Brief Life History of Loris
When Loris Black was born in May 1890, in Alabama, United States, her father, Robert Whitfield Black, was 25 and her mother, Elizabeth Rebecca May, was 23. She lived in Luverne, Crenshaw, Alabama, United States in 1910. She died on 5 April 1944, in Selma, Dallas, Alabama, United States, at the age of 53.
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Family Time Line
Sources (3)
- Loris Black in household of Robert W Black, "United States Census, 1910"
- Loris Black in household of Robert W Black, "United States Census, 1930"
- Loris Black in household of Robert W Black, "United States Census, 1900"
Parents and Siblings
1866–1937 Male
1866–1943 Female
Siblings (6)
1890–1944 Female
1892– Female
1894–1901 Male
1897–1937 Male
1898–1901 Male
+1 More Child
World Events (8)
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
Age 6
1898 · War with the Spanish
Age 8
1906 · Saving Food Labels
Age 16
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: chiefly from Middle English blak(e) ‘black’ (Old English blæc, blaca), a nickname given from the earliest times to a swarthy or dark-haired man. However, Middle English blac also meant ‘pale, wan’, a reflex of Old English blāc ‘pale, white’ with a shortened vowel. Compare Blatch and Blick . With rare exceptions it is impossible to disambiguate these antithetical senses in Middle English surnames. The same difficulty arises with Blake and Block .
Scottish: in Gaelic-speaking areas this name was adopted as a translation of the epithet dubh ‘dark, black-(haired)’, or of various other names based on Gaelic dubh ‘black’, see Duff .
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames directly or indirectly derived from the adjective meaning ‘black, dark’, for example German and Jewish Schwarz and Slavic surnames beginning with Čern-, Chern- (see Chern and Cherne ), Chorn-, Crn- or Czern-.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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