is my last name''blaylock''an indian name?

Question

I WAS TOLD THAT MY ANCESTORS,ON MY FATHER SIDE OF FAMILY WAS CHEROKEE AND BLACKFOOT INDIAN.MY FATHER NAME WAS AVERY BURTON BLAYLOCK,FROM DUCKHILL,MISSISSIPPI,HE WAS SUPPOSE TO BE HALF INDIAN,IS THIS TRUE?

Answer 1

U.S. Indian Census Schedules, 1885-1940
about Alice Blaylock
Name: Alice Blaylock
Date of Birth: abt 1876
Age: 23
Gender: Female
Relation to head-of-household: Mother
Tribe: Peoria
Agency: Quapaw
State: Indian Territory
Last Census Number: 65
Census Date: 30 Jun 1899
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Household Members: Name Age
Alice Blaylock 23
Rosa Blaylock 1

U.S. Indian Census Schedules, 1885-1940
about Rosa Blaylock
Name: Rosa Blaylock
Date of Birth: abt 1898
Age: 1
Gender: Female
Relation to head-of-household: Daughter
Mother's name: Alice
Tribe: Peoria
Agency: Quapaw
State: Indian Territory
Census Date: 30 Jun 1899
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Household Members: Name Age
Alice Blaylock 23
Rosa Blaylock 1

U.S. Indian Census Schedules, 1885-1940
about Christine Blalock
Name: Christine Blalock
[Christine Beets]
Date of Birth: 30 Mar 1915
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Married
Relation to head-of-household: Wife
Spouse's name: Herbert
Tribe: Eastern Shawnee Ottawa Quapaw Seneca and Wyandot (Shawnee)
[Quapaw Peoria E Shaw Sen (Quapaw)]
Reservation: Quapaw
Agency: Quapaw
State: Oklahoma
Last Census Number: 24
Previous Census Number: 20
Census Date: 1 Apr 1934
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Household Members: Name Age
Herbert Blackock
Christine Blalock 19

U.S. Indian Census Schedules, 1885-1940
about Infant Blaylock
Name: Infant Blaylock
Date of Birth: abt 1902
Age: 1
Gender: Female
Relation to head-of-household: Daughter
Mother's name: Alice Blackhoof
Tribe: Peoria
Agency: Quapaw
State: Indian
Last Census Number: 69
Census Date: 30 Jun 1903
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Household Members: Name Age
Alice Blackhoof Blaylock 27
Rosa Blaylock 5
Infant Blaylock 1

Answer 2

(This was on www.surnamedb.com. A picture of the family coat-of-arms is seen at www.historicalnames.com/namelistdetail_b.asp?surname=Blaylock):




Surname: Blaylock
Recorded in several spellings including Blalock, Blaylock, Bleloch, Blellock, and Blelloch, this is a very rare and much travelled surname, of seemingly Scottish origins. It is locational from either of two small estates. The first being called Blelock, and apparently recorded in the county of Perthshire in 1652, but not now shown in any national gazetters, whilst the second is in Aberdeenshire. This is Blelack, although originally spelt Bleloch, which is in the parish of Logie-Coldstone some six miles north west of the town of Aboyne. Blelack is now understood to be just a single house, but it seems that in past centuries it was at least a village. Locational surnames are by the very nature "from" names. That is to say names given to people after they left their original homes and moved elsewhere. This could be the next village, or a capital city such as Edinburgh, but even more so London, which with its reputation for having streets "paved with gold" drew people from all over Britain and the continent. Spelling over the centuries being at best erratic, soon lead to the development of alternative spellings. In this case early examples of the surname recording taken at random from surviving church registers include: Elizabeth Blawelocke, the daughter of Willam Blawelocke, christened at St Brides church, Fleet Street, in the city of London, on February 27th 1639, Elizabeth Belloch, the daughter of George and Margaret Belloch, christened at St Cuthberts, Edinburgh, on February 2nd 1725, Jane Blaylock, christened at St Dunstans in the East, Stepney, on April 15th 1716, and Katherine Blalock, who married James White at South Leith, Midlothian, Scotland, on December 10th 1790.
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If you think he is part Cherokee, go to www.cyndislist.com and check out her Native American pages. Check the DAWES ROLLS to see if any of his ancestors are listed (all the Indians moved from the east to Oklahoma--including the Cherokee--in the Trail of Tears are listed here. It was done between 1893-1907 by the government in a bid to get the Indians to give up the reservation system if they were promised land of their own.). If you have proof these ancestors are yours, then you will know for sure about your name.

Answer 3

Blaylock is a Scottish name. It is not an Indian name.

Answer 4

I have searched the 1910, 1920, and 1930 Census records, and all family members' race are listed as white. Your grandfather and great grandfather's draft registration cards list them as white. Unless the Native American ancester you believe you have lived and died before 1910, I don't see any evidence of Native American lineage.

Answer 5

According to www.ancestry.com, it's actually English.
Blaylock
English (Cumbria): perhaps a variant of Blacklock.
but this link says its Scottish,
http://www.houseofnames.com/fc.asp?sId=&s=Blaylock
so I had a look on this Scottish site and I couldn't find it?, I would bet on it being English though.
http://www.heraldry.co.uk/namelistings.php?pickletter=B