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knock Name Meaning and History

  1. North German form of Knoche.
  2. German: possibly a habitational name from Knock near Emden.
  3. English: topographic name for someone living by a hill, from Middle English knocke ‘hill’ (Old English cnoc).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of knock Families in the US in 1920
Number of knock families
 13-23
 5-12		 1-4
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 9 - Messages: 11
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Bio: KNOCK, Katie (Nashville, TN/Dunedin, FL) linganore22 0
Lily Ada Knock petebarb_1 0
HERBERT & JANE KNOCK. maplesyrup1951 0
Amelia Knock (Haggerty), late 1800s Aletta Holmes 0
Frederica Knock froggy61 0
Malcolm Knock, Died 6/28/1924, Ashland, Oregon sandrabordelon 0
marriage record Knock Parish 1864 thamer12ca 1
Knock Family Susan Linville 1
Leah Grace Knock Karen Goltz 0
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