K/NIBB/S  ONE NAME STUDY

Back to Contents

3.  DOSSIER OF RESEARCH MATERIALS USED

(All used by and available to your host, unless indicated otherwise)

Complete IGI extracts of K/NIBB/S within database

For those who participate in the mailing list, a combined K/NIBB/S baptisms and marriages file sorted by Parish and date is available within a Microsoft Excel, ascii txt or html file.  Here's a screen shot for you to get an idea of its content.

Extracts from England & Wales General Record Office (GRO) Indices for K/NIBB/S Birth, Marriage, Death listings from 1837 as follows:

Births to 1955, Marriages to 1960 (both growing), Deaths to 2001.

Once again, for those who participate in the mailing list, all the K/NIBB/S GRO Births 1837-1900 are available within a Microsoft Excel, ascii txt or html file.  Here's a screen shot for you to get an idea of its content.

All K/NIBB/S extracted from the National Burials Index CD Rom produced by the Federation of Family History Societies.  Just email for details.

Oxon and Bucks FHS Marriage Indices

1851 Bucks Census - K/NIBB/S
1851 Warwick, Devon & Norfolk census listings from CD Rom
1841, '51 Oxfordshire Census - listings of K/NIBB/S in rtf format
1861, '71 and '91 UK census entries at ancestry.com
1881 British Census on CD-ROM searchable by names, thanx to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
1891 London Census on CD Rom, searchable by addresses, thanx to S & N Genealogy
1891 Birmingham Census from James WILSON
1901  All K/NIBB/s listed for England and Wales on the index at The Public Record Office website http://www.census.pro.gov.uk/ have been downloaded and virtually all of them accounted for.

Similarly, the K/NIBB/S from the US census returns as they appear at Ancestry.com are available, courtesy of Marsha ENSMINGER.

Greater Birmingham Burial Index from David PULLAR

Commonwealth War Grave Commission deaths in WW1 & WW2

K/NIBB/S WILLS proved at Lichfield, Lincoln, Bucks and now all KNIBB/S PCC Wills (a thousand thanks for the latter go to Jerry d'A FONSECA)

UK Info 4 CD Rom (the 1999 Electoral Roll and telephone numbers where not ex-directory)

Australian Electoral Roll 1998 listings

NSW BMD listings from Internet
Californian B&D listings from Internet
Illinois marriages from Internet

BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS:

'The KNIBB Family of Clockmakers' by R A LEE 1963 Manor House Press - inscribed by the author thanking the photographer.  (There are 5 known copies in the possession of Study Group contributors - only 1,000 printed)  Circa £500 might buy you a copy per Internet book sales!

'Clockmaking in Oxfordshire' by CFC BEESON - Oxford Museum of the History of Science  1989 Edition  ISBN 0903364 06 9 

'FACTS AND DOCUMENTS connected with the LATE INSURRECTION IN JAMAICA and the VIOLATIONS OF CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY arising out of it' - London 1832

'Memoir of William KNIBB' by John Howard HINTON - Second edition; London 1849   Published by Houlston and Stoneman (two copies, one Mary Knibb MILBOURNE's copy

'William KNIBB: Missionary in Jamaica  A Memoir by Mrs John James SMITH - Alexander & Shepheard  London 1896 (ie Mary Esther SMITH - Carrie HUTCHEN née SMITH's copy)

'William KNIBB Missionary and Emancipator' by R A L KNIGHT - The Carey Press  London 1924 (signed by the author)

'Freedom in Jamaica;  by Ernest A PAYNE B Litt - The Carey Press  London 1933

'The Man Who Could Not Be Silent - BMS The Carey Press  London

'KNIBB The "Notorious"  Slaves' missionary 1803 -1845' by Philip WRIGHT - Sidgwick & Jackson  London 1973  ISBN 0 283 97873 3

'William KNIBB: A National Hero?' by Rev Devon DICK JP MA BA Published in 1987 (Photcopy manuscript kindly supplied by the author who is Pastor at The Boulevard Baptist Church in Kingston, Jamaica and Chairman of the Jamaica National Heritage Trust)

'William KNIBB, Freedom Fighter' by Rev Dr G A CATHERALL - (Author's Manuscript Copy)

'The Kettering Connection - Northamptonshire Baptists and Overseas Missions' edited by R.L. GREENALL containing an item on William KNIBB by Rev Dr G A CATHERALL - Department of Adult Education, University of Leicester 1993 ISBN 0 901 507 45 8

'The Secret Diary of Sarah THOMAS' by Sarah THOMAS - Captain MILBOURNE's second wife  Edited by June Lewis. 1994 The Windrush Press, Little Window, High Street, Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos, GL56 0LL. ISBN: 0 900075 38 4. 180pp. (Out of print.)

'Civilising Subjects' by Catherine HALL (Polity Press ISBN 0-7456-1821-9).  Published in 2002.  Signed copy by the Kettering born author, Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at University College, London.  A thought provoking book, a veritable tour de force, containing many references to William KNIBB and his times.   Here's a link to an article based on the book by her in The Guardian 20 April 2002.

'Samuel SHARPE  From Slave to National Hero' by C S REID - The Bustamente Institute of Public and International Affairs ISBN 976 8058 01 3 (Copy)

'Britain's Slave Trade'; by SI MARTIN  Channel 4 Books  ISBN 0 7522 1785 2

Copies of any other books that have been written about William KNIBB and his times are sought for the One Name Study.  The official archive of William KNIBB memorabilia, letters etc (formerly held by the Baptist Missionary Society)  is at The Regents Park College Library, Oxford.  I made notes at a visit there on 3rd July 2000

Souvenir Edition of the Kettering Charter of Incorporation - 1938 (donated by Rose-Marie HARRISON)

The Burke's Peerage World Book of NIBBs (also a listing from the companion KNIBB book)

'Genealogical Research Directory  National & International' 1999 by Keith JOHNSON & Malcolm R SAINTY

KNIBBS Family History by Joyce FISCHER full of detail about all in her family past and present


OTHER ITEMS:

Article John KNIBB  'Citizen of Oxford' by C F C BEESON  Antiquarian Horology December 1960 ages P132-5

Photocopy extract of Daughters of the American Revolution Patriot Index Part II

Photocopy extract from 'The Original Lists of Persons of Quality; emigrants, religious exiles, political rebels etc who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations 1600 - 1700'

PAPER CLIPPINGS:

'The Times' Law Report - KNIBB v BUNNEY 28th February 1840 and numerous extracts of Bankruptcy Notices and other Court proceedings over the years

From The Library of Jamaica and The Institute of Jamaica - various
Kettering Newspapers - various.

Next page

Home Page | Introduction | Contents | Response Form | Latest