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Completed Census Requests / Re: Photographs of Shrewsbury / completed
« on: Saturday 13 July 24 09:23 BST (UK)  »
[quote author=J.J. . Still have not located one of the daughters.

Which daughter have you not located JJ? Emily Augusta?? There is an Emily Augusta Blunt in 1905
Wiltshire Asylum Registers, 1789-1921. It might not be her, but she does disappear from the census and it's quite a distinctive name. I don't have access to Findmypast to be able to find out anything further

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Completed Census Requests / Re: Photographs of Shrewsbury / completed
« on: Friday 12 July 24 19:28 BST (UK)  »
Do you know what Henry Blunt died of? He was very young and it implied a longstanding illness. I notice in this family that quite a few of them die at a youngish age.

Also regarding your Blunt logo - I thought you might be interested to see the logo of Josiah Groom who had a photography studio very close to the Blunts in Wyle Cop at the same time. It is very very similar to yours. I didn't know how to upload a photo to this message so I added it as my avatar. Perhaps someone went up Wyle Cop selling heraldic logos to the shopkeepers there!

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Completed Census Requests / Re: Photographs of Shrewsbury / completed
« on: Friday 12 July 24 18:50 BST (UK)  »
They were non-conformists so wouldn't be happily buried in St Chad's as that was standard church of England. To be buried there you had to have their vicar conduct the service. I suspect that Robert Blunt is in Swan Hill cemetery as he was a deacon of that chapel. The whole dissenters vs Church of England seemed to be a big deal in Shrewsbury.

The Thomas "W" was just copied off the Family search entry - but I don't think the person who put that in backed it up with any sources so I'll take it off.

Did you know that Thomas Porter Blunt opened a second premises at the top of Castle Street (number 42) with T. R. Moses in 1874. I've looked through the old photos but can't see it on any of them, so I think this was a short-lived venture.

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Shropshire Completed Look up Requests / Re: Blunt family - 1841 - 1851 census Please
« on: Friday 12 July 24 16:20 BST (UK)  »
I think that Robert Blunt was probably buried in Swan Hill chapel graveyard. He was a deacon there.
 Robert was a "dissenter" so he wouldn't have wanted to be buried in St Chad's as he would have to have had a Church of England vicar taking the funeral service. I'm not sure where the records for Swan Hill burials are. The original chapel was demolished and a new church built in 1862. Interestingly his grandson Thomas Porter Blunt was selling an "iron church" that can hold 400 people in 1877 (which may have been where the Swan Hill congregation met between the demolition of the old chapel and the building of the new church). At the time the general cemetery in Longden road, Shrewsbury (where his son, grandson, etc are buried) wasn't built (it opened in 1856 and was open to dissenters and church of england).

Robert's home was "Tower Place" in 1841. He lived there until his death and it then passed down to his descendants. Thomas Blunt would have grown up there, then moved out when he married, then moved back in after his father's death. If you type in "tower place" into the British Newspaper Archive (which gives 3 free views per email address) the Blunt's come up in many articles.

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Completed Census Requests / Re: Photographs of Shrewsbury offer, Shropshire
« on: Thursday 11 July 24 16:46 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: J.J. on Sunday 25 September 05 02:55 BST (UK)
Hello, Jan!
 I thank you so very much for doing this for me. I thought you might think it a little morbid of me.  The top 2 names I am not sure if they were buried here.
 Thomas Blunt and Sarah (nee Smith) will for sure be in there, so any of the family around them would be appreciated. Whatever you have time and room for.
Robert BLUNT- b. 1777?   D.---
Anne Blunt - b. 1781? D.----
   
Thomas BLUNT Sr.- b. 1803 c. 1874  Shr.Shr.
Sarah  b.1801  D. 1864

Blunt- Thomas Porter – G.GF.     B. 1842        D. 1929
Emily Rachael Blunt- G.GM. b. 1842  d. 1910
           
             
                Emily Augusta Blunt  b.1868  d.___
                 Mary Ella Blunt  b.  1871  d.___
                   Gertrude Mabel E. (Rodick)  b. 1872  d.___
                    Walter Arthur Blunt  b. 1874  d.___
                    Charles Ernest J. Blunt  b. 1876  d.___
                      Hubert Porter Blunt  b. 1882  d.___

If you find the ones marked in brown I will be very happy! If you have time to do any of the others, then bonus for me. Thanks for even wanting to be so helpful.

Many, many thanks!   J.J.   (my other nickname is Jeany )
               

Thomas Blunt and Sarah are in the general cemetery (which is on Longden road in Shrewsbury), not in St Chad's. They are in the area together with Thomas Porter Blunt, and Walter. Here is the link to Thomas W https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/272353905/thomas-w-blunt

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Completed Census Requests / Re: Photographs of Shrewsbury / completed
« on: Wednesday 10 July 24 13:45 BST (UK)  »
Here is the link to Thomas Porter Blunt and his wife Emily and her mother Augusta. The gravestone is in the general cemetery in Shrewsbury (not in St Chad's). It's not in great condition sadly, but is in the nicer part of the graveyard. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/272339056/thomas_porter-blunt

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Shropshire Completed Look up Requests / Re: Blunt family - 1841 - 1851 census Please
« on: Wednesday 10 July 24 13:38 BST (UK)  »
I found Thomas Porter Blunt and his wife Emily Rachel Blunt nee Robinson with her mother Augusta Robinson in the graveyard at Shrewsbury (general cemetery). I've put the photos I took on the Findagrave website. The grave is not in great condition and Thomas Porter Blunt is right at the bottom. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/272339056/thomas_porter-blunt

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Shropshire Lookup Requests / Re: look up request for Sarah (née Francis?) and Samuel Cowdell, Saint Chad
« on: Sunday 07 July 24 21:08 BST (UK)  »
I found Margaret in the General cemetery in Shrewsbury. I put the photo on the Find a grave site Memorial ID 272226548 Margaret Cowdell Davies https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/272226548/margaret_davies Her husband John Davies was a glass painter who had a shop at 73 Wyle Cop in Shrewsbury

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Completed Census Requests / Walter Arthur Blunt
« on: Friday 16 February 24 22:19 GMT (UK)  »
I have found Walter Arthur Blunt in the general cemetery in Shrewsbury. He died on 8th October 1911 aged 37. I have made a memorial to him on the Find a grave site. I'm not sure how to post an image of the grave here, but if you go to Find a grave and search for the general cemetery you will see the photos I took.

I also uploaded the grave photos onto Family Search. His memorial ID is 263497408. He is buried on a nice sunny hill in the part of the cemetery where the more "important" people are buried (section 190).

If you have the grave plot numbers of any of the other Blunt family in this cemetery I am happy to go and try and find them. To find the grave numbers you email Harriet and she responds in a few days (it's a free service) emstrey.crematorium@thecmg.co.uk

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