Hello from across The Pond, Cousin!
We are related. I've have the surnames of Loosemore and Spark(e)(s) more than once in my family tree. I will update my tree with the information you have given me. I had no information for children of Abraham Knight and Mary Loosemore, for one thing. After Abraham passed away (abt. 1805) she married a John Doble. I do not yet have a death date or location for her either. From what I can tell, some of the Knight contingent from Devon immigrated to Australia, too, along with some Doble kin.
It looks like every family line and every generation named sons John, Robert and Joel. My immigrant ancestor, Joel Knight, was b. 1829, Yarcombe. His parents: Joel Knight (1785-1858, Yarcombe) and Mary Bright (b. 1791, Yarcombe.) The parents of Joel Knight (b. 1795): Joel Knight (1751-1837, Yarcombe) and Elizabeth Spark(e) (1762-1820, Yarcombe.) That Joel Knight (1851-1837) was one of your Abraham's older brothers! Besides their brother Robert, I have some info on their other siblings: Betty, Benjamin(e), Anne, and Elizabeth.
My immigrant ancestor, Joel Knight, and a 1st cousin, Caroline Dunn, married and left soon after by ship to the USA, landing at the Port of New York, and in a few years earning money to buy farm land in Wisconsin. His brother Robert William Knight, Robert's wife, Anne Locke, and their 2 children (at the time), plus a brother and a sister (I think) of Caroline's all left on the same ship. Robert and his family owned a farm next to Joel's in Waupaca County, Wisconsin. It's very pretty country with rolling glacial hills, sandy/rocky soil, lots of pine and hardwoods (that the lumber companies cut down in the 1840s), and many little glacier-created spring-fed lakes.
I will send you a personal message via Rootschat, with my direct email address. I have my Knight family tree (Knight and Ogden Families, Waupaca, Wis.) as a Public Member family tree on Ancestry.com. I can send you an invitation so you can see it, even if you do not subscribe to Ancestry.com.
One key for me in my long-distance family tree research was my maternal grandfather, Claude Joel Knight, saying that his paternal grandfather, Joel (the immigrant) said there always had been someone named Joel "forever" in the Knight line. He was SO right.
Anyway, besides me in the St. Louis, Missouri area (right now), you have cousins in Ohio, near Dayton, northern Kentucky, and Virginia. One young Virginia cousin even has his mother's maiden name, Knight, as a given name. No Joels in any successive generations, however.
Relatively yours, and watch for my personal message through Rootschat.
Jean_E, St. Louis, Missouri
