Patrick Blake does not appear to be part of the Galway Blake family as written up by Martin Blake but there are a lot of lines not traced down. In that his wife was of Waterford it would certainly be a good plan to attempt to trace him in this area. A project for the future perhaps time permitting!
HMS Trent was a frigate built of fir rather than oak and had a complement of 200 and more on this particular ship below:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Trent_(1757)
HMS Trent was a 28-gun Coventry-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy.
Construction
Trent was one of five frigates of the class built of fir rather than oak. Fir was cheaper and more abundant than oak and permitted noticeably faster construction, but at a cost of a reduced lifespan; the four fir-built Coventry-class vessels that did not get captured lasted an average of only nine years before being struck off.
The vessel was named after the River Trent, England's third-longest waterway. In selecting her name the Board of Admiralty continued a tradition dating to 1644 of using geographic features for ship names; overall, ten of the nineteen Coventry-class vessels were named after well-known regions, rivers or towns. With few exceptions the remainder of the class were named after figures from classical antiquity, following a more modern trend initiated in 1748 by John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich in his capacity as First Lord of the Admiralty.
In sailing qualities Trent was broadly comparable with French frigates of equivalent size, but with a shorter and sturdier hull and greater weight in her broadside guns. She was also comparatively broad-beamed with ample space for provisions and the ship's mess, and incorporating a large magazine for powder and round shot. Taken together, these characteristics would enable Trent to remain at sea for long periods without resupply. She was also built with broad and heavy masts, which balanced the weight of her hull, improved stability in rough weather and made her capable of carrying a greater quantity of sail. The disadvantages of this comparatively heavy design were a decline in manoeuvrability and slower speed when sailing in light winds.
Her designated complement was 200, comprising two commissioned officers – a captain and a lieutenant – overseeing 40 warrant and petty officers, 91 naval ratings, 38 Marines and 29 servants and other ranks. Among these other ranks were four positions reserved for widow's men – fictitious crew members whose pay was intended to be reallocated to the families of sailors who died at sea.
References
Winfield 2007, pp. 227–231
Manning, T. Davys (1957). "Ship Names". The Mariner's Mirror. Portsmouth, United Kingdom: Society for Nautical Research. 43 (2): 93–96. doi:10.1080/00253359.1957.10658334.
Winfield 2007, p. 240
Gardiner 1992, pp. 115–116
Gardiner 1992, pp. 107–108
Gardiner 1992, pp. 111–112
Rodger 1986, pp.348–351
Bibliography
Gardiner, Robert (1992). The First Frigates: Nine-Pounder and Twelve-Pounder Frigates, 1748–1815. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0851776019.
David Lyon, The Sailing Navy List, Conway Maritime Press, London 1993. ISBN 0-85177-617-5.
Rodger, N. A. M. (1986). The Wooden World: An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0870219871.
Winfield, Rif (2007). British Warships of the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Barnsley, United Kingdom: Seaforth. ISBN 9781844157006.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 16 May 2017
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/882
Name of testator: Patrick Blake
Place: belonging to his Majestys Ship Trent
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 29 Jun 1760, probated 6 Dec 1762
[In margin]: Patrick Blake
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 I Patrick Blake Seaman belonging to his Majestys Ship
3 Trent John Lindsay Esquire Commander being in bodily health
4 and of sound and disposing mind and memory and considering
5 the perils and dangers of the Seas and other uncertainties of
6 this transitory life do for avoiding controversies after my
7 death make publish and declare this my last Will and
8 Testament in manner following (that is to say) First I recommend
9 my Soul to God that gave it and my body I commit to the
10 Earth or Sea as it shall please God to order and as for and
11 concerning all my worldly Estate I give bequeath and dispose
12 thereof as followeth that is to say all and singular my ready
13 Money wearing apparel Wages bounty Money prize Money
11 short allowance Money Smart money pensions tickets and
15 All other Sum and Sums of Money Lands Tenements Goods Chattles
16 and Estate whatsoever as shall be anyways I die owing or
17 belonging unto me at the time of my decease I do give devise
18 and bequeath the same unto my loving Wife Joan Blake
19 living in the parish of Saint John Town of Waterford in the
20 Kingdom of Ireland and I do hereby nominate and appoint
21 my said Wife Joan Blake sole Executrix of this my last Will
22 and Testament hereby revoking all former and other Wills
23 Testaments and Deeds of Gifts by me at any time heretofore
24 made and I do ordain and ratify these presents to stand
25 and be for and as my only last Will and Testament In
26 Witness whereof to this my said Will I have set my hand
27 and Seal the Twenty ninth day of June in the year of
28 our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty and
29 the thirty third year of the Reign of his Majesty King
30 George the Second by the Grace of God over Great Britain
31 etc The Mark of Patk Blake Signed Sealed published
32 and declared in the presence of John Lindsay Grove
33 Gilles Arc: Ingram
34 This Will was proved at London on the Sixth
35 day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand
36 seven hundred and Sixty two before the Worshipfull George
37 Harris doctor of Laws Surrogate of the Right Worshipful
38 Sir Edward Simpson knight Doctor of Laws Master keeper
39 or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully
40 constituted by the oath of Joan Blake Widow the Relict of
41 the said deceased and sole Executrix named in the said Will
42 To whom Administration was granted of all and singular the
43 Goods Chattles and Credits of the said deceased having been
44 first Sworn duly to administer
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Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Will of James Blake, Rope Maker, Waterford, Ireland - The National Archives, PROB 11/1717, probated 25 Oct 1826
James Blake, the testator, is the father of Andrew Blake whose will was blogged yesterday.
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2017/02/will-of-andrew-blake-merchant-waterford.html
He mentions his eldest Son Thomas, his grandson James Blake, his son Andrew Blake and his grandchildren Hurley.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 13 Feb 2017
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1717
Name of testator: James Blake, Rope Maker
Place: Waterford, Ireland
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 18 Aug 1824, probated 25 Oct 1826
[In margin] James Blake 24
1 In the Name of God Amen I James
2 Blake of the City of Waterford Rope Maker being in good bodily health and
3 of Sound and disposing mind memory and understanding (for which I think
4 the Lord God) do make and Publish this my last Will and testament in
5 manner and form following that is to say I direct that all my just debts and
6 Funeral Expences shall be paid by my Executors as soon as convenient
7 after my death and that my body shall be decently buried without pomp
8 Parade or show and as to all the property Estates and Substance of every
9 kind with which it hath pleased God to bless me and of which I shall die
10 possessed of or entitled to I give and dispose of the same and every part
11 thereof as follows that is to say I give and bequeath unto Thomas Mc
12 Cheane of the City of Waterford Merchant and to his heirs Executors
13 and Administrators all and Singular my Freehold Estates and farms
14 for Years wheresoever Situate and all my title and interest therein
15 Upon trust however and to and for the following uses and purposes and
16 for none others whatsoever that is to say my Freehold Estate and
17 Interest in the lands of Kilmaguage Situate in the Barony of Gaultier
18 and County of Waterford Upon trust to permit and Suffer my Grandson
19 James Blake the Son of my Son Andrew Blake soon as he shall have
20 attained the Age of twenty one Years to take and receive to his own
21 use all the rents issues and Profits thereof for and during his life Subject
22 however to the varying Annuities hereinafter mentioned and Provided
23 for the use of my Eldest Son Thomas Blake and his Family and from
24 and immediately after the death of my said Grandson James Blake
25 upon trust to the use of my said trustees and his heirs to preserve the
26 Contingent Estates hereinafter limited from being defeated or
27 destroyed but yet to permit my said Grandson James Blake to receive
28 to his own use all the rents issues and profits thereof for and during his
29 natural life Subject to the said varying Annuities hereinafter mentioned
30 and from and after the death of my said Grandson James upon trust Subject
31 as aforesaid to the use and behoof of the first and every other Son of
32 my said Grandson James Successively and respectively one after the other
33 and the heirs male of their respective bodies according to
34 priority of birth and Seniority of Age and for want of any such issue
35 male of my said Grandson James Upon trust to the use of the issue
36 female of the body of my said Grandson and the heirs of their respective
37 bodies in equal Shares as tenants in Common and in failure of any
38 issue male or Female of my said Grandson James Upon trust to the
39 use of one or more of the other Children of my said Son Andrew Blake
40 in Such Shares and proportions and Subject to such Provisoes limitations
41 and Conditions as my said Son Andrew shall by any writing under his
42 hand and Seal attested by three Subscribing Witnesses direct or appoint
43 and for want of such appointment Upon trust to the use of the first and
44 every other Son of my said Son Andrew Successively and respectively one
45 after the other and the heirs of their respective bodies according to priority
46 of birth and Seniority of Age and I direct that until my said Grandson
47 James Blake shall have attained his Age of twenty one Years as much
48 of the rents and Profits of my said freehold Estates of Kilmaguage as my
49 Executor hereinafter named shall think expedient or necessary shall be
50 applied and expended in the maintenance Cloathing and Education of
51 my said Grandson James Blake and in forwarding him in life or in
52 binding him Apprentice to some genteel trade or business further more
53 I do hereby charge my said Freehold Estate of Kilmaguage with the
54 Yearly Sum of Fifty Pounds for the use of my Eldest Son Thomas Blake
55 for and during the term of his natural life only as the means of
56 Supporting himself and his family and from and after his death I
57 direct that the Yearly Sum of twenty Pounds out of the said Yearly
58 Sum of Fifty Pounds shall cease for ever and that the remaining of
59 Yearly Sum of thirty Pounds part of said Yearly Sum of Fifty Pounds
60 shall be paid and applied in equal Shares to the use and maintenance
61 of his Children and the Survivors and Survivor of them for and
62 during their respective lives only and I direct that upon the death
63 of the Survivor of said Child of my said Son Thomas the said
64 remaining Yearly Sum of thirty Pounds shall cease for ever but if
65 the Wife my said Son Thomas shall happen to Survive all his said
66 Children in that event I hereby charge my said freehold Estate with
67 the Yearly Sum of ten Pounds only for the use of the Widow of my said
68 Son Thomas for and during the term of her natural life only and upon
69 her death to cease for ever and I hereby direct that the said respective
70 varying Annuities shall be paid by two equal half Yearly Payments
71 and the first Payment to be made in one half Year after my death
72 And I hereby empower the said Annuitants respectively as they shall
73 become entitled to the same in case of nonpayment of any Cale or
74 Cales thereof to enter upon and distrain my said Lands of Kilmaguage
75 and the distress and distresses found thereon to dispose of according
76 to law for Payment of such arrears and the Costs and expences of
77 such distress and I also empower my said Grandson James Blake
78 as soon as he shall have attained his Age of twenty one Years to
79 make leases of my said Freehold lands for any term or terms not
80 exceeding the term of three lives or thirty one Years but not both
81 terms Concurrent in Possession and not in reversion or by way of
82 future Interest Provided that in every such lease there shall be
83 reserved the best Yearly rent which can be reasonably had from a
84 Solvent tenant at the respective times of making such leases and that
85 the tenant shall execute a Counterpart of every such lease and that
86 no such Service shall be made by minute or Article but only by a
87 regular deed of Lease and that every such lease shall contain a
88 power of distress and re-entry for nonpayment of the rent and that every
89 such lease shall contain the other usual Covenants between Landlord and
90 tenant and that no such lease shall be made dispunishable for waste
91 and that no fine or any Article or goods in the nature of or in lieu
92 of fine shall be taken as or Compensation for making any such lease
93 and I also hereby empower my said Grandson James Blake when
94 he shall be in possession of my said Freehold Lands to Charge the
95 same with any Yearly Sum as a jointure for any Wife he may
96 marry and for her use during her life not exceeding the Yearly Sum
97 of Sixty pounds and also to Charge the said Lands with any Sum
98 as portions for his Younger Children not exceeding the Sum of Four
99 hundred pounds And as to my Estate and Interest in the Place called
100 Hennessy road and the Tope Walk with all the houses and building
101 thereon or thereunto belonging or held with the same for terms for
102 Years under the title of Thomas Wyse Esquire and my houses in King
103 Street in the City of Waterford and my houses in Clinker Street and my
104 Estate and Interest in the large new house built by my said Son
105 Andrew and me and all of which houses I hold under terms for Years
106 and all other houses and buildings to which I am entitled in the City
107 of Waterford or its liberties in which all my said houses and Premises
108 which I hold for terms for Years are Situate and as to all the rest and
109 residue of my Estates and property not hereinbefore or hereinafter
110 disposed of I give devise and bequeath the said Several terms for
111 Years and my Estate and Interest therein including the reversion of
112 my said Freehold Estate in Kilmaguage and the said residue of all
113 my property Furniture Farming Utensils of every kind and all my Stock
114 of Cattle wherever situate unto my Son Andrew Blake who I am
115 persuaded will make a Provident and proper use of them for the
116 benefit of himself and his Family I direct that one hundred Pounds
117 be paid to my Granddaughter Mary Hurley as a legacy as soon as
118 convenient after my death and one other Sum of twenty Pounds to
119 her Sister Alice or Alicia Hurley and that the said two legacies shall
120 be paid by my Executor out of such money or moveables Goods as
121 I shall be possessed of at the time of my death and I hereby direct that
122 if my said Son Thomas or any other of the said Annuitants shall
123 attempt to sell any of the said Annuities so Charged by me the
124 Annuity of the Person so attempting to sell shall as to him or her
125 cease as if she or he were actually dead and I appoint my said Son
126 Andrew Guardian of the property hereby devised to the use of my
127 said Grandson James Blake And I also constitute and appoint him
128 the said Andrew Sole Executor of this my last Will and testament
129 hereby revoking all former Wills by me at any time heretofore made
130 and declaring this to be my only true last Will and testament In
131 Witness whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed my Seal
132 this Eighteenth day of August in the Year of our Lord One thousand
133 eight hundred and twenty four in the presence of three Witnesses
134 whom I have requested to attest the same James Blake Signed
135 and Sealed by the said testator and by him published as his last Will
136 and Testament in our presence who at his request and in his presence
137 have hereunto Subscribed our names as Witnesses thereto (two parts
138 having been executed by the testator Danl Condon James Lance
139 John Nowlan
140 Proved at London 25 October 1826 before the Judge by the oath
141 of Andrew Blake the Son the Sole Executor to whom Admon was granted
142 having been first Sworn by Commission duly to Administer
http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2017/02/will-of-andrew-blake-merchant-waterford.html
He mentions his eldest Son Thomas, his grandson James Blake, his son Andrew Blake and his grandchildren Hurley.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 13 Feb 2017
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1717
Name of testator: James Blake, Rope Maker
Place: Waterford, Ireland
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 18 Aug 1824, probated 25 Oct 1826
[In margin] James Blake 24
1 In the Name of God Amen I James
2 Blake of the City of Waterford Rope Maker being in good bodily health and
3 of Sound and disposing mind memory and understanding (for which I think
4 the Lord God) do make and Publish this my last Will and testament in
5 manner and form following that is to say I direct that all my just debts and
6 Funeral Expences shall be paid by my Executors as soon as convenient
7 after my death and that my body shall be decently buried without pomp
8 Parade or show and as to all the property Estates and Substance of every
9 kind with which it hath pleased God to bless me and of which I shall die
10 possessed of or entitled to I give and dispose of the same and every part
11 thereof as follows that is to say I give and bequeath unto Thomas Mc
12 Cheane of the City of Waterford Merchant and to his heirs Executors
13 and Administrators all and Singular my Freehold Estates and farms
14 for Years wheresoever Situate and all my title and interest therein
15 Upon trust however and to and for the following uses and purposes and
16 for none others whatsoever that is to say my Freehold Estate and
17 Interest in the lands of Kilmaguage Situate in the Barony of Gaultier
18 and County of Waterford Upon trust to permit and Suffer my Grandson
19 James Blake the Son of my Son Andrew Blake soon as he shall have
20 attained the Age of twenty one Years to take and receive to his own
21 use all the rents issues and Profits thereof for and during his life Subject
22 however to the varying Annuities hereinafter mentioned and Provided
23 for the use of my Eldest Son Thomas Blake and his Family and from
24 and immediately after the death of my said Grandson James Blake
25 upon trust to the use of my said trustees and his heirs to preserve the
26 Contingent Estates hereinafter limited from being defeated or
27 destroyed but yet to permit my said Grandson James Blake to receive
28 to his own use all the rents issues and profits thereof for and during his
29 natural life Subject to the said varying Annuities hereinafter mentioned
30 and from and after the death of my said Grandson James upon trust Subject
31 as aforesaid to the use and behoof of the first and every other Son of
32 my said Grandson James Successively and respectively one after the other
33 and the heirs male of their respective bodies according to
34 priority of birth and Seniority of Age and for want of any such issue
35 male of my said Grandson James Upon trust to the use of the issue
36 female of the body of my said Grandson and the heirs of their respective
37 bodies in equal Shares as tenants in Common and in failure of any
38 issue male or Female of my said Grandson James Upon trust to the
39 use of one or more of the other Children of my said Son Andrew Blake
40 in Such Shares and proportions and Subject to such Provisoes limitations
41 and Conditions as my said Son Andrew shall by any writing under his
42 hand and Seal attested by three Subscribing Witnesses direct or appoint
43 and for want of such appointment Upon trust to the use of the first and
44 every other Son of my said Son Andrew Successively and respectively one
45 after the other and the heirs of their respective bodies according to priority
46 of birth and Seniority of Age and I direct that until my said Grandson
47 James Blake shall have attained his Age of twenty one Years as much
48 of the rents and Profits of my said freehold Estates of Kilmaguage as my
49 Executor hereinafter named shall think expedient or necessary shall be
50 applied and expended in the maintenance Cloathing and Education of
51 my said Grandson James Blake and in forwarding him in life or in
52 binding him Apprentice to some genteel trade or business further more
53 I do hereby charge my said Freehold Estate of Kilmaguage with the
54 Yearly Sum of Fifty Pounds for the use of my Eldest Son Thomas Blake
55 for and during the term of his natural life only as the means of
56 Supporting himself and his family and from and after his death I
57 direct that the Yearly Sum of twenty Pounds out of the said Yearly
58 Sum of Fifty Pounds shall cease for ever and that the remaining of
59 Yearly Sum of thirty Pounds part of said Yearly Sum of Fifty Pounds
60 shall be paid and applied in equal Shares to the use and maintenance
61 of his Children and the Survivors and Survivor of them for and
62 during their respective lives only and I direct that upon the death
63 of the Survivor of said Child of my said Son Thomas the said
64 remaining Yearly Sum of thirty Pounds shall cease for ever but if
65 the Wife my said Son Thomas shall happen to Survive all his said
66 Children in that event I hereby charge my said freehold Estate with
67 the Yearly Sum of ten Pounds only for the use of the Widow of my said
68 Son Thomas for and during the term of her natural life only and upon
69 her death to cease for ever and I hereby direct that the said respective
70 varying Annuities shall be paid by two equal half Yearly Payments
71 and the first Payment to be made in one half Year after my death
72 And I hereby empower the said Annuitants respectively as they shall
73 become entitled to the same in case of nonpayment of any Cale or
74 Cales thereof to enter upon and distrain my said Lands of Kilmaguage
75 and the distress and distresses found thereon to dispose of according
76 to law for Payment of such arrears and the Costs and expences of
77 such distress and I also empower my said Grandson James Blake
78 as soon as he shall have attained his Age of twenty one Years to
79 make leases of my said Freehold lands for any term or terms not
80 exceeding the term of three lives or thirty one Years but not both
81 terms Concurrent in Possession and not in reversion or by way of
82 future Interest Provided that in every such lease there shall be
83 reserved the best Yearly rent which can be reasonably had from a
84 Solvent tenant at the respective times of making such leases and that
85 the tenant shall execute a Counterpart of every such lease and that
86 no such Service shall be made by minute or Article but only by a
87 regular deed of Lease and that every such lease shall contain a
88 power of distress and re-entry for nonpayment of the rent and that every
89 such lease shall contain the other usual Covenants between Landlord and
90 tenant and that no such lease shall be made dispunishable for waste
91 and that no fine or any Article or goods in the nature of or in lieu
92 of fine shall be taken as or Compensation for making any such lease
93 and I also hereby empower my said Grandson James Blake when
94 he shall be in possession of my said Freehold Lands to Charge the
95 same with any Yearly Sum as a jointure for any Wife he may
96 marry and for her use during her life not exceeding the Yearly Sum
97 of Sixty pounds and also to Charge the said Lands with any Sum
98 as portions for his Younger Children not exceeding the Sum of Four
99 hundred pounds And as to my Estate and Interest in the Place called
100 Hennessy road and the Tope Walk with all the houses and building
101 thereon or thereunto belonging or held with the same for terms for
102 Years under the title of Thomas Wyse Esquire and my houses in King
103 Street in the City of Waterford and my houses in Clinker Street and my
104 Estate and Interest in the large new house built by my said Son
105 Andrew and me and all of which houses I hold under terms for Years
106 and all other houses and buildings to which I am entitled in the City
107 of Waterford or its liberties in which all my said houses and Premises
108 which I hold for terms for Years are Situate and as to all the rest and
109 residue of my Estates and property not hereinbefore or hereinafter
110 disposed of I give devise and bequeath the said Several terms for
111 Years and my Estate and Interest therein including the reversion of
112 my said Freehold Estate in Kilmaguage and the said residue of all
113 my property Furniture Farming Utensils of every kind and all my Stock
114 of Cattle wherever situate unto my Son Andrew Blake who I am
115 persuaded will make a Provident and proper use of them for the
116 benefit of himself and his Family I direct that one hundred Pounds
117 be paid to my Granddaughter Mary Hurley as a legacy as soon as
118 convenient after my death and one other Sum of twenty Pounds to
119 her Sister Alice or Alicia Hurley and that the said two legacies shall
120 be paid by my Executor out of such money or moveables Goods as
121 I shall be possessed of at the time of my death and I hereby direct that
122 if my said Son Thomas or any other of the said Annuitants shall
123 attempt to sell any of the said Annuities so Charged by me the
124 Annuity of the Person so attempting to sell shall as to him or her
125 cease as if she or he were actually dead and I appoint my said Son
126 Andrew Guardian of the property hereby devised to the use of my
127 said Grandson James Blake And I also constitute and appoint him
128 the said Andrew Sole Executor of this my last Will and testament
129 hereby revoking all former Wills by me at any time heretofore made
130 and declaring this to be my only true last Will and testament In
131 Witness whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed my Seal
132 this Eighteenth day of August in the Year of our Lord One thousand
133 eight hundred and twenty four in the presence of three Witnesses
134 whom I have requested to attest the same James Blake Signed
135 and Sealed by the said testator and by him published as his last Will
136 and Testament in our presence who at his request and in his presence
137 have hereunto Subscribed our names as Witnesses thereto (two parts
138 having been executed by the testator Danl Condon James Lance
139 John Nowlan
140 Proved at London 25 October 1826 before the Judge by the oath
141 of Andrew Blake the Son the Sole Executor to whom Admon was granted
142 having been first Sworn by Commission duly to Administer
Monday, February 13, 2017
Will of Andrew Blake, Merchant, Waterford, Ireland - The National Archives PROB 11/1761, probated 17 Oct 1829
Andrew Blake, the testator, was the son of James Blake and his wife Mary Walsh. James Blake died in the West Indies having left a will dated 18 August 1824. In that will he provided for his grandson James Blake as mentioned in the will below.
Using this information and “A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain and Ireland by Bernard Burke (published 1906), it was perhaps possible to locate this Blake line as descendant of the Galway Blake family.
“Nicholas Blake settled in Barbados and was an ancestor of James Blake of Waterford who left the West Indies and settled in that city; his son Andrew Blake of Waterford and Ballinamona, Kilkenny, married Mary daughter of Patrick Galway of Waterford.”
The will of James Blake is also available and will be transcribed next. He was the father of the present testator Andrew Blake.
Excerpt from The Law Reports (Ireland), Volume 19, edited by William Green: By the will of James Blake, dated the 18th August, 1824, the lands of Kilmaguage, of which he was seized in fee, were devised to his grandson James Blake afterwards known as James Stanislaus Blake for life with remainder to his first and other sons in tail mail, and with power to him to charge the lands with a jointure of £60 a year and with any sum as portions for his younger children not exceeding the sum of £400 of the late Irish currency.
There does not appear to be any extant original documents linking James Blake to Nicholas Blake son of John Blake, Mayor of Galway.
Andrew Blake, the testator, lists his sons James, Patrick, Andrew, Francis and John and daughter Grace in the will below. He identifies his wife as Mary and she is likely Mary Galway daughter of Patrick Galway.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 9 Feb 2017
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1761
Name of testator: Andrew Blake, Merchant
Place: Waterford, Ireland
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 14 Apr 1829, probated 17 Oct 1829
[In margin] Andrew Blake 42
[Top] Extracted from the Registry of His Majesties Court of Prerogative in Ireland
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 I Andrew Blake of the City of Waterford Merchant do make this my last Will and
3 Testament in manner following Whereas I am seized in fee of the lands of Ballinamona in
4 the County of Kilkenny subject to a Jointure or Annuity of eighty pounds late currency
5 to my dear Wife Mary Blake under her marriage Settlement of the sixth day of April
6 One thousand Eight hundred and fifteen Now I charge and incumber all my said lands
7 of Ballynamona and all my Estate title and Interest therein and I direct to be paid and
8 payable out of the same and out of the rents issues and profits of said lands of Ballynamona or any
9 part thereof during the natural life of my said dear Wife Mary Blake in case she
10 shall survive me one Annuity or yearly sum of forty pounds St[erlin]g of ____ lawful money
11 of Ireland clear of all deductions and which said Annuity or yearly sum shall be
12 paid unto my said Wife or her Assigns for her own use and benefit during her
13 natural life by equal half yearly payments at every first day of July and first day of
14 Janvier in each and every year the first payment to be made to her on such of said days
15 which first occur after the day of my decease the said sum of forty pounds yearly
16 be paid to her in increase and augmentation of the said Jointure provided for her by
17 her Marriage Settlement hereinbefore mentioned and in case any half yearly payment
18 of said Annuity of forty pounds shall at any time be in arrear and unpaid for the space
19 of twenty one days next after any of the days appointed for the payment thereof as afores[ai]d
20 then and in such case and as often as the same shall so happen that is shall and may be
21 lawful for my said Wife and her Assigns into and upon the said town lands and premises
22 of Ballynamona to enter and distrain and the distress and distresses thereas there found
23 to detail and keep until such arrears and all charges damages and expences
24 affording the taking and keeping of such distress and distresses shall be fully paid and
25 satisfied and in default of payment to sell the same according to law provided always
26 and this Annuity of forty pounds is given by me in manner aforesaid to my said Wife
27 upon the express condition that the same shall be in full bar and discharge of
28 any claim which she could or might have to any part of my personal property
29 whatsoever save as hereinafter mentioned and more particularly to any claim or
30 demand which she could or might have to any share in or of or to my property
31 in the French funds either by the laws of France or this County and in case my
32 said Wife should claim to be entitled to any such share or proportion of my said
33 property in the French funds or other my personal property in France or elsewhere
34 save as aforesaid that then and in such case this devise of said forty pounds per
35 annum to be wholly void and of no effect and the said forty pounds annuity is to
36 sink into the Inheritance of said lands of Ballynamona for the benefit of the person or
37 persons who shall for the time being be entitled to said lands and the possession
38 thereof under the provisions of this my Will and I charge and incumber my said lands
39 of Ballynamona subject to such annual Sum of forty pounds or payable to my said
40 Wife for her natural life with the annual sum of three pounds for ever to be paid
41 and payable from time to time and at all times hereafter to some unbeneficed Roman
42 Catholic priest of the Diocese of Waterford and to be paid to her every fourteenth
43 day of May in every year for ever in order and for the purpose of the Roman Catholic
44 Priest celebrating Masses for my Soul or the Souls of my family publicly in some
45 one of the Parish Chapels of the City of Waterford such Roman Catholic Priest to be
46 named from time to time for that purpose after my death by my said Wife Mary
47 Blake is she be then living or if dead and at all times hereafter after my death and
48 the death of my said Wife to be named by such person or persons who shall become
49 entitled to the possession of said lands of Ballynamona and the rents issues and
50 profits thereof and subject to the said several devises of forty pounds and three pounds
51 as aforesaid and also subject to the several charges of eight hundred pounds hereinafter
52 mentioned I give and devise my said lands of Ballynamona and all my Estate and
53 Interest therein to my eldest Son James Blake and his Assigns for the time of his
54 natural life with Impeachment of Waste with remainder after his death to the
55 use of the first Son of the body of the said James Blake lawfully to be begotten and
56 the heirs male of the body of such first son lawfully issuing and for default of such
57 issue to the use of the second third fourth and fifth and all and every other the son and
58 Sons of my said Son James Blake lawfully to be begotten severally successively and in
59 remainder one after another as they shall severally be in priority of birth and the
60 heirs male of the body and bodies of all and every such Son and Sons issuing the
61 elder of such Sons and the heirs male of his and their body and bodies being always
62 preferred and to take before the younger of said Sons and the heirs male of his and
63 their body and bodies issuing And for want and in default of such issue of my said
64 Son James Blake then I devise said lands to my two sons Patrick Blake and Andrew
65 Blake and their assigns respectively for and during the terms of their several natural
66 lives each of his own share for his own life in equal shares and proportions as
67 tenants in common and not as joint tenants and of the first and every other Son
68 and Sons of the said Patrick and Andrew Blake respectively of their bodies to be
69 begotten and of the heirs male of such several and respective sons of their bodies lawfully
70 issuing the elder of such Sons and their issue male to take according to seniority of
71 age and priority of birth and that each of my said Sons Patrick and Andrew and
72 their said several sons and their issue male shall hold and enjoy a moiety of
73 said lands respectively in case my eldest Son James dies without issue male in same
74 manner as my said son James and his said Sons and their issue male would and
75 might hold the whole of said lands under the limitations of this my Will But in
76 case either of my said Sons Patrick or Andrew shall be without leaving any such
77 son of his body or having such the said son or sons shall be without leaving
78 issue
79 male as aforesaid than the Moiety of said lands hereby limited to said Patrick or Andrew
80 respectively shall in such event go to the other of them or the Son of such of them as
81 shall become entitled to the other moiety or the male issue of such Son lawfully
82 begotten And in default of such son or sons and their male issue of my said sons Patrick
83 and Andrew I then devise my said lands of Ballynamona to my Son John and his
84 Assigns for the term of his natural life with a like remainder to his first and other
85 Son and their issue male in manner as the said lands are limited to the first and other
86 Sons of my said Son James Blake and their issue male And in default of such
87 issue of my said Son John then I devise said lands to the use of my Son Francis and his
88 Assigns during the term of his natural life with remainder to his first and every
89 other son and their male issue in like manner as the said lands are limited to my
90 said Son James Blake and in default of such issue of my said Son Francis then to my
91 own right heirs for ever But I hereby declare it to be Will and desire and
92 said devise of said lands of Ballynamona in Settlement as aforesaid is made subject
93 to the previous hereinafter mentioned to the rents issues and profits above being
94 made applicable to the payment of my debts and funeral expences after the
95 application of my personal Estate for that purpose and said lands not to be sold for any of such
96 purposes and in order to make a provision for my said younger Children Patrick Andrew
97 John and Francis and my daughter Grace Blake and any other younger child or
98 children who shall be living at the time of my death or born in due time afterwards in
99 addition to their several and respective shares of my personal fortune as residuary
100 legatees as hereinafter mentioned I hereby devise my said lands of Ballynamona in
101 manner hereinbefore mentioned subject expressly to and charged and chargeable
102 with the sum of eight hundred pounds to be paid and payable to each of my said younger
103 children at the age of twenty one years if a Son and if a daughter at the age of
104 twenty one years or day of Marriage which ever shall first happen provided
105 always that if any of my said younger children shall die if a Son before the age
106 of twenty one years or if a daughter before the age of twenty one years or day of
107 Marriage then my Will is that such younger childs share of eight hundred
108 pounds shall not be raised or payable at all out of the rents issues and profits of
109 said lands but same shall sink into the Inheritance of said lands for the benefit
110 of the person or persons who shall be then entitled to same provided also that in
111 case any of my said younger Son or their issue shall at any time under the
112 limitations of this my Will become entitled to my said lands and thereby become an
113 elder Son or represent such elder Son that there and in such case such fortune or sum
114 of eight hundred pounds shall not be raised or paid to such son so becoming entitled
115 to said lands but same shall sink in the inheritance of said lands provided also and
116 my Will is that it may and shall be lawful for my said Son James Blake and for
117 all and every other his said Sons and their Sons and issue male as aforesaid as and
118 when they shall severally and successively by virtue of this my Will be entitled in
119 possession to the freehold of the said lands of Ballynamona when and after they shall
120 have attained the age of twenty one years and be so in possession as aforesaid or
121 entitled as aforesaid although entitled to an Estate for life only by Indenture to be
122 dated and delivered by him or them and attested by two or more credible subscribing
123 Witnesses to devise or lease or appoint by way of devise or lease the said lands of
124 Ballynamona to any person for any term of lives or years if lives not exceeding
125 three lives and if for years not exceeding a term of thirty one years in possession and
126 not in reversion or by way of future interest so as every such devise lease or grant
127 to be made as aforesaid shall be made at the best improved rent of the time of
128 making such rent to be incident to the reversion without taking any fine premium
129 or foregift for the same and so as said lease contained the usual provisos and covenants
130 between Land Lord and tenant Provided always that it may be lawful for such of
131 my sons who shall become seized of such Estate for his life in possession to charge said
132 lands or otherwise limit same for the purpose of making a settlement by way of Jointure
133 for such Wife as he shall either thereafter marry or shall have been theretofore
134 married to at the rate of ten pounds per Annum for every one hundred pounds fortune
135 or portion which she shall actual receive or which he shall have received with
136 such Wife and which shall be made applicable to and in fact bona fide applied im paying
137 off incumbrances created by this my Will in exoneration of said lands of Ballynamona
138 by the payment of the portions hereinbefore created for my said younger children and I
139 hereby further declare it to be my Will and intention that in as much as my said
140 Eldest Son James Blake has been provided for by his Grandfathers Will for his
141 present maintenance and support until the period hereinafter mentioned and
142 appointed by me for his entering into the actual receipt of the rents issues and profits of
143 said lands of Ballynamona after the payment of my debts and other charges hereby
144 created by me on said lands Now my Will is and I direct that the rents issues and
145 profits of said lands of Ballynamona after my death subject however to the payment
146 of said sum of forty pounds a year for my Wifes life and subject to the payment of the
147 annual sum of three pounds for ever shall be allowed to accumulate for the purpose
148 of forming a fund for the payment of my debts in case same shall not be paid out of my
149 personal Estate which personal fortune I charge with the payment of my said debts
150 only and also as a fund for the payment of the several charges and fortunes of eight
151 hundred pounds to each and every of my younger children as aforesaid and such
152 rents issues and profits shall be put out at Interest upon good and sufficient security for
153 the purpose of Creating such fund so that my said lands or any part thereof shall not
154 be sold mortgaged or otherwise disposed of for the payment of said charges or portions for
155 my said younger children in as much as I expressly hereby exempt my personal fortune
156 and Assetts from the payment of the said portions or fortunes of eight hundred pounds
157 for such of my said younger children so I do also expressly direct that these particular
158 sums of eight hundred pounds for each of my said Children which I do charge upon
159 said lands shall be only raised by the accumulation of the rents and profits of same and
160 not by any sale or other disposition of said lands which subject to such application
161 of the rents and profits I have limited in strict settlement to my said Sons as
162 aforesaid And I further Will and direct that each and every of my said younger children
163 who shall be so entitled to such legacy charge or portion of eight hundred pounds
164 respectively shall be paid their respective shares of eight hundred pounds according
165 to their seniority out of such rents or the accumulation as aforesaid and also
166 that they shall during their minorities or for such other period as shall expire
167 before they shall be entitled to be paid their said portions pursuant to the directions
168 of this my Will be paid interest on their said charges or portions at the rate of
169 four pounds per cent per annum for their support and maintenance until they
170 shall be so paid their said legacies and I hereby as to all the rest residue and remainder
171 of my property of what nature or kind soever direct same to be divided between all my
172 children including my eldest Son share and share alike as residuary legatees It being my Will and intention
173 that my said Children shall have my personal property after payment of my debts and
174 funeral Expences divided equally between them share and share alike it being also
175 my Intention that said Sums of Eight hundred which I have charged the rents of said
176 lands with for my younger children shall be in augmentation of such their respective
177 shares of my personal property and that the land itself subject to such charges shall
178 go in settlement to my eldest Son for the time being in augmentation of his share of
179 my said personal property And I desire that the interest of such shares of said
180 residuary property shall be as well as the Interest on their said portions or charges
181 of Eight hundred pounds or so much thereof as shall be deemed necessary for the
182 purpose applied to the support and education of my said younger children until their
183 respective ages of twenty one years if sons and of twenty one years or days of marriage
184 if daughters and I hereby appoint my dear Wife Mary Blake
185 Executors of this my Will And I nominate my said dear Wife Guardian of the person
186 and fortunes of my said children And all and each of them I hereby give and bequeath
187 to my dear Wife Mary Blake all my household furniture plate linen and china of
188 every nature and kind whatsoever to and for her own use for here hereby specifically bequeathed
189 the same to her free clear and discharged from the payment of my debts legacies or
190 funeral expences In Witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and
191 affixed my seal this fourteenth day of April One thousand eight hundred and twenty
192 nine Andrew Blake Signed Sealed Published and declared by the said
193 Andrew Blake as and for his last Will and testament in our presence who in his presence
194 and in the presence of each other at his request have subscribed our Names hereto as
195 Witnesses this fourteenth day of April One thousand Eight hundred and twenty nine
196 James Lee Thomas Power Michael Farrell
197 Having made my Will this day I omitted in it Michael Farrell as one
198 whom I would not wish to forget as I conceive he was a faithful honest and an
199 attentive Servant for upwards of thirty years in my Employment I beg and
200 earnestly request of my trustee and beg that she may allow him during his natural
201 life provided he should be in my Employment at my decease the yearly sum of thirteen
202 pounds per annum out of the issues and profits of the lands of Ballynamona in the
203 County of Kilkenny Given under my hand this 14th April 1829
204 Andrew Blake Witness prost Thomas Power
205 Proved at London with a Codicil 17th October 1829 before the Judge by the
206 Oath of Mary Blake Widow the Relict the sole Executrix to whom Administration
207 was granted being first sworn by Commission duly to administer
Using this information and “A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain and Ireland by Bernard Burke (published 1906), it was perhaps possible to locate this Blake line as descendant of the Galway Blake family.
“Nicholas Blake settled in Barbados and was an ancestor of James Blake of Waterford who left the West Indies and settled in that city; his son Andrew Blake of Waterford and Ballinamona, Kilkenny, married Mary daughter of Patrick Galway of Waterford.”
The will of James Blake is also available and will be transcribed next. He was the father of the present testator Andrew Blake.
Excerpt from The Law Reports (Ireland), Volume 19, edited by William Green: By the will of James Blake, dated the 18th August, 1824, the lands of Kilmaguage, of which he was seized in fee, were devised to his grandson James Blake afterwards known as James Stanislaus Blake for life with remainder to his first and other sons in tail mail, and with power to him to charge the lands with a jointure of £60 a year and with any sum as portions for his younger children not exceeding the sum of £400 of the late Irish currency.
There does not appear to be any extant original documents linking James Blake to Nicholas Blake son of John Blake, Mayor of Galway.
Andrew Blake, the testator, lists his sons James, Patrick, Andrew, Francis and John and daughter Grace in the will below. He identifies his wife as Mary and she is likely Mary Galway daughter of Patrick Galway.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 9 Feb 2017
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1761
Name of testator: Andrew Blake, Merchant
Place: Waterford, Ireland
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 14 Apr 1829, probated 17 Oct 1829
[In margin] Andrew Blake 42
[Top] Extracted from the Registry of His Majesties Court of Prerogative in Ireland
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 I Andrew Blake of the City of Waterford Merchant do make this my last Will and
3 Testament in manner following Whereas I am seized in fee of the lands of Ballinamona in
4 the County of Kilkenny subject to a Jointure or Annuity of eighty pounds late currency
5 to my dear Wife Mary Blake under her marriage Settlement of the sixth day of April
6 One thousand Eight hundred and fifteen Now I charge and incumber all my said lands
7 of Ballynamona and all my Estate title and Interest therein and I direct to be paid and
8 payable out of the same and out of the rents issues and profits of said lands of Ballynamona or any
9 part thereof during the natural life of my said dear Wife Mary Blake in case she
10 shall survive me one Annuity or yearly sum of forty pounds St[erlin]g of ____ lawful money
11 of Ireland clear of all deductions and which said Annuity or yearly sum shall be
12 paid unto my said Wife or her Assigns for her own use and benefit during her
13 natural life by equal half yearly payments at every first day of July and first day of
14 Janvier in each and every year the first payment to be made to her on such of said days
15 which first occur after the day of my decease the said sum of forty pounds yearly
16 be paid to her in increase and augmentation of the said Jointure provided for her by
17 her Marriage Settlement hereinbefore mentioned and in case any half yearly payment
18 of said Annuity of forty pounds shall at any time be in arrear and unpaid for the space
19 of twenty one days next after any of the days appointed for the payment thereof as afores[ai]d
20 then and in such case and as often as the same shall so happen that is shall and may be
21 lawful for my said Wife and her Assigns into and upon the said town lands and premises
22 of Ballynamona to enter and distrain and the distress and distresses thereas there found
23 to detail and keep until such arrears and all charges damages and expences
24 affording the taking and keeping of such distress and distresses shall be fully paid and
25 satisfied and in default of payment to sell the same according to law provided always
26 and this Annuity of forty pounds is given by me in manner aforesaid to my said Wife
27 upon the express condition that the same shall be in full bar and discharge of
28 any claim which she could or might have to any part of my personal property
29 whatsoever save as hereinafter mentioned and more particularly to any claim or
30 demand which she could or might have to any share in or of or to my property
31 in the French funds either by the laws of France or this County and in case my
32 said Wife should claim to be entitled to any such share or proportion of my said
33 property in the French funds or other my personal property in France or elsewhere
34 save as aforesaid that then and in such case this devise of said forty pounds per
35 annum to be wholly void and of no effect and the said forty pounds annuity is to
36 sink into the Inheritance of said lands of Ballynamona for the benefit of the person or
37 persons who shall for the time being be entitled to said lands and the possession
38 thereof under the provisions of this my Will and I charge and incumber my said lands
39 of Ballynamona subject to such annual Sum of forty pounds or payable to my said
40 Wife for her natural life with the annual sum of three pounds for ever to be paid
41 and payable from time to time and at all times hereafter to some unbeneficed Roman
42 Catholic priest of the Diocese of Waterford and to be paid to her every fourteenth
43 day of May in every year for ever in order and for the purpose of the Roman Catholic
44 Priest celebrating Masses for my Soul or the Souls of my family publicly in some
45 one of the Parish Chapels of the City of Waterford such Roman Catholic Priest to be
46 named from time to time for that purpose after my death by my said Wife Mary
47 Blake is she be then living or if dead and at all times hereafter after my death and
48 the death of my said Wife to be named by such person or persons who shall become
49 entitled to the possession of said lands of Ballynamona and the rents issues and
50 profits thereof and subject to the said several devises of forty pounds and three pounds
51 as aforesaid and also subject to the several charges of eight hundred pounds hereinafter
52 mentioned I give and devise my said lands of Ballynamona and all my Estate and
53 Interest therein to my eldest Son James Blake and his Assigns for the time of his
54 natural life with Impeachment of Waste with remainder after his death to the
55 use of the first Son of the body of the said James Blake lawfully to be begotten and
56 the heirs male of the body of such first son lawfully issuing and for default of such
57 issue to the use of the second third fourth and fifth and all and every other the son and
58 Sons of my said Son James Blake lawfully to be begotten severally successively and in
59 remainder one after another as they shall severally be in priority of birth and the
60 heirs male of the body and bodies of all and every such Son and Sons issuing the
61 elder of such Sons and the heirs male of his and their body and bodies being always
62 preferred and to take before the younger of said Sons and the heirs male of his and
63 their body and bodies issuing And for want and in default of such issue of my said
64 Son James Blake then I devise said lands to my two sons Patrick Blake and Andrew
65 Blake and their assigns respectively for and during the terms of their several natural
66 lives each of his own share for his own life in equal shares and proportions as
67 tenants in common and not as joint tenants and of the first and every other Son
68 and Sons of the said Patrick and Andrew Blake respectively of their bodies to be
69 begotten and of the heirs male of such several and respective sons of their bodies lawfully
70 issuing the elder of such Sons and their issue male to take according to seniority of
71 age and priority of birth and that each of my said Sons Patrick and Andrew and
72 their said several sons and their issue male shall hold and enjoy a moiety of
73 said lands respectively in case my eldest Son James dies without issue male in same
74 manner as my said son James and his said Sons and their issue male would and
75 might hold the whole of said lands under the limitations of this my Will But in
76 case either of my said Sons Patrick or Andrew shall be without leaving any such
77 son of his body or having such the said son or sons shall be without leaving
78 issue
79 male as aforesaid than the Moiety of said lands hereby limited to said Patrick or Andrew
80 respectively shall in such event go to the other of them or the Son of such of them as
81 shall become entitled to the other moiety or the male issue of such Son lawfully
82 begotten And in default of such son or sons and their male issue of my said sons Patrick
83 and Andrew I then devise my said lands of Ballynamona to my Son John and his
84 Assigns for the term of his natural life with a like remainder to his first and other
85 Son and their issue male in manner as the said lands are limited to the first and other
86 Sons of my said Son James Blake and their issue male And in default of such
87 issue of my said Son John then I devise said lands to the use of my Son Francis and his
88 Assigns during the term of his natural life with remainder to his first and every
89 other son and their male issue in like manner as the said lands are limited to my
90 said Son James Blake and in default of such issue of my said Son Francis then to my
91 own right heirs for ever But I hereby declare it to be Will and desire and
92 said devise of said lands of Ballynamona in Settlement as aforesaid is made subject
93 to the previous hereinafter mentioned to the rents issues and profits above being
94 made applicable to the payment of my debts and funeral expences after the
95 application of my personal Estate for that purpose and said lands not to be sold for any of such
96 purposes and in order to make a provision for my said younger Children Patrick Andrew
97 John and Francis and my daughter Grace Blake and any other younger child or
98 children who shall be living at the time of my death or born in due time afterwards in
99 addition to their several and respective shares of my personal fortune as residuary
100 legatees as hereinafter mentioned I hereby devise my said lands of Ballynamona in
101 manner hereinbefore mentioned subject expressly to and charged and chargeable
102 with the sum of eight hundred pounds to be paid and payable to each of my said younger
103 children at the age of twenty one years if a Son and if a daughter at the age of
104 twenty one years or day of Marriage which ever shall first happen provided
105 always that if any of my said younger children shall die if a Son before the age
106 of twenty one years or if a daughter before the age of twenty one years or day of
107 Marriage then my Will is that such younger childs share of eight hundred
108 pounds shall not be raised or payable at all out of the rents issues and profits of
109 said lands but same shall sink into the Inheritance of said lands for the benefit
110 of the person or persons who shall be then entitled to same provided also that in
111 case any of my said younger Son or their issue shall at any time under the
112 limitations of this my Will become entitled to my said lands and thereby become an
113 elder Son or represent such elder Son that there and in such case such fortune or sum
114 of eight hundred pounds shall not be raised or paid to such son so becoming entitled
115 to said lands but same shall sink in the inheritance of said lands provided also and
116 my Will is that it may and shall be lawful for my said Son James Blake and for
117 all and every other his said Sons and their Sons and issue male as aforesaid as and
118 when they shall severally and successively by virtue of this my Will be entitled in
119 possession to the freehold of the said lands of Ballynamona when and after they shall
120 have attained the age of twenty one years and be so in possession as aforesaid or
121 entitled as aforesaid although entitled to an Estate for life only by Indenture to be
122 dated and delivered by him or them and attested by two or more credible subscribing
123 Witnesses to devise or lease or appoint by way of devise or lease the said lands of
124 Ballynamona to any person for any term of lives or years if lives not exceeding
125 three lives and if for years not exceeding a term of thirty one years in possession and
126 not in reversion or by way of future interest so as every such devise lease or grant
127 to be made as aforesaid shall be made at the best improved rent of the time of
128 making such rent to be incident to the reversion without taking any fine premium
129 or foregift for the same and so as said lease contained the usual provisos and covenants
130 between Land Lord and tenant Provided always that it may be lawful for such of
131 my sons who shall become seized of such Estate for his life in possession to charge said
132 lands or otherwise limit same for the purpose of making a settlement by way of Jointure
133 for such Wife as he shall either thereafter marry or shall have been theretofore
134 married to at the rate of ten pounds per Annum for every one hundred pounds fortune
135 or portion which she shall actual receive or which he shall have received with
136 such Wife and which shall be made applicable to and in fact bona fide applied im paying
137 off incumbrances created by this my Will in exoneration of said lands of Ballynamona
138 by the payment of the portions hereinbefore created for my said younger children and I
139 hereby further declare it to be my Will and intention that in as much as my said
140 Eldest Son James Blake has been provided for by his Grandfathers Will for his
141 present maintenance and support until the period hereinafter mentioned and
142 appointed by me for his entering into the actual receipt of the rents issues and profits of
143 said lands of Ballynamona after the payment of my debts and other charges hereby
144 created by me on said lands Now my Will is and I direct that the rents issues and
145 profits of said lands of Ballynamona after my death subject however to the payment
146 of said sum of forty pounds a year for my Wifes life and subject to the payment of the
147 annual sum of three pounds for ever shall be allowed to accumulate for the purpose
148 of forming a fund for the payment of my debts in case same shall not be paid out of my
149 personal Estate which personal fortune I charge with the payment of my said debts
150 only and also as a fund for the payment of the several charges and fortunes of eight
151 hundred pounds to each and every of my younger children as aforesaid and such
152 rents issues and profits shall be put out at Interest upon good and sufficient security for
153 the purpose of Creating such fund so that my said lands or any part thereof shall not
154 be sold mortgaged or otherwise disposed of for the payment of said charges or portions for
155 my said younger children in as much as I expressly hereby exempt my personal fortune
156 and Assetts from the payment of the said portions or fortunes of eight hundred pounds
157 for such of my said younger children so I do also expressly direct that these particular
158 sums of eight hundred pounds for each of my said Children which I do charge upon
159 said lands shall be only raised by the accumulation of the rents and profits of same and
160 not by any sale or other disposition of said lands which subject to such application
161 of the rents and profits I have limited in strict settlement to my said Sons as
162 aforesaid And I further Will and direct that each and every of my said younger children
163 who shall be so entitled to such legacy charge or portion of eight hundred pounds
164 respectively shall be paid their respective shares of eight hundred pounds according
165 to their seniority out of such rents or the accumulation as aforesaid and also
166 that they shall during their minorities or for such other period as shall expire
167 before they shall be entitled to be paid their said portions pursuant to the directions
168 of this my Will be paid interest on their said charges or portions at the rate of
169 four pounds per cent per annum for their support and maintenance until they
170 shall be so paid their said legacies and I hereby as to all the rest residue and remainder
171 of my property of what nature or kind soever direct same to be divided between all my
172 children including my eldest Son share and share alike as residuary legatees It being my Will and intention
173 that my said Children shall have my personal property after payment of my debts and
174 funeral Expences divided equally between them share and share alike it being also
175 my Intention that said Sums of Eight hundred which I have charged the rents of said
176 lands with for my younger children shall be in augmentation of such their respective
177 shares of my personal property and that the land itself subject to such charges shall
178 go in settlement to my eldest Son for the time being in augmentation of his share of
179 my said personal property And I desire that the interest of such shares of said
180 residuary property shall be as well as the Interest on their said portions or charges
181 of Eight hundred pounds or so much thereof as shall be deemed necessary for the
182 purpose applied to the support and education of my said younger children until their
183 respective ages of twenty one years if sons and of twenty one years or days of marriage
184 if daughters and I hereby appoint my dear Wife Mary Blake
185 Executors of this my Will And I nominate my said dear Wife Guardian of the person
186 and fortunes of my said children And all and each of them I hereby give and bequeath
187 to my dear Wife Mary Blake all my household furniture plate linen and china of
188 every nature and kind whatsoever to and for her own use for here hereby specifically bequeathed
189 the same to her free clear and discharged from the payment of my debts legacies or
190 funeral expences In Witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and
191 affixed my seal this fourteenth day of April One thousand eight hundred and twenty
192 nine Andrew Blake Signed Sealed Published and declared by the said
193 Andrew Blake as and for his last Will and testament in our presence who in his presence
194 and in the presence of each other at his request have subscribed our Names hereto as
195 Witnesses this fourteenth day of April One thousand Eight hundred and twenty nine
196 James Lee Thomas Power Michael Farrell
197 Having made my Will this day I omitted in it Michael Farrell as one
198 whom I would not wish to forget as I conceive he was a faithful honest and an
199 attentive Servant for upwards of thirty years in my Employment I beg and
200 earnestly request of my trustee and beg that she may allow him during his natural
201 life provided he should be in my Employment at my decease the yearly sum of thirteen
202 pounds per annum out of the issues and profits of the lands of Ballynamona in the
203 County of Kilkenny Given under my hand this 14th April 1829
204 Andrew Blake Witness prost Thomas Power
205 Proved at London with a Codicil 17th October 1829 before the Judge by the
206 Oath of Mary Blake Widow the Relict the sole Executrix to whom Administration
207 was granted being first sworn by Commission duly to administer
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