Rev Robert BLUNT ¹

  Notes:

Robert was probably baptised in St Nicholas Newcastle upon Tyne in 1625 as the son of Robert Blunt (the date and place fits). He was educated at Trinity College Cambridge, and appointed vicar of Kirkharle in Northumberland. He was ejected on the grounds of non-conformity in 1662, and subseqently set up a Presbyterian congregation at Great Bavington, 3km to the SW of Kirkharle. He continued to be persecuted by the authorities, but preached in private houses, mostly without a license, and finally settled in Horsley where he preached until his late 80s.

It is likely that he had at least three chldren: Mary (qv); Robert, a lawyer of Cliffords Inn in London who retired to Walthamstow in Essex, and was a widower when he died in 1735; and another son with two married daughters Ruhamah and Ann.

Additional sources:
Edmund Calamy. The Nonconformists Memorial, 2nd ed 1803 Vol 3 p75. London: Button and Son
https://www.nationalchurchestrust.org/church/great-bavington-urc-great-bavington

Robert married Elizabeth. (Elizabeth died in Horsley, Northumberland ⁵ and was buried on 26 Apr 1710 in St Mary the Virgin, Ovingham, Northumberland ⁶.)