Brief Life History of Charles
When Charles Knight was born on 3 May 1764, in Colchester, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Joshua Knight, was 30 and his mother, Abigail Merrill, was 26. He had at least 8 sons and 5 daughters with Mary Polly Beckwith. He lived in Elba, Genesee, New York, United States for about 10 years. He died on 4 March 1856, in Newstead, Erie, New York, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Newstead, Erie, New York, United States.
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- Charles Knight, "United States Census, 1840"
- Charles Knight, "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Charles Knight, "Find A Grave Index"
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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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