Family Motto "Amo Protos"
Last Update - 13 February 2016

Blair, Male - 3rd. November 1864 - (Father Hugh Blair) - (Mother Mary Malcolm)
Blair, Ellen - 20th. September 1866 - (Father Hugh Blair) - (Mother Mary Malcolm)
Blair, Mary - 20th. October 1868 - (Father Hugh Blair) - (Mother Mary Malcolm)
Blair, William (Twin) - 4th. November 1870 - (Father Hugh Blair) - (Mother Mary Malcolm)
Blair, Jane (Twin) - 4th. November 1870 - (Father Hugh Blair) - (Mother Mary Malcolm)
Blair, Malcolm - 1st. May 1875 - (Father Hugh Blair) - (Mother Mary Malcolm)

Blair, Mary - 17th. April 1865 - {Wife to William Vance} - Mother of Mary Vance
Blair, Mary - 12th. July 1867 - {Wife to William Vance} - Mother of William Vance
Blair, Mary - 8th. October 1871 - {Wife to William Vance} - Mother of Female Vance

Blair, Agnes - 21st. May 1865 - Mother of a Male child.

Blair, Robert - 30th. October 1867 - (Father Hugh Blair) - (Mother Agnes Jamison)
Blair, Mary Anne - 2nd. February 1870 - (Father Hugh Blair) - (Mother Agnes Jamison)
Blair, Margaret - 13th. July 1871 - @ Greyabbey
Blair, Hugh - 6th. December 1875 - (Father Hugh Blair) - (Mother Agnes Jamison) - @ Newtownards
Blair, Agnes - 20th. October 1877 - (Father Hugh Blair) - (Mother Agnes Jamison)
Suspect family is from Greyabbey

Blair, Jane - 22nd. September 1874 - Mother of Agnes

Blair, James - 1784 - A Gentleman

Erected by Hugh Blair
Blair, Jane - 8th. October 1837 aged 3 - Daughter of above Hugh

McBlair, Hamilton - 20th. October 1843 aged 60 - At Thompsons Cross Roads, Perry County, Pennsylvania USA

Blair, Ellen - 31st. January 1859 - A spinster of Church Street
22nd. May 1876 - Letters of Administration of the personal estate of Ellen Blair late of Church-street Newtownards Co.Down Spinster deceased who died 31 January 1859 at same place were granted at Belfast to Hugh Blair of Newtownards Stonemason the Nephew of said deceased. - Effects under £20

Blair, Hugh - 21st. July 1875 - Of Church Street
17th. September 1875 - Letters of Administration of the personal estate of Hugh Blair late of Church-street Newtownards Co.Down Pensioner a Widower deceased who died 21 July 1875 at same place were granted at Belfast to Hugh Blair of Church Street Newtownards Stone Mason a Son of said deceased. - Effects under £100

Blair, Margaret C. - 20th. August 1938

Blair, Sarah MacDonald - 24th. September 1951 aged 90 - {b.1/6/1861} - Daughter of Alexander MacDonald and Janet Malcolm and wife to Hugh Blair - Died McLeese Lake, British Columbia, Canada

Blair, Isabella - 2nd. January 1851 - (Father James Blair) - Married James McCutchen

Blair, Agnes - 13th. November 1852 aged 18 years - (Father John Blair) - Married Robert Long

Blair, Catherine - 29th. March 1855 - (Father Matthew Blair) - John Huston~Houston

Blair, Hugh - 11th. February 1860 aged 21 years - (Father James Blair) - Married Agnes Jamison - All children regd. Greyabbey

Blair, James of Ballycullen - 18th. June 1860 aged 24 years - (Father James Blair) - Married Margaret Corbit - Moved to Scotland c1861

Blair, Hugh - 2nd. November 1861 - Married Mary Malcolm - {Father James Malcolm}

Blair, Anna - 17th. October 1898 - Married William McAlister

Blair, John of N'Ards a Cpl. 17282 18th. Btn. R.I.R. - 26th. December 1917 - {Father James Blair a farmer} - Married Elizabeth McNeilly - {Father Alexander McNeilly a soldier}
Witnessed by Robert McDonald and Eva McNeilly

Blair, William M. - 24th.October 1760 - Was sworn in as a Grand Juror for the town by Hugh Boyd the Provost

5th. November 1771 - ADVERTISEMENT
THAT WILLIAM BLAIR, Parish of Dundonald, Townland of Bellyrussell, and County of Down, doth intend, by publick Auction, to sell his Household Furniture, consisting of almost every necessary Article, with all Farming Utensils, both very good; a Mare with a Foal of this Year; Cows and Heifers; several Stacks of Corn, a Stack of Hay, and some Turf.---He also will sell his Interest of the Farm, containing 21 Acres, Cunningham Measure, at 13s per Acre.  Tithe and Duties free, has Moss and Meadow, some of it very lately limed; within one Mile and a half of Cumber, three of Newtown, and five of Belfast; there are 26 Years of the Lease to come from the first Instant.  The Cant to begin on Wednesday the ?? of this Month, and continue till all are sold.  Three Months Credit on Security, for every Sum above 10s.

6th. December 1771
DROPT off a Car, on Wednesday the 13^th of November last, on the Road from Belfast to Newtown-Ards, a Sack containing one quarter of a Hide of Ben Leather, one half and one quarter ditto of Neat Leather, and two Veal Skins; William Dalzell is written on several Pieces of the Leather.  Any Person who has found the above shall have a Crown Reward on delivering it to MR. WILLIAM BLAIR, Newton-Ards; Mr. David Smith, Dundonnald; or the Printers hereof.  Dated 5^th December, 1771.
N. B.  As the poor Man who drops the above will have to pay for it, it is hoped that if the above leather be offered for Sale it may be stopped, and the Person who stops it shall be entitled to the above Reward. 

1774 - A MURDER
WHEREAS Mr. Hugh Wallace Laird, Surgeon and Apothecary in Newton-Ards, died on Thursday Evening last.
   As there is clear Evidence to convince every impartial Mind, that his Death was occasioned by the cruel and inhuman Usage he received from William Blair, on Monday last in said Town, between two and three o’Clock in the Afternoon;  Which Conviction is further supported by the Inquest of a Coroner’s Jury, who brought in their Verdict Wilful Murder.
    We, therefore, the principal Inhabitants of the Town and Parish of Newtown-Ards, deeply affected with the heinous Nature of this Crime, and to express the Sense of the Loss we sustain by the Death of so useful a Member of Society, as well as to prevent such violent Attacks on the Lives and Liberties of Mankind, do promise to pay the several Sums annexed to our Names to any Person or Persons, who will in the Space of six Calendar Months apprehend and prosecute to Conviction the said William Blair
    William Blair is about 5 Feet 6 Inches high, of a strong robust Make, of a swarthy Complexion, a Countenance expressive of Sullenness and Ill Nature, wants one of his fore Teeth in his under Jaw, about 22 Years of Age; wore when he made his Escape his own Hair, which is light brown; by Trade a Baker.   It is suspected he is now sculking about Carrickfergus or Larne; and it is hoped that Masters of Vessels going out of this Kingdom will be particularly careful not to carry such and atrocious Murderer with them.   Newtown-Ards, July 30^th, 1774.

Blair, Hugh J.D. - 8th. February 1862 - Member of Regent Street Freemasons Lodge

Blair, Hugh - 1863 - Of Church Street - Leased a house, yard and small garden from John Morrison
Blair, Hugh - 1863 - Of Church Street - Leased Half an acre in Half Acres Lane from the Marquis of Londonderry
Blair, Hugh Jnr. - Of Church Street - 1863 - Leased a house, yard and small garden from Hugh Blair Senior of Church Street

Blair, James 1863 - Of Greengraves - Leased a house and small garden from John McKittrick

1901 Census - Residents of a house 6 in Church Street (Newtownards Urban, Down)

1901 Census - Residents of a house 22 in East Street (Newtownards Urban, Down)

1901 Census - Residents of a house 64 in (Great) Francis Street (Newtownards Urban, Down)

1901 Census - Residents of a house 88 in Movilla Street (Newtownards Urban, Down)

1911 Census - Residents of a house 53 in Church Street (Newtownards Urban, Down)

1911 Census - Residents of a house 34 in Greenwell Street (Newtownards Urban, Down)

1914 Bella leased #40 Greenwell Street ..

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