When Ellen Susan Knight was born on 29 May 1855, in Norwich, Huntington, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Samuel H Knight, was 52 and her mother, Betsey Esther Stevens, was 43. She married Hiram Cate Chase Sr on 21 August 1878, in Manchester, Delaware, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Algernon Township, Custer, Nebraska, United States for about 10 years and Custer, Nebraska, United States in 1920. She died on 17 April 1928, at the age of 72, and was buried in Strawberry Point, Clayton, Iowa, United States.
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English: status or occupational name from Middle English knight ‘retainer, attendant’ (Old English cniht ‘boy, youth, lad)’. The specialized feudal sense ‘a high-ranking tenant bound to serve his lord as a mounted soldier’ is not known to have ever given rise to the surname, although it is not out of the question that it may occasionally have been used as a nickname, perhaps for someone who played the part of an armed knight in a local pageant.
Irish: sometimes adopted for Gaelic Mac an Ridire ‘son of the knight’. See also McKnight .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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