When William King was born on 14 February 1688, in Southold, Suffolk, New York Colony, British Colonial America, his father, William King, was 27 and his mother, Abigail Brown, was 25. He married Bathshua Beebe about 1709, in Southold, Suffolk, New York Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 23 April 1775, in his hometown, at the age of 87.
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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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