Early (before abt 1625) BLAKER in Sussex

[Chris]

A small group is 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:

Rod Blaker: rod.blaker (at) gmail.com
Joseanne Campbell: josiecamp1 (at) yahoo.co.uk
or Chris Rodgers: blaker_gen (at) yahoo.co.uk

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 from 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