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THE ANCESTRY OF TONY BLAIR
1 Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
b 6
May 1953, Edinburgh
2 Leo Charles Lynton Blair, formerly Parsons, barrister
b 4
Aug 1923, Filey, Yorkshire
d 16 Nov 2012
m 29
Nov 1948, Barony Church, Glasgow
3 Hazel Elizabeth Rosaleen Corscaden
b 12
Jun 1923, Ballyshannon, co. Donegal
d 28
Jun 1975, Durham
4 Charles Parsons, alias Jimmy Lynton, of Ealing, Middlesex,
actor
b 16
Jul 1887, Stockwell, Surrey
d 19
Jan 1970, Ealing
m 2
Jun 1927, Southwark register office, London
5 Mary Augusta Ridgway Bridson, alias Celia Ridgway, actress
b 26
Aug 1886, Hidcote Bartrim, Gloucestershire
d 9
Dec 1969, Isleworth, Middlesex
6 George Corscaden
of Glasgow, butcher
b 5
May 1877, Kilbarron, co. Donegal
d 21 Jan 1924, Glasgow
m 8 Oct 1918, Glasgow
7 Sarah Margaret Lipsett
b 17 Sep 1895, Ballyshannon
d 1
Oct 1978, Strathaven, Lanarkshire
8 Tom Parsons of Stockwell, clerk
b 5
Jun 1852, Kensal Town, Middlesex
d 17
May 1932, Southampton
m 25 Nov 1876, Battersea, Surrey
9 Mary Ann Wright
b
12 Feb 1854, Westminster
d 18
Jun 1932, Southampton
10 Augustus
William Bridson of Besford Court, Worcestershire,
army officer
b 12
Nov 1849, Haulgh, Lancashire
d 7
Jan 1933, Herne Bay, Kent
m 9
Sep 1885, Edinburgh
11 Maria
Emily Montford
b 7
Aug 1864, Douglas, Isle of Man
d 25
Jul 1944, Torquay, Devon
12 Thomas Corscaden of Carricknahorna,
co. Donegal, farmer
b ca
1826, co. Donegal
d
17 Jun 1913, Carricknahorna
m 7 Jan 1858, Ballyshannon
13 Martha
Johnston
b ca 1837, co. Donegal
d 7
Mar 1919, Kilbarron
14 James
Lipsett of Ballyshannon, grocer
b 26
Jan 1847, co. Donegal
d
29 Apr 1905, Ballyshannon
m 26
May 1892, Kilbarron
15 Mary
Patterson
b 15 Apr 1869, Carricknahorna
d
24 Oct 1948, Belfast
16 Mark
Parsons of Lambeth, railway plate layer
b ca
1822, Moulsford, Berkshire
d 6
Jul 1891, Lambeth
m 25
Oct 1847, Acton, Middlesex
17 Jemima
Soper
b Kintbury, bap
22 Jul 1827, Kintbury
d
29 Aug 1870, Lambeth
18 William
Wright of Westminster and Lambeth, sawyer
bap 22
Nov 1818, Clewer, Berkshire
d
25 Feb 1879, Battersea
m 6
Oct 1845, Deptford
19 Sophia
Archer
b 16 Feb 1823, Greenwich, Kent
d 6
Jan 1893, Kennington, London
20 Thomas
Ridgway Bridson of Bridge House, Bolton, Lancashire, and Rock End, Torquay
b Horwich, Lancashire, bap 6 Apr 1823,
Horwich
d
29 May 1904, Torquay
m 10 Feb 1848, Urswick,
Lancashire
21 Mary Smith
b Urswick, bap 16 Jan 1827, Urswick
d
20 Apr 1856, Torquay
22 Henry
Montford of Douglas, physician
b ca
1816, Ireland
d 8
Feb 1882, Braddan, Isle of Man
m 19 Oct 1863, Glasgow
23 Margaret
Charlotte Flint
b 16
Aug 1841, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
d 9 Sep 1891, Droitwich, Worcestershire
24 James Corscaden,
farmer
b
d
m
25
b
d
26 Thomas
Johnston of Tober,
co. Donegal, farmer
b ca
1799
d 6
Nov 1881, Tober
m
27
b
d
28 Robert
Lipsett of Ballyshannon,
grocer
b ca
1811
d 3
Sep 1881, Ballyshannon
m 7
Mar 1844, Kilbarron
29 Margaret Lipsett
b ca
1827
d 1
Apr 1892, Ballyshannon
30 William
Patterson of Carricknahorna,
farmer
b ca
1836
d 6
Jan 1879, Carricknahorna
m 6
Jan 1859, Ballyshannon
31 Sarah Matthews
b ca
1837
d
17 Dec 1886, Carricknahorna
Sources
Edward J. Davies, “A Descent of Tony Blair from
James V, King of Scots”, The Genealogist,
22(2008):247-55
John Rentoul, Tony Blair: Prime Minister (London,
2001)
Statutory registers: death record of George Corscaden
Statutory registers: marriage record of George Corscaden and [Sarah] Margaret Lipsett
Ashworth Peter Burke, Family Records (London, 1897)
Birth certificate of Charles Parsons
Marriage certificate of Tom Parsons and Mary Ann
Wright
Marriage certificate of Thomas Ridgway Bridson and
Mary Smith
1891 census returns, Lambeth (National Archives, RG
12/406, fol. 24)
1871 census returns, Lambeth (National Archives, RG
10/673, fol. 13)
1871 census returns, Lambeth (National Archives, RG
10/674, fol. 73)
1851 census returns, Westminster (National Archives,
HO 107/1479, fol. 738)
1851 census returns, Upton cum Chalvey
(National Archives, HO 107/1718, fol. 317)
1901 census returns, Ballyshannon
(online at www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search)
1911 census returns, Ballyshannon
(online at www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search)
1911 census returns, Portswood
(National Archives, RG 14/6054)
Birth certificate of Tom Parsons
Death certificate of Sophia (Archer) Wright
Death certificate of Mark Parsons
Death certificate of Jemima (Soper) Parsons
Death certificate of Sarah Margaret (Lipsett) (Corscaden) McLay
Death certificate of Mary (Smith) Bridson
Birth certificate of Mary Ann Wright
Death certificate of William Wright
Death certificate of Tom Parsons
Death certificate of Mary Ann (Wright) Parsons
Death certificate of Thomas Ridgway Bridson
Acton parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)
St John the Evangelist, Westminster, parish
registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk)
Deptford parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)
Greenwich parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)
1851 census returns, Tonge with Haulgh
(National Archives, HO 107/2208, fol. 33)
1861 census returns, Great Bolton (National
Archives, RG 9/2832, fol. 66)
Horwich chapel registers
Urswick parish registers
The
Times, 31 May 1904
Belfast News-Letter,
26 Oct 1948
The
Guardian, 17 Nov 2012
Birth record of George Corscaden
(online at https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie)
Birth record of Sarah Margaret Lipsett (online at https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie)
Death record of Martha (Johnston) Corscaden (online at https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie)
Death record of James Lipsett (online at https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie)
Donegal Cemetery Records (online at www.findmypast.co.uk)
Irish probate calendars (www.willcalendars.nationalarchives.ie/reels/cwa/005014910/005014910_00388.pdf)
Will of Robert Lipsett (https://apps.proni.gov.uk/WillsCalendar_IE/WillsFindImage.aspx?id=000195835&imageType=Png)
Death record of Thomas Corscaden
(https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1913/05327/4482590.pdf)
Death record of Thomas Johnston (https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1881/06422/4844655.pdf)
Death record of Robert Lipsett (https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1881/06430/4847337.pdf)
Death record of Margaret Lipsett (https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1892/06036/4718911.pdf)
Birth record of Mary Patterson (https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1869/03384/2240575.pdf)
Death record of William Patterson (https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1879/06527/4880707.pdf)
Death record for Sarah Patterson (https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1887/06224/4780946.pdf)
Marriage record of James Lipsett and Mary Patterson
(https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1892/10633/5873871.pdf)
Marriage record of Thomas Corscaden
and Martha Johnston (https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1858/09543/5459784.pdf)
Marriage record of William Patterson and Sarah
Matthews (https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1859/09563/5467278.pdf)
Berkshire Baptisms Index (online at www.findmypast.co.uk)
Kilbarron
parish register baptism abstracts
Kilbarron
parish register marriage abstracts