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Old 07-10-11, 08:55
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Default Elizabeth Knights

(Just posting this up, cos I feel like I'm dying from flu & she's one of the few I know!)

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Old 07-10-11, 13:06
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Born 6 February 1791, youngest daughter of John Knights & Mary Nee West.

Baptised Edgefield.

Father buried 12 February 1811 aged 71.

Illegitimate son Edmund bp 1813.

Married Edmund Skillings 12 Oct 1813.

In 1840, three of her sons: Edmund, James & Samuel emigrated to Canada.

In 1841, the cottage opposite the rectory contained Edmund & Elizabeth, Elizabeth's mother Mary Knights, Edmunds recently widowed mother Rachel Skillings, numerous children and baby grandson Edmund Albert Skillings.

In 1851 - 1871 they are in the same cottage.

Elizabeth died in Thornage in the 1870s, a few months after her husband.

No will and no gravestone.
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This is the link to Elizabeth's eldest daughter: http://genealogistsforum.co.uk/forum...ad.php?t=10637
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