Any occupation given for Peregrine KNOWLES DOCKERAY St Swithin's Lincoln?

[Keith Sherwood]

Hi, Everyone,
Have opened a thread already about the strange case - and identity - of Peregrine KNOWLES who was baptised on 15-04-1773 at St Mark's Lincoln, parents William and Mary; who married Mary JACKSON on 17-11-1800 at St Mary Le Wigford, Lincoln.
On 04-10-1801 they had their first child, Susannah, and thereafter a series of daughters from 1803 until 1812, all baptised under the DOCKER(A)Y surname as apparently Peregrine had now assumed the name Peregrine Knowles DOCKERY.  All these baptisms took place at St Swithin's, Lincoln.
Peregrine was buried on 10-10-1825 aged 52, and his wife Mary on 12-01-1859 aged 94, presumably both at St Swithin's.
Now is there anyone out there who is privy to the St Swithin's PR's who could shed some light on any extra details or explanations about this surname change or indeed a mode of occupation given for Peregrine. (In fact any helpful notes that the incumbent priest might have made at the time)
If not, it looks as though I shall have to make the long trek to Lincoln to find out for myself...
Very best wishes,
keith

[GeoffE]

Peregrine's burial was recorded at St Mary le Wigford, Lincoln .... as was that of Mary Ann DOCKERY 6 March 1825.

By 1859, the Lincoln Cemetery at Canwick Road had opened - that is where old Mary was buried ... as was her neighbour/son? John DOCKERY (1 Feb 1858 aged 52).

The Lincs FHS cemetery index gives John's address as Waterside South, St Benedict's and Mary's as Grundys Court, St Benedicts.

They appear to have been in courts off Waterside South in 1851 too.

I can be quite precise about the location as Waterside South began at High Street and the parish of St Benedict ended at Sincil Street, suggesting that they lived where the central building in this aerial picture now stands http://tinyurl.com/ql264l

The 1847 map shows there to have been courtyards behind Waterside South itself.  The name Waterside on the photo is a new addition - the old road was alongside the river.

[Keith Sherwood]

Hi again, Geoff,
Thanks so much for all that local and relevant information on Lincoln.  It's the sort of detail I can just about manage for Cambridge - with more than a little help from the CCRO - if anybody needs to know from a distance.
As you've probably noticed since you quietly pointed me in the right direction (or two), I raised quite a bit of a hue and cry about dear Peregrine, without much further progress.  I don't suppose you know about the existence of obscure volumes of Ecclesiastical wills, that have their own confusing hierarchy of precedence, kept at the Lincs Record Office that might contain wills that could unlock a secret or two?
How helpful are they on the phone to enquiries of such a nature, do you know?
keith

[GeoffE]

This sort of stuff?

Will of John DOCKERY of Lincoln, Butcher .... 1798/i/73  Is it too silly to think he may have been John KNOWLES? 
  Sorry, it was William you wanted wasn't it? 

http://tinyurl.com/3euxfn (Scroll down the page)

From what I remember, there may be some stuff after 1800 too but not indexed online.

[Keith Sherwood]

Geoff,
That 1798 will for a John DOCKERY may well indeed be extremely significant, as there seem to be so few DOCKERY's appearing anywhere in the records in Lincoln.
Actually, a very kind Rootschatter has now PM-ed me to say that she might possibly be able to get to the Lincoln Record Office in the near future, and has said that she will try to find anything that refers to Peregrine or his DOCKERY family.
So, who knows, there may be a vital clue or two to be unearthed...
Regards, Keith

[Keith Sherwood]

Geoff,
Well, the (my extremely) helpful Rootschatter has indeed been to the Lincoln record office today and looked at that 1798 John DOCKERY will, and your intuition was on the bull's eye!
He leaves everything to his housekeeper, a Mary KNOWLES, mentioning his two "natural" children Susannah DOCKERY and Peregrine KNOWLES (with the name DOCKERY later added).  So, I'm now trying to disentangle exactly what might have been the sequence of events.  But, quite clearly, John DOCKERY had rather more of an interest in Mary KNOWLES than just her dusting and cooking...
I'll PM you shortly, to see what you might make of it all, as you fairly obviously very much have your finger on the pulse of Lincoln records...
What fun this has all turned out to be!
Regards, Keith
Sorry, I stand corrected - in the John DOCKERY 1798 will it's Peregrine DOCKERY, with KNOWLES later inserted..