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From: Nathaniel Taylor< >
Subject: Re: Blount of Mapledurham
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 18:50:53 -0500


In article < >, "Graham
Milne" < > 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

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