Back from hols in France and into K/NIBB/S with a vengeance. An interesting enquiry came from a gentleman writing an article about Jane AUSTEN's 'Mansfield Park' and the NIBBS sugar plantation connection. I'll keep everyone posted if anything further develops. Rosemary OWENS, nee KNIBBS, visited Don's website and has supplied info re her family who came from Brackley. More later, I hope, which will be of particular interest to Chris RILEY. Tina EMERY has joined us. Don will be fascinated to know that she is descended from Cecilia NORTH who married John Francis KNIBBS via Emma. Bob KNIBBS has sent me the following re nurse KNIBBS from http://www.elsworthvillage.org.uk/opus144.html Elsworth - 7th February Inquest on child. An inquest was held at the Three Horse Shoes public-house, in this parish, on Thursday last, before Mr. F. Grain, deputy-coroner, on the body of Julia Throssell, a little girl about 5 years of age, who died on the previous Tuesday afternoon, after a very short illness, and without being attended by any medical man. It appeared by the evidence of the mother of the deceased that she had, from her infancy, been frequently ailing, and from the previous Friday she seemed to be suffering from cold. On the Tuesday morning she remained in bed, but appeared much the same until about half-past one o'clock when she asked for something to drink; and her mother on going to give it her, noticing a change in her appearance, sent for a nurse named Knibbs who lived near, but the child died in about half-an-hour afterwards, apparently from suffocation. Mr. Brook, surgeon, of Caxton, made a post mortem examination of the body, and stated that on opening the throat he found in the lower part of the trachea an abcess, apparently of long standing, formed by a tubercular deposit, and which, by pressing upon the air-tube, had, he had no doubt, caused the death of the child by suffocation. The jury returned a verdict of "died by the visitation of God." bfn Alan Alan Jackson Host at The K/NIBB/S One Name Study & Mailing List Website address http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~knibbetc 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!

Hi Alan :) "Back from hols in France and into K/NIBB/S with a vengeance." Soooooooooo ... how was your holiday? Come on, fill us in!! And why didn't we pop in for a cuppa?!? Tsk! Tsk! Tsk! ;D You know, in hindsight I should've found out WHERE in France you were going to be. If it wasn't far from the German border, we could've met you. Trust me to think of it now! lol Take care, Rob.