Margaret Knights

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Name - "official" name and what they were known as
Margaret Knights

Date and place of birth
abt 1776 Thetford Cambridgeshire
Names of parents

Date and place of baptism - if applicable


Details of each of his or her marriages - if any
married 1) John Creek, 14 Dec 1797, Thetford Cambridgeshire
2) Joe Edwards, 1831, Thetford Cambridgeshire
Occupation(s) - if any

1851 and 1861 Landed Proprietor

Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK) - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him/her on (if s/he lived in census times!).

Thetford (now Little Thetford) Cambridgeshire

1841 - "Hamlet of Thetford and Stretham" with Joseph Edwards, 60 Shepherd, and William Creek, 20 Ag Lab.

1851 - Main St, Hamlet of Thetford with Elizabeth Creek, granddaughter

1861 - Front St, Hamlet of Thetford, with Rebecca Creek, Granddaughter. Next to the parish church.

Date, place and cause of death

March Q 1868 - (92 years)

Date and place of burial. Probably St George church, Thetford\

Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable doubtful

Memorial inscription - if any

Link to son John Creek http://www.genealogistsforum.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=9815&highlight=john+Creek

[Mary from Italy]

Have you looked at the Cambs. baptisms on FMP?

I can't see an obvious candidate in Little Thetford, but there are one or two Margaret Knights baptisms in Stretham, only a couple of miles away. The dates aren't exactly right, but they might be worth investigating.

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Hi Mary, no I don't have fmp, I should probably get a sub for a while and check it out as the Cambs baptisms are not in the IGI. I should check back with the census for more accurate age.

I am not sure how to take it further though, I have no idea about Margaret really. By the names of her children, her father might have been Richard, or William, or John, like her husband. Oh, there might be something in her 1831 marriage records to Joe Edwards.

Stretham seems logical, as the families, Creeks, Knights, Popes etc moved back and forwards between the two hamlets - depended on work and available housing I guess.

Di

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OOh, I just signed up for a 24 hour free trial - I can see I will be busy today !! Lucky its Saturday - but it looks like Australian records only. Off to investigate more !!

Di

[kiterunner]

You must have chosen the Australian Findmypast, Di. There is lots on there, so it's going to keep you busy for the 24 hours. But the Cambridgeshire baptisms will be on the UK site.

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Today, while searching for someone else, I discovered a website www.littlethetford.org, which has much of the parish registers transcribed !! The marriage of Margaret and Joseph does not give many clues - witnesses John Roberts, Thomas Goodenough, Sarah Yarrow. Thomas was a serial witness, I think he was the parish clerk.

But it gives me lots of info about the rest of the Creek/pop/Goodenough clan and all their relatives. I can see hours and hours of adding info to my database.

This means I can probably afford to shell out 17 pounds for the Stretham records on CD - I was trying to decide which one I could afford.

Di

[Mary from Italy]

Wow, that was an excellent find.

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I like this marriage entry from 1753

"28 Oct Richard and Mary, from ? Cambridge, by lic, secretly"

so secretly no surname was recorded.

Di