When Jephtha King was born on 15 August 1771, in Newport, Rhode Island, United States, his father, Job King, was 34 and his mother, Sarah Fish, was 34. He married Lucretia Irish on 6 November 1793, in Danby, Rutland, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 23 June 1837, in Granville, Granville Township, Licking, Ohio, United States, at the age of 65.
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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.
Possible Related NamesJeptha King and Lucretia Irish were sealed in the Nauvoo Temple on 6/2/1846
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