When Elizabeth Jane Blake was born on 28 January 1849, in Sarum, Wiltshire, England, her father, Benjamin Frederick Blake, was 33 and her mother, Harriet Hollis, was 28. She married Henry Hale Riding on 6 June 1870, in Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom in 1851. She died on 21 April 1908, in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Washington, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1852: Washington, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Washington, Utah, 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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