Cathy. According to the IGI, Charles Knibbs was born in Devonshire, England. He was born 15 Feb. 1821. He was married in New York in 1852. Alan Jackson questions Devon as a birth place, because Devon is not a Knibbs "stronghold." He went to Verona, Grundy County, Illinois between 1858 and 1863, Willie T. Knibbs was born 4 Jul. 1858 in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, and Ellsworth R. Knibbs was born 2 Jul. 1863, in Verona, Illinois. His son, Charles Cordon Knibbs, my gt. grandfather, was also born in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, as was George James and Willie T. Ritchie