When Callie Mae Knight was born on 5 February 1886, in Boone, Boone, Iowa, United States, her father, Zephaniah Franklin Knight, was 23 and her mother, Mary Amanda Pratt, was 24. She married Maximallian Weigel on 18 January 1905, in Gilbert, Story, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Rural, Waupaca, Wisconsin, United States in 1935 and Harrison Township, Boone, Iowa, United States in 1940. She died on 2 October 1974, at the age of 88, and was buried in Saints Peter And Paul Cemetery, Boone, Iowa, United States.
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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 .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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