Possibly Thomas. It seems to be universally accepted the name of Knowlton can be traced back to William the Conqueror and the Domesday Book, but no path is clear of obvious and most ridiculous error.
One seemly reasonable tree has John 1553 and Dorothy Lyndal , Edward 1527 and Elizabeth Peyton, John and Dorothy Lyndal, William de Langley and Crostoam Knollton, wh would have been alive in an era when the husband commonly took the wife's name if her wealth and property, and name, were the greater.
Sir Thomas Peyton is listed in the history of Knowlton Court, Kent, England.
Married a Joanne of Cold Norton.
7 children:
Judith King b: 18 JAN 1600 in Cold Norton, Essex, England
Frances King b: 27 JUN 1602 in Cold Norton, Essex, England
George King b: 4 MAR 1603 in Cold Norton, Essex, England
Judith King b: 15 FEB 1606 in Cold Norton, Essex, England
Christopher King b: 1 SEP 1611 in Cold Norton, Essex, England
Thomas King b: 24 FEB 1613 in Cold Norton, Essex, England
Daniel King b: 8 AUG 1615 in Cold Norton, Essex, England
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George King died on 7 Dec 1625 in Cold Norton, Essex, England. On 23 Jun
1589 George married Joane Lorran, in Cold Norton, Essex.
They had the following children:
Thomas (1613-1691)
Anna (ca1593-1655)
No sources listed
From Shaston, Dorsetshire, England, settled in Sudbury, Ma in 1642 55
Records vary a great deal here.
Daniel, of Dighton, a descendant of Thomas King, of Bell House Neck, Scituate per William Cutter, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, 1910.
Married an Elizabeth and had five children including Mehitable King.
His parents are listed as having Sarah, Thomas, Jane, Daniel, John, Mercy, Ichabod, George, Ebenezer and Anne. Daniel is listed as born in 1675, marrying Elizabeth and having a daughter Mehitable King. John is listed as born in 1677, marrying a Sarah Whiton or a Rebecca, children do not include Mehitable.
Elder Thomas King. Born in 1613. Thomas died on 24 Sep 1691 in Scituate, MA Source: 19
Buried in Scituate, MA GR20.
Thomas King sailed from London 17 Jun 1635 in the ship Blessing at the age of 21 in the company of Mr. William Vassall and family, whose whife was Anna, Thomas's sister. He built his house on the top of the hill at Bell house neck, a few rods south of Mr. Vassall's He was admitted to the church 25 Feb 1638. He succeeded Elder William Hatch as elder in the Second Church. Thomas's second wife was the widow of Elder Hatch. Thomas also had lands on the north side of Rotten marsh. After the death of Elder Thomas King, the office of Ruling Elder was allowed to lapse, and the duties of that office were merged with those of deacon.
"Elder King's will, dated 1691 [30 Jun and proved 16 mar 1692], gives 'to wife Anne-to daughter Sarah Besby land at Gravelly beach-To grandsons John and Thomas Rogers 10 £ each. Item: it is my will that Robin, my negro, be set free, and receive of my estate a bed and 5 £ in money-Item: to son Thomas all my property not otherwise disposed of in New and Old England.'" Source: 22
In 1637/1638 Thomas first married Sarah [King], in Scituate. Sarah died on 6 Jun 1652 in Scituate, MA. Sources: 5 18 19
They had the following children:
Rhoda (1639-)
George (1642-)
Thomas (1645-1711)
Daniel (1648-)
Sarah (1650-1716)
John (Died soon) (1652-1652)
On 31 Mar 1653 Thomas second married Jane Young, in Scituate, MA. Born ca 1596 in England. Jane died on 8 Oct 1653 in Scituate, MA. Same sources
9 children:
Rhoda King b: 11 OCT 1639 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., Mas
George King b: 24 DEC 1642 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., Mass
Daniel King b: 24 DEC 1642 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., Mass
Daniell King b: 4 FEB 1648 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., Mass
Sarah King b: 24 MAY 1650 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., Massa
John King b: 30 MAY 1652 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., Mass
Ann King b: 1654 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., Mass
Thomas King b: 21 JUN 1645 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., Mass
Declared able to bear arms 1643
Declared freeman of Plymouth 1683
Declared freeman of Scituate 1689
as per Plymouth County Records
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There is an English will written by Elizabeth, wife of Richard Lee, an abstract of which is given in the General Registry for 1896, page 529, which mentions the wife of Thomas King, in New England, as Ann. This will was written after the death in 1642 of Thomas' first wife, Ann. (William R. Cutter, "Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Families of Middlesex County", p. 130,) Therefore, it is possible to assume that Thomas might have had a second wife, also named Ann, before his marriage to Bridget Davis in 1655. If so, this Ann was Ann Collins before her marriage.
Thomas King came to America and settled in Sudbury, MA about 1642. He was one of the petitioners organized by John Ruddock to establish a new community which later separated from Sudbury. The new settlement became "Whip Suffrage" and finaly "Marlborough" in honor of a town in Ruddock's old English County of Wiltshire. Thomas King was one of the selectmen elected in 1657 by the proprietors.
Thomas and his first wife, Ann King, had three children:
Elizabeth, b. England, ca. 1635; m. Samuel Rice.
Peter, b. England ca. 1636; died in Marlborough, MA 27 August 1704.
Thomas, b. Sudbury, MA 4 Dec. 1642; d. probably in Sudbury, MA 1645.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jtrue/King.htm
A Thomas King was listed as roll number 3 on the passenger list if the Blessing,which sailed from London, mid-July, 1635, landing at Massacheuchetts Bay. He gave is age as 21. This Thomas would have turned 22 at the beginning of 1635.
Another Thomas King was listed as roll number 30 on the passenger list of the Francis, which sailed from Ipswich, Suffolk in April 1634. He gave his age as 19. This Thomas would have been 22.
Dea. Thomas King. Born on 21 Jun 1645 in Scituate, MA. Thomas died in Scituate, MA on 1 Dec 1711; he was 66. Sources: 5 19
On 20 Apr 1669 when Thomas was 23, he first married Elizabeth Clap, daughter of Dea. Thomas Clap, in Scituate, MA. Elizabeth died on 18 Mar 1698 in Scituate, MA. Sources: 19 and Marriages at Scituate, Mass., Prior to 1700.
10 children:
Sarah King b: 3 JAN 1669 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., Mass
Thomas King b: 30 AUG 1670 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., Mass
Jane King b: 14 NOV 1672 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., Mass
Daniel King b: JUL 1675 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., Mass
John King b: 1 APR 1677 in Marshfield, Plymouth Co., Mass
Mercy King b: NOV 1678 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., Mass
Ichabod King b: OCT 1680 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., Mass
George King b: 27 AUG 1682 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., Mass
Anne King b: MAY 1684 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., Mass
Ebenezer King b: 22 FEB 1685 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., Mass
In the 9th century, Queen Thyra of Denmark, led an army against the Germans.
While Gorm the Old had disparaging nicknames, his wife Thyra was referred to as a woman of great prudence. Tradition also has it that she was mainly responsible for building the Danevirke on the souther border. Gorm raised a memorial stone to Thyra at Jelling, which refers to her as the 'glory' and 'healing' of Denmark. This may be a reference to when she led an army against the Germans.
Gorm and Thyra were buried under one of the two great mounds at Jelling and later moved to the first Christian church there. This was confirmed when a tomb containing their remains was excavated in 1978 under the east end of the present church.
There are contradictory accounts of Thyra's parentage. Saxo holds she was the daughter of Æthelred, King of England but Snorri says her father was king or jarl of Jutland or Holstein called Klakk-Harald. The latter is more likley, as the dates don't match - Æthelred began his reign after Gorm died, and Thyra predeceased Gorm.
According to popular tradition, her daughter was captured by trolls and carried off to a kingdom in the far north beyond Halogaland and Biarmaland.
Tradition also has it that before Thyra consented to marry Gorm, she insisted he build a new house and sleep in it for the first three nights of winter and give her an account of his dreams those nights. The dreams were told at the wedding banquet and as recorded, immitate the dreams Pharaoh had that were interpreted by Joseph in Genesis. Oxen came out of the sea (bountiful harvest) and birds (glory of the king to be born).
Gorm and Thyra were the parents of King Harald Bluetooth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thyra
Gorm the Old (Gorm den Gamle) was King of Denmark in the mid-900s. He was the husband of Thyra (to whom he raised the older of the two Jelling stones) and the father of King Harald Bluetooth. The son of Danish king Harthacnut, Gorm is one of the most misinterpreted figures in Danish history. Often maligned as a cruel old dotard and a staunch heathen, Gorm was born in the late 800s, and died in 958 according to dendrochronological studies of the wood in his burial chamber.
His ancestry may lie with the Danish rulers in East Anglia, one of which was named Guthrum, a form of the name Gorm. His father came to Denmark around 916 or 917 and deposed the young king Sigtrygg Gnupasson, and when Harthaknut died, Gorm ascended to the throne. Claims that he took it by force, or that he only ruled part of the peninsula of Jutland are almost certainly erroneous…[citation needed] Gorm's great-great-grandson king Sweyn Estridsson referred to both Gorm and his father as kings of (all of) Denmark, not just parts of the country.
Gorm was neither old nor unwise; when correctly interpreted, early sources point to him as being open-minded and pragmatic [citation needed] as far as Denmark's relationship with the Christian neighbors to the south was concerned, but earlier historians often confused him with his father who supposedly withstood the coming of Christianity for as long as he lived. However, the small runestone in Jelling can be interpreted as a claim that Gorm defended Denmark from Christianity, as he is somewhat vaguely defined as the protector of Denmark.
His skeleton is believed to have been found at the site of the first Christian church of Jelling. During the reign of Gorm, most Danes still worshipped the Norse gods, but during the reign of Gorm's son Harold Bluetooth, Denmark officially converted to Christianity. Harold supposedly moved the skeleton of his father from its original resting place into the church, but left the hill where Gorm had originally been interred as a memorial.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorm_the_Old