Pioneers of St. Clair County, Michigan - Person Sheet
Death13 Jun 1867, Highgate, Middlesex, England7591 Age: 60
FatherThomas SHERIDAN
Individual Notes
• Name given as Selena.
6881• [Her] family, although also of Irish origin, ‘belonged to another class [the English literati], with very dissimilar antecedents and traditions.’
6918
Spouses
FatherSir Hans BLACKWOOD Lord Dufferin (1758-1839)
MotherMehetabel-Hester TEMPLE (-1798)
Individual Notes
• 4th Baron of Dufferin and Claneboye, capt. R.N.
His lordship d. suddenly on board the “Reindeer” steamer, from taking an over-dose of morphine, 21 July 1841, and was s. by his son.
6881• Up to the mid-1820s the Blackwoods, even though a peerage family, in reality belonged to the provincial gentry, overshadowed in their own county by the more cosmopolitan and much richer Marquesses of Downshire and Londonderry. In 1825 Capt. Price Blackwood, RN, who was the heir presumptive to the Barony of Dufferin (to which he succeeded in 1839) married outside the normal circle of Blackwood wives.
6918