When Maria Persis King was born on 13 October 1816, in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, her father, John Bowker King, was 36 and her mother, Hannah Newton, was 31. She married Lyman King on 27 March 1839. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Wilbraham, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States in 1865 and Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States for about 10 years. She died on 20 March 1901, in Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States.
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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).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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