I mentioned the marriage of a William Blake to Rebecca Milles 12 Jun 1754 at Duloe, Cornwall in the following blog.
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2014/04/1248-blake-family-gloucestershire-notes.html
Also mentioned in this blog the baptisms of a son Richard 1 Dec 1760 at Bristol, a son William 3 Dec 1757 and a daughter Rebecca 21 Apr 1759 all at Bristol to William and Rebecca Blake. Only the baptism of Mary is missing. Judging by the coat of arms on the memorial table for Richard Blake husband of Anne Augusta Blake (formerly Hayward), this line uses the same coat of arms as the Blake family of Calne.
A relook at the marriage records now online for Cornish parishes does not reveal this marriage mentioned above (the marriage is listed in Ancestry as William Blake and Rebecca Blakey 12 Jun 1754 at Duloe). Find My Past, however, does list this as the marriage of William Blake and Rebecca Milles at Duloe 12 Jun 1754 (and a second reference has the surname of Rebecca as Blakey). But why not listed on the marriage records for Cornish parishes transcribed by the online parish clerks? That does appear somewhat confusing.
Who is this William Blake and how does he relate to the other members of the Ambrose Blake family in Gloucestershire or does he come down from another line also related to the Blake family at Calne?
Names mentioned in the will:
William Blake, Esquire, Bristol, testator
John Smith, tenant
Richard Blake, (married), son, child of first marriage
William Blake, (married), son, child of first marriage
____ Coriton Esquire, landlord
James Blake, son, child of second marriage
Mr Higgins, brazier, tenant
Mrs Hellier, tenant
John Marsh, Esquire, son in law
Clementia Blake, daughter, child of second marriage
Mr Hall, tenant
Mr Jeremiah Osborne, trustee (not for this testator)
Benjamin Pike, coach painter, tenant
Rebecca Mogg, daughter, wife of Jacob Mogg the younger
Jacob Mogg, the younger, gentleman, son in law
Mrs Tyler, tenant
Mr Jenkins, tenant
Mary Marsh, daughter, wife of John Marsh, Esquire
Maria Marsh, grand daughter
Carolina Marsh, grand daughter
Henry Marsh, grandson
Harriott Marsh, grand daughter
Mr Biggs, tenant
Mr Room, tenant
Mr Whitby, artist
____ Crattle
Mrs Dean, tenant
Mrs Blake, tenant
Joseph Dyer, distiller, tenant
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 12 May 2014
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1213/141
Testator: William Blake, esquire
Place: Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 21 Mar 1791, probated 14 Jan 1792
Condition: 18th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: William
[Margin]: Blake
[Margin]: Esq[uie]r
1 The Last Will and Testament
2 of me William Blake of the City of Bristol Esquire made
3 the twenty first day of March one thousand seven
4 hundred and ninety one (that is to say) Whereas I
5 am seized or possessed of two Estates part of the Manor
6 of Salcomb Regis in the County of Devon which I hold
7 by Copy of Court Roll of the Dean and Chapter
8 of Exeter for Lives and Widowhoods consisting of
9 Messuages or Tenements and Lands part whereof is
10 in my own possession and other part let to John
11 Smith I give the said Copyhold Estates with their
12 Rights and appurtenances to my Son Richard Blake
13 To hold to him for his life and the life of his widow
14 according to the Custom of the said Manor and
15 after his decease I give the said Estates with their
16 Rights and appurtenances to my Son William Blake
17 To hold to him for his life and the life of his widow
18 according to the said Custom of I give and devise unto
19 my said Son Richard all and singular my Messuages
20 Lands and hereditaments called Hole in the parish
21 of Saint Veep in the County of Cornwall part
22 whereof is Freehold and other part Leasehold held of
23 _______ Coriton Esquire for ninety nine Years
24 determinable with lives To hold to my said Son
25 Richard his heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns
26 for all my Estate Term or Terms and Interest therein
27 respectively I give and devise to my Son James all those
28 three Messuages or Tenements adjoining and Garden
29 Ground behind the same with their appurtenances
30 situate in a place called Turnagain Lane leading from
31 Saint James’s Churchyard in Bridewell Bridge in the
32 parish of Saint James and City of Bristol in the
33 occupations of Mr Higgins Brazier and others and also
34 all that Messuage or Tenement with its appurtenances
35 situate on the East Side of Saint James’s Church
36 Yard in the Occupation of Mrs Hellier To hold to my
37 said Son James his heirs Executors Administrators and
38 Assigns for all my Estate and Interest therein respectively
39 and I acquit release and discharge my Son James
40 his heirs Executors and Administrators and also his Estate
41 and Effects Real and Personal from all claims and
42 demands which I my heirs Executors or Administrators
43 can or may have on him or them I give to my
44 Son Richard and Son in Law John Marsh Esquire
45 three hundred pounds upon Trust that they or the
46 Survivor of them his Executors or Administrators do
47 and shall best the same in an annuity for the
48 life and for use of my daughter Clementia Blake
49 the said annuity to be secured on Land and made
50 payable to her and her assigns by quarterly payments
51 and until such annuite shall be purchased to place
52 out the said Sum of three hundred pounds on Land
53 or Government Security in the Joint Names of my
54 said Trustees and the Interest or Dividends ensuing
55 their from shall be paid to my said Daughter I
56 give and devise to my said Daughter Clementia her
57 heirs and assigns a freehold Messuage or Tenement
58 situate on the East Side of Saint James’s Church
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60 Yard in the occupation of Mr. Hall Whereas the
61 Sum of two hundred and seventy pounds or thereabouts
62 which was placed out at Interest in the Name of
63 Mr Jeremiah Osborne a Trustee on that occasion
64 on Security of a Messuage in Kingswood Street
65 Bath now or late in the occupation of Benjamin
66 Pike Coach painter the possession of which is since
67 surrendered up to the Mortgagee also the Rents
68 received for the use of my said Daughter Clementia
69 It is my Will as far as I have any power or
70 Controul respectring the same that the Principal and
71 Interest Money due and to grow due therein shall
72 be had and received by my Executors hereinafter
73 named and paid to my said Daughter for her
74 use and benefit I give to my said Daughter
75 Clementia ten pounds per Annum during her life
76 to be paid to her and her assigns by my Son
77 Richard out of the Interest Money on his Bond
78 of Five hundred pounds given by him to me and
79 my Will and intention is that the before mentioned
80 devised and bequests to my Son James and Daughter
81 Clementia are upon Condition that each of them
82 shall hold and enjoy the same in full compensation
83 and discharge of any Claims or pretended Claim by
84 any of them upon me my heirs Executors or Admors
85 in respect to or by virtue of any Deed of Settlement
86 by me entered into for the benefit of the Children
87 or Issue of my first Marriage or otherwise and that
88 my said Son James and Daughter Clementia shall
89 on request to them made by my Executors Execute good and
90 valid Releases and Discharges in the Law to them
91 and also my Estate of all claims and demands
92 against me and my Estate upon any account
93 whatsoever and upon refusal so to do my devise and
94 bequest to them severally made and appointed by
95 this my Will shall be void and what is herein
96 given and devised to each of them I give and
97 devise to my said Son Richard and Son in Law
98 John Marsh To hold to them their heirs Executors
99 Administrators and assigns equally share and
100 share alike I give to the said Richard Blake
101 and John Marsh Five hundred pounds to be by
102 them or the Survivor his Executors or Administrators
103 vested in the publick Funds or on Land Security
104 in their Names In Trust to pay the dividends or Interest
105 thereof to my Daughter Rebecca wife of Jacob
106 Mogg the younger Gentleman during her life separate
107 from her present or any future husband and her
108 Receipt along from time to time shall be a
109 sufficient discharge for the same and after her
110 decease In Trust to pay and divide the said Sum
111 of Five hundred pounds equally between the Issue
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112 or Children of my said Daughter Rebecca at their
113 respective ages of twenty one years and in case of
114 the Death of either of them before attainment to
115 such age to the Survivors or Survivor of them and
116 in default of such Issue to such person or persons
117 said Daughter notwithstanding her Coverture shall
118 by Deed or Will give limit direct or appoint I give
119 to my said Daughter Rebecca Mogg ten pounds
120 per Annum During her life to be paid to her and
121 her Assigns by my Son Richard being the remainder
122 of the Interest Money on his said Bond of Five
123 hundred pounds and after the decease of the said
124 Clementia Blake and Rebecca Mogg I give the
125 Principal Sum of Five hundred pounds secured by
126 such Bond to my Son Richard his Executors or
127 Administrators I give and devise to my Son in Law
128 John Marsh a Freehold Messuage with inclosed
129 pieces of Garden Ground in Front of the said
130 Messuage and used therewith and appurts thereto
131 belonging situate in Dove Street in the Parish
132 of Saint James in the County of Gloucester wherein
133 I now Dwell Also a Freehold Messuage in Duke
134 Street near Kings Square Bristol in the occupation
135 of Mrs Tyler also a Messuage in Dowry Square
136 in the parish of Clifton in the said County of
137 Gloucester in the occupation of Mr Jenkins which I
138 hold for the remainder of a term of one thousand
139 Years To hold the said three Messuages with their
140 Appurtenances to the said John Marsh and his
141 Assigns for life and after his decease I give and
142 devise the same three Messuages Garden Ground
143 and Premises with their appurtenances unto my
144 Daughter Mary Wife of the said John Marsh
145 and her assigns for her life then keeping upholding
146 maintaining the said Messuages and premises
147 and each and every of them in good tenantable
148 repair and after the decease of the Survivor of them
149 the said John Marsh and Mary his Wife I give
150 and devise the Messuage in Dove Street with its
151 appurtenances to my Grand Daughter Maria
152 Marsh her heirs and Assigns and I give and
153 devise the said Messuage in Duke Street with its
154 appurtenances unto my Grand Daughter Carolina
155 Marsh her heirs and Assigns and I give the said
156 Messuage in Dowry Square with its appurtenances
157 to my Grandson Henry Marsh his Executors
158 Administrators and Assigns for all my Estate term
159 and Interest therein I give and devise to my
160 Grand Daughter Harriott Marsh her heirs and Assigns
161 my moiety or half part of a Freehold Messuage
162 or Tenement with the Appurtenances situate in
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163 Charles Street in the parish of Saint James aforesaid
164 in the Occupation of Mr Biggs and also my Moiety or
165 half part of a Messuage or Tenement with the Appurts
166 in Pipe Lane in the parish of Saint Augustine in
167 the City of Bristol in the occupation of Mr Room
168 which premises last mentioned are Leasehold and
169 held of the Feoffees of Saint Mary Redcliff parish
170 Lands determinable with lives to hold to my said
171 Grand Daughter Harriott her Executors Administrators ans Assigns
172 for and during all my Estate term and Interest therein
173 I give all my Books in my Dwelling house in Dove
174 Street to my Sons Richard and William Blake I give my
175 Silver Cup and Cover given me by Mr Corsers
176 Executor to my Son William I give the Rest of my
177 Plate to my daughters Mary Marsh and Rebecca
178 Mogg and my Son Richard Blake I give my China
179 in the House in Dove Street to my Daughter’s Mary
181 Marsh and Rebecca Mogg I give to my said Daughter
182 Mary Marsh my Portrait Drawn by Mr Whitby I give the
183 Household Goods and Implements of household and
184 other things appertaining thereto in my house at
185 Sidmouth in the County of Devon to my Son William
186 Blake I give the household Goods and Implements
187 of household and other things appertaining thereto
188 and my Books in my house at Egypt near Sidmouth
189 to my Son Richard Blake I give to my Nephews
190 Charles Blake Forty pounds I give to my now Servant
191 Maids three Guineas each and to my Servant Boy two
192 Guineas I give to the said Richard Blake and John
193 Marsh Fifty pounds to be applied for the benefit of
194 _______ Crattle by annual payments of ten pounds
195 I give and devise to the said Richard Blake and John
196 Marsh one fourth part of the Sugar house and
197 Dwelling house in Redcliff Street in the City of Bristol
198 part hold or Lease under the Chamber of the said
199 City as Feoffees of Forsters Alms houses and other
200 part under the Feoffees of Saint Thomas parish
201 Lands lately occupied by Mrs Dean and Blake as
202 Sugar house And now by Joseph Dyer Distiller together
203 with a Moiety of all the utensils Materials and
204 appurtenances used in carrying on the Sugar Refining
205 Business and one half of the Erections that now remain
206 there and also all my household Goods (except what
207 is herein otherwise disposed of in my house in Dove
208 Street aforesaid Also my three Shares in the Bristol
209 Fire office also my Bank Stock of two thousand three
210 hundred and sixty five pounds in the Four per cents also
211 my two hundred pounds Short Annuities and all and
211 singular other my Estate and Effects Real and personal
213 whatsoever and wheresoever after payment of my just
214 Debts Funeral Expences and discharges incident to whit trust
215 To hold to them the said Richard Blake and John Marsh
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216 their heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns
217 Upon Trust to sell transfer dispose of and receive
218 the same and every part thereof and the Moneys
219 arising by such Sale transfer disposition and Receipt
220 to pay and divide as hereinafter mentioned (that is to
221 say) One sixth part to my Son William one sixth part
222 to my Daughter Mary Marsh One sixth part to
223 my Daughter Rebecca Mogg one sixth part to my
224 Son Richard Blake one sixth part to be divided equally
225 between my Son James and Daughter Clementia
226 Blake and the remaining sixth part to be divided
227 equally between my Grand Children Son or Sons and
228 Daughters of my Son William Blake And I hereby
229 nominate and appoint the said Richard Blake and
230 John Marsh Executors in Trust of this my Will and
231 revoking all other Wills by me made do declare this
232 to be my last In Witness whereof I have to this my
233 last Will and Testament contained in Five Sheets of
234 paper to the first four Sheets thereof set my hand
235 and to this fifth and last Sheet my hand and
236 Seal the Day and year above written Willm
237 Blake Signed Sealed Published and Declared
238 by the above named William Blake the Testator
239 as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence
240 of us who in his presence at his request and in the
241 presence of each other have hereunto subscribed
242 our Names as Witnesses The word “three” being interlined
243 instead of five in the fourth line from the Bottom of
244 the first Sheet hereof Richard Milles Susan Milles
245 Fenwick Bird
246 This Will was proved at London the
247 fourteenth day of January in the year of our Lord
248 one thousand seven hundred and ninety two before the
249 Right honorable Sir William Wynne Knight Doctor
250 of Laws Master Keeper or Commissary of the
251 Prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted
252 by the Oaths of Richard Blake the Son of the deceased
253 and John Marsh the Executors named in the said
254 Will to whom Administration was granted of all and
255 singular the Goods Chattels and Credits of the said
256 deceased having been first sworn (by Commission) duly
257 to administer.
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Will of William Blake, esquire, Bristol - The National Archives PROB 11/1213/141, probated 14 Jan 1792
The testator is William Blake, esquire, of Bristol, Gloucestershire. He has been married twice as mentioned in his will. One marriage is Elizabeth Slade to William Blake 15 Dec 1765 at Bristol. Is she the second wife of William Blake with his first wife being Rebecca Milles (married in 1754 at Duloe Cornwall)? The witnesses to this will were the Milles family members.
The will of Clementia Blake, daughter of the present testator, was blogged:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2014/04/will-of-clementia-blake-spinster.html
I suspect that the transcription of the birth year for Clementia Blake is incorrect or this is not the daughter of the present testator although the will reads as if she is. She is from the younger family of the present testator so likely born after 1765 which would make her about 50 when she died.
Mary Blake married John Marsh 12 Feb 1778 at St James Bristol.
http://theplain.thornburyroots.co.uk/TP%20no10&11.htm
John Marsh - the 1766 conveyance referred to above shows John Marsh was already occupying Porch House at the time it was conveyed to him and the other of John Stone's creditors. The list of property owners made for the 'Assessment for Relief of the Poor' in 1770 shows John Marsh as being 'for late Stones' which indicates he was still in the property previously associated with the Stone family. We understand that John was an attorney at law in Thornbury. In 1763 John married Elizabeth Hollister at Almondsbury. Elizabeth was the daughter of Luke Hollister of Almondsbury. Elizabeth died in 1775. The Bath Chronicle of 12th February 1788 shows that John Marsh attorney of Thornbury then married Mary Blake the daughter of Mr Blake a merchant of Bristol. The Bath Chronicle of 20th October 1825 says that John Marsh died that day at Biddestone House in Wiltshire in his 90th year. The notice of his death adds that he resided many years near Taunton and formerly at Thornbury. The Wiltshire connection leads us to suppose that John was related to Aaron Marsh who lived at Gloucester House in Thornbury. Aaron may have been John's son.
A rather interesting item I did not notice previously. Although it does not assist in finding anything more on William, the present testator, it does mention William. Clementia mentions her sisters Rebecca Mogg, Mary Marsh and her brother William but does not mention Richard her brother or James her full brother (the others being half-siblings).
Having read William’s will now I am still contemplating whether his line is descendant of the Calne Blake line. His properties include land in Cornwall and in Devon. He is possibly the Mr. William Blake named in the will of Richard Blake, gentleman, Bristol blogged earlier:
In the writeup on that will I have mused that William, present testator, might be of the Calne Blake family which is interesting in reflection.
There is a marriage of a William Blake to Rebecca Milles 12 Jun 1754 at Duloe, Cornwall.
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2014/04/1248-blake-family-gloucestershire-notes.html
Also mentioned in the blog the baptisms of Richard 1 Dec 1760 at Bristol, a son William 3 Dec 1757 and a daughter Rebecca 21 Apr 1759 all at Bristol to William and Rebecca Blake. Only the baptism of Mary is missing. Judging by the coat of arms on the memorial table for Richard Blake husband of Anne Augusta Blake (formerly Hayward), this line uses the same coat of arms as the Blake family of Calne.
Then who is William and how does he relate to the other members of the Ambrose Blake family in Gloucestershire or does he come down from another line also related to the Blake family at Calne?
Perhaps the set of Bristol Diocese Wills will assist with this set of Blake families.
Names mentioned in the will:
William Blake, Esquire, Bristol, testator
John Smith, tenant
Richard Blake, (married), son, child of first marriage
William Blake, (married), son, child of first marriage
____ Coriton Esquire, landlord
James Blake, son, child of second marriage
Mr Higgins, brazier, tenant
Mrs Hellier, tenant
John Marsh, Esquire, son in law
Clementia Blake, daughter, child of second marriage
Mr Hall, tenant
Mr Jeremiah Osborne, trustee (not for this testator)
Benjamin Pike, coach painter, tenant
Rebecca Mogg, daughter, wife of Jacob Mogg the younger
Jacob Mogg, the younger, gentleman, son in law
Mrs Tyler, tenant
Mr Jenkins, tenant
Mary Marsh, daughter, wife of John Marsh, Esquire
Maria Marsh, grand daughter
Carolina Marsh, grand daughter
Henry Marsh, grandson
Harriott Marsh, grand daughter
Mr Biggs, tenant
Mr Room, tenant
Mr Whitby, artist
____ Crattle
Mrs Dean, tenant
Mrs Blake, tenant
Joseph Dyer, distiller, tenant
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 12 May 2014
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1213/141
Testator: William Blake, esquire
Place: Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 21 Mar 1791, probated 14 Jan 1792
Condition: 18th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: William
[Margin]: Blake
[Margin]: Esq[uie]r
1 The Last Will and Testament
2 of me William Blake of the City of Bristol Esquire made
3 the twenty first day of March one thousand seven
4 hundred and ninety one (that is to say) Whereas I
5 am seized or possessed of two Estates part of the Manor
6 of Salcomb Regis in the County of Devon which I hold
7 by Copy of Court Roll of the Dean and Chapter
8 of Exeter for Lives and Widowhoods consisting of
9 Messuages or Tenements and Lands part whereof is
10 in my own possession and other part let to John
11 Smith I give the said Copyhold Estates with their
12 Rights and appurtenances to my Son Richard Blake
13 To hold to him for his life and the life of his widow
14 according to the Custom of the said Manor and
15 after his decease I give the said Estates with their
16 Rights and appurtenances to my Son William Blake
17 To hold to him for his life and the life of his widow
18 according to the said Custom of I give and devise unto
19 my said Son Richard all and singular my Messuages
20 Lands and hereditaments called Hole in the parish
21 of Saint Veep in the County of Cornwall part
22 whereof is Freehold and other part Leasehold held of
23 _______ Coriton Esquire for ninety nine Years
24 determinable with lives To hold to my said Son
25 Richard his heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns
26 for all my Estate Term or Terms and Interest therein
27 respectively I give and devise to my Son James all those
28 three Messuages or Tenements adjoining and Garden
29 Ground behind the same with their appurtenances
30 situate in a place called Turnagain Lane leading from
31 Saint James’s Churchyard in Bridewell Bridge in the
32 parish of Saint James and City of Bristol in the
33 occupations of Mr Higgins Brazier and others and also
34 all that Messuage or Tenement with its appurtenances
35 situate on the East Side of Saint James’s Church
36 Yard in the Occupation of Mrs Hellier To hold to my
37 said Son James his heirs Executors Administrators and
38 Assigns for all my Estate and Interest therein respectively
39 and I acquit release and discharge my Son James
40 his heirs Executors and Administrators and also his Estate
41 and Effects Real and Personal from all claims and
42 demands which I my heirs Executors or Administrators
43 can or may have on him or them I give to my
44 Son Richard and Son in Law John Marsh Esquire
45 three hundred pounds upon Trust that they or the
46 Survivor of them his Executors or Administrators do
47 and shall best the same in an annuity for the
48 life and for use of my daughter Clementia Blake
49 the said annuity to be secured on Land and made
50 payable to her and her assigns by quarterly payments
51 and until such annuite shall be purchased to place
52 out the said Sum of three hundred pounds on Land
53 or Government Security in the Joint Names of my
54 said Trustees and the Interest or Dividends ensuing
55 their from shall be paid to my said Daughter I
56 give and devise to my said Daughter Clementia her
57 heirs and assigns a freehold Messuage or Tenement
58 situate on the East Side of Saint James’s Church
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60 Yard in the occupation of Mr. Hall Whereas the
61 Sum of two hundred and seventy pounds or thereabouts
62 which was placed out at Interest in the Name of
63 Mr Jeremiah Osborne a Trustee on that occasion
64 on Security of a Messuage in Kingswood Street
65 Bath now or late in the occupation of Benjamin
66 Pike Coach painter the possession of which is since
67 surrendered up to the Mortgagee also the Rents
68 received for the use of my said Daughter Clementia
69 It is my Will as far as I have any power or
70 Controul respectring the same that the Principal and
71 Interest Money due and to grow due therein shall
72 be had and received by my Executors hereinafter
73 named and paid to my said Daughter for her
74 use and benefit I give to my said Daughter
75 Clementia ten pounds per Annum during her life
76 to be paid to her and her assigns by my Son
77 Richard out of the Interest Money on his Bond
78 of Five hundred pounds given by him to me and
79 my Will and intention is that the before mentioned
80 devised and bequests to my Son James and Daughter
81 Clementia are upon Condition that each of them
82 shall hold and enjoy the same in full compensation
83 and discharge of any Claims or pretended Claim by
84 any of them upon me my heirs Executors or Admors
85 in respect to or by virtue of any Deed of Settlement
86 by me entered into for the benefit of the Children
87 or Issue of my first Marriage or otherwise and that
88 my said Son James and Daughter Clementia shall
89 on request to them made by my Executors Execute good and
90 valid Releases and Discharges in the Law to them
91 and also my Estate of all claims and demands
92 against me and my Estate upon any account
93 whatsoever and upon refusal so to do my devise and
94 bequest to them severally made and appointed by
95 this my Will shall be void and what is herein
96 given and devised to each of them I give and
97 devise to my said Son Richard and Son in Law
98 John Marsh To hold to them their heirs Executors
99 Administrators and assigns equally share and
100 share alike I give to the said Richard Blake
101 and John Marsh Five hundred pounds to be by
102 them or the Survivor his Executors or Administrators
103 vested in the publick Funds or on Land Security
104 in their Names In Trust to pay the dividends or Interest
105 thereof to my Daughter Rebecca wife of Jacob
106 Mogg the younger Gentleman during her life separate
107 from her present or any future husband and her
108 Receipt along from time to time shall be a
109 sufficient discharge for the same and after her
110 decease In Trust to pay and divide the said Sum
111 of Five hundred pounds equally between the Issue
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112 or Children of my said Daughter Rebecca at their
113 respective ages of twenty one years and in case of
114 the Death of either of them before attainment to
115 such age to the Survivors or Survivor of them and
116 in default of such Issue to such person or persons
117 said Daughter notwithstanding her Coverture shall
118 by Deed or Will give limit direct or appoint I give
119 to my said Daughter Rebecca Mogg ten pounds
120 per Annum During her life to be paid to her and
121 her Assigns by my Son Richard being the remainder
122 of the Interest Money on his said Bond of Five
123 hundred pounds and after the decease of the said
124 Clementia Blake and Rebecca Mogg I give the
125 Principal Sum of Five hundred pounds secured by
126 such Bond to my Son Richard his Executors or
127 Administrators I give and devise to my Son in Law
128 John Marsh a Freehold Messuage with inclosed
129 pieces of Garden Ground in Front of the said
130 Messuage and used therewith and appurts thereto
131 belonging situate in Dove Street in the Parish
132 of Saint James in the County of Gloucester wherein
133 I now Dwell Also a Freehold Messuage in Duke
134 Street near Kings Square Bristol in the occupation
135 of Mrs Tyler also a Messuage in Dowry Square
136 in the parish of Clifton in the said County of
137 Gloucester in the occupation of Mr Jenkins which I
138 hold for the remainder of a term of one thousand
139 Years To hold the said three Messuages with their
140 Appurtenances to the said John Marsh and his
141 Assigns for life and after his decease I give and
142 devise the same three Messuages Garden Ground
143 and Premises with their appurtenances unto my
144 Daughter Mary Wife of the said John Marsh
145 and her assigns for her life then keeping upholding
146 maintaining the said Messuages and premises
147 and each and every of them in good tenantable
148 repair and after the decease of the Survivor of them
149 the said John Marsh and Mary his Wife I give
150 and devise the Messuage in Dove Street with its
151 appurtenances to my Grand Daughter Maria
152 Marsh her heirs and Assigns and I give and
153 devise the said Messuage in Duke Street with its
154 appurtenances unto my Grand Daughter Carolina
155 Marsh her heirs and Assigns and I give the said
156 Messuage in Dowry Square with its appurtenances
157 to my Grandson Henry Marsh his Executors
158 Administrators and Assigns for all my Estate term
159 and Interest therein I give and devise to my
160 Grand Daughter Harriott Marsh her heirs and Assigns
161 my moiety or half part of a Freehold Messuage
162 or Tenement with the Appurtenances situate in
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163 Charles Street in the parish of Saint James aforesaid
164 in the Occupation of Mr Biggs and also my Moiety or
165 half part of a Messuage or Tenement with the Appurts
166 in Pipe Lane in the parish of Saint Augustine in
167 the City of Bristol in the occupation of Mr Room
168 which premises last mentioned are Leasehold and
169 held of the Feoffees of Saint Mary Redcliff parish
170 Lands determinable with lives to hold to my said
171 Grand Daughter Harriott her Executors Administrators ans Assigns
172 for and during all my Estate term and Interest therein
173 I give all my Books in my Dwelling house in Dove
174 Street to my Sons Richard and William Blake I give my
175 Silver Cup and Cover given me by Mr Corsers
176 Executor to my Son William I give the Rest of my
177 Plate to my daughters Mary Marsh and Rebecca
178 Mogg and my Son Richard Blake I give my China
179 in the House in Dove Street to my Daughter’s Mary
181 Marsh and Rebecca Mogg I give to my said Daughter
182 Mary Marsh my Portrait Drawn by Mr Whitby I give the
183 Household Goods and Implements of household and
184 other things appertaining thereto in my house at
185 Sidmouth in the County of Devon to my Son William
186 Blake I give the household Goods and Implements
187 of household and other things appertaining thereto
188 and my Books in my house at Egypt near Sidmouth
189 to my Son Richard Blake I give to my Nephews
190 Charles Blake Forty pounds I give to my now Servant
191 Maids three Guineas each and to my Servant Boy two
192 Guineas I give to the said Richard Blake and John
193 Marsh Fifty pounds to be applied for the benefit of
194 _______ Crattle by annual payments of ten pounds
195 I give and devise to the said Richard Blake and John
196 Marsh one fourth part of the Sugar house and
197 Dwelling house in Redcliff Street in the City of Bristol
198 part hold or Lease under the Chamber of the said
199 City as Feoffees of Forsters Alms houses and other
200 part under the Feoffees of Saint Thomas parish
201 Lands lately occupied by Mrs Dean and Blake as
202 Sugar house And now by Joseph Dyer Distiller together
203 with a Moiety of all the utensils Materials and
204 appurtenances used in carrying on the Sugar Refining
205 Business and one half of the Erections that now remain
206 there and also all my household Goods (except what
207 is herein otherwise disposed of in my house in Dove
208 Street aforesaid Also my three Shares in the Bristol
209 Fire office also my Bank Stock of two thousand three
210 hundred and sixty five pounds in the Four per cents also
211 my two hundred pounds Short Annuities and all and
211 singular other my Estate and Effects Real and personal
213 whatsoever and wheresoever after payment of my just
214 Debts Funeral Expences and discharges incident to whit trust
215 To hold to them the said Richard Blake and John Marsh
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216 their heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns
217 Upon Trust to sell transfer dispose of and receive
218 the same and every part thereof and the Moneys
219 arising by such Sale transfer disposition and Receipt
220 to pay and divide as hereinafter mentioned (that is to
221 say) One sixth part to my Son William one sixth part
222 to my Daughter Mary Marsh One sixth part to
223 my Daughter Rebecca Mogg one sixth part to my
224 Son Richard Blake one sixth part to be divided equally
225 between my Son James and Daughter Clementia
226 Blake and the remaining sixth part to be divided
227 equally between my Grand Children Son or Sons and
228 Daughters of my Son William Blake And I hereby
229 nominate and appoint the said Richard Blake and
230 John Marsh Executors in Trust of this my Will and
231 revoking all other Wills by me made do declare this
232 to be my last In Witness whereof I have to this my
233 last Will and Testament contained in Five Sheets of
234 paper to the first four Sheets thereof set my hand
235 and to this fifth and last Sheet my hand and
236 Seal the Day and year above written Willm
237 Blake Signed Sealed Published and Declared
238 by the above named William Blake the Testator
239 as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence
240 of us who in his presence at his request and in the
241 presence of each other have hereunto subscribed
242 our Names as Witnesses The word “three” being interlined
243 instead of five in the fourth line from the Bottom of
244 the first Sheet hereof Richard Milles Susan Milles
245 Fenwick Bird
246 This Will was proved at London the
247 fourteenth day of January in the year of our Lord
248 one thousand seven hundred and ninety two before the
249 Right honorable Sir William Wynne Knight Doctor
250 of Laws Master Keeper or Commissary of the
251 Prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted
252 by the Oaths of Richard Blake the Son of the deceased
253 and John Marsh the Executors named in the said
254 Will to whom Administration was granted of all and
255 singular the Goods Chattels and Credits of the said
256 deceased having been first sworn (by Commission) duly
257 to administer.
The will of Clementia Blake, daughter of the present testator, was blogged:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2014/04/will-of-clementia-blake-spinster.html
I suspect that the transcription of the birth year for Clementia Blake is incorrect or this is not the daughter of the present testator although the will reads as if she is. She is from the younger family of the present testator so likely born after 1765 which would make her about 50 when she died.
Mary Blake married John Marsh 12 Feb 1778 at St James Bristol.
http://theplain.thornburyroots.co.uk/TP%20no10&11.htm
John Marsh - the 1766 conveyance referred to above shows John Marsh was already occupying Porch House at the time it was conveyed to him and the other of John Stone's creditors. The list of property owners made for the 'Assessment for Relief of the Poor' in 1770 shows John Marsh as being 'for late Stones' which indicates he was still in the property previously associated with the Stone family. We understand that John was an attorney at law in Thornbury. In 1763 John married Elizabeth Hollister at Almondsbury. Elizabeth was the daughter of Luke Hollister of Almondsbury. Elizabeth died in 1775. The Bath Chronicle of 12th February 1788 shows that John Marsh attorney of Thornbury then married Mary Blake the daughter of Mr Blake a merchant of Bristol. The Bath Chronicle of 20th October 1825 says that John Marsh died that day at Biddestone House in Wiltshire in his 90th year. The notice of his death adds that he resided many years near Taunton and formerly at Thornbury. The Wiltshire connection leads us to suppose that John was related to Aaron Marsh who lived at Gloucester House in Thornbury. Aaron may have been John's son.
A rather interesting item I did not notice previously. Although it does not assist in finding anything more on William, the present testator, it does mention William. Clementia mentions her sisters Rebecca Mogg, Mary Marsh and her brother William but does not mention Richard her brother or James her full brother (the others being half-siblings).
Having read William’s will now I am still contemplating whether his line is descendant of the Calne Blake line. His properties include land in Cornwall and in Devon. He is possibly the Mr. William Blake named in the will of Richard Blake, gentleman, Bristol blogged earlier:
In the writeup on that will I have mused that William, present testator, might be of the Calne Blake family which is interesting in reflection.
There is a marriage of a William Blake to Rebecca Milles 12 Jun 1754 at Duloe, Cornwall.
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2014/04/1248-blake-family-gloucestershire-notes.html
Also mentioned in the blog the baptisms of Richard 1 Dec 1760 at Bristol, a son William 3 Dec 1757 and a daughter Rebecca 21 Apr 1759 all at Bristol to William and Rebecca Blake. Only the baptism of Mary is missing. Judging by the coat of arms on the memorial table for Richard Blake husband of Anne Augusta Blake (formerly Hayward), this line uses the same coat of arms as the Blake family of Calne.
Then who is William and how does he relate to the other members of the Ambrose Blake family in Gloucestershire or does he come down from another line also related to the Blake family at Calne?
Perhaps the set of Bristol Diocese Wills will assist with this set of Blake families.
Names mentioned in the will:
William Blake, Esquire, Bristol, testator
John Smith, tenant
Richard Blake, (married), son, child of first marriage
William Blake, (married), son, child of first marriage
____ Coriton Esquire, landlord
James Blake, son, child of second marriage
Mr Higgins, brazier, tenant
Mrs Hellier, tenant
John Marsh, Esquire, son in law
Clementia Blake, daughter, child of second marriage
Mr Hall, tenant
Mr Jeremiah Osborne, trustee (not for this testator)
Benjamin Pike, coach painter, tenant
Rebecca Mogg, daughter, wife of Jacob Mogg the younger
Jacob Mogg, the younger, gentleman, son in law
Mrs Tyler, tenant
Mr Jenkins, tenant
Mary Marsh, daughter, wife of John Marsh, Esquire
Maria Marsh, grand daughter
Carolina Marsh, grand daughter
Henry Marsh, grandson
Harriott Marsh, grand daughter
Mr Biggs, tenant
Mr Room, tenant
Mr Whitby, artist
____ Crattle
Mrs Dean, tenant
Mrs Blake, tenant
Joseph Dyer, distiller, tenant
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 12 May 2014
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1213/141
Testator: William Blake, esquire
Place: Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 21 Mar 1791, probated 14 Jan 1792
Condition: 18th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: William
[Margin]: Blake
[Margin]: Esq[uie]r
1 The Last Will and Testament
2 of me William Blake of the City of Bristol Esquire made
3 the twenty first day of March one thousand seven
4 hundred and ninety one (that is to say) Whereas I
5 am seized or possessed of two Estates part of the Manor
6 of Salcomb Regis in the County of Devon which I hold
7 by Copy of Court Roll of the Dean and Chapter
8 of Exeter for Lives and Widowhoods consisting of
9 Messuages or Tenements and Lands part whereof is
10 in my own possession and other part let to John
11 Smith I give the said Copyhold Estates with their
12 Rights and appurtenances to my Son Richard Blake
13 To hold to him for his life and the life of his widow
14 according to the Custom of the said Manor and
15 after his decease I give the said Estates with their
16 Rights and appurtenances to my Son William Blake
17 To hold to him for his life and the life of his widow
18 according to the said Custom of I give and devise unto
19 my said Son Richard all and singular my Messuages
20 Lands and hereditaments called Hole in the parish
21 of Saint Veep in the County of Cornwall part
22 whereof is Freehold and other part Leasehold held of
23 _______ Coriton Esquire for ninety nine Years
24 determinable with lives To hold to my said Son
25 Richard his heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns
26 for all my Estate Term or Terms and Interest therein
27 respectively I give and devise to my Son James all those
28 three Messuages or Tenements adjoining and Garden
29 Ground behind the same with their appurtenances
30 situate in a place called Turnagain Lane leading from
31 Saint James’s Churchyard in Bridewell Bridge in the
32 parish of Saint James and City of Bristol in the
33 occupations of Mr Higgins Brazier and others and also
34 all that Messuage or Tenement with its appurtenances
35 situate on the East Side of Saint James’s Church
36 Yard in the Occupation of Mrs Hellier To hold to my
37 said Son James his heirs Executors Administrators and
38 Assigns for all my Estate and Interest therein respectively
39 and I acquit release and discharge my Son James
40 his heirs Executors and Administrators and also his Estate
41 and Effects Real and Personal from all claims and
42 demands which I my heirs Executors or Administrators
43 can or may have on him or them I give to my
44 Son Richard and Son in Law John Marsh Esquire
45 three hundred pounds upon Trust that they or the
46 Survivor of them his Executors or Administrators do
47 and shall best the same in an annuity for the
48 life and for use of my daughter Clementia Blake
49 the said annuity to be secured on Land and made
50 payable to her and her assigns by quarterly payments
51 and until such annuite shall be purchased to place
52 out the said Sum of three hundred pounds on Land
53 or Government Security in the Joint Names of my
54 said Trustees and the Interest or Dividends ensuing
55 their from shall be paid to my said Daughter I
56 give and devise to my said Daughter Clementia her
57 heirs and assigns a freehold Messuage or Tenement
58 situate on the East Side of Saint James’s Church
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60 Yard in the occupation of Mr. Hall Whereas the
61 Sum of two hundred and seventy pounds or thereabouts
62 which was placed out at Interest in the Name of
63 Mr Jeremiah Osborne a Trustee on that occasion
64 on Security of a Messuage in Kingswood Street
65 Bath now or late in the occupation of Benjamin
66 Pike Coach painter the possession of which is since
67 surrendered up to the Mortgagee also the Rents
68 received for the use of my said Daughter Clementia
69 It is my Will as far as I have any power or
70 Controul respectring the same that the Principal and
71 Interest Money due and to grow due therein shall
72 be had and received by my Executors hereinafter
73 named and paid to my said Daughter for her
74 use and benefit I give to my said Daughter
75 Clementia ten pounds per Annum during her life
76 to be paid to her and her assigns by my Son
77 Richard out of the Interest Money on his Bond
78 of Five hundred pounds given by him to me and
79 my Will and intention is that the before mentioned
80 devised and bequests to my Son James and Daughter
81 Clementia are upon Condition that each of them
82 shall hold and enjoy the same in full compensation
83 and discharge of any Claims or pretended Claim by
84 any of them upon me my heirs Executors or Admors
85 in respect to or by virtue of any Deed of Settlement
86 by me entered into for the benefit of the Children
87 or Issue of my first Marriage or otherwise and that
88 my said Son James and Daughter Clementia shall
89 on request to them made by my Executors Execute good and
90 valid Releases and Discharges in the Law to them
91 and also my Estate of all claims and demands
92 against me and my Estate upon any account
93 whatsoever and upon refusal so to do my devise and
94 bequest to them severally made and appointed by
95 this my Will shall be void and what is herein
96 given and devised to each of them I give and
97 devise to my said Son Richard and Son in Law
98 John Marsh To hold to them their heirs Executors
99 Administrators and assigns equally share and
100 share alike I give to the said Richard Blake
101 and John Marsh Five hundred pounds to be by
102 them or the Survivor his Executors or Administrators
103 vested in the publick Funds or on Land Security
104 in their Names In Trust to pay the dividends or Interest
105 thereof to my Daughter Rebecca wife of Jacob
106 Mogg the younger Gentleman during her life separate
107 from her present or any future husband and her
108 Receipt along from time to time shall be a
109 sufficient discharge for the same and after her
110 decease In Trust to pay and divide the said Sum
111 of Five hundred pounds equally between the Issue
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112 or Children of my said Daughter Rebecca at their
113 respective ages of twenty one years and in case of
114 the Death of either of them before attainment to
115 such age to the Survivors or Survivor of them and
116 in default of such Issue to such person or persons
117 said Daughter notwithstanding her Coverture shall
118 by Deed or Will give limit direct or appoint I give
119 to my said Daughter Rebecca Mogg ten pounds
120 per Annum During her life to be paid to her and
121 her Assigns by my Son Richard being the remainder
122 of the Interest Money on his said Bond of Five
123 hundred pounds and after the decease of the said
124 Clementia Blake and Rebecca Mogg I give the
125 Principal Sum of Five hundred pounds secured by
126 such Bond to my Son Richard his Executors or
127 Administrators I give and devise to my Son in Law
128 John Marsh a Freehold Messuage with inclosed
129 pieces of Garden Ground in Front of the said
130 Messuage and used therewith and appurts thereto
131 belonging situate in Dove Street in the Parish
132 of Saint James in the County of Gloucester wherein
133 I now Dwell Also a Freehold Messuage in Duke
134 Street near Kings Square Bristol in the occupation
135 of Mrs Tyler also a Messuage in Dowry Square
136 in the parish of Clifton in the said County of
137 Gloucester in the occupation of Mr Jenkins which I
138 hold for the remainder of a term of one thousand
139 Years To hold the said three Messuages with their
140 Appurtenances to the said John Marsh and his
141 Assigns for life and after his decease I give and
142 devise the same three Messuages Garden Ground
143 and Premises with their appurtenances unto my
144 Daughter Mary Wife of the said John Marsh
145 and her assigns for her life then keeping upholding
146 maintaining the said Messuages and premises
147 and each and every of them in good tenantable
148 repair and after the decease of the Survivor of them
149 the said John Marsh and Mary his Wife I give
150 and devise the Messuage in Dove Street with its
151 appurtenances to my Grand Daughter Maria
152 Marsh her heirs and Assigns and I give and
153 devise the said Messuage in Duke Street with its
154 appurtenances unto my Grand Daughter Carolina
155 Marsh her heirs and Assigns and I give the said
156 Messuage in Dowry Square with its appurtenances
157 to my Grandson Henry Marsh his Executors
158 Administrators and Assigns for all my Estate term
159 and Interest therein I give and devise to my
160 Grand Daughter Harriott Marsh her heirs and Assigns
161 my moiety or half part of a Freehold Messuage
162 or Tenement with the Appurtenances situate in
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163 Charles Street in the parish of Saint James aforesaid
164 in the Occupation of Mr Biggs and also my Moiety or
165 half part of a Messuage or Tenement with the Appurts
166 in Pipe Lane in the parish of Saint Augustine in
167 the City of Bristol in the occupation of Mr Room
168 which premises last mentioned are Leasehold and
169 held of the Feoffees of Saint Mary Redcliff parish
170 Lands determinable with lives to hold to my said
171 Grand Daughter Harriott her Executors Administrators ans Assigns
172 for and during all my Estate term and Interest therein
173 I give all my Books in my Dwelling house in Dove
174 Street to my Sons Richard and William Blake I give my
175 Silver Cup and Cover given me by Mr Corsers
176 Executor to my Son William I give the Rest of my
177 Plate to my daughters Mary Marsh and Rebecca
178 Mogg and my Son Richard Blake I give my China
179 in the House in Dove Street to my Daughter’s Mary
181 Marsh and Rebecca Mogg I give to my said Daughter
182 Mary Marsh my Portrait Drawn by Mr Whitby I give the
183 Household Goods and Implements of household and
184 other things appertaining thereto in my house at
185 Sidmouth in the County of Devon to my Son William
186 Blake I give the household Goods and Implements
187 of household and other things appertaining thereto
188 and my Books in my house at Egypt near Sidmouth
189 to my Son Richard Blake I give to my Nephews
190 Charles Blake Forty pounds I give to my now Servant
191 Maids three Guineas each and to my Servant Boy two
192 Guineas I give to the said Richard Blake and John
193 Marsh Fifty pounds to be applied for the benefit of
194 _______ Crattle by annual payments of ten pounds
195 I give and devise to the said Richard Blake and John
196 Marsh one fourth part of the Sugar house and
197 Dwelling house in Redcliff Street in the City of Bristol
198 part hold or Lease under the Chamber of the said
199 City as Feoffees of Forsters Alms houses and other
200 part under the Feoffees of Saint Thomas parish
201 Lands lately occupied by Mrs Dean and Blake as
202 Sugar house And now by Joseph Dyer Distiller together
203 with a Moiety of all the utensils Materials and
204 appurtenances used in carrying on the Sugar Refining
205 Business and one half of the Erections that now remain
206 there and also all my household Goods (except what
207 is herein otherwise disposed of in my house in Dove
208 Street aforesaid Also my three Shares in the Bristol
209 Fire office also my Bank Stock of two thousand three
210 hundred and sixty five pounds in the Four per cents also
211 my two hundred pounds Short Annuities and all and
211 singular other my Estate and Effects Real and personal
213 whatsoever and wheresoever after payment of my just
214 Debts Funeral Expences and discharges incident to whit trust
215 To hold to them the said Richard Blake and John Marsh
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216 their heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns
217 Upon Trust to sell transfer dispose of and receive
218 the same and every part thereof and the Moneys
219 arising by such Sale transfer disposition and Receipt
220 to pay and divide as hereinafter mentioned (that is to
221 say) One sixth part to my Son William one sixth part
222 to my Daughter Mary Marsh One sixth part to
223 my Daughter Rebecca Mogg one sixth part to my
224 Son Richard Blake one sixth part to be divided equally
225 between my Son James and Daughter Clementia
226 Blake and the remaining sixth part to be divided
227 equally between my Grand Children Son or Sons and
228 Daughters of my Son William Blake And I hereby
229 nominate and appoint the said Richard Blake and
230 John Marsh Executors in Trust of this my Will and
231 revoking all other Wills by me made do declare this
232 to be my last In Witness whereof I have to this my
233 last Will and Testament contained in Five Sheets of
234 paper to the first four Sheets thereof set my hand
235 and to this fifth and last Sheet my hand and
236 Seal the Day and year above written Willm
237 Blake Signed Sealed Published and Declared
238 by the above named William Blake the Testator
239 as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence
240 of us who in his presence at his request and in the
241 presence of each other have hereunto subscribed
242 our Names as Witnesses The word “three” being interlined
243 instead of five in the fourth line from the Bottom of
244 the first Sheet hereof Richard Milles Susan Milles
245 Fenwick Bird
246 This Will was proved at London the
247 fourteenth day of January in the year of our Lord
248 one thousand seven hundred and ninety two before the
249 Right honorable Sir William Wynne Knight Doctor
250 of Laws Master Keeper or Commissary of the
251 Prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted
252 by the Oaths of Richard Blake the Son of the deceased
253 and John Marsh the Executors named in the said
254 Will to whom Administration was granted of all and
255 singular the Goods Chattels and Credits of the said
256 deceased having been first sworn (by Commission) duly
257 to administer.
Sunday, December 22, 2013
Will of Nicholas Blake, Yeoman, Wootton Rivers, Wiltshire - The National Archives PROB 11/265/708, probated 21 Jul 1657
Nicholas Blake is the testator and he is known to me because he was mentioned in his kinsman’s will which was blogged earlier also of Wotton Rivers:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2012/10/will-of-nicholas-blake-yeoman-of.html
this was a will which was collected at Kew in 2012 because it was one of the oldest wills in Wiltshire having been probated in 1641.
Sixteen years later and the first will identifies this Nicholas Blake and his son Nicholas Blake so Nicholas Blake junior in the will is at least seventeen years of age since the will was written 31 Oct 1640.
The Nicholas Blake whose will was probated in 1641 is the Uncle of the present testator. So it is also known that the present testator has an Uncle Stephen as identified in the earlier will.
The present testator identifies his wife as Mary and his children as Nicholas, Mary, Elizabeth, Edward, Gertrude, Jane, and Thomas. The Stagg family is mentioned in both wills although not related to the testators.
Wootton Rivers is 4 miles south of Marlborough. In the area is Hungerford, Pewsey, Urchfont and the Collingborne villages. Interesting as it is not that far from Andover.
The Nicholas whose will was probated in 1641 is older as he mentions the son of his brother Stephen Edmond and that Edmond has sons Edmond and Stephen. Noting that the first testator asked to be buried at Milton Lilbourne which is seven miles south of Marlborough or nearly 2 miles from Wotton Rivers and 3 miles from Burbage. Definitely this family grouping needs to be examined with respect to the Blake family at Burbage.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 21 Dec 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/265/708
Testator: Nicholas Blake, Yeoman
Place: Wootton Rivers, Wiltshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 2 Mar 1656/57, probated 21 Jul 1657
Condition: 17th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Nicholas Blake
1 In the name of God Amen
2 I Nicholas Blake the Elder of Wotton Rivers in the County of
3 Wilts yeoman sicke of body but of a good sound p[er]fect and disposing
4 memory (Thankes be to God) doe make and ordeyne this my last
5 will and Testament in writeing The second day of March in the yeare
6 of our Lord God One Thousand six hundred fifty and Six in manner
7 and forme following first I bequeath my soule into the hands of my
8 most gracious and mercifull God who created it hopeing that by and
9 through the merits of his Sonne my blissed Saviour and Redeemer to
10 inharite eternall life and for my Worldly Goods and Estate which
11 my gracious God out of his great mercy towards mee hath beene pleased
12 to bestowe upon mee I give and devise of the same in manner and forme
13 following first I give and bequeath unto my six younger Children
14 namely Mary Blake, Elizabeth Blake, Edward Blake, Gertrude Blake,
15 Jane Blake, and Thomas Blake, The somme of Threescore, and Ten pounds
16 apiece to be paid unto them according to their Seniority beginning with the
17 eldest first as soon as the same can be raised in such manner as by this
18 my Will as appointed directed and declared and for the better and more
19 sure raising of the portions for the provision and future lyvelyhood of
20 my said younger Children and in consederation thereof I give and devise
21 unto my beloved brother in Lawes and friends George Stagg of
22 Hiushe in the said County of Wilts yeoman John Chandler of
23 Collingborne Brunton in the said County yeoman and John
24 Barthelmew of the same yeoman theire Executors, Administrators, and
25 Assignes and to the Survivor and Survivors of them All my Lands
26 Tenements with the appurtenances situate lyeing and beinge in
27 Collingborne Brunton aforesaid now in the possession of the said John
28 Bartholmew, Jeffery Pike, Elizabeth Arnold widow, and Joane
29 Mundy widow, and alsoe acquit rent of Twenty shillings from Francis
30 Andrewes for his farme in Collingborne Brunton aforesaid, for
31 the Terme of one and fourty yeares to recommence ymidiatily from
32 and after my decease, to the intent and purpose and upon special
33 trust and confidence, that they the said George Slagg, John Chandler,
34 and John Bartholmew, and the Survivors, and Survivor of them
35 and theire Executors and Assignes shall out of the rents and profits
36 of the said Lands both in possession, and reversion, or by sale thereof
37 or any part thereof as to my said friends and Trustees shall seeme
38 most fit, and convenient satisfy, and pay the said Legacies hereby
39 given unto my said younger children in manner aforesaid But
40 my will, and meaning is, That if eldest sonne, and heire
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41 Nicholas Blake shall within two yeares next after my decease
42 eyther satisfy and pay unto my said younger Children his brothers and sisters
43 theire said severall Legacies hereby given or shall otherwise give sure good and
44 sufficient Security unto my said Trustees, and Overseers for payment thereof
45 within two yeares after my decease yf they shall lyve and approve of
46 That then, and from thenceforth the said Terme and bequest of my said
47 Lands of one and fourty years to cease determine and be void but yf default
48 thereof to remayne and continue in force And whereas Nicholas Blake
49 my Uncle, theretofore of Wootton Rivers aforesaid yeoman did by Will
50 give unto my said sonne Nicholas Blake the summe of fourty pounds which
51 I have since satisfied by purchasing and putting in of his life unto a
52 copyhold Tenement in the possession of my Aunt Elizabeth Blake
53 in the Parish of Wootton Rivers aforesaid My will, and meaneinge
54 is that if my said sonne Nicholas Blake when he shall attaine ys
55 age of one and Twenty yeares shall refuse to give a sufficient release
56 of the said Legacy, and of the interest due for the same unto my Exec[utri]x
57 hereinnamed That then my said Overseers shall hold and convey my
58 said Lands hereby to them devised until they can or shall raise the
59 same out of the rents and profits of the said Lands after the said Legacies
60 raised and payed as aforesaid, and my will and meaning is that if any
61 or eyther of my said younger child or children shall happen to dye
62 before the payment of share or eyther of theire s[ai]d Legacy or Legacies
63 that then the Legacy or Legacies of such Child or Children soe dyeing
64 shall come remain and be paid unto the Survivors of them equally to
65 be devided betweene them And my will, and meanenge alsoe is that if my
66 said sonne Nicholas Blake shall happen to dye without issue before
67 the payment of the said Legacy unto my said sonne Edward or securing
68 of the said Legacies as aforesaid that then this Legacy given unto
69 my said sonne Edward Blake shall come remayne and be paide unto
70 all or each of my said younger Children as shall be then living
71 equally to be devided betweene them And if both my said sonnes Nicholas
72 and Edward Blake shall dye without issue before the payment of the
73 s[ai]d Legacy hereby geven to my sonne Thomas Blake that then ye said
74 Legacy soe given unto him shall bee in lyke manner equally devided
75 by and between such of my said younger children as shall be then living
76 And whereas I have by deed stated ye sixteenth day of October In
77 the yeare of our Lord One thousand Six hundred fifty and five granted part of my
78 said Lands to my beloved Aunt Elizabeth Blake for foure yeares with intent
79 onely to secure her quiet incognisent of her Coppyhold Lands in Wotton afores[ai]d
80 dureing her life which she lately surrendrerd I doe hereby humbly pray and
81 intreate my said Aunt that as she renders the need of my said poor younger
82 Children that she will not by means thereof without just cause given her
83 impede or hinder or permit or suffer eyther of my said sonnes who shall
84 be my heire by rotor thereof to impede or hinder my said Trustees in
85 raising of the said portions or provisions of my younger Children And
86 lastly I make conjecture and ordayne Mary Blake my beloved wife sole
87 Executrix of this my last will and Testament and the said George Stagg
88 John Chandler and John Bartholmew Overseers desiring they took
89 aydinge and assisting unto my said Executrix in the execution, and
90 p[er]formance of this my will and for their care and paines to be taken there
91 in I geve and bequeath unto them five shillings a piece In Witness
92 whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seale The day and yeare
93 before mentioned Nicholas Blake Sealed Signed, and published
94 in the p[re[sence of Char: Kenway, the marke of Elizabeth Blake,
95 the marke of William Motterynae
96 This will was proved at London The Twenty first day of July, one
97 Thousand six hundred fifty seaven before the Judges for probate of
98 Wills and writings Administrations lawfully authorized by the oath of
99 Mary Blake the relict and sole Executrix named in the said will To
100 whom administration of all and Singular the goods, Chattells and
101 credits of the deceased was grantted she being first by Commission
102 sworn truly to Administer the same
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2012/10/will-of-nicholas-blake-yeoman-of.html
this was a will which was collected at Kew in 2012 because it was one of the oldest wills in Wiltshire having been probated in 1641.
Sixteen years later and the first will identifies this Nicholas Blake and his son Nicholas Blake so Nicholas Blake junior in the will is at least seventeen years of age since the will was written 31 Oct 1640.
The Nicholas Blake whose will was probated in 1641 is the Uncle of the present testator. So it is also known that the present testator has an Uncle Stephen as identified in the earlier will.
The present testator identifies his wife as Mary and his children as Nicholas, Mary, Elizabeth, Edward, Gertrude, Jane, and Thomas. The Stagg family is mentioned in both wills although not related to the testators.
Wootton Rivers is 4 miles south of Marlborough. In the area is Hungerford, Pewsey, Urchfont and the Collingborne villages. Interesting as it is not that far from Andover.
The Nicholas whose will was probated in 1641 is older as he mentions the son of his brother Stephen Edmond and that Edmond has sons Edmond and Stephen. Noting that the first testator asked to be buried at Milton Lilbourne which is seven miles south of Marlborough or nearly 2 miles from Wotton Rivers and 3 miles from Burbage. Definitely this family grouping needs to be examined with respect to the Blake family at Burbage.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 21 Dec 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/265/708
Testator: Nicholas Blake, Yeoman
Place: Wootton Rivers, Wiltshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 2 Mar 1656/57, probated 21 Jul 1657
Condition: 17th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Nicholas Blake
1 In the name of God Amen
2 I Nicholas Blake the Elder of Wotton Rivers in the County of
3 Wilts yeoman sicke of body but of a good sound p[er]fect and disposing
4 memory (Thankes be to God) doe make and ordeyne this my last
5 will and Testament in writeing The second day of March in the yeare
6 of our Lord God One Thousand six hundred fifty and Six in manner
7 and forme following first I bequeath my soule into the hands of my
8 most gracious and mercifull God who created it hopeing that by and
9 through the merits of his Sonne my blissed Saviour and Redeemer to
10 inharite eternall life and for my Worldly Goods and Estate which
11 my gracious God out of his great mercy towards mee hath beene pleased
12 to bestowe upon mee I give and devise of the same in manner and forme
13 following first I give and bequeath unto my six younger Children
14 namely Mary Blake, Elizabeth Blake, Edward Blake, Gertrude Blake,
15 Jane Blake, and Thomas Blake, The somme of Threescore, and Ten pounds
16 apiece to be paid unto them according to their Seniority beginning with the
17 eldest first as soon as the same can be raised in such manner as by this
18 my Will as appointed directed and declared and for the better and more
19 sure raising of the portions for the provision and future lyvelyhood of
20 my said younger Children and in consederation thereof I give and devise
21 unto my beloved brother in Lawes and friends George Stagg of
22 Hiushe in the said County of Wilts yeoman John Chandler of
23 Collingborne Brunton in the said County yeoman and John
24 Barthelmew of the same yeoman theire Executors, Administrators, and
25 Assignes and to the Survivor and Survivors of them All my Lands
26 Tenements with the appurtenances situate lyeing and beinge in
27 Collingborne Brunton aforesaid now in the possession of the said John
28 Bartholmew, Jeffery Pike, Elizabeth Arnold widow, and Joane
29 Mundy widow, and alsoe acquit rent of Twenty shillings from Francis
30 Andrewes for his farme in Collingborne Brunton aforesaid, for
31 the Terme of one and fourty yeares to recommence ymidiatily from
32 and after my decease, to the intent and purpose and upon special
33 trust and confidence, that they the said George Slagg, John Chandler,
34 and John Bartholmew, and the Survivors, and Survivor of them
35 and theire Executors and Assignes shall out of the rents and profits
36 of the said Lands both in possession, and reversion, or by sale thereof
37 or any part thereof as to my said friends and Trustees shall seeme
38 most fit, and convenient satisfy, and pay the said Legacies hereby
39 given unto my said younger children in manner aforesaid But
40 my will, and meaning is, That if eldest sonne, and heire
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41 Nicholas Blake shall within two yeares next after my decease
42 eyther satisfy and pay unto my said younger Children his brothers and sisters
43 theire said severall Legacies hereby given or shall otherwise give sure good and
44 sufficient Security unto my said Trustees, and Overseers for payment thereof
45 within two yeares after my decease yf they shall lyve and approve of
46 That then, and from thenceforth the said Terme and bequest of my said
47 Lands of one and fourty years to cease determine and be void but yf default
48 thereof to remayne and continue in force And whereas Nicholas Blake
49 my Uncle, theretofore of Wootton Rivers aforesaid yeoman did by Will
50 give unto my said sonne Nicholas Blake the summe of fourty pounds which
51 I have since satisfied by purchasing and putting in of his life unto a
52 copyhold Tenement in the possession of my Aunt Elizabeth Blake
53 in the Parish of Wootton Rivers aforesaid My will, and meaneinge
54 is that if my said sonne Nicholas Blake when he shall attaine ys
55 age of one and Twenty yeares shall refuse to give a sufficient release
56 of the said Legacy, and of the interest due for the same unto my Exec[utri]x
57 hereinnamed That then my said Overseers shall hold and convey my
58 said Lands hereby to them devised until they can or shall raise the
59 same out of the rents and profits of the said Lands after the said Legacies
60 raised and payed as aforesaid, and my will and meaning is that if any
61 or eyther of my said younger child or children shall happen to dye
62 before the payment of share or eyther of theire s[ai]d Legacy or Legacies
63 that then the Legacy or Legacies of such Child or Children soe dyeing
64 shall come remain and be paid unto the Survivors of them equally to
65 be devided betweene them And my will, and meanenge alsoe is that if my
66 said sonne Nicholas Blake shall happen to dye without issue before
67 the payment of the said Legacy unto my said sonne Edward or securing
68 of the said Legacies as aforesaid that then this Legacy given unto
69 my said sonne Edward Blake shall come remayne and be paide unto
70 all or each of my said younger Children as shall be then living
71 equally to be devided betweene them And if both my said sonnes Nicholas
72 and Edward Blake shall dye without issue before the payment of the
73 s[ai]d Legacy hereby geven to my sonne Thomas Blake that then ye said
74 Legacy soe given unto him shall bee in lyke manner equally devided
75 by and between such of my said younger children as shall be then living
76 And whereas I have by deed stated ye sixteenth day of October In
77 the yeare of our Lord One thousand Six hundred fifty and five granted part of my
78 said Lands to my beloved Aunt Elizabeth Blake for foure yeares with intent
79 onely to secure her quiet incognisent of her Coppyhold Lands in Wotton afores[ai]d
80 dureing her life which she lately surrendrerd I doe hereby humbly pray and
81 intreate my said Aunt that as she renders the need of my said poor younger
82 Children that she will not by means thereof without just cause given her
83 impede or hinder or permit or suffer eyther of my said sonnes who shall
84 be my heire by rotor thereof to impede or hinder my said Trustees in
85 raising of the said portions or provisions of my younger Children And
86 lastly I make conjecture and ordayne Mary Blake my beloved wife sole
87 Executrix of this my last will and Testament and the said George Stagg
88 John Chandler and John Bartholmew Overseers desiring they took
89 aydinge and assisting unto my said Executrix in the execution, and
90 p[er]formance of this my will and for their care and paines to be taken there
91 in I geve and bequeath unto them five shillings a piece In Witness
92 whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seale The day and yeare
93 before mentioned Nicholas Blake Sealed Signed, and published
94 in the p[re[sence of Char: Kenway, the marke of Elizabeth Blake,
95 the marke of William Motterynae
96 This will was proved at London The Twenty first day of July, one
97 Thousand six hundred fifty seaven before the Judges for probate of
98 Wills and writings Administrations lawfully authorized by the oath of
99 Mary Blake the relict and sole Executrix named in the said will To
100 whom administration of all and Singular the goods, Chattells and
101 credits of the deceased was grantted she being first by Commission
102 sworn truly to Administer the same
Saturday, December 21, 2013
Will of Henry Blake of Hungerford, Wiltshire - Swindon and Wiltshire Record Office P23-809, probated 4 Aug 1798
The testator is Henry Blake, husband of Mary Blake, whose will is also blogged today. I decided to do them together. The one having been probated at PCC and the other at Windsor. The will of Mary Blake is probated at PCC because it discusses people in more than one diocese and hence has to move to a higher court for probate.
Henry has asked to be buried in Ramsbury Church yard and a review of British History online found the following at Ramsbury:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66514
BLAKE'S farm in Park Town tithing was in 1328 settled by Walter Blake on the marriage of his son Ralph (fl. 1341). (fn. 242) The farm descended in the Blake family, possibly with East Hayes manor in Ogbourne St. Andrew. (fn. 243) Thomas Blake held it in 1462 (fn. 244) and it descended to William Blake (d. c. 1550). (fn. 245) It belonged to the owners of East Hayes until, in the 18th century, it was acquired by one of the Pophams of Littlecote. Dorothy Popham, relict of Francis Popham (d. 1780), held it in 1780 when, as Ambrose farm, it was said to be in Ramsbury Town tithing. (fn. 246) The land has since remained part of the Littlecote estate. (fn. 247)
And a second reference:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=115441
The second freehold in Stoford, 1¼ yardland, which was held with 1 yardland in South Newton, belonged in 1462 to William Stourton, Lord Stourton (d. 1478). (fn. 136) In 1468 William gave it to his son John (Lord Stourton from 1478, d. 1485) and John's wife Catherine (d. 1494), later wife of Sir John Brereton. (fn. 137) It passed in turn to John Stourton's brothers William, Lord Stourton (d. 1524), and Edward, Lord Stourton (d. 1535), and with the Stourton title to Edward's son William (d. 1548), that William's son Charles (d. 1557), Charles's sons John (d. 1588) and Edward (d. 1633), Edward's son William (d. 1672), William's grandson William Stourton (d. 1685), and that William's son Edward, (fn. 138) who sold it to Henry Blake between 1693 and 1704. In 1704 Henry conveyed it to John Blake, who sold it in 1720 to John Powell (fn. 139) (d. 1737). It passed in turn to Powell's son (Sir) Alexander (d. 1784), Alexander's son Francis (d. 1786), and Francis's son Alexander. (fn. 140) Between 1815 and 1820 Alexander sold the estate, 112 a., to George, earl of Pembroke and of Montgomery, who added it to South Newton manor. (fn. 141)
The Wiltshire Poll Book of 1772 has been put on line:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pobjoyoneill/ENGPOLLS/wil1772.html
Blake Edward Woottton Bassett Uphaven
Blake John Burbage Burbage
Blake John Millford Ford
Blake John Purton Rodborne Cheyney
Blake John Stratford Stratford
Blake Joseph Sarum Sarum
Blake Richard Woottton Bassett Wootton Bassett
Blake Robert Woottton Bassett Wootton Bassett
Blake Thomas Langford Steeple Wishford
Blake William Bishopston Bishopston
Blake William Woottton Bassett Wootton Basset
I did check the Calendar of Patent Rolls to see if I could find Walter Blake at Ramsbury but need to have a little more time (scarce at the moment!) to really think about this Blake family. It is quite exciting finding them as they are living in the border areas of Wiltshire and Berkshire and not that far from where I found Blake in Berkshire in the 1500s on and this group were known to the Andover, Hampshire Blake family. The Berkshire Blake family rented land from the Andover, Hampshire Blake family. The 1328 period is coincidental with the time that the Blake family is first noted at Calne (1286 although I have not yet personally found this published reference to the Blake family there) by other authors.
This Blake line daughters out and Henry does not indicate that he has any brothers. If the James Blake he mentions at Overton is also the James Blake at Preshute he would be more of the age of Uncle to Henry and the rather interesting marriage of Henry Blake and Ann Dismore mentioned in the will of Mary Blake, wife of the present testator, does make one wonder if he is related to this family – perhaps cousin. More research, as always, is needed. The records are there. It is finding the time to pursue them that is lacking.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 20 Dec 2013
Source: Swindon and Wiltshire Record Office P23-809
Name of testator: Henry Blake
Place: Hungerford, Wiltshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 6 Apr 1797, probated 4 Aug 1798
Read: Electronic file images
1 This is the last Will and Testament of me Henry Blake of
2 Charnham Street in the parish of Hungerford in the County of Wilts Victualler First
3 I desire that all my Just Debts and General Expences may be fully paid and ie
4 discharged by my Executors hereinafter Named And I desire that my Body may be buried
5 in Ramsbury Church yard near the Spot where my Father and Mother were laid I Give and
6 Bequeath unto my Friends James Blake of Overton in the County of Wilts Gentleman
7 and Francis Williams of Baydon in the same County Gentleman All that my personal
8 Estate Goods Chattels and Effects of what Nature or kind soever To hold to them
9 the said James Blake and Francis Williams and the Survivor of them his
10 Executors and Administrators Upon Trust that they my said Trustees and the Survivor
11 of them his executors and Administrators shall and will as soon as Convenient
12 next after my Decease Sell and Dispose of my Stock and Effects and call in and
13 Receive all Sum and Sums of Money that shall be then due and owing to me
14 and the Money arising thereby to place and lay out the same upon
15 Government or other good Securities and pay and Apply the Interest Dividends
16 and Annual produce thereof to my Dear and Loving Wife Mary Blake during
17 her live to and for her Sole use and Benefit but in case my said Trustees
18 and the Survivor of them his Executors and Administrators shall think it more
19 for the benefit and Advantage of my said Wife to continue in the Business at
20 the Red Lion Inn or any other that shall be for her Advancement in Life
21 Then I do hereby Authorize and Impower my said Trustees and the Survivor
22 of them his Executors and Administrators to act in such way and manner
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23 As they in their Judgment shall think most expedient And from and
24 immediately after the Decease of my said Wife I direct my said Trustees and
25 the Survivor of them his executors and Administrators to pay unto my Daughters
26 Martha Ann and Hannah the Sum of Forty Pounds apiece out of my principal
27 Stock or Land and as to the Rest Residue and Remainder of my said personal Estate
28 and Effects I Give the same unto all and every my Daughter Namely Elizabeth Gould
29 Mary Pike and my said Daughters Martha Ann and Hannah to be Equally
30 divided between them Share and Share alike but as to the Share of my said
31 Daughter Mary Pike I desire my said Trustees and the Survivor of them
32 his Executors and Administrators to place out upon Government or other good
33 Security as aforesaid and permit and suffer my said daughter Mary Pike
34 to Receive only the Interest dividends and Annual Produce thereof for and
35 During her Natural Life and from and immediately after her decease I Give
36 and bequeath the part or Share of her my said Daughter Mary Pike unto
37 her Children Mary Ann and Elizabeth to be Equally Divided between them
38 Share and Share alike But in case it shall happen that any or
39 other of my said Daughters shall Depart this Life before she or they shall
40 become Intitled to her or their Share or Shares of my Personal Estate and
41 Effects as aforesaid leaving Issue of her or their Body or Bodies Lawfully
42 begotten Then it is my Will and Mind and I hereby Direct that the Child
43 or Children of her or them so dying as aforesaid shall have Receive and take
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44 The like Share and proportion of my said Personal Estate and Effects as his her or
45 their Mothers would be intitled to if living under law by virtue of this my Will And
46 Further I hereby declare it shall be lawful for my said Trustees to deduct and
47 reimburse himself and themselves All Costs Charges and Expences incurred in the execution of the Trusts
48 hereby in them reposed And that they shall be Answerable Respectively only for such
49 Monies as shall come to their Respective Hands and not for the Receipts or acts of Each other
50 And lastly I hereby make Constitute and Appoint the said James Blake and Francis Williams
51 Sole Executors of this my Will hereby Revoking and making void all former and other Wills by
52 me at any Time heretofore made and Do declare this present Writing Contained in three
53 Sheets of Paper to be my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I have to the first and
54 Second Sheet Set my Hand and to this last Sheet my Hand and Seal this Sixth day of April
55 in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Seven
56 Signed Sealed Published and Declared by the Testator
57 as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us
58 who at his Request in his Presence and in the Presence of each
59 other have Subscribed our Names as Witnesses hereto
60 James Hall
61 Jos. Cundell
62 Henry Blake
63 At Ramsbury on the 4th day of August 1798
64 Francis Williams one of the joint Exors above named
65 (the like power being reserved to James Blake the other
66 joint Exor) was duly sworn before me
67 Henry Hesly Official dio:
68 Effects under 300£
Henry has asked to be buried in Ramsbury Church yard and a review of British History online found the following at Ramsbury:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66514
BLAKE'S farm in Park Town tithing was in 1328 settled by Walter Blake on the marriage of his son Ralph (fl. 1341). (fn. 242) The farm descended in the Blake family, possibly with East Hayes manor in Ogbourne St. Andrew. (fn. 243) Thomas Blake held it in 1462 (fn. 244) and it descended to William Blake (d. c. 1550). (fn. 245) It belonged to the owners of East Hayes until, in the 18th century, it was acquired by one of the Pophams of Littlecote. Dorothy Popham, relict of Francis Popham (d. 1780), held it in 1780 when, as Ambrose farm, it was said to be in Ramsbury Town tithing. (fn. 246) The land has since remained part of the Littlecote estate. (fn. 247)
And a second reference:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=115441
The second freehold in Stoford, 1¼ yardland, which was held with 1 yardland in South Newton, belonged in 1462 to William Stourton, Lord Stourton (d. 1478). (fn. 136) In 1468 William gave it to his son John (Lord Stourton from 1478, d. 1485) and John's wife Catherine (d. 1494), later wife of Sir John Brereton. (fn. 137) It passed in turn to John Stourton's brothers William, Lord Stourton (d. 1524), and Edward, Lord Stourton (d. 1535), and with the Stourton title to Edward's son William (d. 1548), that William's son Charles (d. 1557), Charles's sons John (d. 1588) and Edward (d. 1633), Edward's son William (d. 1672), William's grandson William Stourton (d. 1685), and that William's son Edward, (fn. 138) who sold it to Henry Blake between 1693 and 1704. In 1704 Henry conveyed it to John Blake, who sold it in 1720 to John Powell (fn. 139) (d. 1737). It passed in turn to Powell's son (Sir) Alexander (d. 1784), Alexander's son Francis (d. 1786), and Francis's son Alexander. (fn. 140) Between 1815 and 1820 Alexander sold the estate, 112 a., to George, earl of Pembroke and of Montgomery, who added it to South Newton manor. (fn. 141)
The Wiltshire Poll Book of 1772 has been put on line:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pobjoyoneill/ENGPOLLS/wil1772.html
Blake Edward Woottton Bassett Uphaven
Blake John Burbage Burbage
Blake John Millford Ford
Blake John Purton Rodborne Cheyney
Blake John Stratford Stratford
Blake Joseph Sarum Sarum
Blake Richard Woottton Bassett Wootton Bassett
Blake Robert Woottton Bassett Wootton Bassett
Blake Thomas Langford Steeple Wishford
Blake William Bishopston Bishopston
Blake William Woottton Bassett Wootton Basset
I did check the Calendar of Patent Rolls to see if I could find Walter Blake at Ramsbury but need to have a little more time (scarce at the moment!) to really think about this Blake family. It is quite exciting finding them as they are living in the border areas of Wiltshire and Berkshire and not that far from where I found Blake in Berkshire in the 1500s on and this group were known to the Andover, Hampshire Blake family. The Berkshire Blake family rented land from the Andover, Hampshire Blake family. The 1328 period is coincidental with the time that the Blake family is first noted at Calne (1286 although I have not yet personally found this published reference to the Blake family there) by other authors.
This Blake line daughters out and Henry does not indicate that he has any brothers. If the James Blake he mentions at Overton is also the James Blake at Preshute he would be more of the age of Uncle to Henry and the rather interesting marriage of Henry Blake and Ann Dismore mentioned in the will of Mary Blake, wife of the present testator, does make one wonder if he is related to this family – perhaps cousin. More research, as always, is needed. The records are there. It is finding the time to pursue them that is lacking.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 20 Dec 2013
Source: Swindon and Wiltshire Record Office P23-809
Name of testator: Henry Blake
Place: Hungerford, Wiltshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 6 Apr 1797, probated 4 Aug 1798
Read: Electronic file images
1 This is the last Will and Testament of me Henry Blake of
2 Charnham Street in the parish of Hungerford in the County of Wilts Victualler First
3 I desire that all my Just Debts and General Expences may be fully paid and ie
4 discharged by my Executors hereinafter Named And I desire that my Body may be buried
5 in Ramsbury Church yard near the Spot where my Father and Mother were laid I Give and
6 Bequeath unto my Friends James Blake of Overton in the County of Wilts Gentleman
7 and Francis Williams of Baydon in the same County Gentleman All that my personal
8 Estate Goods Chattels and Effects of what Nature or kind soever To hold to them
9 the said James Blake and Francis Williams and the Survivor of them his
10 Executors and Administrators Upon Trust that they my said Trustees and the Survivor
11 of them his executors and Administrators shall and will as soon as Convenient
12 next after my Decease Sell and Dispose of my Stock and Effects and call in and
13 Receive all Sum and Sums of Money that shall be then due and owing to me
14 and the Money arising thereby to place and lay out the same upon
15 Government or other good Securities and pay and Apply the Interest Dividends
16 and Annual produce thereof to my Dear and Loving Wife Mary Blake during
17 her live to and for her Sole use and Benefit but in case my said Trustees
18 and the Survivor of them his Executors and Administrators shall think it more
19 for the benefit and Advantage of my said Wife to continue in the Business at
20 the Red Lion Inn or any other that shall be for her Advancement in Life
21 Then I do hereby Authorize and Impower my said Trustees and the Survivor
22 of them his Executors and Administrators to act in such way and manner
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23 As they in their Judgment shall think most expedient And from and
24 immediately after the Decease of my said Wife I direct my said Trustees and
25 the Survivor of them his executors and Administrators to pay unto my Daughters
26 Martha Ann and Hannah the Sum of Forty Pounds apiece out of my principal
27 Stock or Land and as to the Rest Residue and Remainder of my said personal Estate
28 and Effects I Give the same unto all and every my Daughter Namely Elizabeth Gould
29 Mary Pike and my said Daughters Martha Ann and Hannah to be Equally
30 divided between them Share and Share alike but as to the Share of my said
31 Daughter Mary Pike I desire my said Trustees and the Survivor of them
32 his Executors and Administrators to place out upon Government or other good
33 Security as aforesaid and permit and suffer my said daughter Mary Pike
34 to Receive only the Interest dividends and Annual Produce thereof for and
35 During her Natural Life and from and immediately after her decease I Give
36 and bequeath the part or Share of her my said Daughter Mary Pike unto
37 her Children Mary Ann and Elizabeth to be Equally Divided between them
38 Share and Share alike But in case it shall happen that any or
39 other of my said Daughters shall Depart this Life before she or they shall
40 become Intitled to her or their Share or Shares of my Personal Estate and
41 Effects as aforesaid leaving Issue of her or their Body or Bodies Lawfully
42 begotten Then it is my Will and Mind and I hereby Direct that the Child
43 or Children of her or them so dying as aforesaid shall have Receive and take
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44 The like Share and proportion of my said Personal Estate and Effects as his her or
45 their Mothers would be intitled to if living under law by virtue of this my Will And
46 Further I hereby declare it shall be lawful for my said Trustees to deduct and
47 reimburse himself and themselves All Costs Charges and Expences incurred in the execution of the Trusts
48 hereby in them reposed And that they shall be Answerable Respectively only for such
49 Monies as shall come to their Respective Hands and not for the Receipts or acts of Each other
50 And lastly I hereby make Constitute and Appoint the said James Blake and Francis Williams
51 Sole Executors of this my Will hereby Revoking and making void all former and other Wills by
52 me at any Time heretofore made and Do declare this present Writing Contained in three
53 Sheets of Paper to be my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I have to the first and
54 Second Sheet Set my Hand and to this last Sheet my Hand and Seal this Sixth day of April
55 in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Seven
56 Signed Sealed Published and Declared by the Testator
57 as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us
58 who at his Request in his Presence and in the Presence of each
59 other have Subscribed our Names as Witnesses hereto
60 James Hall
61 Jos. Cundell
62 Henry Blake
63 At Ramsbury on the 4th day of August 1798
64 Francis Williams one of the joint Exors above named
65 (the like power being reserved to James Blake the other
66 joint Exor) was duly sworn before me
67 Henry Hesly Official dio:
68 Effects under 300£
Will of Mary Blake, widow, Hungerford, Wiltshire - The National Archives PROB 11/1496/
Mary Blake is the testatrix and within her will below she mostly quotes from the will of her husband Henry Blake who was a victualler at Hungerford and his will was probated within the diocese of Windsor and not at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. It is available and I shall acquire it to go along with this will of Mary Blake his widow. P23/809 – it is a scanned will of six pages and he was located on Charnham Street in Hungerford. The Wiltshire record office has wills available for £5.00. Most of my comments are with this will since I transcribed it first but also some commenting on Henry’s will which will also be posted today.
I am becoming enthusiastic again that I will complete the Wiltshire Wills by the end of December and hence move on to Hampshire wills in January. I have quite a number for Hampshire since I will receive 14 of my most wanted oldest wills for Blake in Hampshire for a Christmas present, I already have ten from the PCC not yet done and another twenty one of the oldest wills from Hampshire Record office. One of my coveted 14 wills is for a William Blake at Andover in 1831 and he is possibly the brother of my Thomas Blake of Upper Clatford (and I will likely at least read that one first of all). That remains to be seen of course but it would be a nice fit and give me details I am currently missing perhaps. In total I appear to have 45 Hampshire wills at hand and another ten to 15 during the time period that it will take to transcribe them (60 wills in total). I always think in terms of one will per day but can sometimes do two so looking at two months work before moving on to Gloucestershire where there are about twenty wills. From there I move back to Durham and then Essex just to bring me back to my alphabetization system. I dither on my path actually and will let it flow as it seems best at the time.
A James Blake of Overton is mentioned in this will and will also be mentioned in Henry’s will which is now downloaded and ready to transcribe when this one is complete. This one is lengthy, eight pages in total.
The children of Henry Blake and Mary Williams all baptized at Baydon, Wiltshire (Mary’s brothers live at Baydon):
Mary baptized 28 Oct 1769
Martha baptized 17 Jul 1774
Mary baptized 7 Feb 1776
Ann baptized 5 Sep 1779
Hannah baptized 28 Nov 1782
One of these Mary baptisms is perhaps Elizabeth and an error in transcription since the daughters are Mary, Martha, Elizabeth, Ann and Hannah.
An interesting marriage shows up on Find My Past for Henry Blake and Ann Dismore at Ramsbury, Wiltshire 7 Aug 1749; Henry is a yeoman and Anne a widow. Bondsman was James Blake, yeoman of Ramsbury.
Is James the brother of Henry? Is this Henry the father of Henry who later marries Mary Williams? Then found the marriage of Henry Blake, gent of Froxfield, Wiltshire and Mary Williams of Lambourn, Berkshire 22 Apr 1765 and the bondsman William Williams, gent of Lambourn. So not the parents of Henry who married Mary Williams. Interesting to find Mary from Lambourn and I begin to wonder if the James Blake at Preshute who left his will is the same James as the executor of Henry’s will. Henry asks in his will to be buried near his parents in Ramsbury Churchyard.
Marriages for the daughters of Henry and Mary Blake:
Elizabeth Blake of Baydon spinster married Thomas Gould of Aldbourne 25 Apr 1796. Bondsman William Warman, Aldbourne.
Mary Blake of Hungerford, spinster, married William Pike, of Hungerford 27 Jun 1791 with bondsman Robert Holloway, Hungerford
Martha Blake of Hungerford, spinster, married William Lye of Hungerford 7 Oct 1797 with bondsman Robert Miller of Ramsbury, Wiltshire.
Ann Blake of Hungerford, spinster, married Stephen Pullen of Bray, labourer 26 Jul 1802 with bondsman Timothy Webb, gent, Taplow, Buckinghamshire.
Mary Pike of Wantage, widow, married Francis Bartholomew of Wantage bachelor 28 Apr 1800 with John Reynolds, baker, Wantage as bondsman.
Mary, the testator, also mentions two of her grand children Mary Ann Pike and Elizabeth Pike.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 20 Dec 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1496/284
Testator: Mary Blake, widow
Place: Hungerford, Wiltshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 4 Aug 1808, probated 15 May 1809
Condition: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Mary
[Margin]: Blake
1 This is the Last Will
2 and Testament of me Mary Blake of Charnham
3 Street in the parish of Hungerford but in the
4 County of Wilts widow First I desire that all
5 my just debts Funeral and Testamentary
6 Expences be paid by my Executors herein-
7 after named as soon as Conveniently may
8 be after my decease and Whereas my late
9 husband Henry Blake did in and by his
10 last Will and Testament in writing bearing
11 date the Sixth day of April one thousand
12 seven hundred and ninety seven in trust
13 give and bequeath unto his Friends James
14 Blake of Overton in the County of Wilts
15 Gentleman and Francis Williams of Baydon
16 in the same County Gentleman all that
17 his personal Estate Goods Chattels and
18 Effects of what Nature or kind soever to
19 hold to them the said James Blake and
20 Francis Williams and the Survivor of them
21 his Executors and Administrators upon
22 trust that they his said Trustees and the
23 Survivor of them his Executors and Admors
24 should and would as soon as Convenient
25 next after his decease sell and dispose of
26 his Stock and Effects and Call in and
27 receive all Sum and Sums of money that
28 shall be then due and owing to him and
29 new money arising thereby to place and
30 lay out the same upon Government or
31 other good Securities and pay and apply
32 the Interest dividends and annual
33 produce thereof to me during my Life to
34 and for my sole use and benefit but in
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35 Case his said trustees and the Survivor of them
36 his Executors and administrators should think
37 it more for the advantage of me to Continue
38 in the Business at the Red Lyon Inn or
39 any other that should be for my advancement
40 in Life then my said late husband
41 authorized and impowered his said trustees
42 and the Survivor of them his Executors and
43 administrators to act in such way and
44 manner as they in their Judgement should
45 think most expedient and from and
46 Immediately after my decease he directed
47 this said trustees and the Survivor of them
48 his Executors and administrators to pay
49 unto his daughters Martha Ann and
50 Hannah the Sum of Forty pounds apiece out
51 of his principal Stock or Funds and as to
52 the rest residue and Remainder of his said
53 personal Estate and Effects he gave the
54 same unto all and every his daughter
55 namely Elizabeth Gould Mary Pike and
56 his said daughters Martha, Ann and
57 Hannah to be equally divided between
58 them share and share alike but as to the
59 Share of his said Daughter Mary Pike
60 he desired his said trustees and the Survivor
61 of them his Executors and administrators
62 to place out upon Government or other
63 good Security as aforesaid and permit and
64 suffer his said daughter Mary Pike to
65 receive only the Interest dividends and
66 annual produce thereof for and during her
67 natural Life and from and immediately after
68 her decease he gave and bequeath the part
69 or share of his said daughter Mary Pike
70 unto her children Mary Ann and Elizabeth
71 to be equally divided between them share and
72 share alike but in Case it should happen
73 that any or either of his said daughters should
74 depart this Life before me or they should
75 become intitled to her or their share or
76 shares of his personal Estate and Effects as
77 aforesaid leaving Issue of her or their body
78 or Bodies lawfully begotten then it was his
79 Will and mind and he thereby directed that
80 the Child or Children of her or them so
81 dying as aforesaid should have receive and
82 take the Like share and proportion of
83 his said personal Estate and Effects as his
84 her or their Mothers would be intitled to
85 if living under and by virtue of his said
86 Will and whereas my said late husband
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87 Henry Blake departed this Life on or about the
88 thirty First day of January one thousand Seven
89 hundred and Ninety Eight and the Letters of
90 Administration of his personal Estate and
91 Effects with his Will annexed were afterwards
92 duly granted to the said Francis Williams one
93 of the Joint Executors thereof (reserving the
94 like power to James Blake the other
95 Executor also named in the said Will) who
96 afterwards Caused an account of the personal
97 Estate and Effects of the said Henry Blake
98 to be taken which amounted in this
99 whole to the Sum of Three hundred and
100 sixteen pounds Sixteen Shillings and
101 whereas the several Legacies of Forty
102 pounds each to Martha Ann and Hannah
103 Blake three of the said testators Henry
104 Blake’s daughters amount to the Sum
105 of one hundred and Sixty pounds and the
106 respective shares of the said Martha Ann
107 and Hannah Blake and of the said
108 Elizabeth Gould and Mary Pike (now
109 Mary Bartholomew) respectively of and in
110 the residue and remainder of the said Testator
111 Henry Blake’s personal Estate and Effects
112 amounts to the Sum of thirty one pounds
113 seven Shillings and two pence Farthing
114 making in the whole the Sum of Three
115 hundred and Sixteen pounds Fifteen Shillings
116 and Eleven pence Farthing and whereas my
117 said daughter Elizabeth Blake intermarried
118 with Thomas Gould of Aldbourne in the
119 said County of Wilts Farmer and my said
120 daughter Mary Blake hath also intermarried
121 with Francis Bartholomew of Wantage
122 in the County of Berks Victualler and my
123 said daughter Martha Blake hath
124 also intermarried with William Lye of
125 Hungerford in the said County of Berks late
126 Victualler and my said daughter Ann Blake
127 hath also intermarried with Stephen Pullen
128 of Colnbrook in the County of Bucks Victualler
129 and my said other daughter Hannah
130 Blake is now living with me at Hungerford
131 aforesaid and unmarried Now I do hereby give
132 and bequeath unto my two Brothers John
133 Williams of Baydon in the County of Wilts
134 Gentleman and Francis Williams of the same
135 place Gentleman all and Singular my
136 Estate and Effects whatsoever and wheresoever
137 of what Nature or kind soever To hold to
138 them the said John Williams and Francis
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139 Williams and the Survivor of them his Executors
140 and administrators upon trust that they my
141 said trustees or the Survivor of them his
142 Executors or Administrators shall and do as
143 soon as Conveniently may be after my
144 decease sell and dispose of my said Stock in
145 trade Estate and Effects whatsoever and
146 wheresoever (if necessary) and Call in and
147 receive all and every Sum and Sums of
148 money that shall be due and owing to me
149 at the time of my decease and out of the
150 money arising thereby to pay unto my said
151 daughter Martha Lye the Sum of Forty pounds
152 to my said daughter Ann Pullen the Sum of
153 Forty pounds and to my daughter Hannah
154 Blake the Sum of Forty pounds being the
155 Specific Legacys given and bequeathed to
156 them my said daughters in and by the
157 said Last Will and Testament of my said
158 late husband Henry Blake deceased and
159 also to pay unto my said daughters Martha
160 Lye Ann Pullen and Hannah Blake and
161 to the said Elizabeth Gould the Several and
162 respective Sums of thirty one pounds Seven
163 Shillings and two pence Farthing being
164 their Several and respective shares of and
165 in the residue and remainder of my said
166 late husbands personal Estate and Effects
167 so as aforesaid given and bequeath to
168 them in and by his said Last Will and
169 Testament to and for their several uses
170 and Benefit and as to the remaining Sum
171 of thirty one pounds Seven Shillings and
172 two pence Farthing so as aforesaid given
173 and bequeath by my said late husbands
174 Will In trust for my said daughter
175 Mary Pike (now Martha Bartholomew)
176 being her share of and in the residue of
177 my said late husbands Estate and Effects
178 as aforesaid I do hereby direct my said
179 trustees or the Survivor of them his Executors or
180 administrators as soon as Conveniently may be
181 after my decease by and out of the monies
182 arising from my said personal Estate
183 and Effects to lay out and invest the said
184 Sum of thirty one pounds Seven shillings and
185 two pence Farthing in the purchase of
186 Government or other good and Sufficient
187 Security in their Names or in the Names
188 of the Survivor of them his Executors or
189 administrators and to pay apply and dispose
190 of the Interest dividend and annual proceeds
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191 thereof from time to time when and as the same
192 shall become due and payable unto my said
193 daughter Mary Bartholomew or her assigns
194 for and during the term of her Natural Life
195 and from and immediately after her decease
196 upon trust to pay assign and transfer the
197 part of share of her my said daughter Mary
198 Bartholomew and the Interest dividends
199 and proceeds thereof unto her Children
200 Mary Ann and Elizabeth Pike in equal Shares
201 and proportions but in Case it shall happen
202 that any or either of my said Daughters shall
203 depart this Life before she or they shall have
204 received her or their Legacy or Legacies given
205 and bequeathed to her or them as aforesaid
206 in and by my said late husbands will or
207 her or their share or shares of and in the
208 residue of the personal Estate and Effects of
209 my said late husband leaving Issue of her
210 or their Body or Bodies lawfully begotten then
211 it is my Will and mind and I do hereby
212 direct that the Child or Children of her or
213 them so dying as aforesaid shall have and
214 receive the like share and proportion thereof
215 as his her or their Mother or Mothers would
216 be intitled to, if living under and by virtue
217 of the will of my said late husband
218 Henry Blake deceased or of this my Will and
219 I do hereby direct my said trustees to transfer
220 and pay the same to her or them accordingly
221 which said Sums of Forty pounds apiece to
222 my said three daughters Martha Lye, Ann
223 Pullen and Hannah Blake and the said
224 Five several Sums of thirty one pounds Seven
225 Shillings and two pence Farthing to my
226 said daughters respectively are to be received
227 and taken by them respectively as and in
228 Full for their several and respective Legacies
229 given and bequeathed to them in and by
230 my said late husbands Will and their
231 respective Shares of and in the residue of my
232 said late husband Henry Blakes personal
233 Estate and Effects and upon further Trust
234 that they my said Trustees or the Survivor
235 of them his Executors or Administrators do
236 and shall in the next place pay thereout
237 unto my said daughter Elizabeth Gould the
238 further Sum of one hundred and Sixty Eight
239 pounds twelve Shillings and Nine pence
240 three Farthings and for her own proper
241 use and Benefit and that the same shall
242 not be liable to the debts Controul Contracts
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243 or Engagements of her present or any other taken
244 husband she may intermarry with and
245 that her own receipt only shall be good and
246 sufficient discharge to my said trustees for the
247 said trustees for the same and upon further
248 trust to pay thereout unto my daughter
249 Mary Bartholomew the like Sum of One
250 hundred and Sixty Eight pounds twelve Shillings
251 and Nine pence three Farthings to and for her
252 own proper use and benefit and that the same
253 shall not be liable to the debts Controul
254 Contracts or Engagements of her present or any
255 after taken husband she may intermarry with
256 and that her own receipt only shall be good and
257 Sufficient discharge to my said trustees for the
258 same and upon further trust to pay unto
259 my said daughter Martha Lye the Sum of
260 one hundred and twenty Eight pounds twelve
261 Shillings and Nine Pence three farthings
262 to and for her own proper use and benefit and
263 that the same shall not be Subject or liable to
264 the debts Controul Contracts or Engagements of
265 her present or any after taken husband she
266 may intermarry with and that her own
267 receipt only shall be a good and sufficient
268 discharge to my said trustees for the same
269 and upon further trust to pay to my said
270 daughter Ann Pullen the like Sum of one
271 hundred and twenty Eight pounds twelve Shillings
272 and Nine pence three Farthings to and for
273 her own proper use and Benefit and that the
274 same shall not be Subject or liable to the
275 debts Control Contracts or Engagements of her
276 present or any after taken husband she may
277 intermarry with and that her receipt only
278 shall be a good and Sufficient discharge to
279 my said trustees for the same and upon
280 further trust to pay unto my said daughter
281 Hannah Blake the Sum of one hundred and
282 twenty Eight pounds twelve Shillings and Nine
283 pence three farthings to and for her own
284 proper use and Benefit and upon further
285 trust that they my said trustees or the
286 Survivors of them either Exors or Admors of such Survivor do and shall as soon as Conveniently
287 may be after my decease by and out of the
288 monies to arise from my said personal
289 Estate and Effects lay out and invest the
290 Sum of one hundred pounds in the purchase
291 of 3 p[er] Cent Consolidated securities of
292 the Bank of England or on other good Security
293 or Securities in their Names or in the Name
294 of the Survivor of them his Executors or
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295 administrators upon trust to pay assign
296 and transfer the said annuity or
297 Security so to be purchased unto my two
298 Grand daughters Mary Ann and Elizabeth Pike
299 to and for their own respective use and benefit
300 in equal Shares and proportions when and
301 as they shall respectively attain their age of
302 twenty one years and in the mean time to
303 pay apply and dispose of the Interest dividends
304 and annual produce thereof for and during
305 their Maintenance Education and Support and
306 in Case either of my said Grand Children shall
307 die before she attains the said age of twenty
308 one years then upon Trust to pay assign and
309 transfer the Share of her so dying to the
310 Survivor of my said Grand Children when
311 and as soon as she shall attain her Age
312 of twenty one years the dividends Interest
313 and annual profits thereof in the meantime
314 to be paid applied and disposed of by my said
315 Trustees or the Survivor of them his Executors
316 or administrators for and towards the
317 Maintenance Education and Support of the
318 Survivor of my said Grand Children all the
319 rest residue and remainder of my Estate and
320 Effects both real and personal whatsoever and
321 wheresoever I give devise and bequeath the
322 same to my said daughter Hannah Blake
323 her heirs Executors and administrators to
324 and for her and their own use and benefit and
325 I will that my said Trustees and Executors
326 shall not be answerable the one for
327 the other or for the acts deeds or defaults
328 of the other nor shall either of them be
329 answerable or accountable for any part of
330 my Estate and Effects but such as shall
331 Come to his or their respective hands and
332 I do hereby authorize and impower my said
333 Trustees to retain and Satisfy themselves
334 by and out of my said Trustees to retain and
335 satisfy themselves by and out of my said
336 Estate and Effects all such Costs Charges
337 damages and Expences as they or either of them
338 shall be put unto in or about the Execution
339 of the trust of this my Will and I do hereby
340 revoke all other Wills by me heretofore
341 made and declare this only to be and
342 taken as and for my last Will and
343 Testament and I do hereby appoint my said
344 Brother John Williams and Francis
345 Williams joint Executors of this my Will
346 In Witness whereof I the said Mary Blake
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347 have to the five first Sheets of this my Will contained
348 in Six Sheets of paper set my hand and to this
349 the Sixth and last Sheet thereof my hand
350 and Seal the Fourth day of August in the
351 year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred
352 and Eight Mary Blake Signed Sealed
353 published and declared by the said Testatrix
354 Mary Blake as and for her last Will and
355 Testament in the presence of us who in
356 her presence at her request and in the
357 presence of each other have subscribed
358 our Names as Witnesses thereto (the words
359 or in other good Security or Securities” being
360 first interlined between the twenty Fifth and
361 twenty Sixth Lines from the Top of the Fifth
362 Sheet hereof and the Words “or Securities”
363 written on an Erasure on the Twenty Eighth
364 Line from the Top of the said Fifth
365 Sheet James Hall Joseph Read
366 This Will was proved at London the fifteenth
367 day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand
368 Eight hundred and Nine before the Right honorable
369 Sir John Nicholl Knight doctor of Laws Master
370 Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative Court
371 of Canterbury lawfully Constituted by the Oaths
372 of John Williams and Francis Williams the
373 Brother and Executors named in the said
374 Will to whom administration was granted
375 of all and Singular the Goods Chattels and
376 Credits of the said deceased having been first
377 Sworn by Commission duly to administer
I am becoming enthusiastic again that I will complete the Wiltshire Wills by the end of December and hence move on to Hampshire wills in January. I have quite a number for Hampshire since I will receive 14 of my most wanted oldest wills for Blake in Hampshire for a Christmas present, I already have ten from the PCC not yet done and another twenty one of the oldest wills from Hampshire Record office. One of my coveted 14 wills is for a William Blake at Andover in 1831 and he is possibly the brother of my Thomas Blake of Upper Clatford (and I will likely at least read that one first of all). That remains to be seen of course but it would be a nice fit and give me details I am currently missing perhaps. In total I appear to have 45 Hampshire wills at hand and another ten to 15 during the time period that it will take to transcribe them (60 wills in total). I always think in terms of one will per day but can sometimes do two so looking at two months work before moving on to Gloucestershire where there are about twenty wills. From there I move back to Durham and then Essex just to bring me back to my alphabetization system. I dither on my path actually and will let it flow as it seems best at the time.
A James Blake of Overton is mentioned in this will and will also be mentioned in Henry’s will which is now downloaded and ready to transcribe when this one is complete. This one is lengthy, eight pages in total.
The children of Henry Blake and Mary Williams all baptized at Baydon, Wiltshire (Mary’s brothers live at Baydon):
Mary baptized 28 Oct 1769
Martha baptized 17 Jul 1774
Mary baptized 7 Feb 1776
Ann baptized 5 Sep 1779
Hannah baptized 28 Nov 1782
One of these Mary baptisms is perhaps Elizabeth and an error in transcription since the daughters are Mary, Martha, Elizabeth, Ann and Hannah.
An interesting marriage shows up on Find My Past for Henry Blake and Ann Dismore at Ramsbury, Wiltshire 7 Aug 1749; Henry is a yeoman and Anne a widow. Bondsman was James Blake, yeoman of Ramsbury.
Is James the brother of Henry? Is this Henry the father of Henry who later marries Mary Williams? Then found the marriage of Henry Blake, gent of Froxfield, Wiltshire and Mary Williams of Lambourn, Berkshire 22 Apr 1765 and the bondsman William Williams, gent of Lambourn. So not the parents of Henry who married Mary Williams. Interesting to find Mary from Lambourn and I begin to wonder if the James Blake at Preshute who left his will is the same James as the executor of Henry’s will. Henry asks in his will to be buried near his parents in Ramsbury Churchyard.
Marriages for the daughters of Henry and Mary Blake:
Elizabeth Blake of Baydon spinster married Thomas Gould of Aldbourne 25 Apr 1796. Bondsman William Warman, Aldbourne.
Mary Blake of Hungerford, spinster, married William Pike, of Hungerford 27 Jun 1791 with bondsman Robert Holloway, Hungerford
Martha Blake of Hungerford, spinster, married William Lye of Hungerford 7 Oct 1797 with bondsman Robert Miller of Ramsbury, Wiltshire.
Ann Blake of Hungerford, spinster, married Stephen Pullen of Bray, labourer 26 Jul 1802 with bondsman Timothy Webb, gent, Taplow, Buckinghamshire.
Mary Pike of Wantage, widow, married Francis Bartholomew of Wantage bachelor 28 Apr 1800 with John Reynolds, baker, Wantage as bondsman.
Mary, the testator, also mentions two of her grand children Mary Ann Pike and Elizabeth Pike.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 20 Dec 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1496/284
Testator: Mary Blake, widow
Place: Hungerford, Wiltshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 4 Aug 1808, probated 15 May 1809
Condition: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Mary
[Margin]: Blake
1 This is the Last Will
2 and Testament of me Mary Blake of Charnham
3 Street in the parish of Hungerford but in the
4 County of Wilts widow First I desire that all
5 my just debts Funeral and Testamentary
6 Expences be paid by my Executors herein-
7 after named as soon as Conveniently may
8 be after my decease and Whereas my late
9 husband Henry Blake did in and by his
10 last Will and Testament in writing bearing
11 date the Sixth day of April one thousand
12 seven hundred and ninety seven in trust
13 give and bequeath unto his Friends James
14 Blake of Overton in the County of Wilts
15 Gentleman and Francis Williams of Baydon
16 in the same County Gentleman all that
17 his personal Estate Goods Chattels and
18 Effects of what Nature or kind soever to
19 hold to them the said James Blake and
20 Francis Williams and the Survivor of them
21 his Executors and Administrators upon
22 trust that they his said Trustees and the
23 Survivor of them his Executors and Admors
24 should and would as soon as Convenient
25 next after his decease sell and dispose of
26 his Stock and Effects and Call in and
27 receive all Sum and Sums of money that
28 shall be then due and owing to him and
29 new money arising thereby to place and
30 lay out the same upon Government or
31 other good Securities and pay and apply
32 the Interest dividends and annual
33 produce thereof to me during my Life to
34 and for my sole use and benefit but in
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35 Case his said trustees and the Survivor of them
36 his Executors and administrators should think
37 it more for the advantage of me to Continue
38 in the Business at the Red Lyon Inn or
39 any other that should be for my advancement
40 in Life then my said late husband
41 authorized and impowered his said trustees
42 and the Survivor of them his Executors and
43 administrators to act in such way and
44 manner as they in their Judgement should
45 think most expedient and from and
46 Immediately after my decease he directed
47 this said trustees and the Survivor of them
48 his Executors and administrators to pay
49 unto his daughters Martha Ann and
50 Hannah the Sum of Forty pounds apiece out
51 of his principal Stock or Funds and as to
52 the rest residue and Remainder of his said
53 personal Estate and Effects he gave the
54 same unto all and every his daughter
55 namely Elizabeth Gould Mary Pike and
56 his said daughters Martha, Ann and
57 Hannah to be equally divided between
58 them share and share alike but as to the
59 Share of his said Daughter Mary Pike
60 he desired his said trustees and the Survivor
61 of them his Executors and administrators
62 to place out upon Government or other
63 good Security as aforesaid and permit and
64 suffer his said daughter Mary Pike to
65 receive only the Interest dividends and
66 annual produce thereof for and during her
67 natural Life and from and immediately after
68 her decease he gave and bequeath the part
69 or share of his said daughter Mary Pike
70 unto her children Mary Ann and Elizabeth
71 to be equally divided between them share and
72 share alike but in Case it should happen
73 that any or either of his said daughters should
74 depart this Life before me or they should
75 become intitled to her or their share or
76 shares of his personal Estate and Effects as
77 aforesaid leaving Issue of her or their body
78 or Bodies lawfully begotten then it was his
79 Will and mind and he thereby directed that
80 the Child or Children of her or them so
81 dying as aforesaid should have receive and
82 take the Like share and proportion of
83 his said personal Estate and Effects as his
84 her or their Mothers would be intitled to
85 if living under and by virtue of his said
86 Will and whereas my said late husband
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87 Henry Blake departed this Life on or about the
88 thirty First day of January one thousand Seven
89 hundred and Ninety Eight and the Letters of
90 Administration of his personal Estate and
91 Effects with his Will annexed were afterwards
92 duly granted to the said Francis Williams one
93 of the Joint Executors thereof (reserving the
94 like power to James Blake the other
95 Executor also named in the said Will) who
96 afterwards Caused an account of the personal
97 Estate and Effects of the said Henry Blake
98 to be taken which amounted in this
99 whole to the Sum of Three hundred and
100 sixteen pounds Sixteen Shillings and
101 whereas the several Legacies of Forty
102 pounds each to Martha Ann and Hannah
103 Blake three of the said testators Henry
104 Blake’s daughters amount to the Sum
105 of one hundred and Sixty pounds and the
106 respective shares of the said Martha Ann
107 and Hannah Blake and of the said
108 Elizabeth Gould and Mary Pike (now
109 Mary Bartholomew) respectively of and in
110 the residue and remainder of the said Testator
111 Henry Blake’s personal Estate and Effects
112 amounts to the Sum of thirty one pounds
113 seven Shillings and two pence Farthing
114 making in the whole the Sum of Three
115 hundred and Sixteen pounds Fifteen Shillings
116 and Eleven pence Farthing and whereas my
117 said daughter Elizabeth Blake intermarried
118 with Thomas Gould of Aldbourne in the
119 said County of Wilts Farmer and my said
120 daughter Mary Blake hath also intermarried
121 with Francis Bartholomew of Wantage
122 in the County of Berks Victualler and my
123 said daughter Martha Blake hath
124 also intermarried with William Lye of
125 Hungerford in the said County of Berks late
126 Victualler and my said daughter Ann Blake
127 hath also intermarried with Stephen Pullen
128 of Colnbrook in the County of Bucks Victualler
129 and my said other daughter Hannah
130 Blake is now living with me at Hungerford
131 aforesaid and unmarried Now I do hereby give
132 and bequeath unto my two Brothers John
133 Williams of Baydon in the County of Wilts
134 Gentleman and Francis Williams of the same
135 place Gentleman all and Singular my
136 Estate and Effects whatsoever and wheresoever
137 of what Nature or kind soever To hold to
138 them the said John Williams and Francis
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139 Williams and the Survivor of them his Executors
140 and administrators upon trust that they my
141 said trustees or the Survivor of them his
142 Executors or Administrators shall and do as
143 soon as Conveniently may be after my
144 decease sell and dispose of my said Stock in
145 trade Estate and Effects whatsoever and
146 wheresoever (if necessary) and Call in and
147 receive all and every Sum and Sums of
148 money that shall be due and owing to me
149 at the time of my decease and out of the
150 money arising thereby to pay unto my said
151 daughter Martha Lye the Sum of Forty pounds
152 to my said daughter Ann Pullen the Sum of
153 Forty pounds and to my daughter Hannah
154 Blake the Sum of Forty pounds being the
155 Specific Legacys given and bequeathed to
156 them my said daughters in and by the
157 said Last Will and Testament of my said
158 late husband Henry Blake deceased and
159 also to pay unto my said daughters Martha
160 Lye Ann Pullen and Hannah Blake and
161 to the said Elizabeth Gould the Several and
162 respective Sums of thirty one pounds Seven
163 Shillings and two pence Farthing being
164 their Several and respective shares of and
165 in the residue and remainder of my said
166 late husbands personal Estate and Effects
167 so as aforesaid given and bequeath to
168 them in and by his said Last Will and
169 Testament to and for their several uses
170 and Benefit and as to the remaining Sum
171 of thirty one pounds Seven Shillings and
172 two pence Farthing so as aforesaid given
173 and bequeath by my said late husbands
174 Will In trust for my said daughter
175 Mary Pike (now Martha Bartholomew)
176 being her share of and in the residue of
177 my said late husbands Estate and Effects
178 as aforesaid I do hereby direct my said
179 trustees or the Survivor of them his Executors or
180 administrators as soon as Conveniently may be
181 after my decease by and out of the monies
182 arising from my said personal Estate
183 and Effects to lay out and invest the said
184 Sum of thirty one pounds Seven shillings and
185 two pence Farthing in the purchase of
186 Government or other good and Sufficient
187 Security in their Names or in the Names
188 of the Survivor of them his Executors or
189 administrators and to pay apply and dispose
190 of the Interest dividend and annual proceeds
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191 thereof from time to time when and as the same
192 shall become due and payable unto my said
193 daughter Mary Bartholomew or her assigns
194 for and during the term of her Natural Life
195 and from and immediately after her decease
196 upon trust to pay assign and transfer the
197 part of share of her my said daughter Mary
198 Bartholomew and the Interest dividends
199 and proceeds thereof unto her Children
200 Mary Ann and Elizabeth Pike in equal Shares
201 and proportions but in Case it shall happen
202 that any or either of my said Daughters shall
203 depart this Life before she or they shall have
204 received her or their Legacy or Legacies given
205 and bequeathed to her or them as aforesaid
206 in and by my said late husbands will or
207 her or their share or shares of and in the
208 residue of the personal Estate and Effects of
209 my said late husband leaving Issue of her
210 or their Body or Bodies lawfully begotten then
211 it is my Will and mind and I do hereby
212 direct that the Child or Children of her or
213 them so dying as aforesaid shall have and
214 receive the like share and proportion thereof
215 as his her or their Mother or Mothers would
216 be intitled to, if living under and by virtue
217 of the will of my said late husband
218 Henry Blake deceased or of this my Will and
219 I do hereby direct my said trustees to transfer
220 and pay the same to her or them accordingly
221 which said Sums of Forty pounds apiece to
222 my said three daughters Martha Lye, Ann
223 Pullen and Hannah Blake and the said
224 Five several Sums of thirty one pounds Seven
225 Shillings and two pence Farthing to my
226 said daughters respectively are to be received
227 and taken by them respectively as and in
228 Full for their several and respective Legacies
229 given and bequeathed to them in and by
230 my said late husbands Will and their
231 respective Shares of and in the residue of my
232 said late husband Henry Blakes personal
233 Estate and Effects and upon further Trust
234 that they my said Trustees or the Survivor
235 of them his Executors or Administrators do
236 and shall in the next place pay thereout
237 unto my said daughter Elizabeth Gould the
238 further Sum of one hundred and Sixty Eight
239 pounds twelve Shillings and Nine pence
240 three Farthings and for her own proper
241 use and Benefit and that the same shall
242 not be liable to the debts Controul Contracts
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243 or Engagements of her present or any other taken
244 husband she may intermarry with and
245 that her own receipt only shall be good and
246 sufficient discharge to my said trustees for the
247 said trustees for the same and upon further
248 trust to pay thereout unto my daughter
249 Mary Bartholomew the like Sum of One
250 hundred and Sixty Eight pounds twelve Shillings
251 and Nine pence three Farthings to and for her
252 own proper use and benefit and that the same
253 shall not be liable to the debts Controul
254 Contracts or Engagements of her present or any
255 after taken husband she may intermarry with
256 and that her own receipt only shall be good and
257 Sufficient discharge to my said trustees for the
258 same and upon further trust to pay unto
259 my said daughter Martha Lye the Sum of
260 one hundred and twenty Eight pounds twelve
261 Shillings and Nine Pence three farthings
262 to and for her own proper use and benefit and
263 that the same shall not be Subject or liable to
264 the debts Controul Contracts or Engagements of
265 her present or any after taken husband she
266 may intermarry with and that her own
267 receipt only shall be a good and sufficient
268 discharge to my said trustees for the same
269 and upon further trust to pay to my said
270 daughter Ann Pullen the like Sum of one
271 hundred and twenty Eight pounds twelve Shillings
272 and Nine pence three Farthings to and for
273 her own proper use and Benefit and that the
274 same shall not be Subject or liable to the
275 debts Control Contracts or Engagements of her
276 present or any after taken husband she may
277 intermarry with and that her receipt only
278 shall be a good and Sufficient discharge to
279 my said trustees for the same and upon
280 further trust to pay unto my said daughter
281 Hannah Blake the Sum of one hundred and
282 twenty Eight pounds twelve Shillings and Nine
283 pence three farthings to and for her own
284 proper use and Benefit and upon further
285 trust that they my said trustees or the
286 Survivors of them either Exors or Admors of such Survivor do and shall as soon as Conveniently
287 may be after my decease by and out of the
288 monies to arise from my said personal
289 Estate and Effects lay out and invest the
290 Sum of one hundred pounds in the purchase
291 of 3 p[er] Cent Consolidated securities of
292 the Bank of England or on other good Security
293 or Securities in their Names or in the Name
294 of the Survivor of them his Executors or
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295 administrators upon trust to pay assign
296 and transfer the said annuity or
297 Security so to be purchased unto my two
298 Grand daughters Mary Ann and Elizabeth Pike
299 to and for their own respective use and benefit
300 in equal Shares and proportions when and
301 as they shall respectively attain their age of
302 twenty one years and in the mean time to
303 pay apply and dispose of the Interest dividends
304 and annual produce thereof for and during
305 their Maintenance Education and Support and
306 in Case either of my said Grand Children shall
307 die before she attains the said age of twenty
308 one years then upon Trust to pay assign and
309 transfer the Share of her so dying to the
310 Survivor of my said Grand Children when
311 and as soon as she shall attain her Age
312 of twenty one years the dividends Interest
313 and annual profits thereof in the meantime
314 to be paid applied and disposed of by my said
315 Trustees or the Survivor of them his Executors
316 or administrators for and towards the
317 Maintenance Education and Support of the
318 Survivor of my said Grand Children all the
319 rest residue and remainder of my Estate and
320 Effects both real and personal whatsoever and
321 wheresoever I give devise and bequeath the
322 same to my said daughter Hannah Blake
323 her heirs Executors and administrators to
324 and for her and their own use and benefit and
325 I will that my said Trustees and Executors
326 shall not be answerable the one for
327 the other or for the acts deeds or defaults
328 of the other nor shall either of them be
329 answerable or accountable for any part of
330 my Estate and Effects but such as shall
331 Come to his or their respective hands and
332 I do hereby authorize and impower my said
333 Trustees to retain and Satisfy themselves
334 by and out of my said Trustees to retain and
335 satisfy themselves by and out of my said
336 Estate and Effects all such Costs Charges
337 damages and Expences as they or either of them
338 shall be put unto in or about the Execution
339 of the trust of this my Will and I do hereby
340 revoke all other Wills by me heretofore
341 made and declare this only to be and
342 taken as and for my last Will and
343 Testament and I do hereby appoint my said
344 Brother John Williams and Francis
345 Williams joint Executors of this my Will
346 In Witness whereof I the said Mary Blake
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347 have to the five first Sheets of this my Will contained
348 in Six Sheets of paper set my hand and to this
349 the Sixth and last Sheet thereof my hand
350 and Seal the Fourth day of August in the
351 year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred
352 and Eight Mary Blake Signed Sealed
353 published and declared by the said Testatrix
354 Mary Blake as and for her last Will and
355 Testament in the presence of us who in
356 her presence at her request and in the
357 presence of each other have subscribed
358 our Names as Witnesses thereto (the words
359 or in other good Security or Securities” being
360 first interlined between the twenty Fifth and
361 twenty Sixth Lines from the Top of the Fifth
362 Sheet hereof and the Words “or Securities”
363 written on an Erasure on the Twenty Eighth
364 Line from the Top of the said Fifth
365 Sheet James Hall Joseph Read
366 This Will was proved at London the fifteenth
367 day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand
368 Eight hundred and Nine before the Right honorable
369 Sir John Nicholl Knight doctor of Laws Master
370 Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative Court
371 of Canterbury lawfully Constituted by the Oaths
372 of John Williams and Francis Williams the
373 Brother and Executors named in the said
374 Will to whom administration was granted
375 of all and Singular the Goods Chattels and
376 Credits of the said deceased having been first
377 Sworn by Commission duly to administer
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