Brief Life History of Jane Pope
When Jane Pope Blake was born on 29 September 1658, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Edward Blake, was 32 and her mother, Patience Pope, was 26. She married Thomas Kelton on 25 January 1685, in Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons. She lived in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1658. She died on 17 April 1748, in Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 89.
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- Jane Blake, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Jane Blake Kelton, "Find A Grave Index"
- Jane Blake, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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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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