Brief Life History of James E.
When James E. King was born about 1842, in Alabama, United States, his father, William George King, was 46 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Lewis, was 41. He died after 1875.
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1797–1857 Male
1802–1865 Female
Siblings (10)
1822–1905 Female
1825–1875 Female
1825–1870 Male
1827–1893 Male
1830–1915 Male
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1846
Age 4
1863
Age 21
1863 · The Battle at Gettysburg
Age 21
Name Meaning
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).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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