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Where did the Irish Blake family come from? What is the Irish Blake family crest and coat of arms? When did the Blake family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Blake family history?
There art two possible origins of the Irish surname Blake. The first is that it originated from the Gaelic "O Blathmhaic," which translates as "descendant of Blathmhac," a personal name for the Gaelic "blath" meaning "flower", "blossom", "fame", "prosperity." The second was that the name could have been derived from the Old English word "blaec" meaning "dark" or "swarthy."
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Names during the Middle Ages were often recorded under several different spelling variations during the life of their bearers. Literacy was rare at that time and so how a person's name was recorded was decided by the individual scribe. Variations of the name Blake include Blake, Caddell, Caddle and others.First found in Connacht, where the Blake family were one of the Tribes of Galway, descending from Richard Caddell (le Blac), sheriff of Connacht in 1303, who came to Ireland with Prince John in 1185, and used both the surnames Caddell and Blake. The name Caddell is Welsh, and means "warlike." It was not replaced completely by Blake until the 17th century, and for three hundred years, people with these surnames were referred to in municipal records by both names. Richard Caddle was sheriff of Connaught in 1306 A.D. and was a tenant of Falway under Richard de Burgo (Burke), the Red Earl of Ulster.
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This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Blake research. Another 231 words(16 lines of text) covering the years 1611, 1797, and 1849 are included under the topic Early Blake History in all our PDF Extended History products.
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Many destitute Irish families in the 18th and 19th centuries decided to leave their homeland, which had in many ways been scarred by English colonial rule. One of the most frequent destinations for these families was North America where it was possible for an Irish family to own their own parcel of land. Many of the early settlers did find land awaiting them in British North America, or even later in America, but for the majority of immigrants that arrived as a result of the Great Potato Famine of the late 1840s the ownership of land was often a long way off. These Irish people were initially put to work on such industrial projects as the building of bridges, canals, and railroads, or they worked at manufacturing positions within factories. Whenever they arrived, the Irish made enormous contributions to the infant nations of Canada and the United States. Some of the earliest immigrants to bearer the name of Blake were found through extensive research of immigration and passenger lists:
- John Blake settled in Middletown, Connecticut
Blake Settlers in the United States in the 17th Century
- Walter Blake, who arrived in Virginia in 1624
- William Blake who came from Essex, England, sailed on the "Mary and John" in 1630 and settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts
- George Blake settled in Gloucester in 1640
- John Blake, who arrived in Dorchester, Mass in 1642
- Giles Blake, who arrived in Maryland in 1650
Blake Settlers in the United States in the 18th Century
- Charles Blake, who landed in Virginia in 1702
- Robt Blake, who arrived in Virginia in 1703
- Cha Blake, who arrived in Virginia in 1714
- Jane Blake, who arrived in New England in 1740
- John Garrett Blake was a JP of Trinity in 1753
Blake Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century
- Bryan Blake, who landed in Antigua (Antego) in 1801
- Ellen Blake, aged 35, landed in America in 1822
- Daniel Blake, who landed in Charleston, SC in 1827
- Matthew Blake, who landed in Maine in 1829
- Bennett Blake, who arrived in Texas in 1835
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- Lillie Devereaux Blake (1835-1913), American author and reformer, known for her efforts in the women's suffrage and economic rights movements
- Eugene Carson Blake (1906-1985), American Clergyman, general secretary of the World Council of Churches
- Francis Blake (1850-1913), American inventor of a telephone transmitter
- Lieutenant General Gordon Aylesworth Blake (1910-1997), American Air Force Officer who served from 1962-1965 as director of the National Security Agency
- James Hubert "Eubie" Blake (1887-1983), American composer, lyricist, and pianist of ragtime, jazz, and popular music and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Amanda Blake (1929-1989), American actress best known for the role of the red-haired "Miss Kitty" on the longest-running television drama, CBS's Gunsmoke series (1955-1975)
- William Burdine Blake Sr. (1852-1938), American music composer and newspaper publisher
- Major Wilfred Theodore Blake (1894-1968), British pioneer aviator, travel writer and traveller who led the first attempt to fly round the world in 1922
- Edward Blake (1833-1912), Canadian statesman
- Sir Peter Thomas Blake (b. 1932), English pop artist, best known for his design for The Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
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We have comprised a great deal of suggested readings that would be of interest to you and your family.
- The Blake-Ambrose Family History by Irma Ruth M. Anderson.
- The Blaikes of Bibb County, Alabama,1819-1988 by Chester Rankin Johnson Jr.
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- Browning, Charles H. Americans of Royal Descent. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing. Print.
- McDonnell, Frances. Emigrants from Ireland to America 1735-1743 A Transcription of the report of the Irish House of Commons into Enforced emigration to America. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1992. Print. (ISBN 0-8063-1331-5).
- MacLysaght, Edward. The Surnames of Ireland 3rd Edition. Dublin: Irish Academic, 1978. Print. (ISBN 0-7165-2278-0).
- Bell, Robert. The Book of Ulster Surnames. Belfast: Blackstaff, 1988. Print. (ISBN 10-0856404160).
- Skordas, Guest. Ed. The Early Settlers of Maryland an Index to Names or Immigrants Complied from Records of Land Patents 1633-1680 in the Hall of Records Annapolis, Maryland. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1992. Print.
- Harris, Ruth-Ann and B. Emer O'Keefe. The Search for Missing Friends Irish Immigrant Advertisements Placed in the Boston Pilot Volume II 1851-1853. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1991. Print.
- Hanks, Patricia and Flavia Hodges. A Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. Print. (ISBN 0-19-211592-8).
- Robb H. Amanda and Andrew Chesler. Encyclopedia of American Family Names. New York: Haper Collins, 1995. Print. (ISBN 0-06-270075-8).
- Sullivan, Sir Edward. The Book of Kells 3rd Edition. New York: Crescent Books, 1986. Print. (ISBN 0-517-61987-3).
- Read, Charles Anderson. The Cabinet of Irish Literature Selections from the Works of the Chief Poets, Orators and Prose Writers of Ireland 4 Volumes. London: Blackie and Son, 1884. Print.
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