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).
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Name Distribution of Knowles Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Knowles families
 174 - 345  59 - 173 |
 1 - 58  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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
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Knowles Family Origin
Knowles Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Knowles
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Knowles Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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