James Blake (abt. 1722 - abt. 1784)

Born about 1722 in Rotherhithe, Surrey, England

Husband of Catherine (Wright) Blake — married 15 Oct 1752 in St George Hanover Square, Middlesex, England

Descendants

Died about Jul 1784 at about age 62 in London, England

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Biography

Baptism

It is a possibility that James Blake was the son of father James Blake and mother Eliz Blake who had him baptised on 12 April 1722 at St Mary, Rotherhithe, Southwark, Surrey, England^[1].

Marriage and family

• Marriage: James Blake & Catherine Harmitage, 15 Oct 1752, Saint George Mayfair, Westminster, London, England^[2][3][4]

They would have 5 sons and 1 daughter (Gilchrist, p.56), the first a son James (1753- ), who was apprenticed on 19 October 1768, in the 8th year of the reign of their Sovereign Lord George the Third of Great Britain, to Gideon Boitoult Citizen being a noorbook(?) maker of London; Jame's father James being an Haberdasher of Carnaby Market, Middlesex^[5]. James Jnr. would take over his father's business when the latter died, and had a spiritual and visionary side, but much less obvious than their 3rd born, also a son, William Blake (1757-1827), poet, painter, engraver and visionary. Their 6th and only daughter was named Catherine Elizabeth Blake (1764- ), suggesting that her Grandmother on the paternal side was Eliz Blake.

Occupation

It also seems very likely that the James Blake in the 'UK, Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices' Indentures, 1710-1811', who was a Master Draper, on 8 December 1753, with apprentice Thos Bullock, (see Sources: Apprentices) as he was a "moderately prosperous hosier of some twenty years' standing" residing at 28 Broad Street in London Gilchrist, Alexander, 1863, p.5).

Burial

• Burial: 04 Jul 1784, Bunhill Fields, London^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com.au/discoveryui-content/view/3822250:1624
2. ↑ "England Marriages, 1538–1973 ," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5K1-PDG : 10 February 2018), James Blake and Catherine Harmitage, 15 Oct 1752; citing Saint George Mayfair,Westminster,London,England, reference , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 942 B4HA V. 15.
3. ↑ "England Marriages, 1538–1973 ," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NJXK-6Y5 : 10 February 2018), James Blake and Catherine Harmitage, 15 Oct 1752; citing Westminster, Middlesex, England, reference yr 1749-1753 p 328, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 814,115.
4. ↑ "England and Wales Non-Conformist Record Indexes (RG4-8), 1588-1977," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FQBQ-C4W : 11 December 2014), James Blake, 15 Oct 1752, Marriage; citing p. 222, May Fair, London, record group RG7, Public Record Office, London.
5. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com.au/discoveryui-content/view/150806365:2052
6. ↑ "England and Wales Non-Conformist Record Indexes (RG4-8), 1588-1977," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FQVM-XL9 : 11 December 2014), James Blake, 04 Jul 1784, Burial; citing p. 148, Bunhill Fields, London, record group RG4, Public Record Office, London.

• Apprentices: Ancestry.com. UK, Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices' Indentures, 1710-1811 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. The National Archives of the UK (TNA); Kew, Surrey, England; Collection: Board of Stamps: Apprenticeship Books: Series IR 1; Class: IR 1; Piece: 19.
• Gilchrist, Alexander, 1863, 'Life of William Blake', Macmillan & Co,, London and Cambridge.