Rycherd Knowlton - I45437 - Personoplysninger - Wisconsin and Illinois Genealogy

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Rycherd Knowlden, Elizabeth Cantize - Kent England probate records - it should be notes that no one other that Charles Stockings, author of a book written in the late 1880's, has been able to find these probate records.

The name Knowlton reaches back traditionally to the time of William the Conqueror, 1066-87. Richard Knowlton was born 1553, probably at Knowlton Manor, which is situated about six miles from the great cathedral at Canterbury, Kent County, England. He married, July 17, 1577, Elizabeth Cantize. The last of their four children was William, commonly called Captain William, born 1584, married Ann Elizabeth Smith. They had six children, two of whom died young. Captain William with his remaining family sailed for America about 1632. He died on the passage and was probably buried at Nova Scotia, as an ancient grave-stone bearing the name of William Knowlton, 1632, was discovered there by a land-surveyor in 1839. The family appear to have moved to Massachusetts the next year, probably to Hingham, later to Ipswich. William, second son of Captain William, born in England, 1615, was a member of the first church in Ipswich and a freeman, 1641-2. He was a brick-layer by trade, married Elizabeth, and died 1655. The youngest of their seven children was Mary, born 1649, who married Samuel Abbe.

Among the stories of the Middle Ages, there is a tradition of two brothers enlisting in the service of William the Conqueror, and fighting so bravely during his invasion of Wales that they readily won their spurs. Having observed that they resided, the one, on a hill and the other on a knoll, or lesser hill, the king, on investing then with the honours and insignia of knighthood, dubbed them Hill-ton and Knoll-ton. Whatever of truth may attach to the tradition, it is certain that the name is an ancient one, born out of its own native soil. A large proportion of English proper names has been suggested by local situations and associations, and of these the name Knowlton is one of the most striking, as it is one of the most ancient. The suffix ton is the old Saxon tun, town, so that in its primary use it meant the people, or town, on the knoll, but in process of time it lost this collective force, and was applied to the chief family, or personae, resident thereon. For the purpose both of government and revenue, the people were grouped in Hundreds, so called because one hundred families were made to comprise one district, or borough.

--Nov 20 1336
Deeds 202
Warranty, 1336, Nov. 20. 10 Edward III. 1 item : parchment ; 17.5 x 23.5 cm.

SUMMARY: Acknowledgement by Adam de Aula of Pyleholte that he is bound to defend against the lords of the fee and all men John de Sandhurst, Katherine his wife, and William de Langele and Cristina his wife in respect of 1/2 acre of land sold to them by him in Pyleholte, lying between the wood of John and William on the north and east, his land on the south, and the land, Richard his son, held of John and William, on the west. Given at Pyleholte on the feast of St. Edmund, King and Martyr, 10 Edward III.

WITNESSES: Richard de Retlinge, John Pyrot, John de Ketyntone, Thomas Tailour, Richard de Knoltone, John Penfelde, Nicholas de Penfolde, Edmund de Tykenherst, Walter and John his brothers, William de Pyleholte, Roger de Langedone, John the clerk. With 1 seal ‎‎(2.5 cm)‎‎ of pink wax, bearing a device and an legend ‎‎(effaced)‎‎.

NAMES: I. De Aula, Adam. II. De Sandhurst, John. III. De Sandhurst, Katherine. IV. De Langley, William. V. De Langley, Cristina. VI. De Aula, Richard. VII. De Tickenherst, Edmund. VIII. De Tickenherst, Walter. IX. De Tickenherst, John. X. De Retlinge, Richard. XI. Pyrot, John. XII. De Ketyntone, John. XIII. Tailour, Thomas XIV. De Knowlton, Richard. XV. De Penfield, John. XVI. De Penfield, Nicholas. XVII. De Pyleholte, William. XVIII. De Langedone, Roger. XIX. John, the clerk.

SUBJECTS: 1. Deeds--England--Kent. 2. Deeds--England--Pyleholte? 3. Kent ‎‎(England)‎‎--Charters, grants, privileges. 4. Pyleholte ‎‎(England)‎‎--Charters, grants, privileges.

HOLLIS number: -AOB4844

	Begivenheder for nære slægtninge
Født	1553 Knowlton Manor, Kent, England
Ægteskab	Elizabeth Cantize
Død	1632 (Alder 79) Canterbury, England
Sidst ændret	15 marts 2007 - 10:08:01 Sidst opdateret af: dcoplien