This will of William Blake of Bedford Row includes legacies to his daughters including Frances [will blogged 10 Jan 2017], Alicia, wife of Thomas Strickland, and Caroline wife of John Robley, and makes his only son William sole executor. William Blake aged 77 was buried in the North Aisle of St Bartholomew 05/06/1810, and Alicia Blake, his wife was buried 08/04/1809. William Blake’s will refers to property at Chiswick and in Aldersgate, the latter on a long lease.
Within the will, William mentions his nephews and nieces Frears thus helping to prove that this was likely the William Blake who lived at Ravenglas, Cumberland. There are several bequests that could be researched to perhaps learn more about William Blake in his younger years. Searching on innholder, Ravenglas, Frears, Edward Frears did not reveal any further information on this Blake family in Cumberland.
Children living at the time of his death included Frances, Alicia, Caroline and William. The remainder of his children must be assumed to be deceased.
William Hodgson Blake, born 9 Jul 1767 and baptized 6 Aug 1767 at St Bartholomew the Great, London; buried 13 Sep 1767
Alicia Blake was born 17 Jan 1769, baptized 15 Feb 1769 at St Bartholomew the Great, London and married Thomas Strickland 3 Apr 1800 in London
John Rodolph Blake born 29 Oct 1770 and baptized 31 Oct 1770 at St Bartholomew the Great, London; buried 9 Feb 1774
Frances Blake born 25 Jul 1772 at Chiswick, died by 26 Nov 1811 at Liverpool
William Blake, born 31 Jan 1774 and baptized 27 Feb 1774 at St Bartholomew the Great, London and married Mary Nash 25 Jul 1797 at St Mary le Bone, London
John Blake born 17 Oct 1775, Aldersgate Street, London; died in 1799 at Polygars, S India
Caroline Blake born 13 Apr 1777 at Aldersgate Street, London, baptized 24 Aug 1777 at St Botolph without Aldersgate and married there to John Robley 2 Jul 1799.
There are a number of wills that belong to this family but a review of the wills of the Robley family do not add to the knowledge of this Blake family hence they will not be transcribed but the will of William Blake (the son of the testator) will be transcribed next. I will return to Lancashire wills once completed.
Will of Caroline Robley, Widow of Tiverton, Devon, PROB 11/1990/219, probated 19 Dec 1843
Will of John Robley of Bloomsbury, Middlesex, PROB 11/1671/56, probated 7 May 1823
Will of William Blake of Portland Place, Middlesex, PROB 11/2162/390, probated 22 Dec 1852
There wasn’t a will found for Alicia Strickland in the PCC list of wills or a search of Ancestry.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 11 Jan 2017
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1516
Name of testator: William Blake, Esquire
Place: Bedford Row, Middlesex, England
Type of Record: Will
Dated 7 Dec 1811, probated 26 Nov 1810
Read: Electronic file images
[In margin] William Blake Esqr 10
1 This is the last Will
2 and Testament of me William Blake of Boston now in
3 the County of Midd[lese]x Esqr which I write publish and declare
4 in manner following that is to say I give devise and bequeath
5 unto my Son William Blake the younger his heirs Ex[ecut]ors
6 and admors all and every the copyhold and leasehold
7 messauges or Tenements and premises at Chiswick in the
8 County of Middx and in Aldersgate Street London comprised
9 in a lease thereof bearing date on or about the 21st day of
10 August 1804 from me to Messrs Edw[ar]d Sage and William
11 Rawdon for a long term of years at the yearly rent of five
12 hundred and fifty pounds and upon trust from time to
13 time during the time provided by the said lease to pay the
14 said rent as the same shall grow due and be received unto my
15 daur Frances Blake her Executors admors and assigns to whom
16 I give the same for her and their absolute use and benefit and from
17 and after the end of the same term devised by the said lease it is
18 my will that the said copyhold and leasehold premises shall
19 be deemed and taken as part of the residue of my Estate I
20 give unto my said daur Frances Blake the Sum of
21 three thousand pounds I give and bequeath unto her Trustees
22 for the time being under the marriage Settlement of my
23 daur Alicia the Wife of Thomas Strickland Esqr the Sum of
24 three thousand pounds upon trust to lay out and invest the
25 same in the purchase of Government Stocks or Funds or on
26 real Securities at Interest with full power to alter and transpose
27 the same at their discretion and pay the dividend or interest
28 thereof into the proper hands of my said daur Alicia for her
29 life for her separate use and from and after her decease upon
30 trust to assign transfer and pay the principal thereof unto and
31 amongst all and every or such one or more of the child or
32 children of her my said daur Alicia or their Issue which
33 shall be living at her decease as she my said daur whether
34 married or sole and notwithstanding her coverture shall by any
35 deed or writing under her hand and seal attested by two or
36 more credible witnesses or by her last will and Testament in
37 writing or any writing purporting to be or in the nature of
38 her last will and Testament to be by her executed in the
39 presence of and attested by the like number of witnesses shall
40 direct limit or appoint give or bequeath the same and in ____
41 thereof into and amongst all and every the child and children of
42 her my said daur Alicia Strickland which shall be living at
43 her decease and the issue of such of their as shall be then dead
44 such issue treating the life share as their deceased parents
45 would have before if living and not otherwise share and share alike
46 I give and bequeath unto the trustees for the time being under the
47 marriage settlement of my daur Caroline the Wife of John
48 Robley Esqr the sum of three thousand pounds upon the life
49 Trusts for my daur Caroline and her issue in all respects as are
50 herein before declared respecting the trust monies hereinbefore
51 by me given for the benefit of my said daur Alicia and her Issue
52 as aforesaid and it is my Will that the said Trust monies
53 shall become payable by my Exor at the end of twelve calendar
54 months next after my decease and then in case any now
55 Trustees shall after such payment be appointed under the
56 said Settlement of my said daurs Alicia and Caroline or either of
57 them then the said Trust monies so by me given for their
58 benefit as aforesaid or the Securities on which the same shall
59 be invested shall from time to time be so assigned or transferred
60 as to be and remain vested in the Trustees for the time being under
61 the said respective marriage settlements etc be by them ____
62 upon the trusts aforesaid I give unto Mr Samuel Boote of
63 Ravenglas an annuity of twelve Guineas a year for his life
64 I give unto Miss Ann Greene of Bradford in Yorkshire an
65 annuity of give pounds a year for her life I give unto my
66 nephews and nieces William Frears Edward Frears Elizabeth
67 Frears and Isabella Frears the sum of twenty pounds each for
68 mourning I give unto Christopher Paxton Esqr the Sum of
69 Fifty pounds and unto the said Ann Green the sum of Twenty pounds
70 for mourning I devise all the residue and remainder of my real
71 and personal Estate whatsoever and wheresoever unto my only son the
72 said William Blake the younger his heirs Exors and admors absolutely
73 for ever and I appoint my said Son William Blake sole Exor of this
74 my Will In witness whereof I the said Testor William Blake
75 have to this my last Will and Testament contained in three sheets
76 of paper set my hand to the first two sheets and my hand and seal to
77 this third and last sheet thereof the eighth day of dec[emb]er in the year
78 of our Lord 1809 Wm Blake Signed sealed and published and
79 declared by the said Testor William Blake as and for his last will
80 and Testament in the presence of us who in his presence at his
81 request and in the presence of each other havew hereunto subscribed our
82 names as witnesses thereto Gil Bleasedale Threadwell Street
83 Edwd Rickersleets Saml Rogers his clerks
84 Proved at London 26th No[vemb]er 1810 before the Worshipful John
85 daubery dr of laws and surrte by the oath of William Blake the
86 son and the Exor being sworn to admin
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Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Sunday, January 1, 2017
Will of William Blake, gentleman, Saint MIchael, Bristol, Gloucestershire - The National Archives PROB 11/2175/217, probated 9 Jul 1853
William Blake, gentleman, Saint Michaels Hill, Bristol is the testator. He does not name any family in this will.
His executrix Hester Manfield Rogers is possibly Hester Rogers, house keeper to William Jones who kept a lodging house on Park Lane. She was born at Nailsea Somerset and was 45 years of age.
His witness Stephen Shallard is living at 66 Upper Church Lane St Michaels Parish and he was 55 years of age and a pattern maker on the 1851 census born at Bitten Gloucestershire.
On the 1841 Census there is one Blake family living in Saint Michael Parish, Salmon Street near Little Paul Street.
John Blake, 35, M S, not born in Gloucestershire
Anne Blake, 35, , born in Gloucestershire
John Blake, 11, , born in Gloucestershire
Alfred Blake, 10, , born in Gloucestershire
William Blake, 7, , born in Gloucestershire
Probably not this family but interesting to find a Blake family nearby.
The Family Bible given away to Mary Jane Rogers would certainly be an interesting find!
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 15 May 2014
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/2175/217
Testator: William Blake, gentleman
Place: Parish of Saint Michael, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 2 Mar 1853, probated 9 Jul 1853
Condition: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: William
[Margin]: Blake
[Margin]: 5
1 This is the Last Will and Testament
2 of me William Blake of Saint Michaels Hill in the Parish of Saint Michael
3 in the City of Bristol Gentleman I give and bequeath unto Elanor the wife of Wil-
4 liam Coram of Paul Street Kingsdown in the City of Bristol the sum of Ten pounds
5 and I do hereby declare that the said sum shall be paid to her for her absolute use
6 notwithstanding her coverture and that her receipt alone shall be the only effectual
7 discharge to my Executrix hereinafter mentioned for the same I give unto Joseph
8 Coram of Paul Street aforesaid Accountant the sum of Five pounds I give unto
9 Mary Ann Hodges of Saint Michaels Hill aforesaid Spinster the sum of Nineteen
10 pounds ten shillings I give unto William Green of the City of Bristol Cutler the sum
11 of Five pounds I give unto Joseph Willis of Baldwin Street in the said City of
12 Bristol the sum of Five pounds I give unto Henry Lake of the Parish of Clifton in
13 the City of Bristol the sum of Five pounds I give unto Robert Gibbs of the said
14 City Accountant the sum of Five pounds I give and bequeath my large Imperial
15 Family Bible unto Mary Jane Rogers of Saint Michaels Hill aforesaid And I do
16 hereby direct the said pecuniary Legacies to be paid to the Legatees respectively within
17 three months next after my decease And as to all the rest residue and
18 remainder of my real and personal estate and effects whatsoever and wheresoever
19 after payment of my just debts funeral and testamentary expences I give devise and
20 bequeath the same unto Hester Manfield Rogers of the Parish of Saint Michael
21 aforesaid Spinster her heirs executors administrators and assigns And I do hereby ap-
22 point the said Hester Manfield Rogers sole Executrix of this my Will In witness
23 whereof I the said William Blake have to this my Will subscribed my hand this
24 Second day of March one thousand eight hundred and fifty three William
25 Blake Signed by the said Testator William Blake and acknowledged by him
26 to be his last Will and Testament in the presence of us present at the same time who
27 in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other have hereunto
28 subscribed our names as witnesses John Young Tailor St Thomas Bridge
29 Bristol Stephen Shallard Pattern Maker Upper Church Lane H__________
30 Bristol
31 Proved at London 9th July 1853 before the Judge by the oath of Hester
32 Manfield Rogers Spinster the sole Executrix to whom Admon was granted having
33 been first sworn by Comon duly to administer
His executrix Hester Manfield Rogers is possibly Hester Rogers, house keeper to William Jones who kept a lodging house on Park Lane. She was born at Nailsea Somerset and was 45 years of age.
His witness Stephen Shallard is living at 66 Upper Church Lane St Michaels Parish and he was 55 years of age and a pattern maker on the 1851 census born at Bitten Gloucestershire.
On the 1841 Census there is one Blake family living in Saint Michael Parish, Salmon Street near Little Paul Street.
John Blake, 35, M S, not born in Gloucestershire
Anne Blake, 35, , born in Gloucestershire
John Blake, 11, , born in Gloucestershire
Alfred Blake, 10, , born in Gloucestershire
William Blake, 7, , born in Gloucestershire
Probably not this family but interesting to find a Blake family nearby.
The Family Bible given away to Mary Jane Rogers would certainly be an interesting find!
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 15 May 2014
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/2175/217
Testator: William Blake, gentleman
Place: Parish of Saint Michael, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 2 Mar 1853, probated 9 Jul 1853
Condition: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: William
[Margin]: Blake
[Margin]: 5
1 This is the Last Will and Testament
2 of me William Blake of Saint Michaels Hill in the Parish of Saint Michael
3 in the City of Bristol Gentleman I give and bequeath unto Elanor the wife of Wil-
4 liam Coram of Paul Street Kingsdown in the City of Bristol the sum of Ten pounds
5 and I do hereby declare that the said sum shall be paid to her for her absolute use
6 notwithstanding her coverture and that her receipt alone shall be the only effectual
7 discharge to my Executrix hereinafter mentioned for the same I give unto Joseph
8 Coram of Paul Street aforesaid Accountant the sum of Five pounds I give unto
9 Mary Ann Hodges of Saint Michaels Hill aforesaid Spinster the sum of Nineteen
10 pounds ten shillings I give unto William Green of the City of Bristol Cutler the sum
11 of Five pounds I give unto Joseph Willis of Baldwin Street in the said City of
12 Bristol the sum of Five pounds I give unto Henry Lake of the Parish of Clifton in
13 the City of Bristol the sum of Five pounds I give unto Robert Gibbs of the said
14 City Accountant the sum of Five pounds I give and bequeath my large Imperial
15 Family Bible unto Mary Jane Rogers of Saint Michaels Hill aforesaid And I do
16 hereby direct the said pecuniary Legacies to be paid to the Legatees respectively within
17 three months next after my decease And as to all the rest residue and
18 remainder of my real and personal estate and effects whatsoever and wheresoever
19 after payment of my just debts funeral and testamentary expences I give devise and
20 bequeath the same unto Hester Manfield Rogers of the Parish of Saint Michael
21 aforesaid Spinster her heirs executors administrators and assigns And I do hereby ap-
22 point the said Hester Manfield Rogers sole Executrix of this my Will In witness
23 whereof I the said William Blake have to this my Will subscribed my hand this
24 Second day of March one thousand eight hundred and fifty three William
25 Blake Signed by the said Testator William Blake and acknowledged by him
26 to be his last Will and Testament in the presence of us present at the same time who
27 in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other have hereunto
28 subscribed our names as witnesses John Young Tailor St Thomas Bridge
29 Bristol Stephen Shallard Pattern Maker Upper Church Lane H__________
30 Bristol
31 Proved at London 9th July 1853 before the Judge by the oath of Hester
32 Manfield Rogers Spinster the sole Executrix to whom Admon was granted having
33 been first sworn by Comon duly to administer
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Will of William Blake, gentleman, Bristol, Gloucestershire - The National Archives PROB 11/2175/217, probated 9 Jul 1853
William Blake, gentleman, Saint Michaels Hill, Bristol is the testator. He does not name any family in this will.
His executrix Hester Manfield Rogers is possibly Hester Rogers, house keeper to William Jones who kept a lodging house on Park Lane. She was born at Nailsea Somerset and was 45 years of age.
His witness Stephen Shallard is living at 66 Upper Church Lane St Michaels Parish and he was 55 years of age and a pattern maker on the 1851 census born at Bitten Gloucestershire.
On the 1841 Census there is one Blake family living in Saint Michael Parish, Salmon Street near Little Paul Street.
The Family Bible given away to Mary Jane Rogers would certainly be an interesting find!
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 15 May 2014
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/2175/217
Testator: William Blake, gentleman
Place: Parish of Saint Michael, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 2 Mar 1853, probated 9 Jul 1853
Condition: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: William
[Margin]: Blake
[Margin]: 5
1 This is the Last Will and Testament
2 of me William Blake of Saint Michaels Hill in the Parish of Saint Michael
3 in the City of Bristol Gentleman I give and bequeath unto Elanor the wife of Wil-
4 liam Coram of Paul Street Kingsdown in the City of Bristol the sum of Ten pounds
5 and I do hereby declare that the said sum shall be paid to her for her absolute use
6 notwithstanding her coverture and that her receipt alone shall be the only effectual
7 discharge to my Executrix hereinafter mentioned for the same I give unto Joseph
8 Coram of Paul Street aforesaid Accountant the sum of Five pounds I give unto
9 Mary Ann Hodges of Saint Michaels Hill aforesaid Spinster the sum of Nineteen
10 pounds ten shillings I give unto William Green of the City of Bristol Cutler the sum
11 of Five pounds I give unto Joseph Willis of Baldwin Street in the said City of
12 Bristol the sum of Five pounds I give unto Henry Lake of the Parish of Clifton in
13 the City of Bristol the sum of Five pounds I give unto Robert Gibbs of the said
14 City Accountant the sum of Five pounds I give and bequeath my large Imperial
15 Family Bible unto Mary Jane Rogers of Saint Michaels Hill aforesaid And I do
16 hereby direct the said pecuniary Legacies to be paid to the Legatees respectively within
17 three months next after my decease And as to all the rest residue and
18 remainder of my real and personal estate and effects whatsoever and wheresoever
19 after payment of my just debts funeral and testamentary expences I give devise and
20 bequeath the same unto Hester Manfield Rogers of the Parish of Saint Michael
21 aforesaid Spinster her heirs executors administrators and assigns And I do hereby ap-
22 point the said Hester Manfield Rogers sole Executrix of this my Will In witness
23 whereof I the said William Blake have to this my Will subscribed my hand this
24 Second day of March one thousand eight hundred and fifty three William
25 Blake Signed by the said Testator William Blake and acknowledged by him
26 to be his last Will and Testament in the presence of us present at the same time who
27 in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other have hereunto
28 subscribed our names as witnesses John Young Tailor St Thomas Bridge
29 Bristol Stephen Shallard Pattern Maker Upper Church Lane H__________
30 Bristol
31 Proved at London 9th July 1853 before the Judge by the oath of Hester
32 Manfield Rogers Spinster the sole Executrix to whom Admon was granted having
33 been first sworn by Comon duly to administer
His executrix Hester Manfield Rogers is possibly Hester Rogers, house keeper to William Jones who kept a lodging house on Park Lane. She was born at Nailsea Somerset and was 45 years of age.
His witness Stephen Shallard is living at 66 Upper Church Lane St Michaels Parish and he was 55 years of age and a pattern maker on the 1851 census born at Bitten Gloucestershire.
On the 1841 Census there is one Blake family living in Saint Michael Parish, Salmon Street near Little Paul Street.
The Family Bible given away to Mary Jane Rogers would certainly be an interesting find!
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 15 May 2014
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/2175/217
Testator: William Blake, gentleman
Place: Parish of Saint Michael, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 2 Mar 1853, probated 9 Jul 1853
Condition: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: William
[Margin]: Blake
[Margin]: 5
1 This is the Last Will and Testament
2 of me William Blake of Saint Michaels Hill in the Parish of Saint Michael
3 in the City of Bristol Gentleman I give and bequeath unto Elanor the wife of Wil-
4 liam Coram of Paul Street Kingsdown in the City of Bristol the sum of Ten pounds
5 and I do hereby declare that the said sum shall be paid to her for her absolute use
6 notwithstanding her coverture and that her receipt alone shall be the only effectual
7 discharge to my Executrix hereinafter mentioned for the same I give unto Joseph
8 Coram of Paul Street aforesaid Accountant the sum of Five pounds I give unto
9 Mary Ann Hodges of Saint Michaels Hill aforesaid Spinster the sum of Nineteen
10 pounds ten shillings I give unto William Green of the City of Bristol Cutler the sum
11 of Five pounds I give unto Joseph Willis of Baldwin Street in the said City of
12 Bristol the sum of Five pounds I give unto Henry Lake of the Parish of Clifton in
13 the City of Bristol the sum of Five pounds I give unto Robert Gibbs of the said
14 City Accountant the sum of Five pounds I give and bequeath my large Imperial
15 Family Bible unto Mary Jane Rogers of Saint Michaels Hill aforesaid And I do
16 hereby direct the said pecuniary Legacies to be paid to the Legatees respectively within
17 three months next after my decease And as to all the rest residue and
18 remainder of my real and personal estate and effects whatsoever and wheresoever
19 after payment of my just debts funeral and testamentary expences I give devise and
20 bequeath the same unto Hester Manfield Rogers of the Parish of Saint Michael
21 aforesaid Spinster her heirs executors administrators and assigns And I do hereby ap-
22 point the said Hester Manfield Rogers sole Executrix of this my Will In witness
23 whereof I the said William Blake have to this my Will subscribed my hand this
24 Second day of March one thousand eight hundred and fifty three William
25 Blake Signed by the said Testator William Blake and acknowledged by him
26 to be his last Will and Testament in the presence of us present at the same time who
27 in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other have hereunto
28 subscribed our names as witnesses John Young Tailor St Thomas Bridge
29 Bristol Stephen Shallard Pattern Maker Upper Church Lane H__________
30 Bristol
31 Proved at London 9th July 1853 before the Judge by the oath of Hester
32 Manfield Rogers Spinster the sole Executrix to whom Admon was granted having
33 been first sworn by Comon duly to administer
Friday, December 20, 2013
Will of Margaret Blake, widow, New Sarum, Wiltshire - The National Archives PROB 11/1535/342, probated 24 Jul 1812
An interesting will for Margaret Blake. Her mother was Charlotte Cartwright and that would fill in why her eldest son John has the middle name Cartwright. The online tree that has Sarah Cartwright as the mother of John would then appear to be incorrect as his mother would have been Margaret Cartwright and John identified his wife as Margaret in his will blogged earlier:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/12/will-of-john-blake-esquire-of-new-sarum.html
That clears up that misconception.
Margaret identifies her children as Margaret Kitson and Henrietta Shuckburgh as her two remaining daughters. Ann, her other daughter left her will which was blogged:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/11/will-of-ann-blake-spinster-new-sarum.html
Margaret doesn’t mention her sons John Cartwright Blake or Robert Blake. However, her will does show the Cartwright line clearly.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 19 Dec 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1535/342
Testator: Margaret Blake, widow
Place: New Sarum (Salisbury), Wiltshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 21 Jan 1812, probated 24 Jul 1812
Condition: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Margaret
[Margin]: Blake
[Margin]: 6
1 This is the last Will and Testament of me
2 Margaret Blake of the City of New Sarum in the County of Wilts
3 widow made and published the twenty first day of January in the
4 year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twelve in manner
5 and form following that is to say pursuant to and by force and
6 virtue and in exercise and execution of the power or authority to
7 me for this purpose given and reserved in and by the last Will and
8 Testament of my late Mother Charlotte Cartwright Widow deceased
9 and of all and every other power and authority in and vested or enabling
10 me thereunto I give bequeath direct appoint and dispose of the
11 Capital Stock or sum of two thousand pounds in Old South Sea
12 Annuities which in and by my said late Mothers Will was and is
13 bequeathed to the Trustees therein named upon the trusts therein mentioned concerning the same unto
14 my two only surviving daughters Margaret Kitson and Henrietta
15 Shuckburgh to be assigned and transferred into their respective names hands
16 in equal proportions as soon as conveniently may be after my decease
17 also I give and bequeath to my Grandson Edward Kitson Eldest
18 son of my said daughter Margaret Kitson the Navy Five per cent
19 Bank Annuities standing in my name and purchased with the sum
20 of one hundred and ninety pounds which I received as the first
21 dividend of my debt proved under a Commission of Bankrupt
22 against Michael Burrough together or with all such future
23 dividends as maybe made on my said debt or such further Stock
24 as I may purchase therewith the said Stock of Funds to be sold and
25 transferred and the dividends and produce thereof to be paid also
26 applied by my Executors for or towards the education or otherwise
27 for the benefit of my said Grandson at such time or times and in such
28 manner as my said Executors in their discretion shall think proper
29 and as to all the rest and residue of all my Monies Securities for
30 Money Plate Linen China Prints Books household Goods and
31 Furniture and other my Personal Estate whatsoever not hereby
32 otherwise disposed of I give and bequeath the same to my said
33 daughters Margaret Kitson and Henrietta Shuckburgh to be
34 equally divided between them and I make and appoint them
35 the said Margaret Kitson and Henrietta Shuckburgh Executors
36 of this my last Will and Testament and it is my Will and meaning
37 that my said daughters shall receive and take the property and
38 benefit hereinbefore appointed disposed of and bequeathed to
39 them respectively to and for each of their sole and separate use
40 exclusive of their several husbands and free from their interference
41 or control respectively and the receipts of my said daughters only
42 shall be proper and sufficient discharges for the same In Witness
43 whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year
44 first thereinbefore written Margaret Blake Signed sealed
45 published and declared by the Testatrix Margaret Blake as and
46 for her last Will and Testament in the presence of us Sally
47 Rogers Tho: Chuff
48 Proved at London 24th July 1812 before the Judge by the
49 Oaths of Mary Kitson Wife of the Rev[eren]d Edward Addicott Kitson
50 Clerk and Henrietta Shuckburgh (Wife of the Rev[eren]d Charles William
51 Shuckburgh Clerk) the daughters and Exors to whom Admon was
52 granted having been first sworn by Comon duly to admin[ist]er
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/12/will-of-john-blake-esquire-of-new-sarum.html
That clears up that misconception.
Margaret identifies her children as Margaret Kitson and Henrietta Shuckburgh as her two remaining daughters. Ann, her other daughter left her will which was blogged:
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/11/will-of-ann-blake-spinster-new-sarum.html
Margaret doesn’t mention her sons John Cartwright Blake or Robert Blake. However, her will does show the Cartwright line clearly.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 19 Dec 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1535/342
Testator: Margaret Blake, widow
Place: New Sarum (Salisbury), Wiltshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 21 Jan 1812, probated 24 Jul 1812
Condition: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Margaret
[Margin]: Blake
[Margin]: 6
1 This is the last Will and Testament of me
2 Margaret Blake of the City of New Sarum in the County of Wilts
3 widow made and published the twenty first day of January in the
4 year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twelve in manner
5 and form following that is to say pursuant to and by force and
6 virtue and in exercise and execution of the power or authority to
7 me for this purpose given and reserved in and by the last Will and
8 Testament of my late Mother Charlotte Cartwright Widow deceased
9 and of all and every other power and authority in and vested or enabling
10 me thereunto I give bequeath direct appoint and dispose of the
11 Capital Stock or sum of two thousand pounds in Old South Sea
12 Annuities which in and by my said late Mothers Will was and is
13 bequeathed to the Trustees therein named upon the trusts therein mentioned concerning the same unto
14 my two only surviving daughters Margaret Kitson and Henrietta
15 Shuckburgh to be assigned and transferred into their respective names hands
16 in equal proportions as soon as conveniently may be after my decease
17 also I give and bequeath to my Grandson Edward Kitson Eldest
18 son of my said daughter Margaret Kitson the Navy Five per cent
19 Bank Annuities standing in my name and purchased with the sum
20 of one hundred and ninety pounds which I received as the first
21 dividend of my debt proved under a Commission of Bankrupt
22 against Michael Burrough together or with all such future
23 dividends as maybe made on my said debt or such further Stock
24 as I may purchase therewith the said Stock of Funds to be sold and
25 transferred and the dividends and produce thereof to be paid also
26 applied by my Executors for or towards the education or otherwise
27 for the benefit of my said Grandson at such time or times and in such
28 manner as my said Executors in their discretion shall think proper
29 and as to all the rest and residue of all my Monies Securities for
30 Money Plate Linen China Prints Books household Goods and
31 Furniture and other my Personal Estate whatsoever not hereby
32 otherwise disposed of I give and bequeath the same to my said
33 daughters Margaret Kitson and Henrietta Shuckburgh to be
34 equally divided between them and I make and appoint them
35 the said Margaret Kitson and Henrietta Shuckburgh Executors
36 of this my last Will and Testament and it is my Will and meaning
37 that my said daughters shall receive and take the property and
38 benefit hereinbefore appointed disposed of and bequeathed to
39 them respectively to and for each of their sole and separate use
40 exclusive of their several husbands and free from their interference
41 or control respectively and the receipts of my said daughters only
42 shall be proper and sufficient discharges for the same In Witness
43 whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year
44 first thereinbefore written Margaret Blake Signed sealed
45 published and declared by the Testatrix Margaret Blake as and
46 for her last Will and Testament in the presence of us Sally
47 Rogers Tho: Chuff
48 Proved at London 24th July 1812 before the Judge by the
49 Oaths of Mary Kitson Wife of the Rev[eren]d Edward Addicott Kitson
50 Clerk and Henrietta Shuckburgh (Wife of the Rev[eren]d Charles William
51 Shuckburgh Clerk) the daughters and Exors to whom Admon was
52 granted having been first sworn by Comon duly to admin[ist]er
Sunday, November 24, 2013
Will of Ann Blake, Spinster, New Sarum, Wiltshire - The National Archives PROB 11/1531/151, probated 11 Mar 1812
Ann Blake, Spinster, is the testatrix for this will. I found a tree online for the Kitson family which suggests that the parents of Margaret Blake, sister of Ann, were John Blake and Sarah Cartwright. I have not been able to verify this information. Ann has a brother Robert and two sisters Henrietta and Margaret.
Margaret Blake married the Reverend Edward Addicott Kitson (born circa 1773 and son of Reverend Walter Kitson and Martha Addicott) and Reverend Kitson was vicar of Clyst of St Lawrence and St Mary Church, Torquay. According to Find My Past Edward Addicott Kitson married Margaret Blake 25 Jun 1798 at Salisbury St Martin and they were both 26 years of age and Edward was of Clyst St Lawrence, Devon. The Bondsman was John Henry Jacob Clerk Salisbury Close (licence 21 Jun 1798). Children for this couple named in the World Connect database for the Kitson family:
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=sandberg&id=I43220&style=TEXT
Margaret
Edward
Walter Cartwright
John Thomas
Henrietta Blake married the Reverend Charles William Shuckburgh, Clerk of Downton, Wiltshire at the time of his decease as he has left a will in 1833. I may purchase this will but for the moment will see what I can discover about Henrietta and her husband. They were married at Saint Martin, Salisbury 16 July 1798 according to Find My Past (license 14 July 1798). He was of the parish of Salisbury Close, Wiltshire and 26 years of age and Henrietta was 23 years of age. This was from the Sarum Marriage Licence Bonds. Robert James Carr, Clerk, Salisbury Close was bondsman.
Another online tree also suggests that Henrietta’s father was the daughter of John Blake (also from A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain, Volume 2 by John Burke (free on Google Books - search on Charles William Shuckburgh)
This online tree suggests children (http://www.merchantnetworks.com.au/genealogy/web/boothadam/pafg30.htm):
Diana Christian
Mariana
Henrietta
William Pigott
Robert Shirley
Charles Verney
Walter
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 22 Nov 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1531/151
Testator: Ann Blake, Spinster
Place: New Sarum (Salisbury), Wiltshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 10 Feb 1808, probated 11 Mar 1812
Condition: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Ann
[Margin]: Blake
1 This is the last Will and Testament of me Ann
2 Blake of the City of New Sarum in the County of Wilts Spinster which I
3 make and ordain whilst I am of sound Mind Memory and Understanding
4 in manner following (that is to say) I give devise and bequeath unto the
5 Reverend Henry Jacob of the Close of New Sarum Clerk and my Brother
6 Robert Blake All those my Freehold and Leasehold Messuages or Tenements
7 and Gardens situate in the City of New Sarum aforesaid in a Street then called or
8 known by the Name of St Ann’s Street otherwise Tanner’s Street now
9 in the Occupation of my Mother and myself And also all that Freehold
10 Messuage or Ten[ament] in the City of New Sarum aforesaid situate at the
11 Corner of St Ann’s Street or Tanner Street and Drayhall Street or Exeter
12 Street with the appurt[ament]s thereto respectively belonging And which said
13 Freehold and Leasehold Messuages or Tenements I lately purchased of
14 the devisees named in the Will of my late Father deceased To hold the
15 same unto and to the use of the said Henry Jacob and Robert Blake their
16 heirs Exors Admors and Assigns according to my estate and Interest therein
17 respectively upon the Trusts herein after mentioned (that is to say|) upon
18 Trust to recovery sell and dispose of the same several Freehold and Leasehold
19 Messuages or Tenements and premises hereinbefore mentioned as soon as
20 may be after my decease in such manner and at such times as my
21 said Trustees shall see fit and as to the Money arising from such
22 Sale or Sales Upon Trust to pay and apply the same in such manner and for such
23 purposes as are hereinafter directed or and concerning the Residue of my
24 personal Estate And I hereby direct that the Receipt or Receipts of my
25 said Trustees and the Survivor of them his heirs Exors and Admors shall be
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26 good and sufficient discharges from time to time to the respective purchasers
27 of my said Freehold and Leasehold Estates And such respective purchasers
28 shall not be obliged to see to the application thereof nor be answerable
29 for the Nonapplication of Misapplication of such purchase Monies
30 or of any part thereof Also I give devise and bequeath unto my Sisters
31 Margaret the Wife of the Reverend Edward Addicott Kitson and
32 Henrietta the Wife of the Reverend Charles William Shuckburgh all
33 my reversionary Estate and Interest after the decease of my Mother of and in
34 all that the Rectory and Manor of Poorstock in the County of Dorset held
35 by my late Father’s Trustees by Virtue of a devise in his Will upon the
36 Trusts therein mentioned. To hold the same unto and to the use of my said
37 Sisters their heirs and Assigns as Tenants in Common and not as joint
38 Tenants equally between them share and share alike I give unto my
39 said Trustees the Sum of twenty pounds each And as to all the rest
40 and residue of my personal Estate and Effects and of the Monies arising
41 from the Sale of my said Freehold and Leasehold Estates so made
42 Saleable by this my Will after payment of my debts Legacies and
43 Funeral Expences the Costs and Charges of proving this my Will and such
44 Costs and Charges as my said Trustees shall be put into in the
45 Execution of this my Will I give and bequeath the same to the said
46 Henry Jacob and Robert Blake and to the Survivor of them his Exors
47 Admors Upon Trust to pay and divide the same unto and equally between
48 my Nephews and Nieces Sons and daughters of my said Brother Robert Blake
49 and of my said two Sisters Margaret Kitson and Henrietta Shuckburgh
50 Share and Share alike and to their several and respective Exors and Admors And
51 I hereby authorize and direct my said Trustees to retain and reimburse themselves
52 out of my Estate and Effects All such Costs Charges and Expences which they
53 or either of them may be at sustain or be put unto in and about the such
54 Execution of the Trusts of this my Will And that neither of them shall be
55 answerable for the other of them or for the Acts deeds Receipts or
56 disbursements of the other of them but each of them for his own Acts
57 Receipts of disbursements only And I nominate and appoint the said
58 Henry Jacob and Robert Blake Exors of this my Will and I revoke and make
59 void all former Wills by me made and declare this only to be my last Will
60 and Testament In Witness whereof I have to this my last Will and Testament
61 contained in two Sheets of paper to the first Sheet whereof I have
62 set my hand and to this Sheet my hand and Seal the tenth day of
63 February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight
64 Ann Blake Signed sealed published and declared by the said
65 Ann Blake the Testatrix as and for her last Will and Testament in the
66 presence of us who have subscribed our Names as Witnesses thereto
67 at her request in her presence and in the presence of each other Margaret
68 Blake Sally Rogers Chr: Millett
69 By this Codicil to the last Will and Testament of me
70 Ann Blake of the City of New Sarum Spinster I declare my Will and
71 Meaning to be that the several Shares of my Nephew’s and Nieces the
72 Children of my Brother and Sisters respectively of the produce to arise from the sale of my Freehold and Leasehold property in my said Will described
73 and also of the Residue of my personal Estate therein mentioned or any
74 of them shall not by Virtue of my said Will vest or become payable
75 or transferable until when and as every of them my said Nephews and
76 Nieces shall respectively attain the Age of twenty five years And in
77 case any of them shall happen to die under that Age without Issue
78 living at or born in due time after his her of their deaths respectively
79 then the Share or respective Shares of him her of them so dying shall
80 go and be transferrable and payable to the Survivors or Survivor of them
81 of them But if any or either of them dying under the said age
82 shall leave or have any such Issue as aforesaid then the Share or
83 Shares which the parent or parents might or would otherwise have been
84 entitled to
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85 entitled to shall go and be transferable and payable to such his her or their
86 Issue so always that such Issue shall stand in the place or places of
87 his her or their parent or respective parents and take a Share or Shares
88 accordingly And I further will and direct that this Codicil be deemed
89 and taken as and for part of my said last Will and Testament In Witness
90 whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal the 17th day of October in
91 in the Year of our Lord 1811 Ann Blake Signed sealed published
92 and declared by the Testatrix Ann Blake as and for a Codicil to her last Will
93 and Testament in the presence of us Sally Rogers Tho[ma]s Chubb
94 Proved at London with a Codicil 11th March 1812 before the
95 W[orshi]pful Augustine Gostling d[octo]r of Laws and Surr[ogat]e by the Oath of Robert
96 Blake Esquire the Brother of the deceased and one of the Executors to whom
97 Adm[inistrati]on was granted having been first sworn duly to administer The
98 Rev[erend] John Jacob Clerk in the Will written Henry Jacob the other Ex[ecut]or
99 having first renounced.
Margaret Blake married the Reverend Edward Addicott Kitson (born circa 1773 and son of Reverend Walter Kitson and Martha Addicott) and Reverend Kitson was vicar of Clyst of St Lawrence and St Mary Church, Torquay. According to Find My Past Edward Addicott Kitson married Margaret Blake 25 Jun 1798 at Salisbury St Martin and they were both 26 years of age and Edward was of Clyst St Lawrence, Devon. The Bondsman was John Henry Jacob Clerk Salisbury Close (licence 21 Jun 1798). Children for this couple named in the World Connect database for the Kitson family:
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=sandberg&id=I43220&style=TEXT
Margaret
Edward
Walter Cartwright
John Thomas
Henrietta Blake married the Reverend Charles William Shuckburgh, Clerk of Downton, Wiltshire at the time of his decease as he has left a will in 1833. I may purchase this will but for the moment will see what I can discover about Henrietta and her husband. They were married at Saint Martin, Salisbury 16 July 1798 according to Find My Past (license 14 July 1798). He was of the parish of Salisbury Close, Wiltshire and 26 years of age and Henrietta was 23 years of age. This was from the Sarum Marriage Licence Bonds. Robert James Carr, Clerk, Salisbury Close was bondsman.
Another online tree also suggests that Henrietta’s father was the daughter of John Blake (also from A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain, Volume 2 by John Burke (free on Google Books - search on Charles William Shuckburgh)
This online tree suggests children (http://www.merchantnetworks.com.au/genealogy/web/boothadam/pafg30.htm):
Diana Christian
Mariana
Henrietta
William Pigott
Robert Shirley
Charles Verney
Walter
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 22 Nov 2013
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1531/151
Testator: Ann Blake, Spinster
Place: New Sarum (Salisbury), Wiltshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 10 Feb 1808, probated 11 Mar 1812
Condition: 19th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Ann
[Margin]: Blake
1 This is the last Will and Testament of me Ann
2 Blake of the City of New Sarum in the County of Wilts Spinster which I
3 make and ordain whilst I am of sound Mind Memory and Understanding
4 in manner following (that is to say) I give devise and bequeath unto the
5 Reverend Henry Jacob of the Close of New Sarum Clerk and my Brother
6 Robert Blake All those my Freehold and Leasehold Messuages or Tenements
7 and Gardens situate in the City of New Sarum aforesaid in a Street then called or
8 known by the Name of St Ann’s Street otherwise Tanner’s Street now
9 in the Occupation of my Mother and myself And also all that Freehold
10 Messuage or Ten[ament] in the City of New Sarum aforesaid situate at the
11 Corner of St Ann’s Street or Tanner Street and Drayhall Street or Exeter
12 Street with the appurt[ament]s thereto respectively belonging And which said
13 Freehold and Leasehold Messuages or Tenements I lately purchased of
14 the devisees named in the Will of my late Father deceased To hold the
15 same unto and to the use of the said Henry Jacob and Robert Blake their
16 heirs Exors Admors and Assigns according to my estate and Interest therein
17 respectively upon the Trusts herein after mentioned (that is to say|) upon
18 Trust to recovery sell and dispose of the same several Freehold and Leasehold
19 Messuages or Tenements and premises hereinbefore mentioned as soon as
20 may be after my decease in such manner and at such times as my
21 said Trustees shall see fit and as to the Money arising from such
22 Sale or Sales Upon Trust to pay and apply the same in such manner and for such
23 purposes as are hereinafter directed or and concerning the Residue of my
24 personal Estate And I hereby direct that the Receipt or Receipts of my
25 said Trustees and the Survivor of them his heirs Exors and Admors shall be
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26 good and sufficient discharges from time to time to the respective purchasers
27 of my said Freehold and Leasehold Estates And such respective purchasers
28 shall not be obliged to see to the application thereof nor be answerable
29 for the Nonapplication of Misapplication of such purchase Monies
30 or of any part thereof Also I give devise and bequeath unto my Sisters
31 Margaret the Wife of the Reverend Edward Addicott Kitson and
32 Henrietta the Wife of the Reverend Charles William Shuckburgh all
33 my reversionary Estate and Interest after the decease of my Mother of and in
34 all that the Rectory and Manor of Poorstock in the County of Dorset held
35 by my late Father’s Trustees by Virtue of a devise in his Will upon the
36 Trusts therein mentioned. To hold the same unto and to the use of my said
37 Sisters their heirs and Assigns as Tenants in Common and not as joint
38 Tenants equally between them share and share alike I give unto my
39 said Trustees the Sum of twenty pounds each And as to all the rest
40 and residue of my personal Estate and Effects and of the Monies arising
41 from the Sale of my said Freehold and Leasehold Estates so made
42 Saleable by this my Will after payment of my debts Legacies and
43 Funeral Expences the Costs and Charges of proving this my Will and such
44 Costs and Charges as my said Trustees shall be put into in the
45 Execution of this my Will I give and bequeath the same to the said
46 Henry Jacob and Robert Blake and to the Survivor of them his Exors
47 Admors Upon Trust to pay and divide the same unto and equally between
48 my Nephews and Nieces Sons and daughters of my said Brother Robert Blake
49 and of my said two Sisters Margaret Kitson and Henrietta Shuckburgh
50 Share and Share alike and to their several and respective Exors and Admors And
51 I hereby authorize and direct my said Trustees to retain and reimburse themselves
52 out of my Estate and Effects All such Costs Charges and Expences which they
53 or either of them may be at sustain or be put unto in and about the such
54 Execution of the Trusts of this my Will And that neither of them shall be
55 answerable for the other of them or for the Acts deeds Receipts or
56 disbursements of the other of them but each of them for his own Acts
57 Receipts of disbursements only And I nominate and appoint the said
58 Henry Jacob and Robert Blake Exors of this my Will and I revoke and make
59 void all former Wills by me made and declare this only to be my last Will
60 and Testament In Witness whereof I have to this my last Will and Testament
61 contained in two Sheets of paper to the first Sheet whereof I have
62 set my hand and to this Sheet my hand and Seal the tenth day of
63 February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight
64 Ann Blake Signed sealed published and declared by the said
65 Ann Blake the Testatrix as and for her last Will and Testament in the
66 presence of us who have subscribed our Names as Witnesses thereto
67 at her request in her presence and in the presence of each other Margaret
68 Blake Sally Rogers Chr: Millett
69 By this Codicil to the last Will and Testament of me
70 Ann Blake of the City of New Sarum Spinster I declare my Will and
71 Meaning to be that the several Shares of my Nephew’s and Nieces the
72 Children of my Brother and Sisters respectively of the produce to arise from the sale of my Freehold and Leasehold property in my said Will described
73 and also of the Residue of my personal Estate therein mentioned or any
74 of them shall not by Virtue of my said Will vest or become payable
75 or transferable until when and as every of them my said Nephews and
76 Nieces shall respectively attain the Age of twenty five years And in
77 case any of them shall happen to die under that Age without Issue
78 living at or born in due time after his her of their deaths respectively
79 then the Share or respective Shares of him her of them so dying shall
80 go and be transferrable and payable to the Survivors or Survivor of them
81 of them But if any or either of them dying under the said age
82 shall leave or have any such Issue as aforesaid then the Share or
83 Shares which the parent or parents might or would otherwise have been
84 entitled to
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85 entitled to shall go and be transferable and payable to such his her or their
86 Issue so always that such Issue shall stand in the place or places of
87 his her or their parent or respective parents and take a Share or Shares
88 accordingly And I further will and direct that this Codicil be deemed
89 and taken as and for part of my said last Will and Testament In Witness
90 whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal the 17th day of October in
91 in the Year of our Lord 1811 Ann Blake Signed sealed published
92 and declared by the Testatrix Ann Blake as and for a Codicil to her last Will
93 and Testament in the presence of us Sally Rogers Tho[ma]s Chubb
94 Proved at London with a Codicil 11th March 1812 before the
95 W[orshi]pful Augustine Gostling d[octo]r of Laws and Surr[ogat]e by the Oath of Robert
96 Blake Esquire the Brother of the deceased and one of the Executors to whom
97 Adm[inistrati]on was granted having been first sworn duly to administer The
98 Rev[erend] John Jacob Clerk in the Will written Henry Jacob the other Ex[ecut]or
99 having first renounced.
Friday, January 4, 2013
Will of Roger Blake Esquire of Calne - The National Archives PROB 11/39/532, probated 16 Nov 1557
When I was doing the wills of Wiltshire I forgot to add in this will for Roger Blake of Pynnhills. Possibly one of the most important wills for the Blake family in this time period so I am glad to be posting it now. Roger mentions only his eldest son Thomas and his youngest daughter Mary directly as his children. The list of trustees includes sons in law namely: Henry Bull married to his daughter Sibell and Anthony Goddard married to his daughter Jone.
The Blake Pedigree Chart at the Swindon and Wiltshire Record Office lists his children as:
Thomas (eldest son) married to Edith Ivy of Westkeinton
Sibil married to Henry Bull of Wiltshire
Robert (second son) married to Alice Smith of Lacock
Joane married to Anthony Goddard of Hartham
John (third son) of Hilcot married to Clark of Shaw
William (fourth son) of Eastontown (Hampshire) married to Avis Ripley
Mary married to Edward Langridge of Langridge (Hampshire)
His not mentioning all of his children has created a mystery in this family. The manor papers though might give more information on his family.
The Visitation of Wiltshire 1623 Blake family begins with Robert Blake married to Avis Wallop and mentions their seven children Gilbert (died without issue), Alexander (died without issue), John Blake (married to Margery Dauntsey with children Alice and Jane and the Blake Pedigree Chart gives him a son David by a 1st wife Margaret Dyncham/Denham/Dinham), Robert Blake (married to Margaret Englefield), Elizabeth, Joan and Alice (Alice died at eight years of age).
The Visitation lists the children of Robert Blake and Margaret Englefield as Roger Blake (married to Mary Baynard) and Anne married to Robert Baynard and this matches the Blake Pedigree chart held at the Swindon and Wiltshire Record Office.
Roger in his will mentions his Baynard cousins (Edward, Robert and Laurence) and this is likely Edward, Robert and Laurence sons of Robert Baynard and Anna Blake. One of the sons in law of Robert and Anna Baynard was John Willoughby. Other trustees are the husbands of his daughters Henry Bull and Anthony Goddard. The remaining trustees: Vincent Goddard (brother to Anthony Goddard), John Ern[e]ley (brother/nephew to the mother of Anthony and Vincent Goddard) with Harry Brancker, Harry Rogers and Richard Ussenham not appearing to be related to Roger although Richard Ussenham can be found in the Visitations of Wiltshire.
I find Roger Blake to be quite interesting because he lived at the same time as my ancestor Nicholas Blake. Roger does mention a Robert Blake of Lavyngton as one of his overseers and another mystery enters the picture. Who is Robert Blake at Lavington (Market Lavington is about 11 miles south of Calne)? I published the will of Thomas Blake of West Lavington which was probated 26 Feb 1573/74
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2012/10/will-of-thomas-blake-of-west-lavington.html
There is a brother Robert mentioned and I talked about the relationship between the family at Lavington and the family at Earlestoke. Do they fit into the Blake family at Calne? This is the first direct mention of the two families in one will. Definitely the Pedigree Chart above Robert Blake and Avice Wallop is simply a direct line back and younger/other siblings could be missing from this chart. The movement south from Calne had already begun by the mid 1500s (or were there Blake families south of Calne earlier than that even) but linking the families in southern Wiltshire and Dorset will require a very indepth study of the parish records (Dorset is now available on Ancestry and one of my projects is the extraction of the Blake entries).
This is a very valuable will for the Blake family at Calne. The eldest son of Roger is Thomas and he is the father of Roger Blake married to Wraxed Gastrill with this line continuing at Calne as the son of Roger and Wraxed is Henry. History records the story of the Blake family at Pinhills. During the Civil War the original house at Pinhills was partially demolished because of their support for the Parliamentarians. Henry's son Ambrose had succeeded his father at Pinhills in this time period. The Blake family continued at Pinhills into the early 1700s when the Bull family succeeded to the estate. Does this mean that the direct line from Ambrose (his son was Henry who died in 1731) Blake daughtered out? But there is apparently a book entitled "Pinhills" by P. Buckenridge and J. Pocock (Ref: CAW.727) which is available giving detailed information on the origins and history of Pinhills and its owners. Would really like to see that one and will try to find a copy.
http://www.wshc.eu/blog/pinhills-a-forgotten-wiltshire-manor.html
British History Online also has a write up on Calne:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=18038
Of the small and several freeholds west of Calne's open fields, probably originating in piecemeal grants or sales of demesne pasture of the king's estate or Calne manor, (fn. 59) seven lay south of the Marden. PINHILLS was held in 1407 by John Formage, to whom it had been conveyed by John Patford, the son and heir of David Patford. (fn. 60) A share in what was probably the estate was acquired from William York by John Cricklade, the lord of Studley manor, in an exchange in 1461. (fn. 61) Pinhills was reputed a manor in 1504, when it was held at his death by John Blake. Although John's heirs were his grandson Richard Dauntsey and his daughter Joan Wroughton, Pinhills apparently passed to his brother Robert Blake (d. 1515) and in the direct line to Roger (d. 1557), Thomas (fn. 62) (d. by 1599), Roger, Henry (will proved 1653), and Henry Blake (d. 1660), who devised it to his grandson Henry Blake (fn. 63) (d. 1731). Henry held Pinhills in 1698, (fn. 64) apparently not in 1728, when it was 157 a. (fn. 65) By 1738 Pinhills had been acquired by B. H. Stiles (d. 1739), and it may have been part of the property sold by his nephew and heir Sir Francis Stiles in 1746. (fn. 66) It was acquired by Daniel Bull (d. 1791), who in 1769 sold the reversion of it after his death to William Petty, earl of Shelburne (cr. marquess of Lansdowne 1784). (fn. 67) Pinhills farm, 135 a., was among lands settled in 1802 by Lord Lansdowne on his son Henry, marquess of Lansdowne from 1809, offered for sale in 1808 by order of Chancery, and bought in 1809 by John, marquess of Lansdowne (d. 1809). (fn. 68) John's successor Henry, marquess of Lansdowne, sold the farm, 87 a., in 1813 (fn. 69) and bought it again in 1816. (fn. 70) Pinhills farm has since belonged to the owners of Bowood House. (fn. 71) Pinhills House, the principal house on the estate, stood on a rectangle enclosed by a moat. (fn. 72) In December 1644 it was captured by a royalist force, rendered uninhabitable, and perhaps partly demolished. (fn. 73) It was probably restored after the Civil War, and in 1728 a large house stood on the moated site. (fn. 74) It was later taken down, possibly c. 1771 after Castle House in Calne was enlarged for Daniel Bull. (fn. 75) Pinhills Farm, south of the moat, is on an L plan with a north-south range built in the 17th century. In the mid 18th century a west wing was added at the north end of that range, and a new gabled north entrance front was formed.
The passing of Pinhills to John's brother rather than a descendant of John is significant. Possibly the land was entailed although there appears to be a son of John named David. More likely there is a will for Robert Blake (father of these two) that directed the land to Robert and his heirs after the death of John. Possibly Robert was living elsewhere and did not wish to live at Pinhills at the time. The birth order is unknown although John tends to be placed as the youngest son. Perhaps John remained at Pinhills after his father's death although by the time of his death he is living at Nether Wallop. The Manor Records would likely help with this discussion and I must say that it is always Manor Records that I am lacking. Part of that is the time needed to read them. I imaged 100 pages of Andover Manor but have not yet had a chance to read them. Of the 2500 images that I took in 2008 at Salt Lake City I have managed to use just over 1800 of them but that leaves another 700 to go through before we go to Salt Lake City again.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Date: 30 Aug 2010
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/39 UK, #532/468
Testator: Roger Blake, Esquire
Location: Calne, Wiltshire, England
Date of document: 1 Jun 1557, probated 16 Nov 1557
Document quality: 16th century English, black legible copy
[Margin]: T[estament] Rogeri
[Margin]: Blake
1 In the name of God Amen The first daye of June, in the yere after the
2 incarnation of Christe a thousande fyve hundred fiftie and seven. I Roger Blake of pynne
3 hilles in the parrishe of Caln in the countie of Wiltes[hire] esquire being of whole mynde and of
4 good and parfite memorye thancks therefore be geven to allmighte God. knowing nothing to be
5 more certynne than death and the tyme thereof most uncertayne mynding therefore to prevente
6 the same with good delibera[t]ion and advise doo ordeyne and make this my last will and testa[men]t
7 in manner and forme following that is to say First I comitte my soule unto the mercye of
8 allmightie God the father obtayned throughout the merites of his deere sonne Jesus Christe
9 my savior the whiche with t[he ]holly goost I do acknowleadge and confesse to be one verye true
10 and everliving god. And my bodie when it shall please allmightie God to call me out of this
11 transitory worlde. I will decentlye to be buryed in the parrishe of Churche of Calne aforesaid
12 And as touching my goods and cattalles I will them to be ordred and distributed as shal[l ]be
13 hereafter limited and expressed that is to say First I geve and bequeath to myn eldest sonne
14 Thomas Blake all my leases and termes for yeres that I have of and in certiyne groundes
15 por[t]ionnes and tithes w[i]thin the feeldes parrishes and townes of Calne and Cheriell w[i]thin the
16 said countie of Wiltes[hire] provided alwais that Mary my wif shal[l ]have and enioye to her
17 owne use the possession and occupa[t]ion of all the said grounds por[t]ions and tithes w[i]thin the
18 said feeldes and parrishes of Calne and Cheriell. And all the revenues yssues and profitts
19 growing comyng or yerelie renewing out of the same and of ev[er]ye parte thereof ymmediately
20 from and after my decease so long as the same Mary shal live soole and unmarryed paying
21 therefore to the lordes the yerelie rente And also I geve unto my said sonne Thomas all
22 my goodes housholde stuff and stocke of sheepe and cattell that I have in and uppon my Farme
23 of Pynburye w[i]thin the Countie of Glouc[estershire] paying therefore w[i]thin nyn[e] yeres after my deacese
24 the somme of three score and one pounds and tenne shillinge of currant money to the church
25 wardens of the parrishe of Calne aforesaid. And furthermore I geve and bequeath to
26 my nephew Roger Blake the eldest sonne of my sonne Thomas all suche por[t]ion of my plate
27 housholde stuff and ymplements of householde being w[i]thin and aboute my mansion house of
28 Pynhills. And suche sheepe oxen kyen and other cattell young and pasturing uppon my
29 groundes belonging to the same mansion house and at Shawe as ar written in an Inven-
30 tarye indented and signed w[i]th myn owne hande whereof th[e ]one parte remaynuth in the
31 custodye of my cousen Edward Baynard and th[e ]other parte w[i]th my cousen John Willow-
32 by provided alwaies that my wif Mary Blake shall have the possession custody and
33 occupa[t]ion of all the saide plate houshold stuff ymplements of housholde and the said sheep
34 oxen kyne and other cattell conteyned w[i]thin the said inventarye during her life And that
35 after her decease my said sonne Thomas Blacke shal[l ]have the possession occupa[t]ion and
36 custodye of the same during his lief. And furthermore I do geve will and bequeathe
37 all my landes tenementis and hereditamentis with all and singular their app[ur]ten[an]ces
38 called or known by the name or names of Slowcrofte Blaaks pen or pensett lying and
39 being w[i]thin the parrishe of Calne in the said countie of Wiltes[hire] to Edward Baynard John
40 Erneley Harry Brancker Esquiers Vincent Goddard John Willoughby Richard Ussenham
41 Harry Rogers Antony Goddard Robert Baynard Henry Bull Laurence Baynard and
42 their heires to th[e ]uses following that is to saye First to those of the said Edward Baynard
43 John Erenley Henry Brancker Vincent Goddard John Willoughby Richard Ussenham
44 Harry Rogers Anthony [Goddard] Robert Baynard Henry Bull Laurence Baynarde and their heires
45 shall take and levie of th[e ]issues and profittes of the said landes tenements and hereditaments
46 called Slowcrofte Blakes pen or pens[ett] the som[m]e of two hundred pounds of currant money of
47 England whereof xl li first to be ____ shal[l ]be to th[e ]use of Antony Goddard my sonne in lawe one hundred with the other parte of the said somme of cc li paide shalbe to th[e ]use of Mary Blake my youngest daught[er]
48 for her advancement and preferrement in marriage provided alwaies that if the said
49 Mary my daughter happen to marrye without the consent of my cousen Edward Baynard and
50 Mary my saide wif. That thenne fortye poundes parcell of the said dowrie shal[ ]be to th[e ]uses
51 of my saide wife and of my said sonne Thomas and the residwe of the saide som[m]e of cc li
52 shal[l ]be to th[e ]use and for the paymet of the debtes of me the saide Roger. And after the said somme
53 of twoo hundred pounds by the said Edward Baynard John Erneley Henrye Brancker
54 Vincent Goddard John Willoughby Richard Ussenham Henry Rogers Antony Goddard Robert
55 Baynard Henrye Bull Laurence Baynard or their heirs to th[e ]uses aforesaid levied the
56 said Edward Henry John Vincent John Richard Harry Anthony Robert Henry and Laurence
57 and their heires shall ymmediately from thenceforth stand and be seazed of and in all th[e ]aforsaid
58 singular th[e ]appurtenances and of ev[er]y parte parcell and membre thereof to the soole and only
59 use of my said sonne Thomas Blake and of his heires for[ev]er provided alwaies that
60 Marye my wife shal[l ]have and enioye to her own use the whole possession occupa[t]ion and
61 ferme of all the said landes tenements and hereditaments within th[e ]appurtenance called Slowcroft
62 Blakes pen or pen so long as she shall use sole and unmarryed paying therefore yeralie to the
63 said Edward Baynard John Ernley Henry Brancker Vincent Goddard John Willoughby
64 Richard Ussenham Henry Rogers Anthony Goddard Robert Baynard Henry Bull Laurence
65 Baynard and their heires fourteen pounds of currante money of England at two tymes in
66 the yere, that is to say at the feasts of Th[e ]annunciation of our Ladye and Sainte Michaell
67 th[e ]Archangell by even por[t]ionnes unto suche tyme as the said somme of two hundred pounds
68 be by the said Edward John Henry Vincent John Richard Harry Anthony Robert Henry Laurence
69 or their heires fully levied to th[e ]uses and intentes before expressed And after the said somme
70 of two hundred pounds by the said Edward and the others before w[i]thyn named the said
71 Marye my wif shall pay the said yerelie rent of fourty pounds to the said Thomas Blake
72 and his heires at the dayes appointed so long as she shal[l ]have the possession and occupa[t]ion
73 and ferme of the said lands tent[ement]s and hereditaments called Slowcrofte Blakes pen
74 or penne The rest of my goodes not bequeathed I doe geave to my said wif Mary Blake
75 Whome I make my soole and whole executrixe And overseers of this my last will I doo appoint
76 and ordayne Edward Baynard and Henry Brancker esquiers and Robert Blake of Lavyng
77 ton And in token of profe that this is my very last will I have hereunto subscribed and sette
78 my seale the day and yere above written in the presence of Edward Baynard John
79 Willoughby Anthony Goddard W Asheman and other By me Roger Blake
The Blake Pedigree Chart at the Swindon and Wiltshire Record Office lists his children as:
Thomas (eldest son) married to Edith Ivy of Westkeinton
Sibil married to Henry Bull of Wiltshire
Robert (second son) married to Alice Smith of Lacock
Joane married to Anthony Goddard of Hartham
John (third son) of Hilcot married to Clark of Shaw
William (fourth son) of Eastontown (Hampshire) married to Avis Ripley
Mary married to Edward Langridge of Langridge (Hampshire)
His not mentioning all of his children has created a mystery in this family. The manor papers though might give more information on his family.
The Visitation of Wiltshire 1623 Blake family begins with Robert Blake married to Avis Wallop and mentions their seven children Gilbert (died without issue), Alexander (died without issue), John Blake (married to Margery Dauntsey with children Alice and Jane and the Blake Pedigree Chart gives him a son David by a 1st wife Margaret Dyncham/Denham/Dinham), Robert Blake (married to Margaret Englefield), Elizabeth, Joan and Alice (Alice died at eight years of age).
The Visitation lists the children of Robert Blake and Margaret Englefield as Roger Blake (married to Mary Baynard) and Anne married to Robert Baynard and this matches the Blake Pedigree chart held at the Swindon and Wiltshire Record Office.
Roger in his will mentions his Baynard cousins (Edward, Robert and Laurence) and this is likely Edward, Robert and Laurence sons of Robert Baynard and Anna Blake. One of the sons in law of Robert and Anna Baynard was John Willoughby. Other trustees are the husbands of his daughters Henry Bull and Anthony Goddard. The remaining trustees: Vincent Goddard (brother to Anthony Goddard), John Ern[e]ley (brother/nephew to the mother of Anthony and Vincent Goddard) with Harry Brancker, Harry Rogers and Richard Ussenham not appearing to be related to Roger although Richard Ussenham can be found in the Visitations of Wiltshire.
I find Roger Blake to be quite interesting because he lived at the same time as my ancestor Nicholas Blake. Roger does mention a Robert Blake of Lavyngton as one of his overseers and another mystery enters the picture. Who is Robert Blake at Lavington (Market Lavington is about 11 miles south of Calne)? I published the will of Thomas Blake of West Lavington which was probated 26 Feb 1573/74
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2012/10/will-of-thomas-blake-of-west-lavington.html
There is a brother Robert mentioned and I talked about the relationship between the family at Lavington and the family at Earlestoke. Do they fit into the Blake family at Calne? This is the first direct mention of the two families in one will. Definitely the Pedigree Chart above Robert Blake and Avice Wallop is simply a direct line back and younger/other siblings could be missing from this chart. The movement south from Calne had already begun by the mid 1500s (or were there Blake families south of Calne earlier than that even) but linking the families in southern Wiltshire and Dorset will require a very indepth study of the parish records (Dorset is now available on Ancestry and one of my projects is the extraction of the Blake entries).
This is a very valuable will for the Blake family at Calne. The eldest son of Roger is Thomas and he is the father of Roger Blake married to Wraxed Gastrill with this line continuing at Calne as the son of Roger and Wraxed is Henry. History records the story of the Blake family at Pinhills. During the Civil War the original house at Pinhills was partially demolished because of their support for the Parliamentarians. Henry's son Ambrose had succeeded his father at Pinhills in this time period. The Blake family continued at Pinhills into the early 1700s when the Bull family succeeded to the estate. Does this mean that the direct line from Ambrose (his son was Henry who died in 1731) Blake daughtered out? But there is apparently a book entitled "Pinhills" by P. Buckenridge and J. Pocock (Ref: CAW.727) which is available giving detailed information on the origins and history of Pinhills and its owners. Would really like to see that one and will try to find a copy.
http://www.wshc.eu/blog/pinhills-a-forgotten-wiltshire-manor.html
British History Online also has a write up on Calne:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=18038
Of the small and several freeholds west of Calne's open fields, probably originating in piecemeal grants or sales of demesne pasture of the king's estate or Calne manor, (fn. 59) seven lay south of the Marden. PINHILLS was held in 1407 by John Formage, to whom it had been conveyed by John Patford, the son and heir of David Patford. (fn. 60) A share in what was probably the estate was acquired from William York by John Cricklade, the lord of Studley manor, in an exchange in 1461. (fn. 61) Pinhills was reputed a manor in 1504, when it was held at his death by John Blake. Although John's heirs were his grandson Richard Dauntsey and his daughter Joan Wroughton, Pinhills apparently passed to his brother Robert Blake (d. 1515) and in the direct line to Roger (d. 1557), Thomas (fn. 62) (d. by 1599), Roger, Henry (will proved 1653), and Henry Blake (d. 1660), who devised it to his grandson Henry Blake (fn. 63) (d. 1731). Henry held Pinhills in 1698, (fn. 64) apparently not in 1728, when it was 157 a. (fn. 65) By 1738 Pinhills had been acquired by B. H. Stiles (d. 1739), and it may have been part of the property sold by his nephew and heir Sir Francis Stiles in 1746. (fn. 66) It was acquired by Daniel Bull (d. 1791), who in 1769 sold the reversion of it after his death to William Petty, earl of Shelburne (cr. marquess of Lansdowne 1784). (fn. 67) Pinhills farm, 135 a., was among lands settled in 1802 by Lord Lansdowne on his son Henry, marquess of Lansdowne from 1809, offered for sale in 1808 by order of Chancery, and bought in 1809 by John, marquess of Lansdowne (d. 1809). (fn. 68) John's successor Henry, marquess of Lansdowne, sold the farm, 87 a., in 1813 (fn. 69) and bought it again in 1816. (fn. 70) Pinhills farm has since belonged to the owners of Bowood House. (fn. 71) Pinhills House, the principal house on the estate, stood on a rectangle enclosed by a moat. (fn. 72) In December 1644 it was captured by a royalist force, rendered uninhabitable, and perhaps partly demolished. (fn. 73) It was probably restored after the Civil War, and in 1728 a large house stood on the moated site. (fn. 74) It was later taken down, possibly c. 1771 after Castle House in Calne was enlarged for Daniel Bull. (fn. 75) Pinhills Farm, south of the moat, is on an L plan with a north-south range built in the 17th century. In the mid 18th century a west wing was added at the north end of that range, and a new gabled north entrance front was formed.
The passing of Pinhills to John's brother rather than a descendant of John is significant. Possibly the land was entailed although there appears to be a son of John named David. More likely there is a will for Robert Blake (father of these two) that directed the land to Robert and his heirs after the death of John. Possibly Robert was living elsewhere and did not wish to live at Pinhills at the time. The birth order is unknown although John tends to be placed as the youngest son. Perhaps John remained at Pinhills after his father's death although by the time of his death he is living at Nether Wallop. The Manor Records would likely help with this discussion and I must say that it is always Manor Records that I am lacking. Part of that is the time needed to read them. I imaged 100 pages of Andover Manor but have not yet had a chance to read them. Of the 2500 images that I took in 2008 at Salt Lake City I have managed to use just over 1800 of them but that leaves another 700 to go through before we go to Salt Lake City again.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Date: 30 Aug 2010
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/39 UK, #532/468
Testator: Roger Blake, Esquire
Location: Calne, Wiltshire, England
Date of document: 1 Jun 1557, probated 16 Nov 1557
Document quality: 16th century English, black legible copy
[Margin]: T[estament] Rogeri
[Margin]: Blake
1 In the name of God Amen The first daye of June, in the yere after the
2 incarnation of Christe a thousande fyve hundred fiftie and seven. I Roger Blake of pynne
3 hilles in the parrishe of Caln in the countie of Wiltes[hire] esquire being of whole mynde and of
4 good and parfite memorye thancks therefore be geven to allmighte God. knowing nothing to be
5 more certynne than death and the tyme thereof most uncertayne mynding therefore to prevente
6 the same with good delibera[t]ion and advise doo ordeyne and make this my last will and testa[men]t
7 in manner and forme following that is to say First I comitte my soule unto the mercye of
8 allmightie God the father obtayned throughout the merites of his deere sonne Jesus Christe
9 my savior the whiche with t[he ]holly goost I do acknowleadge and confesse to be one verye true
10 and everliving god. And my bodie when it shall please allmightie God to call me out of this
11 transitory worlde. I will decentlye to be buryed in the parrishe of Churche of Calne aforesaid
12 And as touching my goods and cattalles I will them to be ordred and distributed as shal[l ]be
13 hereafter limited and expressed that is to say First I geve and bequeath to myn eldest sonne
14 Thomas Blake all my leases and termes for yeres that I have of and in certiyne groundes
15 por[t]ionnes and tithes w[i]thin the feeldes parrishes and townes of Calne and Cheriell w[i]thin the
16 said countie of Wiltes[hire] provided alwais that Mary my wif shal[l ]have and enioye to her
17 owne use the possession and occupa[t]ion of all the said grounds por[t]ions and tithes w[i]thin the
18 said feeldes and parrishes of Calne and Cheriell. And all the revenues yssues and profitts
19 growing comyng or yerelie renewing out of the same and of ev[er]ye parte thereof ymmediately
20 from and after my decease so long as the same Mary shal live soole and unmarryed paying
21 therefore to the lordes the yerelie rente And also I geve unto my said sonne Thomas all
22 my goodes housholde stuff and stocke of sheepe and cattell that I have in and uppon my Farme
23 of Pynburye w[i]thin the Countie of Glouc[estershire] paying therefore w[i]thin nyn[e] yeres after my deacese
24 the somme of three score and one pounds and tenne shillinge of currant money to the church
25 wardens of the parrishe of Calne aforesaid. And furthermore I geve and bequeath to
26 my nephew Roger Blake the eldest sonne of my sonne Thomas all suche por[t]ion of my plate
27 housholde stuff and ymplements of householde being w[i]thin and aboute my mansion house of
28 Pynhills. And suche sheepe oxen kyen and other cattell young and pasturing uppon my
29 groundes belonging to the same mansion house and at Shawe as ar written in an Inven-
30 tarye indented and signed w[i]th myn owne hande whereof th[e ]one parte remaynuth in the
31 custodye of my cousen Edward Baynard and th[e ]other parte w[i]th my cousen John Willow-
32 by provided alwaies that my wif Mary Blake shall have the possession custody and
33 occupa[t]ion of all the saide plate houshold stuff ymplements of housholde and the said sheep
34 oxen kyne and other cattell conteyned w[i]thin the said inventarye during her life And that
35 after her decease my said sonne Thomas Blacke shal[l ]have the possession occupa[t]ion and
36 custodye of the same during his lief. And furthermore I do geve will and bequeathe
37 all my landes tenementis and hereditamentis with all and singular their app[ur]ten[an]ces
38 called or known by the name or names of Slowcrofte Blaaks pen or pensett lying and
39 being w[i]thin the parrishe of Calne in the said countie of Wiltes[hire] to Edward Baynard John
40 Erneley Harry Brancker Esquiers Vincent Goddard John Willoughby Richard Ussenham
41 Harry Rogers Antony Goddard Robert Baynard Henry Bull Laurence Baynard and
42 their heires to th[e ]uses following that is to saye First to those of the said Edward Baynard
43 John Erenley Henry Brancker Vincent Goddard John Willoughby Richard Ussenham
44 Harry Rogers Anthony [Goddard] Robert Baynard Henry Bull Laurence Baynarde and their heires
45 shall take and levie of th[e ]issues and profittes of the said landes tenements and hereditaments
46 called Slowcrofte Blakes pen or pens[ett] the som[m]e of two hundred pounds of currant money of
47 England whereof xl li first to be ____ shal[l ]be to th[e ]use of Antony Goddard my sonne in lawe one hundred with the other parte of the said somme of cc li paide shalbe to th[e ]use of Mary Blake my youngest daught[er]
48 for her advancement and preferrement in marriage provided alwaies that if the said
49 Mary my daughter happen to marrye without the consent of my cousen Edward Baynard and
50 Mary my saide wif. That thenne fortye poundes parcell of the said dowrie shal[ ]be to th[e ]uses
51 of my saide wife and of my said sonne Thomas and the residwe of the saide som[m]e of cc li
52 shal[l ]be to th[e ]use and for the paymet of the debtes of me the saide Roger. And after the said somme
53 of twoo hundred pounds by the said Edward Baynard John Erneley Henrye Brancker
54 Vincent Goddard John Willoughby Richard Ussenham Henry Rogers Antony Goddard Robert
55 Baynard Henrye Bull Laurence Baynard or their heirs to th[e ]uses aforesaid levied the
56 said Edward Henry John Vincent John Richard Harry Anthony Robert Henry and Laurence
57 and their heires shall ymmediately from thenceforth stand and be seazed of and in all th[e ]aforsaid
58 singular th[e ]appurtenances and of ev[er]y parte parcell and membre thereof to the soole and only
59 use of my said sonne Thomas Blake and of his heires for[ev]er provided alwaies that
60 Marye my wife shal[l ]have and enioye to her own use the whole possession occupa[t]ion and
61 ferme of all the said landes tenements and hereditaments within th[e ]appurtenance called Slowcroft
62 Blakes pen or pen so long as she shall use sole and unmarryed paying therefore yeralie to the
63 said Edward Baynard John Ernley Henry Brancker Vincent Goddard John Willoughby
64 Richard Ussenham Henry Rogers Anthony Goddard Robert Baynard Henry Bull Laurence
65 Baynard and their heires fourteen pounds of currante money of England at two tymes in
66 the yere, that is to say at the feasts of Th[e ]annunciation of our Ladye and Sainte Michaell
67 th[e ]Archangell by even por[t]ionnes unto suche tyme as the said somme of two hundred pounds
68 be by the said Edward John Henry Vincent John Richard Harry Anthony Robert Henry Laurence
69 or their heires fully levied to th[e ]uses and intentes before expressed And after the said somme
70 of two hundred pounds by the said Edward and the others before w[i]thyn named the said
71 Marye my wif shall pay the said yerelie rent of fourty pounds to the said Thomas Blake
72 and his heires at the dayes appointed so long as she shal[l ]have the possession and occupa[t]ion
73 and ferme of the said lands tent[ement]s and hereditaments called Slowcrofte Blakes pen
74 or penne The rest of my goodes not bequeathed I doe geave to my said wif Mary Blake
75 Whome I make my soole and whole executrixe And overseers of this my last will I doo appoint
76 and ordayne Edward Baynard and Henry Brancker esquiers and Robert Blake of Lavyng
77 ton And in token of profe that this is my very last will I have hereunto subscribed and sette
78 my seale the day and yere above written in the presence of Edward Baynard John
79 Willoughby Anthony Goddard W Asheman and other By me Roger Blake
Friday, November 30, 2012
Will of Elizabeth Blake widow of Ebbisham Surrey - The National Archives PROB 11/199/754, probated 16 Mar 1646/47
Elizabeth Blake is the testator in this will and she is a widow of Ebisham Surrey (Ebbisham and now Epsom although called in the Domesday Survey Ebbisham and the name is derived supposedly from the name Ebba (princess of Northumbria). I have used the double dating for this will to show that it was probated just five months after it was written. As mentioned earlier I normally do not add the extra /two digit date as I do not find it inconvenient to think in terms of the year beginning in late March and ending in March up to 1752.
Elizabeth reveals a number of interesting details which includes her daughters Joan Fulke and Elizabeth Parkhurst (deceased). Her sister Anne Bowyer and her brother Rathyar Wrench and hence the maiden name of Elizabeth is Wrench. Her grandchildren namely a grandson and grand daughter Fulke of Beddington and a grandson William Parkhurst of Ewell. Nothing about her husband has been found to date.
Time is shortening for me at the moment with Christmas coming so have taken a cursory glance at Family History website (IGI), Ancestry and Find My Past but did not locate any information on this family. Will investigate later.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 29 Nov 2012
Source: The National Archives PROB 11/199/754
Testator: Elizabeth Blake, widow
Place: Ebbisham, Surrey, England
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 18 Nov 1646, probated 16 Mar 1646/47
Read: Electronic copy images
Condition: middle English writing fine, light copy
[Margin] T[esta]m[ent] Elizabethe
[Margin] Blake
1 In the name of God Amen
2 The Eighteenth daie of November in the yeare of our Lord God One thousand
3 sixe hundred fortie and sixe I Elizabeth Blake in the Countie of Surrey and of
4 the parish of Ebisham in the said countie widdowe doe make this my last will
5 and Testament in manner and forme followinge First I bequeath my Soule
6 unto God my Maker trustinge assuredly through the merritts of his Sonne
7 Christ Jesus my Savyour to have eternall Salvation Secondly I bequeath my
8 bodie to bee buryed in the parish churchyard of Ebisham if I dye in the said
9 parish Inprimis I bequeath unto the two children of my daughter Fulke
10 (namely Joane Fulke of the parish of Beddington in the countie of Surrey above-
11 said one sonne and a daughter to each of them the summe of Fortie shillinges a
12 peece within sixe monethes after my decease if they then bee lyvinge And if
13 it channce that either of these said children dye before mee That his or her parte
14 shall goe to the Survyvour And if it happen that both these said children dye
15 before mee That then it shall goe unto William Parkhurst of Ewell in Surrey
16 Sonne unto my daughter Elizabeth Parkhurst of Ewell aforesaid deceased Item
17 I give unto the aforesaid William Parkhurst my daughter's sonne of Ewell
18 likewise the summe of Fortie shillinges To be paid unto the said William
19 Parkhurst alsoe within sixe monethes after my decease And if it channce that
20 the said William Parkhurst doe dye likewise before mee That then his said
21 portion shall goe unto my sister Anne Bowyer Item I give unto my cozen
22 Joane Stanesnore a paire of hempen sheetes Item I give unto the daughter
23 of my Brother Rathyar Wrench namely Jeane Wrench likewise one paire of
24 hempen sheetes Item it is my will that my sister Anne Bowyer shalle bee
25 my full and sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament and to have
26 all my goods whatsoever As alsoe my lease after my debts beinge paid and
27 these legacies aforesaid performed To have the remaynder Item it is my Will
28 That Anthony Price and Thomas Rogers of Ebisham to bee thee Overseeers of
29 this my last Will and Testament Memorandum that the said Elizabeth Blake
30 Widdow was at the makeing of this Will in good and perfect mynde and
31 memory praised bee God and walked about the house of Elizabeth Blake Widdowe
32 her marke Witnesses by us whose names are here underwritten Tho: Boyse
33 Anthony Price Thomas Pearkeare Aryhillis Richball her marke Alice Kinge
34 her marke
Elizabeth reveals a number of interesting details which includes her daughters Joan Fulke and Elizabeth Parkhurst (deceased). Her sister Anne Bowyer and her brother Rathyar Wrench and hence the maiden name of Elizabeth is Wrench. Her grandchildren namely a grandson and grand daughter Fulke of Beddington and a grandson William Parkhurst of Ewell. Nothing about her husband has been found to date.
Time is shortening for me at the moment with Christmas coming so have taken a cursory glance at Family History website (IGI), Ancestry and Find My Past but did not locate any information on this family. Will investigate later.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 29 Nov 2012
Source: The National Archives PROB 11/199/754
Testator: Elizabeth Blake, widow
Place: Ebbisham, Surrey, England
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 18 Nov 1646, probated 16 Mar 1646/47
Read: Electronic copy images
Condition: middle English writing fine, light copy
[Margin] T[esta]m[ent] Elizabethe
[Margin] Blake
1 In the name of God Amen
2 The Eighteenth daie of November in the yeare of our Lord God One thousand
3 sixe hundred fortie and sixe I Elizabeth Blake in the Countie of Surrey and of
4 the parish of Ebisham in the said countie widdowe doe make this my last will
5 and Testament in manner and forme followinge First I bequeath my Soule
6 unto God my Maker trustinge assuredly through the merritts of his Sonne
7 Christ Jesus my Savyour to have eternall Salvation Secondly I bequeath my
8 bodie to bee buryed in the parish churchyard of Ebisham if I dye in the said
9 parish Inprimis I bequeath unto the two children of my daughter Fulke
10 (namely Joane Fulke of the parish of Beddington in the countie of Surrey above-
11 said one sonne and a daughter to each of them the summe of Fortie shillinges a
12 peece within sixe monethes after my decease if they then bee lyvinge And if
13 it channce that either of these said children dye before mee That his or her parte
14 shall goe to the Survyvour And if it happen that both these said children dye
15 before mee That then it shall goe unto William Parkhurst of Ewell in Surrey
16 Sonne unto my daughter Elizabeth Parkhurst of Ewell aforesaid deceased Item
17 I give unto the aforesaid William Parkhurst my daughter's sonne of Ewell
18 likewise the summe of Fortie shillinges To be paid unto the said William
19 Parkhurst alsoe within sixe monethes after my decease And if it channce that
20 the said William Parkhurst doe dye likewise before mee That then his said
21 portion shall goe unto my sister Anne Bowyer Item I give unto my cozen
22 Joane Stanesnore a paire of hempen sheetes Item I give unto the daughter
23 of my Brother Rathyar Wrench namely Jeane Wrench likewise one paire of
24 hempen sheetes Item it is my will that my sister Anne Bowyer shalle bee
25 my full and sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament and to have
26 all my goods whatsoever As alsoe my lease after my debts beinge paid and
27 these legacies aforesaid performed To have the remaynder Item it is my Will
28 That Anthony Price and Thomas Rogers of Ebisham to bee thee Overseeers of
29 this my last Will and Testament Memorandum that the said Elizabeth Blake
30 Widdow was at the makeing of this Will in good and perfect mynde and
31 memory praised bee God and walked about the house of Elizabeth Blake Widdowe
32 her marke Witnesses by us whose names are here underwritten Tho: Boyse
33 Anthony Price Thomas Pearkeare Aryhillis Richball her marke Alice Kinge
34 her marke
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Will of William Blake of Warminster - SWRO P2/1Reg/1B, probated 8 Mar 1539 (old style)
A second Blake will at Warmister in this group of wills. In total there are ten wills/admon for Blake members at Warminster with this particular one being the oldest and it is for William Blake probated in 1539. The next will there is for Henry Blake in 1571, followed by the will of Thomas Blake in 1584. Then a jump to 1626 with a will for Henry Blake and 1639 a will for John Blake (yeoman). Then a will for a William Blake circa 1688 and followed by a will for William Blake Grocer 1702 (and another for a William Blake in 1701). I only hold these two wills from the Swindon and Wiltshire Record Office.
This is the oldest will in this group of wills from the Swindon and Wiltshire Record Office. I acquired them a number of years ago but have not transcribed them or actually even read them in all this time. I had hoped that they would reveal more about the early Blake family in Wiltshire and in some ways they have done so. Linking some of them together has been a bonus.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 24 Oct 2012
Source: Swindon and Wiltshire Record Office P2/1Reg/1B
Name of testator: William Blake
Place: Warminster, Wiltshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 19 Aug 1539, 8 Mar 1539 (old style)
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Condition: 16th century, middle English, smallish writing (some bleed through)
[Margin] Blake C
1 In the name of god Amen In the yere of our Lord god a[nno] M CCCCC
2 xxxix ti the xix daye of August I Wyllam Blake of
3 warmister hole in mynd and of good memery never the lasse wyeke
4 in body make my laste testament and my laste wyll in that man[ner]
5 and forme folowynge Fyrste I bequeth my sowle to
6 allmyghty god and my body to be buryed in the church of warminster
7 Allso I give unto Wyssley my wyffe all my fre land whiche
8 I have purchesye durynge the terme of her lyfe and after
9 the decesse of her lyfe and after the decsse of her lyfe The same
10 lande to remayne to remayne to remayne to harry my sone and to
11 his heires male and after the decesse of he heres male and
12 for lackynge of them that is to saye of the sayd harry the same
13 land to remayne to his nexte brother in ayg and to his hayrys
14 male so yt the same land to remayne styll to remayne in the
15 name of the Blake so longe as ther be heres male to in
16 herytt yt and for fanot of heires male the same land shall
17 come to heires female that ys to the eyre generall the nexte of
18 the blood Allso I geve to my wyfe all suche goods as be in my
19 howse moveable and unmoveable unmoveable except iij longe table
20 bords w[i]t[h] fowrnigs and trestells partenynge thereto which shall remayne
21 styll in the howse and y geve to here all the wool in my barton and the
22 wool in the porte way And viii lods of wool lynge w[i]t[h] ewes
23 my yeat and all my olde whete and on may of barley and ij kyne and wone
24 mare Allso I give to Stephyn my sonne my purchasse called
25 Putleres and my oxene w[i]t[h] all man[ner] of harnesse p[er]teynynge there to
26 suffycyent for vi oxen Allso I geve to Thomas my sone the
27 purchesse of the tenement whiche Olyvere Taner dewelethe in
28 Into his use and proffet Allso I geve and bequethe to my iij
29 yongest sonnys Thomas Nycholas and John all my crope croppe of
30 corne and haye excepte yt above named to my wyffe Allso I
31 geve to them a xi herssys and x oxen ij stere bullocks iij
32 weynynge callves and xvij shepe and all the wool wyth owte my yeat
33 except viij lods geven to my wyffe above namyd And all
34 my dettes which be dewe to me to be payed Allso I give to my
35 ij dowghters Elizabeth and Angnes xiij L vi s iiij d to be taken out
36 of the por[t]ion of the goods which I have given to my iij yongest
37 sonnys above named and to be equaly devyded by twyxt them
38 by the dyfision of John Rawlyns and George Rawlyins and my
39 sone harry blake whiche I make my overseers to se that my last
40 wyll instlye and truly fullfylled and I gave ye said John Rawlynes
41 and George eche of them for ther paynye xxvi s viij d It[e]m I give
42 to reparynge and mendynge of the second bell in warmister thereof x s
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43 Allso I geve to B Everatt Robarts iij s iiij d all the reste of my goodyes and cattall
44 and un moveabyll I geve and bequethe to my iij yongeste sonnys a bove
45 namely Thomas John and Nycholas and I make theme my full executors
46 to ex[p]ence for the dyscharge of my sowle by the ov[er]syetht and consayle of
47 my overseeres above named Allso yf any of my chylderene above named
48 dep[ar]te owte of this world before they be of lawfull age to have the use of
49 my goods a bove wryten I wyll there p[ar]te and porcyon shall remayne to
50 the other as well my dowters as my sonnys Allso I wyll that my
51 ov[er]seere above named John George and harry shall have the full over
52 syght and governance of my sonnys above named Thomas Nycholas and
53 John and of ther goods tyll they be of aege and dysiziyon to have the
54 use of them Those men beynge wytnesse Syr Everatt Robarts
55 pryst Richard Robarts Fysbere Thomas Rogers John Swage w[i]t[h] many mo[re]
This is the oldest will in this group of wills from the Swindon and Wiltshire Record Office. I acquired them a number of years ago but have not transcribed them or actually even read them in all this time. I had hoped that they would reveal more about the early Blake family in Wiltshire and in some ways they have done so. Linking some of them together has been a bonus.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 24 Oct 2012
Source: Swindon and Wiltshire Record Office P2/1Reg/1B
Name of testator: William Blake
Place: Warminster, Wiltshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 19 Aug 1539, 8 Mar 1539 (old style)
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Condition: 16th century, middle English, smallish writing (some bleed through)
[Margin] Blake C
1 In the name of god Amen In the yere of our Lord god a[nno] M CCCCC
2 xxxix ti the xix daye of August I Wyllam Blake of
3 warmister hole in mynd and of good memery never the lasse wyeke
4 in body make my laste testament and my laste wyll in that man[ner]
5 and forme folowynge Fyrste I bequeth my sowle to
6 allmyghty god and my body to be buryed in the church of warminster
7 Allso I give unto Wyssley my wyffe all my fre land whiche
8 I have purchesye durynge the terme of her lyfe and after
9 the decesse of her lyfe and after the decsse of her lyfe The same
10 lande to remayne to remayne to remayne to harry my sone and to
11 his heires male and after the decesse of he heres male and
12 for lackynge of them that is to saye of the sayd harry the same
13 land to remayne to his nexte brother in ayg and to his hayrys
14 male so yt the same land to remayne styll to remayne in the
15 name of the Blake so longe as ther be heres male to in
16 herytt yt and for fanot of heires male the same land shall
17 come to heires female that ys to the eyre generall the nexte of
18 the blood Allso I geve to my wyfe all suche goods as be in my
19 howse moveable and unmoveable unmoveable except iij longe table
20 bords w[i]t[h] fowrnigs and trestells partenynge thereto which shall remayne
21 styll in the howse and y geve to here all the wool in my barton and the
22 wool in the porte way And viii lods of wool lynge w[i]t[h] ewes
23 my yeat and all my olde whete and on may of barley and ij kyne and wone
24 mare Allso I give to Stephyn my sonne my purchasse called
25 Putleres and my oxene w[i]t[h] all man[ner] of harnesse p[er]teynynge there to
26 suffycyent for vi oxen Allso I geve to Thomas my sone the
27 purchesse of the tenement whiche Olyvere Taner dewelethe in
28 Into his use and proffet Allso I geve and bequethe to my iij
29 yongest sonnys Thomas Nycholas and John all my crope croppe of
30 corne and haye excepte yt above named to my wyffe Allso I
31 geve to them a xi herssys and x oxen ij stere bullocks iij
32 weynynge callves and xvij shepe and all the wool wyth owte my yeat
33 except viij lods geven to my wyffe above namyd And all
34 my dettes which be dewe to me to be payed Allso I give to my
35 ij dowghters Elizabeth and Angnes xiij L vi s iiij d to be taken out
36 of the por[t]ion of the goods which I have given to my iij yongest
37 sonnys above named and to be equaly devyded by twyxt them
38 by the dyfision of John Rawlyns and George Rawlyins and my
39 sone harry blake whiche I make my overseers to se that my last
40 wyll instlye and truly fullfylled and I gave ye said John Rawlynes
41 and George eche of them for ther paynye xxvi s viij d It[e]m I give
42 to reparynge and mendynge of the second bell in warmister thereof x s
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43 Allso I geve to B Everatt Robarts iij s iiij d all the reste of my goodyes and cattall
44 and un moveabyll I geve and bequethe to my iij yongeste sonnys a bove
45 namely Thomas John and Nycholas and I make theme my full executors
46 to ex[p]ence for the dyscharge of my sowle by the ov[er]syetht and consayle of
47 my overseeres above named Allso yf any of my chylderene above named
48 dep[ar]te owte of this world before they be of lawfull age to have the use of
49 my goods a bove wryten I wyll there p[ar]te and porcyon shall remayne to
50 the other as well my dowters as my sonnys Allso I wyll that my
51 ov[er]seere above named John George and harry shall have the full over
52 syght and governance of my sonnys above named Thomas Nycholas and
53 John and of ther goods tyll they be of aege and dysiziyon to have the
54 use of them Those men beynge wytnesse Syr Everatt Robarts
55 pryst Richard Robarts Fysbere Thomas Rogers John Swage w[i]t[h] many mo[re]
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Will of William Blake, Slacksteed - The National Archives PROB 11/285/239, probated 31 Dec 1658
Testator William Blake of Slacksteed Hampshire has given a Noncupative will which was recorded by his Overseers Stephen Rogers and Richard Ewens. William's wife at the time (not the mother of his children) was Avice. William's children were John, Anthony, Thomas, Elizabeth Collice, Richard and Katherine Rogers (the two daughters being married).
Slacksteed is his present abode but he does mention Sparsholt which is interesting as I have already transcribed Blake wills at Sparsholt. Slackstead is a tything in the parish of Farley-Chamberlayne and this parish is just 5 miles north east of Romsey and hence six miles south east of Winchester. Sparsholt is 3.5 miles north west of Winchester just to give a location to the named places.
I did not find a marriage for William and Avice in Family Search of Find My Past.
Looking at the children mentioned in the will of William Blake (http://www.knightroots.co.uk/transcriptions/Parishes_S/Sparsholt/Marriages/marriages.htm):
Richard Collys married Elizabeth More (widow - Blake?) 11 Apr 1630 at Sparsholt
Joane Blake married John Coloway 7 Oct 1633 at Sparsholt
Thomas Blake married Sarah Blake 5 Oct 1646 at Sparsholt
John Blake married Agnes Blake 24 Sep 1660 (both of Sparsholt) at Sparsholt
Blake baptisms at Sparsholt (http://www.knightroots.co.uk/transcriptions/Parishes_S/Sparsholt/Baptisms/baptisms.htm)
Margaret Blake baptized 29 Sep 1610
Jone Blake baptized 1 Nov 1612
John Blake baptized 27 Sep 1613
Katherine Blake baptized 16 Feb 1614
Robert Blake baptized 1 Jan 1615
Missings are baptisms for Anthony, Thomas and Richard. The baptisms for Blake children continue but they are likely for the grandchildren of the testator.
The burials begin in 1628 and I found: (http://www.knightroots.co.uk/transcriptions/Parishes_S/Sparsholt/Burials/burials.htm):
Will Blake (old is the notation) and he was buried 18 Jan 1657
These pages from Knights Roots OPC Hampshire website contain a lot of Blake entries and I will revisit this later when I am working on the Blake family in the Sparsholt area. William's children are baptized early the 1600s and William is noted as old in the burial register and perhaps in his 70s or 80s His daughter Jone was married in 1633 and her sons Thomas and John Calloway are mentioned in the will but not Joane so presumably she has died (although not listed in the Sparsholt Parish Register).
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 15 Oct 2012
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/285/239
Name of testator: William Blake, Yeoman
Place: Slacksteed, Hampshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Dated:8 Jan 1657, probated 31 Dec 1658
Read: Electronic file images
Condition: middle English, 17th century, tiny writing, smudged but legible copy
[In margin] William Blake
[In margin] 370
1 Memorandum, That upon, or
2 About the eight day of January in the yeare of our Lord God, one thousand six hundred
3 fifty and seven I William Blake then of Slacksteed in the County of South[amp]ton yeoman
4 being visited with his last sicknes, yet of good and p[er]fect memory and understanding
5 did make, and declare his last Will and Testament Noncupative in manner and forme
6 following, or to the lyke effect. First, After he had Committed his soule to God, and his
7 body to the earth, he gave and bequeathed unto Avice his wife all those goods that were hers
8 before he marryed her and five pounds in money, and to her children five shillings a peice
9 Item, he gave, and bequeathed unto John Blake his sonne his best brasse pann Item he
10 gave, and bequeathed unto his sonne Anthony Blake twenty markes. And unto his children
^ his sonne Thomas Blake the table board at Sparsholt and to his children five shillings a peice. Item he gave, and bequeathed unto
11 five shillings a peice Item he gave and bequeathed unto ^ Elizabeth Collice his daughter
12 twenty markes. Item he gave, and bequeathed unto his daughter Alice Arnell twenty
13 pounds, and to her children five shillings a peice. Item, he gave, and bequeathed unto his
14 grandaughter Susan Wassell five pounds. Item, he gave, and bequeathed unto his grandsone
15 John Calloway five shillings. And unto Thomas Calloway his other grandsone he gave
16 and bequeathed twenty shillings. Item, he gave, and bequeathed to his grandchildren (vis)
17 The children of Richard Blake his sonne, and of Katherine Rogers his daughter five
18 shillings a peice. And all the rest of his goods and Chattells was bequeathed (after his debts and
19 Legacies paid, and his funeral expences discharged) he gave, and bequeathed unto the said
20 Richard Blake his sone, and Katherine Rogers his daughter equally to be devided
21 betweene them whom he made the ioynt Executors of this his last Will and Testament
22 Noncupative; And desired Stephen Rogers and Richard Ewens to be Overseers
23 thereof. Allwith or the lyke in effect the Testator William Blake did publish, declare
24 as, and for his last Will, and Testament Nuncupative in the p[re]sence and hearing of the
25 s[ai]d Stephen Rogers, and Richard Ewens who in testemony thereof have hereunto
26 sett their hands, the marke of Richard Ewens, the mark of Stephen Rogers
27 This Will was proved at London, the one and thirtyth day of December, One
28 Thousand six hundred fifty eight, before the Judges for Probates of Wills etc by the
29 oaths of Richard Blake his sone and Katherine Rogers the daughter ioynt
30 Ex[ecu]tors to whom Admon etc was Committed they being first by Commission sworne
31 truely to Administer etc
Slacksteed is his present abode but he does mention Sparsholt which is interesting as I have already transcribed Blake wills at Sparsholt. Slackstead is a tything in the parish of Farley-Chamberlayne and this parish is just 5 miles north east of Romsey and hence six miles south east of Winchester. Sparsholt is 3.5 miles north west of Winchester just to give a location to the named places.
I did not find a marriage for William and Avice in Family Search of Find My Past.
Looking at the children mentioned in the will of William Blake (http://www.knightroots.co.uk/transcriptions/Parishes_S/Sparsholt/Marriages/marriages.htm):
Richard Collys married Elizabeth More (widow - Blake?) 11 Apr 1630 at Sparsholt
Joane Blake married John Coloway 7 Oct 1633 at Sparsholt
Thomas Blake married Sarah Blake 5 Oct 1646 at Sparsholt
John Blake married Agnes Blake 24 Sep 1660 (both of Sparsholt) at Sparsholt
Blake baptisms at Sparsholt (http://www.knightroots.co.uk/transcriptions/Parishes_S/Sparsholt/Baptisms/baptisms.htm)
Margaret Blake baptized 29 Sep 1610
Jone Blake baptized 1 Nov 1612
John Blake baptized 27 Sep 1613
Katherine Blake baptized 16 Feb 1614
Robert Blake baptized 1 Jan 1615
Missings are baptisms for Anthony, Thomas and Richard. The baptisms for Blake children continue but they are likely for the grandchildren of the testator.
The burials begin in 1628 and I found: (http://www.knightroots.co.uk/transcriptions/Parishes_S/Sparsholt/Burials/burials.htm):
Will Blake (old is the notation) and he was buried 18 Jan 1657
These pages from Knights Roots OPC Hampshire website contain a lot of Blake entries and I will revisit this later when I am working on the Blake family in the Sparsholt area. William's children are baptized early the 1600s and William is noted as old in the burial register and perhaps in his 70s or 80s His daughter Jone was married in 1633 and her sons Thomas and John Calloway are mentioned in the will but not Joane so presumably she has died (although not listed in the Sparsholt Parish Register).
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 15 Oct 2012
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/285/239
Name of testator: William Blake, Yeoman
Place: Slacksteed, Hampshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Dated:8 Jan 1657, probated 31 Dec 1658
Read: Electronic file images
Condition: middle English, 17th century, tiny writing, smudged but legible copy
[In margin] William Blake
[In margin] 370
1 Memorandum, That upon, or
2 About the eight day of January in the yeare of our Lord God, one thousand six hundred
3 fifty and seven I William Blake then of Slacksteed in the County of South[amp]ton yeoman
4 being visited with his last sicknes, yet of good and p[er]fect memory and understanding
5 did make, and declare his last Will and Testament Noncupative in manner and forme
6 following, or to the lyke effect. First, After he had Committed his soule to God, and his
7 body to the earth, he gave and bequeathed unto Avice his wife all those goods that were hers
8 before he marryed her and five pounds in money, and to her children five shillings a peice
9 Item, he gave, and bequeathed unto John Blake his sonne his best brasse pann Item he
10 gave, and bequeathed unto his sonne Anthony Blake twenty markes. And unto his children
^ his sonne Thomas Blake the table board at Sparsholt and to his children five shillings a peice. Item he gave, and bequeathed unto
11 five shillings a peice Item he gave and bequeathed unto ^ Elizabeth Collice his daughter
12 twenty markes. Item he gave, and bequeathed unto his daughter Alice Arnell twenty
13 pounds, and to her children five shillings a peice. Item, he gave, and bequeathed unto his
14 grandaughter Susan Wassell five pounds. Item, he gave, and bequeathed unto his grandsone
15 John Calloway five shillings. And unto Thomas Calloway his other grandsone he gave
16 and bequeathed twenty shillings. Item, he gave, and bequeathed to his grandchildren (vis)
17 The children of Richard Blake his sonne, and of Katherine Rogers his daughter five
18 shillings a peice. And all the rest of his goods and Chattells was bequeathed (after his debts and
19 Legacies paid, and his funeral expences discharged) he gave, and bequeathed unto the said
20 Richard Blake his sone, and Katherine Rogers his daughter equally to be devided
21 betweene them whom he made the ioynt Executors of this his last Will and Testament
22 Noncupative; And desired Stephen Rogers and Richard Ewens to be Overseers
23 thereof. Allwith or the lyke in effect the Testator William Blake did publish, declare
24 as, and for his last Will, and Testament Nuncupative in the p[re]sence and hearing of the
25 s[ai]d Stephen Rogers, and Richard Ewens who in testemony thereof have hereunto
26 sett their hands, the marke of Richard Ewens, the mark of Stephen Rogers
27 This Will was proved at London, the one and thirtyth day of December, One
28 Thousand six hundred fifty eight, before the Judges for Probates of Wills etc by the
29 oaths of Richard Blake his sone and Katherine Rogers the daughter ioynt
30 Ex[ecu]tors to whom Admon etc was Committed they being first by Commission sworne
31 truely to Administer etc
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Knight family at Spetisbury and Winterborne Stickland
I really am brickwalled with the Knight family once I am back into the early 1700s and I would like more proof of the marriage in the 1760s between William Knight and Mary Dashwood 9 Aug 1760 at St Peters Shaftesbury Dorset and the children that are generally attributed to this marriage. Their daughter Jane Knight married John Hardy and they are the ancestors of author Thomas Hardy. The good news is that the Dorset records from 1813 have come on line at Ancestry and the earlier records are also apparently coming. I have not been able to purchase any of their records so this is a real boon to me in my Dorset families research with the Knight family forming a large group in that my 2x Knight great grandparents both have the surname Knight - Ellis Knight and Eleanor Knight who were married 29 May 1804 at Spetisbury.
My grandfather knew of his Knight family probably from his mother and grandfather. His grandfather Samuel Knight lived to be 83 years of age and my Grandfather was a father himself with an eight year old son (my father) when his grandfather Samuel Knight died 16 Apr 1912 at Turnworth Dorset. My father used to visit his great grandfather at Turnworth when he was a child and he remembered him as a tall thin white haired man but to a child that young I expect most people were tall. My great grandmother Blake (née Knight) looks quite tall in her picture though so it may have been true.
What I remember about the Knight family from my grandfather was that his grandparents were cousins and that they had eighteen children. I have only found 13 and I think I may have misunderstood the 18 and it should have been 13 but I think that he was telling me that they lived in the house across from the church and that it was a double house with Samuel and his wife Louisa Butt living on one side and Thomas (Samuel's older brother next in age to him) living on the other side with his wife Thurza Butt. Louisa and Thurza were sisters. A third brother-sister marriage was Abel Butt (brother to Louisa and Thurza) married to Martha Knight (youngest sister of Thomas and Samuel). When it came time to celebrate the birthday of the father of Louisa, Thurza and Abel, my grandfather and all of his siblings went to Turnworth for the 80th birthday party and he had been born in December 1801 at Winterborne Stickland. I think the party was actually in the summer of 1882 as my grandfather said he was seven years old at the time. It was an enormous family gathering apparently especially given the three Knight-Butt marriages and all their children and grandchildren/great grandchildren. More on that when I talk about the Butt family.
Maria Jane Knight (my great grandmother) was born January 1850 at Turnworth and baptized at the Parish Church 27 Jan 1850 (St Marys). We visited the Church with my second cousins in April 2008 and holding the enormous skeleton key in my hand was a monumental event for me. Perhaps it is my Celtic blood running through my veins but I felt a tremendous sense of connection to Samuel and Louisa at that moment in time as I am sure there were times when Samuel helped Thomas and probably held that same key (Thomas was the Parish Clerk of this parish for thirty years). Only the two generations were baptized there and that included Samuel Knight (my 2x great grandfather) born and baptized 25 May 1828 at Turnworth (surprisingly these records are not on Ancestry as I received a paper printout of photographs of the records from another researcher who had photographed them in the late 1990s as I recall. Before the days of digital cameras I guess as he didn't offer to send the original images. Not all of Samuel's siblings were baptized at Turnworth and his parents were Ellis Knight and Eleanor Knight mentioned above as marrying 29 May 1804 at Spetisbury. I am looking forward to the records before 1813 being available to look at their actual marriage lines to see if it answers the question was Eleanor the first cousin of Ellis Knight?
Children of Ellis and Eleanor Knight
1. Ellis baptized 27 Jul 1806 at Spetisbury; likely the father of Elizabeth Anne Knight Morris (daughter of Mary Ann Morris) baptized 26 Sep 1824 at Winterborne Stickland. To the best of my knowledge this Ellis never married and he may be the Ellis Knight listed as a mariner at Liverpool on the 1841 census. He is listed as living on Highfield Street and a number of the people living there are in the navy. I do not find him again on any census/burial record/marriage registration.
2. George baptized 28 Jun 1808 at Spetisbury; buried 18 Jul 1830 at Blandford (possibly) but likely dead before child 13 born.
3. Mary Ann baptized 25 Nov 1809 at Spetisbury; married to James Ainsworth 27 Sep 1835 at Turnworth and they had six children: Martha Jane baptized 25 June 1837 Stourpaine, Tabitha baptized 14 May 1839 Stourpaine, William and Georgianna baptized 18 June 1843, John Edward baptized 5 May 1845; buried 24 Apr 1847, Stourpaine and Jane baptized 1 Mar 1849 Stourpaine.
4. Samuel Knight baptized 8 Nov 1811 at Spetisbury; buried 14 Jul 1823 at Turnworth.
5. Maria baptized 16 Feb 1814 at Spetisbury
6. Henry baptized 28 Jan 1816 at Spetisbury married to Elizabeth Lane 24 Feb 1838 at Winterborne Houghton and they had one child: Theophilus Sep 1844 Winterborne Houghton.
7. Elizabeth Knight baptized 30 Aug 1818 at Turnworth and she married Samuel Ballam 1 Sep 1834 at Turnworth. I have one son for this couple Frederick bc 1841 Lytchett Minster. Frederick married Matilda Drake and they had five children.
8. Edward baptized 12 Nov 1820 at Turnworth; buried 8 Nov 1841 at Turnworth.
9. John baptized 18 May 1823 at Turnworth; married sep quarter 1843 Blandford RD to Harriet Whitty and they had 12 children: Edward born mar quarter 1845 Winterborne Houghton, John Augustus born mar quarter 1846 Blandford RD, Julia Jane born sep quarter 1848 Blandford RD, Eliza bc 1850 Blandford St Mary, Ann bc 1854 Blandford St Mary, Edith born sep quarter 1855 Blandford RD, Henry born mar quarter 1858 Blandford RD, Euphremia bc 1859 Blandford St Mary and died dec quarter 1859 Blandford RD, Sarah bc 1860 Blandford St Mary, Frederick born dec quarter 1860 Blandford RD and died mar quarter 1861 Blandford RD, Frederick Albert born jun quarter 1865 Blandford RD, and Florence bc 1869 Blandford St Mary.
10. Thomas baptized 24 Apr 1825 at Turnworth; married 10 Nov 1844 at Turnworth to Thurza Butt and they had eight children: Agnes Jane born dec quarter 1845 Turnworth married James Snook and they had 11 children, Emily Jane born jun quarter 1848 Turnworth married to Henry Snook and they had 10 children, Eleanor baptized 26 Oct 1851 at Turnworth, Hezekiah born jun quarter 1854 turnworth married Margaretta Bedford and they had 10 children, Josiah Ellis born mar quarter 1857 turnworth married Esther Marsden and they had 6 children, William Thomas baptized 10 Jun 1859 and buried 23 May 1860 at Turnworth, Isaac born 24 Jan 1861 at Turnworth married Sarah Josephine Harman and they had 6 children, and Caroline born dec quarter 1865 married Charles Read and they had 2 children.
11. Samuel (my 2x great grandfather) baptized 25 May 1828 at Turnworth and married to Louisa Butt 7 Sep 1849 at Winterborne Stickland and they had 11 children although only four survived infancy: Maria Jane (my great grandmother) baptized 27 Jan 1850 married to Edward Blake and they had 12 children, Elizabeth baptized 24 Dec 1851 Turnworth married Charles Swyer 30 Nov 1874 at Bland\ford and they had 1 child, Mary Ann baptized 20 Oct 1853, Eliza baptized 10 Feb 1856 and buried 12 Nov 1857 at Turnworth, Henry baptized 5 Feb 1858 at Turnworth married Catherine Crankshaw dec quarter 1878 at Chorley and they had one son, Lucy baptized 31 Aug 1861 and buried 17 Apr 1862 at Turnworth, Jane and Martha (twins) baptized 31 Jul 1863 and buried 11 Dec 1863 at Turnworth, Edward and Eliza (twins) baptized 30 Oct 1865 and Edward buried 14 Nov 1865 and Eliza buried 18 May 1866 at Turnworth and Emma baptized 13 Nov 1866 and buried 7 Jan 1867 at Turnworth. Although Maria Jane (my great grandmother must have viewed all these deaths with great sadness not a word of that passed down through the family).
12. Martha baptized 21 Nov 1830 and married Abel Butt 8 Feb 1850 at Turnworth and they had 8 children: Jane baptized 12 Sep 1852 at Winterborne Stickland married George Christopher dec quarter 1869 Blandford RD and they had two children, George baptized 12 Jan 1855 at Winterborne Stickland married Maria Snape probably at Withnell Lancashire and they had three children, Eliza baptized 2 May 1858 Winterborne Stickland married George Brindle 28 Aug 1875 at Chorley RD and they had 8 children, Louisa bc 1861 Winterborne Stickland married James Rogers 1 Oct 1882 at Withnell and they had three children, Tabitha Ainsworth was baptized 21 Sep 1862 at Winterborne Stickland married William Stringfellow 1 Mar 1884 at Withness and they had 15 children, Emma baptized 16 Apr 1865 at Winterborne Stickland married Robert Woods 9 Jun 1883 at Withnell and they had 6 children, Lucy Elizabeth baptized 30 Aug 1868 at Winterborne Stickland married Douglas Heaton 1 Mar 1899 at Withnell, and Annie baptized 13 Aug 1871 at Winterborne Stickland married John Thomas Woods 10 Feb 1897 at Withnell and they had 3 children.
13. George Knight bc 1830 at Turnworth; died sep quarter 1852 Blandford RD.
With the availability of all the Dorset records (except Turnworth is missing for the moment) I shall verify all of these dates which I have received from other researchers and change any that are not correct both in my blog today and my Legacy file. I have both Find My Past and Ancestry to check for the available information.
I sorted through a number of the Dorset family records although none in my direct line and entered in baptismal dates and marriages dates/location. For the marriages I have just the registration district and these registrations give me the exact location.
Continue to extract records for the Knight family on my next research day for this family.
My grandfather knew of his Knight family probably from his mother and grandfather. His grandfather Samuel Knight lived to be 83 years of age and my Grandfather was a father himself with an eight year old son (my father) when his grandfather Samuel Knight died 16 Apr 1912 at Turnworth Dorset. My father used to visit his great grandfather at Turnworth when he was a child and he remembered him as a tall thin white haired man but to a child that young I expect most people were tall. My great grandmother Blake (née Knight) looks quite tall in her picture though so it may have been true.
What I remember about the Knight family from my grandfather was that his grandparents were cousins and that they had eighteen children. I have only found 13 and I think I may have misunderstood the 18 and it should have been 13 but I think that he was telling me that they lived in the house across from the church and that it was a double house with Samuel and his wife Louisa Butt living on one side and Thomas (Samuel's older brother next in age to him) living on the other side with his wife Thurza Butt. Louisa and Thurza were sisters. A third brother-sister marriage was Abel Butt (brother to Louisa and Thurza) married to Martha Knight (youngest sister of Thomas and Samuel). When it came time to celebrate the birthday of the father of Louisa, Thurza and Abel, my grandfather and all of his siblings went to Turnworth for the 80th birthday party and he had been born in December 1801 at Winterborne Stickland. I think the party was actually in the summer of 1882 as my grandfather said he was seven years old at the time. It was an enormous family gathering apparently especially given the three Knight-Butt marriages and all their children and grandchildren/great grandchildren. More on that when I talk about the Butt family.
Maria Jane Knight (my great grandmother) was born January 1850 at Turnworth and baptized at the Parish Church 27 Jan 1850 (St Marys). We visited the Church with my second cousins in April 2008 and holding the enormous skeleton key in my hand was a monumental event for me. Perhaps it is my Celtic blood running through my veins but I felt a tremendous sense of connection to Samuel and Louisa at that moment in time as I am sure there were times when Samuel helped Thomas and probably held that same key (Thomas was the Parish Clerk of this parish for thirty years). Only the two generations were baptized there and that included Samuel Knight (my 2x great grandfather) born and baptized 25 May 1828 at Turnworth (surprisingly these records are not on Ancestry as I received a paper printout of photographs of the records from another researcher who had photographed them in the late 1990s as I recall. Before the days of digital cameras I guess as he didn't offer to send the original images. Not all of Samuel's siblings were baptized at Turnworth and his parents were Ellis Knight and Eleanor Knight mentioned above as marrying 29 May 1804 at Spetisbury. I am looking forward to the records before 1813 being available to look at their actual marriage lines to see if it answers the question was Eleanor the first cousin of Ellis Knight?
Children of Ellis and Eleanor Knight
1. Ellis baptized 27 Jul 1806 at Spetisbury; likely the father of Elizabeth Anne Knight Morris (daughter of Mary Ann Morris) baptized 26 Sep 1824 at Winterborne Stickland. To the best of my knowledge this Ellis never married and he may be the Ellis Knight listed as a mariner at Liverpool on the 1841 census. He is listed as living on Highfield Street and a number of the people living there are in the navy. I do not find him again on any census/burial record/marriage registration.
2. George baptized 28 Jun 1808 at Spetisbury; buried 18 Jul 1830 at Blandford (possibly) but likely dead before child 13 born.
3. Mary Ann baptized 25 Nov 1809 at Spetisbury; married to James Ainsworth 27 Sep 1835 at Turnworth and they had six children: Martha Jane baptized 25 June 1837 Stourpaine, Tabitha baptized 14 May 1839 Stourpaine, William and Georgianna baptized 18 June 1843, John Edward baptized 5 May 1845; buried 24 Apr 1847, Stourpaine and Jane baptized 1 Mar 1849 Stourpaine.
4. Samuel Knight baptized 8 Nov 1811 at Spetisbury; buried 14 Jul 1823 at Turnworth.
5. Maria baptized 16 Feb 1814 at Spetisbury
6. Henry baptized 28 Jan 1816 at Spetisbury married to Elizabeth Lane 24 Feb 1838 at Winterborne Houghton and they had one child: Theophilus Sep 1844 Winterborne Houghton.
7. Elizabeth Knight baptized 30 Aug 1818 at Turnworth and she married Samuel Ballam 1 Sep 1834 at Turnworth. I have one son for this couple Frederick bc 1841 Lytchett Minster. Frederick married Matilda Drake and they had five children.
8. Edward baptized 12 Nov 1820 at Turnworth; buried 8 Nov 1841 at Turnworth.
9. John baptized 18 May 1823 at Turnworth; married sep quarter 1843 Blandford RD to Harriet Whitty and they had 12 children: Edward born mar quarter 1845 Winterborne Houghton, John Augustus born mar quarter 1846 Blandford RD, Julia Jane born sep quarter 1848 Blandford RD, Eliza bc 1850 Blandford St Mary, Ann bc 1854 Blandford St Mary, Edith born sep quarter 1855 Blandford RD, Henry born mar quarter 1858 Blandford RD, Euphremia bc 1859 Blandford St Mary and died dec quarter 1859 Blandford RD, Sarah bc 1860 Blandford St Mary, Frederick born dec quarter 1860 Blandford RD and died mar quarter 1861 Blandford RD, Frederick Albert born jun quarter 1865 Blandford RD, and Florence bc 1869 Blandford St Mary.
10. Thomas baptized 24 Apr 1825 at Turnworth; married 10 Nov 1844 at Turnworth to Thurza Butt and they had eight children: Agnes Jane born dec quarter 1845 Turnworth married James Snook and they had 11 children, Emily Jane born jun quarter 1848 Turnworth married to Henry Snook and they had 10 children, Eleanor baptized 26 Oct 1851 at Turnworth, Hezekiah born jun quarter 1854 turnworth married Margaretta Bedford and they had 10 children, Josiah Ellis born mar quarter 1857 turnworth married Esther Marsden and they had 6 children, William Thomas baptized 10 Jun 1859 and buried 23 May 1860 at Turnworth, Isaac born 24 Jan 1861 at Turnworth married Sarah Josephine Harman and they had 6 children, and Caroline born dec quarter 1865 married Charles Read and they had 2 children.
11. Samuel (my 2x great grandfather) baptized 25 May 1828 at Turnworth and married to Louisa Butt 7 Sep 1849 at Winterborne Stickland and they had 11 children although only four survived infancy: Maria Jane (my great grandmother) baptized 27 Jan 1850 married to Edward Blake and they had 12 children, Elizabeth baptized 24 Dec 1851 Turnworth married Charles Swyer 30 Nov 1874 at Bland\ford and they had 1 child, Mary Ann baptized 20 Oct 1853, Eliza baptized 10 Feb 1856 and buried 12 Nov 1857 at Turnworth, Henry baptized 5 Feb 1858 at Turnworth married Catherine Crankshaw dec quarter 1878 at Chorley and they had one son, Lucy baptized 31 Aug 1861 and buried 17 Apr 1862 at Turnworth, Jane and Martha (twins) baptized 31 Jul 1863 and buried 11 Dec 1863 at Turnworth, Edward and Eliza (twins) baptized 30 Oct 1865 and Edward buried 14 Nov 1865 and Eliza buried 18 May 1866 at Turnworth and Emma baptized 13 Nov 1866 and buried 7 Jan 1867 at Turnworth. Although Maria Jane (my great grandmother must have viewed all these deaths with great sadness not a word of that passed down through the family).
12. Martha baptized 21 Nov 1830 and married Abel Butt 8 Feb 1850 at Turnworth and they had 8 children: Jane baptized 12 Sep 1852 at Winterborne Stickland married George Christopher dec quarter 1869 Blandford RD and they had two children, George baptized 12 Jan 1855 at Winterborne Stickland married Maria Snape probably at Withnell Lancashire and they had three children, Eliza baptized 2 May 1858 Winterborne Stickland married George Brindle 28 Aug 1875 at Chorley RD and they had 8 children, Louisa bc 1861 Winterborne Stickland married James Rogers 1 Oct 1882 at Withnell and they had three children, Tabitha Ainsworth was baptized 21 Sep 1862 at Winterborne Stickland married William Stringfellow 1 Mar 1884 at Withness and they had 15 children, Emma baptized 16 Apr 1865 at Winterborne Stickland married Robert Woods 9 Jun 1883 at Withnell and they had 6 children, Lucy Elizabeth baptized 30 Aug 1868 at Winterborne Stickland married Douglas Heaton 1 Mar 1899 at Withnell, and Annie baptized 13 Aug 1871 at Winterborne Stickland married John Thomas Woods 10 Feb 1897 at Withnell and they had 3 children.
13. George Knight bc 1830 at Turnworth; died sep quarter 1852 Blandford RD.
With the availability of all the Dorset records (except Turnworth is missing for the moment) I shall verify all of these dates which I have received from other researchers and change any that are not correct both in my blog today and my Legacy file. I have both Find My Past and Ancestry to check for the available information.
I sorted through a number of the Dorset family records although none in my direct line and entered in baptismal dates and marriages dates/location. For the marriages I have just the registration district and these registrations give me the exact location.
Continue to extract records for the Knight family on my next research day for this family.
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