Sue the great researcher from the South sent me information about the Knights in the censuses below, then i saw the William Knight from Arnold in the newspapers from 1866, i thought of the records below She sent me, i do not know how She finds things, She is very good at what She does, the Knights are all over the place, very wild to, are they from the locals or mixed like most i do not know, i have many records of them, they are wild, so are the Wilshers, who everyone is i do not know, there are many knights and many names around this way from local people, you may if you are a bad person make any story sound real, me, i care for nothing, i think of the past and respect the future, you can then reverse that, i think the story of all the Gipsy people as yet to be told, a load of lies will be the epitaph on evan peoples who are alive in this days gravestone, yes on their graves stones, yes the words will be wrote, true to, when they themselves die, they will leave nothing behind but lies, at least a person should at least try and write the truth, you have researched much, why not just put the lot down in one go, i am all good with the truth
Friday 13 July 1866
Nottinghamshire Guardian
Nottinghamshire
Tuesday 10 July 1866
Nottingham Journal
Nottinghamshire
Stealing Rushes
An old elderly man, named William Knight, was charged with stealing a bundle of rushes, used for re- pairing or turning chairs value 2s. the property of Thomas Thompson, brush and basket maker, furniture dealer, Long-row, Thursday last—lt appeared that, on the night named, an assistant in prosecutor's employ, named Thomas Roulston, had just come out of the warehouse when he saw prisoner, with the rushes in question under his arm, he walking out of the yard at the back of the premises, Knight is a chair bottomer, and lives at Arnold, the yard abuts upon Parliament-street, Roulston asked prisoner if he had paid for them, Prisoner said, “Its all right, I’ve paid the man at the shop.” That was found to be untrue, and information was given to the county police, acting upon which Sergeant Blasdale and Police-constable Hayes apprehended prisoner at his house, working with the rushes at the time. they discovered the rushes in a bedroom. Knight was then charged with stealing them, Prisoner pleaded poverty the motive for committing the robbery, and After the depositions had been taken the bench being inclined to deal leniently with the case, Mr. Biaithwaite sentenced him to two months' imprisonment with hard labor, remarking that he had previously been convicted of a similar offence
1901: CENSUS* INDEXED AS WILT-SHAW SO DOUBLE BARRELLED!!!
.Nottinghamshire, England Civil parish: Pleasley Ecclesiastical parish: Shirebrook Holy Trinity Town: Shirebrook County/Island: Derbyshire Country:
* Lots there in caravans:+
William Wilt Shaw 21 B Woodsetts, Derbyshire pot hawker
Maria R Wilt Shaw 20 Hul Yorkshire
Rebecca Wilt Shaw 4 Sheffield, Yorkshire
William Wilt Shaw 2 b Notinghamshire
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Thomas Wilt Shaw 37 b Sheffield, Yorkshire 27 hawker
Margaret Wilt Shaw 20 wife b South Pool, Yorkshire image i think 30?
Emma Willt Shaw 2 months b Sheffield, Yorkshire
Harriett Wilt Shaw 10 b Sheffield, Yorkshire
Julia Wilt Shaw 2 b Sheffield, Yorkshire
Margaret Wilt Shaw 5 b Nottinghamshire,
Mathilda Wilt Shaw 11 b Sheffield, Yorkshire
Thomas Wilt Shaw 7 b Sheffield, Yorkshire
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Knight may be related?
Alfred Tyler 35 trav pot higgler b Leics
Lucy Tyler 29 wife b Swadlincote, Derbyshire
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Walter Knight 33 coal miner b Romsley, Worcestershire
Martha Knight 32 b Brampton, Derbyshire
Ada Knight 2 b Shirebrook, Derbyshire
Leonard Knight 3 months b Shirebrook, Derbyshire
Mary Knight 5 b Brampton, Derbyshire
Robert B Knight 12 b Brampton, Derbyshire
William Knight 8 b Brampton, Derbyshire
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Joseph Wilt Shaw 56 B Darrington, Yorkshire ( THIS IS HIS DAD?)
Maria H OR k ?.57 wife b Bolsover, Derbyshire
Emma dau 18 BWoodsetts, Derbyshire
Henry 16 SON B Woodsetts, Derbyshire
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MARRIAGE 1864 ROTHERHAM JOSEPH WILSHAW WED MARIA KNIGHT
1861*Town:Wath upon Dearne:Yorkshire
James Knight 44 b Chesterfield, Derbyshire Earthenware Dealer
Emma Knight 36 b Portsea Hampshire
Harriet Knight 14
Maria Knight 12 dau b Sheffield
Henry Knight 10
Tom Knight 7
Bill Knight 2
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Josiah Blewitt 1801 In A Lane, Lincolnshire,Head Scissor Grinder
Sarah Blewitt 1793 Hoyland, Yorkshire Wife
Ann Blewitt 1838 Lincolnshire, Daughter
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