HISTORY OF FAYETTE COUNTY KENTUCKY, by Robert Peter, ed. by William H. 
Perrin, O. L. Baskin Co., Chicago, 1882.  Reprinted by Southern 
Historical Press, Easley, SC, 1979.
page 775
E. BLAKE, farmer, P. O. Lexington, is at least the third in a direct line 
of descent to bear the name, it being also that of his father and grandfather.
The maiden name of his mother was Ann Ryan.
He was born in Ireland in the year 1821, and lived and labored in his 
native country till he was about thirty-five years of age, when he 
emigrated to America with his young wife, who, before marriage, was 
Miss Mary Collins.
He lived for three years at Dunkirk, N. Y., then came to Kentucky, in 
which State they first settled near Maysville; at the end of three years, 
moved to Jessamine County, where they remained for five years; then, about 
fifteen years ago, they moved to Lexington, in which city they stayed for 
awhile, till their removal to a farm they had bought out on the Maysville 
pike, three miles from town.
Here they have since pursued the even tenor of their way, in working and 
improving the landed property, sixty-one and a half acres, acquired by 
their own industry and economy, exercised for a score of years in the 
free Republic of the great North American continent.
Mr. and Mrs. Blake are members of St Paul's Roman Catholic Church, Lexington.
They have no children.
Blake Ryan Collins
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Ireland Jessamine-KY Dunkirk-Chautauqua-NY Mason-KY

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