Person:William Blundell (10)

Called William Thomas according to info in freeBMD

Also living at Mill Place is an Anne Blundell (b. Chislehurst, abt 1827) who must have married into the family and her husband is not with her and she is a dressmaker. Living/staying with her are neice and nephews called Ellen (B. 1857), Fanny (b. 1865), Theodore (b. 1877) . All born in Chislehurst called Soper - C81

Also at Mill Place an Edwin Blundell was a Postmaster C S M (b. Abt 1843), married to Mercey Blundell (b. 1841, Bath, Somerset), Frederick (b. 1870, chislehurst son). William (b. 1872, Chislehurst son) - C81

(Research):This extract below is from http://www.glias.org.uk/news/168news.html#H

I do not know who worked the mines in Lubbock Road, but the well-known caves further south by the station were apparently worked as Blundell's lime works. These were advertised in 'Bromley Record' 1/11/1862 as established in 1800 near the caves. On 1/1/1864 W Blundell stated that he would continue the business long carried on by his late father and on 1/7/1864 advertised as Blundell's Flare and Tunnel lime works. My reason for mentioning this is that it establishes a more explicit link with the Greenwich area than the one suggested by Mary. On 1/11/1868 the advertisement read: 'Chislehurst Lime Works (late Blundell's), Bromley Hill, Chislehurst. Thomas Nichols begs to inform the Public that he has taken the above works in connection with his Lime Works at New Charlton, Woolwich. The best description of Flare and Tunnel Lime, Flints, etc.' (Several roads in this area have been renamed, but Bromley Hill was presumably the road now known as Old Hill.) Greater antiquity was claimed on 1/8/1869: 'Blundell's Chislehurst Lime Works. Chalks, Flints, Sand. Established 1706.'

1. ↑ International Genealogical Index (2)
   birth of Daugther, Alice Annie.
2. ↑ 1861 Census
   RG9/464, fol 15, p.24.
3. ↑ Death Certificate held by Graham & Sandy Goldsmith.
4. ↑ Death Certificate held by Graham & Sandy Goldsmith
   Sep Q 1883, Bromley, vol 2a, P.197, aged 66.
5. ↑ 1851 Census
   HO107/1606, fol.489, p.25.
6. ↑ 1861 Census
   RG9/464, fol.15, p.24.
7. ↑ 1871 Census
   RG10/876, fol.18, p.30.
8. ↑ 1881 Census
   RG11/857, fol.73, p.24.
9.   Graham Goldsmith.
10. ↑ Looks like Charles Blundell (son) was present at the death.
11. ↑ Chislehurst Caves are a labyrinth of dark mysterious passageways which have been hewn by hand from the chalk, deep beneath Chislehurst. There are over 20 miles of caverns and passageways, dug over a period of 8000 years. The vast complex of caves are a maze of ancient mines originally carved out in the search for flint and chalk. They are divided into three main sections, Saxon, Druid and Roman. Each section was later connected by digging joining passages.
    The presence of chalk has been important to civilisations over thousands of years, and still is to date. Mining chalk provides Lime and Flint.
    Lime is the basic for plaster and whitewash paint, flint was used for manufacturing tools by early man and later for building. The mining activity is difficult to date however the mines appear on a charter circa 1250 and also in local church records of 1737.
    The last time the mines were known to have been worked was around the 1830's when the Saxon section was used by a flintmaker and limeburner.
    The local railway made the mines more accessable in 1865, and this aided its formation as a tourist attraction. The caves also became the setting for several underground concerts in the early 1900's.
    During the 1914 World War the mines became part of Woolwich Arsenal, used as an ammunitions depot. A narrow gauge railway was installed to aid the transport through the passages. Up until the outbreak of the Second World War the mines were used by the Kent Mushroom Company.
    The war and the constant bombings over London turned the caves into a massive air raid shelter within easy reach from London and its main suburbs.
    The caves again became a major tourist attraction early this century.
    The Caves are also used as a film location and have been used by the BBC and independent film companies. Doctor Who, Insemenoid, Bliss, Neverwhere and Randall & Hopkirk (deceased) have all been filmed at the caves
12. ↑ In the 1830's, a ‘Limeburner and Flintmaker’ by the name of Soper was known to have carried out his business in the Saxon section, and this seems to have been the last time the mines were actually worked. For some time prior to the early 19th century, the British army used ‘Flinklock’ muskets, and these may well have been supplied from the mines. Local legend seems to favour the notion that the mines would have provided ideal storage for quantities of smuggled goods.
13. ↑ Marriage Cert.
14. ↑ From Alice Blundell's birth Certificate
15. ↑ as on Alice's Marriage cert.