The Untold Story of the Kingdom of Judah by Professor Oded Lipschits

What a magnificent find? Listening yesterday to the Introductory chapter A1 available on You-Tube.  How I love good lectures on the Old Testament. Thank you to Dr. Lipschits for translating his lectures from Hebrew and putting his lectures on YouTube. Much appreciated. Can we ever understand God and how He has related to man through the centuries? My opinions were formed by my grandfather and grandmother along with the priest at our church. My grandfather was High Anglican one would say and my grandmother (although raised in the Anglican Church in England) attended the Methodist and then United Church after Union in 1925. She had a different concept of how God moved in her life. I always preferred my Anglican concept of God as He just seemed more real to me. Perhaps it was the tiny bit of wine that we had as children to celebrate Christmas and Easter, I was confirmed at eleven years of age and went to communion regularly with my father first thing Sunday mornings and back to sing in the choir and/or teach Sunday School at the later service. Although I am pretty much a non-drinker I could not understand the strictness of the United Church as a child. Jesus had performed the miracle of water to wine for the wedding feast so why would wine be condemned I thought even as a young child. For me drinking wine is always in memory of the Sacrifice made by Jesus to save mankind. But then I also did not understand why people who were United Church drank because to me it was forbidden for them. Interesting really what one sees and learns as one passes through life.

Worked on Pencombe yesterday and revised my search pattern. I decided to work on the singleton surname Pencomb and have entered all instances into my one name study legacy file and started working on Pencombe (for all years). For Pencomb there were 53 entries and there are 388 for Pencombe so will continue with that today. I was getting too many repeats doing a twenty year search path. Then I will move to Pyncomb and Pyncombe and finally the largest groups Pincomb and Pincombe. I will also do Pinkham and some of the other smaller derivative surnames. Slowly the known lines are being created and the areas where the singletons and gradually they are filling in but in distinct places which will make it easier to look at the land records. 

More work on the lawn today as I work backwards from the street. It will soon be dandelion time and I will let them bloom as we did last year. I will also start to fill in the garden beds at the front with fresh earth as the plants are now starting to grow. It would be nice to have the entire front yard completed by mid-May. Then a couple of weeks of moving earth in the wheelbarrow and we will have the main garden and side gardens planted at the back. Then it will be possible to work on the patches of lawn that need fresh earth and grass seed although the best growing time for grass is early May that can be next year but will use up the rest of the fresh earth there. I had thought that earth was needed along our garage side at the front but actually there is enough debris from the Yew Tree that the land is quite good there. Just need to do the parging when it is dried out. That is always a rather damp area with the large Yew Tree and other cedars on our neighbour's property. 

The day has begun and there is just a little light in the east. It is minus three degrees celsius and meant to be around 9 degrees celsius in the warmest part of the day. Tomorrow will be in the mid teens apparently and also sunny. Rain to come and so will continue seeding the front lawn and adding fresh earth. No digging; this is a great way to garden for sure! I am definitely too old to dig that much. 

Lovely walk yesterday about 1.5 km twice over to take the car to have the summer tires put on and then return. 

Next teatime and latin and then on to the day. .

Gaza

I would pray that there will soon be an end to the war in Gaza. It is interesting that the news at the moment, just when demonstrations are at their height on campuses, is all about possible war crimes. But who is committing the war crimes; I am left to contemplate that. Who gains from these news casts? The hostages have still not been released and it is suspected that most of them are dead. You need to have a lot of "news" that is against a country trying to get their hostages back. Fabricated no ideas on that but Hamas is capable of anything. We already saw that on the 7th of October last. Do not judge too quickly. There are likely individuals in Gaza who want Hamas gone and Hamas would certainly take this opportunity to eliminate them and make it look suspicious. There is no trust for Hamas because they break every cease fire. The United Nations should not be in a war zone. They come in when it is all done to create the peace. No trust for what Hamas says. Anyone living in Gaza who agrees with them likely does so out of fear or they think the opportunities improve for them; people can be shortsighted. At this moment in time Hamas has everything to lose and so they will do anything that helps them we saw that on the 7th of October last. Let us wait for the experts to come in when this is all over; when Hamas is gone from Gaza and the war is done. Interesting how these graves are being disturbed to make it much more difficult to see what actually happened. Hamas is desperate. They are about to lose their "cash cow." The experts in forensic studies are  not yet there. Nor can they be; this is a war zone created by Hamas on the 7th of October. 

I am a great believer in the United Nations but they have no place in a war zone. They should always be neutral until there is actual proof (and there may never be because the satanists get better and better at creating war to their advantage). We created the United Nations to be a place to talk, argue and bring forward recommendations for the better good of all peoples. If we had thought, way back then, that the United Nations would be involved in war then we would have created an army. One notes we did not do that. The world is held hostage whenever sick satanists start wars against countries or within. We just have to make sure that we provide as much help as possible to fight them off but mostly to keep the satanists corralled so that they do not break out. The warning has been issued; what is Russia gaining at the moment; a seasoned army that has been fighting for over two years. What have we gained, nothing really; we have given away a lot of military supplies to help but we are also producing more and getting ready for that eventual fight that always seems to lead almost to Armageddon. The satanists hope for internal discontent within our countries to support their evil ways. Why did Russia pick on Ukraine; because they knew they would fight and keep fighting so that they could build up a seasoned army. It does take a lot to convince a country to become evil. We are watching the process in Russia. Many Germans did not want to fight but fear was used to keep them in line; others were suckered in by promises. Hamas is another story; they are greedy after as much money as they can squeeze out of the United Nations and then keep the people of Gaza in some sort of a state of hatred so that at any time Hamas wanted to strike Israel they would willingly give up their lives; not protect their children and die all for the dream of taking the land of Israel back (which historically belongs to the Jewish people and the others who happily live there). When I watched the physicians (were they Hamas?) exposing those infants on a table I realized how sick these people are. One doesn't expose babies like that; they are always safer with their mother. After all my twin great great uncles were born at seven months gestation with a midwife and they were kept alive by the family until the sooty air of Birmingham took them that winter of 1894-5

Well the temperature did drop quickly and is nearly at zero and it is very windy. It doesn't look like snow though. Time will tell. 

This is a working day and it will be Pencombe and extracting data from Find My Past. Thus far it has proven interesting as it supports the existing trees that I have created and I have a few names that are at the moment not fitting into the trees. Once I find the areas that do not fit then I can look at the land records to see the path back perhaps. There is a long time before I complete this book for sure. I am not in a rush. I have basically organized everything so that it can pass to another if that happens. Lots of Pincombe/Pinkham researchers out there. Just write to my email and my daughter will send you everything. 

On to the day. Another day in God's world sadly torn apart by war that satanists create.  It is snowing; I do love the snow but it is very light and will certainly not come to anything!

 

 

And we are awaiting possible snow

 It is five degrees celsius and sunny - a lovely April day and it was supposed to rain. Yesterday I did another square metre of lawn filling in with fresh earth and new seed. It is really too cold to water it as I do not want to freeze the seeds in ice since it is cold over night but today is supposed to be very sunny so we will see. I can just reseed not a problem but thought I might as well try to work on the grass at the street edge as it suffers most during the winter. 

Basement cleaning all accomplished and this was a move everything week so all the dust gone supposedly. I would need to clear out the cabinets to really be dust free but it is not too bad for this 78.5 year old to accomplish. 

I decided another day of rest on the eyes would be good. Part of that was I spotted the Movie Schindler's List on Netflix and decided to watch that after doing the lawn. It is just over three hours long and I watched it a while ago; can not remember when now. It is a reminder of the wickedness of the Nazi regime and how one man (part of that regime as a member of the Nazi party) whose heart found a reason to save over one thousand Jewish men, women and children by owning a factory which employed some of the Jewish people and he was able to declare them all essential workers. Even at the last the order had been given for the Nazi soldiers who were in attendance at the factory (it was a sort of concentration camp I think) to murder all of these Jewish people but Oskar Schindler spoke to them and said go home, we have lost, let these people live. And they listened and went home. The closing scene includes the hanging of Oskar when he was caught by the allies and hung (he actually had a paper which all of the Jewish people that he saved had signed but one suspects that he did not give that to the allies). At the very end all of the people still surviving walked past his grave and placed a stone on the grave - it was extremely meaningful in these times that one person stood against the Nazis and helped. He wasn't the only one as many went to their deaths in the concentration camps for trying to stop Hitler. Hitler was evil and what we are seeing in the world now is that same evil - Putin and his enablers, Iran and their sycophants Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis (and any others that I do not know). It is also why those who fought for the Nazis must carry that to their grave; we have forgiven and forgotten but there is no celebration of Nazis. They were inhuman, cruel and barbaric; what happened on the 7th of October last was this same kind of inhumane treatment of a people who have suffered long enough. It is time for an end to threats against the Jewish people. Until that happens there can not be peace in our world. We must always be ready; arm for war but look for peace. They have preserved and given to the world the very word of God saved through the centuries so that we could, in this century, read and appreciate the Word (the word that became flesh and dwelt amongst us we Christians believe), the Word that brought the Israelis back to their homeland and the Word that tells us that we must love God with all our heart, our soul, our mind and our strength and love our neighbour as ourself. Then we can have peace. 

Again I can not understand why the Palestinians in North America did not bring thousands and thousands of those children (2 to 8 years of age) to safety here. They required just a DNA test so they could be returned to their relatives at the end of this war; so many could have come and had a life like the children of England during the Second World War who came here to Canada.  

The rest of the house to be cleaned today and I begin very soon,. My Latin lesson is already completed and my tea enjoyed.

Sunny and minus 2 degrees celsius

 Unpredictable April is with us; snow one day and hot sun the next or pouring rain, one just never knows what April will bring. If I have time today I will do another section of the front of the lawn to see if I can get it growing before the truck becomes a permanent fixture in front of my house for the summer. Sad for the people across the road as they try to get their two cars out of the laneway having to make this very tight turn out. They park their two vehicles side by side; very considerate of them. After all the side of the road in a residential area that permits parking expects just that, parking for short periods not lengthy ones. The owners of the big truck could make a double laneway and park their vehicles side by side, or have one in the garage and the other off to the side so you can get in and out easily. My rant for the day. It wouldn't have happened but the big truck was there when I was trying to add garden soil to my lawn and then seed it and it is very awkward to do that with a big truck in the way plus his front wheel was on my lawn!

Statistics and they are really important especially down the road. For instance, we need to know how many male babies and how many female babies are born; it isn't because we are fixated on anything we just need to know those statistics down the road. Why anyone would want to disturb their endocrine system to satisfy personal feelings is beyond me really; no matter what you do or at what time you do it you will be sterile if you interfere with the endocrine development. You will have no choices if you interfere in the endocrine development. Who cares if you think you are other than what you are except you of course. But does it really matter; does it matter if you think or act more like a boy or girl; you are a person; being a person is what matters! Seeing that it could bankrupt the health care system means a lot to me; it isn't fair to people having heart attacks, needing bypass surgery, broken legs that need mending, fixing little items that children need in their lives like cleft palate for them to have it said to them sorry this gender affirming person needs to have surgery or needs drugs and it is their turn. Anyway down the road a country needs on occasion to figure out their birth rate and their anticipated birth rate and why it is falling or rising in a way that is not anticipated. If we do not sex babies when they are born as male or female then we do not have those statistics and it is like living in a dark age and why do we get educated if we are not going to use that ability? Very few babies are born that you can not immediately say they are male or female - it is very rare. Again, I do not understand why people would shorten their life span by interfering with their God-given gender. For those rare children born with undetermined sex then by all means help them! Otherwise leave them alone and let them be children; let them imagine, let them dream but keep their minds squarely on the drawbacks of anything that is done to a perfectly operating system. The mind is capable of accepting many things and we are a person first of all. Mine you I have no idea if it actually would affect your longevity but one does wonder; there aren't any statistics and not sure we really need them. Another rant for the day. It must be cleaning day and it is; the basement today. 

Okay, I did not do any work yesterday - I have decided to consider my book writing as unpaid work since I am retired and do not want to do any bookkeeping for a business - besides the clientele will be rather small and all around the world likely - much too confusing. It was a beautiful Sunday; I scarcely looked out the window. I watched TV for a bit and there is an ambulance going through the red light - heart attack maybe but back to my day. I did all my exercises and at 78.5 that is an accomplishment and I rate it as such. On to the day. 

Teatime and Latin as always.

Another Sunday and Blake work yesterday

Another Sunday in Easter - the Fourth Sunday and Church is online in Southwark. My Buller family lived in Bermondsey and attended St Mary Magdalene (also the Beard family as Christopher Buller married Mary Beard at All Hallows Barking by the Tower, London, 30 Dec 1794 (I think it might have been a runaway marriage although Mary was 27 and Christopher was 31 when they wed)) until sometime in the early to mid 1820s. Christopher Buller had been at St Olave as a young man and he was buried there along with Mary (Mary in 1806 and Christopher in 1832). I think perhaps the Church of St Mary Magdalene was the church of the Beard family but Christopher and Mary baptized their children at St Mary Magdalene where Henry Beard married Elizabeth Hemsley 31 Mar 1766. This is a fascinating family and eventually I will get to writing them up but they will be difficult. Perhaps I should be doing it now but God willing my brain will still manage to get around all of that material (plus my latin needs to improve greatly and I work at that every day (at least two times and usually three every day). It is marvelous having Duolingo - works perfectly for me. I also am working on my French but I am fairly efficient at reading but need to improve my spoken French and after one year (September 2025) I will pick up my German once again as it is mostly scientific and it would be interesting to speak a less restricted German. Why, no idea but I am enjoying it because I am a life long learner for sure. Breakfast next and then to Church online in Southwark. We walked and walked the streets of Southwark where the Buller and the Beard family lived. It was fantastic. The Church of St Mary Magdalene was beautiful but had been damaged during the Second World War but a very dedicated group of people are working on its renewal. There are so many churches that I could send money to in England but I have concentrated on the Cathedral here and about 66% of my tithe goes to PWRDF and the other 34% goes to general costs.  

The service was quite wonderful; the homily amazingly perfect to my thoughts of the readings in this time. We have evil war ongoing for those who claim to be the only ones that are perfect in God's image namely Iran with their syncophants  Hamas, Houthis, Hezbollah and for some reason the Russians. They are all terrorists and must clean themselves from the inside for they are satanists. Thank you again for welcoming me from an ocean away to be part of this wonderful Anglican Service which included a young woman of Presbyterian background and someone from Ireland. So many young people as part of the service; the Church needs the youth as always to carry forward the word of God to the next generation.

Whilst working on Blake yesterday, I decided to have a look at the early Wiltshire wills of the Blake and Baynard families. It was an interesting trip actually and at first glance the Wiltshire Blake family wills did not mention the Andover Blake family in the 1500s and 1600s. I transcribed the Baynard family wills as well but I did not see that they mentioned Blake other than Henry at Pinhill. Diana, Princess of Wales, is  descendant of the Baynard family through the Montagu family.  

Diana, Princess of Wales and hence Prince William are descendant of this Baynard family (Mary Baynard and James Montague). Their son James Montagu married Diana Hungerford 30 May 1671 and their son James Montague married Elizabeth Eyles. Their son John Montagu married Sophia Wroughton 15 Dec 1748 and their son George Montagu married Charlotte Wroughton 9 Oct 1783. It was their daughter Georgiana Montagu who married Vice Admiral Sir John Gore 15 Aug 1808 in London. Their daughter Anne Frances Gore married 1st Earl Howe, Richard William Penn Curzon 9 Oct 1845 at Great Witley in Worcestershire. Their daughter Lady Mary Anna Curzon-Howe married 2nd Duke of Abercorn, James Hamilton 7 Jan 1869 in London. Their son James Albert Edward Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn married Lady Rosaline Cecilia Caroline Bingham 1 Nov 1894 in London. Their daughter Lady Cynthia Elinor Beatrix Hamilton married Albert Edward John Spencer the 7th Earl Spencer 26 Feb 1919 in London. Their son Edward John Spencer the 8th Earl Spencer married the Honourable Frances Ruth Burke Roche and these two were the parents of Lady Diana Frances Spencer. 

Interestingly the Andover Blake line from which Diana, Princess of Wales, follows:  Thomas Blake and Eleanor Hall were the twelfth generation back from Diana, Princess of Wales and Thomas was the son of John Blake married to Margaret Blake (her father not known to me for sure although a Pedigree chart mentions William Blake of Eastontown for both John and Margaret and there were not two by the records!). This John was the son of William Blake of Eastontown and William's father was Nicholas Blake of Enham (The Andover Blake family - William Blake (d 1582) did have a daughter Margaret but her husband was surnamed Jarvis - William left an extensive will). Returning to Thomas Blake and Eleanor Hall and their son Thomas Blake married Dorothy Mayowe and their daughter Mary Blake married William Newland. Mary Newland married Isaac Manley, MP. Their daughter Dorothy Manley married William Gore, MP and their son was Colonel John Gore who married Bellamira Munbee and their son Vice Admiral Sir John Gore married Georgina Montagu in 1808 (and the descent continues as above). Their daughter Anne Francis Gore married Richard William Penn Curzon, the 1st Earl Howe. Their daughter Lady Mary Anna Curzon-Howe married James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn. Their son James Albert Edward Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn married Lady Rosaline Cecilia Caroline Bingham. Their daughter Lady Cynthia Elinor Beatrix Hamilton married Albert Edward John Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer. Their son Edward John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer married the Honourable Frances Ruth Burke Roche. Their daughter was Lady Diana Frances Spencer married to now HRH Charles III, King of England. 

Does this prove the descent from the Andover Blake Family?, it does but there is a particular item which has chosen to display what I believe is an incorrect ancestry for William Blake at Eastontown. More proof  continues to arise. Is Diana descendant of the Calne Blake family, absolutely the mother of Mary Baynard married to James Montague was Anne (Blake) Baynard daughter of Robert Blake and Margret (Inglefield) Blake. This Robert was the son of Robert Blake and Avice (Wallop, Malweyn) Blake.  I did read again the Baynard family wills in this time frame of the 1500s/1600s to see if there is any mention of Blake cousins but did not find any comment other than referring to Henry Blake at Pinhills their cousin. The Baynard family did have Blake first cousins - Roger Blake and Mary (Baynard) Blake had three sons - Thomas, Robert and John (and three daughters). Perhaps it was the refusal of Henry Blake to accept a title for which Charles II destroyed the Blake family home at Pinhills near Calne. Members of the Baynard family were knighted. No ideas on that; I just think it is interesting in a learning way looking back sometimes at how life flowed in centuries past. Living in the fishbowl takes a very significant part out of your life (namely your privacy!). The dedication of this Family of Windsor has been and continues to be incredible.

The wills (date blogged)

Roger Blake     4 Jan 2013

Philip Baynard     5 Jan 2013

Henry Baynard     6 Jan 2013

Edward Baynard     7 Jan 2013

Benjamin Baynard     10 Jan 2013

Sir Robert Baynard     16 Jan 2013

Edward Baynard     17 Jan 2013

Charles Blake      26 Nov 2013

Edward Blake     28 Nov 2013

Mary Blake (Roger's widow)     4 Dec 2013

James Blake      6 Dec 2013

James Blake     11 Dec 2013

John Blake     12 Dec 2013

The Blake wills are for the Wiltshire Blake family.