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From: "Merryl Wells" <>
Subject: Re: SAILING SHIP HAIDEE/ Market Weighton, Yorkshire.
Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 03:49:03 +0100


Hi Pat,

Possible help re below please.

Firstly, do you know anything about the origins of the KNAPP surname? One
of my Somerset, England ancestors, Abraham Hobbs married around 1730 an Ann
Knapp. There is no other Knapp mentioned in the parish so I am stuck on her
ancestors. I have seen the surname mentioned in London, but I am just
wondering if there is a particular area in England where that surname
originated?

Secondly, I am doing a one-name study of my maiden surname of GULLICK
worldwide, and there happened to be a small family from Somerset who settled
in Market Weighton, Yorkshire. If you have any monumental inscriptions for
them I should be very pleased to know of them. They were James and Eliza
Gullick, he was a grocer and they died 17 July 1889 and 15 June 1899. They
had Austin William, Elizabeth Mary and James Alfred. Austin died 1928
probably in Market Weighton, Elizabeth died 1936 Bridlington and James 1937
place unknown.

From
Merryl Wells of Hemel Hempstead, Herts.
E-Mail:
GOONS Mem. No. 1757. Reg. ONS: Bawtree; Gullick/ock;
Mem. of Wells Assn. (GOONS Reg.); Other ONS: Moist.
----- Original Message -----
From: Pat Frykberg <>
To: <>
Sent: 03 May 1999 19:48
Subject: Re: SAILING SHIP HAIDEE AND YORKSHIRE EMIGRATION TO NATAL, SOUTH
AFRICA - 1850

>Ann married a Bridlington baker, Richard Knott and arrived in Natal 1861
>with their son my grandfather, William. They had been sponsored by William
>and a brother in law David Knapp.William Allerston tried farming but had
>been a townee all his life and apparently could not cope. Richard Knott had
>a baker shop and did very well in Maritzburg until his untimely death,
>whereon Ann remarried Francis Burchell, a horse and racing man. Their son
>& descendents are now well known Natal law professors etc.
>York in Natal was a stronghold of the Wesleyan emigrants. Amongst them was
>William Bell whose brother John Vause Bell married Rachel Atkinson from
>Market Weighton. I have several books on Market Weighton and a list of MIs
>from the cemetery there and at Sancton.
>Happy to do a check.
>Pat

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