Person:Francis Bland (2)

From memorial inscriptions, Duddingston Churchyard, Scotland: John Bland, 12.3.1859 - 48yrs., younger son of Francis Christopher Bland of Derryquin Castle, County Kerry. From website: Lucinda Herbert b: ABT 1777 married Francis Christopher Bland, DL, JP b: ABT 1775 of Derryquin Castle, Kerry m: Mar 15, 1798. There is a pedigree resource file on the Bland family. Francis Christopher Bland, of Derryquinn Castle, was a near kinsman of Nathanial Bland. He married in 1797, Lucy third daughter of Arthur Herbert, of Brusterfield, his second wife was Barbara Ash (website). DEATH OF MRS. LUCY BLAND.-Intelligence has this day been received of the death of Mrs. Lucy Bland, relict of the late Francis Christopher Bland, Esq., of Derryquin Castle, at the advanced age of eighty-one years. Mrs. Bland, who had been very weak for some months past, died at the residence of her son-in-law, Thomas Fuller, Esq., Sneem. The deceased lady survived her sister, Mrs. Hilliard, only a few days.-Kerry Post, may1862. Burke’s Genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry, 1847: Francis Christopher Bland, of Derryquinn Castle, married Lucy, daughter of Arthur Bastable Herbert, of Brewsterfield near Killarney, by Barbara his wife, daughter of Emmanuel Hutchinson and had among others Laetitia (m. Henry Stokes CE) and Frances-Diana (m. Thomas Hartnett Fuller).

1.   Burke's Irish family records.