When Ferdinand Lewis Blake was born on 2 April 1825, in Kensington, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Josiah Tilton Blake, was 35 and his mother, Catherina Fogg, was 35. He married Mary Nesbitt Chase in 1850, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He registered for military service in 1862. He died on 13 February 1886, in Kensington, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Kensington, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States.
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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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