Brief Life History of Hannah J
When Hannah J Knight was born on 19 October 1835, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Daniel Wrightman Knight, was 29 and her mother, Ann Sophia Pierce, was 25. She had at least 1 son with Alexander Monington. She lived in Buckingham Township, Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States for about 30 years. She died on 8 March 1886, at the age of 50, and was buried in Stockport Cemetery, Stockport, Buckingham Township, Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- 1860 US Census of Pennsylvania, Wayne County, Buckingham Township; page 100 [56]; family #679, Alx Monington and family members
- Hannah Knight Monington, "Find a Grave Index"
- 1850 US Census of Pennsylvania, Wayne County, Buckingham Township; page 7 A; family #43, Daniel Knight and family members
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
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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