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Must Comply with Law

11/1/2020

Week 50 of the 52 Ancestors Challenge - "Naughty"
I still have a few entries unfinished from my 2018 run of this challenge, so thought I'd post this quick one.

The above was found in the Portsmouth Herald newspaper, printed on 5 May 1902 (pg 6). It seems my Great-Great-Grandfather JOHN KNIGHT got himself in trouble for keeping one of his children out of school, probably to work on the farm. The fine of $10 and his court costs were suspended, though. Considering that the local police departments took part in many annual summer outings held at his farm out on Fox Point, things may have been a bit awkward for the parties when the next event came around.

Here is the family in the 1900 Newington, Rockingham, New Hampshire census, on 15/16 June (pg 8B). Annie would have been 16 years old in May 1902, so it was likely one of the boys.

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Sports

10/14/2018

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Week 41 of the 52 Ancestors Challenge - "Sports"

"John Knight Meets George
Duntley on the Islington
Street Alleys"

This newspaper clipping is from the Portsmouth Herald, dated 13 August 1914, which involved my Great Great-Grandfather John Knight, in a bowling alley challenge against George Duntley. The latter was a Greenland painter, and was aged 56 at this time. John Knight Sr. was a 70-year-old farmer (representing Newington, though he had already moved to Portsmouth by then), but apparently could hold his own on the alley.

Thankfully, I have a photo of John Knight in his farming clothes (though taken at least a decade earlier than this event), so it is amusing to picture him tossing the candlepin balls down the lane in his overalls while wearing his "heavy pair of boots".

I've no clue if a score of 156 for three strings is any good, but HE WON!

John Knight Sr, with son Billy (date unknown but ca 1900)

Note:
There is a possibility that it was John Knight Jr who was the bowler, but he would have been only 25 in 1914. As competing against someone (Mr Duntley) twice his age wouldn't have seemed right, I believe it was the John Sr. who ruled the lanes that day.

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On the Farm

9/25/2018

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Week 39 of the 52 Ancestors Challenge - "On the Farm"

This is my Great-Grandmother's brother, John Knight Jr., at his farm on Gosling Road in Portsmouth, New Hampshire (dated prior to 1950). It was passed down to him by his father, JOHN KNIGHT, who died in 1917.

This property was purchased by my 2nd Great-Grandfather in 1913, who had previously only rented farms in Portsmouth and Newington, NH, following his move here from England in the 1880's. Uncle Johnny didn't marry, and lived here with his sister Abbie, who was married but deserted by her husband. My grandmother and her siblings also lived here for a time, after their parents met their untimely deaths in 1929 and 1932.

The government came through in the 1950's, with plans on building an air base in Newington, spreading partly into Portsmouth, and included the Knight property. In April 1952, Uncle Johnny sold off all his standing timber to H. Roby Jewell, with the right to construct a sawmill on the property while the clear cutting was done. In October of the same year, all the heirs of John Knight Sr (and their spouses) signed over the 65 acres to the U.S.A. for $10,600.

A portion of the 1952 plan of the properties being purchased for the air base

On the Knight land was the "Roach Cemetery", and was one of eleven that needed to be moved prior to the construction of the air base. There were 75 (or 86) graves that needed to be relocated from the disputed area.

The 1892 map of Portsmouth shows the home of "Miss A. Roach", whose home John Knight would purchase many years later [from Clarence D. Foss, who had purchased it from Amanda Pickering; it having previously belonged to Owen Roach, nephew to (Miss) Ann Roach]. Also on the map (to the right) is the location of the Gee Pickering farm, where John Knight had rented before moving to the Gosling Road property.

1952 topo map of Portsmouth, NH, showing rough location of the John Knight property. The "Spur Road", which would later become Rt 4/Route 16, was not yet built.

This is the current map of the former Pease Air Force Base, showing where the Knight formerly was (approximately, I'm no surveyor!). Circled in blue is the Pease Development Authority building, which sits on the same knoll where the old farm once stood.

Johnny Knight and his brother Walter, at his Newmarket, NH farm (photo dated 10 July 1967). He passed away the following year, and is buried (in an unmarked grave, as is most of his family) in Newington Cemetery.

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Father's Day

6/17/2018

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HAPPY FATHERS DAY!

For this post on Father's Day 2018, I thought I'd share some photographs of the fathers in my family tree. Some have had blog pages written about them, and links are provided for the earlier postings.

(left) Great-Grandfather William H. Pridham (1881-1934) with daughter;
(right) This MAY be Isaac C. H. Pridham (1847-1924), my 2nd Great Grandfather (William's father), with other Pridham family members [photo in with other pictures of this family]
I wrote about them back in 2014 on this blog page: The Pridhams of Puddle Dock

5 generations of my Dow family in four photos: my son and I; my dad and I (on Pest Island in the Piscataqua River); my dad and Papa; Great Grandfather John T Dow and his family at Thanksgiving (1919)

See also my pages: "John T Dow of Portsmouth, NH" and "Same Name"

My Great Great-Grandfather, John Knight, with his family (along with an unknown man in the middle, perhaps a hired hand), probably on the rented farm out on Fox Point in Newington, NH

(left) Great-grandfather Fred Leavitt
(above) Fred Leavitt, now bed ridden, with my grandfather, my aunt, and baby cousin

(above) 3rd Great Grandfather Thomas Steward (1838-1897) and family (see blog page for more about him)

(right) James W Brown (1841-1923), my 3rd Great Grandfather
See also: "Heirloom" and Brown - Locke's Cove, Kittery, Maine

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Mother's Day

5/13/2018

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Wishing all a Happy Mother's Day!

The following are photos I have of my direct ancestor females, with links to blog pages I have written about them in the past.

My 3rd Great-Grandmother, Catherine (Young) Steward with her husband Thomas Steward, and four of her children. One of them may be my 2nd Great-Grandmother, Hannah B Steward.

Catherine (ie Katherine, Katie, Catharine) died in 1875, her burial place unknown.

For more, see blog:
Thomas Steward and wife Catherine Young

Hannah B Steward, daughter of Thomas and Catherine (Young) Steward, my 2nd Great Grandmother. Her name was changed to Alberta Ann Rowell following her adoption. She died in 1901, aged 29 years, from complications after a pregnancy.
I have a page about her here:
Hannah B Steward, aka Alberta Ann Rowell

(above) My 3rd Great-Grandmother, Emily A. (Waitt/Waite) Brown, wife of James W Brown of Kittery, Maine.

Her daughter, Emily Jane Brown (center photo), my 2nd G-Grandmother, married John Kramer of Colchester, CT, but she lived most of her life in Kittery. At right is my Great-Grandmother, Martha (Kramer) Leavitt, Emily's daughter, with myself and siblings.

More about their families here:
Brown - Locke's Cove, Kittery, Maine
Emily Augusta (Waitt) Brown
My Waitt (Waite) Family from Malden, MA
Emily Jane (Brown) Kramer

My maternal line continues..

My Great-Grandmother, Annie (Knight) Smith (pictured here on porch with her sister Abbie). Her daughter, Alice (photo on right), is my gram (with me helping her at church bake sale...nice batch of brownies there!)

(at left) My mom and I on (I believe) Pest Island in the Piscataqua River.

My paternal line:

My Pridham relatives here, including my grandmother Alice (Pridham) Dow, and her mother, my Great-Grandmother Louise (Condon) Pridham.

More about this family is written here:
The Pridhams of Puddle Dock (Portsmouth, NH)

My Great-Grandmother, Dorothy M (Yeaton) Dow, the daughter of Nathaniel B and Louisa M (Meloon) Yeaton.

I have a blog post written about her here:
In Memory of Great-Grandmother Yeaton

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