Thanks for the greetings, Alan - celebrated the birthday last night, along with the marriage of my oldest daughter; she got married yesterday afternoon - a second marriage, of course, but important nonetheless. She still plans on retaining Knibb as part of her name as I have. Merry Christmas to you and to all - Jo :-) ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 12:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [K/NIBB/S] Ho ho. Ho... ....lidays are here again! To get into the Christmas spirit, I'll start with a pizza order request that Harriet took at work last night, 'deep pan, crisp and even'. No snow here though, as in the carol - indeed we've still got some leaves on one tree in the garden. >From a warmer climate still, Dr Wayne KNIBB in Australia who I found by surfing the net, has given me Knibb's Road to add to our list. Named after after Len and Mary Knibb in Stanthorpe (in fact just outside Stanthorpe, Queensland in a district called Whisky Gully). He tells me that these KNIBB's were orchardists and may have produced some wine but no whisky! What do you think of that, Muriel? He has promised to fill out his/your tree by speaking to all relatives at the next family gathering. Don's transcription of the Woodstock KNIBBS has helped solve many a mystery for Trevor KNIBBS. I've told Don that a number of the 'unplaced' K/NIBB/S are allocated to trees [some unverified and unclaimed] within the database. I do try to inform everyone directly who has an interest in a 'found' name from a parish register but I'm all too conscious that I may slip up on occasions. His unplaced entries, coming from the Oxfordshire parish registers as they do, don't contain conjectures and will help anyone researching a particular name, occupation or location. The entries generally pre-date the K/NIBB/S GRO lists that are available from me, so should prove to be jolly useful. Some progress if not success for Jim. Remember we were looking for the correct George KNIBBS marriage at Brackley. Well, the purchase of Cecil Gilbert's birth certificate has revealed that his real father was then called by another name. Who thinks this game's easy? Graham NIBBS from the States has sent me a couple of old letters from family containing details about his ancestors illustrious lives. All very nautical, with service on numerous ships both in peacetime and at war. Representatives seem to have been present at every major Canal opening in the last century eg Suez, Kiel and the Manchester Ship. There were royal connections to which should go down well with the List's very own harbourmaster, Brian NIBBS, who met Prince Philip this year. Marsha has sent me some more US census extractions which will help enormously in piecing together the transatlantic K/NIBB/S. Audrey has told me about a KNIBBS Road in Billingborough, Lincolnshire where a number of KNIBBS lived, Unfortunately for her, Audrey is the latest to have caught a computer virus. As we are a relatively small list, I don't unsubscribe anyone automatically for such [because no one will be infected via the list] but I do need to remind you not to open any email attachment nor click on any html coding in an email that you are not 100% sure about. At the present time be very wary of anything from a list member [or anyone else] whose address line begins with an underscore [ _ ] or if an attachment has more than one dot [ . ] in its title. And finally, many thanx for all Christmas cards and greetings and may I in turn wish everyone a truly Happy Christmas. We have family visiting and I guess my time on this machine may be somewhat rationed from the end of the week, so peace should reign. Now, I'm going to enact an annual tradition and watch the film 'Wonderful Life' which I love for its sheer escapism. What do you do? bfn Alan PS I always feel sorry for those with Birthdays at this time of the year - for a start the selection of cards in the shops is greatly reduced and I reckon that they miss out on separate presents. So a special greeting to Jo HEAD whose birthday it is on the 18th. ============================== 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