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The Blaker Society © 1655/6. Edmund Blaker of Nuthurst in his will, made in 1634, made bequests to
CUCKFIELD B

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Margaret wife to ould Richard Blaker.
Jan. 18.

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Richard, his brother, of 40s per annum, and £15, £10 and £10 to Richard’s

administration of Edmund’s goods.
children Richard, Mary and Elizabeth; and Richard himself was granted
Dumbrells

Eleanor Dumbrell will have been born about 1585, too early for the
surviving Cuckfield registers, in which baptisms are recorded no earlier than
1598. Just before her marriage to Richard Blaker in 1607, there is this baptism
entry there:
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1604. Jul. 8 Thomas s. of Thomas & Eliner Dumbrell, cooper

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but this was evidently a different Eleanor Dumbrell, for the burials have:

1608/9. Mar. 15 Ellinor wyfe of Thomas dumbrell, cooper.

These Dumbrell wills and administrations appear in the Lewes calendars
from 1607 to 1650:

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Dumbrell, Eliz., Wivelsfield, wid. of John: 11 Sep. [1604], 10 Nov. 1604 A 12 39; B 3 37
Dumbrell, Henry, Hove, husbandman: 18 Sept. 1606, 9 Oct. 1606 A 12 180; B 3 84
Dumbrell, John, Cuckfield: cv 24 Dec 1624; 31 Jan 1624/5 B 5 184, 189
Dumbrell, John, Southease: 3 Jan. 1626/7 B 5 279
Dumbrell, Edward, Southease, husb.: 23 Feb. 1638, 26 Feb. 1638 A 25 219; B 7 139
Dumbrell, Thomas, Southease, farmer: 25 Nov. 1638, 2 March 1638 A 25 225; B 7 140
Dumbrell, John, Cuckfield: 24 Sep. 1633 B 6 166

The Cuckfield items match this burials in Cuckfield registers:
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1624. Dec. 25 John Dumbrell.

There is no further burial for or before 1633, suggesting that the second
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item may be a further grant. John Dumbrell does not appear in John Rowe’s
book under Cuckfield, but there is:
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34 p. 178 of the printed transcript
35 see NUTHURST
36 p. 7 of the printed transcript
37 p. 136 of the printed transcript
38 there would appear to be a Cuckfield connection here, because a little earlier we find:
Dumbrell, John, Wivelsfd., Portslade, Cuckfd., yeo.: 28 Ag. ’99, 2 Oct. ’02 A 11 162; B 3 11
39 p. 152 of the printed transcript
40 We need to see both these administrations
41 f. 12, p. 22 of the printed transcript
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