BLACKMORE, Thomas (1600-72), of Liverpool, Lancs.

Family and Education

bap. 6 May 1600, 1st s. of William Blackmore of Kirkdale, Walton on the Hill, Lancs. and Elizabeth (bur. 15 Aug. 1617).Walton-on-the-Hill ed. A. Smith (Lancs. Par. Reg. Soc. v), 11, 108. m. lic. 13 Feb. 1629, Catherine (bur. 25 Apr. 1698), da. of one Bicksteth of Liverpool, at least 1s.Archdeaconry of Chester Mar. Lics. ed. W.F. Irvine (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. lvii), 149; Liverpool ed. H. Peet (Lancashire Par. Reg. Soc. xxxv), 193, 314. bur. 21 Nov. 1672 21 Nov. 1672.Liverpool ed. Peet, 30.

Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Liverpool c. 1629 – d.; bailiff, 18 Oct. 1635 – 18 Oct. 1636; common cllr. Oct. 1636 – 10 Nov. 1662; merchant appraiser, 13 Jan. – 18 Oct. 1645; mayor, 18 Oct. 1645 – 18 Oct. 1646, 19 Oct. 1657 – 18 Oct. 1658; alderman by Apr. 1650 – 10 Nov. 1662; coroner, 1659.Chandler, Liverpool, 152, 190, 225, 327, 328, 341; Liverpool Town Bks. 1649–71 ed. M. Power (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. cxxxvi), 14, 99, 117, 146, 253.

: of Liverpool, Lancs.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

BLACKMORE, Thomas (1600-72), of Liverpool, Lancs.

Will

not found.

Estates

in 1642, acquired lease of a messuage in Liverpool, with ‘2 lands in Liverpool Field’.Lancs. RO, DDBL/23/17. By 1644, owned a merchantman, Gift of Liverpool, of 35-6 tons, which was seized by Prince Rupert in June and captured by a parliamentarian privateer in October and returned to Blackmore.Cal. of Material Rel. to Ireland and the High Ct. of Admiralty 1641-60 ed. E. Murphy (Dublin, 2011), 128, 129, 130, 160. In 1664, owned a house of 3 hearths in Liverpool.E179/250/11, pt. 5.

Oxford 1644

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