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Re: The Rev. Tom Blake
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 08 April 14 14:54 BST (UK) »
Hello, Yes 37 does seem fairly old for a first marriage, Mary would have been 34, also quite old, but anything is possible.....I know that Mary had a brother, Henry, who went to Rhodesia, and possibly a sister, who also went to South Africa.........Del.

If you check FreeBMD, for births of name Ayto and mothers maiden name Ward, you will see Henry's birth and two possible sisters.
I wont post their names, as they could be still alive, possibly.
Edmonds/Edmunds - mainly Sussex
DeBoo - London
Green - Suffolk
Parker - Sussex
Kemp - Essex
Farrington - Essex
Boniface - West Sussex

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« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 08 April 14 14:58 BST (UK) »
This one isnt

Birth
Jul/Aug/Sep 1919
Pontefract
Dorothy Ayto
Mothers maiden name Ward

Death
Dec 1940
Pontefract
Ref 9 c  245
Dorothy Ayto age 21
Edmonds/Edmunds - mainly Sussex
DeBoo - London
Green - Suffolk
Parker - Sussex
Kemp - Essex
Farrington - Essex
Boniface - West Sussex

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Re: The Rev. Tom Blake
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 08 April 14 18:01 BST (UK) »
Thank-you for that, I know about Dorothy, sadly she died aged only 21 years.......I am pretty sure that there was another sister......possibly Elizabeth....who went to Rhodesia at some  point, I have a letter written in 1989 by Mary Blake, to my mother, saying that she had ''unexpectedly heard from my sister Betty in South Africa''.....it mentions a son Roland, coming over for a visit.......Del.
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Re: The Rev. Tom Blake
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 09 April 14 08:09 BST (UK) »
If you look at freebmd, you will see!
Edmonds/Edmunds - mainly Sussex
DeBoo - London
Green - Suffolk
Parker - Sussex
Kemp - Essex
Farrington - Essex
Boniface - West Sussex

census information is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk


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Re: The Rev. Tom Blake
« Reply #13 on: Wednesday 09 April 14 13:12 BST (UK) »
Yes, I see it now.....1923 Pontefract, mothers name Ward.............Thank you.........Del.
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Re: The Rev. Tom Blake
« Reply #14 on: Thursday 10 April 14 17:02 BST (UK) »
Hello Del

Here is some more information about Tom and Mary.

From the Clerical Directory 1971 – the most recent edition on film at the Worcs Archive:-
Thomas Herbert Blake b 1911 Worcester Ordination College 1965 d(eacon) 1967 p(riest) St Barnabas, Rainbow Hill 1967-1970. R(ector) of Church Lench w(ith) Ab Lench Abbots Morton and Rous Lench  Dio(cese of) Worc(ester) from 1970. (Address - ) Church Lench Rectory, Evesham.

I have been told by helpful Hallow History Group members that although Rev Blake wasn’t the vicar of the parish, he and his wife were living in the Dower House at the time of his death. In 1950 Miss Bramwell had willed the Dower House to the Church as a home for retired clergy and their families and it remained so until 1999. You can read about the house on Hallow History Group's website
http://www.hallowhistory.org.uk/around-the-green/the-dower-house/

Tom is buried next to other clergymen in the churchyard. After his death Mary went to live in Gloucestershire to be closer to family and that is where she is thought to have died.

Jack

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Re: The Rev. Tom Blake
« Reply #15 on: Thursday 10 April 14 17:45 BST (UK) »
Jack, Thank-You, that is very informative, Mary and Tom's address on the the letter I have, dated dec. 1989, is Sigston South, The green, Hallow, that ties in with your info. on the dower house, Mary did die in Gloucestershire, in 2000, at Cheltenham, but is buried with Tom At Hallow......Thanks Again, Del.
Clarke , Calvert , McCreadie,
 McDowell, Paton & Scott families,  Scotland
& Ireland, Ayto/Hayto/Eato/Eatough families, Lincolnshire.