Berry Knight (MFFF)

[Michael]

Berry is probably the ancestor I know most about (including one of only two for whom I've found a will) - mostly thanks to him being, as far as I can tell, the only Berry Knight ever to have lived in the UK!

Name - "official" name and what they were known as

Berry Knight

Date and place of birth

1837 (first half, so he missed being registered!), Lubenham, Leicestershire

Names of parents

William Knight and Jane Knight (formerly Berry)

Date and place of baptism - if applicable

18th May 1837, Lubenham

Details of each of his or her marriages - if any

To Charlotte Hart, December q 1858 (Charlotte died March q 1879)
To Jane Carter, December q 1880

Occupation(s) - if any

Baker and grazier

Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK) - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him/her on.

1841 Lubenham, Leicestershire
1851 Lubenham, Leicestershire
1861 Haven't found him (his widowed mother and two younger siblings are living in Lubenham)
1871 Swinford, Leicestershire
1881 Chequers Inn, Swinford, Leicestershire
1891 3 Front Street, Swinford, Leicestershire
1901 2 Front Street, Swinford, Leicestershire
1911 Swinford, Leicestershire

Date, place and cause of death

18th March 1914, Swinford, Leicestershire

Date and place of burial / cremation

Don't know

Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable

Will drawn up 25th September 1906, probate granted to Jane Knight (widow, died 1915), John Berry Knight (son) and Charles Smith (described as his 'friend' in the will - address Churchill Street, Leicester). Gross value of estate £4282 16s 10d, divided between widow and children. The will refers to a "messuage or tenement called the Buffs", Spelhoe Farm of 54 acres and "my close of land called Tarry Lane Close containing two acres three roods and ten perches or thereabouts", all situated in Yelvertoft, Northants, as well as a butcher's shop in Swinford.

Memorial inscription - if any

Don't know