Brief Life History of Elizabeth
When Elizabeth Knapp was born on 25 August 1771, in Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Capt. Nathaniel Knapp II, was 35 and her mother, Mary Mirrick, was 34. She married Abraham Perkins on 1 November 1794, in Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 12 February 1831, in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 59.
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- Elizabeth Knap, "Massachusetts, Births, 1636-1924"
- Elizabeth Knap, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Elizabeth Perkins, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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Name Meaning
German: occupational or status name from the German word Knapp(e), a variant of Knabe ‘young unmarried man’. In the 15th century this spelling acquired the separate, specialized meanings ‘servant, apprentice’, and ‘miner’. This surname is also found elsewhere in central Europe, e.g. in Czechia and Slovakia, where it is more commonly spelled Knap (compare 3 below).
German: in Franconia, a nickname for a dexterous or skillful person, of the same ultimate origin as 1 above.
Germanized or Americanized form of Polish, Czech, Slovak, Rusyn, and Slovenian Knap , a surname of ultimately German origin (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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