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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The Provo City Cemetery was dedicated in 1853.
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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’).
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