Person:Harold Black (4)

Harold Spens Black died 1945 in California (Ca. death index). Harold died 23oct1945 at Alameda county (ancestry.com submission). Harold probably emigrated to New Zealand (D. Black, C. Spens Black) and later emigrated to USA and married Sally McKee SPENS-BLACK, who was born 31oct1864 in Oakland, California, USA (C. Spens Black). From C. Spens Black: Maxwell Spens Black (b.1853) knew and spoke highly of Harold Spens Black (1858), who visited NZ 1897-98 before emigrating to California. From <http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast> Evening Post: 21dec1896: 20dec1896, Port of Wellington Herald, ss, arrived from South. Among passengers: Messrs Spens-Black. Harold arrived at San Francisco between 1893 and 1954 (passenger registration). Sallie married Orestes Pierce abt 1895 and Harold abt 1909 (ancestry.com submission). Parents of Sallie - Samuel Bell McKee and ? Davis (ancestry.com). Sally (b. abt. 1869) arrived at Ellis Island with Harold Black (occupation: farmer) from Southampton in 1914; they had left USA in 1913 and lived at 275 Vernon St., Oakland, CA (ellisisland website). The Census for Berkeley, Alameda, California 1930 registered Harold S. Black (b. 1858 Scotland, mother born in England), spouse Sallie McK Black and 2 servants After her husband’s death Sally McKee SPENS-BLACK donated a large sum to Berkeley University, California, and a Hall of Residence is named after her. On the 1881 Census Harold Spens BLACK, aged 22, civil engineer, born in Baldernock, lived at Stockbrigg House, Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, the house of William James Martin (b.1854 Paisley, Renfrewshire), a civil engineer, and William’s mother, Jane Martin (b. 1814 Glasgow). Harold Frank Spens Black (b. 1858) was 1st cousin once removed of James Black, who married Ann Maxwell Black (b. 1802); Ann Maxwell Black was 1st cousin once removed of William James Martin. It is interesting that James William Alston (b. 1796), his father William, William James Martin (b. 1853), his mother, and Harold Frank Spens Black (b. 1858) lived at various times at Stockbrigg House, Lesmahagow.

1.   International Genealogical Index. ( The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, 1999-2008)
   Batch #: C114711, Sheet #: 00, Source Call #: 6035516 REGISTER, Printout Call #: NONE, Date.
2.   General Register Office for Scotland. 1881 Scotland Census. (Edinburgh).