When Sarah Elizabeth Knight was born on 11 March 1840, in Liberty, Liberty, Texas, United States, her father, James Knight, was 34 and her mother, Eliza Green, was 30. She married Pelique Berry Jolley on 14 March 1856, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Utah, Utah, United States for about 60 years. She died on 25 November 1921, in Payson, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Payson City Cemetery, Payson, Utah, 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 .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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