Brief Life History of Frances
When Frances Knight was born on 14 April 1801, in Oulton Lowe, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Joseph Knight, was 37 and her mother, Mary Rutter, was 33. She married Thomas Dobson Jr on 21 January 1824, in Tarporley, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Stockport, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841 and Over, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841. She died on 1 February 1843, in Little Budworth, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 41, and was buried in Little Budworth, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom.
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- Frances Knight, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Fanny, "Find A Grave Index"
- Frances Knight, "England, Cheshire Parish Registers, 1538-2000"
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1808 · The British West Africa Squadron
The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1823
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
Name Meaning
English: status or occupational name from Middle English knight ‘retainer, attendant’ (Old English cniht ‘boy, youth, lad)’. The specialized feudal sense ‘a high-ranking tenant bound to serve his lord as a mounted soldier’ is not known to have ever given rise to the surname, although it is not out of the question that it may occasionally have been used as a nickname, perhaps for someone who played the part of an armed knight in a local pageant.
Irish: sometimes adopted for Gaelic Mac an Ridire ‘son of the knight’. See also McKnight .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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