The memorials of the hamlet of Knightsbridge : $b With notices of its immediate neighbourhoodDavis, Henry George
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The memorials of the hamlet of Knightsbridge : $b With notices of its immediate neighbourhood
Davis, Henry George
Knightsbridge (London, England)
1678, Jan. 3. Robert, son of Robert and Hester Gunter.
1681, April 11. Anne, the daughter of George Sams by Martha Wheatley,
his servant, as ’tis told me.
1682, May 27. Thomas Dennis, 30 years of age, was baptised.
1683, March 4. Jane Rutter was baptised. A black woman.
1689, June 27. ffrances Wharton, the daughter of Jane Wharton, a child
of base (birth).
1691, Dec. 21. Hannah Hipsley, daughter of Thomas and Mary Hipsley, by
Mr. Watts. Born Dec. 6th.
1692, Feb. 14. Margaret Tarbet, the daughter of Margaret Perryvil; being
a woman-child that fell in travail in ye street.
1702. Mary, daughter of Thomas Werd by Mary his wife, was baptised the
3rd of May by Mr. Killberk.
This is the last baptism recorded, and only one is entered between
October 16th, 1694, and this date: the others are missing; and though I
know baptisms were occasionally solemnised here even to the end of the
last century, no later record has been preserved.
MARRIAGES.
There are no registers of marriages here now, anterior to April 1st,
1658, but in the Bishop’s register are some earlier ones, the first of
which is the following:—
16th April, 1632. Thomas Herbert, of Hammond Head, com. York, Esq.,
bachelor, 24; and Lucy Alexander, spinster, 20, daughter of Sir William
Alexander.
The earliest in the Chapel register book is as follows:—
1658, April 1. William Eaton and Jane Hurley were married.
1661, ffeb. 10. Richard Steele and Eliza Cotterill per me Ant. Dode.
1666, July 17. William Adkins and Katherine Edwards at ye Bowling Green.
The Bowling Green was perhaps at the Spring Garden, afterwards to be
noticed.
1666, Oct. 14. Thomas Clark and Elizabeth Milton.
1667, April 16. Philip Wharton and Hester Bewley.
1672, June 11. Sir Philip Harcourte and Eliz Lee married by Mr. Cull.
1672, July 13. Robert Chaloner, esq., and Dorothy Britten.
The Chaloners were one of the few old Middlesex families. They were
seated at Chiswick.
1675, Feb. 16. Christopher Benson and Eliz. Hilliard, belonging to ye
vice chancellor.
1675, Nov. 24. Gabriel Hipsley and Penelope ffry.
1676, May 7. Nicholas Brady and Bethia Chapman.
1676, Oct. 27. Arthur Deavereux and Anne Ireland in pompe Courte in ye
midle temple, 3 payre of stayres.
1677, July 17. Hugh Middleton, esq., and Mrs. Dorothy Oglander, married
by Mr. Nath. Cole, dd, his majesty’s Chaplain in ordinary.
1678, Feb. 21. William Harbord, esq., and Mrs. Katherine Russell by Mr.
James Symonds.
1678, July 23. Sir James Hayes and Grace Clavering.
1678, August 3. Sir John Lenthall and ye Lady Catherine Lant, secrecy,
by Mr. Joseph Stretch, minister.
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