When Norman Knight Amundsen was born on 25 January 1890, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Andrew Amundsen, was 40 and his mother, Elizabeth Anna Glover, was 28. He married Sarah Charlotte Graham on 29 June 1916, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 20 years. He died on 27 October 1966, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, 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 .
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Possible Related NamesLife Story of NORMAN KNIGHT AMUNDSEN by Eugene Knight Amundsen Norman Knight Amundsen, known as N.K. by his wife, was born in 1890 in Salt L …
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