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The Blaker Society

but not yet the Grateful Dead,

Rod

David Bethell <david@thestrines.fslife.co.uk>

To: Rod Blaker <rod.blaker@gmail.com>

Not local enough. You need someone from Shoreham

Rod Blaker <rod.blaker@gmail.com>

To: David Bethell <david@thestrines.fslife.co.uk>

David

Forgive me - but the earliest appearance was in Cuckfield, 1327, of William
Blaker; and the second was in Shelley in Beeding.

But for some reason you want to go pre 1400 only on the Shoreham and
Portslade Blakers ?

The Portsalde and Shoreham are certainly the leading Blaker families; though
they do relate to one of the two Cuckfield Blaker families.

And Portslade and Shoreham are used interchangeably to describe these
leading Blaker families.

By 1482 we can see through a will that they have reached very substantial