When Ellen Elizabeth King was born on 10 June 1891, in Battersea, London, England, United Kingdom, her father, Charles King, was 45 and her mother, Isabella Sanders, was 41. She married Arthur Henry Gillman on 9 August 1911, in Wandsworth, London, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died in May 1951, in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 59.
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).
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