Brief Life History of Esther
When Esther Knowles was born in 1846, in Butler, Alabama, United States, her father, Robert Knowles Sr, was 53 and her mother, Sarah Simerly, was 42. She married William H. Faust on 7 March 1865, in Butler, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She died before 1956, in United States.
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Sources (3)
- Esther Knolls in household of Robert Knolls, "United States Census, 1850"
- Ester Nolls in entry for William Robert Faust, "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974"
- Easter Noals in entry for Robert Willam Faust, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
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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