Ellen Knight
1815–1823 (Age 8)
Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
The Life of Ellen
Ellen Knight was born in 1815, in Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom as the daughter of John Knight and Mary Hancock. She died in 1823, at the age of 8.
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Family Time Line
John Knight
1786–
Mary Hancock
–
John R. Knight II
1813–1889
Mary Ann Knight
–
Ellen Knight
1815–1823
Margaret Knight
1815–
Parents and Siblings
1786–Male
–Female
siblings
(4)
1813–1889Male
1815–1823Female
1815–Female
–Female
World Events (3)
1815
Age 0
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1821 · New Ouse Bridge Completed
Age 6
The original Ouse Bridge collapsed in 1154 under the weight of a crowd that was on it. In 1367, after the bridge had been replaced with stone and became the site of the first public toilets. In 1564-1565 the bridge was finally done being repaired. In 1810 and 1818 the bridge was dismantled to make way for a new Ouse Bridge design and completed in 1821.
1823
Age 8
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
Name Meaning
1 English: status name from Middle English knyghte ‘knight’, Old English cniht ‘boy’, ‘youth’, ‘serving lad’. This word was used as a personal name before the Norman Conquest, and the surname may in part reflect a survival of this. It is also possible that in a few cases it represents a survival of the Old English sense into Middle English, as an occupational name for a domestic servant. In most cases, however, it clearly comes from the more exalted sense that the word achieved in the Middle Ages. In the feudal system introduced by the Normans the word was applied at first to a tenant bound to serve his lord as a mounted soldier. Hence it came to denote a man of some substance, since maintaining horses and armor was an expensive business. As feudal obligations became increasingly converted to monetary payments, the term lost its precise significance and came to denote an honorable estate conferred by the king on men of noble birth who had served him well. Knights in this last sense normally belonged to ancient noble families with distinguished family names of their own, so that the surname is more likely to have been applied to a servant in a knightly house or to someone who had played the part of a knight in a pageant or won the title in some contest of skill.2 Irish: part translation of Gaelic Mac an Ridire ‘son of the rider or knight’. See also McKnight .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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