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London and Middlesex / Mary Ann KNIGHTON
« on: Thursday 07 July 16 12:15 BST (UK)  »
I'm puzzled ... as usual. I'm looking at my wife's forebears; Knighton is one of them. In the 1861 census, John Knighton is living at Eliot Bank, Sydenham Hill with his wife and family:

John Knighton           58
Anne Sarah Knighton   45
Jno Wm Knighton   19
Mary Ann Knighton   8
Cecilia Knighton         4

Yesterday I came across this:

Name:   Mary Ann Knighton
Record Type:   Burial
Age:   56
Estimated birth year:   abt 1814
Death Date:   abt 1870
Burial Date:   11 Apr 1870
Burial Place:   Christ Church with St Paul, Forest Hill, England
Parish or Poor Law Union:   Christ Church with St Paul, Forest Hill
Borough:   Lewisham
Register Type:   Parish Register

Her abode is given as Eliot Bank, Sydenham. I find it hard to believe that she is not related somehow - but I can't find any Mary Ann Knightons of her age. I'd be grateful if anyone could shed light on my bafflement.

Thanks,

Sid


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Leicestershire / Ball family, Quorndon, Leicestershire
« on: Wednesday 24 September 14 10:08 BST (UK)  »
Good day, all. I wondered if this might be a good place to ask if anyone knows anything about the Ball family/ies in Quorndon in the 19thC? There's a lot of data here: http://www.quornmuseum.com/
but I have one or two problems, the main one being that I don't know how many families there are - I'm assuming, for instance, that there are two Joseph Balls, but I wonder if there might actually be three?

My interest in this family lies in the fact that they were linked (not genealogically) to my family; Joseph and Ann were witnesses at my 3rd great grandfather's wedding (John & Elizabeth Cumberland, m. 14 Apr 1823, Kegworth), and subsequent generations changed their surname to Ball (and back again), or used the double-barrelled Cumberland-Ball.

All ideas welcome!

[This may be one of those needle/haystack tasks - there are about 10 deaths of Joseph Ball in Leics between 1840 and 1860 ...]

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The Common Room / change of name
« on: Thursday 27 March 14 11:02 GMT (UK)  »
I had two elusive ancestors whom I could not find in the 1901 and 1871 censuses. It turned out they had changed their surnames from Cumberland to Ball. Later they changed them back. Any idea why that might have happened? Twice?

(Someone has suggested Ball might be a 'chancery name', but I don't know what that means.)


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Nottinghamshire / Cumberlands
« on: Wednesday 12 March 14 13:19 GMT (UK)  »
Hi all ... new here, hope I'm in the right place. I've been looking into my family roots on the Notts/Leics border (Wysall and Kegworth in particular). Thomas Cumberland (1580-1643) is the furthest back so far ... but there is a tantalising reference to a Gabriell Cumberland in the churchwarden presentment of 1597 (he gave 8d for the poor). Can't find any other reference to him, but surely he must be a least related, if not Thomas' father? I have no idea where else I might look - any suggestions welcome!

Cumbey

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