Martin Joseph Blake , Tuam Herald, Saturday, March 13, 1909 Tuam, Co Galway Pithy Pars, - Personal Parochial Provincial and Particular Martin Joseph Blake, B.L., whose name is so familiar to the readers of the Herald, and the Journal of the Galway Society of Antiquaries, is a well known writer and archaeologist. He also is Editor of a legal publication in London, and is Revising Barrister for one of the London divisions. He is the sixth son of the late Valentine O'Conor Blake, Esq, D.L., of Towerhill, Co Mayo. He was educated at Downside and Trinity College, Dublin, of which he is a B.A. He compiled the "Blake Family Records," a monumental work of deep industry and research and an authoritative work on the Blake Family. He is an authority on Irish family pedigrees, particularly those connected with Galway and Mayo.
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