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Hello from the U.S.A. I am searching for maternal family information on Joel and Mary Knight (her maiden name may have been Bright) of Marsh, Yarcombe, Devon.
I found 1841 census information on the family:
Joel Knight 56 Devon
Mary Knight 50 Devon
James Knight 20
Caroline Knight 18
Robert Knight 15
Joel Knight 12
Ho107/201 Folio: 7 Page: 9
Marsh, Yarcombe
Devonshire
Young Joel Knight and his brother Robert William immigrated to New York state in the U.S.A. 2 May 1851 (I think) on the ship Johns out of Plymouth (I think.) Eventually, they traveled to Waupaca County, Wisconsin where they obtained government land to farm and raised their families. I am descended from young Joel Knight. Knight Lake in Waupaca County is named for the family and one of their farms.
I would be interested in learning any other information on that branch of the Knight family in Devon: parents birth and death dates, father Joel's occupation, data on either father Joel's or mother Mary's parents, etc.
Young Joel married a Caroline (or may have been called Mary) Dunn, who had family (her brother was a carriage maker) in Parma, New York (near Rochester, New York), U.S.A. I'm not sure if he met her once he was in New York state or he knew her in Devon. His older brother, Robert William, married Ann Locke in England, before immigrating. At least two of their children, Thomas (b. 28 Jan 1849) and James Robert (b. 19 Jun 1850) were born in Devon.
I'm posting a photo of "young" Joel Knight, circa 1914, when he was about age 85!
Thank you. Jean_E, Missouri, U.S.A.
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Hello Jean,
I don't know if you have it, but Joel and Mary Knight also appear on the 1851 census, still living at Marsh, Yarcombe.
HO107/1927 Folio 371 page 12.
Joel Knight, 66 Farmer 40 acres, born Yarcombe Devon
Mary Knight 58 ditto
James Knight 32
Elizabeth Knight 8
There are several submitted entries for Joel Knight's baptism on the IGI search, on 10 April, 1785 at Yarcombe, Devon, to a Joel Knight and Elizabeth Sparks.
The Genuki Devon website also has a number of entries for Knight families in Yarcombe - (only a few mention Joel), but if you scroll through them, you may find something..... here's the link - http://www.rootschat.com/links/06xc/
good luck,
Yorkslass
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Thank you SO MUCH for the information!
Jean E, Missouri, USA
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Found your message regarding Joel Knight.
I have his parents as Joel 1785 and Mary Bright 1791. Joel snr's parents were Joel 1751 and Elizabeth Sparke 1762. I have Benjamin Knight and Joan Spiller as his grand parents.
Young Joel's sister Caroline married another Spiller, namely John and they went on to have several children - one being Edwin Knight Spiller who married Annie Tuck and then had George Spiller, my husband's grandfather!
Hope this might be of interest
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I have Mary Bright 1791, Sarah Bright 1798 and Robert Bright 1800 children of William Bright and Martha Batstone, grandchildren of Benjamin Bright and Sarah Spark.
Mary Bright 1791 married 1808 Joel Knight 1785. Daughter Elizabeth Knight 1809 married 1829 James Hurford 1804, their son Thomas Hurford 1831 married 1856 Rosa Anna Lutley 1831 and their daughter was Elizabeth Lutley Hurford 1858, who died unmarried in 1909.
Robert Bright 1800 married 1830 Elizabeth Lutley 1806. Sarah Bright 1798 married 1825 John Loosemore.
Many families of the Blackdown Hills area intermarried. Some of the above has still to be verified. Any errors or additions welcome. Hope this is of interest.
Regards,
Megran.
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Many thanks for that info on the Brights
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Thank you, quintus and Megran for your information on the Joel Knight family, the Bright family and the Spiller family of Devon. Also, thanks to the International Genealogical Index <http://www.familysearch.org> I've been able to trace my Knight family line in Yarcombe, Devon back to John Knight, b. 1 Jul 1659, Yarcombe, Devon; plus his parents, George Knight and Elizabeth Whellier, and John's wife: Joane Dare, b. 10 Jan 1661 or 1662, Yarcombe, married 28 Oct 1680, Honiton, Devon; plus Joane Dare's parents, Robert and Ann Dare! It seems that we are distant cousins through our Knight kin. :D One of the Knight family stories my maternal grandfather told was that "There always was a "Joel Knight" and so far the family line I found supports that. I do have a Public Member family tree on Ancestry.com: Knight and Ogden Families, Waupaca, Wis. if you would like to look at it and have me link you to it. [Wisconsin is where my g-g grandfather Joel Knight and his brother Robert Knight, from Yarcombe, bought farmland, after spending time in Upstate New York, working and saving money. They settled in Waupaca County. One of the lakes in the Waupaca area is named Knight Lake after one of their farms - I think it was named for the farm of one of Robert's sons.] Again, thank you so much. Jean E., Missouri, USA
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Hi all
This is very interesting to me , as I hav ejust started 'doing' the Spillers of Devon then London, In 1881 census there were more Spillers living in Yarcombe than anywhere else put together.
My Spillers were George edward and George Williams that married in to the Perry family.
My father in lwas is Neil and my Husband in Andy Spiller. Any realtives out there?
Sue
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Just another possible conneciton. We think that Joel's (b1785) sister Ann (b 1790) married John Stone in 1808. John is 3rd great grandfather. John & Ann had 7 children all born in Globe Inn, Marsh, Yarcombe, Devon.
Jacquie
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Hello zooze & curlyjacquie -
I'm sorry I didn't reply earlier. I've been away from home (and not working on genealogy) since late July.
zooze / Sue: The most recent Spiller I have in my family tree is Joan Spiller (b. 8 Aug 1725, Yarcombe, Devon; d. 18 Apr 1784, Yarcombe, Devon; buried at Yarcombe) m. 26 Dec 1749, Membury, Devon to Benjamine/Benjamin Knight (b. 19 Feb 1716, Yarcombe, Devon; d. 29 Apr 1789.) I have 7 children for that couple, if you would like that information. Just reply to this message and I'll send the list in a reply.
curlyjacquie / Jacquie: I do have Ann Knight (b. 1790, Yarcombe, Devon; d. 26 Feb 1854, Taunton, Somerset) m. 29 Feb 1808 to John Stone. I don't have any other information on John Stone or his children with Ann. I'd be grateful if you would share what you have on that family.
Also . . . for anyone familiar with the Yarcombe, Devon area . . . so what does "Marsh" refer to? Is that just the name for a section of the Yarcombe area or is it really a marsh? The image I get of ancestors is one from H.P. Lovecraft's Shadows out of Innsmouth with humans who mated with sea creatures resulting in ill-favored progeny with fins, webbed fingers and webbed toes! :o
By the way, I did find that my g-g grandfather, Joel Knight (b. Aug 1829, Yarcombe, Devon; d. 9 Nov 1911, Waupaca, Wisconsin, USA) married his first cousin, Caroline Dunn (b. 17 Feb 1825, Yarcombe, Devon; d. Jul 1859, Waupaca County, Wisconsin, USA) Mar 1851 before they left England in late Apr 1851 with his brother Robert William Knight and his family and her brother William J. Dunn. Caroline Dunn and her brother William J. were the children of Martha Bright and James Dunn. Martha Bright was sister to g-g grandfather Joel Knight's mother, Mary Bright. So . . . maybe I should have fins and webbed digits. ::)
Relatively yours -
Jean E., Missouri, USA
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Hi Jean, it's entirely possible that the name Marsh comes from an old description of the place as it's in the Yarty valley and the description of the landscape and soil here talks of areas where drainage is poor.
"An annual rainfall of some 1000 mm percolates through the highly porous greensand to be held up at its junction with the marl so that a spring-line of impaired drainage is found."
http://www.eastdevon.gov.uk/planning-yarcombe_and_marsh_vds#landscape
The whole page might be of interest to you as you have ancestors there:
http://www.eastdevon.gov.uk/planning-yarcombe_and_marsh_vds
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Thank you Darwin 53 -
I see on the Yarcombe planning and design statement on the East Devon government web page that Marsh is also referred to as Marsh Village. I like that a little better than just Marsh. :) As the grand daughter of farmers, I know having land with a higher water table than other fields would be a good thing during droughts.
Well, there goes my ancestors with fins and webbed fingers and toes theory! ;D
It looks like very pretty country with some physical similarities to the area in Wisconsin where my Knights bought farm land and settled.
Thank you, again, for directing me to the informative web site.
Jean_E, Missouri
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Hello, again, zooze/Sue -
In working on my Devon Knight and Spiller families, I am finding several different generations of Knights in and around Yarcombe, Devon marrying Spillers there. So, you and I might eventually have a connection.
So far, the most recent Spiller I have is a William Spiller (no parental information on him yet, or birth/death dates) married 11 May 1814 at Yarcombe, Devon to Mary Knight (b. Aug 1792, Yarcombe, Devon; d. 1824), with a daughter, Jane Spiller (no other information yet on her, either.) William appears to have been Mary's 2nd husband.
Mary Knight's paternal grandmother was a Joan Spiller (b. 8 Aug 1725, Yarcombe, Devon; d. 18 Apr 1784, Yarcombe, Devon) married 26 Dec 1749, Membury, Devon to Benjamine/Benjamin Knight (b. 19 Feb 1716, d. 29 Apr 1789, both at Yarcombe, Devon.) Their son, Joel Knight (1751-1837, both at Yarcombe, Devon), was the father of Mary Knight, wife of William Spiller.
Mary Knight's maternal grandmother, Winifred Spiller, was an older sister to her paternal grandmother, Joan Spiller.
So . . . I guess Mary Knight Spiller, wife of William Spiller, was her own cousin?!?
Let me know if you would like more of my Spiller and Knight information.
Relatively yours -
Jean_E., Missouri
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It looks like very pretty country with some physical similarities to the area in Wisconsin where my Knights bought farm land and settled.
Yes it's a beautiful part of Devon and many of the current farming families have the same names as they did hundreds of years ago. If you look at it on Google earth, you'll see how relatively unspoilt it still is.
This thread might interest you too as it has some information about some Spillers in that area:
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,484314.msg3427108.html#msg3427108
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Thank you for the link to more Rootschat messages regarding the surname Spiller in Devon. From my family tree, it looks like the Spillers were fruitful and multipled (a lot.) It's good to know there are still some of the same families carrying on in farming in the area, too. How would we live the lives we do without the farmers?
Jean_E., Missouri
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I fear that eastdevon.gov.uk has deprived Marsh of a slice of its history in the 'golden era of coaching', prior to the arrival of the railway at Exeter in 1844.
An item attributed to the Taunton Courier, reproduced in The Times of Monday 19 April 1824, reports a fracas at The Heathfield Arms on the 'line of the new road from Ilminster to Honiton'. A Coroner's Inquest 14 years later, on the death of a Defiance coachman at what was then called Buckland Hill [which recent local research has identified as Ham Hill - a notorious accident blackspot betwixt Marsh and Ilminster], drew fascinating exchanges in the Chard Union Gazette that on this 'formidable hill' no fewer than 'ten coaches are running daily to and from London'.
In 1824 Mr Loaring junr was Landlord of The Heathfield Arms; 1838 a Mr Loaring of The George, Ilminster, employed a Horsekeeper who assisted coaches with additional horses 'up the hill beyond Westhay' en route to Ilminster, passing through the northern tip of Combe St Nicholas Parish.
My interest in Yarcombe stems from James GILL, Coachman, who was buried there in 1844. In 1851 his widow, Elizabeth, was living at Marsh with her younger daughter and a couple of lodgers: Ann BEER (nee SPILLER) and her daughter Jane.
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Hi Jean_E et al,
My name is Andy Spiller and I believe my Spiller roots also come from Yarcombe. I have tried to add a few of the people mentioned in this thead to my Family Tree (spiller.org.uk then follow link for Family Tree)...it is all a little confusing! Does anyone have the information in a tree format?
Thanx,
Andy
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Thank you, dee-jay, for the bit of history of coaching in the area of Marsh and Yarcombe. It sounds like the issues about the hill between Marsh and Ilminster must have been sources of pub discussions and such at the time. It's great when those periods in history can come alive for us!
Historically yours -
Jean_E, Missouri
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Hello, Andy -
I thought I submitted a reply to your message, but it didn't appear, so I guess I didn't complete the submission.
It looks like you and I are related through Joan Spiller (b. b. 08 Aug 1725, Yarcombe) and her husband Benjamin Knight (b. 19 Feb 1716, Yarcombe.) I have my family tree on Ancestry.com as a Public Member. If it would work for you, I can send you an invitation, through Ancestry.com, to be able to view it, without the need to have an Ancestry.com account for the USA/Worldwide.
If you would like that, I can send you a personal message through this forum so we may exchange personal email addresses. Let me know if that would be acceptable to you.
Relatively speaking . . .
Your cousin (or something), Jean_E, Missouri, USA
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For anyone with Yarcombe ancestry there is a wealth of Parish Chest material available at Devon RO, particularly Settlement Examinations, Apprenticeship Indentures etc. Go to TNA website at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/ select Advanced search and enter Settlement and place; select Devon Record Office in the Repository and click Search. You may be pleasantly surprised with the amount of items available, some of which will undoubtedly be 'must haves' if you want to put some meat on your ancestors' bones ........ ;D
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Hi Cousin Jean,
I cant seem to post a PM, so my email address is
Would love to see your family tree to see how it fits in with mine.
Thanx,
Andy
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Hello to Andy Spiller -
The Moderator sent me a personal message with your personal email address, which had to be removed from your public message. I sent you an invitation from Ancestry.com to my Knight and Ogden Families, Waupaca, Wis. family tree. Let me know if you got the invitation or not and if you had any problems accessing the family tree.
All the best -
Your cousin through the Spiller connection, Jean_E, Missouri
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Hi Jean
I believe we are distantly related. My 3xGt Grandparents were Abraham Knight and Mary Loosemore from Yarcombe. Abraham had a son John who married Elizabeth Sparkes - my 2 x Gt Grandparents. Joel and Robert were John's brothers.
John had a son also John who married Harriett Collins - my Gt Grandparents.
John's youngest son was Frederick Levi Knight my grandfather borne around 1860.
Frederick was married twice. His first wife Martha died. They had 2 children that I know about. he remarried Annie Bradford who was my grandmother. My Mother Ethel was their youngest daughter borne 1915.
This following website and page may be of interest as it has info on the yarcombe knights
http://www.loosemore.co.uk/Tree/wc06/wc06_484.htm
The two Johns and Frederick lived in Curland Somerset Nr Taunton., The list of baptisms below follows the families.
http://www.parkhouse.org.uk/transcr/curland%20all%20saints%20SOM%20UK%20baptisms%201710-1900.pdf
Hope this is of interest
Regards Phil
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Hello from across The Pond, Cousin! :D
We are related. I've have the surnames of Loosemore and Spark(e)(s) more than once in my family tree. I will update my tree with the information you have given me. I had no information for children of Abraham Knight and Mary Loosemore, for one thing. After Abraham passed away (abt. 1805) she married a John Doble. I do not yet have a death date or location for her either. From what I can tell, some of the Knight contingent from Devon immigrated to Australia, too, along with some Doble kin.
It looks like every family line and every generation named sons John, Robert and Joel. My immigrant ancestor, Joel Knight, was b. 1829, Yarcombe. His parents: Joel Knight (1785-1858, Yarcombe) and Mary Bright (b. 1791, Yarcombe.) The parents of Joel Knight (b. 1795): Joel Knight (1751-1837, Yarcombe) and Elizabeth Spark(e) (1762-1820, Yarcombe.) That Joel Knight (1851-1837) was one of your Abraham's older brothers! Besides their brother Robert, I have some info on their other siblings: Betty, Benjamin(e), Anne, and Elizabeth.
My immigrant ancestor, Joel Knight, and a 1st cousin, Caroline Dunn, married and left soon after by ship to the USA, landing at the Port of New York, and in a few years earning money to buy farm land in Wisconsin. His brother Robert William Knight, Robert's wife, Anne Locke, and their 2 children (at the time), plus a brother and a sister (I think) of Caroline's all left on the same ship. Robert and his family owned a farm next to Joel's in Waupaca County, Wisconsin. It's very pretty country with rolling glacial hills, sandy/rocky soil, lots of pine and hardwoods (that the lumber companies cut down in the 1840s), and many little glacier-created spring-fed lakes.
I will send you a personal message via Rootschat, with my direct email address. I have my Knight family tree (Knight and Ogden Families, Waupaca, Wis.) as a Public Member family tree on Ancestry.com. I can send you an invitation so you can see it, even if you do not subscribe to Ancestry.com.
One key for me in my long-distance family tree research was my maternal grandfather, Claude Joel Knight, saying that his paternal grandfather, Joel (the immigrant) said there always had been someone named Joel "forever" in the Knight line. He was SO right.
Anyway, besides me in the St. Louis, Missouri area (right now), you have cousins in Ohio, near Dayton, northern Kentucky, and Virginia. One young Virginia cousin even has his mother's maiden name, Knight, as a given name. No Joels in any successive generations, however.
Relatively yours, and watch for my personal message through Rootschat.
Jean_E, St. Louis, Missouri
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Correction - typo on a date:
That Joel Knight (1751-1837) was one of your Abraham's older brothers! Besides their brother Robert, I have some info on their other siblings: Betty, Benjamin(e), Anne, and Elizabeth.
Sigh. . . :-[
Jean_E., St. Louis, Missouri
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I am searching for any links or leads pertaining to the following:
Maria J. Pilkington, who married William Knight - 1844. William came from Coola Lodge, Kilmague Co Kildare. Maria was daughter of Abraham J. Pilkington of Kilbride Castle, Westmeath, Ireland.
Thanks.
Jim Blower, Canada
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Sorry I can't help you. All of my Knight ancestors in the British Isles seem to have come from Yarcombe, Devon and environs and not Ireland.
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I found this thread after Googling Benjamin Knight and Joan Spiller. Various online trees and a post on page 2 say they married in Membury on 26 December 1749.
I've found the marriage on FindMyPast, however it appears to show Robert Knight married Joan Spiller, rather than Benjamin.
FindMyPast also has the the baptism records of their children, Betty (transcribed as Kinghs) and Joel in Yarcombe in 1750 and 1751, then four more in Stockland (Benjamin, Robert, Anne and Abraham) between 1754 and 1764.
Is Robert rather than Benjamin on the marriage record just a mistake?
I'm descended from the Knight family through Sarah who married William Loosmore. I recently took a DNA test and have had a couple of matches with different people descended from Grace Knight (born abt 1798) and John Glade. If their trees are accurate her parents were Joel Knight (son of Benjamin and Joan, born abt 1751) and Elizabeth Spark, and my great x 3 grandmother Sarah's father Robert was Joel's brother.
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Hello, ScottH -
I suspect we are cousins. I don't have much information on Benjamin Knight and Sarah Spiller. I'm in the USA, but have an Ancestry World Membership. I dpn't have a Find My Past subscription.
In my family tree information I try to cite the source of the data. However, I find I don't have a source for the 26 Dec 1749 marriage of Joan Spiller and Benjamin Knight at Membury. Dang it! I will have to "go looking about" to determine where I obtained the Joan Spiller - Benjamin Knight marriage information.
I have Robert as the name of Benjamin Knight's father and his mother, Elizabeth Spiller. Were you able to see the handwritten marriage record for Joan Spiller and Benjamin (or, maybe Robert) Knight? Those are the records I trust more than any others. If the record you found is a transcription, the transcriber could have been fully correct or could have made an error, putting the first name of the groom's father in the space for the first name of the groom. I have seen full-image records (birth, death, and marriage) in the Ancestry records wherein the transcriber/indexer made an error in some of the information that is clearly readable in the actual image of the record.
Besides those with the surname Knight and Spiller in my family lines, I too have Loosmore/Loosemore and Spark/Sparks/Sparke.
I will have to get back to you on your question regarding the correct first name for the husband of Joan Spiller married 26 Dec 1749 at Membury.
Thank you for contacting me.
Jean E. DeLauche, a Devon Knight cousin in the USA
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Hello, again, ScottH -
I found the source of my info with the Membury, Devon marriage date (26 Dec 1749) for Benjamin (also spelled "Benjamine") Knight and Joan Spiller.
I found the info through the free databases of FamilySearch.org. Initially the database was named "Ancestral File." Now it is named Family Search Genealogies.
This is the link to sources for Benjamin/Benjamine Knight:
(TinyURL link) http://tinyurl.com/zukjqsa
The Family Search Genealogies info for Joan Spiller (b. about 1725-1728) to Robert Spiller and his wife Elizabeth Major differs with one additional source giving the first name for Joan's husband as "Robert." This is the link (TinyURL): http://tinyurl.com/hchtkny
Following is a synopsis of all the info I have found (so far) regarding Benjamin/Benjamine Knight and his wife Joan Spiller:
Name Benjamine [also spelled Benjamin] KNIGHT (AFN:8DFF-Z7)
Pedigree
Born: 1715
Christened: 19 Feb 1715/6 Place: Yarcombe, Devon, England
Died: 29 Apr 1789 Place: Yarcombe, Devon, England
Buried: 29 Apr 1789 Place: Yarcombe, Devon, England
Married: 26 Dec 1749 Place: Membury, Devon, England
Father: Robert KNIGHT (AFN:FGD3-L5)
Family
Mother [of Benjamine/Benjamin Knight]: Elizabeth SPILLER (AFN:FGD3-MB)
Wife's Name Joan SPILLER (AFN:8DFG-0C)
Pedigree
Born: 1725 (other records give the year of her birth as 1728)
Christened: 8 Aug 1725 Place: Yarcombe, Devon, England
Died: 18 Apr 1784 Place: Yarcombe, Devon, England
Buried: 18 Apr 1784 Place: Yarcombe, Devon, England
Married: 26 Dec 1749 Place: Membury, Devon, England
Father [of Joan Spiller]: Robert SPILLER (AFN:FGD3-NH)
Family
Mother [of Joan Spiller]: Elizabeth MAJOR (AFN:FGD3-PN)
- Children of Benjamin/Benjamine Knight and Joan Spiller
--1. Male, Joel KNIGHT (AFN:8DFF-R6)
--- Born: 1751
--- Christened: 10 Dec 1751 Place: Yarcombe, Devon, England
---Died: 19 Apr 1837 Place: Yarcombe, Devon, England
--- Buried: 26 Apr 1837 Place: Yarcombe, Devon, England
--2. Female, Betty KNIGHT (AFN:8DFG-W1)
--- Born: 1750 Christened: 17 Jun 1750 Place: Yarcombe, Devon, England
-- 3. Male, Benjamin KNIGHT (AFN:8DFG-X6)
--- Born: 1754 Christened: 12 Jun 1754 Place: Stockland, Devon, England
--- Buried: 9 May 1837 Place: Yarcombe, Devon, England
-- 4. Male, Robert KNIGHT (AFN:8DFG-ZC)
--- Born: 1756
--- Christened: 2 Feb 1756 Place: Stockland, Devon, England
-- 5. Female, Anne KNIGHT (AFN:8DFH-0H)
--- Born: 1757 Christened: 23 Oct 1757 Place: Stockland, Devon, England
-- 6. Male, Abraham KNIGHT (AFN:8DFH-1N)
--- Born: 1764
--- Christened: 29 Jul 1764 Place: Stockland, Devon, England
Source:
Family Search Genealogies (Formerly named: Ancestral File, FamilySearch.org); http://tinyurl.com/zukjqsa
Publisher
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah
Note: I am descended from Benjamine/Benjamin Knight and Joan Spiller through their son Joel Knight (1751-1837) and his wife Elizabeth Spark/Sparke.
-- Their first son, named Joel was born about 1780 and died 13 Feb 1782. Later on they named their 3rd son Joel as well.
--- That Joel Knight (born about 1785, christened at Yarcombe 10 Apr 1785, died 30 Jun 1858) married Mary Bright 7 Sep 1808 at Yarcombe.
---- The youngest son of Joel and Mary Bright Knight was a great-great grandfather of mine. His name: Joel Knight (born 21 Jun 1829, not born in Devon.) My g-g grandfather, Joel Knight and his brother Robert William Knight, emigrated from Devon with their wives (Robert William and his wife also had their sons Thomas and Robert James with them) to the USA aboard the ship Johns, arriving at the Port of New York 2 May 1851. Eventually, Joel, his wife, Caroline Dunn, brother Robert William, his wife Anne Locke, with their 3 sons - 3rd son Joel (called Joel Knight, Jr. in some records) was born in 1853 in New York state - traveled to the relatively new state of Wisconsin, where they purchased land to farm in Farmington Township, Waupaca County, Wisconsin.
Whew!
You may be interested to know there is a Knight Lake in Farmington Township, Waupaca County, Wisconsin named for the Joel Knight, Jr. (son of Robert William and Anne Locke Knight). I have attached a JPEG image of the lake. It is one of 22 connected spring-fed lakes, named the Chain O'Lakes, which were carved out by glaciers. If you are interested you can see an image of all the Chain O'Lakes here: (TinyURL link): http://tinyurl.com/h9kbgom
Best wishes from one of your American cousins -
Jean
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Hi Jean,
Thanks for the information and replying so quickly. Wasn't sure I'd get one considering how long ago the original messages were posted!
Yes the marriage was the handwritten record. I expect most of the Devon records you mention can all be viewed on FindMyPast, so it may be worth a look.
From what I remember Sarah's parents marriage record had two witnesses, one with the surname Spiller and the other Spark, which helps to confirm the link.
Scott