SOME EARLY REFERENCES TO THE FAMILY NAME
The following references to the name Blaylock can be found in the book "Medieval Carlisle:The City and the Borders from the late Eleventh to the Mid-Sixteenth Century - Volume 2" by Henry Summerson and Published by The Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society - Extra Series XXV 1993 ISBN 1 873124 18 X
CARLISLE 1461-1561 (2) City Government
Procedure in the mayor's court
Page 536
"In 1545 Isabella Blayklok sued Eleanor and Christopher Lowre for a debt of 26s. 8p., incurred, she claimed, in fostering Richard Lowre's child over two years. The court ruled that she would recover 10s. 'if she brings Thomas Smythe, clerk, to say that he heard Richard Lowre say the plaintiff should have 3d. a week for feeding the child; if not she is to recover 6s. 8d.'. The witnesses to a contract might be named in an action alleging its breach, presumably so that they could be questioned if necessary."
CARLISLE 1461-1561 (5) Social structure and city life
Lords and gentry
Page 650
Mr Summerson here refers to families who supported Lord Dacre in his quarrels with the earl of Cumberland: "whole families seem to have been prepared to turn out in the Dacre cause, those charged in 1528 including five Calverts, three Daltons, three Blaicklocks, three Gunners, two Jameses and two Blaydsmiths.".
The middle class
Page 659
"Obviously, the greater a man's property, and the wider the range of his occupations, the more likely he is to find his way into the records, so that inevitably it is the richer members of Carlisle's middle class that it is possible to say most about. A combination of the muster roll with other sources can give some idea of the variety of men who made up that class at its upper end. Six Blaikloks, for instance, were named in 1534. Nothing is known of Robert and Adam, though the latter with a jack, steel bonnet, sword and bow to his name, may be quite well off. George, with the same gear, was a tanner (a craft requiring capital) who supplied beasts' hair for plaster for the castle works and held a portion of the castle demesne. John, though he only had a jack and bill, farmed the tithes of Harraby from the priory, of which he was an employee. Edward was a tenant of part of the Blackfriars garden, Thomas was a spurrier. To be in the service of the priory was to be sure of a living, and perhaps more."
Furnishings and clothes
Page 667
"They may, however have sometimes had to buy footwear, like Edward Blaklok, described as a labourer, who was successfully sued in 1541 for 6d. owed for shoes."
Social units and outlook
Page 682
"Divorce was practically impossible to obtain, and a separation was usually the only release available from an unhappy marriage. In all probability it was the recourse of John Blakelock of Carleton, a tenant of the dean and chapter's manor of Botchergate who was said in 1580 to have married Christopher Kirkbride's daughter, but 'shortly after the marriage divorced from his said wife, and married another wife, his first wife still living...' "
Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society Volume LXXII - NEW SERIES (1972)
Calees: A Cumbrian farm and its owners by D. J .W. Mawson
Page 145
"During the last decades of the of the 17th century the property was probably let. Certainly this was so in 1690, in which year William Blailick* was tenant".
* Printed as Blailock in the index on page 349
Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society Volume LXXXI - NEW SERIES (1981)
A Supplement to Cumberland Families and Heraldry, Part 1. By C. Roy Hudleston, M.A., F.S.A., and R.S. Boumphrey, M.A.
Page 31
BLAYLOCKE. George Blaylocke, of Beaumont, yeoman, sealed his will (dated and proved 1697) with the following Arms. Per chevron ... and ...three hunting horns ....Crest. A star (R.O., Carlisle).
Cumberland Families and Heraldry by C. Roy Hudleston, F.S.A. and R.S. Boumphrey, M.A. 1978
Page 26
"BLAICKLOCK, Robert Blaicklock, of Whitehaven, merchant (died 1719), High Sheriff of Cumberland 1710, lent money to John Senhouse, of Seascale Hall, and the estates passed into his possession 1707. His daughters and coheirs were Mary (born 1695, died unmarried, and admin. granted to her sister 1726), and Frances (1700-62), married 1726 Augustine Earle, q.v. Arms (as impaled by Earle). Argent on a fess Azure between three mullets Sable as many bezants (Plate facing p. 246 of vol. vi of Francis Blomefield's History of Norfolk)."
Page 100
"EARLE. Augustine Earle, F.S.A. (died 1762), a Commissioner of Excise, High Sheriff of Cumberland 1731, was of Carlisle and Whitehaven, and finally of Heydon, Norfolk, which manor his family owned for some centuries. He acquired the manor of Seascale by marriage 1726 to Frances, daughter and heir of Robert Blaicklock, q.v. , and had issue Erasmus Earle, of unsound mind (died 1768), whose sisters and coheirs were Mary (born 1729), married 1756 William Wiggett Bulwer, and Elizabeth, married Henry Calder. They sold the manor of Seascale to Charles Lutwidge, of Holmrook (Ex information Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Cook of Hoveton, Norwich; PGD). Arms. Azure a fess between two bars gemel Or (BGA) Crest. A lions paw erased Proper holding a pheon Or. Motto . Aversis major pars secundis (BHN vi 246). "