Simon Moulds
James Waddell
William Fagan
Data Base
And guest Book
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Back in 1851 William Knight arrived in Australia with his Wife Ann Otter and their
Children from Lincolnshire England. The Family came out as free settlers and set up home
in Galston. There were two blocks of land that were granted to the Knights. One block to
William Knight and the other to his son Thomas Knight on the road that is now named
Knights road after them. Thomas Knight married Jane Fagan and had 7 children. Thomas then
bought a block of land on Galston road from the Hudson's with a small dwelling that was
built in the 1870. This property was given to William his oldest son for a wedding
present. William and his wife Helen Rosetta Handley extended the dwelling into a beautiful
5 bedroom home with two large kitchens and a huge family room known as the "Big
Room". In this house, they brought up their 5 children Thomas, Hilda, Henry, Stanley,
Dorothy, and continued their family tradition as orchardists growing oranges, and later on
persimmons. The Home was passed on to Henry Kenneth Knight and his wife Bessie Jones and
they also brought up their 7 children Laurie, Elena, Robert, Henry, Margaret, Bronwyn,
Glenda, in the old home. The homestead was pulled down in 1987. And a new home was built
By the late Henry Kenneth Knight's wife Bessie Knight and daughter Elena Knight
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