When Susannah King was born on 29 May 1723, in Southold, Suffolk, New York Colony, British Colonial America, her father, William King, was 35 and her mother, Bathshua Beebe, was 35. She married Robert Sheffield on 22 June 1749, in Southold, Suffolk, New York Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 1 May 1766, at the age of 42, and was buried in Browns Hill Burying Ground, Orient, Suffolk, New York Colony, British Colonial America.
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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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