Will of Edward Blake, Broadweaver, Cowley, Gloucestershire - Diocese of...
Edward Blake Broadweaver of Cowley Gloucestershire is the testator. He names his brother Richard also of Cowley and his wife Margaret. He also names his sons in birth order Edward, Maurise, George,...
View ArticleWill of John Blake, Farmer, Upcott, Withington, Gloucestershire - Diocese of...
The testator is John Blake farmer at Upcott in the parish of Withington. He names his sons William, the eldest, and John. He has a grandson John son of John. Where does this family fit into the...
View ArticleWill of John Blake, cordwainer, Kemerton, Gloucestershire - Diocese of...
John Blake of Kemerton, cordwainer, is the deceased whose estate will be administered by his son Thomas. In the 1841 Census John Blake is living at Kemerton in the registration of Tewkesbury and aged...
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Family Search Indexing
In the past I did do Family Search indexing and will likely do more when the new indexing tools become available. I am mostly into my one name studies these days. However, Family Search has sent us a...
View ArticleFruit Chili Sauce
As the tomatoes ripen on the vines, the peppers enlarge and a few get a reddish glow, the peaches and pears ripen, the onions grow thick skins, the time arrives to make fruit chili sauce. It takes...
View ArticleJohn Blake, Farmer, Bagendon, Gloucestershire - Diocese of Bristol Wills on...
This administration is for John Blake, farmer, Bagendon fits in with earlier wills from the Blake family at Duntisbourne Abbots.George Blake died intestate in 1849 and his administration was...
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New Brunswick Blake and the Genealogy of Captain John Blake of Mirimachi, New...
At our recent visit to the Archives of Ontario, I discovered an interesting manuscript which included the genealogy of a Captain John Blake of Miramachi, New Brunswick. This is the work of Jane Logie...
View ArticleThe Companions of William the Conqueror
One of the small books that we purchased in France has an interesting plaque (William the Conqueror by Annie Fettu, OREP Editions, ISBN 978-2-912925-22-0 and the source: Archives departementales du...
View ArticleBlake families of New Brunswick, Canada
I am pulling Blake members out of the New Brunswick censuses from 1861 to 1921 and this blog post is 1861 to 1881. It will likely undergo a lot of moving around of the various entries as my main...
View ArticleCensus 1891-1921 for Blake in New Brunswick
I decided to publish this before I am finished, working on 1901 and will complete to 1921 as the days pass. You might wonder why I am not consistent in the naming of these blogs for the Blake census...
View ArticleCity of Ottawa Archives - BIFHSGO section
My husband had a meeting at the City of Ottawa Archives today so I tagged along to have a look at the BIFHSGO and OGS collections of British material.I never noticed the Pipe Rolls for Hampshire in...
View ArticleAugust 2014
August 2014 has been a very busy month for me with very little transcription done of the Blake wills. As always it is a busy gardening time and we uprooted a crab apple tree that we have wanted to take...
View ArticleCornwall Blake family at Landrake - Accumulated data
The first Blake family to look at in Cornwall will be the family at St E[a]rney and Landrake. The property which they owned there became the property of Francis O’Dogherty, Esquire and he inherited the...
View ArticlePenquite Landrake Cornwall Blake family and others
I am still continuing to work on the Blake family at Landrake (with St Erney) Cornwall family. Life has been rather busy and a recurrent back problem has sidelined me for a while. Hope to be back at...
View ArticleBeechwood Cemetery and the United Empire Loyalists Association of Canada
Yesterday was a special day at Beechwood Cemetery with a walk guided by two members of the United Empire Loyalists Association of Canada - Sylvia Powers and Dorothy Meyerhof. They did an excellent job...
View ArticleBIFHSGO Conference - 19 - 21 Sep 2014
We were slated to be in France in September so did not organize having a Guild of One Name Studies at the BIFHSGO Conference, first miss in a few years. As it turned out my sciatica and arthritis have...
View ArticleBlake family at St Erney near Landrake, Cornwall
The first Blake family to look at in Cornwall will be the family at St E[a]rney and Landrake. The property which they owned there became the property of Francis O’Dogherty, Esquire and he inherited the...
View ArticleThe Blake Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 4, 2014
Blake Newsletter Volume 3 Issue 4 2014Table of Contents1. The Surname Society2. Blake Wills Project3. Family Tree Reconstruction4. Pipe Rolls of Hampshire5. Blake yDNA Study1. The...
View ArticleWill of Richard Blake, Innholder, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire - Diocese...
Richard Blake is the testator and he is an Innholder at Chipping Sodbury. He mentions his son Thomas and his wife Mary in his will below. The portbury-hundred website...
View ArticleReturning slowly to transcription
I will be slowly returning to transcription and hope to be back at it full time again by early December. Instead of eight hours or so a day at my computer I find time for a couple of hours only. Thank...
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