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George Fraser Black
BornMarch 10, 1865
Stirling, Scotland
DiedSeptember 7, 1948(1948-09-07) (aged 82–83)
Lyndhurst, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation(s)Librarian, historian, linguist
EmployerNew York Public Library

George Fraser Black (March 10, 1865 – September 7, 1948) was a Scottish-born American librarian, historian and linguist. He worked at the New York Public Library for more than three decades, and he was the author of several books about Scottish culture and anthroponymy, Romani people and witchcraft.

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(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012). Sinclair, Albert Thomas (1917). George Fraser Black (ed.). American Gypsies. New York Public Library. Retrieved April...

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pp. 397–398. Fraser, p. 285; Hibbert, pp. 399–402. Ayling, pp. 453–455; Brooke, pp. 384–385; Hibbert, p. 405. Hibbert, p. 408. Black, p. 410. Letter...

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widespread no exact place of origin can be established. The historian George Fraser Black lists Andersons as being burgesses of Peebles as well as in the county...

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during the reign of James III (reigned 1440–1488). According to George Fraser Black, the territorial designation Ardincaple did not become an ordinary...

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Birnstiel. 1768. p. 5. Black, Jeremy (2006). George III: America's Last King. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-11732-9. Fraser, Flora (2004). Princesses:...

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English as Hay and rendered into Gaelic as Garadh. According to George Fraser Black, the Gaelic form of Hay, MacGaradh, was merely an invention of John...

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was created Thane of Calder, later known as Cawdor. The historian George Fraser Black lists Hugo de Kaledouer as a witness to a charter of land near Montrose...

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