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English: Church of England parish church of St Margaret, Mapledurham, Oxfordshire: hatchment (left), in appearance / style dating from circa 1800-25, with sinister/wife's half white, denoting a surviving wife, therefore probably for Michael Blount (1743-1821), with arms quarterly of 4:
  • 1&4: Barry nebuly of six or and sable (Blount);
  • 2&3: Vair, a chief or (Tichborne)

Right: part of the monument to Eleonora Blount, showing arms of (her father ?) Michael Blount (1743-1821), Blount with inescutcheon of FitzGerald (Argent, a saltire gules), Michael Blount (1743-1821) married twice, firstly, to the Irish heiress Eleanora Fitzgerald daughter and heiress of Maurice Fitzgerald of Puncher's Grange, secondly to Catherine Petre (1760-1846), who survived him.

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From: https://www.mapledurham.co.uk/maplehurham-house :

  • Michael Blount (1693-1739) married Mary-Agnes Tichborne, one of the two daughters and co-heiresses of of Sir Henry Joseph Tichborne, 4th Baronet (c.1655 – 1743). The hatchment is for one of his descendants, as the arms of Tichborne are quartered not impaled. Michael Blount (1693-1739) inherited in 1710 (on his father's death) a much impoverished estate. Like other Catholic landowners, the family had been forced to pay the penal Double Land Tax (not abolished until 1821). In the year of his death, he surveyed his finances; during his 29 years of ownership he had overspent his income by £2,500 it would have been more, he wrote, "but that my dear wife was so prudent not to accept of diamond ear-rings".
    • His son Michael Blount (1719-1792) also faced financial problems; like his father, he spent long periods living away, only returning when he could no longer find a tenant. Family tradition records that about 1740 he was forced to sell the family's fine collection of armour. The first in the family to marry into the professional classes, he married Mary Eugenia Strickland (1723-1762), daughter of the solicitor Michael Strickland, and apparently practised too as a lawyer.
      • His son and successor, also Michael Blount (1743-1821) married twice; firstly, the Irish heiress Eleanora Fitzgerald, a lady of "uncommon virtues;" and then Catherine Petre (1760-1846) daughter and sole heiress of John Petre of Bellhouse, Stanford Rivers, Essex, and widow of Francis Wright of Bedford Square (London) (Source: Burke's Landed Gentry (1836)). As his second wife survived him, the hatchment is possibly his, although it was unusual for a married man not to show the arms of his wife on a hatchment, as here. He built the chapel, but the present appearance of the House is due to his son,
        • Michael Henry Blount (1789-1874). He employed Thomas Martin to make alterations in 1828 and carried out further work in 1863. He married firstly Elizabeth Anne Mary Petre (1798-1848), 4th daughter of Rupert Edward Petre, 10th Baron Petre, and secondly Lucy Catherine Wheble (1809-1908) there were five sons and nine daughters from the two marriages. He has his own hatchment in the church, showing the impaled arms of both wives.
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