The lost Arthur (David) Blayney link to Australia

 

David Blayney ancestor of an Australian clan

 

One genealogy claims this David was David Lloyd Blayney b.1523, son of Thomas Blayney and Gwenthlean Herle which is a 300 year impossibility. Maybe the words "descended from" need to be used! A number of sources give David's father as Arthur Blayney, Blaney or Blainey and mother as Jane.

Nor can this Arthur be the 4th son of the second marriage of Sir Arthur (Anthony) Blayney [1603-1659] (also an Arthur), because even if Sir Arthur conceived him on his death bed, David's father, Arthur would have had to have lived to 168 to conceive David (born 1827).

However, fairly reliably , I have:

1 Arthur Blayney
 + Jane [3]
  2 David Blayney b.1827(8) Landinian, Montgomery, Wales,
    emigrating 1857, d.1873 Champion Bay, WA, Australia (riding accident) 
    See Note 1 [2]. 
   + Rachael (Rachel) Owens (Owen) b.1828/9 & m.1853 in Montgomery,
     Treteglwyn, Wales d.1891 Geraldton, WA
     After David's death in 1873, she married John Haynes in 1875, he died
     in 1898 in Geraldton, WA 
    3 Jane Blayney b.1854 Montgomery, Wales, 
      d.1931 Geraldton, WA, Australia. See Note 1
     + Joseph BRIDGMAN b.1846 Hampshire, England. d.1914, Geraldton
       m.1871 in Geraldton, Western Australia (1st in "Christ Church"). 
      4 Catherine (Kitty) BRIDGMAN b.1873 in Chapman,WA
      4 Victor Alexander BRIDGMAN adopted b.1886 in Greenough, WA 
    3 Lewis Blayney b.1856 Wales d.1874 (pneumonia) in WA. See Note 2.
    3 Rachel Blayney b.1858 Champion Bay WA Australia
     + John Haynes m.1875
    3 Catherine Blayney b.1860 Mininngo WA Australia
     + James Frazer m.1877
      4 Isabella Frazer b.1878 d.1880
      4 Jane Frazer b.1880 d.1899
      4 Rose Ann Frazer b.1882
      4 David James Frazer b.1884
      4 Rachel Isabella Frazer b.1886
      4 Thomas John Frazer b.1888
      4 Lucy Ellen Frazer b.1891
      4 Emily Amelia Frazer b.1892            
    3 Unnamed Blayney b.1860 d.1860 WA [6]
    3 Arthur Blayney b.1861 Tibradden, WA Australia m.1890
     + Hannah (?Augustine) O'Maley m.1890 [4], previously married to 
       William Bone b~1838 d.1888 (drowned)
      4 nine children (William Arthur b.1876, George John b.1877, Ann Elizabeth b.1878,
        James Henry b.1879 Mary Jane b.1881, Theresa b.1882,  Bridget b.1884, 
        Margaret Teresa b.1886 and Rachel b.1887) 
      4 Jane Blayney b.1890 Geraldton WA
       + John Sidney Cream m.1914
      4 David Blayney b.1892 d.1892 aged 3 mths Geraldton WA
      4 Thomas Blayney b.1893 Geralton WA, d~1976
      4 Deborah BLAYNEY, b.1895 d.1896 aged 9 mths
      4 Unnamed Blayney b.1896 stillborn Geralton WA [6]
    3 Elizabeth Blayney b.1863 Tibrudden WA, d.1846
     + Edgar Major Patten m.1878 Geraldton WA
    3 Thomas Blayney b.1864 Greenough WA d.1894 [6]
    3 Edward Blayney b.1867 Sandspring WA d.1938
    3 Deborah Blayney b.1869 Coogarina WA d.1870 aged 8m
    3 Anne Blayney b.1871 Chapman WA, d.1948
     + Emmanuel Whitehurst m.1887 Geraldton WA
        
Note: WA = Western Australia.

Ian Blayney (Farmer of Geraldton,WA) was part of the  Grains Research and 
Development Corporation's farming systems program team which  received a 
Prime Minister's excellence Award in 2002.

Note 1: Head stone has been removed, area is now Apex Memorial Park

"Jane Blaney arrived on 8th August, 1857 on the "City of Bristol" from Southampton with her parents David (aged 29 years) and Rachel (aged 28 years) Blaney and her brother Lewis (aged 1 year) as assisted emigrants."

Note 2: From notes written by Amy Jupp nee Patten [3]

"Gould an Englishman from Sumerset, an ancestor of the many Goulds in the Victoria District, was on his way to the Greenough Show. David Blaney's horse shied, rearing up and dislodged its rider, who's neck was broken in the fall. David died on the 25 September 1873, aged 46 years. Lewis his eldest son,who had come out from England with his parents, died the following year from pneumonia. He was 18 years old."

Other Aussi Blayney families

Bibliography
[1] One great Family www.onegreatfamily.com/ancestry/Blayney.html

[2] LDS Family Search www.familysearch.org

[3] My Heading Family http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=4767522&id=I2309

[4] AUS-WA-GERALDTON archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/AUS-WA-GERALDTON
and DPS-CHAT-L Archives archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/DPS-CHAT

[5] Erica Smith’s Family History Project www.webace.com.au/~smidgers/fam03255.htm

[6] On-line Cemetery record http://members.westnet.com.au/gfhs/Cemeteries/B.htm