1827 - 1914 (86 years)
Has more than 100 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.
1819 - 1869 (50 years)
Birth |
26 Feb 1819 |
London, Middlesex, England |
Died |
20 Aug 1869 |
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
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Father |
Richard Bligh, b. 1785, Cambridge, Kent, England |
Mother |
Elizabeth Bligh, b. 24 Mar 1786, London, Middlesex, England |
Married |
29 Nov 1817 |
St. Pancras, London, Middlesex, England |
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Family |
Maria Isabella Fennell |
Married |
1847 |
Children |
| 1. Elizabeth Mary Bligh, b. 30 Nov 1847, Warialda, Nsw, Australia |
+ | 2. Richard John Blakeney Bligh, b. 19 Aug 1850, Scone, Australia |
| 3. Eliza Emily Bligh, b. 9 Dec 1851, Australia |
| 4. Neville Bligh, b. 11 Mar 1855, Warialda, Nsw, Australia |
+ | 5. Alice Rose Bligh, b. 29 Mar 1857, Grafton, Nsw, Australia |
+ | 6. Edith Agnes Bligh, b. 11 Mar 1858, Warialda, Nsw, Australia |
| 7. William O'connell Bligh, b. 18 Feb 1859, Australia |
| 8. Arthur Francis Bligh, b. 16 Aug 1860, Grafton, Australia |
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- 1869
Died |
5 Jun 1869 |
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
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Family |
Richard John Bligh, b. 26 Feb 1819, London, Middlesex, England |
Married |
1847 |
Children |
| 1. Elizabeth Mary Bligh, b. 30 Nov 1847, Warialda, Nsw, Australia |
+ | 2. Richard John Blakeney Bligh, b. 19 Aug 1850, Scone, Australia |
| 3. Eliza Emily Bligh, b. 9 Dec 1851, Australia |
| 4. Neville Bligh, b. 11 Mar 1855, Warialda, Nsw, Australia |
+ | 5. Alice Rose Bligh, b. 29 Mar 1857, Grafton, Nsw, Australia |
+ | 6. Edith Agnes Bligh, b. 11 Mar 1858, Warialda, Nsw, Australia |
| 7. William O'connell Bligh, b. 18 Feb 1859, Australia |
| 8. Arthur Francis Bligh, b. 16 Aug 1860, Grafton, Australia |
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1820 - 1863 (43 years)
Birth |
9 Sep 1820 |
England |
Died |
30 Nov 1863 |
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Father |
Richard Bligh, b. 1785, Cambridge, Kent, England |
Mother |
Elizabeth Bligh, b. 24 Mar 1786, London, Middlesex, England |
Married |
29 Nov 1817 |
St. Pancras, London, Middlesex, England |
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1822 - 1921 (98 years)
Birth |
26 Mar 1822 |
England |
Died |
1921 |
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Father |
Richard Bligh, b. 1785, Cambridge, Kent, England |
Mother |
Elizabeth Bligh, b. 24 Mar 1786, London, Middlesex, England |
Married |
29 Nov 1817 |
St. Pancras, London, Middlesex, England |
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Family |
George Horace Nutting, b. 1805 |
Married |
21 Apr 1841 |
Children |
| 1. Rose Stanley Nutting |
| 2. Herbert Nutting |
| 3. John Bligh Nutting, b. 1864 |
| 4. Alice Nutting |
| 5. Phillip Nutting |
| 6. Frances Nutting |
+ | 7. William Charles Nutting, b. 1856 |
| 8. Horace Nutting, b. 1859 |
+ | 9. Earnest Stanley Nutting |
+ | 10. Louis Walter Nutting |
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1805 - 1873 (68 years)
Birth |
1805 |
Died |
1873 |
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Family |
Mary Jane Bligh, b. 26 Mar 1822, England |
Married |
21 Apr 1841 |
Children |
| 1. Rose Stanley Nutting |
| 2. Herbert Nutting |
| 3. John Bligh Nutting, b. 1864 |
| 4. Alice Nutting |
| 5. Phillip Nutting |
| 6. Frances Nutting |
+ | 7. William Charles Nutting, b. 1856 |
| 8. Horace Nutting, b. 1859 |
+ | 9. Earnest Stanley Nutting |
+ | 10. Louis Walter Nutting |
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1825 - 1909 (83 years)
Birth |
3 Nov 1825 |
England |
Died |
1909 |
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Father |
Richard Bligh, b. 1785, Cambridge, Kent, England |
Mother |
Elizabeth Bligh, b. 24 Mar 1786, London, Middlesex, England |
Married |
29 Nov 1817 |
St. Pancras, London, Middlesex, England |
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Family |
Richard o' Connell, b. 29 Nov 1821, Australia |
Married |
18 Jan 1851 |
Children |
| 1. James Laurence o' Connell |
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1821 - 1873 (51 years)
Birth |
29 Nov 1821 |
Australia |
Died |
15 Mar 1873 |
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Father |
Maurice Charles o' Connell, b. 11 Sep 1766, Éire |
Mother |
Mary Bligh, b. 1783, Lambeth, London, England |
Married |
Abt 1810 |
Australia |
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Family |
Helen Rose Bligh, b. 3 Nov 1825, England |
Married |
18 Jan 1851 |
Children |
| 1. James Laurence o' Connell |
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1827 - 1914 (86 years)
Birth |
24 Sep 1827 |
Longdown Farmhouse, Longdown Hill, Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, England |
Died |
26 May 1914 |
Blackheath, New South Wales, Australia |
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Father |
Richard Bligh, b. 1785, Cambridge, Kent, England |
Mother |
Elizabeth Bligh, b. 24 Mar 1786, London, Middlesex, England |
Married |
29 Nov 1817 |
St. Pancras, London, Middlesex, England |
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1831 - 1885 (54 years)
Birth |
22 Feb 1831 |
Died |
23 Jun 1885 |
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Father |
Richard Bligh, b. 1785, Cambridge, Kent, England |
Mother |
Elizabeth Bligh, b. 24 Mar 1786, London, Middlesex, England |
Married |
29 Nov 1817 |
St. Pancras, London, Middlesex, England |
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1834 - 1880 (46 years)
Birth |
3 Mar 1834 |
Buckinghamshire, England |
Died |
12 Oct 1880 |
Gympie, Queensland, Australia |
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Father |
Richard Bligh, b. 1785, Cambridge, Kent, England |
Mother |
Elizabeth Bligh, b. 24 Mar 1786, London, Middlesex, England |
Married |
29 Nov 1817 |
St. Pancras, London, Middlesex, England |
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Family |
Charlotte Elizabeth Dick |
Married |
29 Dec 1863 |
St John Darlingshurst, England |
Children |
| 1. Charlotte Lucy O'connell Bligh, b. 28 Dec 1864 |
| 2. Lancelot John Stanley Bligh, b. 23 Oct 1866 |
+ | 3. Harold Francis Bligh, b. 21 Oct 1870, Gympie, Queensland, Australia |
| 4. Edward Alexander Bligh, b. 1873 |
| 5. Margaret Ruth O'connell Bligh, b. 1874 |
| 6. Lillie O'connell Bligh, b. 1877 |
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- 1876
Died |
1876 |
Gympie, Australia |
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Family |
John O'connell Bligh, b. 3 Mar 1834, Buckinghamshire, England |
Married |
29 Dec 1863 |
St John Darlingshurst, England |
Children |
| 1. Charlotte Lucy O'connell Bligh, b. 28 Dec 1864 |
| 2. Lancelot John Stanley Bligh, b. 23 Oct 1866 |
+ | 3. Harold Francis Bligh, b. 21 Oct 1870, Gympie, Queensland, Australia |
| 4. Edward Alexander Bligh, b. 1873 |
| 5. Margaret Ruth O'connell Bligh, b. 1874 |
| 6. Lillie O'connell Bligh, b. 1877 |
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1785 - 1838 (53 years)
Birth |
1785 |
Cambridge, Kent, England |
Died |
1838 |
England |
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Father |
John Bligh, c. 25 Apr 1750, Bodmin, Cornwall, England |
Mother |
Lucy Shuter |
Married |
5 Oct 1777 |
St. Katherine Coleman, London, Middlesex, England |
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Family |
Elizabeth Bligh, b. 24 Mar 1786, London, Middlesex, England |
Married |
29 Nov 1817 |
St. Pancras, London, Middlesex, England |
Children |
+ | 1. Richard John Bligh, b. 26 Feb 1819, London, Middlesex, England |
| 2. Frances Anne Bligh, b. 9 Sep 1820, England |
+ | 3. Mary Jane Bligh, b. 26 Mar 1822, England |
+ | 4. Helen Rose Bligh, b. 3 Nov 1825, England |
| 5. William Russell Wilson Bligh, b. 24 Sep 1827, Longdown Farmhouse, Longdown Hill, Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, England |
| 6. Grace Jane Campbell Bligh, b. 22 Feb 1831 |
+ | 7. John O'connell Bligh, b. 3 Mar 1834, Buckinghamshire, England |
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1786 - 1854 (68 years)
Birth |
24 Mar 1786 |
London, Middlesex, England |
Christened |
5 May 1786 |
London, England (St Georges In The East) |
Died |
17 Jul 1854 |
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Father |
Vice Admiral William Bligh, b. 9 Sep 1754, Plymouth, Devon, England |
Mother |
Elizabeth Betham, b. Abt 1753, England |
Married |
4 Feb 1781 |
Douglas, Isle of Man, Crown Dependencies |
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Family |
Richard Bligh, b. 1785, Cambridge, Kent, England |
Married |
29 Nov 1817 |
St. Pancras, London, Middlesex, England |
Children |
+ | 1. Richard John Bligh, b. 26 Feb 1819, London, Middlesex, England |
| 2. Frances Anne Bligh, b. 9 Sep 1820, England |
+ | 3. Mary Jane Bligh, b. 26 Mar 1822, England |
+ | 4. Helen Rose Bligh, b. 3 Nov 1825, England |
| 5. William Russell Wilson Bligh, b. 24 Sep 1827, Longdown Farmhouse, Longdown Hill, Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, England |
| 6. Grace Jane Campbell Bligh, b. 22 Feb 1831 |
+ | 7. John O'connell Bligh, b. 3 Mar 1834, Buckinghamshire, England |
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Name |
William Russell Wilson Bligh |
Birth |
24 Sep 1827 |
Longdown Farmhouse, Longdown Hill, Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, England |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
26 May 1914 |
Blackheath, New South Wales, Australia |
- Death Notice, The Sydney Morning Herald 1914, May 27:
BLIGH.-May 26, at Blackheath, N.S.W., William Russell Wilson Bligh, late of Longdown, Parramatta, aged 80.
He was buried at Rookwood Cemetery.
A description of his funeral was in The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate.
- Obituary, The Sydney Morning Herald 1914, May 27:
Mr. William Russell Wilson Bligh, a grandson of Governor Bligh, died yesterday at his residence, Whiteleaf Cross, Tourmaline-Street, Blackheath. The deceased, who was a bachelor, was 86 years of age.
- Obituary, Catholic Press (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1942), Thursday 4 June 1914, page 22:
William Russell Wilson Bligh, who was known as "Old Captain" in and around Parramatta, died at Blackheath last week, at the age of 86. He was a grandson of Governor Bligh, and came to Australia when nine years old with his uncle, Sir Maurice O'Connor. In the 77 years spent in the neighbourhood of Sydney, he had seen practically every step of the city's progress from a wilderness of bushes to a wilderness of buildings, for he remembered when the youths of his day caught fish in the Tank Stream that coursed down into the harbour somewhere in the vicinity' of Pitt-street; and when the old Zoological Gardens was 'Billygoat Swamp,' where local residents had good sport shooting wild ducks
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Siblings |
6 Siblings |
+ | 1. Richard John Bligh, b. 26 Feb 1819, London, Middlesex, England d. 20 Aug 1869, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (Age 50 years) ▻ Maria Isabella Fennell, m. 1847 | | 2. Frances Anne Bligh, b. 9 Sep 1820, England d. 30 Nov 1863 (Age 43 years) | + | 3. Mary Jane Bligh, b. 26 Mar 1822, England d. 1921 (Age 98 years) ▻ George Horace Nutting, m. 21 Apr 1841 | + | 4. Helen Rose Bligh, b. 3 Nov 1825, England d. 1909 (Age 83 years) ▻ Richard o' Connell, m. 18 Jan 1851 | | 5. William Russell Wilson Bligh, b. 24 Sep 1827, Longdown Farmhouse, Longdown Hill, Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, England d. 26 May 1914, Blackheath, New South Wales, Australia (Age 86 years) | | 6. Grace Jane Campbell Bligh, b. 22 Feb 1831 d. 23 Jun 1885 (Age 54 years) | + | 7. John O'connell Bligh, b. 3 Mar 1834, Buckinghamshire, England d. 12 Oct 1880, Gympie, Queensland, Australia (Age 46 years) ▻ Charlotte Elizabeth Dick, m. 29 Dec 1863 | |
Person ID |
I96577 |
Geneagraphie |
Last Modified |
11 May 2023 |
Father |
Richard Bligh, b. 1785, Cambridge, Kent, England d. 1838, England (Age 53 years) |
Mother |
Elizabeth Bligh, b. 24 Mar 1786, London, Middlesex, England d. 17 Jul 1854 (Age 68 years) |
Marriage |
29 Nov 1817 |
St. Pancras, London, Middlesex, England |
Family ID |
F38794 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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Notes |
- He arrived in Sydney on 6 December 1838 on the Fairlie aged ten, under the guardianship of his uncle, Major-General, Sir Maurice O’Connell Commander of the Forces.
William lived until his late teenage years at Sir Maurice’s mansion "Tarmons" at Potts Point.
in 1859, the New South Wales government dismissed Bligh from the office of the Clerk of Petty Sessions of the Armidale Bench, after complaints were made against him in a petition.
He later lived for 31 years at "Longdown" on Kissing Point Road, Parramatta East.
In 1902 he donated William Bligh's log books to the State Library of New South Wales along with many other family papers.
He lived at "Mascotte", on the corner of Bardwell and Belmont Roads. Mosman. In 1910, he bought a house called "Whiteleaf Cross", in Tourmaline Street, Blackheath (now Park Avenue). William had already been a part-time resident of Blackheath for many years, based at the Ivanhoe Hotel. He was a foundation member of the Civilian Rifle Club, in 1894.
He never married, and when he died in 1914 he left a considerable estate of £26,000. In his will he left £1,000 to Sydney Hospital, and the rest to the children of his brother, Richard.
His nephew, William O’Connell Bligh inherited Whiteleaf Cross and its contents.
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Sources |
- [S317] Karl Rowe Anderson, Mutiny on the HMS Bounty, (1998).
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