The Knowles Family of Mabe and St. Keverne
All events at Mabe unless otherwise stated.
Caleb Knowles and Mary Wilmot married at Budock on 23 January 1744
Their children -
Caleb baptised 20 November 1745 St Gluvias. Married Gertrude (surname unknown)
John baptised 14 June 1748 Budock
Jane baptised 5 January 1752 Budock
Children of Caleb Knowles and Gertrude
Jane baptised 2 April 1775
John baptised 10 Nov 1776
Jane baptised 23 May 1779
Caleb baptised 22 Sept 1782 . Married Susanna (possibly surname Hendy)
Mary baptised 18 Sept 1785
Children of Caleb Knowles and Susanna (Hendy?)
Thomas baptised 20 Dec 1807
Mary Hendy baptised 30 April 1809
Caleb baptised 14 April 1811
Simon Hendy baptised 26 April 1819
Charles Thomas baptised 30 Nov 1823. Died or was buried 23 Oct 1909 St Anthony in Meneage aged 86. Married Emily (surname unknown) - she died or was buried 29 January 1900 St Anthony in Meneage aged 76
Alfred baptised 18 Sept 1825
William Antron baptised 6 Dec 1829. Died or was buried 14 April 1885 Ruan Minor
Robert Tobias baptised 5 Feb 1832
Children of Charles Thomas Knowles and Emily (surname unknown)
Grosvenor Charles baptised 27 June 1847. Died 23 February 1929 Mabe. Buried 28 Feb 1929 St Keverne aged 81. Married Mary Trerise (daughter of Benjamin Trerise) at St Keverne on 5 October 1875 St Keverne. (in register Grosvenor Charles is of St Anthony). Mary died 3 May 1929 and buried at St Keverne 6 May 1929 aged 81
John baptised 5 Nov 1848
William baptised 14 April 1850. Died 5 October 1929 St Anthony aged 79
Elizabeth baptised 18 Jan 1852
Henry baptised 28 Oct 1855
Frederick baptised 22 May 1864 at St Anthony
All of the above information came from the IGI of the LDS Church
Child of Grosvenor Charles Knowles and Mary nee Trerise
Charles Benjamin Knowles born about 1876. Died 18 Nov 1915 of Trewince St Anthony. Buried 21 Nov 1915 at St Keverne aged 39. Married Jane Coad ( baptised 22 Jan 1877 St Keverne, died 2 Feb 1920 Trewince, St Anthony. Buried 4 Feb 1920 St Keverne aged 43
Children of Charles Benjamin Knowles and Jane nee Coad (all baptised St Keverne Methodist Church and buried St Keverne unless otherwise stated)
| Name | Born | Baptised | Died | Buried |
| Susan | 14 April 1898 | 26 Sep1898 | 5 Jan 1899 | |
| James | 13 July 1900 | 21 Jan 1901 | ||
| Benjamin | 13 Oct 1901 | 28 May 1902 | Brit.Columbia | 10 Oct 1971 |
| John Grosvenor | 25 June 1903 | 13 April 1904 | ||
| Richard | 21 Sep 1904 | 31 May 1905 | ||
| Mary Grace | 16 Oct 1905 | 4 July 1906 | ||
| Sidney | 3 June 1908 | 21 June 1909 | Manaccan | Manaccan |
| Charles Edward | 26 July 1910 | 2 June 1913 | ||
| George | 8 Feb 1819 | 29 April 1920 |
From the Methodist Register I can deduce the following. Charles Benjamin and Jane Knowles lived at Trewince, St Anthony from 1898 until 1902 and again from 1910 until Jane died in 1920. Between 1903 and 1908 they lived at Tregowris which is in St Keverne parish.
Also you may have noticed that Charles Benjamin died several years before Jane gave birth to the last child George.
At one time (about 1907) Grosvenor Charles Knowles was the churchwarden at St Keverne parish church.
Sidney Knowles (born 1908) and of Manaccan married Marion Lyne and had two daughters - Patricia Marion born 1940 who married Russell Retallack and lives at St Keverne and Edna Mary born 1942 who married Montague Bloomfield and lives at Manaccan. Marion Knowles died earlier this year and Sidney died in the late 1990s.
Terry Moyle
