Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
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, p 5
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, p 5
Spouses
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, p 2
• [Her] family, although also of Irish origin, ‘belonged to another class [the English literati], with very dissimilar antecedents and traditions.’6918, p 2
Marriage4 Jul 18256881
ChildrenFrederick (1826-1902)