When Olive R Knight was born on 19 August 1790, in Hancock, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, her father, David Knight, was 28 and her mother, Abigail Wheeler, was 30. She married Joseph Hills on 22 November 1821. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 3 September 1871, in Hancock, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Hancock, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States.
English: status or occupational name from Middle English knight ‘retainer, attendant’ (Old English cniht ‘boy, youth, lad)’. The specialized feudal sense ‘a high-ranking tenant bound to serve his lord as a mounted soldier’ is not known to have ever given rise to the surname, although it is not out of the question that it may occasionally have been used as a nickname, perhaps for someone who played the part of an armed knight in a local pageant.
Irish: sometimes adopted for Gaelic Mac an Ridire ‘son of the knight’. See also McKnight .
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