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9 May 2020
58.7 Knight Summary Tree
Solomon Knight (1789-1854) m Mary Ann Bridger (1784-1866)
See Chapter 12 for their biographies, Chapter 38 for those of their children, and Chapter 51 for those of their grandchildren.
William Knight (1811-1883) m Elizabeth Hewlett (1810-1873)
Maria Elizabeth Knight (1835-1849)
Elizabeth Maria Knight (1837-1904?)
William James Knight (1838-1910) m Martha Clarke (1836)
Alice Jane Knight (1871). Domestic servant in Vauxhall.
Ellen Kate Knight (1872-1872). Died in infancy.
Emily Knight (1875) m Robert Kingsbury (1873-1938) at St Barnabas, Lambeth in 1899. Domestic servant in Clapham before marriage. He is brewer's carman [drayman]. There is a good description of the carman's situation on Des Gander's site. It was the turn-of-the-last-century white van man, with long hours! The family live at 12 Cottage Grove, Stockwell.
Louisa Amelia Rose Kingsbury (1902-1976)
Alice Martha Kingsbury (1906-1985)
== m Annie Rowles (1852)
Samuel Knight (1840-1906) m Sarah Annie Sanham (1842-1876)
Elizabeth Maria Knight (1864-1949) m William Henry Fisher (1861-1908) at St Luke, West Norwood in 1883. He was a carman, and they lived in Norwood. By 1901, she was taking in washing.
Annie Elizabeth Fisher (1884-1971)
William Samuel Fisher (1886-1912)
Alice Rose Fisher (1889-1963)
Charlotte Florence Fisher (1891-1966)
Sidney Ernest Fisher (1893-1961)
William Thomas Knight (1865-1919) m (Emily) Susan Green (1868-1945) at All Saints with St Margaret, Upper Norwood. Pissarro painted it! He was a builder's labourer, and they lived at Cranfield Villas, Norwood.
All Saints, Upper Norwood by Camille Pissarro (WikiArt)
William Thomas Knight (1889-aft 1939)
Arthur Knight (1890-aft 1939)
Boyce Simmons Knight (1892-1906)
Frederick James Knight (1893-1959)
Herbert George Knight (1895-1960)
Ernest Alfred Knight (1897-1972)
Albert Edward Knight (1899-1918)
Rose Emily Alice Knight (1901-1986)
Annie Louisa Knight (1867-1956) m Robert William Smith (1871-1929) at St Stephen, Walworth (since demolished). She was a housemaid for a solicitor in Norwood before she was married. He was a grain merchant, and they shared a house in Brixton with another family. In 1911, they were at 39 Herne Hill Road; he was now a seed merchant's foreman.
Robert Joseph Smith (1893-1979)
Mabel Winifred Smith (1895-1983)
Montague Ralph Smith (1898-1973)
Victor Alexander Smith (1900-1967)
Gladys Irene Smith (1902-1991)
(Lillian) Audrey Smith (1906-2002)
Marjorie Eileen Smith (1910-1989)
Leonard Sidney Smith (1911-1982)
Samuel Boyce Knight (1869-1931) m Minnie Mary Webb (1874-1909) at St Luke's Norwood. He was a platelayer, and they lived at 18 Knights Hill Square, then at 25 St Clouds Road, Norwood.
Minnie Florence Knight (1897-1980)
Samuel Charles Knight (1899-1971)
Elizabeth Gertrude Knight (1901-1967)
Ernest Albert Edward Knight (1903-1950)
William Boyce Knight (1906-1974)
== m Elizabeth H Sullivan (1873-1949)
Joseph Charles Knight (1871-1871). Died in infancy.
Alice Emily Knight (1872-1960) m William Greenhill (1871-1949) in East Wickham in 1895. He was a coach painter, and they lived in Bexley.
Sarah Annie Greenhill (1896-1977)
Herbert George Greenhill (1897-1966)
Arthur Ernest Greenhill (1901-1989)
Sidney Thomas Jerome Knight (1874-1941) m Louisa Martha Simpson (1873-1951) at St Jude, Bethnal Green. This was a commissioner's church built as a chapel of ease to St Matthew. It was bombed in WWII, and demolished. Sidney was a general labourer, and they lived at 45 Ernest Street, Norwood.
Sidney Knight
Alice Louisa Devon Knight (1896-1967)
Sidney Charles Knight (1898-1982)
Bessie May Knight (1901-1984)
Ethel Doris Knight (1903-1996)
Grace Sarah Knight (1905-1996)
Arthur Knight (1910-1975)
William Knight (1914-1993)
== m Elizabeth Shirley (1841-1897)
Ernest Alfred Knight (1884-1947) m Mabel Cottingham (1886) in Lambeth in 1907. There is a candidate record of service with the Royal Engineers (Railways) in WWI. Moved c 1907 back to Mabel's home county of Northamptonshire, where he was a general labourer for a corn merchant.
Barbara Lillian Knight (1907-1999)
Eric Cottingham (1910-1984)
Boyce Simmons Knight (1884-1956) m Ada Florence Patten (1886-1962) in Lambeth in 1907. He was a milk carrier, and they lived at 4 Credenhill Street, Streatham.
In WWI, he was a driver with the Royal Army Service Corps.
Boyce James Knight (1907-1975)
Lilian May Knight (1910-1989)
Louisa Florence Knight (1911-1985)
(Ernest) Alfred Knight (1915-1983)
Beatrice Vera Knight (1916-1981)
Ronald Knight (1921-1995)
Joseph Charles Knight (1842-1916) m Harriett Mustoe (1845-1917)
Jane Elizabeth Knight (1869-1963). By 1911, had not had an occupation (41).
Sidney William Knight (1871-1937) m Martha Ann Gray (1871-1962) at St Luke's in 1896. Gardener in youth, then commercial traveller for a publisher (at home in Norwood, his father being a traveller for a nurseryman). After marriage, a traveller for a toys and games company; they lived at 12 Whiteley Road, Norwood.
Sidney Joseph George Knight (1897-1973)
Dorothy May Knight (1899-1994)
Annie Louisa Knight (1874-1875). Died in infancy.
Edith Knight (1880-1973) m Walter Richard May (1874-1940) at St Luke in 1900. He was a postman, and they lived at 63 Wolfington Road, West Norwood. Her widowed father (retired gardener, 44) was there too.
Walter served with the Royal Engineers in WWI (and had previously served with the 3rd Middlesex Regiment)
Ernest Arthur May (1902-1970)
Alec Walter May (1903-1976)
Cecil Sydney May (1905-1967)
Ernest Charles Knight (1886-1891). Died in childhood.
Alice Louisa Knight (1889-1972) m William Charles Sidney Miles (1890-1948) at St Luke in 1919. She had been at home in Norwood in 1911, a dressmaker. Later, he was a bulb and seed assistant, and they shared 52 Hamilton Road, Norwood with another Miles couple.
William served with the RASC in WWI
== m Frederick W J Bull in Lambeth in 1957
Letitia Knight (1844-1897) m Thomas William Frost (1845-1907)
William Thomas Frost (1865-1940) m Emily Mary Anne [Annie] Simpson (1867-1952) at All Saints in 1886. He was a carman, and they lived at 1 Silver Cottages, Elm Grove, Norwood.
"At a humbler level on the social scale the Lower Norwood Co-operative Building Company erected working-class cottages on the Elm Grove estate, now known as Dunbar Street. The land on which these houses stood was formerly copyhold of Lambeth Manor but had been enfranchised before the Company bought it. (fn. 63) The first houses were built in 1865. Each pair contained four lettings with separate entrances, and cost £330, so that each letting cost £82 10s." British History Online
Indeed, they were at 26 Dunbar Street in 1901; she was taking in washing. By 911, he was working as a greengrocer in his father's business, and they lived at No 20.
Herbert [Bertie] William Frost (1889-1977)
Annie Rose Emily Frost (1892-1906)
Robert Arthur Frost (1896-1952)
Charlotte [Lottie] Letitia Frost (1897-1976)
Emily Pretoria Frost (1900-1985)
Maude Ivy Frost (1902-1980)
Winifred [Winnie] Alice Frost (1909-1992)
Thomas William Frost (1867-aft. 1939) m Jane Latham (1867-1942) at St James the Great, Bethnal Green in 1887. He was a carman, and they lived in Glo'ster (sic) Street, then 6 Linton Grove, then 3 Curnicks Lane (Chapel Road), all in Norwood.
Thomas Henry J Frost (1888-1961)
James Frederick Frost (1894-1957)
William Edward Frost (1899-1918)
Letitia Ellen Frost (1900-1954)
Walter Charles Frost (1869-1885). Died young.
James Frost (1872-1950) m Clara Cox (1873-1966) at All Saints in 1893. He wasa builder's carman, and they lived at 24 Carnac Street, Norwood; then at 32 St Gothard's Road - she did housework elsewhere, and they had relatives staying with them who were (house) painters.
James served with the RFC/RAF in WWI. The London Squadrons were at Woolwich (No. 1, 1912), Northolt (No. 18, 1915), Hounslow Heath (No. 24, 1915; No. 39, 1916; No. 52, 1916), Croydon (No. 93, 1917). The last
Croydon Airport
A number of small airfields were created around London in 1915 to protect against Zeppelin airship raids. One of these was Beddington Aerodrome. In January 1916, the first two B.E.2C aircraft of what became No. 93 Squadron of the RFC arrived. As the War went on, Beddington became a large Reserve Aircraft and Training aerodrome.
Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2B 1914-19 Replica (my photo)
Nearby, National Aircraft Factory No. 1, was opened in 1918 with the adjoining Waddon Aerodrome built to allow aircraft test flights. The factory made Airco/De Havilland DH9 planes. More at AirportOfCroydon.
Airco / De Havilland DH9 as made in Croydon (my photo)
Beddington Aerodrome became a large Reserve Aircraft and Training aerodrome for the Royal Flying Corps. At the end of the First World War the aerodrome was retained, becoming an important training airfield for the newly formed Royal Air Force. During 1919, Prince Albert (later George VI) gained his "wings" here with No. 29 Training Squadron, the first member of the Royal Family to learn to fly. His elder brother, the Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII), also received flying training with No. 29 Training Squadron at Beddington during 1919.
The two aerodromes were combined following the end of the WWI to become Croydon Aerodrome. George VI and Edward VIII learned to fly here (Bebington). The new aerodrome opened on 29 March 1920. Croydon was where regular international passenger services began, initially using converted wartime bombers, and was the busiest and most important airport in the world. It was the gateway for all international flights to and from London, and was the first airport to introduce air traffic control, a control tower, and radio position-fixing procedures. The "Mayday" distress call was developed here - an anglicisation of "M'aidez" (as most flights were from Croydon to Le Bourget). It gave its name to Mayday Road, Croydon (the only street of its name in Britain), and from thence to the Mayday Hospital. The rebranding of the Hospital in 2002-10 to Croydon University Hospital has been attributed to the the unfortunate connotations of Mayday (and 'may die').
Later in the 1920s, a new complex of buildings was constructed, including the first purpose-designed airport terminal and air traffic control tower, the world's first airport hotel, and extensive hangars. Remnants are now listed buildings.
In 1927, Charles Lindbergh arrived in Spirit of St. Louis, to be greeted by an enthusiastic crowd of over 100,000 people. Winston Churchill also took flying lessons. Amy Johnson took off in a De Havilland DH60 Moth on 5 May 1930 for her record-breaking flight to Australia.
Joseph Frost (1873-1953) m Charlotte Sawyer (1875-1917) at St Peter, Walworth in 1897. He was a bricklayer's labourer, and they lived at 57 Edithna Street; then 11 Moat Place, Stockwell. There is a candidate record indicating WWI service in the RASC.
Joseph Frost
Joseph William Frost (1898-1964)
Charlotte Ellen Frost (1900-1902)
James Frost (1902-1906)
Robert Walter Frost (1905-1907)
Letitia May Frost (1908-1918)
== m Daisy Hill (1884-1972) in Lambeth in 1923
George Frederick Frost (1875-1943) m Fanny Ada Baker (1876-1964) at All Saints in 1896. He was a carman, and they shared 220 Rommany Road, Norwood with other families.
There is a candidate record for WWI service with the Royal Engineers.
Annie Elizabeth Frost (1897-1946)
Fanny Margaret Frost (1901-1977)
Letitia Emily Frost (1905-1958)
George Thomas Frost (1909-1975)
Amy Florence Frost (1912)
Doris Rose Frost (1915-2002)
Winifred M Frost (1917-1917)
Arthur Frost (1876-1880). Died in childhood.
Elizabeth Maria Frost (1878-1910). Died at 22.
Frederick Frost (1880-1940) m Sarah Martin (1883-1959) at St Luke in 1910. He was a contractor's carman, and there is a candidate record for WWI Service in the Royal Engineers. She was a machinist and laundress, and they lived at 5 Mount Villas, West Norwood.
Frederick and Sarah Frost, with son Harry's new in-laws
George Albert Martin (1902-1955)
Frederick Martin (1911-1912)
Nellie Elizabeth Martin (1912-1917)
Henry [Harry] Thomas Martin (1915-1989)
Ronald Alfred Martin (1922-1988)
Letitia Mabel Martin (1925-2001)
Henry Frost (1882-1916). Volunteered for WWI (as enlisted at Kingston where the unit was formed in August 1914). Served with the 7th Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment.
The Battalion landed at Boulogne on 2 June 1915 as part of the 37th Brigade in the 12th (Eastern) Division for service on the Western Front. The unit was at Loos in March 1916 - the unit's war diary is here, which gives a vivid but dispassionate account of the quiet days, the occasional attacks, the monitoring of enemy trench building, and bombardments with field guns, howitzers, trench mortars, mines and 'torpedoes' (which apparently were used to clear barbed wire). Henry died of his wounds on 24 March 1916, some months before the Battle of Loos proper.
Sarah Annie Frost (1884-1926) m George Henry Jinks (1883-1936) in Lambeth in 1903. He was a railway porter, and they lived at 47 Davids Road, Forest Hill, which runs up to Forest Hill Railway Station, and adjoins what is now the South Circular Road.
Forest Hill Station (postcard)
Walter Knight (1845-1914) m Emily Cox (1845-1931)
Thomas Knight (1871-1871). Died in infancy.
Amelia Mary Knight (1872-1909) m Robert Norgate (1854-1918) at St Paul, Bow Common in 1894. This church was bombed in WWII, and demolished. Its replacement, unusually for a late C20 building is Grade II* listed. It was partially designed by a Christian anarchist, who was parish priest at the time. In 1891, she was at home in Mile End, a fur sewer. He was a plasterer, and they lived at 153 Bow Common Lane, Mile End.
Ivy Florence Norgate (1894-1988)
Amelia Emily Norgate (1903-1982)
Walter Knight (1874-1944). Lived at home in Bow Common and Forest Gate, a copper plate printer.
In intaglio printing, the lines to be printed are cut into a copper plate with a handheld burin cutting tool – in which case the process is called engraving; or through the corrosive action of acid – in which case the process is known as etching.In the C19, photogravure techniques were introduced that retained the smooth continuous tones of photography, printed using an etched plate. This allowed photographic images to be printed in books. British Pathé have a short film on the subject of fine art copper plate printing.
Ada M Knight (1877-1938). 1891: Domestic servant in Croydon (14). 1901: Back home in Mile End, a tie and shirt maker
Rose Charlotte Knight (1881-1961) m John Joseph Murray (1881-1922) at Holy Trinity, Mile End in 1902. This church was damaged in WWII, and declared redundant, but the building was saved. London churches has photos. 1901: At home in Mile End, a tie and shirt maker. He was an assistant timberman at a colliery below ground, and they lived at 17 Herbert Street, Treherbert, Rhondda, Glamorgan, Wales. There were three pits in Treherbert at the time.
John volunteered for WWI, and served in France in 1916 and 1917 with the 2/17th Battalion London Regiment (the Poplar and Stepney Rifles) (giving a Limehouse home address). He was transferred with his unit to the 180th Brigade in 60th (2/2nd London) Division. They landed at Le Havre in June 1916 (recorded in his pension record). In November, they moved to Salonika (not recorded in his pension record). He then seems to have been attached instead to a TF supply unit and brought home.
John Walter Murray (1903-1977)
Frederick Robert Murray (1905-1990)
Rose Lottie Murray (1906-1971)
Reese Edward Murray (1911-1949)
Ada Kathleen Murray (1916-1996)
Emily Jane Knight (1884-1957) m Robert Palfreman (1881-1954) at St Paul, Bow Common in 1904. 1901: At home in Mile End, a tie and shirt maker. He was a painter for the Board of Guardians, and they lived at 5 Holder Road, Bow.
Robert William Palfreman (1904-1954)
Walter Richard Palfreman (1905-1979)
Florence Emily Palfreman (1910-1994)
Lily Palfreman (1913-1969)
Stanley James Palfreman (1919-1980)
Albert Edward Palfreman (1920-1987)
Winifred Patricia Palfreman (1922-1976)
William Henry Knight (1886-1957) m Sarah Reynolds (1888-1977) at St Mary, [Hackney Wick] Victoria Park, London. They lived in cramped accommodation at 20 Libra Road, Old Ford [Bow], which, unsurprisingly, has been redeveloped.
Volunteered for WWI in Stratford (joined in Bodmin for some reason), and served in the 3rd (Reserve) Battalion of the Duke of Cornwall's light Infantry. from its raising in August 1914. A depot/training unit, it moved on mobilisation to Falmouth (confirmed in pension record). William was transferred to the 9th (Reserve) Battalion in October 1914, when that was formed in Falmouth. Discharged as medically unfit for War Service in November of that year.
Victoria Park is a park in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in East London, England. It is the largest park in Tower Hamlets and one of London's most visited green spaces with approximately 9 million visitors every year.The park spans 213 acres of open space, and opened to the public in 1845. The park underwent a £12 million refurbishment in 2011 and 2012, and many of the park's old features have been reinstated or repaired. Its origins lie in a mass petition to the Queen, in support of a recommendation by epidemiologist William Farr. The Crown Estate purchased the land (previously used as a residence by the Bishops of London), and the park was laid out by Sir James Pennethorne, a student of John Nash, who designed Regent's Park, of which Victoria Park is reminiscent. It is bounded by the Regent's Canal to the west, and by its branch, the Hertford Union Canal, to the south. Two pedestrian alcoves to the east end of the park are surviving fragments of the old London Bridge, demolished in 1831. In 1978, Rock Against Racism organised a protest event against growth of far-right organisations such as the National Front. The concert was played by The Clash, Steel Pulse, X-Ray Spex, The Ruts, Sham 69, Generation X, and the Tom Robinson Band.
Old Ford adjoins the park to the south, and is named after a ford over the River Lea, which was the main route over the boundary from London to Essex, upgraded by the Romans to one of Britain's first paved roads the "Strat-ford", on the route to Colchester. This was until 1110, when Queen Matilda took a tumble there on the way to Barking Abbey, about 7 miles to the east. So, a bowed bridge was built, and the London side became Stratford-by-Bow, later just Bow. The ford has gone now, but the Fire Bell Gate of the Abbey, rebuilt in 1460 is still there.
In 1911, William was an unemployed "labourer at any trade, last trade builders". The family shared a house with an Arthur Green, who was not able to work through having been blind and paralysed for five years. The house had three rooms to house the invalid, his wife, adult daughter, two schoolchildren and a three year old; as well as William, his wife and two young children.
William Richard Knight (1908-1989)
Maud Elizabeth Knight (1910-1981)
Alfred Knight (1913-1991)
Bessie Amelia Knight (1918-1997)
Samuel George Knight (1923-1989)
Charlotte Knight (1887-1939) m William Fredericks (1887-1917) at St Paul, Bethnal Green in 1910. He was a wharf labourer and they lived at 58 Great Cambridge Street [Queensbridge Road], Haggerston nr Shoreditch
William John Fredericks (1911-1994)
John Christopher Fredericks (1914-1997)
Emily Elizabeth Fredericks (1917-2000)
Charlotte Knight
(Samantha Harris on Ancestry)
William enlisted for WWI at Kingston, Surrey. He started as a Private with the East Surrey Regiment (in 1903? so re-enlisted for WWI?). He was sent to France in 1914 where he was wounded in the same year. At some point, he transferred to the 6th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment (Northampton Museum has photos). He attained the rank of sergeant. He fought at the Battle for Boom Ravine as part of the 18th (Eastern) Division on the successful left flank, the men getting into Boom Ravine and clearing some of its deep dugouts. At the cost of over 2,200 casualties the Germans had been pushed back - proving that the German Army’s position on the Somme front was untenable and would have to be abandoned for the Hindenburg Line. The battle was unusual in a number of ways as it saw the first widespread use of the new 106 ‘Graze’ Fuse, which on shrapnel shells more effectively cut the German barbed wire. It also saw British troops desert on the eve and give up the plan to the enemy, who was thus prepared for the assault.
William was wounded at Boom Ravine on 17 February 1917, and died of his wounds on 18 February 1917. (WartimeMemoriesProject etc)
James Knight (1847-1933) m Elizabeth Willcox (1853-1910)
James [Jim] Robert Knight (1874-1961) m Elizabeth Saunders (1873) at Christ Church, Norwood in 1907. Plasterer, boarding at 125 Gloster Road, Croydon before he married.
There is a candidate record of WWI service with the Royal Engineers (Railways).
James Richard Knight (1908-1976)
John William Knight (1910-1993)
Jim Knight
Sophia Lucy Knight (1875-1942) m John Pippard (1878-1937) at St Luke in 1899. 1891: At home in Norwood, a domestic servant elsewhere. 1901/1911: Still at home, married, husband absent. Died in Essex.
It appears that the reason that John was not present in the censuses is that he joined the Royal Navy on his 18th birthday in 1896. He was Petty Officer (boatswain) on HMS Repulse in 1901. His service record covers service until 1909 when it suggest that he was promoted. Over the years, he served on many ships, including a brief period on the revolutionary battleship HMS Dreadnought, over five years (1895-1900) on the pre-Dreadnought battleship HMS Repulse on Atlantic service, and three (1902-1905) on the protected cruiser HMS Amphitrite in Asia, and the largest warship to visit the Gulf.
There is boatswain's service register which picks up at the same date: "Zealous and hardworking... much tact and judgement", and indicates two years on the cruiser HMS Brilliant, probably on Mediterranean service. But it finishes in December 1911.
It looks as if he rejoined for WWI, as there are records of him being mentioned in despatches from Gallipoli, when a boatswain (1914-1919) on HMS Sapphire. "Good work in connection with the re-embarkation of troops from Y beach on the morning of 26 April [1915]."
Sapphire was a protected cruiser completed in 1905. At the start of WWI , she was attached to the 7th Battle Squadron of the Channel Fleet, then detached to join the Southern Force, which guarded the eastern end of the channel as the BEF crossed to France. By mid-October that patrol had called on to support the fighting on the Belgium coast, and the Sapphire was used to support the battleships Queenand Implacable. In February 1915 the Sapphire was transferred to the Dardanelles, serving with the Destroyer Flotilla. During the main Gallipoli landings of 25 April, HMS Sapphire and her sister ship Amethyst were part of the Fourth Squadron, made up of minesweepers. This squadron was attached to the First Squadron, helped to land troops on Y-Beach and then to evacuate them on the next day. (History of War)In May 1915 she was sent to Brindisi under the terms of the agreement that brought the Italians into the war, remaining there into 1916. That year she was transferred to the East Indies station, remaining there until the end of the war.
Henry [Harry] Knight (1880-1928) m Eliza Nicholls (1881-1967) at All Saints in 1907.
Harry Knight (Malta)
Harry Knight
From 1897-1909, he was in the Royal Navy, like this brother. He had a tattoo of a full-rigged ship on his forearm. He trained on HMS Impregnable [formerly HMS Howe], and served on the cruiser HMS Charybdis, one of the last sailing corvettes HMS Champion, the cruiser HMS Terrible (just missing the Boer War and Boxer Rebellion), the pre-dreadnought battleships (in Mediterranean service) HMS Empress of India, HMS Caesar and HMS Venerable, then the submarine tender HMS Thames at Sheerness.
His conduct was "VG" throughout, except for the period on Caesar where it was "indifferent", and there is a note "sentenced to 18 months" in 1903. There follows a 15-month gap in service.
From 1909-1913, he was a railway porter (goods), and the family lived at 26 Crampton Road, Penge. On 14 May, 1913, the family arrived in Québec, Canada, where they stayed for the rest of their lives. In WWI, he served with the Canadian Army.
Edith Dorothy Knight (1908-2007)
Florence Louisa Knight (1909-1935)
Charles Henry Knight (1911-1986)
George Edward Knight (1914-2008)
Percival Reginald Knight (1915-1990)
Stanley George Knight (1919-2006)
In the Victorian era, Penge developed into a fashionable suburb because of the railway line and its proximity to the relocated Crystal Palace. It became a fashionable day out to visit the Crystal Palace during the day and to take the tram down the hill to one of the 'twenty-five pubs to the square mile' that Penge was reputed to possess, or the two music halls—The King's Hall (later the Gaumont cinema) and, established in 1915, the Empire Theatre. By 1862, Stanford's map of London and its Suburbs shows large homes had been constructed along the main roads. This all came to an end with the notorious Penge murders. In 1875, Frederick Hunt murdered his wife and children,then in 1877 a wealthy heiress, Harriet Staunton and her infant son were starved to death by her husband and his associates.
Crampton Road was a short walk from either Penge West or Penge East Station. The first Penge Station was opened by the London and Croydon Railway in 1839 and closed two years later. Penge West and Penge East were opened on the same day in 1863 by the London Brighton and South Coast Railway, and the London, Chatham and Dover Railway respectively. Briefly in 1864, the Crystal Palace pneumatic railway ran from the Penge entrance to Crystal Palace Park to the Sydenham entrance. Crystal Palace Station is one stop west from Penge West, and still well under a mile from home. Penge West is best for the monsters!
Crystal Palace Park The building of Crystal Palace Park was probably the biggest thing ever to hit Norwood, Penge and the town of Croydon, the centre of which was less than 4 miles to the south. The building which housed The Great Exhibition of 1851, was always designed to be temporary but its designer, Joseph Paxton was determined that it lived on. When it became clear that it would not be allowed to remain in Hyde Park, he hatched an ambitious plan to rebuild it as the centrepiece of a new pleasure ground. The Crystal Palace as it had become known was not moved - all 18 acres (7 hectares) of it, comprising 4000 tons of cast iron, and millions of identical panes of glass. It went to 389-acre site consisted of woodland and the grounds of the mansion known as Penge Place owned by Paxton's friend and railway entrepreneur Leo Schuster.
But, it was not just moved - it was redesigned, enlarged and repurposed. Paxton formed the Crystal Palace Company to do it. It cost £70,000 to buy the building, and £1.3 million to buy the site. It would have taken a similar effort to build the Palace the second time around, so would have needed some 5000 navvies; the development of the park cost considerably more. Edward Milner designed the Italian Garden and fountains, the Great Maze, and the English Landscape Garden, and Raffaele Monti was hired to design and build much of the external statuary around the fountain basins, and the urns, tazzas and vases.
Paxton's was originally a gardener, and his original interest in glass buildings had started when he needed to support the passions of his employer, the Duke of Devonshire, for cultivating exotic plants such as pineapples and bananas, at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire (the fictional home of May Carleton, the aristocratic racehorse trainer in Peaky Blinders). Indeed, Paxton cultivated the type of banana that is now almost universal. This work culminated in the Great Conservatory, the largest glass building in existence at the time; and a refinement of his ideas shown in the Lily House. Paxton consulted with the engineers designing the Palm House at Kew Gardens, and the Lily House was built to house a giant lily sent from there. Both were demolished in 1920, deemed unsustainable in the post-WWI world. An earlier greenhouse, modified by Paxton, survives; there is also a rare survival of one of Paxton's more mass-produced models at Heligan.
The other great innovation that Paxton brought to Chatsworth was a giant fountain, built to impress Czar Nicholas. It can't quite match the 300ft (90m) height it once attained, but that too survives. Paxton filled the Crystal Palace Park with fountains, including two capable - on special occasions - of creating 200 ft jets. The series of fountains required the building of a water towers at each end of the Palace. These were themselves nearly 300 ft high, and were designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
The map (north is to the top right corner), shows the layout of the park. G is Crystal Palace Station and the monsters are at N. There were huge fountains at M, rose gardens at I, and the terraces were at D and C, with more fountains and gardens, and with sphinxes. The building itself was at A.
Knight Car, 1895 - shown at the Crystal Palace motor exhibition (my photo)
In 1911, the Festival of Empire was held at the park and the park was transformed with buildings designed to represent the British Empire. Many of these (temporary) buildings remained at the site until the 1940s.
Crystal Palace Football Club The Crystal Palace Company invited WG Grace to help them found London County Cricket Club in 1898. You may recall that Frederick Larard took his son Edmund to watch a match.
In the winter, cricketers played football, and Crystal Palace was an inaugural member of the Football Association in 1863. It is only in 2020 that it is becoming acknowledged that this is the same club as exists to this day. The Club's official Facebook banner now refers to 1861, in preference to the usually quoted foundation date of 1905.
The truth is, as an amateur club, there wasn't a fixture list, and records are patchy. It did reach the semi-finals of the first ever FA Cup in 1872 but were beaten by the Royal Engineers (also inaugural FA members). The Crystal Palace Company hosted the FA Cup Final from 1895. It now seems clear that the club wanted to make more of their own club, but the FA were not keen about the hosts also owning a competitive club. So as separate company was formed. In 1921, they joined the new Third Division, and were champions in their first year as a league club. This achievement has only otherwise been achieved by Preston North End (winners of the original league) and Small Heath (winners of the new second division in their first season; later Birmingham City FC); and Liverpool and Bury, who each won the Second Division after having won the Lancashire League. Both the FA Cup Finals and Crystal Palace FC games were played at Crystal Palace Park, until the Admiralty requisitioned the Park in WWI. The site of the pitch is now the National Sports Centre.
Crystal Palace have played in every FA Cup competition since 1905, and reached the final twice, in 1990 and 2016. They have played at Selhurst Park since 1924, about halfway along that 4 mile walk from the old ground to central Croydon.
William Knight (1884-1931) m Ethel Maud Williams (1889-1918) at All Saints in 1910.
Bill Knight with his daughter Lilian, and brother Harry
Lilian Maud Knight (1910-1997)
He was a carriage cleaner with the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway from 1909-1911 when he was a (the?) leading cleaner at Victoria. They lived at 13 Cunliffe Street, Streatham.
Charlotte Hannah Knight (1849-1890) m Edward John Kitchener (1848-1919)
Edward John Kitchener (1869-1946) m Annie Littlefield (1871-1936) at St Luke in 1893. In 1891, he was a groom, lodging with the coachman of Down Place, Compton nr Guildford.
The master of the house is absent: his sons are Russian merchant's sons: Thomas (22) and James Murray (20), both born in Sydenham. James was later associated with failed aerospace projects but his factory, in Barnes, afterward made Le Rhone aero-engines for WWI. He attributed his bankruptcy in 1914 to an act of God, and held that he was not responsible. He had started an aero-club near Oxford. Hawera & Normanby Star, NZ
British History Online has its history from Domesday to Mr Bett, via the 1st Lord Montague. Also, towards Guildford, on the east side of the Hog’s Back, lie Down Place and Blackwell Farm. The manor of Down Place was demolished in 1963, all that remains today of the estate are the stables where is established Hogs Back Books, the children’s book publisher. Once associated with the manor as one of the first model farm in Surrey, Blackwell Farm. The Hog's back is, apparently the 24th highest hill in Surrey, and is mentioned in Brave New World, Paul Temple and Bulldog Drummond.
Edward Kitchener
Lilian Maud Kitchener (1894-1977)
Eric Edward Kitchener (1894-1960)
Edith May Kitchener (1896-1981)
Maud Kitchener (1899-1960)
Adelaide Lydia Kitchener (1909-1934)
Ronald Frank Kitchener (1909-1979)
In 1901, he was back in Norwood, a coachman; they lived at the Coach House next to 153/155 Tulse Hill. This later became the Whitechapel Mission (1943-1971). The area has now been redeveloped but one grand house is left (part of the school). By 1911, he had become a chauffeur, and they lived at 1 The Hoppety, Tadworth, Surrey
Martha Kitchener (1871-1943) m Thomas Abraham Alfred Hancock (1870-1952) at St Luke in 1891. Prior to this she was at home in Norwood, a laundry maid.
Martha Hancock
She carried on laundering shirts after they were married; he was a coal carrier. They lived at 11 Caroline Cottages, Park Terrace, Norwood; then 18 Paxton Place.
Thomas Edward Hancock (1892-1914)
Charlotte Elizabeth Hancock (1893-1960)
Alice Lydia Hancock (1894-1978)
Bertha Letitia Hancock (1895-1987)
Florence Ethel Hancock (1897-1977)
John Alfred Hancock (1899-1976)
Edith Mary Hancock (1900-1990)
Annie Beatrice Hancock (1903-1939)
James William Hancock (1905-1944)
Robert Stephen Hancock (1907-1972)
Ellen Gladys Hancock (1909-2010)
Elsie Winifred Hancock (1911-1990)
Margaret Irene Hancock (1913-1993)
William Kitchener (1873-1960) m Beatrice Fanny Fisher (1876-1950) at St Luke in 1895. He was a carman, and they lived at 10 Wood Street, Norwood, By 1911, he was a general dealer (green meat [animal feed], carrots etc), and they lived at 65 Rothschild North.
John Kitchener (1875-1942) m Eliza Emma Latham (1873-1952) at St Luke in 1894. He was an excavator, doing drain work for the Borough Council, and they lived at 75 High Street, Norwood; then 17 Ernest Street.
John Kitchener (1895-1972)
Alice Florence Kitchener (1896-1979)
Charlotte Letitia Kitchener (1898-1955)
Edward Kitchener (1900-1902)
Ellen May Kitchener (1903-1968)
Lydia Maud Kitchener (1908-1995)
Charlotte Kitchener (1877-1914) m Robert Dove (1877-1946) at St Luke in 1902. He was a carman, and they lived at 75 High Street Norwood in 1911: presumably they took over from brother John.
Robert Dove (1905-1969)
Ernest Edward Dove (1909-1972)
Walter Dove (1913-1985)
Robert was widowed in 1914. He was enlisted as a Pioneer in the Inland Water Transport Corps of the Royal Engineers in January 1917 and was in France the following month. He remarried to Charlotte's sister, Lydia in Lambeth in 1919.
James Kitchener (1879-1961) m Elizabeth Mary Shair (1879-1932) at St John, Reigate [Redhill] in 1904. He had been a groom (domestic servant) living at the Stables, 24 Sydenham Hill. In 1911, he was a domestic chauffeur [and mechanic], and they lived at 27 Cresswell Place, South Kensington (which still has a mews feel).
He volunteered for WWI in December 1915, served with the RASC, and was dispersed via Crystal Palace in February 1919.
Lydia Kitchener (1882-1942) m Robert Dove (1877-1946) (her sister's widower) somewhere in Lambeth in 1919. In 1911, she was with her widowed father (carman) at 75 High Street, Norwood (different form from sister Charlotte). He was a lorry loader and, later on, they lived at 12 Ernest Avenue, Norwood
Alice Kitchener (1884-1887). Died in infancy.
Elizabeth Kitchener (1886-1887). Died in infancy.
Arthur Kitchener (1888-1888). Died in infancy.
Charles Joseph Knight (1851-1917) m Martha C Staples (1856-1922)
Elizabeth Ann Knight (1874-1959) m Walter Charles Peckham (1868-1961) at Christ Church, West Croydon in 1895.
"The original church here was a flint-faced building designed by Teulon and built in 1851-2, paid for by Archbishop Sumner. Due to structural problems it was later closed in 1978 and following a petition, approval to demolish the building was given in 1982. However, in 1983 the old church was listed and total demolition therefore not granted although designs for the new church had been agreed by the end of 1982. In December 1985 the south transept caught fire and the building was badly damaged apart from the three bays at the west end and the chancel. Designs were then prepared by Maurice Taylor and the K C White Partnership for a new building that retained the undamaged portion at the western end. The new church was completed in April 1991 and was opened by the Bishop of Southwark in June 1991". London Gardens Trust quoting Pevsner
He was a water softener for London County Council, and they lived at 3 Cane Hill Cottages, Coulsdon, Croydon. Some of their neighbours were lunatic attendants. "Cane Hill reject" was a favourite playground insult at my school in the 1970s, referring to Cane Hill Hospital. There are urban exploration photos of it before it was demolished here, and its story in the Croydon Advertiser, and on a dedicated site. Timechamber has the story of David Bowie's step-brother and Michael Caine's half-brother, who were inmates, and of Charlie Chaplin's visit to see his mother there in 1911 - I don't suppose Elizabeth knew...
Charles Joseph Knight (1877-1950) m Elizabeth Ritchen (1877-1962) at St Saviour, Croydon in 1900. He was a fishmonger's assistant, and they lived at 87 Grant Road, Croydon; then 68 Winterbourne Road, Thornton Heath, Croydon.
He was called up in August 1917, and served with the Royal Garrison Artillery 49 Company, who were on South Irish Coast Defence duty, and based at Queenstown Harbour [Cobh, Cork]. He was demobbed at Crystal Palace in March 1919.
Annie Maria Knight (1880-1956) m Frederick Samuel Smith (1879) in 1901. He was an electrician, and they shared 49 Mitcham Road, Croydon with another family. In 1911, he was a telephone operator with the National Telephone Company, and they lived at 29 Totton Road, Thornton Heath.
Elsie Ellen Mary Smith (1901-1984)
Ethel Florence Smith (1905-1957)
Annie Elizabeth Smith (1908-1932)
Ellen Phyllis Knight (1882-1961) m William Burt (1882-1940) at Holy Saviour, Croydon in 1903 (Marathon). He was a window cleaner, and they lived at 27 Wiltshire Road, Thornton Heath.
Holy Saviour, Croydon
William Henry Charles Burt (1903-1988)
George Frederick Burt (1905-1963)
Walter James Burt (1915-1983)
Nellie Sophia Knight (1884-1961) m Frederick Charles Fennings (1879) in Godstone in 1903. He was a carter in a brickfield, and they lived at the Diamond Cottages, Holland [Road], Oxted, Surrey.
The brick works were a couple of miles away on Limpsfield Common. Major Baden-Powell and 'Colonel' Samuel Cody flew man-lifting kites from the common. Cody was a pioneer of flight, developing gliders, an airship (which crash-landed at Crystal Palace) and early aircraft, with which he won the Michelin Cup for the longest flight in England (nearly five hours), and fourth place and only British finisher in the Circuit of Britain air race in 1911. Early flight caught the public imagination, and Fred and Nellie would surely have been aware of the activity on the common.
Frederick volunteered for WWI in September 1914, and served with the Royal Field Artillery in the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force. He was in Alexandria in October 1915, and Salonica in July 1916. As part of the 60th Division, he would have been at the Macedonian Campaign against Bulgaria of 1917, the Sinai and Palestine Campaign against the Ottoman Turks in 1917 and 1918. He was dispersed in April 1919.
Nellie Sophia Fennings (1903)
Dorothy May Fennings (1906)
Frederick George Fennings (1908-1974)
Nancie Lilian Fennings (1910-1980)
Charles David Fennings (1912-1984)
Thomas John Fennings (1914-1963)
Frederick George Knight (1885-1945) m May Foster (1887-1948) at St Stephen, Thornton Heath in 1910. He was a general labourer, and they lived with her widowed mother, a nurse at 23 Totton Road, Thornton Heath.
Thomas Henry Knight (1886- bef. 1911?). Believed to have died young.
James Thomas Knight (1887-1953) m Daisy Ethel Berry (1888-1976) at Christ Church, West Croydon in 1912. He was a general labourer, and they lived in Thornton Heath.
One child
Edward Frank Knight (1890-1937). General labourer. At home in West Croydon in 1911.
Florence May Knight (1892-1975) m Frank Menzier Simmons (1892-1974) in Croydon in 1916. In 1911, she had been at home in West Croydon, a servant elsewhere. He was a printer, and, later, they were living in Coulsdon and Purley.
Ella Simmons (1917-2003)
Jean Simmons (1922-1985)
Walter Knight (1894-1914). In 1911, at home in West Croydon, a fishmonger's assistant. Later, he was a carman. He joined the Army in January 1913, and served in the 1st Battalion of the Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment. The 1st Battalion landed at Le Havre as part of the 3rd Brigade in the 1st Division in August 1914. This was so early in the war that it is possible, in a few minutes, to read the unit's war diary from the beginning of the War. On 31 October, there was a close-fought battle around Gheluvelt near Ypres:
"the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was locked into a battle for survival. Fighting alongside her French and Belgian allies, the British Army sought to hold off a massive German offensive that aimed to capture the last sliver of unoccupied Belgium before driving onwards towards the strategically vital Channel ports of Dunkirk and Calais... The battle would prove to be a watershed. It was the transition point between the mobile, open warfare of August and September 1914 and the trench deadlock that would characterise the fighting between 1915 and 1917. " (Dr Spencer Jones) There follows a detailed and readable description of the action, best read alongside the Battalion's War Diary.
Walter was killed in action on that day.
The Worcestershire Regiment played a critical role, and there is a memorial park in Worcester.
Main Gate to Gheluvelt Park, Worcester (Derek Bradley)
Walter is remembered on the Menin Gate.
Louis Parker - adopted (1900). There is a record of admittance of a Louis Parker of the right age, with brother Alfred, to Southwark Union, Boyson Road Home in 1907. No other record found (other than 1901 census).
Martha Hannah Knight (1852-1942) m William Thomas Purkiss (1855-1893)
William Alfred [Willie] Purkiss (1876-1954) m Charlotte Carlton (1881-1960) in 1904. He was a Police Constable with the Metropolitan Police, and they lived at 1 Aberdeen Cottages, Greenford [Ealing].
Arthur Thomas Purkiss (1905-1989)
Frank Herbert Purkiss (1906-1937)
Lilian Louisa Purkiss (1907-1966)
Stanley Richard Purkiss (1910-1915)
Beatrice Ellen Purkiss (1911)
Robert James Purkiss (1916-1953)
Walter John Purkiss (1919-1967)
Martha Alice Purkiss (1878-1938) m William Ingham (1871) in Islington in 1900. He was a carman, and they shared 27 Stanmore Street, Barnsbury, Islington with two other families. In 1911, he was an ice? cab driver for a shop, and they lived at 60 Stroud Green Road, Finsbury Park.
Herbert William Ingham (1905-1977)
Maisie A Ingham (1910-1992)
Frederick Edward Knight (1853-1910)
(Solomon) George Knight (1854-1911) m Mary Ann Stotter (1853-1915)
Martha Knight (1875-1944) m Richard Newing M Mackriell (1874-1895) in Croydon in 1893. She had been at home in Norwood in 1891, and a servant elsewhere. Richard was a carman. William was also a carman, and they lived at 18 Wood Street, Norwood.
Richard Mackriell (1893-1968)
Frederick George Mackriell (1895-1896)
==m William Heath (1870-1953) at St Luke in 1896
William Heath (1897)
Alfred George Heath (1899-1911)
Alice Martha Heath (1901-1986)
Rose Heath (1903-1979)
Lily Heath (1906-1986)
Frederick Charles Heath (1910-2004)
Harry Henry Heath (1916-1987)
George William Knight (1876-1944) m Elizabeth Goddard (1874) at St Luke in 1896. George was a carman, and then a navvy for Lambeth Borough Council. They lived at 4A Beaconsfield Cottages, Change Alley, Norwood
Arthur Sydney Knight (1902-1907)
Alice Ada Knight (1904-1992)
William [Willie] Henry Knight (1905)
Annie Knight (1877-1958) m Henry James George Beecheno (1872-1903) at St Luke in 1899. He was a storekeeper (not a shopkeeper), and they shared 218 Milkwood Road, Herne Hill. She was widowed by 1911, and they lived with her widowed mother in Norwood.
Henry George Beecheno (1900)
Mary Ann Knight (1878-1942) m Joseph Thomas Cummings (1875-1953) at St Luke in 1900. He was a washhouseman at a laundry, she was a charwoman, and they lived at 5 Langmead Street, Norwood.
Joseph Edward Cummings (1902-1976)
Mary Ann Cummings (1905)
Emily Ada Cummings (1911-1996)
James William Knight (1880-1950) m Mary Ann Theedom (1881-1918) at St Luke in 1900. He was a carman, and they lived at 4 Knights Hill Square. By 1911, he was a coal porter, and they lived at No. 1. Knights Hill Square is where the charcoal burners' cottages stood, relics of the old 'North Wood', and this may have been one of them.
Solomon George Knight (1901-1901)
James Knight (1902-1902)
Sidney John Knight (1902-1904)
Henrietta Elsie Knight (1903-1969)
Dorothy Maud Knight (1905-1961)
Florence Emma Knight (1907-1992)
Frederick George Knight (1908-1984)
Emily Elizabeth Knight (1911-1974)
Gladys Elizabeth Knight (1914)
Sydney Alexander Knight (1916-1999)
Eliza Knight (1882-1960) m Samuel Thomas (1875) at St Luke in 1900. He was an excavator in sewer work for Lambeth Borough Council. The Victorian plans for the sewers are held at Lambeth Archives.
Violet Eliza Thomas (1901-1992)
William Thomas (1910)
Daisy F Thomas (1912-1949)
William Knight (1885-1964?) m (Alice) Maud Scott (1886-1960) at St Matthew, Brixton in 1912. He was a road paver, and they lived in Brixton.
A part of WWI history now often forgotten is the very widely used appeals process against the call-up. Unusually, William's Service Record includes a certificate from an engineering company certifying that he was not liable to be called up, on the grounds that we was engaged on an important contract at Woolwich Arsenal, and stating that they had lodged an appeal with their local tribunal.
William Knight's Exemption Certificate
By December 1916, he was serving in the Army Reserve, and was fined for being absent without leave. At some point, he was with the Labour Corps in France. He was a Bovington in December 1918, so had possibly been working at the tank training ground, now the Tank Museum.
Alfred Knight (1887-1956) m Elizabeth Grey (1887-1988), somewhere in Lambeth in 1906. He was a builder's labourer. There is a signature on the 1911 census, but a family member asserts that he was illiterate.
Alfred and Elizabeth Knight
(Roger Butcher on Ancestry)
Primrose Rosina Knight (1908-1985)
Ethel Elizabeth Knight (1910-2014)
Gladys Ivy Knight (1912-2003)
Charlotte Knight (1914-2006)
Alfred James Knight (1916-1992)
Victor Stanley Knight (1918-2004)
Horace Knight (1921-2017)
Harold S Knight (1923-2017)
William Knight (1928-1928)
David Knight (1928-1928)
Douglas Knight (1930-2008)
Daisy Knight (1889-1966) m William George Griffin (1888-1952) at Emmanuel, West Dulwich in 1907. He was a plumber, and they lived at 6 Mill Lane, Brixton Hill.
There is a candidate record for William having served as a Pioneer with the Royal Engineers in WWI.
Winifred May Griffin (1909-2005)
Elsie Louisa Griffin (1912-2006)
William Harry Griffin (1915-1967)
Henry Knight (1891-1962). In 1911, with his brother James, no occupation.
Charlotte Emma Knight (1893) m Reuben Scott (1886) in Lambeth in 1915. In 1911, she was at home with her widowed mother, a laundress. He was a carman for a meat carrier. Later, he was a builder's labourer, and they lived in Norwood.
Reuben William Scott (1919)
Walter E Scott (1921)
Solomon George Knight (1900-1901). Died in infancy.
Frederick Knight (1858-1859)
George Frederick Knight (1859-1859)
James Knight (1814) m Elizabeth (1815)
John Knight (1842)
Johnson Knight (1816-1837)
Solomon Knight (1816-1821)
Rebecca Knight (1818-1908) m Thomas Mousley (1808-1860)
Fredrick [Fred] Bezer (1879-aft 1942) m Alma A Eggert (1883-1953). Born New York, died New Jersey?
Florence Emma Elisabeth Bezer (1903-1992)
Henry Bezer (1845-1906) m Frances Elizabeth Bezer (cousin?)(1846-1914)
Edith Frances Bezer (1868-1918). Stayed with her widowed mother in Hornsey.
Percy Douglas Bezer (1870-1913). Also stayed at home. Insurance clerk, broker by 1911.
Henry Stanley Bezer (1870-1952). At home in 1891. Clerk (18). No later record found, until probable death.
Alice Lilian Bezer (1875-1934) m Ernest Henry Walker (1875-1948) at Christ Church, Crouch End in 1906. She was a hospital nurse before she was married. In 1911, she is at home in Wood Green; her husband is absent.
They divorced in 1882, on her petition, alleging violence and adultery with a woman posing as his wife in Worthing...
Mary A Bezer (1848-1919) m William Herbert Holloway (1846-1896)
Herbert William Holloway (1871). Commercial traveller.
Edith Mary Holloway (1873). 1911: Teacher of health exercises (travelling). Boarding with a private day school mistress.
Emma Bezer (1851-1898) m George Millar (1812-1899)
Reginald Millar (1877-1970) m Ethel Byers (1877-1967) at St Mark, [Maida Vale] St Johns Wood in 1903. He was a merchant's clerk, who boarded in Catford in 1901. By 1911, he was a colonial broker and employer, and the lived at 4 Howden Road, Norwood. They kept a nurse, a cook, and a housemaid. There is an entry in the London Gazette which has him as a member of the Management Committee of Rice Brokers, and another giving an address of 16 Mark Lane in the City of London.
There is a record of a Reginald Millar having fought in the Boer War but there is no corroboration, except for the record of a visit to South Africa in 1957.
Florence Millar (1881) m Walter Silk (1876-1953) at St George Hanover Square in 1908. He was a domestic valet, and they lived at 8 Cavendish Buildings, Gilbert Street [Mayfair]. They emigrated to the USA. There are records of a trip back from New York on the RMS Mauretania in August 1925, and back on the RMS Aquitania (the same ship as Emma Burrows used) a month later.
Mauritania was designed by Leonard Peskett and built by Wigham Richardson and Swan Hunter for the Cunard, launched in 1906. She was the world's largest ship (and, therefore, the largest moving structure ever built) until the completion of RMS Olympic in 1911. She captured the Eastbound Blue Riband on her maiden return voyage in December 1907, then claimed the Westbound Blue Riband for the fastest transatlantic crossing during her 1909 season. She held both speed records for 20 years.
Mabel Evelyn Millar (1881-1979) m Harold Frank Leslie Dixon (1873-1953) in Croydon in 1904. Harold was the Chief Engineer and Manager for the Electricity Company Ltd, and they lived at "Lumen", Park Rise, Leatherhead, Surrey.
DIXON, H. Leslie, Captain, R.A.F., A.M.I.Mech.E., Electrical Engineer, " Lumen," Park Rise, Leatherhead, Surrey. T. A.: "Lumen, Leatherhead." T. N.: 6 Leatherhead. b. 1873; s. of Thos. F. Dixon and Emma Leslie (well-known authoress); m. 1905. Ed. Lee Grammar School, Goldsmiths' Technical Institute and Finsbury Technical College. Apprenticed to J. G. Statter & Co., West Drayton. Electrical Assistant at. Immisch's, Ltd., Camden Town; Second Demonstrator at New Cross Technical Institute; Mains. Superintendent, National Electric Supply Co., Ltd., Preston, Lancashire; Electrical Engineer to, Manlove, Alliott & Co., Ltd., Nottingham; Assistant to Electrical Engineer and Inspector Corporation of London; Chief Engineer and Manager of Leatherhead & District Electricity Co., Ltd.,. Leatherhead, Surrey, from 1906 to Sept., 1920._ Clubs: R.A.F., -The Road. War Services.—January, 1917, to June 1, 1919, France and Home areas. Staff Captain, Royal Air Force. (Who's Who in Engineering 1922 via Grace's Guide)
Leslie Dixon & Co., of 218 Upper Thomas Street, London, EC4, Electric switchgear manufacturers, 1937 (Grace's Guide, which also has some of their ads, e.g. car indicators, and crystal radios). An obituary mentions that the company also specialized in disposing of ex-Government radio and electrical apparatus. Old advertisements have an address of 9 Colonial Avenue, Minories (near Aldgate Station).
Emma Boultwood (1838–1909) was born in Greenwich, Kent, England. She was an Infant School Governess in her twenties. She began writing using the name Emma Leslie, and was published in 1863. She had a sister named Harriet Boultwood who wrote many stories as well. In 1872, she married Thomas Francis Dixon, a clerk. In 1874, they had a son named Harold Leslie Dixon, who was an electrical engineer and went on to found Leslie Dixon and Co. She wrote Christian books and historical fiction and many were published by the Religious Tract Society. (Curiosmith, which also has a list of her works)
Muriel Leslie Dixon (1905-1994)
Millar Leslie Dixon (1909-1987)
Dorothy Maud Millar (1888-1989) m Ernest Edward Leslie Dixon (1876-1963) [brother of Harold who married sister Florence] at Christ Church, Holborn in 1914. He was a graduate of the University of London, and a geologist, indeed a pioneer of the British Geological Survey, who have a page on him. He was awarded the Murchison Medal in 1936.
Ernest Dixon
Margaret Leslie Dixon
In WWI, he served as a 2nd Lieutenant with the RGA in France.
Theodore Bezer (1852)
Ellen Bezer (1856-1889)
William James (Willie) Bezer (1857-1944) m Edith Emma Loveridge (1858-1904)
William Dudley Bezer (1884-1916) m Gladys Cummins at St Mary, Marylebone in 1915. In 1911 he had been boarding in Manor Park, Lee, Lewisham, an insurance clerk.
William Bezer 1884
He volunteered for WWI, and served as a Lance Corporal with the 1/9th Battalion of the London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles). November 1914 : landed at Le Havre, came under command of 13th Brigade in 5th Division. Saw action at the First Battle of Ypres in 1914, and the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915. February 1916 : transferred to 169th Brigade in 56th (London) Division; took part in the diversionary attack at Gommecourt (part of the Battle of the Somme) on 1 July 1916. (Long, Long Trail)
At 7:30 a.m. on 1 July, the attack on Gommecourt began and the 56th (1st London) Division to the south, overran the first two German trenches. Troops also reached the third trench but a strongpoint at Nameless Farm held out despite several attacks. The German artillery fired a standing barrage along no man's land and trapped the British on the far side all day, as German infantry gradually recaptured the lost trenches, all attempts to send reinforcements from the British lines being costly failures. William was one of those killed in action on this day.
Charles Dickens' son Cedric was a Major in the 1/13th Londons and was killed on 9 September.
Edith Maud Bezer (1886-1970) m Harold Hickling Parkes (1889-1970) at St Stephen, West Ealing in 1917. Later, they lived in Easthampstead, Bracknell, Berkshire. My photos of Bracknell are here (although they seemed to be in the process of knocking most of it down when I was there).
Graham Bezer (1889-1975) m Helen Louise Rackham (1893-1974) in Lewisham in 1915. In 1911, was at same boarding house as brother William. Commercial clerk. Later, he was a managing clerk at a fibre merchant, and the lived in Catford.
He volunteered for WWI, and served as a Corporal with the London Regiment of the RFC/RAF.
Joan Margaret Bezer (1918-2005)
Geoffrey Noel Bezer (1920-1976)
John Dudley Bezer (1923-1990)
Clara Elizabeth Bezer (1861-1957)
Florence Laura Bezer (1861-1906) m Thomas Richard Tester (1860)
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