BLADEN FAMILY TREES and FAMILY HISTORY
This web site (under construction) is for anyone interested in the Bladens and
tracing their Bladen roots whether in the UK, America, Australia etc etc. Sources are available for the information
contained here though individuals are encouraged to carry out their own checking of information.
I would encourage anyone to contribute to this site, especially Family Trees and
any information/corrections (provided they are sourced) would be very welcome.
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Licences have been granted for this web site only.
Picture
of a portrait owned by the Earl of Rosse and reproduced with his permission (The Birr Castle Collection) and copyright Photographic
Survey, Courtaulds Institute.
Portrait shows Martin Bladen, aged 52, with second wife Frances (Foche) who he married in 1728 and possibly a step-daughter
from an earlier marriage of Frances. Young girl holding a squirrel.
What's New?
- New Family Trees added for USA: Virginia/Washington/Maryland
(over 3,000 - 9 generations) and South Carolina (60+)
- Family trees on this site now total over 11,000 Bladens (and relations) in the
UK and beyond .... still being added to
- Large private
family gathering (108+) of Bladen-Hawke descendants to take place late in November 2009 to celebrate the 250th anniversary
of Admiral Hawke's victory over the French at Quiberon Bay.
- Shropshire Bladen transported to Tasmania in the 1840s. Death sentence commuted to life.
- New Family Tree added for Yorkshire (2) (line
originates in Walsall, Staffs, in the mid-1600s), 256 people - 10 generations.
- New Family Tree added for Wales (Wales 3) 65 people, Wales Tree
(2) also expanded (now 107 people).
- New
Family Tree added for London/Kent - 80 people (10 generations) dating back to c.1740.
- The main Bladen descent in the UK and the main Bladon line
are less than 5 miles apart in Derbyshire now in the period mid/late 1500s in villages that were sparesly populated -
and a connection seems highly likely though not proven yet.
- Early Bladen connections to New England (dating from 1637) seem to continue for a period
of 26 years, moving south to Virginia - see section on Bladens to America.
- More children found for Dr Thomas Bladen (1615-1695) from Rainham parish registers:
a son William born 1652/3 and daughter Anne 1651.(Dec '08) (Top of main Derbys/Staffs/Salop Tree)
- Mystery solved ref: Bladen/Loftus marriage. A pedigree
dated 1703 has been found asserting that it was Jane Loftus who married a Mr Bladen (rather than later sources that claim
Letitia), it seems more likely that the Bladen she married was the above William born 1652/3 (son of Dr Thomas).(Dec
'08).
- One of the two
Wolverhampton Bladen Trees has now been incorporated into the main Derbyshire/Staffordshire/Shropshire Bladen line (120 people
added) - Nov'08.
- Letters
have been found written by Nathaniel Bladen dating about 1712 to his daughter Frances. We are in the process of trying
to get copies of these. (Yorkshire line)
- Recent success: the location Dr Thomas Bladen's burial place has been located in St John the Evangelist
Church in Dublin. His wife and two daughters have also been found there. These two daughters not known about prior
to this.
Web site updated January 2011
(click on history)
