Thomas Porter Blunt - Chemist - Shrewsbury Shropshire

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Married April 3, 1866, Church of Holy Trinity Cirencester (BANNS March 11th St. Chad's Shrewsbury)

**Thomas W. married previously to Jane Colley Oct 3 1828,
youngest dtr. of Thomas Colley ( & Jane Bowen) of Cefugwifed Wales
(Thomas Colley married in 1794 Jane Bowen, daughter of Thomas Bowen, Esq., of the Tyddyn, Llandinara. )

Jane ( Colley) Blunt death Sept. 5 1830, Clifton - No known births found

Second marriage 1834 to Sarah, 4th & youngest daughter of the late John Smith, Esq. Sutton
Sarah's sister Mary Anne married Robert, Thomas's half-brother, also a chemist.

***Robert Blunt 1st. marriage: 17 October 1789 / spouse: Sarah Smith / St. Saviour,Southwark,Surrey

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Thomas Gaire Rockstro Blunt b. Dec. 27 1867 Shrewsbury Shropshire d. 1950 Essex, England
Marriage 1896 - Durham m. Edith Blanche Wilkinson b. 1864, Aldborough, Yorkshire

Children:
Brian Gaire Blunt
Roger Charles Blunt
Leslie Blunt
Thomas Paul Anstruther Blunt

See more on Thomas G. R. Blunt & family page HERE:

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Emily Augusta Blunt b. May 27 1868, baptized June 17th 1868 Shrewsbury
( living Victoria Street CastleFields) d.___

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Mildred Frances Blunt b. Dec. 9 1869, Shrewsbury, Shropshire d. 1906 Walsall
Marriage Jan 11, 1893 - St. Chad's - Shrewsbury, Shropshire
m. Walter Felton b. 1865 Manchester, Lancashire d. Yorkshire 1922
(Clerk in Holy Order, Clergyman, Church of England,
staff chaplain Walsall UnionWorkhouse, )
Children - born Walsall, Staffordshire
Gwendoline Blunt Felton b. 1895 d.1895-1901
Harold Blunt Felton b. Aug 22 1896 / d. 1897
Hubert Ratcliffe Felton b. 1898 / d. 1917 ww1casualty
Denys Walter Blunt Felton b. June 6 1900 /d. 1901
Margaret Mildred Felton b. 1902 / No death or marriage found yet...
.....hopefully she lived on to a good life & give her father company

on Rev. Walter Felton:
St. Luke's Mission Church, Selborne St. consecrated on St. Luke's day, October 18th, 1879,
and used as a chapel. A plain structure of brick, with stone dressing consisting of chancel,
nave, baptistery, and a turret containing one bell: it will hold about 300 people:
Rev. Walter Felton B.A. of the University of London, has been curate-in-charge since 1894.
He also curates St. Matthew, High street.

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Mary Ella Blunt b.Apr. 6- 1871, Baptized April 25th, d. Feb. 28 1954 No marriage No children

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Gertrude Mabel Ellen Blunt b. 1872 , Shrewsbury, Shropshire d. 1949 -Colchester
Marriage 1900 - Paddington
m. Frank Archibald Rodick b.(c)1867 Grinstead Green, Essex
Frank was a distiller's clerk at the time of the 1901 census.
Children
Bernard Skingley Rodick 1901 Streatham London

( became a policeman, London 1933 LINK)

Frank died 1945 -Colchester

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Walter Arthur Blunt b. 1874 baptised as Walter Cyril Blunt d. Oct 8 1911

DEATHS. Blunt.— On October 8, Walter Arthur Blunt , Chemist and Druggist, Wyle Cop.

Shrewsbury School Register Records THIS entry:
Walter Arthur Blunt, b. 1874, [D.B.]; left 1886.

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Charles Ernest J. Blunt b. 1876 d. April 9, 1903

Shrewsbury School Register Records THIS entry:
Charles Ernest Janverin Blunt, b. 1876, [D.B.]; left 1891 : Trooper B.S.A. Police;
Served in S. African War, (Medal with clasp for Defence of Rhodesia).
Died at Tilabusi ( Filabusi), S. Africa, of fever, April 29, 1903.

The actual image of his death entry by an officer April 30th has little more
other than that Charles Ernest Blunt was unmarried * Death entry HERE*

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Ethel Marion Blunt b.1878 , ( Nurse) Shrewsbury Shropshire
Marriage 1917 - St. Pancras, London
married James Thomson, b.1889 Fraserburgh, Aberdeen Scotland
( 2nd Lieutenant 5th Gordon Highlanders WW1)

Their only child Jean Thomson b. 1918, Shrewsbury Shropshire
Family immigrated to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada - 1928

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Hubert Porter Blunt b. Feb 3, 1882 Shrewsbury Shropshire d. March 18 1956 London
Marriage 1907 - Shrewsbury, Shropshire
m. Alice Madeline Blakemore b. 1879 Hereford
Hubert was listed as a Bankers Clerk in Smethwick in 1901

The children - unknown at this time

1911 census has my grandmother Ethel Marion Blunt living with them.

Shrewsbury School Register Records THIS entry:
Hubert Porter Blunt, 1882, [D.B.]; left 1898; Engineer. Tower Place, Shrewsbury.
From Inns of Court Officers Training Corps during the Great War
BLUNT. Hubert Porter
K/F/2272, 7/12/14, L/C; R. War. R., 13/3/15. R.A.O.C. ; F; Major; w; M.B.E.
Craigmoor, Melling Lane, Maghull nr. Liverpool. MORE HERE

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Available Photos of the Grandchildren of Thomas Porter Blunt

28 Tower Place, 4 story home of the Blunt Family.
Betw. the Tower Town Walls and Crescent Cottages
Occupied by Thomas Porter Blunt 1881 - 1829
Since has become part of multi-classroom school,
with elevator installed.

Thomas Blunt sr. - 1861 census resided at Tower Place with wife Sarah,
daughters Elizabeth & Sarah Maria, sons Thomas Porter & Charles Gaire

Have just found that Robert, Thomas Porter Blunt's grandfather owned
and leased out land at Town Walls in the earlier part of the century!

In 1836, marriage of son Henry to neice Martha, Robert Blunt was living Tower Place

Thomas Blunt's Father - Thomas W. Blunt
and Grandfather Robert Blunt & his
uncle Henry Blunt
were Druggists and Chemists at 23 Wyle Cop