BLAKE - Will of Jone BLAKE, widow, Enham - Consistory Court of Winchester, Register D, folio 118, will dated 23 Mar 1527

Continuing with the story of the BLAKE family at Knights Enham near Andover. Nicholas BLAKE's will was blogged last blog (along with the will of his widow Margaret (BLAKE) Munday). Moving back one more generation it was possible to locate the will of the mother of Nicholas. This will of Jone Blake, widow, of Enham in 1527 was most kindly written in English; my latin skills are weak at best and the treat of discovering that this will was indeed in English was marvelous. I believe her husband to be Richard BLAKE who left his will in 1522 and Jone was a widow in 1527. 

Who Jone was remains a mystery unless her surname was Jesra as she mentions a Thomas Jesra of Foskett (perhaps Foxcott).

Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 19 Feb 2014
Source: Family Search, Film # 186682, Catalogue A-377, page 163
Testator: Jone Blake, widow
Place: Enham, Hampshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 23 Mar 1527/1528

[Margin]: copied test[ament]

1    In die no[m]i[n]e Ame[n] the yer of owre lord god oon thowsand fyve hundredth xxvij the xxiij day of the month of marche
2    I Jone Blake widdow w[i]t[h] a hoyll mynde and a good memorye maketh my laste wyll and testamente in thys man[ner] Fyrste I
3    Com[m]end my soll unto allmyghty god owre lady saynt marey to all the saynts in hevyn and my Body to be buryd in
4    the chyrche or the chyrche lyttyn of saynt mykell of enahm It[em] I gyffe and bequeth onto ye mother chyrche of saynt swe
5    thyns xij d It[em] I gyvv and bequeth to ye chyrche of enahm vj s viij d It[em] I gyvv and bequeth xxvj s viij d to be dystrybute
6    unto poor pepyll in pen[n]y doyll It[em] I gyff and bequeth unto my curat Sy[r] Rychard Mersser xx d It[em] I gyff and bequethe
7    to Sy[r] John Batte xx d It[em] I gyff and bequeth to mayntenyg of the mo[r]row masse prest in Andover xx d It[em] I gyff and bequeth
8    to mayntenyg of Jhe masse in ye chyrche of Andover xx d It[em] I gyff  and bequeth unto the p[ri]or of the freer Augustines
9    in wynchest[er] xx d It[em] I gyff and bequeth to Sy[r] Joh[a]n[nis] Whyte freer xx d It[em] I gyff and bequeth unto ev[er]y of freer of ye
10    sayd Augustynes th[a]t ys prest iiij d and to ev[er]y novesse ij d of ye sayd place It[em] I gyff and bequeth to ye chyrche of Fosket
11    to mayntenyg of ye light before saynt Jamys and saynt Sonday xx d It[em] I gyff and bequeth unto my dowghter Elsabet
12    mylne xx shepe beside yos y[a]t she hathe allredy and oon Cowe y[a]t I bowght of hyr and xiij s iiij d of money and my gretst
13    pan and fowre plat[t]erst I gyff and bequeth unto my son Nycolas Blake ye tabyll in ye hall and oon clothe callyd ye hallyg
14    and two yryne racks It[em] I gyff and bequeth unto my son Robert Blake oon yryne broche and xviij shepe ye wheche
15    shepe he hath in kepyng It[em] I gyff and bequeth unto Thome Jesra of Fosket oon yryne broche The resydew of
16    all my goods moveabyll and unmoveabyll I have not legate I gyff and bequeth unto my chyld[er]ne Nycolas Blake
17    Robert Blake and to Thome Jefra of Fosket and ye sayd goods to be devydytt emongys them equaly ev[er]y oon of
18    them elyke mo[r]e[or]l[e]ss It[em] I make my sonys Nycolas Blake and Robert Blake my trell executors and Thome Jefra of
19    Fosket my sup[er]visor y[a]t he see my last wyll and testament Inplet[ed] and fulfyllyd and the foresaid executors to dypo
20    se for the heylth of my soll as thay shall see moyst expedient thes wytnesses Sy[r] Rychard Mersser Syr
21    Joh[a]n[nis] Batte Nycolas Blake Robert Blake w[i]t[h] other

No probate was located for this will of Jone BLAKE, widow of Enham.

Richard BLAKE (Blayke), Knights Enham, left his will dated  12 Apr 1522 and probated 23 May 1522. Unfortunately, I have not found tax records for Knights Enham earlier than 1598 but these later records indicate only one BLAKE line as both of these individuals are descendant of Jone BLAKE whose will is blogged above. Hence I put forward the thought that this will left by Richard BLA[Y]KE was the husband of Jone BLAKE.

British History Online has a very interesting section of Knight's Enham and King's Enham which at the time of the Domesday Book was regarded as Enham but two different holdings equal in size:

https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/hants/vol4/pp377-379

Continuing to read this early history found online an interesting comment under "Manor" last line first paragraph: " At the end of the 15th century it was said, like so many neighbouring manors, to be held of the freemen of Andover by fealty (Chan. Inq. p.m. (ser. 2), xi, 110). One notes that Lord Sandys is referred to in a number of the wills of the BLAKE family at Enham (see blog posts for William BLAKE and Nicholas BLAKE). Further on under the "Manor" section:" ....SirWilliam Sandys, died seised of the manor jointly with his wife in 1496, before which date it had been entailed on them and their heirs (Chan. Inq. p. m. (Ser. 2), xi, 110). His descendants, the Lords Sandys of the Vyne, continued to hold it until the  middle of the 17th century (Recov. R. Mich. 4 Edw. VI, rot. 535; Mich. 42 Eliz. rot. 172; Trin. 1649, rot. 42; Feet of F. Div Co. Trin. 1649)."

Richard mentions his wife (but not by name), his son Nichi[las]. He mentions his brothers Robert and Thomas who are still living at this time. He does not mention his son Robert or his daughter Elizabeth as far as my rough transcription of Latin seems to indicate.

Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 13 Aug 2013
Source: Family Search – Film 186681, A-658 and Item 195
Testator: Richard Blayke
Place: Knights Enham, Hampshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 12 April 1522, probated 23 May 1522

Wrapper: 1522 Rich[ard]us Blake De Enham
Wrapper: P[ro]batu[m] fuit  xxiij de Maij mu[ ]day infra villa de Andev[er]

1    In die no[min]e Ame[n] xij  die m[en]si[s] d’Ap[ri]lis  Anno d[omi]ni M ccccc xxij Ergo Richardus blayke cy[m]pos
2    me[n]t[i]s sane q[ue] memorie t[ame]n eg[e]r corpore condo et ordino testament[um] meu[m] de mea[m] labor[aci]on[em] volu[n]tat[em]
3    in h[u]nc modu[m] In p[ri]mis et lego A[n]i[m]am mea[m] deo patri o[mni]pote[n]ti be[ate] marie v[ir]gini o[mn]ibus s[anc]tis
4    Corpus q[ue] meu[m] sepeliendu[m] in cimitt[er]io p[a]rochialis eccl[es]ie s[anc]ta michaelie archang[e]li de
5     enham It[e]m lego mat[ric]e eccl[es]ie winton xij d It[e]m lego p[re]dute eccl[es]ie de enham xl d
6    It[e]m do eccl[es]ie p[a]rochiali[s] de Andov[er] xx d It[e]m lego fr[atr]i meo Thome Blayke xl s
7    ut ip[s]e videar ____ mea vlv volunt[at]us suit testam[entu]s in Jurius duslerat et p[er]vient
cum tenementas It[e]m volo q[uod] Uxor[i] mea habeat
8    Firmam mea p[ro] tempo exp[re]sso in endentua iux[ta] as[s]ignatorum Roberti Blayke pri[mi]s
9    mei nichi et uxori mee de h[er]edibus u[ost]ris fait It[e]m do p[ar]ochiali presbicto[rum] xl d w[i]t[h]
10    ip[s]e oret p[ro] salute ai[nim]e mee It[e]m volo q[uod] uxor mea h[ab]eat custodia[t] talus mei
11    dura[n]te vita sua et post decessu[m] p[r]imo yedder sup[ra]dict eccl[es]ie de enham It[e]m lego
12    unicuiq[u]e Filiora[m] meor[um] cowes It[e]m do matri mee xl d ac volo q[uod] h[ab]eat victu et
13    vestitu[m] de bo__e meus q[uod] duo vixit It[e]m lego et unicuiq[ue] filior[am] meor[um] unden
14    vacta[ ] et vi[su]m lactu[ ] cum p[er]tin[en]ces Residuum v[er]o omn[ium] bonor[um] meor[um] do et lego uxori
15    mee qua[m] ordino de constituo executore[m] mea[m] et mi[ni]strare ut ipsa h[ab]eat acinde
16    Disponat p[re]sente die mee et sua ep[iscop]a utilitate s[ic]ut ei melius videbit[ur] insutu[r]
17    expedire deo place[r]e et an[im]e mee p[ro]fice[re] d[omi]ni dat[um] die Anno sup[ra]dict[i]s p[ertin]entibus
18    d[omi]no J[o]h[n]e battey curat[e] Thoma Blayke and Richarde Goldyn cum aliis dimis[s]is
19    P[ro]batu[m] fuit xxiij de me[n]sis maij in
20    cum du sup[ra]dicta in Capella infra villa de Andev[er]
21    Ergo fuit B bo____


The will of Robert BLAKE of Enham, written in Latin and following), does have one line at the end in English which is rather interesting. "Also I reserve to my sonne Richarde my farme and my tenemente that I do dwelth nowe." Finding these wills as I worked my way back in time through the BLAKE family from Upper Clatford back to Andover and then back to Enham was amazing. Robert was likely quite elderly when he died so born in the mid 1400s more or less. There were BLAKE names in the Manor Books of Andover but I have yet to tackle those "all in Latin" documents but do plan to make that attempt in the future. The earliest record that I found was in 1305 and that is a whole other story which I have discussed in my blogs through the years.

Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 3 Jan 2014
Source: Hampshire Record Office, 1522B-04 (should be 1521B-??)
Testator: Robert Blake
Place: Enham, Hampshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 16 Dec 1521
Condition: 16th century English, legible copy

[Margin]: 1522B-04 (should be 1521B-??)

1    In die no[m]i[n]e Ame[n] xvj die dece[m]b[r]is An[n]o d[omi]ni M ccccc xxj Ergo robertij  blayke co[m]pos me[n]t[i]s et sane memoyre
2    asti[pula]tus testame[n]tu[m] [i]n hunc modu[m] In primis do et lego a[n]i[m]am mea[m] deo p[at]ri o[mn]ipote[n]ti corpus qu[e] meu[m] sepeliendu[m] [i]n cimit[t]erio
3    p[ar]ochialij eccl[es]i[a]e s[an]cti michaels de Enh[a]m It[e]m do et lego ad mat[ri]ce ecclesie xii d It[e]m do et lego ecclesie de enh[a]m
4    xl s et una[m] vaccam It[e]m do et lego ecclesis de andever xl oves vef p[or]cus eap quod er iij £ quas yearly kyne
5    habet i[n] custodia Item do et lego uxori mee x £ q[uod] joh[han]es howton debet It[e]m do et lego uxori mee x quarte
6    _uas frume[n]ti et xx ordeu[m] It[e]m do et lego tome filio meo cc omn[ia] It[e]m do et lego andre blayke una[m] tenem[entum]
7    gra[tia] victus It[e]m do et lego tome longe unu[s] diplade et una came[ra]cia It[e]m do et lego tome filio mee una bictel[  ] and una whipblade
8    cu[m] p[ar]ts et un[u]m par[ ] notay monay It[e]m do et lego thome filio una ara[bilis] terra que vocato bene semers
9    cu[m] ______ It[e]m do et lego Wyllimo gelzeyr una[m] toga[m] It[e]m do et lego rycardo goldyng alia[m] toga[m] It[e]m do et lego
10    Robarto tary una tunica[m] It[e]m do et lego unicum que suor[or] meor[um] videlicet viro[rum] ac mulier[is] una[m] ane[llus] It[e]m do et
11    lego tome filio meo duas diplades ab It[e]m do et lego robarto Galavay una[m] toga[m] It[e]m do et lego tome
12    filio meo duas diplades It[e]m do et lego Wyllmo blayke una[m] vacca[m] It[e]m do et lego tome filio meo duas pullos
13    et duo verv[ex] It[e]m wyllmo Fuynere debet m[eo] ppt viij modios frume[n]tie et quoliket modio[s] xvi s It[e]m Assigno
14    Tome filio meo una t[enement]a que vacat[o] Rawkynys It[e]m do et lego volo q[uod] una[m] p[re]sbite[r] celebr[at] et in ecclie par[is]h de Enh[a]m
15    p[ro] salute a[n]i[m]e meo et p[ro] ecclie _______ p[ro] spac[iu]m un[ius] anni It[e]m do et lego robarto blayke una[m] vacca[m] et residuum om[n]i[um] bonor[um]
16    meor[um] test[amentu]m mobilium q[uam] immobilium It[em] do et lego ricardo filio meo quo[s] ordino meos veros executores ut
17    ip[s]e disponat p[ro] salute a[n]i[m]e meo hiis testib[u]s d[omi]no johane battey thoma blayke robarto tary
18    et aliis
19    Also I reserve to my sonne Richarde my farme and my tenemente that I do dwelth nowe

I do have copies of the wills of Thomas and Robert sons of Robert Bla[y]ke which I have read but not yet transcribed. One is left to ponder did my line choose the surname Blayke which gradually became BLAKE? Or did they acquire the surname BLAKE by marriage.

This concludes my recitation of the BLAKE family of Andover and surrounding area. In hopes that as I continue to blog on and talk about this BLAKE family the errors made by Horatio Somerby Gates will gradually disappear from genealogies of BLAKE families. Nicholas BLAKE earned his place in history and it is a proud although small part that he played. If I accomplish nothing else with my BLAKE one-name study I at least feel that I have informed, over time, a wide audience of the actual descendancy of this BLAKE family of Andover and area. My own line lived its life mostly within a couple of kilometres of the centre of Andover. My father was born at Eastleigh but his memories of Upper Clatford/Goodworth Clatford were strong as he visited with his grandparents often and knew all of his cousins before coming to Canada as a child of nine years of age with his parents (Samuel George BLAKE and Ada Bessie Cotterill Rawlings (aka Edith Bessie Taylor)) in 1913.

BLAKE - Will of Nic[h]olas BLAKE of Enham, Hampshire, England

Old Hall and Nicholas BLAKE at Knights Enham, Hampshire, England was a childhood memory for me. My husband and I visited the New England Historic and Genealogical Society Library (NEHGS) in Boston for a Genealogical Session in 2004. I was at the very beginning of my research having neatly avoided it for the first nearly fourty years of our marriage. I was somewhat convinced that I really knew a great deal about my family until my mother wanted my husband to create a 50th Wedding Anniversary Book for them (my parents were married for 50 years on the 20th May 1988 and they actually celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in 1998 as well). My husband, with my mother's notes started to delve into my family and discovered that there were difficult portions that he could not readily discover without extensive research. I did help somewhat going through parish registers at the Family History Library (which my mother had already done to a certain extent but my husband did borrow film from the Family History Library in Utah to assist with the project so did take it somewhat further). It did take hours to read through all the registers and I must admit at the time I did not find it particularly interesting. I needed an incentive and in the late 1980s I really didn't have that desire to learn or discover the missing areas in my family history now that my husband had discovered that they were missing!

 In 2001 I had the opportunity to go to Rome for the Consecration of a new Bishop which took place at St Paul's Within the Walls. The Anglican Group that I belonged to online had been invited to this Convocation (we were a small group (about a dozen people staying at a Monastery mostly doing our own thing but going together to the Convocation)). We spent eight days in Rome in total (my pilgrimage and for me this was my first airline flight ever and there were three flights in total) which involved going to the Vatican every day of that week along with many many historic Christian sites). We then flew to London, UK on our way back to Canada. I experienced this incredible feeling of being home when we arrived at our hotel in the City of London itself. I couldn't put a finger on why I felt that way at that time but the feeling stayed with me as we visited a number of historic sites in London. Serendipity it is called apparently by genealogists!

My husband, always very involved with genealogy, persuaded me, as usual, to attend (and help) with Gene-O-Rama (a genealogical weekend in Ottawa sponsored by the Ontario Genealogical Society Ottawa Branch now Ontario Ancestors Ottawa Branch). That was the first time that I really noticed the National Institute for Genealogical Studies and I picked up a brochure. This was just 2002 though and I had not yet become involved personally in genealogical research. The winter of 2002-2003 one of my cousins in London, Ontario emailed me to ask if I would write up a profile of my Pincombe family for the Westminster-Delaware History Book that he was editing. I wrote back to say that I really didn't think I was a good choice but he was persistent writing back that another cousin of mine would do it but he thought that my grandfather had a grocery store on Wharncliffe Road. That was my uncle actually and I decided that at least the article should be correct and I had at hand the brochure to help me! I had two years to produce the Pincombe Profile so I signed up for English and Canadian studies at the National Institute for Genealogical Studies. Using the studies, and I had a copy of my cousin's book on our early families which did include a short section on my Pincombe family, I now used my homework exercises to search for information. Two years later I did produce, with the help of several of my siblings and a number of Pincombe cousins, the Pincombe Profile now found in the published history books on Westminster and Delaware Townships of Middlesex County, Ontario .

As I continued with my studies, I did become quite intrigued by all that I could find. But it was the advent of DNA testing that really convinced me that genealogy was doable. We tested our DNA in 2005 and the sixteen years since have been a time of great discovery as matches with cousins flowed into my account helping me to phase my grandparent's DNA and keeping me on a good trace-back. My feeling of being home in London was finally solved with the discovery that the hotel that we stayed in in London was right around the corner from my 2x great grandparent's Pork Butcher Shop (Henry Christopher Buller and Anne Welch). They lived there during the 1840s.

During this time I was also looking at the BLAKE family but I kept finding my Nicholas BLAKE being attached to different families that were quite impossible. Tracing back to their sources I came upon Horatio Somerby Gates whom I now know was a fraud. He created stories for Americans searching for their ancestry that were false. Had he troubled to look at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PCC) Wills he would have quickly discovered that Nicholas BLAKE was not the person that he used to try and add authenticity to his stories. That BLAKE line over five generations (Robert 1521, Richard 1522, Nicholas 1547, William 1582, Richard 1622) left their wills and clearly indicated their place in the BLAKE family of Andover, Hampshire, England. Most of the discoveries about the fraudulent reporting were discovered at the NEHGS Library in Boston. Having provided this bit of background on my journey, I return to the intent of the post.
 
The will of Nic[h]olas BLAKE was written 31 May 1547 and probated 20 Jun 1547. Initially this will had been catalogued as Nicolas Blake of Essington but I sent in a correction and quite quickly they did get back to me and let me know that verification of his will had shown that it should have been Nicolas Blake of Enham. At that point I purchased it and transcribed it. I have transcribed over 500 wills mostly BLAKE and plan to complete the PCC BLAKE wills in the next year or so. I do have them separated into counties and I will publish them as a unit by county in *.pdf format and put links on my website to each county. I have normally done research on each will, where available, and written a short (or sometimes long but hopefully interesting!) introduction which is one of the take-a-ways from my one-name study that I will archive in the future with the Society of Genealogists and the Guild.

Nicholas BLAKE names his wife Margaret and as of this date I have no ideas on her maiden family surname. He names his children as William BLAKE eldest, Edmund BLAKE under 21 years of age, Alice Goodwyn (married daughter) and Elizabeth unmarried. Nicholas says that William is married and has children as the inheritance of Nicholas' daughters, if they die before inheriting, is to be divided up amongst the children of William. We can see the property in this will which has passed to William and mentioned in William's will in the last blog of this Challenge. William has added greatly to his father's holdings and again Lord Sandys continues as the Lord of the Manor. The holdings are all in Andover, Knights Enham and Kings Enham in Nicholas' will. William BLAKE is the first in this family to state that he lives at Eastontown and his holdings are much more extensive but still in the area of Andover.

Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 6th May 2009
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/31/549
Name of Testator: Nic[h]olas Blake
Place: Enham (near Andover), Hampshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 31 May 1547, probated 20 Jun 1547

[Left hand corner] Test[at]or Nichi[las] Blake

1    In the name of God amen In the yere of our Lord god a Thousand fyve hundred
2    Fourtie and sevyn and the last day of May I Nicolas Blake of the p[ar]ishe of Enh[a]m in the Dioc[ese] of Wynchest[e]r
3    being sicke of body but of good and p[er]fite remembrance make and ordeyn this my last will and testament
4    in maner and fourme folowing First I Bequith my soule to almightie god to oure Blessed Lady and to all the
5    Blessed company of heaven. And my body to be buried w[i]t[h]in the Church of Saint Michaell Th[e ]archangell Item
6    I geve to the Trinite Church of Wynchester vj d Item I geve to the church of Andever oon quarter of whete
7    It[e]m I give to Enh[a]m Church a quarter of wheat Item I geve and bequeth to Will[ia]m Blake my eldest sonne
8    the halfe of the Farme of Andever of my Lord Sandys holding which Robert Boswell occupyeth Also I geve
9    and bequeth to the said Will[ia]m the Tenement in Kings Enham of my Lord Sandys holding w[i]t[h] all the La[m]mes
10    lande lying in Andever feld that the said William nowe occupieth and holdith Also I geve to the said Will[ia]m
11    Blake my sonne my Leasse of the Tenement of the Lord Sandys called the olde hall w[i]t[h] all the app[ur]ten[an]cs ther unto
12    belonginge or lying in Knyghts Enh[a]m Also I geve to the said William Blake my free holde in Knyights Enh[a]m w[i]t[h] all
13    the appurten[an]cs there unto belonging Item I geve and bequeth to Edmund Blake my sonne the Leasse of the
14    Farme of Andever called Semers Farme w[i]t[h] all the appurten[an]cs ther[e ]unto belonging and walworth of my
15    Lord Sandys holding And a leasse of a Tenement in Kyngs Enh[a]m which is John Catts gentilman holde w[i]t[h]
16    all the appurten[an]cs ther[e ]unto belonging Also I geve to the said Edmund my sonne my freeholde in Andever
17    with seven acres and a half of arable land that Thomas Wescombe now holdeth with all the rest of myn[e]
18    erable lands grains pastures and com[m]ons of pastures of what nature kynde name and degre soever they be
19    which I do holde and kepe of any man[ner] at the making of this my last wille and testament Also I wille that
20    the forsaid Thomas Wescombe shal[l ]have the forsaid house that he dwelleth in for the terms of thurtie yeres
21    next folowing paying yerely therfor and to agree w[i]t[h] Margaret Blake my wife and Edmund Blake my son[ne]
22    Item I geve to Elizabeth Blake my daughter one hundreth of shepe and Twentie poundes of money at the day of
23    her mariage and her apparill. Item I give and bequeth to Alice my daughter twentie shepe and fyve quarters of
24    barley to be delivered at Michelmas next commyng Item I give to Sir Thomas Upton my curate to pray for my soule
25    and all Christ[ai]n soules x s. Also yf that it fortune Edmund Blake my sonne to dye before he be of lawfull age Then I wille
26    that my freholde w[i]t[h] all the other leases geven and bequethed by me to the said Edmond to remayn to William Blake
27    my sonne his heires and assignes And the goods to remayne to Alice Goodwyn and Elizabeth Blake my daughters equally
28    to be devided betwixt them And if it fortune the said Alice and Elizabeth to dye Then I will the said goodes to be devided
29    betwene the children of William Blake my son Provided also I will that Margaret Blake my wife shall have and
30    kepe all my free landes tenements holds leases with all th[e ]appurtenancs to them belonging which I doe holde of any man[ne]r
31    of man[ner] at the making of this my last will and testament during the terme of her life The residue of my goods and
32    c[h]attalls not gevyn or bequethed I geve and bequeth to Margaret Blake my wife and Edmunde Blake my sonne
33    whom I make and ordeyn myn executors of this my last will and testament Also I make and ordeyn William
34    Hopkins and Willi[a]m Aldred my Overseers of this my last will and testament for to se it p[er]formed according to
35    my mynde above specified Witnesse to this Sir Thomas Upton Curate Stevyn Smyth Will[ia]m Blake w[i]t[h] other
36         Probatum fuit test[ament]um suprascripti defuncti h[ab]entis etc xxth die mensis Juinij Anno D[o]m[in]o Mill[es]imo quingen[tesimo]
37    xlvij [1547] Coram d[o]m[in]o apud London aucto[ritate] d[o]m[in]o n[ost]ri Regis etc Iurament[o] Margarete Relicte executoris in h[uius]mo[d]i test[ament]o no[m]i[n]at[i] In persona
38    Stephe[n] Smyth procur[atoris] sui in hac p[ar]te Ac approbatum et insinuatum Com[m]issa fuit admi[ni]stracio o[mn]i[u]m et singulorom bonorum Jurium
39    Et creditorum d[i]c[t]i defuncti prefat[o] executrici In p[er]sona die proc[urato]ris De b[e]n[e] et fidel[ite]r admi[ni]strando Ac de pleno et fideli In[venta]rio secondo die post
40    festum s[an]c[t]e Anne prox[imum] futur[um] exhibend[o] necnon de plano et vero compoto reddend[o] Ad s[an]c[t]a dei Ev[a]ngelia in debit iuris forma jurat
41    Reservata po[tes]tate Edmund Blake executori etiam in h[uius]mo[d]i test[ament]o no[m]i[n]at cum venerit etc


The will of Margaret Mundaye now completed (an earlier blog post included only the first page and the inventory) as I have finally managed to get the second page as that film is now available at the local Family History Library. Margaret, at the time of writing her will was the widow of Richard Munday whose will was blogged earlier and also the widow of Nicholas BLAKE. She married Richard Munday sometime after the death of Nicholas BLAKE (deceased by 20th June 1547) and before the 11th May 1551 when Richard Munday wrote his will.

http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2014/03/will-of-richard-munday-monxton.html

The spelling is very novel in this will and I am wondering if she has written it herself. Margaret remembers her son William BLAKE’s children with 18 sheep and Edmund BLAKE’s child Steven with just 2 sheep. I am left to wonder did William have 9 children and indeed in his will he mentions ten children which may give me an idea that his last child Richard (my likely ancestor) was born after February of 1558 which does rather match my thinking. He is married likely by 1583 to 84 which would make him about 23 to 25 years of age at the time. So that was an exciting find in this will if I have correctly interpreted Margaret (my likely 12 x great grandmother).

This will also clarifies why William BLAKE ends up with all the properties of his father Nicholas mentioned in the will of Nicholas BLAKE. Evidently Edmund BLAKE did not clear his debts with step-brother William Munday and his brother William BLAKE so he forfeited all the properties and cattle left to him by his father. Perhaps 200 pounds was more interesting. I never see anything of Edmund BLAKE again except the mention of him in his brother William BLAKE’s will so he is still living in 1582. This is eleven years after the will of Nicholas BLAKE and Edmund is obviously an adult and has married. The page that was missing perhaps talks about Elizabeth (her daughter) and I may learn which Munday she married if she was married by the time of her mother’s death. Elizabeth’s brother William BLAKE mentions Elizabeth Munday in his will of 1582.

Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 28 Feb 2014
Source: Family Search Film 186697, Hampshire Record Office 1559B/066
Testator: Margaret Mundaye
Place: Monkstone, Hampshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 18 Dec 1558, probated 13 Feb 1558/59

1    In the name of god amen In the yere of o[u]r lord god m ccccc
2    fyfe hundred fyfty viij the xviij daye of decymber yn
3    the fyrst yere of o[u]r souffrane lady quene Elysabethe by the
4    grace of god of Ingland France and Ierland quene defynder of
5    the faythe I margeret mondy of the p[a]ri[s]he of
6    monkston syke of body and of parfett remymbrance make and or
7    der thys my last wyll and testemynte in manar and forme
8    foloyng fyrst I bequese my soule to almyty god and my body
9    in to the Chyrche of monkston Item I geve to the moth[e]r
10    chyrche of Wynchyster xij d Item I geve to the parrashe chyrche
11    of Enh[a]m vj s viij d Item I geve to Edemond blake
12    my son ij hundard Sheppe ij horsys and ij keue and a belloke
13    and the one halfe of my hoggs whyche be in the costody of wyll[ia]m
14    blake my son and the howse that Alyxandar modell dwyllyth
15    in and xx £ of lawfull mony of Ingland so the sayd Edemend
16    do bryng ij suffycyent suertys to w[i]t in thre monythes
17    nexte after the deythe of hys mother and be bounde
18    in oblygacyan and in ij hundarde ponds to cleerly dyscharge
19    and requete wyllm mondy hys executor and wyllm blake
20    brother to the sayd Edemund of Al[l ]manar of detts
21    both pa[r]ts quarylls  leygesys and demands the whyche
22    aperythe in hys father wyll and yf the sayd
23    Edemunds refuse so to do that thyn all suche goods
24    and lands afor sayd to remayne to wyllm mondy and to
25    hys assines for eve[r] Item I geve to Wyllm blake Chyllydarrne
26    xviij shepe and to Steven blake the son of Edemend blake
27    ij shepe Item I geve to the Chylldarryne of wyllm hopkyns
28    Ev[er]y one of thym a ewe shepe Item I geve to alys klene
29    my wosted kyetyll at Inh[a]m and my best frockes and a petycote
30    Item I geve to Wyllm Mondy the son of Wyllim Mondy of monk
31    ston ston one cowe and alys the dowter of the sayd wyllm
32    To have the fyrste cowse of the sayd hewfer all so
33    I wyll that Alysandar meddell shall have the howse
34    in Andever for x yeres next awter hys leyse be exspi
35    red Item I geve to Johan dyer my god dowter one bolle
36    and the resedew of my goods moveabell and unmoveabell
37    I geve and bequeue to wyllm mondy my son whome
38    I make my full executor of thys my last wyll and teste
39    mynte all so I wyll that wyll that wyllm blake and
40    Robard blake and Rychard dyer Alysandar meddell for to
41    be my ov[er]sears of thys my laste wyll and testemynt
43    that yt may be fulfyllyd and kept and they to have for ther
44    paynys x s apeese witness here of Sir Thomas blesse
45    Clarke wyllm blake Robte blake ayhyre
46    Dyer Alysandar meddall w[i]t[h] other mee
47    P[ro]bat[um] f[ui]t hu[jus]mo[di] test[amentu]m v[ica]rio Robt
48    Baynolil leg[um] d[oc]tre  _______  gen[er]ali xiij die
49    Februarij 1558 p[er] e[unde]m approba[tu]m etc com[m]issa
50    f[ui]t ad[mini]str[at]io bono[rum] def[un]cti exec[utor]is
51    ______ patris ______ Jurat
52  
53    Overseer Richard Hopkyns      
54    son John Mody, executor      
55    deceased husband Rychard Mody      
56    appraisers:  William Mody, John Smyth, Ryhchard Buxe, Rychard Spenser      
57    witness:  Sir Martyn Vaysee      
58    The Invetorye of the goods and cattells of      
59    Margaret mu[n]dy yn the parryshe of M[o]nkston      
60    yn the cowntye of sowth[ampton]e praysed by Rychard      
61    eyer alexander muddel the viijth day of      
62    February anno domini 1558      
63    In primis j folding table      
64    It[e]m j cobbard ij chayres    x s  
65    It[e]m j whytche ij coffers    vj s viij d  
66    It[e]m j featherbed j bolster j pillow iij coverletts    vj s viij d  
67    It[e]m vij peyre of sheets    xxvj s viij d  
68    It[e]m ij dosen of platters j dosen of potyngers j dosen of sawcers    xx s  
69    It[e]m j bassoon j bassoon ewer    xxvj s viij d  
70    It[e]m j sylv[er] salt vj sylv[er] spons     ij s  
71    It[e]m iij candelstycks    iij £ vj s viij d  
72    It[e]m ij pewter potts ij serving dyssys j tynnyn salt    ij s  
73    It[e]m iij potts    ij s  
74    It[e]m iij panns    xv s  
75    It[e]m iiij cawdrons    x s  
76    It[e]m j chaffer j morter j skyllet    x s  
77    It[e]m ij arrondyrons and ij broches    viij s  
78    It[e]m iiij table clothes ij cusshens    vj s viij d  
79    It[e]m iiij score shepe    vij s  
80    It[e]m j fornas    viij £  
81    It[e]m xxxvij ewes    iij s iiij d  
82    It[e]m ij horsys    liij s iiij d  
83    It[e]m iij kyne a bulle j bullocke    iij £ vj s viij d  
84    It[e]m yn barly xx quarters v £ vj s viij d    iiij £  
85    The su[m] xxxiiij £ viij s ij d      

The next blog for the Blogging Challenge will include the wills of the known mother of Nicholas BLAKE and that of the likely father of Nicholas BLAKE.

This blog marks the seventh blog I will have completed for this Challenge and the two wills next blog will be the eighth blog. I believe for the last two blogs I will look at a different aspect of my BLAKE one-name study. I considered moving to another mystery in the BLAKE family but may change that idea!

Physiotherapy once again

Forgot to record my latest physiotherapy appointment last Friday. I had had trouble with one of the exercises so had to give it up for a few days after the appointment before last. Then decided to try it again a few days before the last appointment. I took it a little slower and this time it worked out with a slight modification that I added to it. I am finding that I need a longer time between appointments to get the full benefit of the exercises. That is probably because I am 74 I am thinking. Plus with all of my husband's appointments and my work I just do not really have time to go oftener I find. Every two weeks will suit me much better.

I am now up to 16,000 steps plus most days and doing about 2 to 2.5 hours of exercise per day. I am still not running and have decided not to start running until at least April or May when the nicer weather comes. I am biking at Level 2 now for 12 minutes of the 30 minutes that I bike. That is working out well for me. I was doing 20,000 steps per day so will continue to move towards that as a goal. Because I do work at the computer five to six hours per day it is really necessary for me to put a decided effort into walking as much as can be fitted into a day.

I had thought that I would like to do physiotherapy once a month from now on but I am changing my mind and will just complete this set of appointments working on my sprained meniscus and strained hamstring and then go back to organizing my own exercises. Hopefully I can now avoid any injury although falls are something that are much more difficult to prevent given my poor eyesight. I shall just be much more careful.

Will of Susannah Blake, widow, Faversham, Kent - The National Archives PROB 11/1745/320, probated 22 Sep 1828

There was a marriage for Susanna Collier to Caleb Blake 29 Nov 1767 at Faversham, Kent.

Isaac Topping Packman married Sarah Mary Blake 21 Feb 1790 at Faversham, Kent.

No other pertinent information located.

Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 19 Jan 2020
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1745/320
Testator: Susannah Blake, widow
Place: Faversham, Kent
Type of Record:    Will
Date of document: 14 Nov 1827, probated 22 Sep 1828

[Margin]: Susannah Blake 12

1    This is the last Will and Testament of me
2    Susannah Blake of the Town of Faversham in the County of Kent Widow made
3    and published this fourteenth day of November in the Year of our Lord one thousand
4    eight hundred and twenty seven I do hereby revoke and make void all former and
5    other Wills by me at any time heretofore made and of this my last Will and
6    Testament do hereby nominate constitute and appoint Edward Crow of Faversham
7    aforesaid, Watchmaker and David Jones of Faversham aforesaid Gentleman joint
8    executors I do hereby will and direct that all my just debts and funeral and
9    Testamentary expences shall in the first place be fully paid and satisfied I do
10    hereby give and bequeath all my furniture household goods and implements of
11    household plate linen china and all other my personal estate and others what
12    soever and wheresoever and of what nature of kind soever this same may be
13    whereof I shall die possessed (except my ready money securities for money and
14    money upon mortgage or in the public stocks of funds) unto my daughter Sarah
15    Mary Packman the wife of Isaac Topping Packman of Langdon hills in the
16    County of Essex Gentleman her executors administrators and assigns absolutely
17    for ever And as to all my ready money and securities for money money upon mortgage
18    belonging to me (at the time of my decease I give and bequeath the same
19    every part thereof unto the said Edward Crow and David Jones their ex[ecut]ors
20    and Administrators upon trust that they or the survivor of them his
21    executors or administrators do and shall stand and be possessed thereof
22    and urge to shall collect receive and get in the same or any part
23    thereof and do and shall lay out and invest the same upon interest upon
24    government real or other good and valuable securities and also from time
25    to time call in alter vary and change the same or any part thereof as they or
26    the survivor of them his executors or administrators shall see occasion and
27    shall and do pay and apply the interest dividends or annual proceeds thereof as
28    the same shall from time to time come in and be received by them unto and
29    for the sole and only separate use and benefit of my said daughter Sarah
30    Mary Packman for and during the term of her natural life and I do declare
31    that the several bequests by me hereinbefore made to my said daughter Sarah Mary
32    Packman are to be to and for her own separate use and benefit independent of her
33    said husband and not be subject to the control debts or intermediary and for that
34    purpose I do hereby also declare that her receipt alone notwithstanding her coverture
35    shall from time to time be a sufficient discharge and discharges to my said Trustees
36    for the same rightes hereinbefore directed to be paid or given to her and from and immediately after the decease than upon trust that
37    they the said Edward Crow and David Jones and the survivor of them his exors
38    or administrators do and shall pay assign and transfer the said principal money and
39    every part thereof and also the stocks funds and securities in or upon which the
40    same shall be invested unto and amongst all and every the child and children of
41    my said daughter Sarah Mary Packman as shall be living at the time of my
42    decease equally to be divided between them share and share alike and their
43    several and respective executors administrators and assigns absolutely to and for
44    their own separate use and benefit and I do hereby declare that they my said
45    executors their executors or administrators or any of them shall not be
46    charged or chargeable with or accountable for any more of the said trust
47    monies and premises then what they shall actually receive by virtue of the
48    trusts aforesaid nor with or for any loss which shall happen in or to the same or
49    in execution of the trusts aforesaid or otherwise so as such loss happen without
50    their or either of their willful default nor one of them for the other of them
51    but each of them only for his own acts deeds receipts disbursements and defaults
52    notwithstanding their or either of them joining in any act or receipt for the
53    sake of conformity and also that it shall and may be lawful to and for them
54    my said Executors and each of them their and each of their executors and
55    administrators in the first place by and out of the said trust estate monies
56    premises to deduct retain and reimburse themselves and himself respectively all or
57    such loss costs charges damages and expences as they or either or any of them
58    shall sustain expend or which shall or may be to them or any of them
59    occasioned for or by reason of the trusts so exposed in them or in the
60    maintenance or execution thereof or any thing in any wise relating thereto
61    together with a suitable and proper allowance for their journies trouble and
62    loss of time in and about the same trusts In witness whereof I the said
63    Susannah Blake the Testatrix have to this my last Will and Testament
64    contained in this and the preceding sheet of paper set and affixed my hand and
65    seal to wit my hand to the preceding sheet of paper and my hand and seal to
66    this last sheet thereof the day and year above written Susannah Blake
67    signed sealed published and declared by the said Susannah Blake the
68    testatrix as and for her last Will and Testament in the presence of us
69    and in her presence at the request and in the presence of each other have
70    hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses thereto The mark X of Maria
71    Herd Servant to Mrs Blake____Trell Green Shepherd
72    Proved at London 22nd Septr 1828 before the Judge by the oath of David Jones one
73    of the Executors to whom Admon was granted having been first sworn by comon duly to
74    admin Power reserved to Edward Crow the other Exeor

H11 Newsletter - Volume 4, Issue 1, 2020

H11 Newsletter

Table of Contents

1.    Project Statistics
2.    Subclades of H11
3.    H11 in the news

1.    Project Statistics:

Combined GEDCOMs Uploaded        50
DISTINCT mtDNA Haplogroups        17
Family Finder       262
Maternal Ancestor Information       306
mtDNA            332
mtDNA Full Sequence        323
mtDNA Plus        329
mtDNA Subgroups          22
Total Members        366
Unreturned Kits          14

2.    Breakdown of subclades location:

H11 – 11 members, 4 – North Western Europe, 3 – Central Europe, 2 – Scandinavia, 1 – Southern Europe, 1 – Unknown.

H11-499A-XXXXX-16354T – 8 members, 1 member has only 499A mutation – Unknown, 2 members have only 16354T mutation – 1 – Scotland, 1 – Ireland, 1 member has 499A and XXXXX mutations – Unknown, 4 members have all three mutations – 3 – Unknown.

H11-93G-XXXX – 6 members, 3 members have just the 93G mutation – 2 – Scandinavia, 1 – Eastern Europe; 3 members have both mutations – 2 – Scandinavia, 1 – North Western Europe.

H11a – 68 members, 4 – Central Europe, 9 – Eastern Europe, 14 – North Western Europe, 1 – Southern Europe, 12 – Scandinavia, 30 – Unknown.

H11a-XXXXX – 4 members, 2 – North Western Europe, 2 – Unknown.

H11a-207A – 4 members, 3 – North Western Europe, 1 – Unknown.

H11a-4XXXX – 4 members, 4 – Scandinavia.

H11a-523.1C, 523.2A – 2 members, 1 – Central Europe, 1 – Unknown.

H11a-XXXX – 2 members, 2 – Unknown.

H11a-XXXXX-XXXXX – 3 members, 2 – North Western Europe, 1 – Unknown.

H11a-T152C! – 11 members, 1 – Central Europe, 1 – Eastern Europe, 3 – North Western Europe, 3 – Scandinavia, 3 – Unknown.

H11a-73G – 2 members, 2 – Russia.

H11a1 – 24 members, 1 – Central Europe, 12 – Eastern Europe, 2 – North Western Europe, 1 – Southern Europe, 2 – Scandinavia, 6 – Unknown.

H11a1-XXXXX – 2 members, 1 – Central Europe, 1 – Eastern Europe.

H11a1-143A-XXXXX – 4 members, 1 member has only the XXXXX mutation – Scandinavia, 3 members have both mutations – North Western Europe.

H11a1-146C – 37 members, 1 – Central Europe, 3 – Eastern Europe, 3 – North Western Europe, 25 – Scandinavia, 5 – Unknown.

H11a1-16209C – 3 members, 1 – Central Europe, 1 – Eastern Europe, 1 – Unknown.

H11a1-16224C – 5 members, 1 – Eastern Europe, 3 – Scandinavia, 1 – Unknown.

H11a1-16299G – 3 members, 3 – unknown.

H11a1-198T – 4 members, 1 – North Western Europe, 3 – Unknown.

H11a2 – 10 members, 4 – North Western Europe, 1 – Central Europe, 1 – Scandinavia, 4 – Unknown.

H11a2-16092Y – 3 members, 1 – Scandinavia, 2 – Unknown.

H11a2-16261T – 3 members, 2 – Scandinavia, 1 – North Western Europe.

H11a2-XXXXX – 3 members, 2 – Southern Europe, 1 – Unknown.

H11a2-16092C-XXXXXXX – 3 members, 2 – Eastern Europe, 1 – Southern Europe.

H11a2-16092C-16261T – 3 members, 3 – Scandinavia.

H11a2a – 9 members, 1 – Eastern Europe, 8 – Unknown.

H11a2a-523.1C-523.2A-XXXXX – 5 members, 1 member is missing the 5460A mutation – Scandinavia, 4 – Scandinavia.

H11a2a-XXXXX-XXXXX-16129A – 2 members, 2 – Unknown.

H11a2a1 – 7 members, 3 – North Western Europe, 4 – Unknown.

H11a2a1-16293G-XXXXXX-XXXXX – 11 members, 2 members have only the XXXXX mutation – North Western Europe, 2 members have only the XXXXXX-16293G mutations – Unknown, 1 member has the XXXXX-16293G mutations – Unknown, 6 members have only the 16293G mutation – 2 – North Western Europe, 4 – Unknown.

H11a2a2 – 19 members, 2 – Central Europe, 8 – Eastern Europe, 1 – North Western Europe, 3 – Scandinavia.

H11a2a2-XXXXX – 2 members, 2 – Eastern Europe.

H11a2a2-XXXXX – 4 members, 3 – Eastern Europe, 1 – Unknown.

H11a2a3 – 4 members, 1 – North Western Europe, 1 – Scandinavia, 2 – Unknown.

H11a2a3-16380T – 2 members, 2 – Unknown.

H11a3 – 2 members, 1 – North Western Europe, 1 – Unknown.

H11a4 – 7 members, 3 – North Western Europe, 1 – Scandinavia, 3 – Unknown.

H11a6 – 1 member – Unknown.

H11a7 – 1 member – Unknown.

H11a8 – 6 members, 3 – North Western Europe, 3 – Unknown

H11b-XXXXX-16095T – 2 members – Unknown.

H11b1 – 5 members, 1 – Central Europe, 1 – Scandinavia, 1 – North Western Europe, 1 – Eastern Europe, 1 – Unknown.

H11b1-XXXXXX – 2 members, 1 – Central Europe, 1 – Eastern Europe.

H11b1-16261T – 8 members, 3 – Eastern Europe, 5 – Unknown.

H11b1-16357C – 7 members, 1 – Central Europe, 2 – Eastern Europe, 3 – Scandinavia, 1 – Unknown.

3.    H11 in the News – nothing to report for this issue






Any submissions to this newsletter can be submitted to Elizabeth Kipp (kippeeb@rogers.com).