"Joannes [John] Knightley, de Gownsall [Gnosall, Staffordshire], duxit [married] Elizabetham, filiam [the daughter] & haeredem [heir of] Adami Burgh" is listed in the "Knightley Pedigree" that appears in the publication "Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica", edited by Joseph Jackson Howard, London, England, 1868, page 248.
Historical Information on the Knightley Family of Staffordshire and Northamptonshire, England, taken from the publication "The Ancestor, A Quarterly Review of County andFamily History, Heraldry and Antiquities, Number 11, July 1902, pages 1-7; (https://archive.org/stream/ancestorquarterl02londuoft#page/4/mode/2up):
"John son of Robert [Knightley] and Juliane draws upward the fortunes of this younger house of Knightley which were in a fair way to degenerate to rustic obscurity. He marries an heiress, Elizabeth, daughter of Adam of Burgh and granddaughter and heir of William of Burgh by his wife the heir of Cowley of Cowley, and by this match came Burgh Hall and Cowley to the family of Knightley.
"His second son, John Knightley seems to have been the only man of the line hitherto of any real distinction. A lawyer of some eminence he is made justiciary of Chester after the death of Hotspur at Shrewbury fight in 1403, and although by reason of his humble rank he is soon to cede this high office to the Lord Talbot, he goes on with the exercise of jurisdiction as deputy to that lord. He married a knight's daughter, Joan Thornbury, widow of William Peyto of Chesterton in Warwick, of whose lands he enjoyed the custody, and after the justiciary's death she marries for a third husband Sir Robert Corbet of Hadley. But his only son by this lady dies young, and for the line of Knightley we turn to his older brother Richard of Gnosall, who prospers as we may imagine beside his brother's prosperity and leaves by his wife Joan Giffard a son Richard Knightley of Gnosall, who adds Fawsley to his Staffordshire manors of Burgh Hall and Cowley and died in 1443, first founder of the long line of Knightley of Fawsley.
"The year 1416 was a marked epoch in the history of the Knightley family, since it was at that date that they acquired the manor of Fawsley, which from that day to this has been their home. In the picturesque little church, which lies at a short distance east of the manor house, generation after generation have found their resting-place, and a careful study of the monuments it contains reveals much family history. But, as is the case in most families, one or two only in each century are sufficiently remarkable to deserve a record in the pages of the county history.
"The purchaser of Fawsley was Richard Knightley of Burgh Hall, in the county of Stafford, and the first of the family to represent the county of Northampton in Parliament. He died in 1443, leaving his wife Elizabeth Purefoy in possession of the property, so that their son, also Richard Knightley, only succeeded to the estate on her death in 1474. He married Eleanor daughter of John Throgmorton of Coughton, having been knighted in 1494, when Henry VII.'s second son, afterwards Henry VIII, was made Duke of York. He was three times sheriff. They had nine children, of whom the eldest, Richard Knightley, married Joan Skenard or Skimerton, daughter and heir of Henry Skenard of Alderton. She brought in a great number of the quarterings which are still included in the Knightley shield. The fine altar tomb in Fawsley Church is erected to the memory of this lady and her husband. He died in 1534, but apparently the monument was erected in her lifetime, as no one has ever taken the trouble to fill in the date of her death. Her only daughter Susan married Sir William Spencer of Althorp...."For supporting and additional information about this individual and family, see the book "The History of the Broughs of Staffordshire, England, and their English, American and Australian Descendants", by the Richard Brough Family Organization (RBFO), 2004, p.23-44--especially p.39.
"Joannes [John] Knightley, de Gownsall [Gnosall, Staffordshire], duxit [married] Elizabetham, filiam [the daughter] & haeredem [heir of] Adami Burgh" is listed in the "Knightley Pedigree" that appears in the publication "Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica", edited by Joseph Jackson Howard, London, England, 1868, page 248.
The following comments about "Elizabeth de Burgh" have been extracted from the BFO online publication: "The Early Broughs of Staffordshire: 1055 to 1510", by David Bethell, 1981. Online reference: http://www.broughfamily.org/history/broughs_1055-1510_ad.html):
William de Burgh II made a lost grant in 1372, and is last recorded in 1393-4 when he witnessed a grant of land in Cowley by Richard son of Thomas de Cowley and Alice his wife. With his death the main Brough line came to an end. Already by 1382 it was evident that he would die without issue, for we find a reference to John de Knyghteley and Elizabeth his wife, "cousin and heir of William de Burgh".
The takeover by the Knightley family was made complete by the purchase, for 100 marks of silver, of the Over Brough estate (a messuage, a virgate of land, 4 acres of meadow, 4 acres of wood) from a certain Elias de Burgh and Alice his wife. Elias is shown in a 16th century pedigree as a brother of Elizabeth Knightley’s grandfather William de Burgh.
The earliest surviving description of the manner by which the Knightley family inherited the Brough property is given in 1409:
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The record of the suit of Oliver de Bataille and Katherine his wife, against John de Knighteley and Elizabeth his wife, respecting a messuage and forty acres of land in Wilbrighton, and in which judgment had been delivered in Banco in favour of Oliver and Katherine in 8 Richard II (1384-5), was brought into Court by writ of error. The record shows that John de Knyghteley and Elizabeth claimed under a fine levied by William Bagot and Eleanor his wife in the reign of Edward II (1307-27), by which the tenement in question together with other lands, had been settled on William and Eleanor and the heirs of his body, and failing such, to remaun to Archibald, the son of Eleanor, and the heirs of his body, and failing such, to William Burgh and his heirs, and they stated that William and Eleanor and Archibald had all died without issue, and likewise William de Burgh had died, and John and Elizabeth had entered in right of Elizabeth, who was daughter and heir of Adam, son of the said William de Burgh. Oliver and Katherine admitted the validity of the fine, but stated that Archibald had held the tenements in fee tail after the death of William Bagot and Eleanor, and having been a rebel to king Edward II (&c &c).
This identifies Elizabeth’s grandfather William de Burgh with our William de Burgo I, who died about 1330. It shows Adam de Burgo to have been his next eldest son after William II; and Adam apparently left an only daughter Elizabeth, who married John de Knightley. The Elias attributed to the family as a brother of William, could not have been Elias husband of Alice, but might have been his father or grandfather.
The Knightleys also inherited Cowley manor from Elizabeth de Burgh; they claimed that this was by the marriage of William de Burgh I (husband of Joan) with a Cowley heiress:
Let it be remembered from the evidences and deeds of the manor of Burgh in Staffordshire that Mr. Bertram de Burgh gave his manor with the appurtenances called Burgh to his son Bertram and to the heirs issuing from his body, by force of which grant the said Bertram the son was seised of the said manor as of fee tail and from the said Bertram the son the right descends to William his son and heir who married Eleanor daughter and heir of Mr John de Couleye son of Mr Robert de Couley steward of the town of Stafford, and from the said William de Burgh son of Bertram the right descended to Adam his son who married Alditha daughter of Mr. William de Harecurt and from the said Adam son of William de Burghe the right descended to Elizabeth as daughter and heir female (given in marriage to Mr. John de Knyghteleye) and the said Mr. John Knighteleye entered into all the inheritance as in right of the said Elizabeth his wife and was in peaceable possession for all his life &c., and the said Mr. Knighteleye and Elizabeth his wife bring down the right to Richard de Knighteley and from the said Richard to Richard de K his son, of Fallesley in Northamptonshire, father to Mr. Richard de Knighteley, who now seeks (&c).
The death of William de Burgh II, and the purchase of Over Brough from Elias de Burgh [I] in 1393 brings to an end the Brough family connection with Ranton parish.Historical Information on the Knightley Family of Staffordshire and Northamptonshire, England, taken from the publication "The Ancestor, A Quarterly Review of County andFamily History, Heraldry and Antiquities, Number 11, July 1902, pages 1-7; (https://archive.org/stream/ancestorquarterl02londuoft#page/4/mode/2up):
"John son of Robert [Knightley] and Juliane draws upward the fortunes of this younger house of Knightley which were in a fair way to degenerate to rustic obscurity. He marries an heiress, Elizabeth, daughter of Adam of Burgh and granddaughter and heir of William of Burgh by his wife the heir of Cowley of Cowley, and by this match came Burgh Hall and Cowley to the family of Knightley.
"His second son, John Knightley seems to have been the only man of the line hitherto of any real distinction. A lawyer of some eminence he is made justiciary of Chester after the death of Hotspur at Shrewbury fight in 1403, and although by reason of his humble rank he is soon to cede this high office to the Lord Talbot, he goes on with the exercise of jurisdiction as deputy to that lord. He married a knight's daughter, Joan Thornbury, widow of William Peyto of Chesterton in Warwick, of whose lands he enjoyed the custody, and after the justiciary's death she marries for a third husband Sir Robert Corbet of Hadley. But his only son by this lady dies young, and for the line of Knightley we turn to his older brother Richard of Gnosall, who prospers as we may imagine beside his brother's prosperity and leaves by his wife Joan Giffard a son Richard Knightley of Gnosall, who adds Fawsley to his Staffordshire manors of Burgh Hall and Cowley and died in 1443, first founder of the long line of Knightley of Fawsley.
"The year 1416 was a marked epoch in the history of the Knightley family, since it was at that date that they acquired the manor of Fawsley, which from that day to this has been their home. In the picturesque little church, which lies at a short distance east of the manor house, generation after generation have found their resting-place, and a careful study of the monuments it contains reveals much family history. But, as is the case in most families, one or two only in each century are sufficiently remarkable to deserve a record in the pages of the county history.
"The purchaser of Fawsley was Richard Knightley of Burgh Hall, in the county of Stafford, and the first of the family to represent the county of Northampton in Parliament. He died in 1443, leaving his wife Elizabeth Purefoy in possession of the property, so that their son, also Richard Knightley, only succeeded to the estate on her death in 1474. He married Eleanor daughter of John Throgmorton of Coughton, having been knighted in 1494, when Henry VII.'s second son, afterwards Henry VIII, was made Duke of York. He was three times sheriff. They had nine children, of whom the eldest, Richard Knightley, married Joan Skenard or Skimerton, daughter and heir of Henry Skenard of Alderton. She brought in a great number of the quarterings which are still included in the Knightley shield. The fine altar tomb in Fawsley Church is erected to the memory of this lady and her husband. He died in 1534, but apparently the monument was erected in her lifetime, as no one has ever taken the trouble to fill in the date of her death. Her only daughter Susan married Sir William Spencer of Althorp...."
For supporting and additional information about this individual and family, see the book "The History of the Broughs of Staffordshire, England, and their English, American and Australian Descendants", by the Richard Brough Family Organization (RBFO), 2004, p.23-44.
In addition, this family can be found listed on the "Harris-Fischer Family Tree" website: http://www.sheeplechasers.org/harris/F18826.html.
LDS Ordinance Index also lists a Alice Noel, born about 1152, of Ellenhall, Staffordshire, England.
For supporting and additional information about this individual and family, see the book "The History of the Broughs of Staffordshire, England, and their English, American and Australian Descendants", by the Richard Brough Family Organization (RBFO), 2004, p.23-44.
LDS Ordinance Index also lists a Joan Noel, born about 1177, of Ellenhall, Staffordshire, England.
For supporting and additional information about this individual and family, see the book "The History of the Broughs of Staffordshire, England, and their English, American and Australian Descendants", by the Richard Brough Family Organization (RBFO), 2004, p.23-44.
In August 2006, the RBFO obtained a copy of the birth certificate of Harry Crabtree from England, which stated that he was born on 11 December 1885 at 75 Spring Street, Oldham above Town, Lancashire, and that his father was James Crabtree, a Machine Fitter, and his mother was "Mary Ellen Crabtree formerly Jackman".
According to an online service death-record (www.cwgc.org) for Harry Crabtree, he was a "Bombardier" with the "Royal Field Artillery" of the "United Kingdom" during World War I, when he was died at an "unknown" age on October 1, 1917. Buried: "Bienvillers Military Cemetery" in France.
Harry Crabtree is listed as age 21 on his marriage certificate and is listed as age 15 and born in "Oldham, Lancashire" in the 1901 Census (therefore born about 1886).
In 2006, the RBFO obtained a copy of the birth certificate for Emma May Brough from England, which stated that she was born on 25 May 1883 at: 1, Union Street, Leek, Staffordshire, and that her father was Arthur Brough, a Shoemaker, and her mother was "Sarah Ann Brough formerly Beard".
In the 1891 Census, Emma M. Brough is listed as being about 7 years old (born about 1884), born in Leek, Staffordshire, and living with his widowed mother, Sarah A. Brough, in Leek.
Information on the family of Emma May Brough and George Stanley Carter was provided to the RBFO in March 2011 by Norman Heath of England.
Marriage Notes for Harry Crabtree and Emma May Brough-3035
In 2006, the RBFO obtained a copy of the marriage certificate of Harry Crabtree and Emma May Brough from England, which stated that they were married on 16 May 1903 in the parish church of Leek, Staffordshire; that Harry Crabtree was 21 years old (born about 1882), a Bachelor and Silk Dresser of 20 Waterloo St., and that his father was James Crabtree (deceased), a Mechanical Engineer; and that Emma May Brough was 21 years old (born about 1882), a Spinster of 23 Chorley St., and that her father was Arthur Brough (deceased), a Bootmaker. The marriage was witnessed by Edward Brough and Annie Catherine Osborne.
Information on the family of Emma May Brough and George Stanley Carter was provided to the RBFO in March 2011 by Norman Heath of England.
In 2006, the RBFO obtained a copy of the birth certificate for Emma May Brough from England, which stated that she was born on 25 May 1883 at: 1, Union Street, Leek, Staffordshire, and that her father was Arthur Brough, a Shoemaker, and her mother was "Sarah Ann Brough formerly Beard".
In the 1891 Census, Emma M. Brough is listed as being about 7 years old (born about 1884), born in Leek, Staffordshire, and living with his widowed mother, Sarah A. Brough, in Leek.
Information on the family of Emma May Brough and George Stanley Carter was provided to the RBFO in March 2011 by Norman Heath of England.
Marriage Notes for George Stanley Carter and Emma May Brough-3035
Information on the family of Emma May Brough and George Stanley Carter was provided to the RBFO in March 2011 by Norman Heath of England.
In 2006, the RBFO obtained a copy of the birth certificate of James William Brough from England, which stated that he was born on 8 July 1878 at: 14 Bailey Street, Newcastle, Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire, and that his father was Arthur Brough, a Shoemaker, and his mother was "Sarah Ann Brough formerly Beard".
The death of James W. Brough is listed in the online England & Wales Death Index (via Ancestry.com), which states that his death was registered in April-June 1960 in Surrey South Western district, Surrey, and that he died when he was 81 years old (born about 1879).
In the 1891 Census, James W. Brough is listed as being about 12 years old (born about 1879), born in Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire, and residing with his widowed mother, Sarah A. Brough, and his siblings, at: 3 Weston Street, Leek, Staffordshire.
In the 1901 Census, James W. Brough is listed as being about 22 years old (born about 1879), born in Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire, single and working as a Dining Car Cook, and residing in Clerkenwell, London.
In the 1911 Census, James Wm [ William] Brough is listed as being about 32 years old (born about 1879), born in Newcastle, Staffordshire, working as a Hotel Valet, married for seven years, and residing with his wife, Florence, and their two sons, at: 30 Fabian Road, Fulham, Middlesex.
The birth of Florence Maria A. Straub is listed in the online FreeBMD, which states that her birth was registered in October-December 1876 in Richmond district (which includes the town of Barnes), Surrey, England.
The christening of Florence Maria Ann Straub is listed in New Family Search.
The death of Florence M. A. Brough is listed in the online England & Wales Death Index (via Ancestry.com), which states that her death was registered in January-March 1959 in Surrey South Western district, Surrey, and that she died when she was 82 years old (born about 1877).
In the 1911 Census, Florence (Brough) is listed as being about 33 years old (born about 1878), born in Barnes, Surrey, married for seven years, and residing with her husband, James Wm Brough, and their two sons, at: 30 Fabian Road, Fulham, Middlesex.
Marriage Notes for James William Brough and Florence Maria Ann Straub-19203
The marriage certificate of James William Brough and Florence Maria Ann Straub is listed online via Ancestry.com, which states that they were married by Banns on 24 May 1908 in the parish church of Islington, Middlesex, and that James was 24 years old (born about 1879) and a Bachelor and Luggage Porter of Cornwall Cottage, and that his father was Arthur Brough, a Shoemaker; and that Florence Maria Ann Straub was 26 years old (born about 1877) and a Spinster of Upper Street, and that her father was Charles Straub, a Store Keeper. The marriage was witnessed by Henry Harold Brough and Edith Lucy Straub.