The Blencowe One-Name Study

The prime researcher of the Blencowe one-name study is Mrs Daphne Austin an ONS member since 1997.  Daphne is assisted by Roger Blinko member since 2020 and a researcher for some years of the families Military history.

This page outlines the nature and individuals involved in past and present study of the Blencowe name. Daphne Austin a Guild member is currently the prime Researcher for the family name and is completing a massive research project.
Early research of the Blencowe name culminated in 1985 of a Blencowe Families Association BFA being formed for further research and contribution from family members.
Jack Blencowe from Oxford, England was soon involved and assisted by Jill Dudbridge and others in England and Australia, the Blencowe research became the foundation of the BFA.

For years people have collected Blencowe data from parish records, wills, and indexes of birth, marriages and deaths, military; legal records. Jack Blencowe had recorded the basic information of each individual into a CardBox database which is updated frequently.
He has been involved with the collection of Blencowe documents in conjunction with Mike Walton and Jill Dudbridge. Jill had scoured record offices and amassed a large collection of photocopies of wills, legal transactions dating back to 1436, mostly handwritten and some in Latin.
Mike transcribed them and they are now available on CD. Jack printed out the documents, assigned any individuals to reference numbers from the Blencowe Database and then gave relevant copies to the record offices in Northampton and Carlisle.
He edited, contributed to and personally typeset an award-winning book on the family: The Blencowe Families of Cumbria and Northamptonshire and their Descendants was published in 2001. The Guild of One-name Studies was so impressed that they gave him an Award of Excellence for this masterpiece: a wonderful memorial indeed. A thousand copies were sold out in a couple of years. Jack was also one of the first to attempt to use DNA analysis to determine whether different groups of those sharing a family name were genetically related.

Current Research

Military Research of the Blencowe Families

The Blencowe One-Name Study will also contain the results of two major studies of the men and women with the Blencowe name who served in the World Wars. This work is being carried out by Roger Blinko a retired senior executive who has since 2012 been researching and writing profiles for each Blencowe who served. In 2018 the first study ‘Blencowes in WW1’ was published on another website but recently it is being ported to the ONS website to be maintained by The Guild of One-Name Studies.
The second project ‘Blencowes in WW2’ is underway and about 40% complete and also appears on this ONS website. Its a work-in-progress so some pages of the study are published others are still in draft. As information is gathered the web pages will be updated.

Links

World War One study can be viewed by visiting Blencowes WW1
World War Two study can be viewed by visiting Blencowes WW2