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Knight: Origin, Geographical Distribution
A term originally applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms, by a certain ceremony of great importance called knighting, which waa generally conferred by the king.
Knight Surname Origin
Knight: Place of Origin :  London (United Kingdom) |  Hampshire (United Kingdom) |  Kent (United Kingdom) |  Essex (United Kingdom) |  Surrey (United Kingdom) |  Lancashire (United Kingdom)
Knight: Online Family Trees
KNIGHT Hampshire,Grande-Bretagne,Royaume-Uni (Hampshire, England, United Kingdom) 1787 - 1787
KNIGHT Londres,Angleterre (London, England, United Kingdom) 1916 - 1916
KNIGHT Newham,99 (London, England, United Kingdom) 1964 - 1964
KNIGHT London, Londres (London, England, United Kingdom) 1883 - 1883
KNIGHT Waterford Gloucester New-Jersey Etats-Unis (Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom) 1788 - 1788
KNIGHT Londres (Grande-Bretagne) (London, England, United Kingdom) 1916 - 1916
KNIGHT Bere Regis (England, United Kingdom) 1597 - 1597
KNIGHT Dorset (Dorset, England, United Kingdom) 1540 - 1540
KNIGHT NÉ SLATERS Coventry (West Midlands, England, United Kingdom)  -
KNIGHT Bream (Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom) 1846 - 1846

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Knight: GeneaNet Members
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Knight: Famous Genealogies
KNIGHT Gladys
KNIGHT Gladys born KNIGHT Gladys Maria (1944 - )
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 The surname Knight is related to the following famous family trees :
        LOMBARD Carole born PETERS Jane Alice (1908 - 1942)
Knight: Books that contain this surname
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KNIGHTA genealogic and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British Empire g by Bernard Burke,...
Author: John Bernard Burke - Published in 1860
... his wife, dau. of Sir Ralph Knight, of Langold, and had (with three daus., Bridget, m. to Sir John Heathcote, ...
KNIGHTA genealogic and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British Empire g by Bernard Burke,...
Author: John Bernard Burke - Published in 1860
... Constabulary in Ireland, 1858 Bruce Knight, Right Hon. Sir James Lewis, a Lord Justice, ...
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