Blount of Mapledurham

Graham Milne

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Oct 13, 1997, 3:00:00 AM10/13/97

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Hi,

Does anyone have any information on the Blount family of Mapledurham and
specifically their link, if any, to the Blount family, Lords Mountjoy?

Any help appreciated.

Graham Milne

Nathaniel Taylor

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Oct 13, 1997, 3:00:00 AM10/13/97

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In article <ntaylor-1310...@ntaylor.student.harvard.edu>, I wrote:

>In article <876773856.23424.0...@news.demon.co.uk>, "Graham

>Milne" <gra...@cogent-comms.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>Does anyone have any information on the Blount family of Mapledurham and
>>specifically their link, if any, to the Blount family, Lords Mountjoy?
>

>Sir Thomas Blount (d. 1468), of Melton Roos, Leicestershire, was the
>ancestor of "that branch...

...

> By his first wife Agnes, daughter of Sir John Hawley, Sir
>Thomas had Robert and Elizabeth (wife of Richard Hansard, Esq.) and also
>(though Croke doesn't name her) Ann, wife of Robert Marbury
^^^^^^
Oops. Recte William Marbury. See also Gary Boyd Roberts, _Royal Descents
of 500 Immigrants_ (Baltimore, 1993), 350-1.

Nat Taylor

Nathaniel Taylor

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Oct 13, 1997, 3:00:00 AM10/13/97

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In article <876773856.23424.0...@news.demon.co.uk>, "Graham
Milne" <gra...@cogent-comms.co.uk> wrote:

>Does anyone have any information on the Blount family of Mapledurham and
>specifically their link, if any, to the Blount family, Lords Mountjoy?

Sir Thomas Blount (d. 1468), of Melton Roos, Leicestershire, was the

ancestor of "that branch [of the Blounts] which was settled first at Iver,
in Buckinghamshire, and afterwards at Maple-Durham, in Oxfordshire: where
it still subsists [1823] in opulence and respectability" (Alexander Croke,
_Genealogical History of the Croke Family, Originally named Le Blount_ [2
vols., Oxford, 1823], 2:254).

Sir Thomas was the younger brother of Walter Blount, first Lord Mountjoy
(d. 1474). By his first wife Agnes, daughter of Sir John Hawley, Sir

Thomas had Robert and Elizabeth (wife of Richard Hansard, Esq.) and also

(though Croke doesn't name her) Ann, wife of Robert Marbury, from whom I
descend, which marriage is demonstrated by Meredith Colket's _The English
Ancestry of Anne Marbury Hutchinson and Katherine Marbury Scott_
(Philadelphia, 1936). By his second wife, Catherine, daughter of Sir
Gervase Clifton, Sir Thomas Blount had a son, Richard Blount. I don't
have the subsequent pages of Croke (after 2:255), so I don't know from
which of Sir Thomas' two sons (Robert or Richard) the Blounts of
Maple-Durham descend.

Nat Taylor

Portculis

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Oct 18, 1997, 3:00:00 AM10/18/97

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You've got this about right, but Croke can be a very inaccuaret source,
especially on the Blounts, which his work is about, so everyone using it be
forewarned. I did research on this specific branch a few years ago and when I
can find the paperwork or remember I will post it.

Colket's work contains no errors in this account. Aside from Anne (Marbury)
Hutchinson, they are ancestors of Edler William Wentworth of the Exeter
Combination. Tens of thousands of American descendants.

There had always been some lingering doubt that no one had been able to find
difinitivce proof that Sir Thomas and Sir Walter Blount were in fact brothers.
But there is a long and detailed feet of fine for Lincolnshire converning the
Hansard lands that proves it. I think Coke went wrong in his later account of
the son Richard, but cannot clearly remember right now.

WSMORGANV

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Oct 19, 1997, 3:00:00 AM10/19/97

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I recently came across a website with some information on the Blount family.
Don't remember now if they were from Mapledurham, but you might check out the
site to find out:

http://www.samnet.com/members/jpounds

Regards,
William Morgan
Orlando, Florida