When Elizabeth Lawrence King was born on 1 April 1838, in Portland, Jamaica, her father, Henry Lawrence King, was 24 and her mother, Margaret Hall, was 26. She had at least 5 sons and 3 daughters with James Bradshaw. She died on 16 February 1926, in her hometown, at the age of 87.
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Calabar College in Kingston was opened.
Banana plantations set up as the sugar cane industry declines in the face of competition from European beet sugar.
Island's capital moved from Spanish Town to Kingston.
English: nickname from Middle English king ‘king’ (Old English cyning, cyng), perhaps acquired by someone with kingly qualities or as a pageant name by someone who had acted the part of a king or had been chosen as the master of ceremonies or ‘king’ of an event such as a tournament, festival or folk ritual. In North America, the surname King has absorbed several European cognates and equivalents with the same meaning, for example German König (see Koenig ) and Küng, French Roy , Slovenian, Croatian, or Serbian Kralj , Polish Krol . It is also very common among African Americans. It is also found as an artificial Jewish surname.
English: occasionally from the Middle English personal name King, originally an Old English nickname from the vocabulary word cyning, cyng ‘king’.
Irish: adopted for a variety of names containing the syllable rí (which means ‘king’ in Irish).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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