When Anne Blake was born on 19 June 1732, in Wrentham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, James Blake, was 42 and her mother, Ann Bullard, was 39. She married Comfort Wheaton on 9 July 1753, in Wrentham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters.
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English and Scottish (England and central Scotland): variant of Black 1, meaning ‘swarthy’ or ‘dark-haired’, from a byform of the Old English adjective blæc, blac ‘black’, with change of vowel length.
English: nickname from Middle English blak(e) (Old English blāc) ‘wan, pale, white, fair’. In Middle English the two words blac and blāc, with opposite meanings, fell together as Middle English blake. In the absence of independent evidence as to whether the person referred to was dark or fair, it is now impossible to tell which sense was originally meant.
English (Norfolk): nickname from Middle English bleik, blaik>, blek(e) (Old Norse bleikr) ‘pale or sallow’ (in complexion).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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