When Joseph Wiley Knight was born on 24 November 1882, in Mississippi, United States, his father, Andrew Zachary Taylor Knight, was 32 and his mother, Martha Ellzey, was 32. He had at least 1 son with Maybell Knight. He lived in Laurel, Jones, Mississippi, United States in 1900 and Ellisville, Jones, Mississippi, United States for about 10 years. He died on 1 July 1977, in Mississippi, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Ellisville, Jones, Mississippi, United States.
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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 .
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