Blore

Blore
This very unusual and interesting surname is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is locational from places so called in Staffordshire, one near Ashbourne, and the other near Market Drayton. The place near Ashbourne was first recorded as "Blora" in the Domesday Book of 1086, and as "Blore" in both the 1227 Assize Court Rolls and the 1240 Feet of Fines of the county, and the place near Market Drayton was first recorded as "Blore" in the 1293 Assize Court Rolls. The placenames are derived from the Olde English pre 7th Century "blor", identical with the Middle English "blure, bloure", blister, swelling (here used in the sense "hill") or else from a word meaning "bare spot", related to the Middle High German "blas", Middle Dutch "blaer", bare. Locational surnames were developed when former inhabitants of a place moved to another area, usually to seek work, and were best identified by the name of their birthplace. One John Blore, aged 27 yrs., was recorded as living in Virginia on January 23rd 1624; he had arrived in the New World in 1610 aboard the "Star", from the port of London. The christening was recorded in Staffordshire of Thomas Blore on November 14th 1561 at Betley. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Thomas Bloore, which was dated May 22nd 1536, marriage to Elena Smith, at Betley, Staffordshire, during the reign of King Henry V111, known as "Good King Hal", 1509 - 1547. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

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  • Blore Heath — is a sparsely populated area of farmland in Staffordshire, England.Close to the towns of Market Drayton and Loggerheads.Site of the Battle of Blore Heath, in 1459 …   Wikipedia

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  • Blore Heath Rural District — Blore Heath was a rural district in Staffordshire, England from 1894 to 1932.It was created under the Local Government Act 1894 from that part of the Market Drayton rural sanitary district which was in Staffordshire (the Shropshire part becoming… …   Wikipedia

  • Blore Head — (spr. Blöhr Hädd), Dörfchen in der Grafschaft Stafford. Hier den 23. Sept. 1459 Niederlage der Rothen Rose unter Salisbury durch die Weiße Rose unter Audley; s.u. England (Gesch.) …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Blore Heath, Battle of — (1459)    Fought on 23 September 1459 near the village of Mucklestone in northwestern Staffordshire, the Battle of Blore Heath initiated a period of open civil war that lasted until the Battle of TOWTON in March 1461.    In June 1459, Queen… …   Encyclopedia of the Wars of the Roses

  • blore — verb to bleat like an animal …   Wiktionary

  • blore — I. ˈblu̇(ə)r, u̇ə intransitive verb Etymology: Middle English bloren more at blare dialect England : bellow, low used of cattle or those (as children) that cry out loudly II. ˈblō(ə)r noun …   Useful english dictionary

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