When Rachel Knight was born on 28 September 1842, in Liberty, Liberty, Texas, United States, her father, James Knight, was 36 and her mother, Eliza Green, was 32. She married William Henry McMullen in 1877. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Koosharem Election Precinct, Piute, Utah, United States in 1900 and Groveland, Bingham, Idaho, United States in 1910. She died on 16 March 1926, in Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Grove City Cemetery, Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, 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.
Possible Related NamesFamily records state Rachel's first marriage was in polygamy, divorced 1863. Henry McMullen is 2nd husband.
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