I worked away yesterday looking at Richard le Blake in the records and did manage to separate out the two Blake families who were "closeby" sort of in the areas north of Berkshire and then the Wiltshire group. Definitely I can separate out the Berkshire le Blak family from the le Blake family in Worcestershire/Warwickshire which is a bonus as they had similar forenames. Although I have not proven a direct link between the Richard Blage/Blake on the Chart and Richard le Blak in Berkshire (possibly from Rouen, Normandy after 1274) in the 1300s it does look more interesting in that regard. The next direction is perhaps to see if there are any Lay Subsidies in the 1300s in Berkshire available. I do have a good proof of life and placement for the Robert le Blake line near Calne. I think I will let another month of looking at this pass by without being concerned at the length of time. I did finally find a Dorrant/Durrant family in the 1300s in Norfolk. Since there is an established Blake line in East Anglia dating back into the 1200s/1300s I begin to wonder about the marriage between a Henry Blake of Quemerford/Calne and a daughter of an Edward Dorrant/Durrant naming her as a co-heir but will persist looking at that. Perhaps Burke's Pedigree can be helpful and will check that out.
Other than that I washed the car windows since they were somewhat dusty and the rain rinsed all of that away. I want to order the black earth today and will get that done. My lot is joined and the ground beside the garage has never had any fresh earth in all of these fourty six years so I want to add earth there stamping it down with each thin layer added. There is also a parging spot that has broken on the concrete so need to figure that out. The parging is good otherwise so will do a repair I think but will check with Home Depot on that perhaps they have someone they know who does small repair jobs.
Today I shall work on Pencombe and it will be continuing to draw out the data from Find My Past and enter that into my new Pencombe one-name study file on Legacy.
We are promised a lot of rain today so that is good. I want to start adding black earth to the lawn at the front a little at a time and seed it as I go. This is good grass growing weather for sure. I will do an hour a day to start and work up to a couple of hours but take my time doing that. It would be nice to complete the front yard by mid May. The back will likely take all summer since growing grass in the hotter part of the year is problematic. I shall let the grass grow and the dandelions again for the bees!
Teatime and Latin.