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A small group are involved in a one name study for the name BLAKER, concentrating at present on occurrences in Sussex, where the name is particularly common.

Our present focus, within this, is on any BLAKER alive before 1625.

Now, we have been busy garnering references to the BLAKER name online and off. This is fine where BLAKER is the most significant name and has therefore been indexed. What we need now are other references.

So, please, if you have any BLAKER mentioned as a witness, legatee etc in a will or a marriage etc, or in any other sense, for example Manor Rolls, lawsuit etc, before 1625 in Sussex (although others are of interest), please can you forward them to one of the following:

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Chris

Blaker One Name Study
SFHG member

The name can also be found as BLAYKER, BLAKKER, BLACOR, BLAKYERE, BLACKER, BLACKERE, BLECHERE, BLEECHERE etc in documents of these earlier times.

Most significant sources consulted so far:
Online:
Lay Subsidies - earliest three only
IGI
A2A
Patent Rolls
PCC Wills
FFHS records

Offline:
Sussex Marriage Index of SFHG
Comber's Sussex Genealogies
Renshaw's Blaker's of Portslade, both editions
Visitations of Sussex
Burial Records of SFHG
Other records held by SFHG


Cross-posted to SFHG, Sussex-Plus and Blaker Lists, and other non-Ancestry lists

Indeed they did. John Sharrer gave evidence in the trial of a man who stole 8 ounces of raw Turkish silk from one of his home workers.

Yes - I have seen this too - at the Old Bailey site.
It is worth a search as all sorts turn up, not just the "black sheep", often giving evidence as witnesses.
For anyone that does not know it:
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/search/

And thank you to Cathy again - I will contact you privately

Chris

Recently I was reading an article in "Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club" Proceedings of 1916 about the silk industry in Sherborne, Dorset.

This referred to the first manufacturer of silk in the town as John SHARRER of Little Ayliffe Street, Goodman's Fields, Whitechapel. It also mentioned that he had other businesses in London, Gloucestershire and Cheshire in the mid to late eighteenth century. He died about 1767. His will does not help

I am trying to find out more about his business interests in Cheshire, probably silk throwing or a silk mill.
Can anyone help, please?

Hi Chris
I would be very interested in any BORRER and SCRASE entries whatsoever. Also any BLAKER from Lewes (the Cuckfield ones are what appears to be a separate branch) would be very much appreciated. I assume entries are for individuals and do not refer to families. If I am wrong, then I will try and sort out the particular families I am interested in.

I am overcome by the kindness of your further offers, but I have so many possibilities to ask about that I could overwhelm you, so I will stick with the names above, with one addition, Katherine Louisa BEARD born about 1850 in Lewes according to the 1881 Census, father William.

I have only found one connection to South Malling: Barbara SCRASE married William (Henry?) HOLLINGDALE in 1782, but no known burials.

I noticed your WILSON coat of arms. I have a few WILSON linked to TURNER:
SarahW m WilliamT 1753
and ThomasW m SusannahT 1667
and I would love to discover if they were related as I am discovering lots of intermarriages over the centuries between my families of interest. Do they mean anything at all to you?

I cannot see the SCRASE headstone on the page. I assume it is the system and not me. Shame as the Kemp one is interesting. You are doing a marvellous job recording these.

Chris, thank you again
Regards Chris