When Francis Black was born on 20 February 1815, in Barre, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Archibald Black, was 40 and his mother, Sophia Caldwell, was 29. He married Charlotte E. Brettun on 31 May 1848, in Hampton, Rock Island, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Rapids City, Rock Island, Illinois, United States in 1900 and East Moline, Rock Island, Illinois, United States in 1910. He died on 9 November 1910, in Hampton, Rock Island, Illinois, United States, at the age of 95, and was buried in Hampton Township Cemetery, Hampton, Rock Island, Illinois, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1831: Rock Island, Illinois, United States
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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.
Possible Related NamesFrancis Black In 1841 Francis Black, age 26, arrived in Hampton and opened a general store in the above mentioned frame building. In 1846 Brettun and Francis Black erected the large two-story brick b …
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