This is the will of John Blake, husband of Mary Blake (will blogged yesterday)
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2014/03/will-of-arabella-blake-spinster-upton.html
and son of Captain John Blake of the Honourable East India Company (still have not found further information on this man), and father of Arabella Blake, spinster, whose will was blogged earlier:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2014/03/will-of-arabella-blake-spinster-upton.html
The testator is possibly the John Blake baptized 29 Aug 1713 at Saint Dunstan, Stepney and son of John Blake and possibly Mary Daberon. The supposition for this is the published registers for Westminster Abbey where a note attached to the marriage of John Blake and Mary Tymewell mentions that he was the son of Captain John Blake and Mary his wife and born at Limehouse, Middlesex 27 Aug 1713. He is then mentioned as living on Parliament Street, Westminster in his latter life. Limehouse is in the Tower Hamlets. St Dunstan Stepney is also in the Tower Hamlets.
By way of determining which John Blake is the father of the testator there is one clue in the will. He mentions the children of his nephew Blake Bradby namely James Bradby and the wife of Blake Bradby, Elizabeth Sophia. Possibly he has a sister married to unknown Bradly.
The will of John Bradby Blake is to come next and this is the brother of Arabella and son of the present testator.
I shall try to have a further look at the Honourable East India Company another time.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 29 March 2014
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1189/132
Testator: John Blake, Esquier
Place: Saint Margaret Westminster, Middlesex, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 6 Mar 1781, probated 9 Mar 1790
Condition: 18th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: John
[Margin]: Blake
[Margin]: Esquire
1 I John Blake of Parliament
2 Street in the parish of St Margaret Westminster in the
3 County of Middlesex Esq[uie]r being of sound Mind Memory
4 and understanding do make this my last Will and Testament
5 in manner following that is to say I will and direct that
6 my Funeral Expences and all my just debts be discharged
7 paid and subject thereto I give and dispose of my Estate
8 and Effects as follows I give unto my daughter Sally
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9 Hitchin Pelly wife of Henry Hinde Pelly of Upton in the
10 County of Essex Esq[uie]r the Capital Sum of two Thousand
11 pounds old South Sea annuities I give unto my daughter
12 Arabella Blake the like Capital Sum of two Thousand pounds
13 Old South Sea Annuities I give unto my daughter Mary
14 Tymewell Blake the like Capital sum of two Thousand
15 pounds Old South Sea Anuities and my Will is that the
16 said several Capital Sums of Old South Sea Annuities
17 shall be transferred to my said daughters by my Executrix
18 hereinafter named within three Calendar Months next
19 after my death but in case I shall not be possessed of
20 old South Sea Annuities sufficient to answer the said Legacies
21 Then I will and direct that my said Executrix shall by
22 and out of my personal Estate buy so much Old South
23 Sea Annuities as will make up the deficiency I give to
24 my Wife Mary Blake and the said Henry Hinde Pelly
25 the Capital Sum of One Thousand pounds three per
26 cent Bank Annuities reduced upon Trust they they or
27 the Survivor of them or the Executors or Administrators
28 of such Survivor shall transfer assign and pay the
29 same and the Interest and dividends thereof that shall
30 not be applied for the purposes hereafter mentioned
31 unto my adopted Grandson John Joseph Blake now
32 living with me and reputed to be the Son of John
33 Bradby Blake (late a Supra Cargo at Canton in
34 China deceased) by Maria de Nosorio of Macao
35 when and if he shall live to attain his age of twenty one
36 years which will be on the seventh day of January
37 1795 but in case of his death before that age then
38 I will that the said one thousand pounds three per
39 cent Bank annuities reduced or so much thereof as
40 they shall think proper for and towards the Maintenance
41 and Education of my said adopted Grandson I give to
42 James Bradby now an Infant Son of my Nephew
43 Blake Bradby deceased the Sum of one hundred pounds
44 the same to be paid by my Executrix hereafter named
45 to Elizabeth Sophia Bradby Mother of the said Infant
46 to be applied by her for the benefit of the said Child at
47 her discretion I give to Mr John Hogarth Apothecary
48 of Vigro Lane in the parish of Saint James Fifty pounds
49 or a Ring as a Mark of Family Friendship I give to
50 Mr Bateman Robson of Lincolns Inn twenty five pounds
51 and to Mr Christopher Morris of the same place the
52 like Sum of twenty five pounds I give to the Treasurer
53 of Greenwich hospital for the time being the Sum of
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54 twenty five pounds to be applied to the Fund for the benefit
55 of the Seamen in that hospital All the Rest Residue and
56 Remainder of my Estate and Effects whatsoever and
57 wheresoever whether Real or personal I give devise and
58 bequeath the same and every part thereof unto my
60 said wife Mary Blake her heirs Executors Administrators
61 and Assigns to and for her and their own use and
62 benefit absolutely for ever and I do hereby constitute
63 and appoint my said wife sole Executrix of this my
64 last Will and Testament hereby revoking and declaring
65 void all former and other Wills and Codicils by me at
66 any time heretofore made and do declare this only to be
67 my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I
68 have to this my said last Will and Testament (all of
69 my own handwriting) set my hand and Seal this sixth
70 day of March in the Year of our Lord one thousand
71 seven hundred and eighty one J Blake Signed
72 Sealed published and declared by the said Testator John
73 Blake (after the word “pounds” being interlined in the
74 fifteenth Line as and for his last Will and Testament in
75 in the presence of us who in his presence and in the
76 presence of each other have hereunto subscribed out
77 Names as Witnesses Samuel Stratt John Croft Edw[ar]d
78 Parratt
79 This Will was proved at London on the
80 ninth day of March in the year of our Lord one
81 thousand seven hundred and ninety before the worshipful
82 John Michell doctor of Laws Surrogate of the Right
83 honourable Sir William Wynne Knight doctor of
84 Laws Master Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative
85 Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted by the Oath
86 of Mary Blake Widow the Relict of the deceased and
87 sole Executrix named in the said Will to whom Admon
88 was granted of all and singular the Goods Chattels
89 and Credits of the said deceased she having been
90 first sworn duly to administer
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Sunday, March 30, 2014
Spring in Ottawa, Canada
Another spring has come to Ottawa; the robins have returned. This morning we were greeted with ten centimetres of snow - the heavy wet stuff that does tell us spring is coming one of these days. The snow in the back yard is still at least a metre deep and higher in spots. Mind you a couple of hot days and that will quickly melt fortunately. Then it will be mud season which is really spring here; lots of mud and pretty spring flowers! The crocuses often pick their way through the snow to bloom in our back yard in the warm spots.
Working on an interesting set of wills for Captain John Blake's family of the Honourable East India Company. I know that the furtherest back John Blake lived in the late 1600s and trying to match him up with some of the John Blake wills - not an easy task given the number of John Blake wills! However it was his grand daughter Arabella Blake that started the search along with Sally Hitchin Pelly whose husband Henry Hinde Pelly and their son John Henry Pelly have quite a bit online. But working back has been a challenge and I was surprised once I found the name of the wife of the father of Arabella (also a Captain John Blake in the HEIC) that other researchers hadn't located the marriage of John Blake and Mary Tymewell at Westminster Abbey. But in general I do not see that anybody has been researching the line.
The will of John Blake, father of Arabella and husband of Mary Tymewell will appear in my blog a little later today. I am still working on the discussion.
Working on an interesting set of wills for Captain John Blake's family of the Honourable East India Company. I know that the furtherest back John Blake lived in the late 1600s and trying to match him up with some of the John Blake wills - not an easy task given the number of John Blake wills! However it was his grand daughter Arabella Blake that started the search along with Sally Hitchin Pelly whose husband Henry Hinde Pelly and their son John Henry Pelly have quite a bit online. But working back has been a challenge and I was surprised once I found the name of the wife of the father of Arabella (also a Captain John Blake in the HEIC) that other researchers hadn't located the marriage of John Blake and Mary Tymewell at Westminster Abbey. But in general I do not see that anybody has been researching the line.
The will of John Blake, father of Arabella and husband of Mary Tymewell will appear in my blog a little later today. I am still working on the discussion.
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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