Catherine Blaikley wife of William Blaikley who died June 1736. She was born 1695 and died in 1771. she live in Williamsburg Virginia, She was a midwife who helped deliver about three thousand children.
   She lived in the house now called the Blaikely-Durfey House on Duke of Gloucester Street.  The most interesting papers which exist concerning Catherine Blaikley are the Book of Common Prayer with her name on the inside cover of its Williamsburg binding and the room-by-room inventory of William Blaikley's (her husbands)estate, which she compiled and presented in court after his death. She was buried in Bruton Parish Churchyard near the tower, where her tombstone still remains  today. 

  William and Catherine Blaikley are my seven time great grandparents. Their daughter Janette Carson Blaikley married Thompson Swann, They are my six time great grandparents.Below a cliping from the Virginia Newspaper shows where Thompson Swann was in the process of selling the Blaikley house after Catherine's death.

  VIRGINIA GAZETTE

 THOMPSON SWANN SELL                       DEATH OF CATHERINE                  CATHERINE BLAIKLEY                  SEVERINUS DURFEY TAILOR

OF BLAIKLEY HOUSE 12-31-1772              BLAIKLEY 10-24-1771                       LAND SELL 1738                             BUYS BLAIKLEY HOUSE