Valentine O'Connor Blake , of Towerhill, co Mayo. The Tuam Herald, March 6, 1909: Thomas Joseph Blake, B L, fifth son of Valentine O'Conor Blake, of Towerhill, Co Mayo, is a member of the Connaught Bar. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and B. A. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1873 and is a member of the Dublin Chamber of Commerce. Charles Joseph Blake, J P for Queen's Co and Co Galway, who was born in 1840, is the second son of Valentine O'Connor Blake, of Towerhill, and was educated at Stonyhurst College and at Trinity Collage and B A in 1860. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1862 but never practised, and was High Sheriff for Queen's Co in 1895. He refused to stand in the Nationalist interest for Mayo in 1880 and would have been elected. He is a member of the Jockey Club and a great authority on racing, having bred some of the best race horses in Ireland. Connaught Journal; Galway, Ireland; 20 Feb 1840 TO BE SOLD. The Interest in the Lease (consisting of Two good Lives,) of the Lands of Caheravoneen, containing upwards of Six Hundred Acres, situate in the County of Galway, within two miles of the Town of Kinvarra, a fast improving Sea Port Town in which there is held a Weekly Market for the sale and exportation of grain of every description, potatoes, &c., &c.-and within five miles of Gort, also a good Market Town. Those Lands are not held by good and solvent Yearly Tenants at a very low rent per annum, their rents not having been raised on the expiration of their leases, and yield even at the prestn low rent a profit rent of One Hundred and Ten Pounds per annum. For further particulars only, (if by letter post paid), to Maurice BLAKE, Esq., Ball***ad, Ballyglass, and to Anthony BLAKE, Esq., Sr. G/Orane, Galway, or Cloghmore, Kinvarra, who will show the lands. Feb. 18th, 1840 TO BE LET >From the 1st Day of May Next. For such number of Years or lives, and terms as may be agreed on. The several denominations of the lands of BENMORE, Situate within three miles of Loughrea, in the County of Galway, Those Lands are so well and generally known, that they need no comment, they contain choice Meadow, Pasture, and Tillage Land; and are admirably calculated for Farmers of every description; ......[can't read a line] Proposals to be received addressed to Valentine O'CONNOR BLAKE, Esq., Tower Rd., Ballyglass, and Joseph BLAKE, Esq., St. Orans, Galway. Galway, February 17th, 1840 ----------- Tuam Herald, Saturday, March 13, 1909 Tuam, Co Galway Pithy Pars, - Personal Parochial Provincial and Particular Captain Valentine Joseph Blake, J P for Co Roscommon and Mayo, was born in 1840, and is the third son of the late Valentine O'Connor Blake, Esq., D L of Towerhill, Co Mayo. We was educated at Stonyhurst, and married in 1880 the Hon Mary Josephine ffrench, only daughter of Lord de Freyne. He was efficient and popular Secretary of the Mayo Grand Jury for many years. He now resides in Dublin. Colonel Maurice Blake, C. B., of Towerhill, Co Mayo, was born in 1837. He is the eldest son of Valentine O'Conor Blake, Esq, D.L., by Margaret, daughter of Lord ffrench. He was educated at Stonyhurst, and was Lieutenant commanding the 6th Battalion of the Connaught Rangers from 1885 to 1897, when he retired, getting a Companionship of the Bath. He is J P for Galway and Mayo, and D. J. for Mayo, where he was High Sheriff in 1864. He married Jeannette daughter of Surgeon Pearce O'Reilly, of Sans Souci, Co Dublin. Martin Joseph Blake, B.L., whose name is so familiar to the readers of the Herald, and the Journal of the Galway Society of Antiquaries, is a well known writer and archaeologist. He also is Editor of a legal publication in London, and is Revising Barrister for one of the London divisions. He is the sixth son of the late Valentine O'Conor Blake, Esq, D.L., of Towerhill, Co Mayo. He was educated at Downside and Trinity College, Dublin, of which he is a B.A. He compiled the "Blake Family Records," a monumental work of deep industry and research and an authoritative work on the Blake Family. He is an authority on Irish family pedigrees, particularly those connected with Galway and Mayo.
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