John Butt (1776 - 1850)
52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 7Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, unknown, Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight, Vincent, Butt, Durnford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterel, Bartlett, Alderman,...
View ArticleAdministration of William Blake of Prestbury, Gloucestershire - Diocese of...
Will for William Blake of Presbury and mentioned the administrator is his wife Margaret Blake and Henry Hathaway. William was a yeoman. Also mentioned is his Grandson William Blake as administrator....
View ArticleWill of William Blake, Cardboard Maker, Dursley, Gloucestershire - Diocese of...
William Blake of Dursley is the testator. He is married to Sarah. On Family Search I found the baptism of Mary 16 Apr 1755 and Betty 18 June 1758 at Dursley. They would appear to be the youngest...
View ArticleBlake family at Bodmin, Cornwall, England
Finding the rather interesting record of a John Blake from Breton at Bodmin, Cornwall before 16 Feb 1525 in the England's Immigrant Database was timely in terms of my working on Cornwall. The parish...
View ArticleBlake marriages in Cornwall up to 1575
I checked to see how many Blake marriages there were in the OPC Cornwall records up to 1575 and I found seven marriages (all from Phillimore's Marriages but a couple from parish registers as...
View ArticleBodmin and St Breock, Cornwall Marriages
Working on the St Breock marriages and there are 54 with a male Blake and 61 with a female Blake from the beginning of the registers in the 1500s to the late 1800s/early 1900s. There were 49 male Blake...
View ArticleSt Breock baptisms
St Breock baptisms prior to the mid 1800s are on Find My Past and I extracted about 100 of them. Now that I have so much information for the Bodmin/St Breock area I think my next step should be to do...
View ArticleBlake Newsletter, Volume 4, Issue 1, 2015
Blake NewsletterVolume 4, Issue 1, 2015Table of Contents1.  Returning to Genealogy2.  Family Tree Reconstruction3.  The Surname Society4.  Blake yDNA Study5.  Lecture1.  Returning to...
View ArticleJohn Pincombe (1728 - 1795)
52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 8Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, unknown, Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight, Vincent, Butt, Durnford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterel, Bartlett, Alderman,...
View Article600 plus emails
In case anyone has been writing to me the last six months whilst I have been somewhat out of action, I will get to your email but I have over 600 emails in my inbox. It is a slow process working my way...
View ArticleLooking at the parishes around Bodmin/St Breock
A system constantly in evolution as I extract the data from the Cornwall records. I will now start to extract the baptisms, marriages, and burials from the parishes around Bodmin/St Breock and these...
View ArticleElizabeth Molton (1766 - 1838)
52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 9Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, unknown, Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight, Vincent, Butt, Durnford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterel, Bartlett, Alderman,...
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Blake or Black
A comment was received on one of my blogs which mentioned the following:"I'm another descendant of the Landrake Blakes,so thanks for all your work on them. I've not read all previous posts but just...
View ArticleA followup to my earlier post on Blake or Black
The Calendar of Patent Rolls (http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/patentrolls/search.html) is a project of the University of Iowa Libraries and made available on line by them under the leadership of Dr G.R....
View ArticleR1b study for Black and Blake families
The R1b groupings in both Blake and Black studies are numerous and will take more time to analyze.The Group that is labeled H Irish Ancestry in the Blake yDNA study (said to include Blakes who descend...
View ArticleBlack as a surname
I decided to look at a set of records for the Black family on Find My past ranging from The earliest record that I found was for a William Black baptized 1540 at Northam Devon (no parents given) and it...
View ArticleWills for the Black family at the National Archives (UK)
A search on the National Archives of the UK site yields 235 wills for members of the Black family with three from the 1500-1599 time period, 10 from the 1600-1699 time period, 97 from the 1700-1799...
View ArticleGeorge Routledge (1729 - 1816)
52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 10Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, unknown, Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight, Vincent, Butt, Durnford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterel, Bartlett,...
View ArticleBlake families in Cornwall
I have completed the set of parishes around Bodmin and decided that my next step will be to look at the parishes that are up to 15 miles away from Bodmin and do their BMDs...
View ArticleBIFHSGO meeting - Ulster Genealogical Society
A superb meeting for BIFHSGO and John Reid reports in his blog:http://anglo-celtic-connections.blogspot.ca/2015/03/ulster-day-at-bifhsgo.htmlWe were sorry that we had an opera in the afternoon or we...
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