Knowles family

Identity area

Type of entity

Family

Authorized form of name

Knowles family

Parallel form(s) of name

    Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

      Other form(s) of name

        Identifiers for corporate bodies

        Description area

        Dates of existence

        History

        The Knowles family originated with Henry Knowles, who was born in 1609 in England and came to Boston, and then to Rhode Island, with Roger Williams in 1635. In 1767 the Knowles family moved to Newport, Nova Scotia. In 1865, Thomas Benjamin Knowles (1840-1936) left Nova Scotia to study for the ministry at Bethany College in West Virginia. He remained in the United States and raised a family of nine sons with Cordelia Mary (Baldwin) Knowles. They were subsequently joined by other members of the Knowles family who left Nova Scotia for Ohio.

        Places

        Legal status

        Functions, occupations and activities

        Mandates/sources of authority

        Internal structures/genealogy

        General context

        Relationships area

        Access points area

        Subject access points

        Place access points

        Occupations

        Control area

        Authority record identifier

        Maintained by

        Nova Scotia Archives

        Institution identifier

        Rules and/or conventions used

        Status

        Level of detail

        Dates of creation, revision and deletion

        Language(s)

          Script(s)

            Sources

            Maintenance notes