Catherine Knight nee Horn(e)

[Phoenix]

Great Aunt Kate was born in Shamley Green, Wonersh, Surrey in 1871 - and appears on the census aged 1 month with parents John and Catherine.


In June qtr 1896 she married Alfred Knight.

In 1901 she is with Alfred, a drayman, born Cranleigh, in Church St Cobham.

There is a possible death for Alred in 1904.

The family story is that she had a daughter, possibly born out of wedlock,who treated her badly, and Catherine committed suicide by throwing herself into a river, like Virginia Woolf.

I don't know the daughter's name, or Catherine's surname at death, or when she died! (Though I assume she died between about 1930 and 1947, in Surrey)

Can anyone find a suitable death on Ancestry? Assuming she still was Catherine Knight?

[Margaret in Burton]

Any ideas where in Surrey (what district)?

There are 14 on Ancestry and at least 2 so far are the right age.

Only checked Catherine, not Kate or Katherine.

[Margaret in Burton]

Catherine Knight
1924 June qtr
Age 54
Guildford Surrey
2a 102

Catherine Knight
1937 Sept qtr
Age 66
Surrey North Western
2a 305

There are loads listed under Kate

[Phoenix]

I've assumed it was West Surrey - the Guildford area. This based on the fact that my grandfather had to identify the body. I imagine it was probably 1944 or earlier, but this is an assumption too.

[Phoenix]

Margaret, you're a gem! That 1937 death looks spot on age and district wise!

[Margaret in Burton]

I'll check Kate as well then.

[Margaret in Burton]

I suppose she would have been registered as Catherine though if the person registering her death was a very close relative.

Hope so, there are loads of Kate's who fit.

[Merry]

It doesn't make much difference to Catherine, but isn't this death more likely for Alfred if they lived in Cobham?

Deaths Dec 1906
Knight Alfred 35 Epsom 2a 37

I haven't been able to pin down Catherine in 1911. I was thinking that the child she had was most likely born by that date, so you could get her name, but not that easy!

[Phoenix]

yes, you are right, much better fit.

And I've found her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

She's in Wey View, Church Street, Weybridge widowed, a domestic servant, with one child living (naturally, not with her!)

And the reason she's hidden? 39 has been mistranscribed, perfectly understandably when you view the image, as 89!

[ElizabethHerts]

Phoenix, I was trying to see if there was any connection with my Knights (of Thursley and Hambledon) but they are too early.

This is my mother's area, and I got married at Shalford and our wedding reception was at Bramley.

[Phoenix]

Blinky flip, Elizabeth. Mum got married at Shalford. Most of her family were incomers, but I have connections with the area back to the 1720s (and probably further were the records better!)

[ElizabethHerts]

Blinky flip, Elizabeth. Mum got married at Shalford. Most of her family were incomers, but I have connections with the area back to the 1720s (and probably further were the records better!)

Wow, Phoenix! My mum and dad married there in 1943, my sister in 1971 and OH and I in 1976! My gran lived in the Great Quarry which is theoretically Guildford but Shalford was their local church and when my gran was old and immobile the vicar used to come to her house to give her communiion!

My Whites came from Guildford (Gran's maiden name was White) and her grandparents had W.E. White & Son in the High Street and another shop in North Street. It started as a drapers. It's where M&S is now. (sold in the 1960s)

[Phoenix]

Wow, indeed! I found a forgotten photo album, full of mum's friends getting married in Shalford Church, mostly to men in uniform.

Mum lived in Florida Road, near the station in a police house. My grandfather was a policeman, with a desk job in Godalming.