THE BLUNDEN BARONETS OWNED 1,846 ACRES OF LAND IN COUNTY KILKENNY
JOHN, his heir;Mr Blunden, MP for Kilkenny City, 1761-76, was created a baronet in 1766, designated of Castle Blunden, County Kilkenny.
William Pitt, father of the 3rd Baronet;
Overington (General in the army; MP).
Sir John was succeeded by his eldest son,
SIR JOHN BLUNDEN, 2nd Baronet (1767-1818), High Sheriff of County Kilkenny, 1805 and 1813, Mayor of Kilkenny, 1802, who married twice, though both marriages were without issue, when the title passed to his nephew,
SIR JOHN BLUNDEN, 3rd Baronet (1814-90), DL, Barrister, High Sheriff of County Kilkenny, 1843 and 1847, who wedded, in 1839, Elizabeth, daughter of Major John Knox, of Dublin, and had issue,
WILLIAM, his successor;Sir John was succeeded by his eldest son,
John Overington;
Edward Herbert;
Maurice Robert;
Arthur Henry;
Abraham;
Kate; Harriette; Nicola Sophia.
SIR WILLIAM BLUNDEN, 4th Baronet (1840-1923), Surgeon, High Sheriff of County Kilkenny, 1904, who espoused, in 1879, Florence Caroline, daughter of Henry Shuttleworth, and had issue,
JOHN, his successor;Sir William was succeeded by his eldest son,
Eric Overington;
Muriel.
SIR JOHN BLUNDEN, 5th Baronet (1880-1923), who wedded, in 1918, Phyllis Dorothy, daughter of Philip Crampton Creagh, and had issue,
WILLIAM, his successor;Sir John was succeeded by his elder son,
PHILIP OVERINGTON, 7th Baronet.
SIR WILLIAM BLUNDEN, 6th Baronet (1919-85), Lieutenant-Commander RN, who married, in 1945, Pamela Mary, daughter of John Purser, and had issue,
Sarah Vanessa; Griselda Jane; Caroline Susan; Rowena Mary;Sir William died without male issue, when the title passed to his brother,
Elizabeth Anne Gabrielle; Fiona Christine.
SIR PHILIP OVERINGTON BLUNDEN, 7th Baronet (1922-2007), who wedded, in 1945, Jeanette Francesca Alexandra, daughter of Captain D Macdonald RNR, of Portree, Isle of Skye, and had issue,
HUBERT CHISHOLM, his successor;Sir Philip was succeeded by his eldest son,
John Maurice Patrick;
Marguerite Eugenie.
SIR HUBERT CHISHOLM BLUNDEN, 8th and present Baronet (1948-), of The Cottage, Carrigloe, Cobh, County Cork, 1st Battalion, Irish Guards, who married, in 1975, Ellish O'Brien, and has issue,
EDMUND, b 1982;
Amelia, b 1977.
CASTLE BLUNDEN, County Kilkenny, is a mid-18th century house built either for John Blunden MP, or for his son, Sir John Blunden, 1st Baronet.
It comprises three storeys over a vaulted basement, with a six-bay front enclosing a central niche containing a statue below an armorial panel.
The interior decoration is late 18th century in style, likely decorated by the 2nd Baronet, whose wife afforded him "a clear £8,000 a year."
The hall boasts a frieze of rams' heads; and the plasterwork in the drawing-room has an "Adamesque" ceiling.
Castle Blunden stands in a most idyllic setting, with water on both sides of it, probably formed originally from a moat (from an earlier castle).
First published in August, 2018.
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This is interesting to me because of a family legend of Irish Ancestry on my mother's side of the family. My mother was Selina Anne Mary Newman, whose father was Alfred Newman, whose father was Alfred Newman who married Alice Blundell. DNA testing proves a link, but since the Newmans and Blundells lived in/around Banstead in Surrey, I have yet to confirm the exact link back to Ireland, except for the name.
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