When Bathsheba King was born on 5 September 1726, in Bolton, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Hezekiah King, was 46 and her mother, Sarah Reed, was 32. She married Joshua Mead in 1746, in Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died in September 1813, in Cairo, Greene, New York, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Ploča, Gornji Vakuf-Uskoplje, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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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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