Talk:Edward Barrington de Fonblanque

Mother?
Who was the mother(s) of all those children and why is she not mentioned where you might expect to find her named? Eddaido (talk) 02:49, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

It currently says he was of Irish-Huguenot descent. He had a Scots mother and his father was of English and Huguenot (to explain the name) and Irish Protestant Ascendancy (i.e. English) stock. So I have amended it to "of British and Huguenot stock".

I made a mistake there, muddled him with his descendant of the same name: Edward Barrington de Fonblanque (British Army officer). On the historian's paternal side he is English except for an Irish great-grandfather, John Anster Fitzgerald, and a Huguenot great-grandfather, Jean de Grenier Fonblanque, who had an English wife. Father is therefore a quarter English, an eighth Huguenot, an eighth Irish. His mother, Jane Catherine Barrington, was of English descended Irish Protestant stock.

So 'of Irish and English and Huguenot stock'? Eddaido (talk) 00:43, 25 November 2016 (UTC)

Date of birth
The date of this man's birth has been changed with an air of finality. Does the record of the baptism provide a "date of birth"? The information that I provided, born Calais 20 January 1820, is from my own records and collected maybe around 2005. I was researching another British family born about the same period in Normandy and I think I found Fonblanque's birth date (he is now distant kin to me) in a return/list of the children of British subjects born outside Britain. I cannot find it now. I do note that discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk does reveal his father wrote from Calais to the Foreign Office on: 16 June 1818, 10 January 1820, 16 January 1820, 19 January 1820, 28 March 1820, 8 June 1820, 12 June 1820, 10 August 1820, 12 August 1820, 13 August1820, 12 September 1820. . .  You might say it is almost as if he lived there. I know how important it is to have a good citation, well, I cannot now provide it. I expect it is somewhere behind a paywall but it is on record. Eddaido (talk) 10:35, 30 September 2018 (UTC)