When William W Knowles was born on 25 January 1815, in White, Tennessee, United States, his father, James William Knowles, was 36 and his mother, Nancy Harris, was 38. He married Mary Polly Womack about 1832, in White, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 8 daughters. In 1850, at the age of 35, his occupation is listed as farmer in White, Tennessee, United States. He died about 1860, at the age of 46.
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English: topographic name from Middle English knol(le) ‘knoll, hilltop’ (Old English cnoll) or from any of the many places (some lost) named with this word, for example Knowle (Devon, Dorset, Lancashire, Somerset, Warwickshire, and Yorkshire) and Knole (Kent, Sussex).
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Tnúthghail (see Newell ).
English: variant of Noel , often, with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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