George
Johnstone
"Jimmy"
Knowles
Born in Rathmullen, County Donegal, Ireland
Ancestors 
Brother of
John St John Knowles [half], Charles Alfred Fitzgerald Knowles [half], Mary Boleyn Cecelia Knowles [half], Alice Charlotte Laura Knowles [half], Lettice Katharine Knowles [half], Theresa Blanche Cathcart (Knowles) Cameron, Francis Howe Seymour Knowles, Robert Cosby Knowles and Eileen Beresford (Knowles) Cooke
Husband of
Helen Marjorie (Pockley) Knowles
— married
17 Mar 1915 in Cairo, Egypt
Died
at age 66
in Killara, New South Wales, Australia
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Biography
George Knowles was born in Ireland.
George Johnstone "Jimmy" Knowles was born 17th July 1887 in Ireland. [1] [2] He was the second son of Admiral Sir Charles Knowles, Bart., of, Oxford, England and his wife, Mary Ellen Thomson. He appears to be named for his paternal grandmother’s uncle, George Johnstone, 3rd marquess of Annandale.
He married on 17th March 1915 in the Kasr-el Nil Garrison Church, Cairo, Egypt, Helen Marjorie Pockley (1882-1974), daughter of Capt Robert Francis Pockley and Selina Antill, [3] and lived in Dangkande, Rattota, Ceylon. [4]
George was a Captain in the 4th Battalion of the 3rd Gurkha Rifles during the First World War. [5]
George and Helen lived in Killara, on Sydney's north shore, New South Wales, Australia in 1949 and in nearby Pymble in 1954. [6]
He passed away on 31st January 1954 at Killara, New South Wales.[7] No issue.[8]
Sources
- ↑ Birth register at https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/civil-perform-search.jsp?namefm=george&namel=knowles&location=&yyfrom=1887&yyto=1887&type=B&submit=Search
- ↑ A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain and Ireland , v. 1, page 818
- ↑ Neil W Price, database online, Knowles – Pockley family group sheet, downloaded from Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.co: accessed 21 April 2010). This sheet has no documentation
- ↑ Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families : a directory of gentlemen of coat-armour (Edinburgh: T.C. & E.C. Jack, n.d.) Vol. 2, p. 113, “Sons of Sir Charles George Frederick Knowles, 4th Bt.of Lovel Hill…”, digital image online, Archive.org (http://www.archive.org: accessed 4 Dec 2008)
- ↑ The London Gazette.; online archives Issues dated 24 July 1917 (order dated 14th January, 1916), 28 May 1918 (order dated 17th February, 1917 ) and 6 August 1918 (all accessed 19 August 2012)
- ↑ “Australian Electoral Rolls. 1903-1954” digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed 23 October 2010), entries for George Johnstone Knowles (1949, 1954)
- ↑ New South Wales Death Index #1517/1954
- ↑ The Peerage, database, entry for #492803 George Johnstone Knowles (http://thepeerage.com; accessed 17 August 2012)
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with George by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with George:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with George by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with George:
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~3.12%
Judith (Johnstone) Chidlow
:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A506348 [compare], Ancestry member Judith_Chidlow
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~3.12%
Keith Johnstone :
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