....... a day for taking stock. Or stocktaking? Richard KNIBBS (who loaned us his 'World Book of KNIBBSES' for display at Warwick) has written to me with an idea as follows:- ''Just a thought. How about starting an internal library. By this I mean that everyone says what parish registers thay have etc. This is held by say yourself, or on the one name page. Then if I needed to know anything about, say Oxford, I could look into the library list. See, say Don has submitted a list with Oxford on it. Then all I need to do is contact Don. Of course if it were held centrally it would make life easier.'' Of course, I already include on the website a 'dossier' of the items that I have available. Perhaps, we could include a separate section there of any additional items held by others eg Don's several microfiche of Parish Registers and Bob has some copy Wills. If listers could mention what they have in a message to all, I will be happy to amend and update the website as a permanent record. Does anyone by chance have a London Street Directory dated c1891? Guess not but I've asked my 'book finder' to see if he can get me one. I think this might be the way of making the best use of the 1891 London Census recently added to the dossier. Working in the gas industry, I learned, to my surprise, that on average 10% of customers (Marsha please note the expression!) move each year. That also seems to have been the norm a century ago as I've only found a few K/NIBB/S living at their same address in 1891 as 1881. I've used some addresses from Wills to find a few more but the vast majority have not been traced. Of those that have, there are a couple of items of interest to report. 1. Henry Theodore KNIBBS senior came from Somerset and not London as stated in 1881. His tree which was fragmented now, thanks to the 1891 census, boasts 50 or so names but not yet linked to any researcher. 2. Mary Jane KNIBB first came to my knowledge via John KNIBBS extracts of a Northampton parish register. The published National Probate Calendar (later typed out by Robin) revealed she left a Will on her death in 1911 and that she lived in a posh address in Whitehall. Michael PEARMAN obtained further details for me but she hadn't left the fortune that I had, perhaps optimistically, imagined. The 1881 census listed her as a housekeeper to an MP. In 1891, she is at the same address but then housekeeper to the Duke of Buccleuch. Rose-Marie, is that the closest your tree gets to royal stock? 3. Armed with that piece of knowledge, I eagerly looked for Ann Elizabeth KNIBB, widow of Peckham House, Peckham, Surrey whose Estate was administered by her son Tom Fitzpatrick KNIBB. Sad to say, I found that she ended her days in a lunatic asylum. No names, no pack drill, re current researchers of that line. Now, on Sunday I spoke for a second time on the telephone to Margaret BOWMAN who rang me from Portsmouth. She had contacted me following a recent advertisement I had placed in the 'Family Tree Magazine'. Although her KNIBB connection is quite remote, she has accumulated a large collection of K/NIBB/S and K/NOBB/S. I had previously rejected the latter but some of her finds suggest that I should keep an open mind. Her family links are to Northampton/Stoke Goldington but her researches have extended as far as to Leicester and Stamford. So unrelated researchers Sioux and Audrey might be able to hob KNOB it with the best of them. Full details awaited from Margaret, bless her, not as old as mother but no spring chicken. I'd better not directly use a 'stock' analogy to the next item. Our stock has, however, gone up in the eyes of a KNIBB working for Cameron MACKINTOSH - usually deals in his stocks and shares. He was impressed with the website but what I really need him to do is to persuade the impresario to back 'KNIBB, the Musical', if not personally then through his Foundation. I won't be satisfied with a stock answer to my enquiry. Enough, I hear you say, or we'll all go round the bend, looking for Edwins in Tavistock or some place else, bridge-building in Bradford PA, ending up in a body stocking in some asylum. bfn Alan List Administrator and host at <A HREF="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~knibbetc/">THE K/NIBB/S ONE NAME STUDY website</A> Did you know? Earlier postings to the list are archived at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/KNIBB-L/ Please follow log-on instructions when you first visit!