Brief Life History of Cordelia
When Cordelia King was born on 2 July 1823, in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, her father, John Bowker King, was 43 and her mother, Hannah Newton, was 38. She died on 18 August 1825, in her hometown, at the age of 2, and was buried in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
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- Cornelia King, "Find A Grave Index"
- Cordelia King, "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934"
- Cordelia King, "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934"
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1825 · The Crimes Act
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
Name Meaning
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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