Isabella Stevenson Black

Brief Life History of Isabella Stevenson

When Isabella Stevenson Black was born on 3 March 1870, in Stirlingshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Robert Black, was 19 and her mother, Christina Stevenson Campbell, was 20. She lived in Calder, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1871.

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Family Time Line

Robert Black
1851–
Christina Stevenson Campbell
1850–1880
Isabella Stevenson Black
1870–
John Black
1873–1889
Robert Black
1875–1927

Sources (3)

  • Isabella Black in household of Robert Black, "Scotland Census, 1871"
  • Isabella Stevenson Black, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
  • Isabella Black (1870) on Scotland census for 1881 with paternl grandparents and siblings

World Events (8)

1874 · Patronage abolished in the Church of Scotland.

The Church Patronage Act 1874 was passed by Parliament and amended and altered the laws relating to the Appointment of Ministers to Parishes in Scotland. Paragraphs spelled out definitions to prevent the Act being subverted by processes used by Patrons and clarified that the Church of Scotland would decide on the qualifications required for Ministers.

1884

Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).

1902 · The Scottish National Antarctic Expedition

The Scottish National Antarctic Expedition was organized and led by William Speirs Bruce. Him along with Robert Falcon Scott’s Discovery Expedition completed an exploration of Antarctica. They established the first manned meteorological station, the Orcadas, in 1903 and discovered new land east of the Weddell Sea. The expedition was described as the most cost-effective and carefully planned scientific expedition of the Heroic Age. The Orcadas weather station has been in continuous operation ever since.

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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