Fred was the first born of twelve children born to Frederick Richard Blenkarn and Mary Ann Fanny Ingram. He had nine brothers and 2 sister.

History: This is the Fred that Lilian Blenkarn Burt speaks of when writing to her brother Osborn, he was a cousin to Lilian and Osborn. Fred's sister-in-law, Florence Blenkarn, wife of Edgar Russell wrote: "Fred went out to Argentina about 1890, living in LaPlata first and then Buenos Aires, an accountant fora firm there. He was home for a holiday around 1910 or 1911, but went back. Later he seemed to have disappeared, but was found by friends there, in a mental hospital, in a rather piteous condition. The friends wrote to his people in England, and Bea went out to take him home. She could see that he had been put in the hospital by folks who intended to profit by his illness. It wasn't mental, really, he had suffered sunstroke and had been in a dazed condition, when some 'supposed' friends had him put in the institution. They figured he had money, and meant to get some of it. His real friend, also known to the folks in England, after finding Fred in this place wrote to Burt in England, and Beatrice went out to bring him back. It took her about 3 months to persuade the authorities to let him go. She then had to pay passage for a male attendant in order to book passage for her brother. It took Fred some time to recover from the treatment he had received. Eventually he was at work again in the office of Ingram, Perkins and Co. in London, a lumber firm started by Mother Blenkarn's father, Abraham Ardley, and brother Ingram. Here he worked as an accountant until a year or two before his death. Fred never married."

Source: "Blenkarn Tapestry" by Dorothy L. Taylor pg 279