Saturday, February 23, 2013

Surname Saturday - KNOWLES (England > Massachusetts)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.  

I am in the 7th great-grandmothers, up to number 565: Mehitable KNOWLES (1653-1721). [Note: the 7th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through two American generations of this KNOWLES family line is:

1.  Randall J. Seaver

2. Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983)
3. Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)

4. Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942)
5. Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962)

8. Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922)
9. Hattie Louise Hildreth (1857-1920)

16. Isaac Seaver (1823-1901)
17. Lucretia Townsend Smith (1827-1884)

34.  Alpheus B. Smith (1802-1840)
35.  Elizabeth Horton Dill (1791-1869)


70.  Thomas Dill (1755-1830)
71.  Hannah Horton (1761-1797)

140.  Thomas Dill (1708-1761)
141.  Mehitable Brown (1714-1758)


282.  Samuel Brown (1686-1739)
283.  Ruth Young (1688-1768)

564.  George Brown, born 16 January 1652 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States; died 03 August 1721 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.  He was the son of 1128. William Brown and 1129. Mary Moorecocke.  He married 1674 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.

565.  Mehitable Knowles, born 20 May 1653 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States; died 1721 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.  

Children of George Brown and Mehitable Knowles are:  James Brown (1675-1721); William Brown (1677-1721); George Brown (1679-1735); Mary Brown (1683-1716); Mehtiable Brown (1684-????); Samuel Brown (1686-1739); Mercy Brown (1690-1754); Joshua Brown (1692-????).

1130.  Richard Knowles, born 1614 in Lancashire, England; died 03 June 1675 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.  He married 25 March 1639 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.
1131.  Ruth Bowers, born 1616 in Lincolnshire, England; died 1686 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.  She was the daughter of 2262. George Bowers and 2263. Barbara Smythe.

Children of Richard Knowles and Ruth Bowers are:  Mercy Knowles (1640-1692); John Knowles (1644-1675); James Knowles (1648-1675); James Knowles (1648-1678); Samuel Knowles (1651-1737); Mehitable Knowles (1653-1721); Barbara Knowles (1656-1714); Ruth Knowles (1658-1714).

I have used two derivative, but well known, sources for this family line:

1)  Charles Thornton Libby, "The Knowles Family of Eastham" New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 79, Number 3 (September 1925), pages 286-297.

2)  Virginia Knowles Hufbauer, Descendants of Richard Knowles 1637-1973 (San Diego, Calif. : Ventura International, 1974). 

A review of the Plymouth and Eastham town record books should provide original source information.  Another to-do list item!


Copyright (c) 2013, Randall J. Seaver

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