Biography
Samuel Knowles was born 25 November 1857 in Burton upon Trent, England, United Kingdom to William Henry Knowles (bef1857) and Esther Shaw (bef1857) and died 5 July 1954 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia of unspecified causes. He married Emily Ann Barnes (1863-1924) 7 February 1883 .
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Ethel Hester Knowles (1884-1908) | |||
| Samuel Walter Knowles (1886) | |||
| Arthur Franklin Knowles (1888) | |||
| Elizabeth Emily Knowles (1890-1951) | |||
| Herbert Norman Knowles (1892) | |||
| Stanley Hiram Knowles (1894) | |||
| Reginald Vernon Knowles (1899) | |||
| Edith Millicent Knowles (1901) | |||
| William Henry Knowles (1904-1904) | |||
| Percy Knowles (1905-1905) | |||
Obituary
Veteran of State Methodism
MR. SAM KNOWLES DIES—CHURCH LOSS
LAST of the original members of the old Albert Street Methodist Church — and Queensland's oldest gemmologist — died in Brisbane yesterday.
He was 96-year-old veteran of Queensland Methodism, Mr. Sam Knowles. Mr. Knowles came to Brisbane from England on the sailing ship, Flying Cloud, in 1863. For 86 years a member of the Queensland Methodist Church, he first attended services when the city church was situated at the corner of Burnett Lane and Albert Street, on the present site of the Commonwealth Bank. His father, Mr. Sam Knowles, Senior, was one of the original trustees of the present Albert Street Church, and was responsible for the purchase of the property for £10,000. Mr. Knowles himself was senior trustee of the present Albert Street Church, completed in 1888.
He also was superintendent of the Sunday School at the church for 23 years. Dapper, bearded Mr. Knowles continued in his own business until a month ago when he suffered a stroke. His sons have been helping him in the business, which he established in 1878. He was nine years Queensland president of the Federated Retail Jewellers' Association of Australia. He also founded the Queensland Justices' Association. Keen and alert until the stroke, Mr. Knowles preached in the Albert Street Methodist Church last October. Tomorrow, the Rev. H. M. Wheller will conduct his funeral service in the same church. Mr. Knowles has left three sons, a daughter, 15 grand children, and three great grandchildren.
- "Veteran of State Methodism.". The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954) (Brisbane, Qld.: National Library of Australia): p. 3. 5 July 1954. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50603083. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
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