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4,14 BL'KKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. Waltee Blake (fitz Andi-ew), who left at his decease two sons, I. Robert, of whom presently. II. Marcus, d. Iti29, having been elected mayor of Galway, leaving a son, Walter, whose son, Mai-eics (Oge) or Maurice Blake, was ancestor of Blake, of BaUinafad, co. Mayo. The elder son, KoBEEr Blake (fitz Walter fitz Andrew), got a grant by patent 12tli May, 1G12, of Ballynacourt (.now Wallscourt) ; of Ardfry; and "of lands in co. Mayo. He m. Catherine, daughter of Biehard "D'Arct, and d. 1616, leaving issue, I. Kichard, of whom presently. ir. Petei-, of Cloonbaneen. III. Nicliolas, of Cronilea, d. 1G82, leaving Heter ; Katherine ; and Mai'V, m. Sir Henry LxxcH, third Baronet, of Castlecarra, and d. 1712. The eldest son. Sir Kichard Blaee, Knt., M.P., of Ard- fry, CO. Galway, mayor of Galway 1627, and Speaker of the Supreme t ouncil of co. Kil- kenny, 1648, )«. Gyles, daughter of Alderman Andrew Kirwan (ancestor of Kjrwax of Creg), and d. 1666, leaving issue, I. Robert, of Ai'dfry and Wallscourf, ancestor of Lord Wallscourt {see Burke's Peerage). II. Andrew. III. Piter, of whom we treat. I. Bridget, m. Edmund, son and heir of John Dillon. The youngest son, Peter Blake, of Coroally, who got a grant of those lands by patent in 1679 (dated isth July, 31 Charles II, enrolled 20th December, 1679). He d. 1712, leaving by Magdalen Martin, his wife, Arms — Arg. a fret gu. Crest — A cat-a-mountain passant guardanf, ppr, Motio — Tirlus sola nobilitat. Sesidenee — King's House, Jamaica. Club — Marlborough, Pall Mall, London. I. Patrick, of whom presently. I. Sibella, m. Antliony Dease. II. SwixA, m. Hyacintli ffkench. III. A daughter »k. Geoffrey Browne, of Casthemacgarret. The only son, Patrick Br ake, of Corbally, d. 19th June, 1753, leaving by Margaret his wife, six sons, and three daughters (Magdalen, Agneta, and Maria). His second son, Peter Blake, of Corbally, who s. to these estates on 19th June, 1753, d. 27th June following, leaving an only sou, and heir, Patrick Blake, of Corbally, m. July, 1757, Mary, daughter of MoRSAN, of Monks- field, and left a son, Peter Blake, of Corbally, m. 14th May, 1800, Mary, daughter of Hon. John Bkownb, sixth son of John, tii'st Karl of Altamont, and d. 1842, leaving issue, I. Patrick, Captain 87th and 12th Regts., who d. leaving an only son, Henry Arthur, d. s. p. II. Peter, of whom presently. III. Henry, accompanied his kinsman, the Marquess of Sligo, to Jamaica in 1834, as private secretary. He was afterwards stipendiary magistrate, and d. of yellow fever in 1835, unm. The second son, Peter Blake, county inspector of the Royal Irish Constabulary, co. Kilkenny, m. .Jane, daughter of John L^NE, of Lanes Park, and d. 1851, leaving issue, I. Henry Arthur (Sir), the subject of this uiemoii'. II. Peter, agent. Bank of Ireland, Gal- way, Wi. and has issue. III. John Lane, d. 1883. IT. Francis Ambrose. T. Vere William Lane. iScanlantis. EEV. ARTHUR JOHN BEANLANDS, of the Rectory, Victoria. British Columbia, ]LA., Rector and Canon Residentiary of Christchureh Cathedral, Victoria, British Columbia, h. 1857, m. 1S84, Laura Maud, eldest daughter of Walter Alfred Hills, barrister-at-law, of Ramsgate, England (second son of Walter Hills, barrister-at-law, by Sarah Elizabeth, his -wife, daughter and heir of William Jeffeets, of Chatham, co. Kent), by Mary Anne, hi.s wife, daughter of William Morley Stubbs, of Kuaresboro', England, and sister of the Bishop of Oxford, and has had issue, I. Dorothy Garnett, fc, 1S86. II. Alison Henlock, 6. 1891. III. Michael Lawrance, h. and i. 1893.