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Topic: Challenge- Shrewsbury artist-completed with MANY thanks (Read 912 times)
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J.J.
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Hello everyone!
Although he is not in my direct family line, I am interested in finding out more about the Shrewsbury artist Henry Blunt. I have written to the museum housing his work, (Shrewsbury Museums Service) and also the Darwin site which displays his work on-line.
I have received no reply from either. His daughter, Agnes, was also an artist of note.
If anyone is up to this challenge, that would be great!
I cannot seem to find records of his marriage or death. There is little on-line
other than on my own website...( about his nephew Thomas Blunt )
Here is what I do have on him, so far...although mostly unconfirmed.
Parents Robert Blunt & Ann (Porter) m.1802 Chesham
Henry Blunt : Artist & Chemist
Born 14 NOV 1806 Southwark Surrey d.___shrewsbury
Spouse: Martha ______born c1811 d.1900 Shrewsbury
children: Henry b. 1848 , Ellen c.1846,
Agnes c.1845 & Emily b.1843
Samples of his work:
http://www.darwincountry.org/explore/001561.html?sid=2981d338ba62b4a99fe236cda2393eda
(Please scroll down, as the first image is a painting OF him in 1840 by J. Pardon.)
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Oh, and I forgot this MAY be a clue... one of his paintings has the caption:
Interior view of Abbey, Shrewsbury. A view of the east end of the Abbey after Pountney-Smith's restorations of 1862-3 and before Pearson removed the neo-Norman east end on the left, to make way for his new chancel.
So was he still alive in 1862/3... ??
Cannot find on ANY census...see my mystery?
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This has since been disproven by the wonderful replies to come! read on 
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Shropshire Lass
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Hi JJ
I'm assuming you have access to the census returns - if not, I'll copy out the details for you.
Found the children in the 1871 - the girls are on RG10/2777, folio 96, page 1, including an extra daughter, Anne, listed as an inbecile, living in Meole Brace, Shrewsbury.
This may be young Henry on RG10/1589, folio 125, page 29, a BA lodging in Cambridge, need birth cert to be sure.
What I don't understand is that the girls are the first entry of the first page and yet they are listed as 'daughters'. Would the parents be on the last page of the previous folio? They wouldn't really split a family up like that, would they?
Best wishes
Monica
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Hi, Annie!
Can you get info from the archives gratus? Money is tight right now and
don't have extra for the genealogy...that's why I am loving the help on this
site. Thanks for the reply! J.J.
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hi, Monica...
Don't have access to the census...just what I access free online. If you wouldn't mind copying the information down for me, that would be great. Thank you so much! Weird
that the family is split up, but maybe there are a great deal of people in the household? Don't really know much about the censuses...
Thanks so much for looking this up for me. J.J.
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Dear Annie,
The site looks intriguing...just at a glance, I am not sure I understand it...but will look at it closer tomorrow as others need to use computer. So are you saying that if I find the house they occupied, I can find something about them there???
Is this an indexed database like that, or am I misunderstanding? Will get back to this tomorrow afternoon when I have time to really focus and understand better.
Many thanks! J.J.
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Hi JJ
This is from the 1861 census,
Meole Brace
Martha Blunt, H, Widow, 49, Fundholder, Chelsea Middlesex
Emily, Daur, U, 18, Shrewsbury
Agnes, Daur, U, 16, Scholar, Shrewsbury
Ellen, Daur, U, 14, Scholar, Shrewsbury
Henry, Son, 13, Scholar, Shrewsbury
Ann, Daur, 9, Scholar, Shrewsbury
Elizabeth Morris, Serv, U, 21, Cook, Llanfair Montgomershire
RG9/1874 Folio 97 Page 17
This may narrow down the death time span for you. I will see if I can find them in 1851 for you but I have to get ready for work so I may not get back to you for a while.
Allie
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This is in 1851, Meole Brace
Henry Blunt, H, M, 44, Chemist and Druggist, Middlesex St Georges Southwark??
Martha, W, M, 39, Middlesex Chelsea
Emily, Daur, 8, Scholar, Shrewsbury
Agnes, Daur, 6, Scholar, Shrewsbury
Ellen M, Daur, 4, Shrewsbury
Henry, Son, 3, Shrewsbury
Rebecca Hughes, Serv, Widow, 32, Nurse, Shrewsbury
Mary J Harries, Serv, U, 27, House serv, Shrewsbury
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Hi JJ
1871 census
Meole Brace (Brookside)
Emily Blunt, daughter, Unmarried, 28, Annuitant, b. Shrewsbury.
Agnes Blunt, daughter, U, 26, Governess, b. Shrewsbury.
Ellen Martha Blunt, daughter, U, 24, Governess, b. Meole Brace.
Anne Blunt, daughter, U, 19, b. Meole Brace, Imbecile.
Isabella Lloyd, Servant, U, 23, Servant, Cook, b. Madeley.
Martha Cath. Oliver, Servant, U, 18, Servant, Housemaid, b. Shrewsbury.
RG10/2777, folio 96, page 1.
1871 census
42 Jesus Lane, All Saints, Cambridge (Four houses away from Jesus College)
Rebecca Sharpe, Head, Widow, 60, College Servant, b. Cambridge.
Louisa Sharpe, Daughter, U, 42, Housekeeper, b. Cambridge.
John Frederick Chambe, Lodger, U, 17, Scholar, b. Barnstaple, Devon.
Henry Blunt, Lodger, U, 23, occ B.A., b. Shrewsbury (Nice idea that having a BA is an occupation!)
RG10/1589, folio 125, p. 29.
I still don't understand why the girls are all listed as daughters - I would have expected the eldest to list herself as Head. I suppose one answer would be if Martha was away from home - visiting or in hospital. I'll have a look for a death date for Martha.
Monica
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Success!
Martha was visiting in Cambridgeshire.
1871 census
The Vicarage, Trumpington, Cambridgeshire. (I didn’t realise there was a real Trumpington - thought it was invented for the children’s programme!)
Spencer Mansell, Head, Married, 32, occ: Vicar of Trumpington, Master of Arts, Landowner, Receiving income from interest of money, Private Tutor, b. Barnham St Gregory, Norfolk.
Emily C A Mansell, Wife, M, 43, occ: Vicar’s wife, b. Purley, Berkshire.
Susan Shailer, Friend resident with family, Unmarried, 70, Annuitant, b. Banbury, Oxfordshire.
William L M H Dakyns, Nephew, U, 16, Scholar, b. King’s Sterndale, Derbyshire. (Birthdate mistranscribed as 1795)
Martha Blunt, Visitor, Widow, 60, Receiving income from interest of money, b. Chelsea, Middx.
Maria Burling, Servant, U, 35, Cook, b. Over, Cambridgeshire.
Mary A Farmer, Servant, U, 20, Housemaid, b. Shrewsbury, Salop.
Martha A Miller, Servant, 14, Housemaid, b. Stow-cum-Quy, Cambridgeshire.
Monica
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Wow, Monica and Allie...Just took a quick look this morning and am
amazed with what you have found for me. As I had thought, Henry
did die young, after all...so the dating of the work in the painting is
wrong as restorations of the Abbey must have taken place a lot
sooner than they had said...
Thanks so very much for all your work, I shall look closer this afternoon
when I have time to read all this...
Many cyber hugs to all three of you! J.J. (Jeany)
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In retrospect, could he have been asked, perhaps to do this drawing with
the changes as a visual proposal of the work to be done. This would explain the dates being so off...
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Dear Allie,
You have indeed helped to narrow the date of death.
I dug in my files and found that I had saved this...Family Search site info
but thought it must be another ...as several henrys born in shropshire...and
then the painting info threw me off...So this probably was his death, after all.
Deaths Sep 1853
Blunt Henry Shrewsbury 6a 398
Still haven't properly read all the posts...doing that now....
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Oh, Yes...and Allie, I forgot to mention that ....Is it any wonder I didn't know where Southwark was when it is listed on 4 different census documents as ....Surrey, London, Buckingham and Middlesex (twice now)....
I find the districts are tough enough to follow!
Again, Many Cyber Hugs!!! Jeany
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