Brief Life History of John Carl
When John Carl Blake was born on 31 July 1915, in Solomon, Graham, Arizona, United States, his father, John Fred Blake, was 30 and his mother, Lillie Adelle "Della" Motes, was 23. He married Johanna Van Oostendorp on 10 October 1945, in East Orange, Essex, New Jersey, United States. He lived in Arizona, United States in 1915 and Supervisorial District 1, Graham, Arizona, United States in 1940. He died on 15 February 1987, in Safford, Graham, Arizona, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Gila Valley Memorial Gardens, Safford, Graham, Arizona, United States.
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- John Carl Blake, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1950"
- Blake, "Arizona, Birth Certificates and Indexes, 1915"
- J Carl Blake, "Arizona, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940"
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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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