Brief Life History of George
When George Blake was born on 19 February 1851, in San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States, his father, Benjamin Frederick Blake Sr., was 35 and his mother, Harriet Hollis, was 30. He lived in Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom in 1851. He died on 11 November 1853, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 2, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Sources (5)
- George Blake in household of Benjamin Blake, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
- George Blake, "Find A Grave Index"
- George Blake, "Utah Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Database, 1847-1868"
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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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