Brief Life History of Thomas
When Thomas Blake was born in September 1795, in Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, England, his father, Robert Blake, was 29 and his mother, Hannah Breadmore, was 24. He married Jemima Gilbert on 3 May 1821, in Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Burbage, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years. He died in 1856, in Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, England, at the age of 61.
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- Thomas Blake, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Thomas Blake, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Thomas Blake, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
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1801 · The Act of Union
The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
1808 · The British West Africa Squadron
The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Name Meaning
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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