Blake Newsletter to come 1 January 2016
I am just starting to compile the Blake Newsletter for the 1 January 2016. It will be Volume 5. This is one item I hope to continue with into the future even though I will at some point in the coming...
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William Cheatle
52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 50 Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, Mary (unknown), Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight, Vincent, Butt, O'Ford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterell, Bartlett,...
View ArticleSarah, unknown wife of William Cheatle
52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 51Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, Mary (unknown), Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight, Vincent, Butt, O'Ford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterell, Bartlett,...
View ArticleThe ARNOLD family of Milton Abbas, Dorset
A flurry of emails back and forth discussing the Arnold family at Milton Abbas between myself and Jill Morley who has been collecting Arnold material for over 30 years. She runs an active Facebook...
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Interestingly enough all these bouts of illness of the last few weeks reminds one that we are, none of us, protected from the effects of disease. My voice is gradually returning but as I was dealing...
View ArticleUnknown Taylor
52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 52Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, Mary (unknown), Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight, Vincent, Butt, O'Ford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterell, Bartlett,...
View ArticleMerry Christmas
Merry Christmas and God's blessings to all.As a child we would have attended Christmas Eve service and again on Christmas Day. Church was the center of our lives and I wish it still was to be honest....
View ArticleSnow finally snow
We finally had a snowfall; not a lot but it has begun. We are so used to snow that not having it seems like a bit of a shock! No skating; no skiing and even walking in the snow is fun when there isn't...
View ArticleHappy New Year
New Year's resolutions and this is something I have never really done so probably will not start now.However, I do intend to have this next workshop/lecture my last one.Other than that I plan to do my...
View ArticleCharles Alexandre Bedard (1837 - 1914)
This years 52 Ancestor Challenge looks at another set of 4x great grandparents. All are known precisely except for my maternal grandmother's mother's parents although there is a thought about whom they...
View ArticleDecision Time
I have made a decision that I will step back from my one name studies for a couple of months. I have a couple of projects that I simply want to do and the one name studies do not add anything to those...
View Article52 Ancestor Challenge
I do not have enough time at the moment to carry on with the 52 Ancestor Challenge. I will begin again in 2017 with the same group. I want to write this year on my own family lines. I do intend to...
View ArticleBlake Newsletter Volume 5 Issue 1 2016
Blake Newsletter Volume 5 Issue 1 2016Table of Contents 1. Delayed issue2. Galway Blake family 3. Blake one name study 4. Cornwall Blake family 5. Family Finder Results1 Delayed IssueThe...
View ArticlePincombe-Pinkham Newsletter Volume 1 Issue 2
Pincombe-Pinkham NewsletterVolume 1, Issue 2 1 Mar 2016Table of Contents1. Pincombe Family at North Molton2. Will of Johanne Pencombe3. yDNA study1. Pincombe Family at North...
View ArticleFirst DNA Circle at AncestryDNA
Finally I have a DNA Circle at AncestryDNA with the descendants of Robert Pincombe and Elizabeth Rowcliffe. Each of the members descends from three different sons of this couple. Robert and Elizabeth...
View ArticleBlake Newsletter Volume 5 Issue 2
Blake NewsletterVolume 5 Issue 2 Table of Contents1. Writing up the family story2. yDNA tester from Somerset, England3. Family Finder Summary4. Return to active Blake research1. Writing up...
View ArticlePincombe-Pinkham Newsletter
I had not downloaded the image of the family charts produced by the earlier researchers so did not realize their quality. I have now done so and will work at improving the quality of the images in the...
View ArticleWills for the Blake family
I will once again return to blogging the will of the Blake family completing the last two that I have from the Gloucestershire Record Office:William Blake 1804 DursleyWilliam Blake 1820 PrestburyIt is...
View ArticleWills still to be transcribed
Just before I return to the wills for transcribing, I decided to create an ongoing list of what I still have to complete that I have copies for transcription. I may for the moment go alphabetical until...
View ArticleWill of William Blake, gentleman, Saint MIchael, Bristol, Gloucestershire -...
William Blake, gentleman, Saint Michaels Hill, Bristol is the testator. He does not name any family in this will. His executrix Hester Manfield Rogers is possibly Hester Rogers, house keeper to William...
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