I was not aware of the fact that there was a website for the Knowlton Manor. Does anyone know what it is? I am just curious. Thanks. Kathy Prior Executive Assistant Bayer HealthCare Technical Operations - North America 973-254-4621 973-408-8122 (Fax) Kathleen.Prior.B@Bayer "Elizabeth W. Knowlton" To: KNOWLTON-L@rootsweb.com <KnowltonEW@compu cc: serve.com> Subject: [KNOWLTON] Knowlton manor 02/25/2004 06:09 PM Please respond to KNOWLTON-L I have visited the site. The real one, not just on computer. It is a huge and lovely old house. I was even inside and spoke briefly with the very polite owner/descendant in 1990. She gave me a photocopied hand-out the poor people had developed to cope with all the Knowltons who come to the door. It gives all the history of the line far back in time and shows, what we already know, that Knowltons never owned it. Knowltons have never owned the house/manor or the property. The manor takes its name from the (now defunct) village, Knowlton. If our family comes from Kent, we probably take our name from the village also when we yeomen (and yeowomen?) took surnames. There was another such village in Dorsetshire (has website also), and many of the English Knowltons nowadays have roots in that county. [see 1881 English census on line] Hope this helps. Message text written by INTERNET:KNOWLTON-L@rootsweb.com >FYI just because it is called a "manor" doesn't mean it was anything super special. I will explain: 1) With families having 8-18 children, do you think they would all have a descent piece of the manor after 2 or 3 generations- do the math, 2) Families left England for more reasons than for just money, 3) Have you seen the site?- the manor was not big, was not important, and is currently being excavated in England, I suggest you go to the site and get first hand info. You can check it out on-line- we were are very likely related to the occupants. But don't count your money. I am also related to the Layton Family who had a "castle"- they came over several generations after the original occupants and there is no wealth left (we do have a tax record from 1096- but to no avail).- Dana Jensen - kin to Capt. William Knowlton < Elizabeth W. Knowlton it's = it is ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237