The Thomas Blayney African link - [1]
Thomas Blayney married Anna Jones - an African connection
The Blayney-Percival link is frequently listed on the Internet, particularly [838], but the eldest Thomas is not linked to any known Welsh or Irish Blayney. However, from family name deductions, it is possible to postulate some candidates.
1 Thomas BLAYNEY son (or grandson) of a Richard [154], b~1690/1700 [801] Alive 1758 with a father or grandfather "Richard" Could this be the same as the Richard BLAYNEY of Broseley bpt 1645 [145]? However S P Thomas has Richard BLAYNEY of Llwyn Coch, Bettws Cedewain as having Thomas Blayney (who married to Anna in 1717) to his penultimate wife Margaret Worthington (1st wife according to S P Thomas [226], but now most likely his second wife [801]. + Anna JONES (of Tregynon) m<1727 [72] 1 Jun 1717 [72] Thomas and Ann spent their first year together at Llanmerewig but after the death of their first child they moved to Tregynon (where their children were baptised) [226] 2 Richard BLAYNEY bpt.22Oct1718; bur.Dec1718 (both Llanmerewig) 2 Richard BLAYNEY bpt.20Jan1719 (Tregynon) 2 Margery BLAYNEY b.1722 2 Elizabeth BLAYNEY b.1723 2 Ann BLAYNEY b.1725 2 Mary BLAYNEY b.1727 2 Thomas BLAYNEY b.24Aug1729 (Tregynon) [72] [226]; Farmer Glyn Farm, Bettws parish until moving to Vachir Farm in 1778 where he d.1812 + Sara STEPHEN b.1740 d.1819 3 Dinah (Diana) BLAYNEY 3 Thomas BLAYNEY b.1778 (Berriew, Montgomeryshire); of Glyn Farm, Bettws, Cedewain; d.15May1822 Upper Glynn, Bettws, Montgomeryshire; bur.20May1822 (Bettws Churchyard) + Elizabeth ROGERS nee TANNER b.1776; chr.30Jun1776 (Berriew); d.1828; bur.3May1828 (Bettws Churchyard) previously married (29Mar1796, Berriew) to John ROGERS who d.1804 with whom she had one child (Mary Rogers chr.3Nov1796 at Llifior, Berriew) [923] Elizabeth was dau of Arthur and Elizabeth TANNER of Berriew. She married Thomas 2Apr1804 (Bettws, Montgomeryshire) 4 Elizabeth BLAYNEY b.1806 4 Thomas BLAYNEY b.1809 (Berriew, Montgomery); d.1810 (Berriew) 4 Sarah BLAYNEY b.1811 (Berriew) 4 Arthur BLAYNEY b.1814 (Berriew) see below 4 Edward BLAYNEY b.1816 (Berriew) 4 Arthur BLAYNEY b.1814 (Berriew); d.1863 (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) + Isabell CHARLETON chr.25Mar1823 (Heddon on the Wall, Northumberland); m.8Nov1848 (Heddon-on-the-Wall, Northumberland); d.1890 (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) dau of Watson CHARLTON and Ann SMITH of Heddon on the Wall [923] 5 Annie BLAYNEY chr.20Nov1849 (St Johns, Newcastle Upon Tyne)5 Emily Margaret BLAYNEY chr.13Aug1851 (St Johns, Newcastle Upon Tyne)
Emily Margaret Blayney [5] Lived in Berrow Manor until she had a stroke in 1912, moved back to Newcastle upon Tyne where she died in 1916 and buried in the family vault there. + Percy PERCIVAL b.20Aug1845 (Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire); m.1873 Newcastle; d.1911/12 (Berrow or Axbridge); Occ. Wine merchant & grocer Son of Robert and mary PERCIVAL of Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire 6 Arthur Blayney PERCIVAL (known as A. Blayney PERCIVAL) b.7Mar1875 (Newcastle on Tyne) d.20Jan1941, Mandu Estate, near Machakos, Kenya Pioneer of game Preservation (wrote "A Game Ranger's Notebook" 1924) See pictures & story of Arthur Blayney PERCIVAL +(1)Jacqueline ("Aunty Jack") BRECKENRIDGE née ROUTLEDGE Previously married to Thomas William BRECKENRIDGE (b. Australia) and had two sons, John Donald Thomas and James BRECKENRIDGE 7 Margaret PERCIVAL + Bill KUMMERFELDT b.1910 8 Six children incl. Glen KUMMERFELDT b.1956 (Nairobi, Kenya) 7 Peter (?Buster) PERCIVAL b.1924 (Momandu, Kenya); d.1940 in WWII (ship torpedoed on route to Burma) +(2)Dolly EDWARDS (invalid, nursed by Arthur until her death in 1919) 6 Walter G. PERCIVAL b.1879/80 (South Shields, Durham, England; d.1921, Kenya (Blackwater fever) 6 Philip Hope PERCIVAL b.10May1884 (Westoe, Durham,UK) d.1966 (Wami, Kenya) bur. Potha Hill Leading big game hunter + Flora Vivien SMITH-SPARK b.10Nov1884; m.16Dec1908 (Somerset); d.1957 7 Evelyn Margaret Blayney PERCIVAL b.9Sep1912, Berrow, Somerset; d.Jan 1985 (Nairobi) 7 Joyce Franklin PERCIVAL b.22Jun1915 (Potha, Kenya) d.1Mar1997, Wooler Northumberland 7 Richard PERCIVAL b.27Sep1918 (Potha, Kenya). Occ Farmer d.1Mar1997, Wooler Northumberland + Dorothy Mary CAMERON b.29Aug1923 (Balblair, Edderton, Scotland) m.21Feb1953 (Nairobi, Kenya) 8 Philip Murray PERCIVAL 8 Rosemary Anne PERCIVAL 8 David Richard PERCIVAL 8 Felicity Vivien PERCIVAL 5 Arthur BLAYNEY b.1853; chr.22Apr1853 (St Johns, Newcastle Upon Tyne) d.1883 (killed in Transvaal, South Africa) 5 George Charlton BLAYNEY chr.5Jul1855 (St Johns, Newcastle Upon Tyne); d.1912 5 Jessie BLAYNEY chr.20Jul1857 (St Johns, Newcastle Upon Tyne) d.1937/8 5 Robert BLAYNEY b.1860 (or 1858) Newcastle-upon-Tyne); d.1921 (Hexam, Northumberland) + Eva Rowe HARDY b.1864 (Byers Green, Durham,); m.1891 (Durham); d.1952/3 6 Owen Geoffrey (George) BLAYNEY b.1892 (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) d.1957 + Olive LAZENBY b.1899; d.1962
7 Robert (Bob) Hamilton BLAYNEY b.1934 [154] + Ann Mary TURNER m.1965 8 Andrew BLAYNEY b.1966 8 David BLAYNEY b.1969 7 Anna BLAYNEY b.1937 m.1962 + Edward Trevelyn 8 Three children 7 Biddy BLAYNEY b.1939, m.1965 + Simon Boucher 8 Three children 6 Eva Hardy BLAYNEY b.1895; d.1895 (both Newcastle-upon-Tyne) [923] 6 Brian Wingrave BLAYNEY b.1896 (Newcastle-upon-Tyne)
Robert Hamilton Blayney 1973 Ann Mary Blayney
Lintel over extension at La Mare Vineyards
(St Mary, Jersey). [780]
