Re: We Knowltons of Uxbridge, Middlesex, England
Elizabeth W Knowlton
The news and data was on the old Rootsweb Knowlton mailing list, which is still archived.
https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/knowlton.rootsweb.com/2016/4/
I see that we made the discovery, all of us, about late March or early April 2016, not 2015, when the London Archives parish records came on line (apparently never filmed by the LDS church).
I don't understand why/how you missed them because we talked about almost nothing else until around Jan 2019 when our mailing list was shut down by Ancestry (or was it last winter?). I was sure you belonged to the list.
We now have a new Knowlton mailing list on Google Groups run by Sam Knowlton.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/knowlton-ancestry
Your public library may give you access to Ancestry from your home during the Pandemic.
But I am sure Leah or Kelly will share it all with you!
If you cannot see Tree Doctor's marvelous tree (except Ancestry has no Register Report function), Sam and someone else has put it on wikitree.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Knowlton-1161
We know that the DESCENDANTS of John2 and William3 do not match with Y DNA "any closer than 10,000 yrs," but this does not mean that they themselves were not brothers.
John2 left only one child who left descendants, his oldest. The paternal event may have happened with John2's wife, he may even have known about it and helped her out. GUESSES.
The important point is that we descendants, all from each line, do not match.
Elizabeth: I was aware of the inaccuracies of the Stocking story but unaware of the new information. I gave up my Ancestry.com membership about 5 years when I turned our story over to cousin Leah, who you’ve met. I guess I have been out of the loop since then.
Now John and William were not brothers but what was their connection otherwise. Where can I get this information without re-joining Ancestry.com?
Thanks for updating me. Floyd
From: Elizabeth W Knowlton <knowl...@earthlink.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 2:38 PM
To: Leah Knowlton <lkno...@taylorenglish.com>; fhk...@charter.net
Cc: 'Ken Knowlton' <kbkno...@gmail.com>; Kelly Craigmile (kcraig...@gmail.com) <kcraig...@gmail.com>
Subject: We Knowltons of Uxbridge, Middlesex, England
Floyd,
I am confused. We found our Place of Origin about five years ago and documented it all on the Knowlton Mailing List, still archived on the Internet.
All that stuff in Stocking is false, not our Knowltons but some Knowlden family in Kent.
We were Puritans, a shoemaker and a bricklayer, artisans, from Uxbridge, England, near London, who arrived in Ipswich, Mass, about 1639.
If you have forgotten, the best Ancestry tree is the Tree Doctor
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/89316435/person/79005308407/facts
Be sure to look at Gallery as well as Facts because Tree Doctor has put in all her sources, many more than most people do.
I have linked you to the father of John2 and Wm3, a Robert who does have a surname.
My opinion is that our surname may have come from Knowlton Henge in Dorset, the migration coming from the southern coast up to Hertfordshire (perhaps in time of plague) and then over to Uxbridge for more work because it was closer to London. This is just a opinion based on a guess and many snippets of info over decades. As of 19th c there were still Knowltons on the southern coast in Hampshire.Elizabeth
Elizabeth