The Knott Family History of Lighthouse Keeping
WILLIAM KNOTT (b.1706 Acrise Kent. d. 1780) (Son of William Knott b.1680)
- South Foreland Low lighthouse (1730 – 1780, 50 years service). Duties assumed by his son.
HENRY KNOTT (b.1748 St. Margaret’s at Cliffe. d. 1828) (Son of William (born 1706))
- South Foreland Low lighthouse (1777 – 1818, 41 years service). Handed over responsibility to his son.
HENRY THOMAS KNOTT (b. 1797 St. Margaret’s at Cliffe. d. 1870) (Son of Henry b. 1743)
- South Foreland Low lighthouse (1818 – 1863, 45 years service) Assisted by his three sons, two of whom were transferred away.
HENRY KNOTT (b1818 St. Margaret's at Cliffe.) (Son of Henry Thomas b. 1797)
- South Foreland Low lighthouse (1841)
- Flamborough Head lighthouse (1851 - 1880, 39 years service)
JOHN KNOTT (b.1820 St. Margaret’s at Cliffe. d. 1851) (Son of Henry Thomas b. 1797)
- South Foreland (1841 – 1851). Died in service, buried All Saints Church, St. Margaret's at Cliffe, Kent. (10 years service)
GEORGE KNOTT (b. 1828 St. Margaret’s at Cliffe d. 1904 Dover) (Son of Henry Thomas b. 1797)
- South Foreland Low lighthouse (1847 – 1861)
- Eddystone (Smeaton tower) (1861 – 1866)
- Bideford lighthouse (1866 – 1879)
- Bull Point lighthouse (1879 – 1888)
- North Foreland lighthouse (1888 - 1891) (44 years service)
HENRY THOMAS KNOTT (b. 1851 St. Margaret’s at Cliffe. d. 1910 Crewe) (Son of George Knott b.1828)
- Entered the lighthouse service (December 1873)
- Skerries lighthouse (1874 – 1886)
- South Foreland lighthouse (1886 – 1887)
- Minicoy lighthouse (Maliku Atoll), Lakshadweep, India (1887 – 1890)
- St. Ann’s Head lighthouse (1890 – 1894)
- South Stack lighthouse (1898 - 1899)
- Skerries lighthouse (1901 – 1905)
- Start Point lighthouse (1905-08, 35 years service)
EDMOND HORTON KNOTT (b1872 Braunton, Devon, d1943, Bedfordshire) (Son of George Knott b.1828)
- Entered the lighthouse service (April 1892)
- The Smalls lighthouse (1894)
- South Foreland lighthouse (1899-1902, 10 years service))
The Knott family is linked to the Hall Family of Lighthouse Keepers via the marriage (Holyhead 1877) of Henry Thomas Knott (b. 1845) to Ellen Margaret Hall (b. 1847 Dale, Pembs) daughter of John Hall (b. 1810 Dale, Pembs) keeper of St. Ann’s Low Light.
The Knott family is linked to the Darling Family of Lighthouse Keepers via the marriage of Thomas Owen Hall (b. Dale, Pembs 1840) (Son of John Hall (b. 1810 Dale, Pembs) keeper of St. Ann’s Low Light) to Grace Horsley Darling (b. Bamburgh 1844) (daughter of William Darling (b. 1806 Bamburgh) Keeper of Farne Island Lighthouse) and niece of Grace Darling.
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