Brief Life History of Ronald Earl
When Ronald Earl Knight was born in 1917, his father, John Harkley Knight, was 33 and his mother, Ethelyn Mae Fuller, was 19. He died on 25 July 1944, in France, at the age of 27.
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Family Time Line
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- Ronald Earl Knight, "Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947"
Spouse and Children
1917–1944 Male
– Female
Parents and Siblings
1884–1963 Male
1898–1955 Female
Siblings (3)
1915–1915 Female
1917–1944 Male
1923–2005 Male
World Events (3)
1920 · Treaty of Versailles
Age 3
1924
Age 7
1924
Age 7
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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