When Elizabeth Jane King was born on 1 February 1813, in Broadmayne, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas King, was 34 and her mother, Mary Anne Morris, was 24. She married Richard Spranklin on 31 May 1841, in Winfrith Newburgh, Dorset, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in South Stoneham, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom in 1861 and Bitterne, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom in 1871. She died from January 1880 to March 1880, in Brentford, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom, and was buried in Bitterne, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom.
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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).
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