When Mary Catherine Black was born on 11 July 1827, in Smicksburg, Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Joseph Frederick Black, was 26 and her mother, Mary Catherine Crissman, was 20. She married George Stear in 1844, in Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States in 1860 and Pennsylvania, United States in 1870. She died on 23 June 1898, in Canoe Ridge, Canoe Township, Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Smicksburg, Indiana, Pennsylvania, 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.
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