Family:William Blatch and Marianne Sweetapple (2)

March 9, 1818 - Salisbury and Winchester Journal

On Tuesday last was married at Andover, by the Rev. Wm. Pedder, Mr.William Henry Blatch, of Farleigh, to Marianne, eldest daughter of Mr.John Sweetapple, of Charlton, near Andover.

Jun 6, 1841 - United Kingdom Census

Class: HO107; Piece 386; Book: 19; Civil Parish: Nutley; County: Hampshire; Enumeration District: 11; Folio: 2; Page: 7

January 8, 1908 - New York Times

To the Editor of the New York Times:

If the riding tests now being applied to army officers had been strictly carried out in the old country ninety years or so ago the Great Duke of Wellington would have been retired long before the battle of Waterloo. He had a notoriously bad seat in the hunting field and yet was very fond of the sport.

Once when out with the foxhounds near his Strathfieldsay estate he got a bad fall in a field on my grandfather’s farm and took refuge in our humble abode; he was covered with mud and chalk and my grandmother cleaned him up and made him comfortable. My father, aged a few months, was taken from his cradle and kissed by the Iron Duke, who tenderly replaced him in his cozy nest. Little recking [sic] of the honor done him.

Naval men may also take comfort from the experience of the hero of Trafalgar, Lord Nelson, who was always a sufferer from mal de mere after a few days on shore.

W.H. Blatch - New York, Jan 5, 1908