...and a few other things to hopefully stirr up some interest. Doubtless, I'll put my foot in it somewhere along the line - the strirrup that is! Look what Marsha has found. ''From York County, Maine, 1850, there's a listing for a James H. Knibb. Age 29, occupation saddler, birthplace England. Made [her] wonder if we've "lost" one of those saddler/harness maker types.[!] This one seems to have had a bit of wanderlust in him. His wife, Mary S, was born in Maine, but their (2 yr old) son, Henry W. was born in New Hampshire. It will be interesting to see if/where he shows up in later years''. Meanwhile any ideas out there, 'cos I can't locate any of them? Nor can I get into this 'new' site which was reported on Ancestry.com and is meant to refer to Rensselaer County, New York http://rootsweb.com/~nyrenss2.html Ana could you please take a look from time to time, as it was knowing that your relatives had a connection there which caught my eye. There are a couple of new items on my [our] website but nothing much that we haven't discussed already. There's a new link amongst others to the a2a website. It produced a few nuggets and gave me several leads to follow up. And here's an exerpt from an enquiry re KNIBB'S battery, the full text of which I can supply to those related. ''My great grandfather, John Binford Knibb of Goochland County, VA was born on November 7, 1823. At the age of 37, he answered the Commonwealth of Virginia' s "Call to Arms" during the War Between the States by volunteering as a private in the Goochland-Turner Light Artillery, under the command of Capt. Walter Daniel Leake. Knibb was mustered into service at the county courthouse in August of 1861. The unit, then, went to Charleston, SC with Robert E. Lee and helped to defend that city for the next year. The only engagement that John Knibb fought in was the Battle of Port Royal Ferry as he was transfered out in May of '62. Since he was an experienced blacksmith prior to hostilites, the Adjutant & Inspector General of the Confederate States issued Special Order Number 101 which sent John Knibb to the Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond, VA to help in the forging of cannon and iron plating for the gunboats of the James River Squadron..............'' Take a look at http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/ if you have a connection with Hannah Haynes NIBBS in New Zealand. There's a biography about her 6th son Elsdon BEST. Joyce told us about missing Akeley males in the Batch numbers website. Here's a 'standard' reply which I saw on their FAQ sheet. "Thank you for your note. Your observations are correct and at least to some degree explainable. More females attend LDS temples than males creating an imbalance in the inventory system. To solve that issue, the batches were split into male and female (J and K batches). The females were sent to the temples, and in some cases the male portion of the batch has not yet been sent, but is waiting in the inventory." I'm [ie Hugh is] not personally convinced this totally explains it but that is the official explanation anyway. That same user also forwarded me this observation; "Incidentally, I have since discovered that some of the missing males are in the Vital Records Index - for example for Dauntsey, Wiltshire, 1653-1885, females only are in the IGI, both males and females are in the VRI." So there you have it, unless Joyce received a different answer. All for now. bfn Alan Host at THE K/NIBB/S ONE NAME STUDY http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~knibbetc/

Alan, Do you think James Knibb could be James Knibbs son of Anthony Knibbs, grandson of Richard and Sarah. He's in the right family for saddler and James Knibbs would have been 31 in 1850. Seems that they often didn't report their ages quite correctly. Anthony's son James was only 8 when his father died and 14 when his mother died -- no wonder he'd have been in the US by age 29 (or 31). I know -- pure conjecture. :-) Fun isn't it. Cathy ............................................................................ ........................................... Monday, March 04, 2002 5:23 PM -- Alan wrote: Subject: [K/NIBB/S] Another saddler, a blacksmith, a worthy .... > ...and a few other things to hopefully stirr up some interest. Doubtless, > I'll put my foot in it somewhere along the line - the strirrup that is! > > Look what Marsha has found. ''From York County, Maine, 1850, there's a > listing for a James H. Knibb. Age 29, occupation saddler, birthplace England. > > Made [her] wonder if we've "lost" one of those saddler/harness maker > types.[!] This one seems to have had a bit of wanderlust in him. His wife, > Mary S, was born in Maine, but their (2 yr old) son, Henry W. was born in New > Hampshire. > > It will be interesting to see if/where he shows up in later years''. > Meanwhile any ideas out there, 'cos I can't locate any of them?

Hi All No I did not receive a different answer regarding the IGI Batch numbers website. bfn Joyce [email protected] wrote: > ...and a few other things to hopefully stirr up some interest. Doubtless, > I'll put my foot in it somewhere along the line - the strirrup that is! > > Look what Marsha has found. ''From York County, Maine, 1850, there's a > listing for a James H. Knibb. Age 29, occupation saddler, birthplace England. > > Made [her] wonder if we've "lost" one of those saddler/harness maker > types.[!] This one seems to have had a bit of wanderlust in him. His wife, > Mary S, was born in Maine, but their (2 yr old) son, Henry W. was born in New > Hampshire. > > It will be interesting to see if/where he shows up in later years''. > Meanwhile any ideas out there, 'cos I can't locate any of them? > > Nor can I get into this 'new' site which was reported on Ancestry.com and is > meant to refer to Rensselaer County, New York > http://rootsweb.com/~nyrenss2.html > Ana could you please take a look from time to time, as it was knowing that > your relatives had a connection there which caught my eye. > > There are a couple of new items on my [our] website but nothing much that we > haven't discussed already. There's a new link amongst others to the a2a > website. It produced a few nuggets and gave me several leads to follow up. > > And here's an exerpt from an enquiry re KNIBB'S battery, the full text of > which I can supply to those related. > ''My great grandfather, John Binford Knibb of Goochland County, VA was born > on November 7, 1823. At the age of 37, he answered the Commonwealth of > Virginia' s "Call to Arms" during the War Between the States by volunteering > as a private in the Goochland-Turner Light Artillery, under the command of > Capt. Walter Daniel Leake. Knibb was mustered into service at the county > courthouse in August of 1861. The unit, then, went to Charleston, SC with > Robert E. Lee and helped to defend that city for the next year. The only > engagement that John Knibb fought in was the Battle of Port Royal Ferry as he > was transfered out in May of '62. Since he was an experienced blacksmith > prior to hostilites, the Adjutant & Inspector General of the Confederate > States issued Special Order Number 101 which sent John Knibb to the Tredegar > Iron Works in Richmond, VA to help in the forging of cannon and iron plating > for the gunboats of the James River Squadron..............'' > > Take a look at http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/ if you have a connection with > Hannah Haynes NIBBS in New Zealand. There's a biography about her 6th son > Elsdon BEST. > > Joyce told us about missing Akeley males in the Batch numbers website. > Here's a 'standard' reply which I saw on their FAQ sheet. > "Thank you for your note. Your observations are correct and at least to some > degree explainable. More females attend LDS temples than males creating an > imbalance in the inventory system. To solve that issue, the batches were > split into male and female (J and K batches). The females were sent to the > temples, and in some cases the male portion of the batch has not yet been > sent, but is waiting in the inventory." I'm [ie Hugh is] not personally > convinced this totally explains it but that is the official explanation > anyway. That same user also forwarded me this observation; "Incidentally, I > have since discovered that some of the missing males are in the Vital Records > Index - for example for Dauntsey, Wiltshire, 1653-1885, females only are in > the IGI, both males and females are in the VRI." > > So there you have it, unless Joyce received a different answer. > > All for now. > > bfn > > Alan > Host at THE K/NIBB/S ONE NAME STUDY > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~knibbetc/ > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237