Birth Name: James Hillier Blount
Place of Birth: Tidworth, Wiltshire, England
Date of Birth: February 22, 1974
Ethnicity: English, remote Welsh and Scottish
James Blunt is an English singer, songwriter, and musician. He is the son of Jane A. F. (Amos) and Charles Blount, a colonel in the Army Air Corps.
James’ ancestry is mostly English. Two of his ancestors was born in Wales, John Hanbury, born 1700 in Llanvihangel-Ystern-Llewern, Monmouthshire, Wales, and Sampson Lloyd, born 1664 in Dolobran, Wales. One of his ancestors, David Barclay, was Scottish, born 1682 in Urie, Kincardineshire, Scotland. James is descended from John and Sampson two times each and from David four times.
James’ paternal grandparents were Hubert Blount (the son of Greville Hubert Robins Blount and Gladys Isabel Wilson) and Marion Emily Helen “Polly” Barclay (the daughter of Francis Hubert Barclay and Hannah Maud Buxton). Hubert was born in India, to English parents.
James’ maternal grandparents’ surnames were “Amos” and “Wallace”. “Amos” is often Jewish, but can also be English. The surname “Wallace” can be Scottish.
Sources: Genealogy of James Blunt (focusing on his father’s side) – https://www.geni.com
Birth certificate of James’ mother, Jane Amos – https://familysearch.org
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