Records of Mary Knowling on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Mary Knowling in your family tree. With over 30 billion records and 100 million family trees to search, Ancestry is one of the key websites to visit to help you trace your family tree back in time. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Mary Knowling and the Knowling Family History

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Knowling Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Knowling family tree.

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Knowling Family Tree Databases

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Knowling Forums

There are a number of forums which are dedicated to rearching particular surnames. These can be good places to share your findings and also to tap into the knowledge that others may already have. These can sometimes be a good way of finding living relations as these tend not to show up on the other sources of information for privacy reasons.

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Miscellaneous Knowling Databases

Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on Mary Knowling. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.

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Some Famous People called Mary Knowling

Mary Rae Knowling

Mary Rae Knowling (21 October 1923 – 31 January 2013) was a South African medical doctor.

She was born in Grahamstown to Arthur Knowling and Ruth Mullins. She attended the Diocesan School for Girls from 1933 to 1941. She served during World War II as a bombardier in the coastal artillery on Robben Island, after which she trained as a nurse at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town. After a stint as a midwife in East London and overseas travel she returned to South Africa to study medicine at University of Cape Town.

She returned to her home city of Grahamstown and established a successful medical practice from 1965 to 1987. In addition to her medical work she was also a churchwarden at the Grahamstown Cathedral and spent a great deal of time and effort on the restoration of the cathedral, she was awarded membership of the Order of Simon of Cyrene in 2011 in recognition for this and other philanthropic work in Grahamstown. The Sunset Rotary Club of Grahamstown named Dr Knowling its third "Citizen of the Year" in 2001.

Her philanthropic work included voluntary work for:*Diocesan School for Girls*Grahamstown and District Relief Association (Gadra)*Eloxweni Children's Shelter and the *SPCA

Source: Mary Rae Knowling, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Knowling

Family names can get corrupted over time, particularly where literacy was not as good. The following list contains some names that have similar sounds so you may want to also look at one or two of the more likely possibilites.

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