Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Blackmore was born in 1804, in Parracombe, Devon, England, United Kingdom, her father, Richard Blackmore, was 38 and her mother, Elizabeth Lock, was 36. She married Henry Smyth about 1824, in Devon, England, United Kingdom. She died on 20 February 1856, in her hometown, at the age of 52.
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- Mary Blackmore, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Mary Blackmore, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
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1808 · The British West Africa Squadron
The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1823
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
Name Meaning
habitational name from any of various places so named with Old English blæc ‘black, dark’ + mōr ‘moor, marsh’ or mere ‘lake’. Mōr is the second element of places called Blackmore in Essex, Wiltshire, and Worcestershire, as well as Blackmoor in Dorset; mere, on the other hand, is the second element of Blackmore in Hertfordshire and Blackmoor in Hampshire, the early forms of which are Blachemere, Blakemere.
from Middle English blak, blakke ‘black’ + Mor ‘Moor’, signifying someone with a dark complexion.
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Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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