Sidney Thomas Knights

  General Notes:

Even though both the parish register for his baptism and the 1881 and 1891 census both showing his name as Sidney Thomas Knights subsequent records show Thomas Sidney (or Sydney) Knights.

He left the UK on 4 November 1897 from the port of London bound for Calcutta, India on the ship Coromandel.

Thomas and Alice had 3 children - Lilian Mary Knights (born 15 April 1906 & baptised 30 June 1906 both at Howrah, Bengal, India and married John Colville at Inverary, Scotland 4 June 1949), Charles Douglas Knights (born 19 December 1909 and baptised 29 January 1910 both at Howrah, Bengal, India) and Thomas Henry Knights (born 1 April 1908 & baptised 28 May 1908 both at Howrah, Bengal, India and died in Winchester in June 1981).

  Noted events in his life were:

• Residence: Nacton Road, 1881, Nacton, Suffolk.

• Residence: Levington Road, 1891, Nacton, Suffolk.

• Army Service: Royal Artillery, From 22 December 1896 to 6 December 1898, England.

• Emergration: to India, 4 November 1897.

• Army Service: Royal Artillery, From 7 December 1898 to 14 May 1906, India.

• Marriage: to Alice Woodman, 17 February 1906, Calcutta, India.

• Immigration, 8 May 1922, To London.

• Emergration: to India, 8 October 1922, From Liverpool, Lancashire.

• Immigration, 4 May 1928, To London.

• Emergration: To Calcutta, India, 25 August 1928, From London.

Sidney married.