▶Date of birth:   13 April 1794       Place of birth: London

▶Father:   Joseph Nailer    Mother:  Ann Roberts

▶Spouse(s):   Henry Blunt      Date(s) of marriage:  21 December 1820         Place(s) of marriage:  Chelsea

▶Occupation: -

▶Lifestory: Julia Anne Nailer moved with her husband, the Revd. Henry Blunt, through several Anglican parishes, living in Suffolk, Pittville, and London. She was born in London in 1794, one of the younger daughters of merchant Joseph Nailer Esq., of Smith Street, Chelsea, and his wife Ann (née Roberts). In 1820 she married the Evangelical clergyman the Revd. Henry Blunt MA (1794-1843), Vicar of Clare in Suffolk. In 1826 he had declined the Revd. Francis Close’s invitation to succeed him at Holy Trinity Church, Pittville, and his relationship with Close may help to explain why his widow later settled in Cheltenham.

The family moved with the Revd. Blunt to Chelsea in 1832, when he became Rector of Holy Trinity, Upper Chelsea. Here he established himself as a very popular Evangelical preacher; he published several books (including his Family exposition of the Pentateuch in three volumes 1841-4, as well as many lectures and sermons), became an early supporter of The Record newspaper (now the Church of England Newspaper), and wrote against the Anglo-Catholic Tracts for the Times. He retired in 1835 through ill health and became Rector of Stratham in Surrey from 1835 until his death in 1843. She lived with her daughter Julia Sophia at 2 Wellington Square East (now Park House, Wellington Square), Pittville from 1846 until 1861.

By 1871 she lived with her daughter Julia Sophia at 2 Onslow Square in Kensington, but after 1881 moved to 4 Carlyle Square in Chelsea, where she died, aged eighty-nine, in 1883; she was buried at Brompton cemetery. Her estate at death was valued at just under £14,400.

▶Moved to Pittville from:  Stratham, Surrey       Moved from Pittville to: Kensington, London

▶Date of death:   17 August 1883        Place of death:  4 Carlyle Square, London

▶Date of burial:  22 August 1883       Place of burial:  Brompton cemetery

▶Notes:  See ODNB for Henry Blunt, and Alan Munden’s entry on him in Donald Lewis (ed.), The Blackwell Dictionary of Evangelical Biography 1730-1860 (1995).         ID:  6037