When Polly King was born on 10 October 1791, in Marlboro, Windham, Vermont, United States, her father, Ichabod King, was 35 and her mother, Louisa Adams, was 31. She married Levi Howard on 19 January 1815. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She died on 27 June 1865, in Marlboro, Windham, Vermont, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Marlboro, Windham, Vermont, 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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