Category Archives: Cushee

William Blanch senior and junior in Holborn: more Gloucestershire connections

Posted on May 1, 2012 by

It now seems certain that my great-great-great-great-grandfather James Blanch was born in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, in 1755, the son of Bristol patten maker Thomas Blanch and his wife Mary, and that he moved to London some time before 1779, when he … Continue reading →

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Daniel Blanch, leather dresser of Clerkenwell

Posted on September 8, 2011 by

The Fleet Registers are a collection of registers and notebooks recording clandestine marriages and baptisms that took place in locations such as the Fleet Prison, King’s Bench Prison and the Mint between about 1667 and 1777. Apparently in the 1740s, … Continue reading →

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The Cushees of Clerkenwell

Posted on September 6, 2011 by

A few months ago I mentioned that new information had cast doubts on our previous understanding of earlier generations of the Blanch family. I’m connected to this family through my maternal great-grandfather, Joseph Priestley Roe (1862 – 1947), who was … Continue reading →

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