When Richard King was born on 10 December 1755, in Southold, Suffolk, New York Colony, British Colonial America, his father, William King, was 45 and his mother, Elizabeth Beebe, was 36. He married Rachel Miller in 1775, in East Hampton, Suffolk, New York Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. He died in February 1797, in East Hampton, Suffolk, New York, United States, at the age of 41, and was buried in East Hampton, Suffolk, New York, United States.
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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).
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