Knowles Family History
Knowles Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived at the top of a
hill or by a hillock, from a genitive or plural form of Middle English
knoll ‘hilltop’, ‘hillock’ (Old English cnoll; see
Knoll), or habitational name from any of the many places named
with this word.Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó
Tnúthghail (see Newell).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Knowles
Name Distribution of Knowles Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Knowles families
 2,681 - 5,360  894 - 2,680 |
 1 - 893  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Knowles families
|
124 - 246 42 - 123 |
1 - 41 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Knowles census records
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Knowles Family Origin
Knowles Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Knowles Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Knowles Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Knowles census records
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Military Service by Knowles
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