Blanckley ONS

Guild of One Name Studies

This study is supported by the Guild of One Name Studies. You can see the details of my study by clicking on this link.

Cataloguing all occurrences of the Blanckley surname

About

This is a work in progress project to collate details of every instance of the surname Blanckley and all its variations.

I'm descended from the Hampshire Blanckley line, and have been researching my Blanckley ancestors in detail since 2015. The purpose of this one name study is to consolidate available data for all Blanckleys , Blankleys and other permutations of the name.

Permutations of Blanckley

Blankbe, Blanckbey, Blanckley, Blanckley, Blanckly, Blancklye, Blancly, Blanekley, Blankly, Blankley, Blenckley, Blinckley, Blonckley

Guild of One Name Studies

This study is supported by the Guild of One Name Studies. You can see the details of my study by clicking on this link.

Blanckley branch in the spotlight

A clan of Blanckleys lived in the Leicestershire town of Melton Mowbray and the nearby villages of Ab Kettleby, Hoby and Rotherby until the 1800s.

Melton

Mowbray

Blanckleys

Stories

1747-

Duel avoider

Henry Blanckley’s drunken decision to stand up to a bullying aristocrat in 1747 Portsmouth resulted in him being challenged to a duel he’d lose because he was a humble clerk.

His father pulled strings to get him posted overseas to Gibraltar, where he started a family, but the aristocratic bully, Augustus Hervey (pictured in this panel and on the button) found him there five years later and demanded he stood for that duel!

You can read the story by clicking the button below.

1714

Thomas

Blanckley’s

heartfelt

welcome of

George I

Thomas

Riley Blanckley’s

plagiarism

Naval

Expositor

story

1750

The welcome

speech

Duel story

1813 -

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Napoleonic spy

Above: Henry Stanyford Blanckley’s Waterloo medals

Henry Stanyford Blanckley (1785-1819) was a spy during Britain’s wars against Napoleon.

His derring-do biography has been pieced together by Professor Paul Thompson of Southeast Missouri State University.

It can be downloaded by clicking the button below.

PDF

Database

The database below is continually expanding. Click on the tabs at the bottom of the spreadsheet to view individual data sets (baptisms, marriages, etc).

Above: The present-day Gibraltar Museum where Henry Stanyford bBlanckley was born in 1752 (author’s photo)

Above: Portrait of Captain Edward Blanckley RN. C. 1790-1845 (Style family collection)

Above: Edward Blanckley’s heraldic bookplate. The College of Arms have revealed that the design was never registered with them.

Gallery

Above: Tomb of Henrietta Blanckley (1804-1874). St John in the Wilderness, Withycombe Raleigh, Devon, England

Above: 1874 cigarette card of H. S. Blanckley of Durham

Above: Plaque in the Main Guard, Gibraltar, with Henry Blankley (1720-1773) listed first.