n 1696 William Blackett (b. 1660/61, the son of William), a yeoman of Riding Barns, married Ann (Hearyington) Errington in Whickham, near Gateshead, Co. Durham. The family maintained their connections with the Whickham area over several generations, as did that of William’s brother John. For a descendancy chart of William Blackett, the father of William Blackett who married Ann Errington, please click here.
Robert Collingwood Blackett (1807-1878) was born in London, the son of Peter Blackett and Mary. Mary Ruming, a spinster, had married Peter Blackett in 1804, but according to family legend she was, in fact, the daughter of Lady Elizabeth Russell. A shipwright by trade, Robert Collingwood Blackett was an accomplished violinist and artist. He was an early convert to the Church of the Latter Day Saints, and with his family emigrated to the USA in 1856, finally settling in Utah.
Around the end of the 17th/beginning of the 18th centuries a number of Blackett families begin to appear in Stockton-on-Tees parish records.
Roger Blackett and his wife Elinor had two children baptized there on 31 Aug 1688.
Isaac Blackett was born about 1590 and died 4 May 1642 in Tynemouth, Northumberland. His burial record states that he was of Chirton, Northumberland, but the only baptismal record of an Isaac Blackett around that time that we have found is that of Isaac baptised 25 July 1598 in Pittington, Co. Durham. Although this tree can now be connected to the main Blackett tree through the marriage of a descendant, no other connection has been found between Isaac of Chirton and Pittington around this period.
n 1663 John Blackett, the son of Nicholas, was baptised at Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland. He married Jane Cunningham in Bamburgh, in 1687 and settled in Beadnell, a coastal village a few miles to the south, where at least eight of their children were born.
This important line has now (August 2013) been linked to the Main Blackett Tree and it is reasonably certain that Joseph Blackett was a son of Cuthbert Blackett (1703-1778) and Alice Parmeley of Hamsterley. This would normally result in this page being removed, but in view of length of time it has taken to establish the link and the number of lines of descent involved, including Blacketts in East Anglia, Australia and New Zealand, we have decided to leave it in place and include an outline of how we have reached our conclusions.
In 1787 John Blackett married Mary Hutchinson in Ponteland, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland. At least five of their children were baptised there. Most of their descendants remained in the Newcastle area but their grandson John Blackett, a shoemaker, moved to the USA. John’s daughter Ann married Peter Ditchburn Sherwin in 1871/2 and many of their descendants were born in Pennsylvania.
In 1703 John Blackett married Dorothy Applegarth in Richmond, Yorkshire. Four of their children were born in the village of Kirkby Ravensworth, a few miles to the north of Richmond.
John may have been born in Gayles, near Kirkby Ravensworth, in 1676, the son of Richard Blackett, who may himself have been the son of Robert Blackett, who died in Gayles, Kirkby Ravensworth, Yorks. in 1630.
In 1804 George Blackett, (1771-1833), a sailor, married Jessie or Jane Robertson in Edinburgh, Scotland. This George appears to be the son of George and Margaret Blackett of Gateshead. In 1841 Jessie Blackett, by then a widow, was living in North Shields with her children and grandchildren, including Thomas Blackett, aged 11 months, possibly the illegitimate son of her daughter Jessie.Thomas married Christen Atchison (1840/41-1902) in 1862 and their family remained in North Shields before moving to Yorkshire and finally to West Hartlepool.
In 1802 Peter Blackett (1776-1845), a bricklayer, and Mary Basham (1775-1862), were married in Sculthorpe, a village a few miles inland from the north Norfolk coast. Branches of this family remained in Sculthorpe and the neighbouring villages of Burnham Thorpe, Syderstone and East Rudham for several generations, though some branches moved to the London area, and one branch of these settled in Chobham, Surrey.
