When Thomas King was christened on 17 April 1723, in Germoe, Cornwall, England, his father, James King, was 52 and his mother, Catherine Thomas, was 39. He married Florence Edwards on 24 December 1747, in Breage, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 8 September 1790, in Cornwall, England, at the age of 67.
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).
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