When Mary Elizabeth Knowles was born on 29 October 1866, in Thurstonland, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Joseph Knowles, was 48 and her mother, Mary Moss, was 40. She lived in Honley, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1881 and Honley with Brockholes, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1881.
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.
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