When John Blackmore was born on 2 March 1800, in Kentisbury, Devon, England, his father, James Blackmore, was 43 and his mother, Betty Criddle, was 38. He lived in Kentisbury, Devon, England, United Kingdom in 1851. He died in 1850, at the age of 50.
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habitational name from any of various places so named with Old English blæc ‘black, dark’ + mōr ‘moor, marsh’ or mere ‘lake’. Mōr is the second element of places called Blackmore in Essex, Wiltshire, and Worcestershire, as well as Blackmoor in Dorset; mere, on the other hand, is the second element of Blackmore in Hertfordshire and Blackmoor in Hampshire, the early forms of which are Blachemere, Blakemere.
from Middle English blak, blakke ‘black’ + Mor ‘Moor’, signifying someone with a dark complexion.
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