Selina Louise Black

Brief Life History of Selina Louise

When Selina Louise Black was born on 15 May 1898, in Inkpen, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Nelson Black, was 29 and her mother, Sarah Loveridge, was 32.

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Family Time Line

Nelson Black
1869–1939
Sarah Loveridge
1866–1949
Sarah ( Sally) Black
1888–
Morris Levi Black
1899–1901
Leander Black
1889–1973
Nelson Black
1893–
Henry Amos Black
1895–1978
Selina Louise Black
1898–
Albert Edward Black
1903–
Priscilla Black
1905–

Sources (4)

  • Selina Black, "England and Wales Census, 1911"
  • Selina Louisa Black, "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008"
  • Selina Black in household of Nelson Black, "England and Wales Census, 1901"

World Events (8)

1904 · The Entente Cordiale

The Entente Cordiale was signed between Britain and France on April 8, 1904, to reconcile imperial interests and pave the way for future diplomatic cooperation. This ended hundreds of years of conflict between the two states.

1908

London, United Kingdom hosts Summer Olympic Games.

1939 · Britain Enters World War II

Britain entered the Second World War as war was declared on Germany on September 3, 1939. World War II came to an end after the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, which killed 140,000 people. Less than a week later, the Japanese surrendered and the war officially ended on August 15, 1945.

Name Meaning

English and Scottish: chiefly from Middle English blak(e) ‘black’ (Old English blæc, blaca), a nickname given from the earliest times to a swarthy or dark-haired man. However, Middle English blac also meant ‘pale, wan’, a reflex of Old English blāc ‘pale, white’ with a shortened vowel. Compare Blatch and Blick . With rare exceptions it is impossible to disambiguate these antithetical senses in Middle English surnames. The same difficulty arises with Blake and Block .

Scottish: in Gaelic-speaking areas this name was adopted as a translation of the epithet dubh ‘dark, black-(haired)’, or of various other names based on Gaelic dubh ‘black’, see Duff .

Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames directly or indirectly derived from the adjective meaning ‘black, dark’, for example German and Jewish Schwarz and Slavic surnames beginning with Čern-, Chern- (see Chern and Cherne ), Chorn-, Crn- or Czern-.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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