Brief Life History of Anna
When Anna Kniffen was born about 1722, in Rye Town, Westchester, New York Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Andrew Kniffen, was 28 and her mother, Hannah Brundage, was 27.
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Altered form of English Knifton, itself a variant of Kniveton: habitational name from Kniveton (Derbyshire), which is recorded as Cheniuetun in 1086, or Kneeton (Nottinghamshire), which is recorded as Kniveton in 1226. The placenames derive from the Old English personal name Cēngifu + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. Compare Kniffin and Sniffen .
History: The progenitor of the Kniffens was George Knifton (alias Kniffen) from Kniveton, Derbyshire, England, who arrived in 1650 to CT and moved shortly thereafter to NY.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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