Knapton Family History
Knapton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from either of two places so called, in
Norfolk and North Yorkshire, named from Old English cnapa
‘servant’ or the Old English personal name Cnapa + Old English
tun ‘settlement’.
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Name Distribution of Knapton Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Knapton families
 10 - 18  4 - 9 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Knapton families
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280 - 558 94 - 279 |
1 - 93 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Knapton Family Origin
Knapton Immigration Information
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Knapton Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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