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From: "Robert Forrest" <>
Subject: Re: Another Knapp Question
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 21:40:23 -0700
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Surprised that no one has yet mentioned Clifford Stott's article "English
Origins of William and Judith (Tue) Knopp of Watertown, Mass.," NEHGR
147:313-328. From his research, William (1582-1658) Knopp, husband of Judith
Tue, was a son of Thomas "The Sexton" Knopp of Bures St. Mary, thus a nephew
of the William (c1560-c1640) Knopp who m. Elizabeth Reade and was
father-in-law of Thomas Philbrick, the immigrant.

Further, in "The Great Migration Begins", Robert Anderson adds this note at
the end of his article on William Knopp:
"BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: Two treatments of the family of William Knopp were
published in 1993. Clifford L. Stott prepared an account in which the
immigrant had resided at both Wormingford in Essex and Bures St. Mary on the
Essex-Suffolk border, and had married a woman from Wormingford, Judith Tue
[ NEHGR 147:313-28]. John Brayton produced a version in which the immigrant
had lived only in Bures St. Mary and had married Margaret Deane of that
parish [ GMC26 175-84]. Brayton apparently missed the chronological clues
which indicate that there were two William Knopps of Bures St. Mary, so he
apparently did not undertake the wider search which led Stott to his
conclusions. We follow Stott's results, and the English records cited above
are taken from his article, unless stated otherwise."

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