Ann (Langley) Knight (bef. 1576 - 1677)

Born before 27 Mar 1576 in Sandy, Bedfordshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Richard Ingersoll — married 10 Oct 1611 in Sandy, Bedfordshire, England

Wife of John Knight Sr — married 20 Mar 1645 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 30 Jul 1677 after age 101 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Agnes was baptised on 27 Mar 1576 at Sandy, Bedfordshire, the daughter of Thomas Langley.^[1]

She married Richard Inkersall on 10 Oct 1611 at Sandy, Bedfordshire.^[2]

She immigrated on 15 May 1629 to Plymouth, Massachusetts, after leaving on the Mayflower (William Pierce, Master) from Gravesend, London, England in March of that year with his wife, Anne Langley and children George, Joanne, John, Sarah and Alice Ingersoll. They sailed to Naumkeag (Salem), Massachusetts that June.^[3]

Ann or Agnes Langley^[4] was born about 1590 in Sandy, Bedfordshire, England.^{[citation needed]} Two gedcom imports showed her baptism date as March 27, 1576, at Sandy, Bedfordshire, England. This date is very unlikely as someone who lived over 100 years was extremely notable. There is no mention of her dying at about age 100. There is no doubt about the baptism. The doubt is whether she is the Agnes who married Richard Inkersoll in 1611 and emigrated. A birth in 1590 would be a better fit but it's not born out by Sandy parish register. Nathaniel born 1632 would make Agnes 56 on birth, too old. The 1576 Agnes looks wrong.

"The statement that Ann Langley was a cousin of John Spencer of Newbury seems also to be incorrect. The will of John Spencer, which mentions the said cousin, Ann Knight, was dated 1637, and Ann (Langley) Ingersoll's husband Richard died after July 21, 1644, the date of his will, so Ann could not have married John Knight until some time after that date."^[5]

however, a note in in the New England Hist. and Gen. Register, [90:92, Jan. 1936] by Winifred Lovering Holman states that this date is incorrect.

Marriage Wife Ann Langley. Child: Bathsheba Ingersoll. Note: Sailed from Gravesend, England on the Mayflower in Mar 1629 and arrived in Plymouth, MA May 15, 1629. Knight, Descendants of John Knight p. 11.

Husband John(3) Knight. Wife Ann Langley. Marriage 1645

Ann died on 30 July 1677 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ "The Parish register of Sandy 1538-1812". Bedfordshire County Record Office 1931. Ed. F. G. (Frederick George) Emmison P. A4 (accessed 23 Mar 2023)
2. ↑ "The Parish register of Sandy 1538-1812". Bedfordshire County Record Office 1931. Ed. F. G. (Frederick George) Emmison P. A62 (accessed 23 Mar 2023)
3. ↑ Filby, P. William, ed.. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2006, Year 1629, p 134
4. ↑ Morrow's Nuthouse, Ancestry Family Tree
5. ↑ Mrs. William C. Clark, "The Parents of Jonathan Haynes of Newbury and Haverhill, Massachusetts, and some of their descendants," in The American Genealogist, 27 (July 1951):129
6. ↑ Death: "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910", database, citing FHL microfilm: 877468; Record number: 176, FamilySearch Record: FCMR-VHM,

• The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), (Originally Published as: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995. at americanancestors.org $
• Avery, Lillian Drake. A Genealogy of The Ingersoll Family in America, 1629-1925 (Frederick H. Hitchcock, New York, 1926) Part 1 P.2.
• FamilySearch Person: LR34-NW4

• http://freereg2.freereg.org.uk/search_queries/581f933ff4040b85c9fa625a

• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~megen/reunion/wc03/wc03_201.html