Brief Life History of Elizabeth
When Elizabeth King was born on 29 April 1739, in New London, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, William King, was 29 and her mother, Elizabeth Beebe, was 19. She died on 18 February 1773, in Southold, Suffolk, New York Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 33.
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- Elizabeth King, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- The Salmon Records - A Private Register of Marriages and Deaths of the Residents of the Town of Southold, Suffolk County, N.Y. 1696-1811
- Elizabeth King, "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850"
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Name Meaning
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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