Släkthistoria för Blakeborough
Blakeborough Vad efternamn betyder
perhaps from a lost place in Salterforth (WR Yorks) referred to as Blakebroc in a charter of 1147–54 with -b(o)rough substituted for -brok ‘brook’.alternatively an altered form of Blackburn with -brok or -b(o)rough substituted for -burn. Redmonds Dictionary of Yorks Surnames records William Blakburne alias Blakebrooke 1600 in York Registry Wills (Waddington WR Yorks) and Walter Blakebrooke Blagbrooke or Blageburn 1600–16 in West Yorks Deeds (Bradford WR Yorks). Compare also Johes. Blakeburne 1541 Jonathan Blackborough 1789 in IGI (Halifax WR Yorks). Blackbrook is now extinct.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
