Brief Life History of Levi Baylief
When Levi Baylief Knight was born on 16 February 1811, in Calais, Washington, Maine, United States, his father, Thomas Westbrook Knight, was 33 and his mother, Pattie Martha Dyer, was 25. He lived in Chelsea, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1865 and Bangor, Penobscot, Maine, United States in 1870.
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Sources (6)
- Levi Knight, "United States Census, 1870"
- Levi Knight in the U.S., Citizenship Affidavits of US-born Seamen at Select Ports, 1792-1869
- Levi B Knight, "United States Census, 1850"
Spouse and Children
1811– Male
1826– Female
Parents and Siblings
1777–1834 Male
1785–1883 Female
Siblings (7)
1799– Male
1805– Male
1806–1882 Male
1808–1873 Female
1811– Male
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World Events (8)
1812
Age 1
1816
Age 5
1842 · Webster–Ashburton Treaty
Age 31
Name Meaning
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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