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Samuel Blennerhassett

• References:
  • Deed of 5 Jan 1759. Registered 1 Apr 1761. [LR] vol.212 p.211 no.138602. Marriage settlement of Henry Blennerhassett and Mary Poujade.
    • See notes on p.85 of [D950/1/9].

  • "The Clann Carthaigh (continued)", by S. T. McCarthy, Kerry Archaeological Magazine Vol 3, No 14 (1915), pp.123-139. Link to Samuel Blennerhassett family in MacCarthy genealogy on p.125.

Samuel Blennerhassett,
of Tralee.
He mar Catherine Connor.
They had issue:

1. Henry Blennerhassett.
   Solicitor, of Dublin.
   He mar Mary Poujade.
   Marriage settlement dated 5 Jan 1759.
   Henry and Mary separated. Deed of separation 26 Mar 1784.
   Mary's will dated 1 Jan 1802. Described as of St.Andrew St, Dublin.
   Her will proved 25 May 1803.
   Will burnt in 1922. But notes survive in pp.22-23 and pp.47-50 and p.52 of [D950/1/9].
   See also abstract of her will in [MGH, 1883].
   Henry and Mary had issue:

   
   

   1. John Henry Blennerhassett.
      He mar 1stly to Elizabeth O'Connell.
      Mar licence dated 1791. See note in [D950/1/9, p.24].
      John Henry Blennerhassett, of Terrace, Tralee, a Protestant, is listed among Tralee Voters in 1835.
      See notes on [Hickson, 1872, p.335].
      He had issue by 1st wife:
      1. Anne Blennerhassett,
         mar Rowland Tallis Eagar and had issue.

      
      

   2. Mary Blennerhassett,
      born Ireland, 1767.
      [Burkes Irish, 1976] says born 1764.
      Age in 1851 census would say born 1776.
      She mar 1791 to Capt. Thomas Blennerhassett and had issue.

      
      

   3. Charlotte Blennerhassett.
      She mar Rowland Eagar.
      Mar licence dated 1793. See note in [D950/1/9, p.25].

   
   

2. Avice Blennerhassett, born 1742.
   Some sources have her as "Anne". But marriage to John Moore Eagar says "Avice".
   She mar 1stly to John Hoare.
   She mar 2ndly, pre-1776, to Robert Blennerhassett and had issue.
   At 3rd marriage in 1807, she was age 65 and husband was age 36. The ages are so strange that the Rector notes them.
   She mar 3rdly, 18 Nov 1807 [Tralee CoI par records] to John Moore Eagar [born 1771, a generation younger than her].

Extract from EAGAR in [Burkes Irish, 1958].
Lists John Moore Eagar's wife as "Anne" and as widow of "John Blennerhassett".

 
Extracts from BLENNERHASSETT in [Burkes Irish, 1976].
These now give her husband as Robert Blennerhassett, but still call her Anne.

She is "Avice" in her marriage in 1807 to John Moore Eagar.
From Tralee par records.