222:"He assisted, on 2 Nov. 1811, in conjunction with the Thames 32, at the gallant capture and destruction, in the harbour of Palinuro, on the coast of Calabria, of 10 gun-boats and 22 richly-laden feluccas, although defended by a strong tower, two batteries, and a land force of 700 men; contributed next, 27 June 1812, to the destruction of a French convoy and of the batteries of Languelia and Alassio, in the Gulf of Genoa; was present, on 17 Aug. in the same year, in a spirited skirmish with a powerful Neapolitan squadron in the Bay of Naples; participated, with the squadron under Capt. Hon. Geo. Heneage Lawrence Dundas, in the capture, 5 Oct. 1813, of 29 French vessels, anchored under the guns of two batteries and a tower, at Port d’Anzo; and subsequently witnessed, independently of many other services, the operations at Via Reggio and Leghorn, under Sir Josias Rowley."
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394:"On his passage thither he received the open acknowledgments of the British residents at Madeira for “his manly protection of their interests at an eventful period.” After serving most creditably for three years, during which period he also elicited the public thanks of the British merchants at Pemambuco for his active protection of themselves and their property at a time of revolt and massacre, he returned home with a freight of 400,000 dollars, and was paid off in June, 1834. His elevation to Post-rank took place 23 Jan. 1841."
416:, UK when the 1841 census was taken. He married, on 14 July 1841, Sarah Elizabeth Nayler of Redland Hall, Gloucester, the eldest daughter of the late Sir George Nayler, Garter King-at-Arms. He was listed as a director of Kollmann's Railway, Locomotive and Carriage improvement company in 1844. He died at Duke Street,
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Harriet's only daughter, Catherine Nelson Parker Toriana Blanckley, was born at Raleigh House in Plymouth on 5 May 1835. Their last child, Nelson Raleigh Matcham Blanckley, was born in 1838. Edward's wife, Harriet, died of child-bed fever in Raleigh House, Plymouth on 19 August 1838.
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Blanckley as a recipient of aid donations for a war widow, with his address as 94 Rue Royale, Versailles. His father Henry Stanyford Blanckley died in Versailles the following year, on 12 May 1828. Edward had established an address at Raleigh House, Union Road,
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Registration District, Middlsex, certified photocopy of death entry in the register for Edward Blanckley, 2 May 1845; Plymouth Registry Office, England.
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