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Knapp in England
There have been a lot of fictitious geneologies of Nicholas Knapp, who
immigrated to Massachusetts in about 1630 and died in Fairfield county, Connecticut, but all of them have been debunked. Supposedly he came from Suffolk or Norfolk, but since these theories have been disproved, he might have come from anywhere. About the only thing that can be said of him with certainty is that he was "of England."
Below are some notes on Knapps in England. The best lead to date, which
I intend to follow up in August 2003 when I go to England, is the last item, concerning a Nicholas Knappe in Glynde, Sussex, in 1618/9. Watch this space.
Access to Archives (A2A)
North Curry, Somerset
North Curry Hundred documents. Date: 1297
Edward I's writ to Gilbert de Bere to hold enquiry into the collection of Tenths in the Hundred, the collectors Hugh de la Hele and John Knappe being accused of misappropriating £54, 15 s 10¾ d for themselves, with Inquisition held as a result.
The Poll Taxes of 1377, 1379 and 1381, by Carolyn Fenwick
Norfolk
1379, East Barsham, Gallow & Brothercross Hundred, Johannes Knop, 6 d
1379, Sporle, South Greenhoe Hundred, Ricardus Knope, 4 d
1381, Tilney with Islington, Freebridge Hundred, Johannes Knape & ux. 2 s
Suffolk
1381, Haughley, Stow Hundred, Johannes Knope, Weaver, 12 d
Somerset
1379, Fivehead, Bulstone Hundred, Johanna Knapes, 4 d
1379, Fivehead, Bulstone Hundred, Johannes Knap, 4 d
1379, Somerton Foreign Hundred, A- Knape, 4 d
1379, Somerton Foreign Hundred, Johanna Knape, 4 d
1379, Somerton Foreign Hundred, Willelmo Knape, 4 d
There was a manor of Knapp, about 7 miles south of Bridgwater, Somerset, near North Curry. There's still a Knapp Lane and a Knapp Farm there.
Extract from Customary of North Curry, Somerset - No date: ca. late 15th cent.
As to John de Knappe & Margaret his wife & Adam le Heyre & Margery his wife, tenants of 2 virgates of land with messuage, curtilage, garden, boscage, pasture & meadow adjoining, which John is bailiff of the King in the Hundred of North Cory.
From Bridgwater, Somerset, Archives:
Bridgwater accounts of Richard Salter, bailiff, 1396-7
Et iii d receptis de Johanne Knapp pro districtione sua eisdem collectionis.
Fines for the Watch, Bridgwater, Somerset, 1436-7:
William Knapp, iiii d
Bristol Wills:
Will dated 1404. Thomas Knapp, Burgess of Bristol. Brother William Knapp. Servant Avice Knapp. 50 pounds of silver to each of them. (Avice was probably not just a servant, possibly the daughter of William Knapp.) William Penseford, executor.
From Somerset Wills:
1415. William Knap, overseer of the will of Richard Clerke of Pennysford [Pensford], Somerset. Roger Lyvedon of Bristol, executor. William was possibly the brother of Thomas Knapp of Bristol above.
A2A
Milverton, Somerset
Lease of John Sanford & Nicholas Whityng to Philip Sanford, brother of John. Date: 1483
Messuages, lands & tenements with appurtenances in Milverton; 1 cottage now held by Philip Knappe, between a tenement of Peter Bolham on the west & land of the rector of the parish church of Milverton on the east.
1508. John Knappe receives 6 s 8 d in the will of Richard Maudley of Noney [Nunney], Somerset.
1515. To Thomas Knappe 2 pots and pans and the hangings in my hall at Shepton Mallet, Somerset. Will of William Bailey of Wareham [Dorset].
Sussex Wills
John Knap, glover, 13 Feb. 1590 / 1 Mar. 1590 394-112
PCC Wills
Nicholas Knapp, yeoman, Rudge, parish of Froxfield, Wilts, 33 Kidd, 1599
Nicholas Knapp, citizen of London, St. Olave Southwark, 86 Bolein, 1603
[Boyd's London: married Joan Draper. Born 1568, son of Thomas Knapp, in Boxford, Berks.]
St. Olave Southwark parish register
16 Feb. 1594 Joyce Knapp daughter of Nicholas
Gilbert Knapp [son of Nicholas], citizen & cooper, St. Olave Southwark, 100 Clarke, 1625
[Boyd's London: married Joan Dollin]
Rusper, Sussex parish register
1581 May 28. Nicholas Napp' marries Elizabeth Frances
1582 June 13. John Napp'
1587 Dec. 17. Margaret Napper d. of Nicholas
1592 June 4. Elizabeth Napp' d. of Nicholas
1594 Jan. 19. Charles Napp s. of Nicholas
1601 Sep. 6. Nicholas Napp(er) s. of Nicholas
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1618/9
East Sussex Record Office
THE GLYNDE PLACE ARCHIVES
Catalogue Ref. GLY
FAMILY ARCHIVES
EARLY TREVOR FAMILY: SETTLEMENTS
FILE - Defeazance from Lady Elizabeth Wynwood, widow, Sir Richard Wenman and Sir Thomas Denton, to Sir John Trevor I of Westminster, co. Middlesex, and son Sir John Trevor II. - ref. GLY/675 - date: 2 February 1618(-9)
[from Scope and Content] Witnesses: John Bullin, Nicholas Knappe, George Haughten, William Naunton, George Row, William Bradfor.
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