Sir Arthur Blennerhassett, 3rd Baronet
This is labelled as
Sir Arthur Blennerhassett, 3rd Baronet.
Inherited by the
Hurly family of New Zealand.
Thanks to Sue Hurly.
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- If this is the 3rd Baronet,
it would have to be around the 1840s, towards the end of his life.
- However, it seems more old-fashioned. And the red coat possibly military.
- ChatGPT thinks it could be military from around 1775-1795,
and suggests maybe an Irish militia.
ChatGPT says it is absolutely not the 1840s.
- So it seems it is not the 3rd Baronet.
Maybe it is the 1st Baronet.
Sir Arthur Blennerhassett, 3rd Baronet,
born 30 July 1794.
See
wikitree.
Lived
Churchtown House, near Killarney, Co.Kerry.
Arthur Blennerhassett of
Churchtown
witnessed
[Deed, Aug 1815].
He is party to
[Deed, Feb 1816]
with his parents and grandfather.
Listed as of Churchtown.
Listed as of Churchtown
in 1820.
High Sheriff of Co.Kerry 1820-21.
He was succeeded by
Arthur Blennerhassett of Ballyseedy.
Listed at Churchtown in
[Deed, Apr 1821].
Arthur Blennerhassett junior, Churchtown, is
listed
as holder of a game licence in
Limerick Chronicle, 29 Sept 1821.
Before he inherited he lived at
Mount Rivers, near Killorglin, Co.Kerry.
Listed at Mount Rivers at mar 1826.
[Tithe Survey, 1823-37]
shows him listed at Mount Rivers
before he became Baronet 1831.
Married a Catholic 1826, and converted to Catholicism:
Arthur mar 26 Aug 1826 to
Sarah Mahony
[born 1808, Catholic].
They mar at Killorglin RC church. NOT 26 July 1826.
She was age 18.
He was age 32.
When he married he was heir to the Baronetcy but not yet Baronet.
When he married he became Catholic.
He took an oath as a Catholic shortly before 25 Oct 1827
[Letter of Daniel O'Connell].
The Baronet family is now Catholic.
It dates from this marriage.
While Sarah was a Catholic, she was from
an ancient Irish family with many exotic and landed ancestors.
[Burkes Peerage, 1862]
describes her as "of the O'Mahonys of Kerry".
He is listed at Mount Rivers in
Tralee Mercury, July 27, 1831.
He
succ Sept 1831.
Listed of Churchtown House
in
[Deed, Dec 1831].
Though there are further entries at Mount Rivers.
Arthur Blennerhassett of
Mount Rivers is listed
in House of Commons
Parliamentary papers, Volume 35, 1832,
as one of the Magistrates
in the Commission of the Peace
in Co.Kerry.
The list is from 1831-32 and is slightly out of date,
showing his father the 2nd Baronet as alive.
He is party to [Deed, June 1834].
Listed as of Churchtown.
Listed as one of the "Magistrates" of Co.Kerry in
[Pettigrew & Oulton, 1835].
Listed
as of Mount Rivers.
In 1835 he let out
Churchtown House.
He is in the
List of Justices of the Peace, 1844.
Says he presides
at Killorglin petty sessions,
and at Coolmagort petty sessions, near Killarney.
Living Churchtown.
He
is listed
among the Magistrates of Co.Kerry
in [Thom's, 1847, p.478].
Listed as of Churchtown House.
From here.
3rd Baronet dies, 1849:
He died 22 Apr 1849, think NOT Feb 1849, age 54 yrs.
See legal notice in
Warder and Dublin Weekly Mail, 4 August 1849.
His will pr 1849. Would be burnt in 1922.
Sarah mar 2ndly, 16 May 1850, London, to Frederick Randall
[of Highbury, London].
She died 10 July 1866.
MAHONY in
[Burkes Irish, 1976]
says died 11 July.
See death notice
in Limerick Chronicle,
21 July 1866.
Says she died
at her residence,
Mount Rivers, near Killorglin, Co.Kerry.
See notice in
Illustrated London News, 4 Aug 1866.
Says she died at Annaghgarry House.
See death notice
on p.413
of The Gentleman's Magazine,
Volume 221, July-Dec 1866.
Says she died at Annaghgarry House.
See declaration dated
26 Feb 1867
by 4th Baronet
after death of his mother.
Refers to
[Deed, Dec 1831].
3rd Baronet and Sarah had issue:
- Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, 4th Baronet,
born 5 Sept 1839.
1901 census
says he was born at Churchtown House.
[DNB]
and
[DIB]
are probably wrong to say he was born at Blennerville.
He was Catholic even before his marriage.
- Rosanna Blennerhassett,
Rose,
"Sister Rose", born 1843.
She became engaged in 1868 to
Francis Richard Plunkett
but the marriage did not take place.
She became a nurse.
She went in 1890 to South Africa.
She was a
pioneer nurse in Rhodesia
in 1891-1893.
She died unmarried, 1907.
Only two children are listed
on p.103 of
[Burkes Peerage, 1846].
Only two children are listed
on p.100 of
[Burkes Peerage, 1862].
The Catholic marriage of the (future) 3rd Baronet, 26 August 1826, Killorglin RC par records.
I do not know what is in front of Arthur's name.
It is maybe some version of
"Dominus"
for "Sir".
Except he had not yet become "Sir Arthur".
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From Killorglin RC church. Used with permission.
Churchtown House to be let by 3rd Baronet in 1835.
Notice in
Tralee Mercury, October 14, 1835.
1901 census
says 4th Baronet was born at Churchtown House (in 1839).
Death of Sarah Mahony on 10 July 1866.
From The Gentleman's Magazine, July-Dec 1866.
Letter from
Daniel O'Connell to his wife, Oct 25, 1827,
re: the conversion of
Sir Arthur Blennerhassett, 3rd Baronet,
to Catholicism.
From p.351 (letter 1422) of
[Correspondence of Daniel O'Connell, vol 3].
Original in
[NLI]
Ms 33,565/25(5).
References
- Deed, 6 Dec 1831.
Registered 1831.
[LR] 878 390 582890.
Post-nuptial settlement.
Sir Arthur Blennerhassett of Churchtown
and his wife Sarah
and O'Sullivan.
-
A letter of 2 Nov 1835 from
Daniel O'Connell
to 3rd Baronet, on business matters.
MS 49,848/1-2
in [NLI].
-
See p.1
and p.2.
- This also has a partial legal opinion, signed by O'Connell, 9 June 1819, concerning an unidentified will.
Sources yet to be consulted
