Jane (Balsam) Bligh (1712 - abt. 1768)

Wife of Richard Pearse — married 26 Dec 1729 in St Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England

Wife of Francis Bligh — married 4 Oct 1753 in St Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England

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Biography

Jane Balsam married, firstly, Richard Pearce on 26 December 1729 at St. Andrew in Plymouth, Devon.^[1][2]

She married, secondly, Francis Bligh, son of Richard Bligh, on 4 October 1753 again at St. Andrew. ^[3]

Jane died about 1768. ^[4]

Research note

Thepeerage.com gives a daughter, Catherine for Richard and Jane but cites only an email. NO primary evidence for such a child has so far been found.

Sources

1. ↑ "Marriage Record", C. Mackinnon, Ancestry.com, St Andrew, Plymouth (26 December 1729 Richard Pearse married Jane Balsam) Viewed at Ancestry. Text only
2. ↑ "England, Devon, Parish Registers, 1538-1912," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KC9X-DSM : 4 November 2017), Richard Pearse and Jane Balson, 1729, Marriage; from "Church of England parish registers 1538-1911," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing Devon, archive reference , images provided by FamilySearch International.
3. ↑ "Marriage Record", C. Mackinnon, Ancestry.com, St Andrew, Plymouth (4 October 1753 Francis Bligh married widow, Jane Pearce nee Balsam) Viewed at Ancestry. Text only
4. ↑ Thepeerage.com: Jane Balsam Cites: Matthew H.C.G., editor, Dictionary of National Biography on CD-ROM (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1995)

• Wikipedia: William Bligh
• Stirnet, Bligh [1]
• Glynn Christian, Fragile Paradise: The discovery of Fletcher Christian, Bounty mutineer, 2nd ed. (U.S.A.: Bounty Books, 2005), page 54.