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William Knopp

Male Bef 1581 - 1659  (> 78 years)


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  • Name William Knopp  [1, 2
    Birth Bef 1 Jan 1581  [3, 4
    Baptism 1 Jan 1581  Bures St. Mary, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4
    Gender Male 
    Alternate death 30 Aug 1658  [1, 4, 5
    Death 30 Aug 1659  Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Person ID I20650  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JTS
    Last Modified 30 Mar 2023 

    Father Thomas Knopp,   b. Abt 1545   d. Bef 18 May 1613 (Age ~ 68 years) 
    Mother Alice Howlat 
    Marriage 10 Jan 1570  Bures St. Mary, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5
    Family ID F12846  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Judith Tue,   b. Bef 31 May 1589, Wormingford, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 20 Jun 1651, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age < 62 years) 
    Marriage 11 Jan 1607  Wormingford, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5
    Children 
    +1. Mary Knapp,   b. Bef 19 Aug 1613   d. 17 May 1667, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 53 years)
    Family ID F12768  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 19 Aug 2021 

    Family 2 Priscilla   d. Bef 1 Apr 1662 
    Marriage Abt 1651  [5
    Family ID F22868  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Mar 2023 

  • Notes 
    • He was a carpenter. He arrived in New England in 1630 indentured to Sir Richard Saltonstall, another ancestor of JTS. He was a proprietor of Watertown by 1637.

  • Sources 
    1. [S1604] Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Including Waltham and Weston by Henry Bond. Second edition. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1860.

    2. [S595] The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908, Part I: The Ancestry of Warren Frances Kempton 1817-1879 by Dean Crawford Smith; edited by Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996.

    3. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.

    4. [S5882] Ancestral Lines from Maine to North Carolina by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2015.

    5. [S1873] Clifford L. Stott, "English Origins of William and Judith (Tue) Knopp of Watertown, Massachusetts." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 147:315, 1993.