John Helden and his widow Mary both left wills naming loads of people but nobody called Jory, Bladen, Foche, Hodges, or Buttall. But it turns out that Frances Bladen's "kinswoman Mrs Mary Foster" is the daughter of John and Mary Helden, and her husband was Thomas Foster Esq. Two public trees on ancestry have Mary sr's maiden name as "Unk", i.e. unknown.
Some of the people mentioned are Mary sr's sister Deborah Batt and her husband Samuel Batt, so I think they will be Samuel Batt and Deborah Jarviss who married 1 Jul 1703 at St Nicholas Cole Abbey, London. And there is another relative William Notcutt, who could be the one who married Martha Payne 15 Dec 1702 at the same church.
Deborah Batt's will was proved 1774 and mentions the Notcutts, Mary Foster, and some other people, but nothing to help.
This still doesn't seem to be getting me any nearer to Frances's parentage!
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