pelly the Capital Sum of One
13 Thousand pounds like Old South Sea Annuities
14 I Give to my Niece Mary Harrison Wife of
15 Benjamin Harrison Esquire the Sum of One
16 hundred pounds four pounds per Cent Bank Ann[uiti]es
17 standing in my Name I Give unto my Nephew
18 John Henry Pelly the like Sum of One hundred
19 pounds four per Cent Bank Annuities I give
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20 to my Nephew Francis Pelly the like Sum of
21 One hundred pounds four per Cent Bank Annuities
22 I give to my Nephew Raymond Pelly the like Sum
23 of One hundred pounds four per Cent Bank Annuities
24 I Give to my dear Sister Mary Tymewell Nutt One
25 Thousand pounds now lent on Mortgage to Mrs
26 Joan Dearing of Canterbury also the Capital sum of
27 One Thousand pounds East India Stock now standing
28 in my Name also the Capital Sum of One
29 thousand pounds four per Cent Bank Annuity
30 I Give to my Nephew Henry Anson Nutt and
31 Charles Nutt each the Capital Sum of One
32 hundred pounds four pounds per Cent Bank
33 Annuities to be transferred to them respectively on
34 their respectively attaining the age of twenty one
35 years I Give to John Joseph Blake the adopted
36 Son of my late Brother John Bradby Blake the
37 Capital Sum of One Thousand pounds three pounds
38 per Cent deducted Bank Annuities and Three
39 hundred pounds three per Cent Consolidated Bank
40 Annuities part of the like Bank Annuities
41 standing in my Name and also the Sum of Thirty
42 Guineas I Give unto my Brother in Law Henry
43 Hinde Pelly Esq[uie]r the Capital Sum of Five hundred
44 pounds four pounds per Cent Bank Annuities upon
45 Trust that he or his Executors or Administrators
46 do and shall pay the dividends and Interest
47 thereof unto Mary See of Brompton in the said
48 County of Middlesex Spinster for her Life and after
49 her decease do and shall transfer the same unto
50 the person or persons who for the time being shall
51 be entitled to the Residue of my Estate I Give
52 to the said Mary See the Sum of Thirty
53 Guineas I Give to Mary Nutt the daughter of
54 my said Brother in Law George Anson Nutt
55 Esq[uie]r by his former Wife One hundred pounds of
56 like old South Sea Annuities I Give to my God
57 daughter Catharine Arabella Browne One hundred
58 pounds like old South Sea Annuities I Give
` my late Faithful Servant Jeremiah Flack Thirty
60 Guineas and to Ellen his Wife Twenty Guineas
61 and as a further Testimony of my regard for
62 the said Ellen Flack I Give her the Sum of
63 Two hundred pounds like three pounds per Cent
64 Consolidated Bank Annuities I Give to my said
65 Brother in Law George Anson Nutt Thirty
66 Guineas I Give to my Brother in Law Henry
67 Hinde Pelly one hundred pounds for the Trouble
68 he will have in the execution of this my Will
69 and the Trusts hereby reposed in him as to all
70 my household Goods Plate Linen China Books
71 and all other my Estate and Effects whatsoever
72 I Give and bequeath the same unto my said
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73 Sister Mary Tymewell Nutt her Executors Admors
74 and Assigns and my Will is and I do hereby declare
75 that the said several Bequests hereinbefore given
76 by me to my said Sister Mary Tymewell Nutt is
77 given to her for her respective sole and separate
78 use and benefit and I direct that the same shall
79 be transferred and paid to her or to such person or
80 persons as she shall by any routing appoint and
81 that the same shall not be subject or liable to
82 the debts Controul Contract Engagements or any
83 Intermeddling of her present or any future
84 husband and for this purpose I direct that the
85 separate Receipt of my said Sister Mary Tymewell
86 Nutt or the person or persons whom notwithstanding
87 her Coverture she shall appoint to receive the
88 same shall be a good and sufficient discharge to
89 my Executor and my Will further is that my
90 Executor and Trustee his Executors and Admors shall
91 and may from time to time by and out of the
92 Monies which shall come to his hands by
93 virtue of this my Will deduct retain and reimburse
94 himself all Costs Charges and Expences which he
95 shall sustain in and about the execution of this my
96 Will and that he or they shall not be charged
97 or chargeable with more Money than shall
98 actually come to his or their hands Nor for any
99 Loss or Misfortune that shall happen to the said
100 Real Monies and premises unless the same shall
101 happen therunder his or their own wilful neglect and
102 I do hereby appoint the said Henry Hinde Pelly
103 sole Executor of this my Will and do hereby
104 revoke all former Will and Codicils by me made
105 and do declare this only to be my last Will and
106 Testament In Witness whereof I the said Arabella
107 Blake have to this my last Will and Testament
108 set my hand and Seal this thirteenth of May one
109 thousand eight hundred and Five Arabella Blake
110 Signed Sealed published and declared by the said
111 Arabella Blake as and for her last Will and Testament
112 in the presence of us who in her presence at her request
113 and in the presence of each other have hereunto
114 subscribed our Names as Witnesses Edm Robinson
115 Chris Lee Lincolns Inn
116 The Will was proved at London on the
117 Fifth day of March in the year of our Lord one
118 thousand eight hundred and six before the
119 worshipful Herbert Jenner doctor of Laws and
120 Surrogate of The Right honorable Sir William
121 Wynne Knight doctor of Laws Masterkeeper or
122 Commissary of the prerogative Court of Canterbury
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123 lawfully constituted by the oath of Henry Huit
124 Pelly Esquire the sole Executor named in the
125 said Will to whom admon was granted of all and
126 Singular the Goods Chattels and Credits of the deceased
127 he having been first sworn duly to administer
http://www.pennyghael.org.uk/Pelly.pdf
Henry Hinde Pelly (son of John Pelly and Elizabeth Hinde) married Sally Hitchen Blake who was the daughter of a Captain John Blake (wife unknown) and they married 13 Jul 1776. Sally was said to be born in 1744 and died on 15 May 1824 (aged 80). This couple (Henry Hinde Pelly and Sally Hitchen Blake) had four children according to this document namely John Henry Pelly, William Pelly, Charles Pelly and Francis Pelly. The will mentions Henry Hinde Pelly and his wife Sally Hitchen Pelly and their children Charles, John Henry, Francis and Raymond and possibly a daughter Mary who married Benjamin Harrison.
John Henry Pelly (nephew to Arabella Blake) has a rather interesting life story:
http://www.oxforddnb.com/templates/article.jsp?articleid=21815&back=
Pelly, Sir John Henry, first baronet (1777–1852), merchant, born on 31 March 1777, was the eldest son of Henry Hinde Pelly (1744/5–1818) of Upton House, Essex, a captain in the service of the East India Company, and Sally Hitchen, the daughter of John Blake. His grandfather John Pelly was also a captain in the company's service, and his grandmother was Elizabeth, the daughter and heir of Henry Hinde of Upton. John is said to have been in his youth in the navy. If so, he quitted it without obtaining a commission. It is more probable that he was with his father in the company's service; that he had nautical experience of some sort appears certain. Having settled in business in London, he became in 1806 a director of the Hudson's Bay Company, of which he was afterwards successively deputy governor and governor. On 13 July 1807 he married Emma (d. 1856), the sixth daughter of Henry Boulton of Thorncroft, Surrey, the governor of the Corporation of Working Mines and Metals in Scotland and a director of the Sun Fire Office. They had eight sons and two daughters who survived infancy. In 1823 Pelly was elected elder brother of Trinity House, and, some years later, deputy master. In 1840 he was a director of the Bank of England, and in 1841 governor.
As governor of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1835 Pelly is remembered for having sent out the exploring parties which, under Peter Warren Dease and Thomas Simpson (1808–1840), two of the company's agents, did so much for the discovery of the north-west passage and of the coastline of North America. His share in this work is commemorated by Cape Pelly which marks the eastern extremity of Dease and Simpson Strait. In August 1838 he and Simpson travelled to St Petersburg to negotiate with Baron von Wrangel of the Russian American Company. These talks led in 1839 to the Hudson's Bay Company's leasing the Alaskan peninsula from the Russians. On 6 July 1840 Pelly was created a baronet, on the recommendation of Lord Melbourne. The duke of Wellington was on friendly terms with him. He died at Upton House on 13 August 1852.
J. K. Laughton, rev. Elizabeth Baigent
Sources
GM, 2nd ser., 38 (1852), 527 • Annual Register (1852), 300 • Burke, Peerage • T. Simpson, Narrative of the discoveries on the north coast of America …, 1836–9 (1843) • DCB, vol. 8
Archives
BL, corresp. with W. E. Gladstone, Add. MSS 44364–44368 • BL, corresp. with Sir Robert Peel, Add. MSS 40411–40592 • U. Southampton L., letters to first duke of Wellington
Likenesses
H. P. Briggs, oils, Hudson's Bay Company, London
© Oxford University Press 2004–14
All rights reserved: see legal notice Oxford University Press
J. K. Laughton, ‘Pelly, Sir John Henry, first baronet (1777–1852)’, rev. Elizabeth Baigent, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21815, accessed 27 March 2014]
Sir John Henry Pelly (1777–1852): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/21815
Now, to try to discover who Captain John Blake was, the father, of the testator and grandfather of John Henry Pelly above. Another record shows that Captain John Blake was with the Honourable East India Company Service. I should be able to learn more about him on Find My Past but first to continue checking the names on google.
Going to Family Search I did find a baptism for Mary Tymewell Blake 20 Jan 1758 (born 23 Dec 1757) at St James Westminster, Middlesex, England with father John Blake and mother Mary. There is a baptism for Sally Hitchen Blake 12 Oct 1744 at Saint Andrew Holborn, London. No baptism for Arabella located.
http://books.google.ca/books?id=0RAwAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA50&lpg=PA50&dq=John+Blake+%2B+Mary+Tymewell&source=bl&ots=nUJh5mhhEQ&sig=-5IB1yAKvjCUZJgag7ojn8LUXek&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Xos0U-q0MK78yAHrqYCIDQ&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=John%20Blake%20%2B%20Mary%20Tymewell&f=false
I did find a marriage for John Blake to Mary Tymewell 17 Nov 1743 at Westminster Abbey, London, England. The published registers for Westminster Abbey (The Marriage, Baptismal, and Burial Registers of the Collegiate Church or Abbey of St Peter Westminster, edited and annotated by Joseph Lemuel Chester, Private Edition, London, 1876, London: Mitchell and Hughes, Printers, Wardour Street, W.), show that John Blake was of St Andrews Holborn and Mary Tymewell of Camrewell, Surrey. There is a footnote attached to this particular entry which reads “He, son of Captain John Blake and Mary his wife, was born at Limehouse, Middlesex 27 Aug 1713, and became, like his father, a captain in the merchant service. His residence was sometime at Watcombe, in Brockenhurst, Hampshire and afterwards in Parliament Street, Westminster. He died 25 Feb 1790. She only daughter and heir of Charles Tymewell of Peckham, co. Surrey, Gent., by (apparently) his third wife, Arabella, widow of John Hitchin, of the same place, Gent., and was born about 1723. After her husband’s death she resided at Goldwell House, Speen Hill, Berkshire. Her will, dated 7 June 1797, was proved 15 March 1802. Their eldest surviving daughter and coheir married Henry Hinde Pelly, Esquire., and was mother of Sir John Henry Pelly, first Baronet of Upton, Essex.”
This is a tremendous find since most records do not have any information on the parents of Arabella, her brother John Bradby and sisters Sally Hitchen and Mary Tymewell. I also have not transcribed this will although I did think that I had all of Berkshire completed! I have downloaded the will from Ancestry and will do it next. From the register I have now learned that Captain John Blake is the son of another Captain John Blake and checking Family Search for his birth 27 Aug 1713 and there is a baptism for John Blake at Saint Dunstan, Stepney, London son of John and Mary Blake 29 Aug 1713. There is a marriage of John Blake and Mary Daberon 24 Mar 1702 at Saint Bride Fleet Street, London.
A little more information on a random search for Watcombe, Brockenhurst, Hampshire yielded a rather interesting comment about Watcombe Farm at Brockenhurt which was sold in 1759 by Captain John Blake (India Service). The farm was described as a mansion in a 1751 lease (Hampshire Record Office apparently. http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1000499 The Hampshire Record Office has an item 6M80/3/B86 which is described as a Counterpart lease for 1000 years of Watcombe Lane, in front of the mansion house of John Blake, leading from Brockenhurst into the New Forest, dated 22 Oct 1751 and Jeremiah Cray of Ibsley, esq and John Blake, of Brockenhurst, esq were mentioned in the document. A second document 6M80/E/T273 is a Bargain and sale of Watcombe House and lands, Brockenhurst, dated 2 Aug 1759 with John Blake of Watcombe, Brockenhurst and John Howard of Bedfordshire, esquire being mentioned.
Probably if I can acquire records from the Honourable East India Company Service I will be able to learn more about this Blake family. They are now traced back to the baptism of John Blake 29 Aug 1713 at Saint Dunstan, Stepney, London and possibly the son of John Blake and Mary Daberon. There were a number of Blake marriages at Saint Dunstan Stepney which I mentioned in my blog post for John Blake mariner of Stepney:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2012/11/will-of-john-blake-mariner-of-stepney.html
More to come when I blog the will of Arabella’s mother.
Names mentioned in the will:
Arabella Blake, Upton, Essex, testatrix
Sally Hitchen Pelly, sister
Charles Pelly, nephew, godson
Mary Harrison, niece, wife of Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison, esquire, husband of Mary
John Henry Pelly, nephew
Francis Pelly, nephew
Raymond Pelly, nephew
Mary Tymewell Nutt, sister
Mrs Joan Dearing, mortgagee
Henry Anson Nutt, nephew
Charles Nutt, nephew
John Joseph Blake, adopted nephew
John Bradby Blake, brother, deceased
Henry Hinde Pelly, esquire, brother in law, executor
Mary See
Mary Nutt, step-niece
George Anson Nutt, esquire, brother in law
Catherine Arabella Browne, god daughter
Jeremiah Flack
Ellen Flack
Edmund Robinson, witness
Chris Lee, witness
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 27 March 2014
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1439/159
Testator: Arabella Blake, spinster
Place: Upton, Essex, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 13 May 1805, probated 5 Mar 1806
Condition: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Arabella
[Margin]: Blake
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 I Arabella Blake of Upton in the County of
3 Essex Spinster being of sound Mind Memory and
4 Understanding do make this my last Will and
5 Testament in manner following I direct that all
6 my just debts and Funeral Expences shall be fully
7 paid and satisfied and subject thereto I dispose of
8 my Estate as follows I Give unto my dear Sister
9 Sally Hitchen Pelly the Capital Sum of Three
10 hundred pounds Old South Sea Annuities standing
11 in my Name I give unto my Nephew and
12 Godson Charles Pelly the Capital Sum of One
13 Thousand pounds like Old South Sea Annuities
14 I Give to my Niece Mary Harrison Wife of
15 Benjamin Harrison Esquire the Sum of One
16 hundred pounds four pounds per Cent Bank Ann[uiti]es
17 standing in my Name I Give unto my Nephew
18 John Henry Pelly the like Sum of One hundred
19 pounds four per Cent Bank Annuities I give
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20 to my Nephew Francis Pelly the like Sum of
21 One hundred pounds four per Cent Bank Annuities
22 I give to my Nephew Raymond Pelly the like Sum
23 of One hundred pounds four per Cent Bank Annuities
24 I Give to my dear Sister Mary Tymewell Nutt One
25 Thousand pounds now lent on Mortgage to Mrs
26 Joan Dearing of Canterbury also the Capital sum of
27 One Thousand pounds East India Stock now standing
28 in my Name also the Capital Sum of One
29 thousand pounds four per Cent Bank Annuity
30 I Give to my Nephew Henry Anson Nutt and
31 Charles Nutt each the Capital Sum of One
32 hundred pounds four pounds per Cent Bank
33 Annuities to be transferred to them respectively on
34 their respectively attaining the age of twenty one
35 years I Give to John Joseph Blake the adopted
36 Son of my late Brother John Bradby Blake the
37 Capital Sum of One Thousand pounds three pounds
38 per Cent deducted Bank Annuities and Three
39 hundred pounds three per Cent Consolidated Bank
40 Annuities part of the like Bank Annuities
41 standing in my Name and also the Sum of Thirty
42 Guineas I Give unto my Brother in Law Henry
43 Hinde Pelly Esq[uie]r the Capital Sum of Five hundred
44 pounds four pounds per Cent Bank Annuities upon
45 Trust that he or his Executors or Administrators
46 do and shall pay the dividends and Interest
47 thereof unto Mary See of Brompton in the said
48 County of Middlesex Spinster for her Life and after
49 her decease do and shall transfer the same unto
50 the person or persons who for the time being shall
51 be entitled to the Residue of my Estate I Give
52 to the said Mary See the Sum of Thirty
53 Guineas I Give to Mary Nutt the daughter of
54 my said Brother in Law George Anson Nutt
55 Esq[uie]r by his former Wife One hundred pounds of
56 like old South Sea Annuities I Give to my God
57 daughter Catharine Arabella Browne One hundred
58 pounds like old South Sea Annuities I Give
` my late Faithful Servant Jeremiah Flack Thirty
60 Guineas and to Ellen his Wife Twenty Guineas
61 and as a further Testimony of my regard for
62 the said Ellen Flack I Give her the Sum of
63 Two hundred pounds like three pounds per Cent
64 Consolidated Bank Annuities I Give to my said
65 Brother in Law George Anson Nutt Thirty
66 Guineas I Give to my Brother in Law Henry
67 Hinde Pelly one hundred pounds for the Trouble
68 he will have in the execution of this my Will
69 and the Trusts hereby reposed in him as to all
70 my household Goods Plate Linen China Books
71 and all other my Estate and Effects whatsoever
72 I Give and bequeath the same unto my said
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73 Sister Mary Tymewell Nutt her Executors Admors
74 and Assigns and my Will is and I do hereby declare
75 that the said several Bequests hereinbefore given
76 by me to my said Sister Mary Tymewell Nutt is
77 given to her for her respective sole and separate
78 use and benefit and I direct that the same shall
79 be transferred and paid to her or to such person or
80 persons as she shall by any routing appoint and
81 that the same shall not be subject or liable to
82 the debts Controul Contract Engagements or any
83 Intermeddling of her present or any future
84 husband and for this purpose I direct that the
85 separate Receipt of my said Sister Mary Tymewell
86 Nutt or the person or persons whom notwithstanding
87 her Coverture she shall appoint to receive the
88 same shall be a good and sufficient discharge to
89 my Executor and my Will further is that my
90 Executor and Trustee his Executors and Admors shall
91 and may from time to time by and out of the
92 Monies which shall come to his hands by
93 virtue of this my Will deduct retain and reimburse
94 himself all Costs Charges and Expences which he
95 shall sustain in and about the execution of this my
96 Will and that he or they shall not be charged
97 or chargeable with more Money than shall
98 actually come to his or their hands Nor for any
99 Loss or Misfortune that shall happen to the said
100 Real Monies and premises unless the same shall
101 happen therunder his or their own wilful neglect and
102 I do hereby appoint the said Henry Hinde Pelly
103 sole Executor of this my Will and do hereby
104 revoke all former Will and Codicils by me made
105 and do declare this only to be my last Will and
106 Testament In Witness whereof I the said Arabella
107 Blake have to this my last Will and Testament
108 set my hand and Seal this thirteenth of May one
109 thousand eight hundred and Five Arabella Blake
110 Signed Sealed published and declared by the said
111 Arabella Blake as and for her last Will and Testament
112 in the presence of us who in her presence at her request
113 and in the presence of each other have hereunto
114 subscribed our Names as Witnesses Edm Robinson
115 Chris Lee Lincolns Inn
116 The Will was proved at London on the
117 Fifth day of March in the year of our Lord one
118 thousand eight hundred and six before the
119 worshipful Herbert Jenner doctor of Laws and
120 Surrogate of The Right honorable Sir William
121 Wynne Knight doctor of Laws Masterkeeper or
122 Commissary of the prerogative Court of Canterbury
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123 lawfully constituted by the oath of Henry Huit
124 Pelly Esquire the sole Executor named in the
125 said Will to whom admon was granted of all and
126 Singular the Goods Chattels and Credits of the deceased
127 he having been first sworn duly to administer
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