Catherine ( Caty) Black

Brief Life History of Catherine ( Caty)

When Catherine ( Caty) Black was born on 31 January 1800, in Botetourt, Virginia, United States, her father, John Black, was 49 and her mother, Emillia Milly Norton, was 25.

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Family Time Line

John Black
1750–1830
Emillia Milly Norton
1774–1852
Henry Black
1792–
Thomas C Black
1792–
Hiram Black
1794–
John Black
1795–1870
Samuel Black
1804–1869
William Hervey Black
1808–
Elizabeth Black
1810–
James Walker Black
1793–
William Black
1794–1860
Alexander James Black
1797–1843
Margaret Black
1799–
Catherine ( Caty) Black
1800–
Thomas Black
1807–
Mary Jean "Polly" Black
1808–
Christopher Black
1810–
Sally Black
1812–
Thomas Black
1816–1900
Hiram Black
1818–1881

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    World Events (3)

    1803

    France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.

    1803 · The U.S doubles in size

    The United States purchased all the Louisiana territory (828,000 sq. mi) from France, only paying 15 million dollars (A quarter trillion today) for the land. In the purchase, the US obtained the land that makes up 15 US states and 2 Canadian Provinces. The United States originally wanted to purchase of New Orleans and the lands located on the coast around it, but quickly accepted the bargain that Napoleon Bonaparte offered.

    1812 · Monumental Church Built

    The Monumental Church was built between 1812-1814 on the sight where the Richmond Theatre fire had taken place. It is a monument to those that died in the fire.

    Name Meaning

    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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