Just spoken with my grat uncle Teddy Knight, son of Mary Victoria Knight (nee Hutton) and he is going to send me a heap of stuff on this line of the family.
he told me that he was born in 1925 and
Darcy was 12 years older (married and had 6 kids)
Allan was 10 years older (married and had 6 girls)
Claire was 7 years older (married and had 6 kids)...married a Sydney Doctor named Horecroft?
Bernard was 5 years older and never married
Teddy married late and has no children
Marnie was 10 years younger and married Tommy Roper from Tawonga Vic and has 6 kids.
Teddy and Marnie are the only two still living.
He also talked about Robert Francis Hutton born 1891 to John Thomas and Ellen Kelleher. Apparently he was a well heeled butcher who married a Sydney girl nicknamed "Paddy" because she came from Paddington and after she died he moved to Queensland and set up a chain of butcher shops. he apparently remarried in Queensland, and died up there.
More on Mary Victoria and her father, John Thomas. In his obit (which I have) it talks about him being a good boxer and a belt winner in Tasmania. It also says that in his younger days he was a TRAPEZE artist!!!!! Teddy Knight was a professional trapeze and high wire artist who travelled around the world with circuses and when i asked him if his grandfather taught him he said it was mainly his mother Mary Victoria's teachings, but he remembers his grandfather performing.
His obit also talks of his children (he died 2/6/1946) and only three children are mentioned : Robert (who had gone to Qld by that stage), Mary and John (Jack.....my grandfather), so the 4th child, Frederick James born 1898 stills remains a mystery.
Looks like i have a heap of following up to do here.....and I await Uncle Teddy parcel with anticipation.
Susie
