Shows surname recorded as BLINCOE although BLINKER and BLINKO used over the years as well. Spelling variations due to illiteracy and possible dialect of John , and Savinah, note mark used for signature of Savinah indicating unable to write name.Family GroupMark grew up living at Jesses Lane and was here until about 1857 when he probably left home to work as a Farm servant at Mill End in West WycombeLong Crendon High St1861 Mill End, West Wycombe .Mark went to work as a farm servant to Abraham Gillett Farmer in Mill End . This is Mill End House taken in 1934 next to Gilletts Lane (named after the Farming Family) Copyright Bucks CCSometime after 1861 Mark moved from Mill End in High Wycombe to Great Missendedn to work as an Ostler in a Hotel there (Marriage cert source) Photograph C1900 High St Gt. Missenden with an Hotel on the right .Mark was employed as an Ostler from before 1866 until after 1871 when he had moved on again to AylesburySometime after 1861 Mark moved from Mill End in High Wycombe to Great Missendedn to work as an Ostler in a Hotel there (Marriage cert source) Photograph C1900 High St Gt. Missenden with an Hotel on the right .Marriage Certificate – Witnesses to the marriage sister Agnes and her husband JohnLong Crendon Baptist Chapel where it appears many of the Blincoe’s attendedBicester Rd C1900 Angel Public House is out of shot on the left, The Blinko’s Cottage and Stearveall Farm is further down the Bicester Road. Henry age 12 yrs lived on Bicester Road with his parents Mark & Harriet Blincoe in 1881 . Uncle Jonah and Henry’s cousins living next door on Stearveall Farm This photograph taken a few years later looking at the dress etc. Copyright Bucks County CouncilSomewhere close to Castle St (shown above) is where Mark and family were living in 1871 census..Map showing both Castle St and Gt Western St. The 1871 census shows Mark living in the vicinity of these two streetsRailway Hotel on Great Western St Aylesbury Photo 1899 Copyright Bucks CCRailway Station Gt Western St Aylesbury Copyright Bucks Count CouncilDrawing from a photograpgh C1900 shows the Golden Cross Public house and children standing in groups along the lane Pen and Ink sketch by Great great grandson Roger Blinko 2007 Please contact Roger Blinko if you wish to reproduce this drawing.Mark and Harriet recorded living in this cottage on Church Green in 1901. Brother Jonah and family were close by at Church End Photo taken by Ken Blinko (Great Grandson) 2006 Below photo taken in 2009 by a FLICKR member Markus 62The Blincoes Cottage (on the right) viewed from an earlier photograph Copyright Bucks CC Below similar shot taken by Andrew Brown member PanoramioMabel Head great great grandaughter of Jonah Blincoe, Marks brother has been a valuable source of information and these photographs of Mark Blincoe’s home Chearsley., From Mabel ” … the cover of his book published in 1994, showing Dark Lane. Mark Blincoe lived in a cottage to the left of the people at the bottom of the lane. This book took a lot of research over a period of years, and my mother was one of the people that it was dedicated to in her memory”From Mabel “”The Mansion” in Chearsley where Mark Blincoe lived (after 1918) and died . I wanted to get facts right before I sent it. (This was taken from the book of Chearsley)”Shows surname recorded as BLINCOE although BLINKER and BLINKO used over the years as well. Spelling variations due to illiteracy and possible dialect of John , and Savinah, note mark used for signature of Savinah indicating unable to write name.
