Birth: Circa 1638
Father: Unkown
Mother: Unknown
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 19 May 1670 St Oswald, Guiseley, Yorkshire, UK
Wife: Ann Hardaker (Jane Handcock) 1636-1712
Death: March 1704/5 Calverley, Yorkshire, UK
Burial: 24 March 1704/5 St. Wilfrid, Calverley, Yorkshire, UK
Henriette Knowles 1671
Abraham Knowles 1773/4-a1714
Francis Knowles 1677-1748
Entry in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1512-1812 for the marriage of Francis Knowles and Jane Handcock on 19 May 1670 at Guiseley, St Oswald. " Marriages 1669 [...] 1670 [...] Francis Knowlls and Ann Hand? 19 Day of May". Much is illegible - her first name looks more like Ann and the second syllable of her surname is unlike cock, and some interpret it as Ann/Anne Hardaker (baptised 25 September 1636 in Rawdon). There is an entry in England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for Dorithe Hardaker baptised 11 November 1648 in Guiseley, father Rodger Hardaker.
Threre are three entries for children but the original for the first is interpreteted as Henriette or Linnell on 14 May 1671 Guiseley, the start of the entry being illegible, the second is on 7 February 1674 in Calverley, and the third is on 5 May 1677 in Calverley, only the father's names is given.
Entry in the IGI "The assessment for Calverley-cum-Farsley in pursuance of an act of parliament passed in the 6th year of his Majesty's Reign King William III, &c. Instituted An Act for granting his Majesty an Aid of four shillings in one pound for one year &c. 25th March1695. [...] Francis Knowles for his farme £1 7s 0d".
Entry in FindaGrave for Francis Knowles on 24 March 1704 in St. Wilfrid, Calverley, Leeds, West Yorkshire.
Entry in FreeReg for Francis Knowles of Calverey, husband of Knowles, buried 28 March 1705 aged 67 at St Wilfrid, Calverley, Yorkshire West Riding.
Entry in Ancestry All West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1512-1812 for Francis Knowles buried 28 March 1705 at Calverley, St Wilfrid. "Burials 1705 [...] Mar [...] 28 Ffancis Knowles? of ? buried" Partially illegible except for the date.
Guiseley is 10 miles NW of Leeds and Calverley is 5 miles south of Guiseley.
Note that the year started on March 25.
Francis Knowles was Felicity's eighth great grandfather.
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