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BLENNERHASSETT-PLUNKETT family of BOLARUM, HYDERABAD, INDIA Blennerhassett Family Tree (BH35_BH_Plunkett_BP.xlsx) revised October 2014, copyright © Bill Jehan 1968-2014 Thanks to all who have contributed to these pages - please send additions & corrections to email: [email protected] Much of the data on descendants of James Blennerhassett Plunkett & Clara Ann Plunkett is borrowed, with permission of webmaster Keith Plunkett, from: Gavin Plunkett's "Plunkett Genealogy Website" Thanks are also due to Nora McLean of Canada for sharing her extensive research into this family in India. "LADY FRANCES BLENNERHASSETT" In Plunkett family tradition the ancestor and matriarch of the Blennerhassett-Plunkett family in India is named "Lady Frances Blennerhassett", but this ancestor has proved to be Maria Blennerhassett. Why does tradition name her "Frances" and not "Maria"? Maria Plunkett (nee Blennerhassett), b.c1836, true ancestor of the Blennerhassett-Plunkett family, had a younger sister Frances "Fanny" Henrietta Power (nee Blennerhassett) born 1839 (see p.K 36). Maria Blennerhassett Plunkett died c1836 when her son James Blennerhassett Plunkett was aged 3; her husband Capt. James Thomas Irvine Plunkett whon died when the boy was aged 10; it is probable the boy was raised by his surviving aunt Frances "Fanny" Henrietta Blennerhassett and her husband James Otway Power; she being remembered by him (and by his descendants) as his mother. Why does tradition describe her "Lady Blennerhassett" when she had no title? It may be that, after her death, the family talked of Frances as being a lady, i.e. as coming from a good gentry family, subsequent oral tradition mis-interpreting this as refering to a title, "Lady Blennerhassett". The Peacock step sisters (p.K 38): When "Jane (Jean?) Elizabeth O'Brien Brown Blennerhassett Peacock" (mother of Maria Blennerhassett Plunkett & Frances Henrietta Blennerhassett Power) died in 1855, Jane's 4 children by her 2nd marriage to Dr Thomas Peacock (Thomasina Rachel, Edward James George, Jessie Charles O'Brien, Isabella Ruth) are in Peacock family tradition said to have been raised by their mother's Blennerhassett step-children. In 1855 the only survivor of the five Blennerhassett siblings was Frances"Fanny" Henrietta Blennerhassett (b.1839, aged 16) who married c1855 to James Otway Power and who is believed to have also raised her nephew James Blennerhassett Plunkett, son of Frances' elder sister Maria Blennerhassett Plunkett (d.1856). Thus Frances raised 5 children with her own 2 (Ellen Power, James Otway Blennerhassett Power). This family descends from Blennerhassett of Killorglin, Co.Kerry on page K 36 of: http://www.blennerhassettfamilytree.com/pages/BH07_Killorglin_K.pdf Other Blennerhassett connections in India: page IND 01 of http://www.blennerhassettfamilytree.com/pages/BH53_MISC_India_IND.pdf page BJI 01 of http://www.blennerhassettfamilytree.com/pages/BH64_BH_Jubbulpore_India_BJI.pdf page BMN 04 of http://www.blennerhassettfamilytree.com/pages/BH56_MISC_BH_middle_name_BMN.pdf BP 01 James Plunkett >>>>>>>|>> James Plunkett >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>> Capt. James Thomas Irvine >>>>>>>>|>> James Blennerhassett >>>>>>>>>>>>|>> Francis "Frank" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>> Reginald Patrick Blennerhassett Plunkett; b.1916 India; / b.7.12.1809 in the | Plunkett Plunkett (p.K 36) | Blennerhassett Plunkett | moved to Kitale, Kenya (with parents & siblings) m. <???> Presidency of | b.c1826/1830 Hyderabad, b.1.6.1853 Hyderabad; | b.c1886-1891 | / Madras, India; | Presidency of Madras, India bapt.13.11.1853 | Secunderabad, Madras | RAF Pilot Officer (service No.40849) during WWII; but, one source | / Madras, Madras, India | / | commissioned 4.6.1938 [London Gazette 24.6.1938, p.4084] suggests b.c1803 | Capt. 1856 (when 1st wife died); living 1896; d.<???> | Inspector General of | served as bomber pilot with 14 Squadron based at Port Sudan, Sudan; Co.Meath, Ireland | Capt. General of Horse for the / | prisons at Sind, India; | d.14.6.1940, MIA while flying (solo) a Vickers Wellesley I K7742, over Massawa, Eritrea, / | the Nizam of Hyderabad at his mother dying c1836 when | moved with his family to | one of two bombers attacking the Acico petrol installation at Massawa; Capt. General of | Bolarum, Hyderabad, from c1857, James was aged 3, and his | Kitale, Kenya, Africa; | he was seen heading out to sea after the bombing; Horse for the the | succeeding in that office his father dying when James was | d.1952 Kitale | shot down by Italian flier Ernessto Botto in a Fiat CR.42 of 412a Squadriglia based in Eritrea Nizam of | father James Plunkett who d.1857 aged 10, it is probable James | / | ["RAF Bomber Losses in the Middle East and Mediterranean" vol.1 (1939-1942) Hyderabad; | / was raised by his aunt, | m. (prob. India) | by David Gunby & Pelham Temple, pub. Midland Press] d.1857 | d.30.12.1863 Andhrapradesh, Frances "Fanny" Henrietta | Mae Laura Gonzales | / / | India (some sources d.c1870); Blennerhassett, and her | Law de Linares | Reginald Plunkett is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, England (panel 9), this being m.1829 Madras; | bur. 30.12.1863 husband James Otway Power | b.est.c1892 | the WWII memorial for airmen missing during operations from bases in the UK and N. & W. Europe; Jane Henderson | Chudderghant, Madras (see note "LADY FRANCES | (dau. of a WWI general) | as he went missing outside of Europe he should correctly not have been commemorated at Runnymede; b.c1810 Scotland | / BLENNERHASSETT | / | it had been noted that he should instead have been remembered on the Malta memorial, or perhaps the / | / at top of this page) | following her husband's | Alamein Memorial in Egypt (for airmen missing during operations in the Mediterranean, Middle East and Africa) / | he m.1st 4.4.1850 at Madras, / | death in 1952 she moved | NOTE: / | Presidency of Madras, India / | to England; d.1991 Sussex | James Plunkett who d.1857 (the father | to m.<date?> Clara Ann Plunkett | (aged almost 100) |>>Derek Blennerhassett >>>>>>>>>>|>> of Capt. James Thomas Irvine Plunkett) | Maria b.8.6.1862 (1st cousin); | / | Plunkett b.1918 India | appears to be identical with James Plunkett | (Marian, Marion, Maryanne) bapt.17.9.1862 Karachi, | her family are connected | moved to Kitale, Kenya | b.7.12.1809 in the Presidency of Madras, | Blennerhassett (p.K 36) Maharashtra, India; d.<???> | with Lauriston Castle, | (with parents & siblings) | India, son of James Plunkett, as shown here... | (she then aged c14 years); / | Edinburgh, Scotland | / |>> HOWEVER: | b.c1836 d.25.7.1856 (age 20) dau. of Arthur Henry Plunkett, | | served in the British army, Gavin Plunkett's "Plunkett Genealogy" | bur. 26.7.1856 Hingolee Madras C.I.E. (Companion of the | | first in India, then Kenya website names the James Plunkett who d.1857 | / Order of the Indian Empire); |>>James Plunkett | with the Kenya Regt. as son of a Patrick Plunkett... | Maria is the true ancestor of the Clerk in the Commissioner's | b.?.3.1887 Secunderabad, | / | Blennerhassett-Plunkett family Office; served for more than | Madras (twin, d. young) | moved to Spain; | / 41 years, at Bombay, Sind, | | d.10.3.1982 Marbella, | Maria was daughter of Lieut. Dharwar, Thana, Nasik, Poona; | | Andalusia, Spain | Henry Blennerhassett (p.K 36) also Mahratta & Deccan; |>>John Plunkett | / | (b.13.10.1802 Killorglin, City Magistrate at Poona | b.?.3.1887 Secunderabad, | m.1948 | Co.Kerry, Ireland) 1884-5; | Madras (twin, d. young) | Betty Colan Fountain | and his 2nd wife Jane (Jean?) d. Mussoorie, Dehradun, India | | d.2014 | Elizabeth O'Brien Brown (a hill station in the | | | / state of Uttarakhand); | | | from 1825 Henry Blennerhassett and his wife | | | served in India with the army of Frances Ann Hatteroth | | | the Nizam of Hyderabad at d.31.10.1885 Poona | | | Bolarum, Hyderabad; see p.BP 07 below | | BP 01 | as "Sub-Conductor in the | | BP 02 | service of his Highness the | | | Nizam" 1829; | |>>Yvonne Mary >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>> | in the "Nizam's 1st Company of | Blennerhassett Plunkett | | Artillery"; and as quartermaster | b.1920 India; |>> | for "Nizam's Pioneers" | moved to Kitale, Kenya | / | (with parents & siblings) | for this Blennerhassett family | d.<???> | see p. K 36 | / | / | m.1945 Karachi, Pakistan; | / | Kenneth Thomas McKeown | / | d.<???> | / | | / | | / |>>Phyllis Eileen >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>> <child> Barry | / | Blennerhassett Plunkett | | / | b.c1895 Secunderabad |>><child> Barry | / | / | / | m.26.2.1930 Dehra Dun, Bengal, India; | / | Charles Gordon Barry (not Bailey) | / | | / |>>Patricia Maud Blennerhassett Plunkett; unm. | / | b.15.2.1897 Secunderabad, Madras | / | bapt.27.3.1897 Secunderabad, Madras | / | | / |>>Maurice Blennerhassett >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>> <dau.> Plunkett | / | Plunkett | / | b.c1897 Secunderabad, | / | Madras | / | / | / | m.28.2.1922 Amritsar, Bengal, India | / | Edith Maud Pratt | / | | / |>>Alan Plunkett >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>> Oliver Plunkett | / b. Secunderabad, Madras | | / / |>>Godfrey Plunkett >>>>>>>>>>>>|>> | / m. May Ireland | / | / | m. Emily Johnson | / | | / |>>Maud Plunkett | / | / | / | m. Michael McAlister | / | | / |>>Noel Plunkett >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>> | / | / | / | m. Iris Smith | / | | / |>>Patrick Plunkett >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|>> | / | / | | / | m. Gwen Atkins |>> | / | | / |>>Mabel Plunkett | / | / | / | m. <???> | / | | / |>>Patricia Plunkett | / | / | / | m. <???> | / | | / | | / |>>Dorothy Plunkett | / | | / |>>Reginald Plunkett | / / | / m. Iris Saul | / | / | / | / | / | / | / BP 02 | / BP 03 | / | Capt.