Blake Family

From the below posts you will see that I am related to the Blake family - my father was called Ian Blake Fisher.

The following is a very good source of info on the Blake family - I am related to the subsection of Admiral Blake.

http://www.portbury-hundred.co.uk/index_files/page0002.html

One piece of advice. Most of the dates are taken from parish records and the date indicated as DOD is often the date of burial which is often a few days after the DOD. For example, my mourning rings indicate a DOD for Rev. Malachi Blake which differs from the DOD given on this site. Mary Mason confirmed that my date is clearly the correct one.

Blandford Forum Dissenters

Here is a link to Protestant Dissenters Births & Baptisms at Blandford Forum from 1785 to 1808. Clearly many dissenters married amongst themselves which explains the coincidence between my bag of mourning rings and the list.

http://www.opcdorset.com/Blandford/BlandfordForumProtestantBaps.htm

Mourning Rings

I have a bag of mourning rings which have been in the family of many years. The information I have been able to glean from the rings is as follows:-

Thomas Budden died 30th May 1797 age 70

William Tice died 31st May 1824 age 79

William Tice Junior died 1st December 1809 age 22

Sarah Fisher died 4th August 1799 age 77

Sarah Fisher died 26th November 1827 age 51

Hannah Blake died 20th August 1793 age 71

William Fisher died 27th September 1797 age 21

Reverend Malachi Blake died 15th February 1760 age 75

William Blake died 10th January 1793 age 75

Ann Field died 7th March 1802 age 24

Robert Fisher died 31st July 1802 age 22 (on same ring as Ann Field)

Sarah Fisher died 11th February 1804 age 22

Fisher & Budden Family booklet (kindly provided by Patricia Cook)

Introduction

This blog will try to establish links between various families connected to the Fisher Family. I will also be posting to various genealogy web sites but certain documents and pictures are too large or impractical so I have elected to start a blog.

In particular, I am trying to build up definitive links between my grandfather – George William Fisher (born 1892), great grandfather – George Gregory Fisher (born 1857) and my relations who were from Blandford Forum in Dorset. Although the two above named lived in Lancashire near Liverpool and subsequently London, my search of relations in Dorset derives from a bag of mourning rings which have been handed down in my family. The various names appearing on the rings indicate my family originated from this part of England. A description of the rings will be subject to a separate posting.

The various family names which are or, I believe, might be linked to my family are:

Blandford Forum connection

Budden
Tice
Blake

Liverpool/Lancashire connection

Hamer (from Preston)
Ravenscroft

If you prefer to communicate directly with me rather than post to this blog please contact me at igmfish@yahoo.co.uk

Many thanks
Ian Fisher