Mary Meta Blood (1884 - 1898)

Born 29 Jul 1884 in Brompton, Kent, England

Ancestors

Died 1 May 1898 at age 13 in Surbiton, Surrey, England

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Biography

Mary Meta Blood was born in 1884, in Medway, Kent, the daughter of Lieut.-Colonel Bindon Blood, Royal Engineers, and Charlotte Elizabeth Colvin.^[1][2][3]

She was baptised on 7 September 1884 at Brompton, Garrison Church. ^[4]

Miss Mary Meta "Cuckoo" Blood died at Suffolk House in Surbiton, Surrey, on the 1st May 1898, aged thirteen years.^[5][6][7]

Sources

1. ↑ Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald, 9 August 1884 (pg 4). Birth notice: “BLOOD.—On the 29th July, at Chatham, the wife of Lieut.-Colonel B. Blood, R.E., of a daughter.” Digital image online at The British Newspaper Archive, britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk (accessed by subscription, and transcribed by Alison Kilpatrick 2018-08-13).
2. ↑ Church of England. Parish of Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey. Mary Meta Blood of Suffolk House, Maple Road, Kingston; aged 13 years; buried 3rd May 1898 by W.G. Keeting[?]. Original record: Anglican Parish Registers. Woking, Surrey, England: Surrey History Centre. Digital image online at ancestry.ca (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick by subscription, 2018-08-13).
3. ↑ Index of civil registrations of births, England. Mary Meta Blood, 3rd quarter ending 30th September 1884, Medway RD (Kent), vol. 2a, pg. 579. Index and digital image online at FreeBMD, www.freebmd.org.uk (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick, 2018-08-13).
4. ↑ Baptism: "Kent Baptisms"
   FindMyPast Transcription (accessed 26 November 2021)
   Mary Meta Blood baptism on 7 Sep 1884 (born 29 Jul 1884), daughter of Bindon & Charlotte Elizabeth, in Brompton Bks, Brompton, Garrison Church, Kent, England.
5. ↑ Reynolds’s Newspaper, 8 May 1898 (pg 6). Death notice: “BLOOD.—On May Day, at Surbiton, Cuckoo Blood, aged [—], Eldest child of SIr Bindon Blood.” Also in the Sussex Agricultural Express, 6 May 1898 (pg 4): “BLOOD.—On the 1st May, at Suffolk House, Surbiton, Cuckoo, eldest child of Sir Bindon Blood, K.C.B., aged 13 years.” Digital images online at The British Newspaper Archive, britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk (accessed by subscription, and transcribed by Alison Kilpatrick 2018-08-13).
6. ↑ Index of civil registrations of deaths, England. Mary Meta Blood, aged 13 years, 2nd quarter ending 30th June 1898, Kingston RD (Surrey), vol. 2a, pg 196. Index and digital image online at FreeBMD, www.freebmd.org.uk (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick, 2018-08-13).
7. ↑ Church of England. Parish of Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey. Mary Meta Blood of Suffolk House, Maple Road, Kingston; aged 13 years; buried 3rd May 1898 by W.G. Keeting[?]. Original record: Anglican Parish Registers. Woking, Surrey, England: Surrey History Centre. Digital image online at ancestry.ca (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick by subscription, 2018-08-13).