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 33.
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Family Time Line
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"
Parents and Siblings
1869–1939 Male
1866–1949 Female
Siblings (8)
1888– Female
1889–1973 Female
1893– Male
1895–1978 Male
1898– Female
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World Events (8)
1904 · The Entente Cordiale
Age 6
1908
Age 10
1939 · Britain Enters World War II
Age 41
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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