William Knight, of St Olave's

Summary

William Knight ( - 1629), of St. Olave's in Southwark, Surrey, England

• Marriage* He married Elizabeth _____
• Death* 1629/30 He died in 1629/30 at England.
• 20 March 1629/30 He left a will dated 20 Mar 1629 that names children: William, John, Mary and Ursuly
• Parents not known

Children

Children with wife Elizabeth _____

1. Elizabeth Knight (c1605 - after 1644). Married Israel Stoughton (c1603 - 1644).[TAG 33:108]
2. William1 Knight (c1611- Bef 1696) minister of Ipswich m Mary Hubbard dau of William Hubbard and Judith Knapp of Ipswich and Boston [Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry (Salt Lake City, Utah: 2013) 3:349-353 Hubbard: (One of the daughters of Judith (Knapp) Hubbard married William Knight, minister of St Mathewes parish in Ipswich") from Royal Ancestry citing Candler 1868 316-317 & Metcalf Visitations 1882 p 149 - there was only one dau this could be - Mary] He visited New England and returned to old England. His wife has a royal lineage.
3. John Knight Inhabitants of London in 1638: St. Olaves, Old Jewry Pages 171-172 "Mr. John Knight. Rents: 24"
4. Mary Knight (c1615 - bef 1679). Married Thomas1 Clark of Dorchester and Boston (c1607-1683).[TAG 33:108]
5. Ursula Knight (c1621-1698) Married David Yale (c1613 - 1690).[TAG 33:108]

Biography

William Knight, son of William Knight of the parish of St. Olaves, Southwark married Elizabeth. (Note she was not the wife of Israel or Thomas Stoughton as erroneously published earlier by Morison and Savage)<ref>Samuel Eliot Morison, The Founding of Harvard College (Cambridge 1935) [especially for Appendix B, "English University Men Who Emigrated to New England Before 1646," 385-86</ref>

Note his wife did not marry either Israel or Thomas Stoughton. Israel Stoughton married his daughter also named Elizabeth.<ref>Ralph W. Stoughton, "The Stoughton Families of Dorchester, Mass., and Windsor, Conn.", The American Genealogist 29:4 (Oct. 1953): pp. 198 link</ref><ref>Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to N.E. 1620-1633 3:1776</ref>

He died after March 20, 1629 at St Olave's, Southwark, Surrey, England based on the date of will naming children of St. Olave's: William John Mary and Ursuly.

Disambiguation

Not to be confused with William Knight of Lincoln, who also left a will in March 1629 / 30, naming different children. http://syngeneia.org/g8/p8630.htm cites facts for the wrong William Knight.

Not to be confused with William Knight of Romsey who married Joan Hill:

From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Knight-192

"Another William Knight of Romsey married Joan Hill on September 1, 1588, only two months before the Knight-Carter marriage, but fortunately he left a will at his death in 1622 in which he mentions his wife Joan and an only child, William, which clears away any doubt as to which marriage produced the emigrant brothers John and Richard Knight.[2]"

2. William Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Phoebe Tilton, 1775-1847, Portland, ME: The Anthoensen Press (1947), pp 235

origins

A William Knight, brewer, was in St. Olave's Parish in 1615 page 254 of "Old Southwark and Its People" By William Rendle

From Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and Natural ..., Volume .... page 170 "Rectors of St. Matthew's"

William Knight, son of William Knight, of Tuddenham hall, Gloucestershire, was appointed to S. Matthew's by Oliver Cromwell, in 1655.

(cannot find a Tuddenhall Hall in Gloucestershire; is it Tidenham? Seems unlikely ...)

From The survey gazetteer of the British Isles, topographical, statistical, and commercial: compiled from the 1901 census and the latest official returns John George Bartholomew G. Newnes, limited, 1904 - History - 928 pages page 209

• Tuddenham, East, par. and vil., Norfolk, 2 miles SE. of North Tuddenham; 2093 ac., pop. 415; P.O. TuddenUam, North, par. and vil., Norfolk, 4 miles E. of Dereham; 23253c, pop. 309.
• Tuddenham nil. Martin, par. and vil., E. Suffolk, 3 miles NE. of Ipswich; 1274 ac., pop. 356; P.O. Tuddenham Hall is a seat.
• Tuddenham (near Solium , par. and vil., W. Suffolk, 3 miles SE. of Mildenhall and 9 miles NW, of Bury St. Edmunds; 2664 ac., pop. 335; P.O. Tadeley, vil., Kent, 2 miles E. of Ton bridge; in the vicinity are mineral springs, similar to those of Tunbridge Wells.
• Tundenham Park, seat, co. Westmeath, 4 m. E. of Mullingar.

From The Manor of Tuddenham St Mary

The Lordship of the Manor of Tuddenham St. Mary goes back to Saxon times and is mentioned in the Domesday Book. The Lordship has been held by some interesting people over the centuries such as Sir Edmund de Hemegrave (High Sheriff for Norfolk in 1321 and Governor of Norwich Castle), the Earl of Ormonde in the 1500's and John, Baron Hervey of Ickworth, who became Lord of the Manor in 1698. John was created Earl of Bristol in 1714 for his zealous support for the succession of the House of Hanover to the British Throne. The Earldom was raised to the status of Marquess in 1826. The various Earls and Marquesses of Bristol have held many high military and political offices over the centuries. The title was sold in 1988 by the then Marquess, Victor Frederick Cochrane.

From Tuddenham St Martin, Suffolk

The Domesday Survey recorded three manors here and various other holdings. ....

From County of Suffolk: Its History as Disclosed by Existing Records ..., Volume 1 edited by Walter Arthur Copinger page 318 "Index Locorum"

• Tuddenham, ii. 32, 47, 195, 206, 239, 369, 398, 433, 437; 56, 150, 301, 302; iv. 43, 50. 221, 306, 307, 445; v. 10, 231-238, 264, 317, 462. Ch. ii. 19, 314; 10, 310; iv. 191; v. 232. Hall, v. 234, 236. Manor, 281; v. 232, 237-238.
• Tnddenham, East, Church, v. 233. Tuddenham St. Martin, v. 231, 233-235. 011., v. 235. Manor, v. 234, 235. *Tuddenhnm St. Mary, v. 231, 236-238.

1638-1856: court books (2, indexed) Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch,HB54/A6/1-2

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwark

One other local family is of note, the Harvards. John Harvard went to the local parish free school of St Saviour's and on to Cambridge University. He migrated to the Massachusetts Colony and left his library and the residue of his will to the new college there, named after him as its first benefactor. Harvard University maintains a link, having paid for a memorial chapel within Southwark Cathedral (his family's parish church), and where its UK-based alumni hold services. John Harvard's mother's house is in Stratford upon Avon.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwark_St_Olave

Southwark St Olave formed part of the ancient Borough of Southwark. Part of its area was split off around 1550 to create Southwark St Thomas, corresponding to the hospital of the Archbishop of Canterbury.[1] In 1733, part of area was used to create Southwark St John Horsleydown.

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From https://minerdescent.com/2012/01/23/thomas-stoughton/

warning: outdated England information below

According to information in Genealogies and Biographies of Ancient Windsor, his [Rev. Thomas Stoughton's] second wife, Elizabeth who he married after the death of his first wife, Katherine, in 1603, remarried in 1610 to William Knight of Lincoln. [SIC: William Knight of St. Olave's in Southwark, Surrey, England]. If this is correct, Rev. Thomas Stoughton must have died before 1610. [SIC: This is not correct, it is outdated information. Thomas Stoughton died in 1622, no known remarriage; Israel Stoughton called his mother in law, Elizabeth (widow) Knight, "mother" in his 1644 will.] Thomas’ son Israel assumed the place of an elder half brother [SIC: brother in law] to his stepmother’s [SIC: mother in law's] five [sic: four -- no further information on John than his birth] Knight children, Elizabeth, William, John, Mary , and Ursula. William Knight died in 1630, leaving a will dated 21 Mar 1629/30 [SIC: 20 Mar 1629 in Surrey, suburb of London] in which he appointed as the executor, Israel Stoughton, his son-in-law. By that time, Israel Stoughton had married William Knight’s daughter, Elizabeth.
After William Knight’s death, these members of the family of Elizabeth Knight, wife of Israel, also came to New England, including her mother, the widow Elizabeth Knight, her brother, Rev. William Knight, and two other sisters, Mary, wife of Thomas Clark and Ursula, wife of David Yale, accounting for all of the children mentioned in the will except John.

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From http://syngeneia.org/g8/p8630.htm

Citations

• [S804] Genevieve Tylee Kiepura, "Stoughton-Knight Data", The American Genealogist 33:1 (Jan. 1957).
• [S520] VWH, see TAG articles and GMB.
• [S759] Ralph W. Stoughton, "The Stoughton Families of Dorchester, Mass., and Windsor, Conn.", The American Genealogist 29:4 (Oct. 1953): pp. 198; at the time of this writing, the marr. of Israel Stoughton to Elizabeth Knight was not known; the author, Ralph Stoughton, had concluded that Wm. Knight was the second husband of Israel's widowed mother Elizabeth (true step-father, not literally father-in-law).

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• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Feb 7 2017, 17:15:12 UTC