Brief Life History of William Richard
When William Richard Knox was born on 10 February 1929, in Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, William H Knox, was 28 and his mother, Elizabeth Ethel Ford, was 22. He lived in Redstone Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States in 1940 and Brier Hill, Redstone Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States in 1950. He died on 9 July 1967, at the age of 38, and was buried in Brownsville, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Sources (3)
- William Knox in household of William Knox, "United States Census, 1940"
- William Knox in household of William Knox, "United States Census, 1930"
- William R Knox, "United States 1950 Census"
Parents and Siblings
World Events (8)
1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
1932
Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
Scottish and English (Northumberland and Durham): from a genitive or plural form of Old English cnocc ‘round-topped hill’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived on a hilltop, or a habitational name from any of the places in Scotland and northern England named with this element, now spelled Knock, in particular one in Renfrewshire.
Scottish: habitational name from any of the places in Scotland named with Gaelic cnoc ‘hill’, for example Knock in Renfrewshire. It is not possibly to disentangle this from the surname derived from the English etymon mentioned in 1 above.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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