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The Blaker Society

Pre-1600

Number of references ordered: 5

Item number 1

Source: Printed

Title: The Parish Registers of Kirkburton, Co. York. With Appendix of Family

Histories. Edited by Frances Anne Collins. Vol. II., 1902, Exeter, ccxcix-cccii

1332-

Blacker

APPENDIX.

BLACKER.

Both the spellings Blackey and Blackley are here taken to be only
variations of the original name, Blacker. As a place name it was mentioned at
the Great Assize held at Northampton, 50 Hen. iii., 1266, when William de
Thornhill (five miles north of Kirkburton), charged Sir Francis Tyas (of Farnley

Tyas, two miles west of Kirkburton) with seizing his goods at Thornhill, Denby
and Carlcotes (in Penistone parish), Blacker (five miles south of Barnsley),
Wath, Adwick and Newhall.
In 1524, the only Blackers mentioned in the King’s Subsidy Roll for the
Wapentake of Agbrigg, are those living in the parish of Sandall in the Manor of
s
Wakefield. “Rauff Blakar, for 40 lands in Crigglestone, in the parish of
Sandall, paid 2 ; and Roger Blackar of Sandall, for 20 lands, paid 12d.” A.J.,
s
s
vol. 2., 55, 56.
In 1235, 19 Hen. III., there was a Fine “between Godfrey de Bellomonte,
compt, and Robert de Rockley and Mergery his wife, disturber, of one carucate