How long does it take to read Descendants of Jasper Blake, Emigrant from England to Hampton, N.H., Ca. 1643, 1649-1979?
Carlton E. Blake
Descendants of Jasper Blake, Emigrant from England to Hampton, N.H., Ca. 1643, 1649-1979 by Carlton E. Blake takes about 9 hours 56 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 56 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1980. 542 pages, about 149,050 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 34 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 56 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 13 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
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…
