Brief Life History of Thomas
When Thomas Knowles was born on 26 December 1683, in Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, his father, Eleazer Stratford Knowles, was 38 and his mother, Mary Porter, was 29. He died on 5 September 1758, at the age of 74.
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Family Time Line
Sources (3)
- Thomas Knowlls, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Thomas Knowles, "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850"
- Eleazer Knowles Family Group Sheet
Parents and Siblings
1645–1730 Male
1654–1732 Female
Siblings (7)
1683–1758 Male
1685– Male
1686–1749 Female
1689–1720 Female
1691–1772 Male
+2 More Children
Name Meaning
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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