This is for Bruce, Janet, Greg, Brian Lawson, Frances, and who ever interested.
This query has interested me after coming back of holiday on the 30th October; I have been reading the messages of Eleanor Jane Kneen. The earlier messages referring to Ellen Kneen have nothing to do with my recorded tree from the U.S.A. as far as I know, if anyone knows different..then please contact me. To protect the living in this tree below I cannot disclose anything more, regardless, other than the earlier now demised ancestors of this tree shown.
Ref: Eleanor Jane Kneen I can confirm the following.
Ewan James (Hugh) Kneen 1839 – 1922 married Sophia Jane Quayle 1842 – 1927 married 22 May 1866. Both were buried in Kirk Christ Lezayre Church yard, Isle of Man.
Their children were as follows
1. Esher Kneen (1869 – 1959)
2. Sophia Catherine Kneen (1871 – 1953)
3. John James Kneen (1873 – 1944)
4. Evan Hugh Kneen (1875 – 1960)
5. William Henry Kneen (1877 – 1873)
6. Robert Thomas Kneen (1879 – 1957)
7. Arthur Kneen (1882 – 1939)
8. Annie Kneen (1883- 1954)
9. Eleanor Jane Kneen (1867 – 1959)
Notes for Esther Kneen:
Sister Esther to Arthur Kneen lived in the family homestead “Cronk- Garrow” with her brother “Willie”. Around 1939 they moved to the home at the bottom below “Cronk Garrow”
Notes for Sophia Catherine Kneen:
Sister to Arthur Kneen. She married John R. Christian. They had five children.
Notes for John James Kneen:
Brother to Arthur Kneen. He married to Sarah Jane Cankil in 1942. ( sounds like Corkill to me )
Notes for Evan Hugh Kneen:
Brother to Arthur Kneen. He married Mary Quine “Lizzie” Kneen’s diary has him born July 24th 1875.
Notes for Wm Henry Kneen:
Willie and his sister Esther were the last family to live in the old homestead “Cronk – Garrow” (Ballamish), now in ruins. And moved into a home at the bottom of the hill in 1939.
Sometime after Esther’s death Willie moved in with his nephew Percy Kneen at his farm in Ramsey called “Fasgue”.
Notes for Robert Thomas Kneen:
Went by the name of “Tom”. He had a wine and spirit grocer’s shop in Ramsey, he retired at 46yrs of age to Sulby. He had two daughters Sophia Margaret Kneen and Florence May both married and living in Ramsey.
Notes for Arthur Kneen:
Arthur's Uncle John was a saddler in Manchester, England and was instrumental in having Arthur join him in England about 1900 when Arthur was a young man. Arthur was employed by Poole Bros., ironmongers of Castle. That is how Arthur met his wife to be Elizabeth Oakes from Northwich, England. Arthur then in 1904 joined his sisters in Cleveland, Ohio USA and was associated with the W. Bingham Co., a wholesale hardware company in Cleveland, Ohio for 35 years. His sisters Annie & Eleanor and her daughter Florence had lived in Cleveland since 1893. Arthur then went back to the IOM and England in 1911 to marry Elizabeth Oakes in Northwich, England. He always called her "Lizzie". See the transcript of Arthur Kneen's Wedding Diary. He and "Lizzie" went back to the USA and lived in Ashtabula the rest of their lives. Arthur died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1939.
Notes for Annie Kneen:
Daughter of Evan James (Hugh) Kneen and sister of Arthur Kneen. She moved to Cleveland, Ohio with her sister Eleanor Jane Kneen in 1893. Married John Cashin Cowley April 9, 1912 and lived in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. They have seven children: John James, Robert Kneen, Norman A., Marjorie Jane, Thomas Arthur, William Edward, and Elizabeth Margaret.
Notes for Eleanor Jane Kneen
Eleanor was a sister to Arthur Kneen. She was the mother of Florence Kneen.
Eleanor, her daughter Florence and Annie Kneen moved to Cleveland, Ohio in the
USA in 1893.
She operated a dressmaking shop on the East side of Cleveland until closing the
business in 1935. She then moved to Shaker Heights, Ohio to live with her
daughter Florence and husband Walter Wood where she continued to design and
make dresses.
The sources herein are from a very dear friend now demised ,Chuck Kneen dated 1996 one of the first U.S.A. Kneen clans I met in 1996.
Best wishes
Brian Kneen ........ www.kneen.com