Mary Lake

Brief Life History of Mary

When Mary Lake was born on 6 January 1850, in North Molton, Devon, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Lake, was 47 and her mother, Emeline Court, was 38. She married William Blake on 2 October 1871, in Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Cadoxton Juxta Barry, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom in 1891 and Exminster, Devon, England, United Kingdom in 1891. She died on 26 April 1920, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Blake
1848–1933
Mary Lake
1850–1920
Marriage: 2 October 1871
David John Blake
1872–1952
William James Blake
1874–1941
Sarah Emily Blake
1876–1930
Isaac Brigham Blake
1877–1957
Joseph Lake Blake
1879–1902
Mary Jane Blake
1881–1972
Annie Blake
1884–1959
Samuel Henry Blake
1885–1966
James Theophilus Blake
1887–1957
Benjamin Blake
1890–1953
Catherine Ruth Blake
1892–1981
Horace Charles Blake
1894–1975

Sources (54)

  • Mary Lake in household of William Lake, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
  • Mary Lake, "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008"
  • "Mary L." Blake, "BillionGraves Index"

World Events (8)

1853

The Provo City Cemetery was dedicated in 1853.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

English (mainly West Country): topographic name usually for someone who lived by a streamlet (Middle English lak(e), Old English lacu) or who lived at or came from any of the places so named, such as Lack in Church Stoke (Shropshire) and Lake in Wilsford near Amesbury (Wiltshire). Lake is a common minor placename in Devon.

English: occasionally perhaps a topographic name for someone who lived by a lake or pool (Middle English, Old French lake), though it is uncertain that this word was current in ordinary vocabulary during the main period of surname formation (1250–1400).

North German and Dutch: habitational name from any of several places in Westphalia and Lower Saxony so named, or a topographic name from Middle Low German, Middle Dutch lake ‘swamp, swampy meadow’ (Middle Dutch also ‘border water’).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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