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Buckinghamshire Lookup Requests / Re: Look Up at Aylesbury for Knight
« on: Monday 25 September 17 20:00 BST (UK) »
hi steve
I recall we did make contact some long while ago. You were in Welwyn I think. I am near Watford and Hemel.
I have been chasing other family lines and filling out family lives, but I have got no further back on the Knights except for speculating that John James's father may have been George b1808 d1870 (married to Mary Swain b 1805 d 1873) and was from Great Brickhill in Bucks.
Did you say that you are descended from JJKs brother George (married to Margaret Mathias) who perhaps had at least 2 children - Edward and George? Or like me are you descended from a son of John James K?
I'm especially interested in how this family established a connection with places very near to me (namely Hunton Bridge and Abbotts Langley).
There seems to be a horsey/cabbie connection throughout the 19th century until cars became more available to the wealthy class for whom they sometimes worked. I think around 1891 my GGF worked in the household of George B Kent (in Belgravia), the royal brush makers who now have a factory at Apsley very near to where I live! My GGF lived in Belgrave Mews and then (somehow) got to own a terrace in Bushey Heath that was called Hunton Cottages - before trying his hand at being a shopkeeper.
Even my GF (b1885) was horse mad and instructed some fancy folk in carriage driving (Prince Phillip style) and was a regular at Ascot and Goodwood. He took over the shop keeping.
regards John
I recall we did make contact some long while ago. You were in Welwyn I think. I am near Watford and Hemel.
I have been chasing other family lines and filling out family lives, but I have got no further back on the Knights except for speculating that John James's father may have been George b1808 d1870 (married to Mary Swain b 1805 d 1873) and was from Great Brickhill in Bucks.
Did you say that you are descended from JJKs brother George (married to Margaret Mathias) who perhaps had at least 2 children - Edward and George? Or like me are you descended from a son of John James K?
I'm especially interested in how this family established a connection with places very near to me (namely Hunton Bridge and Abbotts Langley).
There seems to be a horsey/cabbie connection throughout the 19th century until cars became more available to the wealthy class for whom they sometimes worked. I think around 1891 my GGF worked in the household of George B Kent (in Belgravia), the royal brush makers who now have a factory at Apsley very near to where I live! My GGF lived in Belgrave Mews and then (somehow) got to own a terrace in Bushey Heath that was called Hunton Cottages - before trying his hand at being a shopkeeper.
Even my GF (b1885) was horse mad and instructed some fancy folk in carriage driving (Prince Phillip style) and was a regular at Ascot and Goodwood. He took over the shop keeping.
regards John