RootsChat.Com

Hi,   My grandmother Rose Knill had a sister Alice Maud Knill who married Reginald Lawrence, his daughter Margaret Married Aubrey Nott in Barnstaple about 1952.   Alice maud and Rose Knill had another sister Ivy Grace Knill who married Arthur William Clemence - his mother was Florence Horrell born 1882 married Charles Clemence in Barnstaple Dec 1900.  Bill Webb

I have a lot about John and William Knill's family but I have never been able to connect this Knill family to either the Braunton or Pilton, Barnstaple - Knill families.   I do have a document sent to me a few years ago about the Braunton Knills from a chap who lived on one of the Greek Isles it appears on page 51 of his family tree document entitled Eleven (Chapter) The Knill Line and covers Alfred Slocombe Knill et al.    I was born in Ilfracombe as was my mother but not related to the Ilfracombe Knills, our family came from Barnstaple temporarily but prior to that from North Molton (for generations).
William Knill (Fowey) had 11 children.  William 1886 died in infancy; Emily 1888 married Sydney Knapp both died in the 1911 Enteric fever outbreak in Barnstaple; Eliza 1890 married frederick Frisbee lived in Barnstaple; Rose 1893 my Grandmother married 3 times all in Ilfracombe lived in Fore St, Berkely Place and lastly 12 Highfield Rd;  William George famous shooter 6th Devons won  medals at Bisley; Charles Henry wounded in WW1 moved to Tyneside then back to Barnstaple; Frederick 1898 WW1 ship was wrecked at Cape Wrath pensioned out of Royal Navy he emigrated to Winnipeg then moved and died in British Columbia; Florence 1899 also died in 1911 enteric fever outbreak; John Henry 1901 (Uncle Jack) emigrated to Winnipeg then on to Grand Rapids then Muskegon, Michigan USA; Alice Maud 1906 married Reginald Lawrence lived in Barnstaple; Ivy Grace 1909 married Arthur William Clemence moved to Exeter.    The Knapps who died in 1911 had two children and they were brought up by William and Sarah Jane Knill but the boy William Knapp fell foul of the law and was put into care of DR Barnardos and sent to Australia on his 16th Birthday.    Interesting but not sure if relevent to you.   All the best   Bill
 

John Knill was my Gt Gt Grandfather he was born/baptised in swimbridge 14th Oct 1827.  Married Grace Handford 27/3/1853 in Chittlehampton.   They moved to Cornwall and my Gt grandfather William was born there (Fowey) in 1863 (they had 10 children in total.   John died at home on 11th sept. 1889 following a dreadful accident at the Molland Mine of a shock to the system, the result of severe burns sustained by a quantity of hot iron ore falling on him (There is a coroners report in the North Devon Journal 13/9/1889) .    His son William had a 'colourful' life which included a spell of five years in 1881 in Dartmoor convict prison, he 'joined up in WW1 at about 52 and had at least two charges of 'Salmon poaching' with a Gaff.