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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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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