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Mr. Blake’s great-grandfather was Andrew Blake, a gentleman of good estate in the county of Galway. By his first marriage he had two sons—Andrew, who inherited Castlegrove, and Netterville, who succeeded to another estate close to Tuam. The latter had twenty-one children, thirteen of whom were sons. The second wife of Andrew Blake was a daughter of Sir Joseph Hoare, of Annabel, county Cork, by a daughter of Sir Marcus Somerville. By this marriage he had four sons—Dominick Edward, Joseph, Samuel and William. Dominick Edward was born at Castlegrove in 1771; educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he took the degree of M.A.; presented to the livings of Kiltegan and Loughbrickland, and appointed rural dean. He married Anne Margaret, daughter of William Hume, M.P., who was shot by the rebels in 1798, and they had for issue two sons and three daughters. His death occurred in 1823, and a tablet erected to his memory in Kiltegan church records that during a period of nineteen years he was the beloved and venerated rector of that parish: “His affectionate and afflicted parishioners have erected this monument as a testimony of their deep sense of his worth and of their grief at his loss.” The elder of the sons was Rev. Dominick Edward Blake, for some time rector of Thornhill, north of Toronto, and the younger was William Hume Blake, the chancellor. William Hume, M.P., mentioned above, left two sons—William Hoare Hume, who succeeded his father in the representation of Wicklow in the Irish parliament, and after the Union sat until his death in the Imperial parliament, and Joseph Samuel Hume, who married Eliza, daughter of Rev. Charles Smyth, of Smythfield and Charles Park, county Limerick. Being a younger son he inherited only a small property in Wicklow; he died at an early age, immediately after having received a government appointment in the castle of Dublin. He left one son and three daughters, the eldest of the daughters, Catharine, becoming the wife of Chancellor Blake, and the youngest the wife of Justice George Skeffington Connor.