Martha Pearse (1736 - 1798 or 1802)
52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 11Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, unknown, Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight, Vincent, Butt, Durnford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterel, Bartlett,...
View ArticleEmails concerning the Blake family
Lately I have received half of a dozen emails from people asking me about different lines of the Blake family in the British Isles. Because I am now into newsletter mode and working on the BMBs for...
View ArticleSigns that spring has come to Ottawa
Having had the coldest winter I can ever remember in my entire life and learning that this was one of the warmest winters ever in the world, I was hoping that perhaps spring would come our way...
View ArticleThe Blake family of Galway
I did begin my extraction of the Blake family material in Martin Blake's excellent set of records on the Blake family of Galway. I am entering the information into Legacy and have added 197 individuals...
View ArticleNathanael Lambden (1718 - 1799)
52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 12Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, unknown, Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight, Vincent, Butt, Durnford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterel, Bartlett,...
View ArticleNewsletter to come
Commencing on the Blake Newsletter today and should publish by the end of March or early April. I will talk about the Blake family in Cornwall and my progress there with charting the families. I will...
View ArticleBlake and le Blake mentioned in the Calendar of Patent Rolls as serving in...
I have put in a number of hours on the books by Martin Blake on the Galway Blake family and have managed to imput over one thousand names thus far along with the material. He did such an excellent job...
View ArticleRobert Siderfin (1726 - 1788)
52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 13Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, unknown, Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight, Vincent, Butt, Durnford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterel, Bartlett,...
View ArticleBlake Newsletter, Volume 4, Issue 2
Blake NewsletterTable of Contents1. Family of Theophilus Blake (Susan Osborne)2. Blake family in Cornwall3. England’s Immigrant Database 1330-15504. Blake Family of Galway5. Blake yDNA1....
View ArticleAnn Vincent (1755 - probably by 1841)
52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 14Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, unknown, Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight, Vincent, Butt, Durnford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterel, Bartlett,...
View ArticleCornwall Blake continuing
I am continuing with the extraction of information and insertion of that information into my Legacy software for the Cornwall Blake family. A number of family lines have emerged and eventually I hope...
View ArticleWilliam Knight ( - 1827)
52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 15Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, unknown, Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight, Vincent, Butt, Durnford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterel, Bartlett,...
View ArticleParishes up to 25 miles from Bodmin, Cornwall
Having completed the parishes up to 15 miles from Bodmin I am now moving on to the block of parishes that are up to 25 miles distance. Family lines are emerging in my Legacy File which I shall share...
View ArticleContinuing with the Galway Blake family legacy file
Now well into the second book of Martin Joseph Blake on the Galway Blake family and working on the Kiltolla family. He has made some changes with his second book and there are another 40 pages of...
View ArticleJohn Knight (1757 - 1826)
52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 16Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, unknown, Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight, Vincent, Butt, Durnford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterel, Bartlett,...
View ArticleUnknown Buller (circa 1730s? - )
52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 17Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, unknown, Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight,Vincent, Butt, Durnford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterel, Bartlett, Alderman,...
View ArticleHenry Beard (1741 - 1795)
52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 18Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, unknown, Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight, Vincent, Butt, Durnford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterel, Bartlett,...
View ArticleGardening season and genealogy
Gardening season and genealogy always seem somewhat incompatible but this year I am going to try to combine them. I have lost a lot of time to genealogy in this past year most due to my back injury....
View ArticleGalway Blake Family and the Blake Family at Twizzell
As I work through Martin Blake's books and I have now completed the initial entry, I am proofreading. As well I decided to enter in a little more material on the Blake family of Twizzell Castle. Robert...
View ArticleGedcom from the Galway Blake Records of Martin J Blake
I have now finished entering all the individuals, checking the links of the genealogical connections, in the two volumes of Martin J Blake's books on the Blake family of Galway. In total there are 2217...
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