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Gamebryo engine family tree11/4/2022 Blennerhassett, licensed to sell an early document copying system "The Electric Pen" devised by prolific inventor Thomas Alva Edison, was in his leisure time pitcher for the first Baseball club at Port Huron, Michigan. William Ledman Blennerhassett was locomotive engineer with the infant Canadian Pacific Railway when, in 1885, he drove the first steam engine to cross the final bridge built to complete the C.P.R. and thus unite Canada east to west by rail - a locomotive was later named for him " William Blennerhassett". "Great Britain", the first large ship constructed of iron and using a screw propeller. Some mined lead in Cornwall, while others sought their fortune in the gold rushes of California and Australia. During the 19th century they sailed from Liverpool, Queenstown or Blennerville to become pioneer settlers and farmers in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States of America. James Blennerhassett steamed to a new life farming in Australia on board Brunel's S.S. From that time the Blennerhassetts have remained a prominent and well respected family in both Kerry and Limerick. Robert settled initially at Ballycarty (its ruins providing a site for subsequent generations of Ballycarty House) and later at Ballyseedy, where three generations of Ballyseedy ruins survive at the west end of Ballyseedy Wood, the wood now a public park for the people of Tralee. Ballycarty & Ballyseedy each contained an ancient Geraldine fort that could be made habitable and could be defended. It was from this earlier Denny grant of lands that Thomas Blennerhassett was granted Ballyseedy, Ballycarty, Ballymacelligott and adjoining lands to the west of Tralee, that grant conditional on Thomas and his heirs render ing one red roseannually at the festival of Saint John the Baptist and paying a rent of six pounds sterling (£6) per year. This grant of lands to Thomas Blennerhassett was made by Sir Edward Denny, of Dennyvale & Tralee, one of the original Munster planters who in 1587 had been granted 6,000 acres including the town and the Earl's chief castle of Tralee. Subsequently the family left the manor of Blenerhayset for the nearby City of Carlisle, where in the 1350s is found Alan de Blenerhayset, a merchant active in local politics who later, in 1390, sealed a deed with the arms still borne by the family, using the seal illustrated here. In the twelfth century one of them adopted or was given the name of the manor as a personal surname, he and his descendants being described as " de Blenerhayset" (i.e. Carrying no surname and owning no property, the family will no doubt have worked the land or otherwise served their Lord of the Manor. The origin of what is now essentially an Irish surname may be found in the ancient Manor of Blenerhayset and the modern village of Blenerhayset (now Blennerhasset, with single 't') in the northern English county of Cumberland (now a part of the recently created county of Cumbria), close to the border with lowland Scotland. Pronuncation of the place-name has been Blen'hayset, Blen'hassett, Blen'rassett or simply 'Rassett. Pattern for Naming of Children in Ireland.William Lewis Blennerhassett, "Stockbroker and Spy".
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