Elizabeth Blount

Marriage and children

Blount married Elizabeth Wylde (c. 1591–1656), a daughter of George Wylde of Droitwich, Serjeant-at-Law, by his wife Frances Huddleston,[1][3] by whom he had 13 children, including:

1. Sir George Blount, 2nd Baronet (died 1667), eldest son and heir, who married Mary Kirkham, only daughter and heiress of Richard Kirkham of Blagdon in the parish of Paignton in Devon, by his wife the heiress of Oldham near Tilbury in Essex.[4] Blagdon remained a seat of the Blount family until it was sold to Montagu Edmund Parker (1737–1831) of Whiteway House,[5] near Chudleigh in Devon, Sheriff of Devon in 1789. A plasterwork heraldic escutcheon dated 1708 survives in the great hall of Blagdon showing the initials "EB" for Edward Blount[6] (d. 1726) (3rd son of 2nd Bt.) the Latin motto Lux Tua Via Mea ("Your light is my path") and the arms of Blount (Barry nebuly of six or and sable) impaling Gules, seven mascles vair 3,3,1 (Guise). Edward Blount (d. 1726) married Anne Guise, a daughter of Sir John Guise, 2nd Baronet. In 1727 his 2nd daughter Mary Blount (1701/2 – 1773) married Edward Howard, 9th Duke of Norfolk.[7]
2. Eleanor Blount, who married firstly Robert Knightley, and secondly Walter Aston, 3rd Lord Aston of Forfar.

Death and burial

Blount died aged 60 at Blagdon in the parish of Paignton in Devon, the home of his daughter-in-law Mary Kirkham, and was buried at Paignton on 29 August 1654.[1

Disputed Children

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Blount-102

James Blount was falsely identified as the son of Walter Blount, Bt. in a 1872 genealogy. "The problem is that Sir Walter Blount, Baronet, did not have a son named James Blount. See Alexander Croke, The Genealogical History of the Croke Family, Originally Named Le Blount, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1823), II, 145-146.... The key to establishing Capt. James's parentage and background is the will of Charles Blount, uncle of Capt. James. Charles Blount's will, dated Dec. 19, 1655, includes the following bequest: "I give and bequeathe unto my cozen James Blount one of the Sonnes of my late brother James Blount Esquire deceased the summe of fiftie pounds in case he be liveinge or such returned from beyond the seas where now he is to demand the same." This will was filed in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Folio 172, and is indexed in Vol. 54, Wills 1653-56, PCC, Public Record Office, London. [3]

Likewise, Capt. Thomas Blount who died in Chowan Precinct, North Carolina in 1706 has been listed as a son of Sir Walter Blount. This Capt. Thomas Blount is proven to be the son of the above mentioned James Blount.