Towards the end of 1809 the historian Rober

As well as several connections through marriage, the Blacketts’ blood connection with

In addition to the blood link to H.M. The King (see previous section), and those shown in The Eden Line there are two links by marriage to the British monarchy

This silhouette is the only known image of Robert Surtees as an adult. (Courtesy of The Surtees Society)

Sir John Blaket, “the hero of Agincourt”, is shown in many publications, including Burke’s Landed Gentry, as being one of the Blacketts of Woodcroft and Wylam, and an ancestor of

Any visitor to St. James’s Church in Hamsterley, about 6 miles west of Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham, cannot fail to notice an imposing raised tomb in the churchyard.

Cuthbert Blackett (1840-1907), a joiner, was the illegitimate son of Elizabeth Blackett (1814-1873). In 1864 he was charged with the manslaughter of John Emmerson at Crook, Co. Durham, but was acquitted.

In 1934 Julian Otto Trevelyan, the 5xg/grandson of

Sarah Blackett, the daughter of John Erasmus Blackett, a prominent citizen of Newcastle, who was Mayor four times,  married Cuthbert Collingwood at Newcastle on 16 June 1791.

On 16 May 1811, while in Malta, Lord Byron wrote the following epitaph for Joseph Blackett (1785-1810) “late poet and shoemaker”: