Charles Andrew Black

Brief Life History of Charles Andrew

When Charles Andrew Black was born about January 1807, in Middle Paisley (Paisley), Renfrewshire, Scotland, his father, Charles Black, was 30 and his mother, Margaret Jamieson, was 28. He married Mary Locheed on 20 October 1828, in Largs, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Cunningham, Ayrshire, Scotland in 1851. He died on 4 August 1857, in Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland, at the age of 50.

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Family Time Line

Charles Andrew Black
1807–1857
Helen Ralston
1825–1866
Marriage: 12 June 1847
Andrew Ralston Black
1847–1935
Margaret Black
1849–1862
Mary Ann Mason Black
1850–1931
Jean Black
1852–1858
Helen Black
1853–
James Colin Black
1856–1858

Sources (18)

  • Charles Black, "Scotland Census, 1851"
  • Charles Black, "Scotland Marriages, 1561-1910"
  • Charles Black death record original, naming parents

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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