Isaac Knowles

Brief Life History of Isaac

When Isaac Knowles was born on 28 July 1696, in Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, his father, Eleazer Stratford Knowles, was 51 and his mother, Mary Porter, was 41. He died in 1759, in his hometown, at the age of 63, and was buried in Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States.

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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)

  • Isaac Knowlls, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
  • Isaac 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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