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The
KNIGHTON Family of C17th/C18th Alfreton, Derbys.
Family name
likely to originate from one of many villages with that name. The
nearest places are two in Staffs & one in Leics. Name also
recorded as NIGHTON.
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Distribution of the family
name in 1881
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Current head
of tree is a Mr. NIGHTON born c1705 around Blackwell, Alfreton
(my 8xGGF). His wife is unknown, but a marriage is expected
sometime before 1736.
Mr. NIGHTON had at least two
children in the Blackwell area: George KNIGHTON (n. c1736;
d. 10.11.1809 Blackwell; & Joseph KNIGHTON (n. c1740).
Son George
KNIGHTON married Mary
KYTE (my
7xGGPs) 7.1.1761 at Sutton in Ashfield, Notts. Their children
were Thomas KNIGHTON
(c. 23.4.1770), Sarah KNIGHTON
(c. 24.2.1767), Richard KNIGHTON (c.
24.1.1762), & George KNIGHTON
(c. 4.2.1764), all registered at Sutton in Ashfield.
Their son George
KNIGHTON married Elizabeth
TAGG 10.10.1785
at Alfreton (my 6xGGPs). They had eight children of which the
following are known: Hannah KNIGHTON
(c. 2.1.1785; South Normanton, Derbys) & Joseph
KNIGHTON (c. 2.9.1787, Blackwell).
Joseph KNIGHTON married
Ann BOSTOCK
(my 5xGGPs). He died 30.5.1869 at
Tupton, Alfreton. Their daughter Elizabeth
KNIGHTON of Somercotes married
Thomas HARRISON
in 1823 (My 4xGGPs); after being
widowed in the 1840's Elizabeth married Joseph
ELLIS (c1848-51), and their
combined families were living at Railway Ferry, Staveley,
Derbys., in 1851. Another daughter of Joseph & Ann, Mary
KNIGHTON married William
JOHNSON in 1829. Sisters Elizabeth
ELLIS & Mary
JOHNSON were living together in
Hasland, near Chesterfield in 1881.
At Ilkeston a number of
bastardy cases were brought against various KNIGHTONs:
by Ann RICHARDS against
John NIGHTON (KNIGHTON) Cole miner, indemnifies. 1759
by
Dorothy WEBSTER single, pregnant against Thomas
KNIGHTON, Ilkeston, collier. 1765
by Florah RIGHT
against Thomas KNIGHTON, Cotmanhay 1779
Ann
SKEVINGTON with male child, May 14, against James
KNIGHTON, Wollaton, Notts. collier 1813
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