Blunt/Wellesley engagement
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Michael Rhodes
Dec 30, 2013, 2:23:01 AM12/30/13
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_. The engagement has been announced between James Hillier Blount (James Blunt, the singer) (b 22 Feb, 1974), son of Mr Charles Blount, by his wife, Jane, & (Alexandrina) Sofia Wellesley (b 23 July, 1983), scion of the Dukes of Wellesley, a granddaughter of the 8th Duke, daughter of Lord John Henry Wellesley (b 20 Apr, 1954), by his wife the former Corinne Vaes, &c.
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Michael Rhodes
Dec 30, 2013, 2:28:09 AM12/30/13
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Scion of course of the Dukes of WELLINGTON.
Richard R
Dec 30, 2013, 3:27:40 AM12/30/13
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Thanks Michael.
A Sunday Telegraph interview in 2005 included the comment that the Bl[o]unts have been a military family for more than a thousand years (see below).
Although there may have been Blounts for over a millennium, I'm not clear how the newly engaged James connects with them. A quick search of BMD gives James' gt gf as Edward William BLOUNT (b 1869 reg Q2 Hull, Yorkshire, d 1950 reg Q3 Hull, Yorkshire) described in the 1911 Census as a 'fisherman'. His gf (mentioned in the article as a soldier and would have been around 16 at the start of WW1 and around 37 at the start of WW2 - so may have served in both conflicts) is another William Edward BLOUNT (b 1898, reg Hull, d 1969 reg Q1 Hull, Yorkshire).
Sunday Telegraph 1 August 2005: To be blunt, James, you are a trooper
....In fact, soldiering is in his blood. The Blunts have been a military family for more than 1,000 years, ever since their Danish ancestors arrived in England in the 10th century. James was born in a military hospital in Tidworth. His father, Charles, recently retired as a colonel in the Army Air Corps, and both his grandfathers were soldiers. The family's roots are in East Anglia. In 1920, the Blounts bought Cley windmill, near Cromer, which James's parents run as a guesthouse and where he stays regularly, though the family home is a few miles outside Andover, in Hampshire....
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/3645487/To-be-blunt-James-you-are-a-trooper.html
A Sunday Telegraph interview in 2005 included the comment that the Bl[o]unts have been a military family for more than a thousand years (see below).
Although there may have been Blounts for over a millennium, I'm not clear how the newly engaged James connects with them. A quick search of BMD gives James' gt gf as Edward William BLOUNT (b 1869 reg Q2 Hull, Yorkshire, d 1950 reg Q3 Hull, Yorkshire) described in the 1911 Census as a 'fisherman'. His gf (mentioned in the article as a soldier and would have been around 16 at the start of WW1 and around 37 at the start of WW2 - so may have served in both conflicts) is another William Edward BLOUNT (b 1898, reg Hull, d 1969 reg Q1 Hull, Yorkshire).
Sunday Telegraph 1 August 2005: To be blunt, James, you are a trooper
....In fact, soldiering is in his blood. The Blunts have been a military family for more than 1,000 years, ever since their Danish ancestors arrived in England in the 10th century. James was born in a military hospital in Tidworth. His father, Charles, recently retired as a colonel in the Army Air Corps, and both his grandfathers were soldiers. The family's roots are in East Anglia. In 1920, the Blounts bought Cley windmill, near Cromer, which James's parents run as a guesthouse and where he stays regularly, though the family home is a few miles outside Andover, in Hampshire....
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/3645487/To-be-blunt-James-you-are-a-trooper.html
Michael Rhodes
Dec 31, 2013, 5:01:35 AM12/31/13
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I cannot find a connection with the crooner and the Blounts of Maple Durham or Blounts of Orelton.
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