Birth: 2 September 1909 302 Trinity Road, Wandsworth Common, Wandsworth, London, UK
Father: William Herbert Knowles 1879-1964
Mother: Alice Ann Ruth Holloway 1879-1964
Christening: 10 October 1909 St Mary Magdalene, Wandsworth Common, Wandsworth, London, UK
Marriage: April-June 1937 Battersea, London, UK
Wife: Vera Marjorie Clarke 1907-1939
Marriage: 17 November 1943 Marylebone, London, UK
Wife: Bessie Margaret Grantham 1916-2000
By Bessie
Richard Neve Grantham Knowles 1945-2022
Andrew W A Knowles 1946
Rosemary N J Knowles [Chapman, Hayden] 1955-a1982
Birth of Neve Herbert Knowles in FreeBMD in July-September 1909 in Wandsworth (1d 711).
Entry in Ancestry All London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1916 for Neve Herbert Knowles baptised on 10 October 1909 at St Mary Magdalene, Wandsworth Common, Wandsworth, parents William Herbert and Alice Ann Ruth Knowles. "Page 35 Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of St Mary Magdalene, Wandsworth Common in the County of London in the Year One Thousand Nine Hundred and nine [...] 1909 October 10th No. 280 Neve Herbert [parents] William Herbert [a] Mechanical Dentist & Alice Ann Ruth Knowles [of] 302 Trinity Road".
In the 1911 census as Neve H Knowles aged 1, born in Wandsworth, and living with his parents (William H and Alice A K), grandaunt (Alice Holloway), uncle (Edward V Holloway), aunt (Gladys E Holloway), and a servant (Amy Clements aged 17, born in Wandsworth and single) in nine rooms at 302 Trinity Road, Wandsworth Common, Spinfield, Wandsworth, London SW.
In the 1921 census as Neve H Knowles born in Wandsworth London in 1909 and living with William H and Alice AR Knowles (parents?), Ruth C Knowles (sister?), Ivy Bushby (born in Farnham, Surrey in 1902), Marjorie J Petty (born in Clapham, London in 1889), Eileen R Scott (born in Scotland in 1820) and Gladys E Scott (born in Dublin, Ireland in 1893) in Wandsworth, London, Surrey.
Entry in Ancestry All UK, Medical and Dental Students Registers, 1882-1937 for Neve Herbert Knowles Preliminary Examination Coll. Precep. March 1926, Pre-registration Examination E. Conjt. Bd. April 1927, Registration 19 April Commenced with F G Webb London SW12 April 12.
Three entries in Ancestry All UK, Dentist Registers, 1879-1942 for Neve Herbert Knowles LDS RCS Eng. 1931 registered 14 December 1931 address 147 Trinity Road, Upper Tooting, London SW 17, 1935, 1940 and 1942.
Five entries in Ancestry All London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Neve Herbert Knowles address 147 Trinity Road, Springfield, Wandsworth from 1931 to 1936, other occupants William Herbert and Alice Ann Ruth Knowles (parents?), Elzabeth Cant Nicholl in 1932 and 1933, Ruth Cecilia Knowles (sister?) in 1935 and Louie Earl in 1935.
Two entries in Ancestry London, England, City Directories, 1736-1943 hor Neve Herbert Knowles L.D.S.R.C.S. Eng dental surgeon, 147 Trinity Road, Upper Tooting SW17 Tel Battersea 4117 in 1935.
Marriage of Neve H Knowles and Vera M Clarke in FreeBMD in April-June 1937 in Battersea (1d 871).
Two entries in Ancestry All London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Neve Herbert Knowles address 3 Park Court, Balham Park Road, Balham, Wandsworth in 1935, other occupant Vera Marjorie Knowles (wife?), and 147 Trinity Road, Springfield, Wandsworth in 1938, other occupants William Herbert and Alice Ann Ruth Knowles (parents?), Vera Majorie Knowles (wife?) and Ann Scoble.
Entry in Ancestry UK, City and County Directories, 1766 - 1946 for Neve H Knowles address 147 Trinity Road SW17, London in 1938.
His wife died on 31 August 1939 at 51-53 Ritherdon Road, Wandsworth and left effects of £3040 15s. to Neve Herbert Knowles dental surgeon and Elizabeth Annie Clarke (widow)."
In the All 1939 England and Wales Register as Neve H Knowles born 2 September 1909, widowed, a dental surgeon L.D.S R.C.S Eng and A.R.P. district warden, and living with Gladys A Rogers at 147 Trinity Road, Wandsworth, London.
Entry in Ancestry All London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Neve Herbert Knowles address 147 Trinity Road, Springfield, Wandsworth in 1939. His parents were living at 145.
Entry in Supplement to the London Gazette 15 October 1940 p6012 "The Army Dental Corps . The undermentioned to be Lts.:- [...] 26 Sept. 1940:- Neve Herbert Knowles (147638)".
Eight entries in Ancestry All London, England, City Directories, 1736-1943 results for Neve H Knowles dental surgn at 147 Trinity Road SW17, Battersea 4117 Wm Herbt Knowles (father?) was a dentist at the same address in 1940 and 1941.
Marriage of Neve H Knowles and Bessie M Grantham in FreeBMD in October-December 1943 in Marylebone (1A 918).
His first son was registered January-March 1945 in Lincoln, and second son and daughter in October-DEcember 1946 and October-DEcember 1955 in St Pancras.
Fifteen entries in Ancestry All London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Neve H Knowles, address 147 Trinity Road, Springfield, Wandsworth from 1946 to 1953, other occupant Bessie M Knowles (wife?) and another family in 1948, 171 Trinity Road, Springfield, Wandsworth from 1956 to 1962, other occupant Bessie M Knowles (wife?), and 104 Green Lane, Thorton Heath, Norwood, Croydon in 1963 and 1964.
His father died in Battersea in 1964 and left effects of £8180 to Neve Herbert Knowles dental sugeon and Clifford Cyril Knowles retired district surveyor.
Entry in Companies House for Neve Herbert Knowles born in September 1909, a Retired Dental Surgeon, address 15 St Edwards Drive, Sudbrooke, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 2QR, appointed director of Tyndale Memorial Trust Limited before 16 October 1992, resigned on 16 November 1992.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Neve Herbert Knowles, born on 2 September 1909, in November 1992 in Lincoln (7 1926).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995 for Neve Herbert Knowles died on 16 November 1992 in Sudbrooke, Lincolnshire, Probate 9 November 1993 in Leeds. "Knowles, Neve Herbert of 15 St Edward's Dv Sudbrooke Lincs died 16 November 1992 Probate Leeds 09 November £10269".
There are eighteeen entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Neve Herbert Knowles adding his first wife's death at St James's Hospital, Balham of a duodenal ulcer, his marriage on 17 November 1943 and burial on 23 November 1992 St Edward the Confessor, Sudbrooke, Lincolnshire.
Neve Herbert Knowles was the father of Rosemary N J Knowles, wife of Ian A Hayden, grandnephew of Alfred James Hayden, husband of Annie Baker, my half second cousin twice removed.
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