Title: Descendants of Jasper Blake, emigrant from England to Hampton, N.H., ca. 1643, 1649-1979
Description: This book is a rendering of the 4,700+ decendents of The first Blake to come to the 
American shores as an imigrant in aprx 1642. All Blakes are decended from one man. A Lord of Ireland Sir Richard Cadel, Knighted Sir Richard Blake.

The Blake family were of British extraction, said to be descended from one of the Knights of the round table. They arrived in Ireland with Strongbow, and became a powerful family in the area, with several important seats.

  REF BlakeG. The original Welsh spelling of Blake was Aplake,
       meaning "the family on or by the lake." Other Gaelic Welsh
       spellings were Mcplake, MacPlake, and A'Plake. The Celtic
       spelling was O'Plake. Eventually, the spelling of A'Plake
       changed to Blaake, and finally to Blake. The prefixes Ap and O'
       means "from son of.." The Blake's of Galway, Ireland, were one
       of the fourteen Tribes of Galway.
       
       Richard Cadel, a feudatory of the Earl of Ulster and Lord of
       Connaught, Richard De Burgh, migrated to Galway from Wales
       before the year 1277. In 1277, the sixth year of his reign,
       King Edward I knighted Cadel "Sir Richard Blake". Cadel assumed
       the surname of Blake and was the ancestor of all the familes of
       Blake in Connaught. However, for many generations they used the
       name of Caddell as an alias.
       
       In 1278, the castle and lands of Kiltorroge, castle and land of
       Sallim'croe (now Carmore) located in Dunkellin County, Galway
       were granted to Cadel by De Burgh. By 1315 he had received the
       lands and manor of Kiltullagh. Eveline, his wife, was the
       mother of four sons, Walter, John, Nicholas, and Valentine.
       Records have been documented of this line to 1878 in Ireland.
       Thus; Richard Cadel is considered to be the progenitor of all
       the Blake descendants.
       
       In 1466, a Blake family of Southeney, England, purchased the
       Manor Tonwills of Wimbotsham, Norfolk County, England. This
       line is known as the Blake's of Wimbotsham. It was probably
       Peter and Elizabeth (surname possibly Spelman) Blake. They were
       of Wimbotsham and our oldest ancestor of record to date. In his
       will, dated October 21, 1500, Peter named a son, Sir John
       Blake, and a daughter named Mary. He also named a grandson,
       Jasper, who was the son of Sir John. A descendant of Jasper,
       also named Jasper, was born ca. 1614 in Wimbotsham and died
       January 5, 1674 in Hampton, New Hampshire. This Jasper Blake
       was the emigrant to America, settling in Hampton, New Hampshire
       around 1643. It is here we begin our Blake family history.
    b. ABT 1440, poss. Southeney, Eng.
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