Finding our past

James Manley Blakemore senior was Charles’ brother. I think he must have been a very nice man. He married Sarah Steele (nee Gow), a Scottish widow with three children from her first marriage. One of them (Margaret) married a Cecil Corinaldi. They named one of their sons James Manley Blakemore Corinaldi. (his obit is in the 15/2/1940 Liverpool echo – this is the only Corinaldi family indexed in both 1921 census and 1939 register) ” “ from both Bill &…

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John Blakemore was born in Clifton (tho later censuses record this as Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wales(?)).  He was baptised at St James’ Priory church in central Bristol on the 20th February 1814, which makes sense if he was born in Clifton.  On his baptism record (transcription only) his parents are given as John Blakemore and Sarah.  It is possible that he is living in Welford on Avon in 1817 as a Sarah Blakemore, daughter of John & Sarah, is baptised there….

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