The Knights line runs through coastal Suffolk, traced from James Knights of Carlton Colville in the early nineteenth century to Frederick Charles Knights of Lowestoft, who married Irene May Pickin in 1952. The line passes through Florence Elizabeth Knights, who carried the surname forward as an unmarried mother in 1919. Her son Frederick took her name, and the biological paternity was never documented in surviving records.
Florence was unmarried when she gave birth to her son Frederick in 1919. The biological father is not recorded in surviving documentation. The Knights surname continues through her.
1 · most recent fully documented
Frederick Charles Knights
1919 – 1983
Lowestoft, Suffolk
Irene May Pickin
1920 – 1975 · Tendring, Essex
married October 1952, Colchester
Frederick & Irene · October 1952
Earlier
Irene had previously married Ernest George Frederick Rix in June 1938, when she was eighteen. They had three children together: Edna Rix (1938–2007), a son who is held privately, and Denny Rix (1941–2021), who died in Scotland. Ernest died in January 1942, leaving Irene widowed at twenty-one with three small children. She did not remarry for ten years, until October 1952 when she married Frederick Knights.
The line continues into the living generations, which are held privately. Irene's parents and earlier ancestry are documented on the Pickin line.
