When Isaac Newton King was born on 21 August 1824, in Winthrop, Kennebec, Maine, United States, his father, Isaac Brainard King, was 32 and his mother, Martha Estey, was 34. He married Lavinia Weston Thomas on 25 June 1846. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in California, United States in 1870 and Kern, California, United States in 1880. He died on 23 May 1908, in Bakersfield, Kern, California, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Union Cemetery, Bakersfield, Kern, California, 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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