51.6 Maternal Cousins of Fanny Larard (née Mousley)

Solomon and Mary Ann Knight had six children. Their children are Fanny's siblings and first cousins.

• 38.2.1 - William Knight (1811-1883)
• Maria Elizabeth Knight (1835-1849)
• Died at 14

• Elizabeth Maria Knight (1837-1904?)
• 1851: 49 Crown Lane, Lambeth. Servant, aged 14, to landed proprietor, Benjamin Hickling. One of four. No record found thereafter until death, unmarried, in Wandsworth.

• William James Knight (1838-1910)
• Married Martha Clarke (1836) at St Anne, Soho in 1869

Church of St Anne, Soho (my photo)

• 1851: At home in Brixton. Milk boy
• 1861: Lodger at Thornbank Row?, Norwood. Carman.
• Children:
• Alice Jane Knight (1871)
• Ellen Kate Knight (1872)
• Emily Knight (1875)
• 1871: 15 Pensbury Street, Clapham [Larkhall]. Painter. Not the same thing at all now.
• 1881: 4 St Andrew's Street, Battersea. Painter and decorator.
• Married Annie Rowles (1852)
• 1901: Marylebone

• Samuel Knight (1840-1906)
• 1851: At home in Lewisham with grandfather Hewlett
• 1861: Lodging with his brother (also a lodger) in Norwood. Groom.
• Married Sarah Annie Sanham (1842-1876) at St Luke, West Norwood in 1863
• 1871: Knights Hill Square (no relation), Norwood (now an Industrial Estate with potential for further redevelopment). Labourer.
• Children:
• Elizabeth Maria Knight (1864)
• William Thomas Knight (1865)
• Annie Louisa Knight (1867)
• Samuel Boyce Knight (1869)
• Joseph Charles Knight (1871)
• Alice Emily Knight (1872)
• Sidney Thomas Jerome Knight (1874)
• 1881: 5 Knights Hill Square. Widowed. Drayman.
• Married Elizabeth Shirley (1841-1897) in Camberwell in 1881
• Children:
• Ernest Alfred Knight (1884)
• Boyce Simmons Knight (1884)
• 1891: 1 Powells Row, Norwood. General labourer.
• 1901: 1 Knights Hill Square. Road sweeper.

• Joseph Charles Knight (1842-1916)
• 1861: Servant at St John's Lodge, Knights Hill Square for Thomas Tredwell, Railway Contractor. Tredwell's had connexions with Gloucestershire. They also worked on the Midland Railway at the same time as the Mousley family.
• 1862: Shorncliffe Army Camp, Cheriton nr Folkestone, Kent. My photos of Folkestone are here. He is recorded as having deserted the 25th Foot on 22 April 1862, and having had his pension admitted or examined in 1863.
• Married Harriett Mustoe (1845-1917) in Turkdean nr Northleach, Gloucestershire in 1868. My photos of Northleach are here.
• 1871: Norwood. Gardener.
• Children:
• Jane Elizabeth Knight (1869)
• Sidney William Knight (1871)
• Annie Louisa Knight (1874)
• Edith Knight (1880)
• Ernest Charles Knight (1886). Ernest died in 1891.
• Alice Louisa Knight (1889)
• 1881: Norbury, Croydon. Gardener.
• 1891: 5 Crown Villas, Norwood. Agent for the Royal London Friendly Insurance Co
• 1901: 17 High Street, Norwood. Nurseryman's traveller.
• 1911: 63 Wolfington Road, West Norwood. Same employment.

• Letitia Knight (1844-1897)
• Married Thomas William Frost (1845-1907) at All Saints with Margaret, Upper Norwood in 1865
• Thomas was a general dealer; they lived on Knights Hill Square. In 1881, they were two doors down from her brother Samuel's family.
• 1891: 7 Change Alley, Norwood. He is a labourer.  Change Alley lies between nos. 63 and 73 Norwood High Street and led to East Street (later renamed Dunkirk Street). It is now a builders' yard (view opposite)

Knights Hill Square
 (Lambeth Council)

Knights Hill Square
 (Lambeth Council)

• Children:
• William Thomas Frost (1865)
• Thomas William Frost (1867)
• Walter Charles Frost (1869)
• James Frost (1872)
• Joseph Frost (1873)
• George Frederick Frost (1875)
• Arthur Frost (1876)
• Elizabeth Maria Frost (1878)
• Frederick Frost (1880)
• Henry Frost (1882)
• Sarah Annie Frost (1884)

• Walter Knight (1845-1914)
• Married Emily Cox (1845-1931) at St Luke, West Norwood in 1870.
• When St Luke's church was built, in 1822, the area was sparsely populated and mainly comprised meadows cleared from woodland. The relatively few houses included a mixture of modest cottages and villas for the rich.  

Church of St Luke, West Norwood (credit)

• Children:
• Thomas Knight (1871)
• Amelia Mary Knight (1872)
• Walter Knight (1875)
• Ada M Knight (1877)
• Rose Charlotte Knight (1881)
• Emily Jane Knight (1884)
• William Henry Knight (1886)
• Charlotte Knight (1887)
• 1871: Knights Hill Road. Occupation illegible.
• 1881: Drayman living in King Edward's refuge, which was a model housing scheme in Mile End New Town - a tenement in effect. More on this here soon.
• 1891. Port night watchman, living at 36 South Grove, Mile End. 
• Same address but back to being a drayman in 1901. This may have been for Charrington's Blue Anchor Brewery, less than a mile away in Mile End Road. It was the second largest in London, producing 20,000 barrels a year; steam engines installed in the nineteenth century, which ran until 1927. There was stabling for 100 horses. Pictures and more information here. The remains can be seen here.
• 1911: Retired to 48 Tylney Road, Forest Gate, with his wife and son Walter

• James Knight (1847-1933)
• Married Elizabeth Willcox (1853-1910) at St Luke, West Norwood on Christmas Day, 1870
• He was a brewer's tunman and they live in a shared house at 3 Woodcote Place, Norwood.
• 1881/1891/1901/1911: 4 (then 8) Ernest Street, Norwood. Labourer. Then road sweeper.
• Children: 
• James Robert Knight (1874)
• Sophia Lucy Knight (1875)
• Henry Knight (1880)
• William Knight (1884)
• Frank Knight (1893)

• Charlotte Hannah Knight (1849-1890)
• Married Edward John Kitchener (1848-1919) at St Luke, West Norwood in 1867. He was a carman, and they lived at 22 Knights Hill Square. In 1881 at 1 Powells Row off Knights Hill Road. Carter.
• Children:
• Edward John Kitchener (1869)
• Martha Kitchener (1871)
• William Kitchener (1873)
• John Kitchener (1875)
• Charlotte Kitchener (1877)
• James Kitchener (1879)
• Lydia Kitchener (1882)
• Alice Kitchener (1884)
• Elizabeth Kitchener (1886)
• Arthur Kitchener (1888)

• Charles Joseph Knight (1851-1917)
• 1871: At home in Norwood. Carman.
• Married Martha C Staples (1856-1922) at All Saints with St Margaret, [Beulah Hill], Upper Norwood (info) in 1873.
• They lived in Thornton Road, Croydon. He was then a labourer. In 1891, there are at No. 25. He has become a domestic under gardener. His wife's mother, Elizabeth Staples is with them.
• 1901: Off Winterbourne Rd, [Thornton Heath] Croydon. Gardener. Perhaps renumbered, or a short move by 1911 to 85 Winterbourne Road (now rebuilt?). General labourer, building trade.
• Children:
• Elizabeth Ann Knight (1874)
• Charles Joseph Knight (1877)
• Annie Maria Knight (1880)
• Ellen Phyllis Knight (1882)
• Nellie Sophia Knight (1884)
• Frederick George Knight (1885)
• Thomas Henry Knight (1886)
• James Thomas Knight (1887)
• Edward Frank Knight (1890)
• Florence May Knight (1892)
• Walter Knight (1894)
• Louis Parker - adopted (1900)

• Martha Hannah Knight (1852-1942)
• 1871: At home in Norwood. Laundress.
• Married William Thomas Purkiss (1855-1893) at St Emmanuel, Camberwell Road, Southwark (closed 1965) in 1876
• He was a dairyman, and they lived at 19 Victory Street, Deptford, then at 5 Red Post Lane [now Katherine Road], East Ham. My photos of East Ham are here.
• Children:
• William Alfred (Willie) Purkiss (1876)
• Martha Alice Purkiss (1878)
• 1901: Martha is a laundress again, presumably widowed. Grace Street [now Southampton Street], Islington. Runs from Strand to Covent Garden. In 1911, she is an ironer living alone at 69 Plimsoll Road, Highbury.

• Frederick Edward Knight (1853-1910)
• At home in Norwood in 1871.
• Died in Plaistow, East London

• (Solomon) George Knight (1854-1911)
• 1871: At home in Norwood, aged 14. Carman

George Knight

• Married Mary Ann Stotter (1853-1915) at St Luke in 1874
• He was a carman in 1888, and they lived in Ernest Street, Norwood
• 1891: Change Alley, Norwood. Labourer.
• 1901: Flats in Streatham. Coal porter.
• Children:
• Martha Knight (1875)
• George William Knight (1876)
• Annie Knight (1877)
• Mary Ann Knight (1878)
• James William Knight (1880)
• Eliza Knight (1882)
• William Knight (1885)
• Alfred Knight (1887)
• Daisy Knight (1889)
• Henry Knight (1891). Died as an infant?
• Henry Knight (1893)
• Charlotte Emma Knight (1893)
• Solomon George Knight (1900). Died in 1901.
• 1911: Lambeth Workhouse

• Frederick Knight (1858-1859)
• Died as an infant

• George Frederick Knight (1859-1859)
• No known children

• 38.2.2 - James Knight (1814)
• Children:
• John Knight (1842)

• 38.2.3 - Johnson Knight (1816-1837)
• No known children

• 38.2.4 - Solomon Knight (1816-1821). 
• No known children

• 38.2.5 - Rebecca Knight (1818-1908)
• See Chapter 38

• 38.2.6 - Mary Knight (1822-1906)
• Elizabeth Bezer (1830)
• Stepchild? Birth only known.

• George Bezer (1844-1900)
• Emigrated to New York
• Married Elizabeth M Fraze (1847-1908)
• Children:
• Arthur George Bezer (1871)
• Herbert William Bezer (1876)
• Fredrick (Fred) Bezer (1879)
• Died in Brooklyn

Brooklyn Bridge, 1883 (my photo)

• Henry Bezer (1845-1906)
• 1861: At home in Kennington. Merchant's clerk
• Married Frances Elizabeth Bezer (cousin?)(1846-1914) at Holy Trinity, Clapham in 1867
• Holy Trinity had been the base for the Clapham Sect of social reformers (including William Wilberforce), agitating for the abolition of the slave trade, and reform of the penal system. There is also a plaque in the church commemorating a bequest by Captain James Cook's widow (she had moved there from Mile End).
• He was a commercial clerk to a colonial broker. They lived at 27 Avenue Road, Lewisham Village. Apparently a respectable side street in sedate Lewisham, now vanished under the Riverdale Shopping Centre.
• Children:
• Edith Frances Bezer (1868)
• Percy Douglas Bezer (1870)
• Henry Stanley Bezer (1870)
• Alice Lilian Bezer (1875)
• 1881: Staying with sister Emma in Lee. Engineer.
• 1882: His wife divorced him for adultery, naming Annie Sinclair Vale

• Mary A Bezer (1848-1919)
• Married William Herbert Holloway (1846-1896) at Holy Trinity, Clapham in 1871
• William was a member of the London Stock Exchange. They lived at 87 Burton Road, Brixton [Camberwell]
• Children:
• Herbert William Holloway (1871)
• Edith Mary Holloway (1873)
• 1891: At Summerford, Benhill Road, Sutton. Living on our means; husband absent.
• 1895: Divorced her husband for adultery and desertion, naming Helen Brown "a so-called needlewoman"
• 1901: 3 Elliott Road, [Thornton Heath] Croydon. Widowed.

• Emma Bezer (1851-1898)
• Married George Millar (1812-1899) in Wandsworth in 1876
• 1871, at age 19 she is a visitor at 26 Blessington Road, Lewisham, the house of a widowed merchant (59) and his five children and two servants. The older children are around Emma's age. The area has since been redeveloped.
• 1881: She is still there, and has married the merchant, now a commission agent.
• 1891: He's now specifically an agent for silk, wool and cotton at age 79. And has a new family of his four children with Emma.
• Children:
• Reginald Millar (1877)
• Florence Millar (1881)
• Mabel Evelyn Millar (1881)
• Dorothy Maud Millar (1888)

• Theodore Bezer (1852)
• 1871: At home in Clapham. Banker's clerk
• Emigrated
• 1936: Seems to have made a last visit home
• Died in New Zealand

• Ellen Bezer (1856-1889)
• 1881: At home in Streatham
• Died in Maidstone

• William James (Willie) Bezer (1857-1944)
• 1871: At school in Belmont House, Chiswick. There is a primary school there now, named after the 'mansion' that once stood there.
• 1881: At home in Streatham. Insurance clerk
• Married Edith Emma Loveridge (1858-1904) in Lewisham in 1883
• Children:
• William Dudley Bezer (1884)
• Edith Maud Bezer (1886)
• Graham Bezer (1889)
• 1901: 40 Mount Pleasant Road, Lewisham. Manager, Fire Insurance Company.
• 1911: Visitor, with wife and family, at the house of Lydia Somerville at 19 Elderton Road, Westcliff-on-Sea, Southend, Essex. My photos of Southend are here.

• Clara Elizabeth Bezer (1861-1957)
• 1891: At home in Sutton with her widowed mother. Governess.
• Died in Croydon

• Florence Laura Bezer (1861-1906)
• Like some other members of the family, her baptism is recorded at Clapham Congregational (Non-Conformist) Church
• Married Thomas Richard Tester (1860) in Wandsworth in 1881
• Children:
• Alice Florence Tester (1891)
• Married Albert Alphons Flurscheim in about 1890
• 1891: Albert and Florence are both in a lodging house at 10 Millman Street, Holborn. Both are shown as married but it is not clear if that means to each other. Alice is not there. The house appears to have been redeveloped but there are period properties opposite. Albert is German. His occupation is not easy to make out.
• 1901: Albert is shown as a US citizen, born in Germany [Frankfurt]. He is a merchant of gas fittings, and an employer. His widowed mother is there. They are living at 54 Manor Park Road, Willesden [Harlesden].
• Florence died in Hendon. Albert died in Utrecht, Netherlands in 1917, which may not have been a comfortable place for a German at the time.

Albert's family are interesting. One of his first cousins was Michael Flürscheim, a prominent German economist. After turning around the fortunes of the Gaggenau Iron Works (which still exists in evolved form), he travelled widely in England, Switzerland and New Zealand. He formed a company to build a railroad to Mexico for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. The Wikipedia article suggests that he died through a combination of solar radiation and depression at the news of the sinking of the Titanic! Michael's son, Bernhard Jacques Flurscheim, was a chemist. His grandson, Charles Flurscheim was an electrical engineer. His youngest son Michael Edward Flurscheim Tromer, was an important playwright and theatre director in Mexico. His grandson Ricardo Miguel Flurscheim, is a designer and manufacturer of medical equipment in Mexico. 

His other cousin was Hermann Adolph Flürsheim who had emigrated to New York by 1875. He worked for Stern's Department Stores (now partly Macy's) until 1901, then co-founded Franklin Simon & Co on Fifth Avenue. Simon was a buyer for Stern in France; Flürsheim a major supplier. (This was then mainly a residential area. Macy's relocated a year later to a site a few blocks south; the Waldorf-Astoria - later the site of the Empire State Building - was a few blocks north.) Together, Simon and Flürsheim changed New York and dry goods retailing, and pioneered promotional techniques, including 'outlet' stores, and evening opening. Simon is known to have supported survivors of the Titanic disaster. When Flürsheim died in 1914, he left over $1m in his will. The site was remodelled and transferred to Sloane furniture company in 1961, and replaced in the 1980s with a 30-storey granite and glass tower.

Franklin Simon in about 1915 (credit)

More information on the families above in Chapter 58.

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