When Vinson Knight was born on 4 March 1804, in Norwich, Huntington, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Dr Rodolphus Elderkin Knight, was 35 and his mother, Rizpah Lee, was 27. He married Martha McBride on 6 July 1826, in New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 31 July 1842, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States, at the age of 38, and was buried in Wythe Presbyterian Cemetery, Hancock, Illinois, 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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