When Arthur D Blake was born on 18 April 1866, in Perry Township, Noble, Indiana, United States, his father, Isaac Blake, was 38 and his mother, Susan Strode, was 31. He married Ada B Damy on 20 October 1889, in Noble, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Eden Township, LaGrange, Indiana, United States for about 20 years and Benton, Benton Township, Elkhart, Indiana, United States in 1930. He died in 1950, in Noble Township, Noble, Indiana, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Salem Cemetery, Ligonier, Perry Township, Noble, Indiana, 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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