Ann JORDAN was born
in Dec 1765 in Lubenham, Leicester, England. She was christened on 13 Dec 1765 in Lubenham, Leicester,
England. She died on 7 Oct 1845. She was buried in All Saints Churchyard, Lubenham,
Leicestershire, England.
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| Thomas Knight b. 1765 |
Title: International Genealogy Index_Abbrev: IGI_Author: Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Title: 1841 English Census_Abbrev: 1841
English Census_Page: Ann Knight, 75, Shopkeeper, resides with son, Thomas.
Lubenham, pg. 20
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Email from Jeff Knight:
I have found evidence of Thomas Knight’s wife Ann and she is Ann
JORDAN as I thought, (99% sure but at these dates in the UK there is little
concrete evidence). She was born in December 1765 in Lubenham and was
christened on 13 December 1765 at Lubenham Church. Her parents were William and
Elizabeth JORDAN of Lubenham, (not John of Papillon Hall, Lubenham, as I had
suspected ....probably his brother). The fact that Thomas and Ann’s eldest
daughter was called Elizabeth also supports the mother’s name as this is very
common in the family at the time.
Ann married (MRIN:125)
Thomas KNIGHT about 1787. Thomas was born
about 1761 in Of Portsea Island,
Hampshire, England. He died on 23 Jul
1829 in Lubenham, Leicestershire, England. He was buried in All Saints Churchyard, Lubenham, Leicester,
England.
Thomas worked as
Baker.
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Email from Jeff Knight:
I have also discovered that Thomas was the local baker and Ann
looked after the shop. The sons worked in the bakery as adolescent/young men
before leaving to follow their own lives. After Thomas’ death, the “baker” role
was taken by their son Thomas Nelson Knight (1799) and Ann lived with her son
Thomas Nelson and his wife Elizabeth. They actually lived in a village called
LAUGHTON which is a few miles north of Lubenham but still in Lubenham Parish,
(despite it having its own church). Laughton is literally next door to Gumley,
(a couple of miles), where the Jordan family originated. Thomas Nelson
disappears in the 1840’s and William Jordan, previously a Silk Weaver
....(which tended to be a cottage industry undertaken on the basis of being
paid for what you produce at home), becomes the baker, I assume taking over the
baker aspect of the family concern previously undertaken by his brother. I did
not find Thomas Nelson’s grave at Lubenham but, living at Laughton, he may be
buried in Laughton churchyard?
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Thomas and Ann Knight attended the church in Lubenham. Thomas
was one of the first members to rent a pew for his family when the new pews
were added beteen 1810 and 1812. He and Ann and several of their children are
buried in the churchyard there. 1810 All Saints Church, Lubenham,
Leicestershire, England
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This is a medieval status name from the Olde English pre 7th
Century "criht", meaning boy, youth or serving lad, later extended to
mean a tenant bound to serve his lord as a mounted soldier and therefore a man
of some importance and substance. Later still, with the changes in the social
structure of medieval England, the term "knight", (Middle English
"knyghte") meant an honourable estate conferred by the king on men of
noble birth who had served him well. The "Knights" of today, however,
are far more likely to be descended from a servant in a knight's household or
from someone who played the part of a knight in a medieval pageant or won the
title in some contest of skill. Early recordings of the surname from this
source include: Walter le Knit (1200, Oxfordshire), William Knight (1221,
Worcestershire), and John Knyght (1275, Suffolk). Over fifty Coats of Arms have
been granted to this illustrious family, one of the earliest being that granted
to Thomas Knight of Hol, Northampton, in 1546. The Arms are on a silver shield,
on a fesse between three bulls' heads erased black, armed and ringed at the
nose, gold, a fret between two doves of the field. The Crest is a dexter arm
embowed, vested bendy wavy sinister of four gold and red supporting with the
hand a sword in pale, the point resting on the wreath, the pommel surmounting a
pair of spurs, all proper. The first recorded spelling of the family name is
shown to be that of Godefridus Niht, which was dated 1166, in the "Norfolk
Pipe Rolls", during the reign of King Henry 11, known as "The Builder
of Churches", 1154 - 1189. Surnames became necessary when governments
introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout
the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop"
often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.
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