Elizabeth Knowles

Brief Life History of Elizabeth

When Elizabeth Knowles was born on 30 March 1698, in Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, her father, Eleazer Stratford Knowles, was 53 and her mother, Mary Porter, was 43. She died on 31 January 1731, at the age of 32.

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Family Time Line

Eleazer Stratford Knowles
1645–1730
Mary Porter
1655–1732
Thomas Knowles
1683–1758
Isaac Knowles
1685–
Mary Knowles
1686–1749
Anna Knowles
1689–1720
Samuel Knowles
1691–1772
Isaac Knowles
1696–1759
Elizabeth Knowles
1698–1731

Sources (3)

  • Elizabeth Knowlls, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
  • Elizabeth Knowles, "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850"
  • Eleazer Knowles Family Group Sheet

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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