NameThomas KNIGHT
Birth Date?
Spouses
Birth PlaceAmherst, Amherst County, Virginia
Death DateFeb 1836 Age: 69
Death PlaceMorgan County, Alabama
Family ID2483
Marr Dateabt 1787
Notes for Philiadelphia (Spouse 1)
RYAN: Irish: simplified form of Mulryan. Irish: reduced form of O’Ryan, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Riagháin (modern Irish Ó Riain) ‘descendant of Rian’; Ó Maoilriain ‘descendant of Maoilriaghain’, or Ó Ruaidhín ‘descendant of the little red one’. Ryan is one of the commonest surnames in Ireland; there has been considerable confusion with Regan. KaM Americanized spelling of German Rein. EG Source: Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press
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