James Blake entered Stoneyhurst College, Clitheroe,
Lancashire on 1 June 1827 and left on 12 March 1829 following the tragic death
of his father Andrew in a coach accident in Blackrock, County Dublin. Andrew
and Mary had been returning from Liverpool to Ireland after a visit to their
two sons, James and Patrick, in Stoneyhurst.
After Andrew's death, Mary Blake [nee Galwey] married again, Robert
Joseph O'Brien. She is buried in St. Joseph's Cemetery, Cork.
James attended Trinity College in Dublin:
Blake, James, Pen. (Mr. Sheahan), Apr. 17, 1835 aged 18
s. of Andrew, defunctus, b. Waterford. B.A. Vern 1839. (Alumni Dublinenses -
Burtchaell and Sadleir 1593-1860).
He subsequently became a barrister:
Law Intelligence. Hilary Term was opened yesterday with
the usual formalities when the following gentlemen were sworn in Barristers
before the Lord Chancellor... James Stanislaus Blake, eldest son of Andrew
Blake, of Waterford in the County of Waterford. (Freeman's Journal, Tue, Jan
12, 1841)
In 1845 he married Cornelia Ronayne, daughter of Edmund Ronayne
of Cork. They lived in Ballinamona, Thomastown, County Kilkenny, and had six
children, one of whom, Isidore, died in 1866 aged 12.
James Blake died at Ballinamona, Thomastown on 11th
September 1873 and is buried in Teampaill (Thompal) Teagan graveyard in County
Kilkenny, together with his son Isidore. The inscription of his grave reads:
IN MEMORY OF
JAMES S BLAKE OF BALLINAMONA CO KILKENNY WHO DIED 11TH SEPTEMBER 1873, AGED 56
YEARS. ERECTED BY CORNELIA HIS WIFE.
Cornelia Blake [nee Ronayne] died in 1897.
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