Charles Blois 1st Bt (1657 - 1738)

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Kempe) Blois — married about 11 May 1680 (to 18 Jan 1693) in Gissing, Norfolk, England [uncertain]

Descendants

Biography

Baptised on 14 Sept. 1657, Charles Blois was eldest surviving son of Sir William Blois of Grundisburgh Hall and his first wife, Martha Brooke, daughter of Sir Robert Brooke of Cockfield Hall, Yoxford, and co-heiress to her brother Sir Robert Brooke. He succeeded his father in 1675.

On 11 May 1680, he married Mary Kemp daughter of Sir Robert Kemp, 2nd Baronet, of Ubbeston Church, Gissing in Norfolk. Together they had 3 sons and a daughter. Charles was created a baronet on 15 April 1686.

His second wife, whom he married by license granted on 18 April 1694, was Anne Hawtrey, daughter of Ralph Hawtrey of Eastcote House, Ruislip in Middlesex. They had two sons and a daughter.

Sources

• History of Parliament online: BLOIS, Sir Charles, 1st Bt. (1657-1738), of Grundisburgh Hall, Suff.

• Hitchin-Kemp, Frederick (1902). A general history of the Kemp and Kempe families of Great Britain and her colonies, with arms, pedigrees, portraits, illustrations of seats, foundations, chantries, monuments, documents, old jewels, curios, etc. Published: London: The Leadenhall Press: New York: C. Scribner’s Sons. [database on-line]. Provo UT. The Generations Network, Inc. 2005.

• Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Charles_Blois,_1st_Baronet

• Thepeerage.com [1]

Acknowledgments

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