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).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 2,054,728 Historical Documents with Knowles on Ancestry
- 764,152 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 422,597 Census and Voter Lists
- 55,393 Military Records
- 49,551 Immigration Records
- 763,035 Member Trees
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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
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124 - 246 42 - 123 |
1 - 41 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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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 the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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