Knorr Family History
- Knorr Name Meaning
- German and Dutch: from Middle High, Middle Low German knorre, Middle Dutch cnorre ‘knot’, ‘gnarl’, ‘protruberance’, hence a nickname for a gnarled person.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 184,743 Historical Documents with Knorr on Ancestry
- 103,966 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 21,131 Census and Voter Lists
- 13,793 Military Records
- 5,256 Immigration Records
- 40,597 Member Trees
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Number of Knorr families
 10 - 17  4 - 9 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Knorr census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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