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282:"Magni stat nominis umbra! The poor Baronet left three daughters, married in very humble life: Jane, to William Hardy; Elizabeth, to Joseph Hutchinson; and Dorothy, to Joseph Barker, all working men in the little town of Chester-le-Street. A time may yet come, perchance, when a descendant of one of these simple artizans may arise, not unworthy of the Conyers' ancient renown; and it will be a gratifying discovery to some future genealogist, when he succeeds in tracing in the quarterings of such a descendant the unsullied bearing of Conyers of Durham."
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called on him at a Durham workhouse and, distressed at his plight, offered to raise an appeal to alleviate his circumstances. Sir Thomas replied: "I am no beggar, Sir; I won't accept any such offers." His pride extended to the rejection of financial aid from his family. Although on 10 May 1800, he
173:. The son of Sir Christopher and his wife Elizabeth â the 3rd Baronet â inherited that estate in 1714. The 3rd Baronet had, however, married the Baldwin heiress whose family had an estate at Great Stoughton, Huntingdonshire. Thus, in 1675 the Baronet moved the family seat there.
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Blakison family would eventually wind its way down to Sir Thomas Blakiston Conyers, himself a descendent of King Edward IV, and the great-great-grandfather of Jane Liddle, herself the great-great-grandmother of Kate's mother, Carole Middleton
253:", that the baronet experienced "kindness" during his final years of hardship. Surtees was modestly successful in his appeal for funds and Sir Thomas, "now in his 72nd year", was moved to more comfortable accommodation in a private house on 1 March 1810.
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Blakiston's situation was considerably more comfortable, his brother, Sir Thomas, died a pauper on 15 April 1810, only months after having been rescued from the workhouse by his gentry friends.
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Blakiston Conyers, the great-great-grandson of the first Baronet Conyers, failed to sire a surviving male heir and had only three daughters : Jane, Elizabeth and Dorothy.
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