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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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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