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The surnames Bloor, Bloore and Blore are 'toponymics' - names derived from a place - and have their origins in North Staffordshire, in England, where there are two places called Blore.
One is a village near the eastern boundary with Derbyshire, where there is the church, the vicarage and Blore Hall, a picnic-site, and not much more.
The other Blore is near the western boundary with Shropshire, where Blore Heath was the site of the first battle of The War of the Roses in 1459, re-enacted every year over the last weekend in September. There's no church, no vicarage, no Hall and no picnic-site.
There are two blore words in Old English. One meaning windy, or wind-swept, and presumably a bit bleak, which aptly describes both places. The other means a raised lump, blister or pimple, and could be used to describe the areas around both Blore places.
There is a hill near Abergavenny, in Wales, called Blorenge, and it is thought possible that the name derives from a similar Welsh word, plor, which also means a pimple.
The two Blore places in England are the places in which most, if not all, of the Bloors, Bloores and Blores in the world have their origins.
It is interesting to find that almost 50% of all the Blo(o)r(e)s in the UK still live within 50 miles of Stoke-on-Trent, which lies roughly midway between the two Blore villages.
The Blo(o)r(e) Society was established in 1996 with objectives which include providing support for members and correlating the results of their individual researches into their own family trees.
Building on the results of traditional family history research over more than 80 years, we have, at the moment - 9th December 2015 - identified 112 separate Blo(o)r(e) trees, many with their origins in births or marriages that took place several hundred years ago. Many of these trees have living Blo(o)r(e) descendants.
We suspect, and the results from our Blo(o)r(e) DNA project support this, that at least some of these trees are really connected.
We are now finding evidence that some Blewers and Blowers in the Midlands of England are probably Blo(o)r(e)s whose surname has been transformed by the influence of local accents.
The surnames Bloor, Bloore and Blore are 'toponymics' - names derived from a place - and have their origins in North Staffordshire, in England, where there are two places called Blore.
One is a village near the eastern boundary with Derbyshire, where there is the church, the vicarage and Blore Hall, a picnic-site, and not much more.
The other Blore is near the western boundary with Shropshire, where Blore Heath was the site of the first battle of The War of the Roses in 1459, re-enacted every year over the last weekend in September. There's no church, no vicarage, no Hall and no picnic-site.
There are two blore words in Old English. One meaning windy, or wind-swept, and presumably a bit bleak, which aptly describes both places. The other means a raised lump, blister or pimple, and could be used to describe the areas around both Blore places.
There is a hill near Abergavenny, in Wales, called Blorenge, and it is thought possible that the name derives from a similar Welsh word, plor, which also means a pimple.
The two Blore places in England are the places in which most, if not all, of the Bloors, Bloores and Blores in the world have their origins.
It is interesting to find that almost 50% of all the Blo(o)r(e)s in the UK still live within 50 miles of Stoke-on-Trent, which lies roughly midway between the two Blore villages.
The Blo(o)r(e) Society was established in 1996 with objectives which include providing support for members and correlating the results of their individual researches into their own family trees.
Building on the results of traditional family history research over more than 80 years, we have, at the moment - 9th December 2015 - identified 112 separate Blo(o)r(e) trees, many with their origins in births or marriages that took place several hundred years ago. Many of these trees have living Blo(o)r(e) descendants.
We suspect, and the results from our Blo(o)r(e) DNA project support this, that at least some of these trees are really connected.
We are now finding evidence that some Blewers and Blowers in the Midlands of England are probably Blo(o)r(e)s whose surname has been transformed by the influence of local accents.