Whitby Newspapers

Scarborough, Whitby and Bridlington Chronicle	1836-37

Dec 15 1836
	Marriage
	11th inst Mr Robert Knaggs, tailor and the widow of Mr Theophilus Davison, shoemaker
	<I think this is Richard and Ann - see Cens41>

Whitby Gazette 1854 - date (gaps) 

Thu 20 Jul 1854	List of Lodgings
	South Terrace	Mr W. Knaggs
	7 beds		2 sitting rooms	2 kitchens
ditto up to Sep 1856, absent in Jun 1857

Sep 1855	Whitby Floral & Horticultural Society
	Mr Henry Knaggs	secretary

Sat 10 Oct 1857	Fatal Accident
At Littlebeck, on Monday last <5th>, Mr Robert Knaggs, a tenant farmer, was engaged in thatching a corn stack, and by some means fell between the stack and a wall, thereby receiving such injury as to cause death soon after.  Deceased has left a wife and five children who were dependent upon him.

Sat 6 Feb 1858
	Commissioners for the Improvement of the Town	George T Knaggs
	Also	Whitby & Robin Hoods Bay Steam Packet Company

Sat 17 Jul 1858	Death
	Mon 12th Sarah Margaret eldest daughter of Mr William Knaggs, Church Street

Sat 6 Nov 1858	Death
Sun 31st ult. Aged 2 years Anne Jean daughter of Mr William Knaggs, coal merchant, Church Street

Sat 6 Aug 1859	Funeral Service
A sermon was preached in Brunswich Chapel, on Sunday evening last, by the Rev S. Fiddian, from Job 1 17 having reference to the death of Mrs A. Knaggs noticed in our paper of the 30th ult.  She was the oldest Wesleyan Methodist in the town, having joined the Society in the year 1784 when she was 19 years old, and continued a member to the time of her death upwards of 74 years.  She heard the Rev J. Wesley preach on several of his visits to Whitby and could relate various incidents connected to the early history of Methodism in the town.
	<I could not find the reference.  She is possible Ann, wife of Zachariah. >

Sat 10 or 18 Sep 1859	Death
On Friday 9th inst, at Egton Bridge, aged 75 years, Catherine, wife of Mr C. Knaggs, shoemaker.  Deceased was well known, having, with few exceptions, visited Whitby every Saturday for upwards of 50 years.
	< That is Charles >

<Nothing in 1860-61?>

Sat 9 Aug 1862	Marriage
	On Wednesday 6th inst at Hinderwell, by the Rev H M Simms, rector, Mr Thomas Knaggs, 2nd son of Mr Thomas Knaggs, farmer, Wauplay to Elizabeth Anne, 2nd daughter of Mr John Haxby, farmer, Roxby and late of Strensall near York.

Sat 22 Nov 1862	Death
	Tuesday 18th inst aged 62 years Ann wife of Mr William Knaggs, shoemaker, Church Street.

Sat 24 Jan 1863	Death
	Thursday 22nd inst in Church Street, aged 80 years, Sarah relict of Mr Thomas Knaggs, tide waiter and maid at the parish church.

Sat 11 Jul 1863	Death
	Sunday 5th inst at Egton Bridge aged 79 years, Mr Charles Knaggs, shoemaker.

Sat 1 Aug 1863	Marriage
	Saturday July 25th at the parish church by the Rev Wm Keane M. A., incumbent, Mr Robert Dawson, farmer, Eskdaleside, to Mary daughter of Mr R? Knaggs, farmer, Ugglebarnby

Sat 19 Dec 1863	Marriage
	Sunday 6th inst at the parish church, Lythe, by the Rev H R S Pearson M. A., Mr William Sawden, farmer, Mitton Hill to Mary, eldest daughter of M Knaggs, Ship Inn, Lythe	<This is Matthias.>

Sat 4 Mar 1865	Marriage
	Sat 25th ult at the Parish Church Mr William Knaggs, shoemaker to Miss Mary Readman, both of Church Street

Sat 20 May 1865	Death
		On Wednesday 10th inst at his residence at Bath, at 63 years, William Knaggs formerly of Sandsend

Sat 17 Jun 1865	North Riding Election
	Local Committee for managing the re-election of the Hon W E Duncombe and W J S Morritt esq.
	Long list including
		George Trattles Knaggs
		Henry Knaggs

Sat 7 Oct 1865	Death
	On Friday 6th last, aged 78 years, Mr John Knaggs, shoemaker, Baxtergate	<But see next>

Sat 14 Oct 1865	Death
	On Friday 6th last, aged 72 years, Mr John Knaggs, shoemaker, Baxtergate

Sat 10 Feb 1866	Death
	On Wednesday 7th inst aged 52 years Mr Henry Knaggs, Arundel Place

Sat 1 Sep 1866	Marriage
	August 29th at the Parish Church Mr Joseph Harland, shipwright, Church Street and Sarah Jane Knaggs daughter of Mr John Knaggs, master mariner of Fishburn Road

Sat 20 Oct 1866	Marriage
	October 14th at the Brunswick Weslyan Chapel, Mr Henry Burton, seaman and Miss Matilda Knaggs, both of Baxtergate

Sat 21 Sep 1867	Death
	September 10th, at Egton, aged 81 years, Mrs Mary Knaggs

Sat 4 Jan 1868	Death
	Dec 28th 1867, aged 51 years, Mr William Knaggs, watchmaker of Skinner Street

Sat 21 Mar 1868	Death
	March 18th, at the Union House, aged 78 years, Mr John Knaggs, shoemaker

Sat 18 Apr 1868	Marriage
	April 13th at the Parish Church, Lythe, Mr John Watson, joiner, Whitby, to Isabella, youngest daughter of the late Mr Matthias Knaggs, Lythe

Sat 6 Jun 1868	Whitby Police Court - Assault on a Landlady
	Samuel Tomkins - charged with assaulting Ann Knaggs, landlady of the Unicorn Inn, at Ruswarp on 23rd May.	Fined 10s plus 14s cost.

Sat 22 Feb 1869	Death
	Feb 19th at Raw, Fylingdales, aged 28 years, Sarah daughter of the late Mr D Knaggs, labourer

Sat 24 Apr 1869	Death
	Apr 15th at Watergate, near Egton, aged 2 years and 5 months, Jane daughter of Mr Richard Knaggs, farmer

Sat 1 May 1869	Death
	Apr 25th, aged 48 years, Ann widow of Mr William Knaggs of Skinner Street

Sat 12 Jun 1869	Death
	June 4th, aged 84 years, Mr Thomas Knaggs, shoemaker, Cliff Street

Sat 2 Oct 1869 (repeated 9 Oct)	Death
	Sep 30th, at Egton Bridge, aged 39 years, Lucy wife of Mr Allan Knaggs, timber leader

Nov 1869		John H Knaggs Miner. Death.
	At work at Glaisdale mines. Having drilled a hole ready for firing had occasion to go out and ordered his mate to fire the shot. He did, it went off and he returned to commence work again and found it had broken through into an old working. He heard a moan and called “Holls” when to his surprise Knaggs said “come here”; he went and found he had been sitting in the old working when the shot had broken through and he was dying. His head had been severely smashed. He was carried out and B. Richardson Esq. Surgeon was immediately sent for but he lived only a few minutes. He has left a wife and five children to mourn his untimely end.

Sat 22 Jan 1870	Death
	Jan 19th at Lythe, aged 79 years, Mary relict of the late Mr Joseph Knaggs

Sat 5 March 1870	Death
	March 1st, aged 3 years 9 months, Richard, son of Mr Richard Knaggs, fireman, Watergate, Egton

Sat 19 March 1870	New Church at Ugglebarnby
	Mr G T Knaggs, whose family has long been associated with Ugglebarnby, has, in addition to his subscription (£25), promised to insert a stained glass memorial window.	<This is George Trattles Knaggs>

Sat 2 July 1870	Death
	June 26th aged 38 years, Mary, wife of Mr William Knaggs, shoemaker, Church Street

Sat 27 Aug 1870	Marriage
	Aug 21st at the Parish Church, Mr Thomas Simpson, labourer, Aislaby to Jane, daughter of Mr David Knaggs, labourer, Whitby

Sat 1 Oct 1870	Accidents
	Mr Knaggs, of the Ship Inn, Lythe, whilst riding through Whitby streets had his leg broken and much bruised by his horse falling.  We are glad to learn that, under Dr Tinley’s care he is progressing favourably.  The state of our streets, owing partly to the fish traffic, has lately been very slippery.

Sat 28 Jan 1871	Whitby Police Court - Boys Sliding
	William Knaggs, William Scott, Charles Harding, Richard Harding, Frederick Hudson, William Tyreman & Robert Campion were brought up under the Streets Act on a charge of sliding in Victoria Square on the 19th inst.  The Superintendent of Police said he and his men had had a good deal of trouble with the lads making slides on the pavements, and he was obliged to bring the defendants before the Bench to try to put a stop to it.  There had been a great number of accidents - only the other day William Mead, a railway porter, fell on a slide and broke his arm.  The police had thrown sand down in different places but the lads had swept it off immediately the men left.  The Clerk said he had held an inquest on one poor lad who met his death on a slide and he saw a great fellow sliding near Fitz Steps who gave him nothing but insolence.  He would prosecute him if he could learn his name.  The lads were cautioned and, on promising not to offend again, were let off on payment of 2s each expenses.

Sat 11 Feb 1871	Marriage
	Feb 6th at the office of the superintendent-registrar, Mr Turton Smithson, stone mason, Church Street to Miss Anna Knaggs, Robin Hood’s Bay.

Sat 4 March 1871	Whitby Police Court - A Large Batch of Petty Gamblers
	35 boys, youths and married men were severally charged with gambling, by playing at pitch and toss with ha’pence at Saltwick on Sunday 19th Feb. - - John Knaggs - -
	Defendants all pleaded guilty - let off on payment of 6s expenses.

Sat 15 Apr 1871	Death
	April 9th aged 44, Mary, wife of Mr Thomas Knaggs, Ship Inn, Lythe.

Sat 8 July 1871	Death
	July 2nd at Lofthouse, aged 26 years, Mr Aaron Knaggs, builder, son of Mr John Knaggs, stonemason

Sat 2 Dec 1871	Marriage
	Nov 25th at the Parish Church, Mr Richard Knaggs, fireman, Grosmount to Jane, daughter of William Wilson, farmer, Whitby

Sat 6 Jan 1872	Marriage
	Dec 30th at the Parish Church, Mr John Knaggs, farmer, Ugglebarnby to Alice daughter of Matthew Balmforth, farmer

Sat 2 March 1872	Marriage
	Feb 24th at the Parish Church, Mr Robert Anderson Simmonds, shipwright, son of Thomas Simmonds, master mariner to Sarah Ann, eldest daughter of Mr Thomas Knaggs, Port Mulgrave

Sat 12 Oct 1872	Marriage
	Oct 6th at the Parish Church, Mr William Knaggs, shoemaker to Mary, daughter of Mr John Harrison, farmer, both of Whitby

Sat 21 Jun 1873	Whitby Police Court, Sat June 14 - Throwing a Stone
	John Knaggs, a lad of about twelve summers, pleaded guilty to throwing a stone in Brunswick Street on the 10th inst.  The information was laid under the Street Act, which gives a penalty of £5 for this offence.  The stone was thrown from a catapult, struck and broke the plate-glass window of Mr Fisher, Flowergate, and in the rebound hit Mr Isaiah Wilkinsin, solicitor, in the cheek.  The lad threw the stone from the top of Brunswick Street.  The lad was ordered to pay 10s and 6s cost, or go to prison for 14 days, and his parents were recommended to give him a thrashing.

Sat 28 Jun 1873	Marriage
	June 19th at the Parish Church, Lofthouse, Mr James Thomas Spilsbury of Horsham, Sussex to Elizabeth Ann second daughter of Mr John Knaggs, stonemason, Lofthouse, Cleveland.

Sat 20 Dec 1873	Whitby Police Court, Sat Dec 13 - Drunk and Unconscious
	Mary Knaggs, a young woman, pleaded guilty to being drunk in Grape Lane, on the 9th inst.  She was charged with being “drunk and disorderly” but she was unconscious of anything beyond being drunk, and therefore could not say whether the policeman spoke the truth or not when he said that he found her lying in the street and four or five navvies pulling her about. - The bench thought she was evidently “blind drunk” and fined her 5s plus costs.

Sat 27 Dec 1873	Marriage
	Dec 25th at the Parish Church, Mr Joseph Knaggs, butcher to Esther Jane, daughter of the late Mr John Hines, master mariner, both of Whitby.

Sat 14 Feb 1874	Whitby Police Court, Sat Feb 7 - A Mischievous Lark
	John England, John Sturdy, Henry Knaggs and Joseph Coulson, four youths, were charged with unlawfully placing two gates upon the highway at Hawsker on the 1st inst.  It appears Mr Farsyde was driving home from Whitby about 10 o’clock on Sunday night accompanied by his groom, and when near the Red Barn he met the four defendants.  On proceeding a little further he saw two gates lying on the highway, and had it not been very moonlight the consequences might have been very serious to himself, his horse and vehicle.  He gave information the same night to Police constable Pinckney, who went in pursuit of defendants and found them at Whitby.  A fine of 5s and costs was ordered.

Sat 14 Mar 1874	Marriage
	March 7th at the Parish Church, Lofthouse, Mr James Kirkbright, youngest son of the late Mr James Kirkbright of Stonehouse farm, near Pately Bridge to Emma, youngest daughter of Mr John Knaggs, stone mason, Lofthouse.

Sat 30 May 1874	Marriage
	26 May at the Parish Church, Mr William Ward, mariner, Church street to Elizabeth daughter of Mr David Knaggs, labourer, Flowergate.

			Whitby Police Court, Fri May 22 - Stray Horses
	William Knaggs pleaded guilty to a charge of allowing a horse to stray on the Egton and Pickering road, and a mare and a foal on the Egton and Rosedale road on the 18th inst.  Defendant said the animals had strayed away when turned out to water, but PC Wright said it was a very common thing at this time of year. - Fined 2s 6d each animal plus costs.

Sat 16 Jan 1875	Death
	Jan 13 aged 48 years Mr Thomas Knaggs, Ship Inn, Lythe.  Funeral at Lythe on Sunday at 3 o’clock.  Friends will please accept this intimation.

Sat 6 Feb 1875	Death
	Feb 1st aged 36 years, Sarah wife of Mr Thomas Knaggs, farmer, Normanby, Fylingdales.

Sat 27 Feb 1875	Death
	Feb 18th at Lythe aged 83 years, Hannah relict of Mr Matthias Knaggs.

Sat 17 Apr 1875	Death
	Apr 8th aged 73 years, Mr William Knaggs, shoemaker, Church Street.

Sat 8 May 1875	Death
	May 4th at Marion Villa, 45 Dick Place, Edinburgh aged 28 years, Mr William Knaggs jet ornament manufacturer of Whitby and Edinburgh.

Sat 22 May 1875	Birth
	May 8th at Marion Villa, 45 Dick Place, Edinburgh the widow of the late William Knaggs, a son.
	<This is Ernest Hamilton Knaggs son of William and Jane. >

			Death
	May 14th at the residence of her sister at Hummersea, Loftus aged 27 years Mary Ann, wife of Mr G B Burras, silversmith, Sheffield and eldest daughter of Mr John Knaggs, mason, Loftus, Cleveland.
	< This is George Burwell Burras >

Sat 5 Jun 1875	Death
	May 29th aged 57 years, Jane widow of Mr Henry Knaggs, Arundel Place.

Sat 27 Nov 1875	Death
	Nov 19 at Loftus aged 58 years, Elizabeth wife of Mr John Knaggs, stonemason

Sat 22 Jul 1876	Marriage
	July 12th at the Parish church, Lythe Mr Henry Knaggs of Lythe to Miss Jane Elizabeth Mann, Overdale.

Sat 9 Sep 1876	Death
	Aug 20th accidentally drowned from the brig “Arno”, Captain Knaggs on her passage from Pillau to Lucerne, age 21, Ralph, son of the late William and Sarah Elders.

Sat 15 Sep 1877	Marriage
	Sep 10th at the Parish Church Mr John Knaggs, jet worker to Mary Jane daughter of Mr Thomas Pearson, boat builder, both of Church Street.

Sat 9 Mar 1878	Death
	March 5th at Raw, Fylingdales aged 86 years, Mr Richard Knaggs, farmer.

Sat 27 Apr 1878	Yorkshire Society’s School
	The pupils of this excellent institution have lately been examined by Edward Pinches esq. B.A., L.C.P., and in the report which he has issued we are glad to see the name of Master William Knaggs of Lythe, occupying a very creditable position.

Sat 22 Jun 1878	Death
	June 14th at Raw, Fylingdales aged 17 years, George, son of Mr John Knaggs, grocer.

Sat 26 Oct 1878	Death
	October 19th aged 56 years, Mr John Knaggs, No. 1 Smith’s Yard, Church Street

Sat 7 Dec 1878	Whitby Police Court - Sat Nov 30
	Unlawful firing off of a gun - William Knaggs was charged with unlawfully firing off of a gun within 50 ft of a highway on the 27th ult.  Prisoner pleaded guilty.  Police constable North deposed to seeing prisoner fire a gun three times when standing on the Hawsker to Robin Hood’s Bay highway.  He was shooting at pigeons which had escaped from a pigeon shooting in the neighbourhood.  The Bench cautioned the defendant and ordered a fine of 5s and the expenses 4s.

Sat 29 Mar 1879	Death
	March 21st at Rosedale Abbey, aged 46 years, Mr Thomas Knaggs, miner.

Sat 12 Apr 1879	Death
	April 5th very suddenly at Marton in Cleveland, aged 79 years, Mr William Knaggs, late of Rosedale.

Sat 21 Jun 1879	Birth
	June 14th at Menstone near Otley, the wife of Mr H. Knaggs (of Robin Hoods Bay), schoolmaster, of a son.

Sat 20 Dec 1879	Death
	December 17th at Castleton, aged 85 years, Mr Thomas Knaggs, late of Waupley.

Sat 27 Dec 1879	Death
	December 17th at Brawby Grange, aged 78 years, Sarah, relict of Mr Matthew T. Dodgson and only daughter of the late Mr William Knaggs of Lythe.

Sat 17 Jan 1880	Death
	January 12th at Thorpe, Fylingdales, Elizabeth Ann, infant daughter of Mr Richard Knaggs, seaman.

Sat 1 May 1880	Death
	April 27th at Castleton, aged 80 years, Margaret, widow of Mr Thomas Knaggs, late of Waupley.

Sat 10 Sep 1881	Marriage
	September 3rd at the Office of the Superintendent Registrar, Mr William Knaggs, labourer to Miss Elizabeth Sewell, both of North Road, Whitby.

Sat 3 Dec 1881	Marriage
	November 24th at the Parish Church, Westerdale, Mr William Hartley, farmer to Emma, 2nd daughter of Mr Martin Knaggs, all of Westerdale.
 
Sat 18 Feb 1882	Loftus - Ball
	Messrs Bailes & Knaggs string band

Sat 3 Jun 1882	Death
	May 25th at Raw, Fylingdales age 85 years Alice relict of Mr Richard Knaggs, farmer.

Sat 24 Jun 1882	Death
	June 19th at Egton, age 21, William son of Mr Richard Knaggs.
Sat 23 Sep 1882	Whitby Police Court - Begging
	Burnett Campion and James Knaggs, tramps, were sent to prison for 14 days hard labour for begging on the 14th inst.

Sat 24 Mar 1883	Marriage
	March 17th at the Parish Church, Mr John Knaggs, drayman, Victoria Square to Emma daughter of Mr Robert Dobson, mason, Bagdale.

Sat 12 May 1883	Birth
	May 1st at the School-house, South Milford, the wife of H. Knaggs, of a daughter.
	<This is May, daughter of Henry & Edith Gertrude. >

Sat 16 Jun 1883	Death
	June 13th at the Bridge Inn, Ruswarp aged 73, Jane wife of Mr William Knaggs, late of the Unicorn Inn.

Sat 7 Jul 1883	Whitby Police Court - Defective Weights
	John Knaggs, coal merchant, was charged on the information of Inspector Moody with having in his possession on the 28th June, a 14 lb weight which was defective.  Inspector Moody said that the weight was 6 oz against the purchaser.  Defendant said that he could not account for the defectiveness: he was entirely innocent - Fined 1s and 1s 6d expenses.

Sat 17 Nov 1883	Whitby Police Court - Alleged Theft of a Shirt
	John William Knaggs, stable boy, was charged with stealing a woollen shirt belonging to Thomas Vasey, living over the Angel Inn stables.  The garment was hung out to dry on the 31st October.  Afterwards it was missed, but a few days ago prisoner was seen wearing it.  He was charged with having stolen it but stated that it had been given to him by a youth named Sherwood.  This, however, was untrue.  Sherwood had given him a shirt, but this was not the one.  The garment which prisoner was charged with stealing belonged to Mrs Vasey and had been made by her mother Mrs Dowell.  Prisoner, who had previously been convicted, was committed for trial.

Sat 15 Dec 1883	Whitby Police Court - Obtaining Drapery Goods on Approval
	Esther Knaggs (28) a married woman, with a baby in her arms, was charged with having obtained, with intent to defraud, two table covers, value 5s 4d, the property of Edmund Crane, draper, Bridge Street, oon or about 25 July last; also two men’s shirts value 3s 4d, belonging to J. V. Andrews, Bridge-end, Whitby on the 18th August last.
	No evidence was given and prisoner was discharged.
	<This is Esther Hines, wife of Joseph. >

<1884 unavailable (conservation). >

Sat 4 Jul 1885	Death
	June 25th at Port Mulgrave, aged 31 years, Mr Henry Knaggs, engine driver.

Sat 8 Aug 1885	Death
	July 31st at the Union Workhouse, aged 23 years, Mr George Knaggs, labourer, Lythe.

Sat 15 Aug 1885	Death
	August 14th at Borough Place, aged 67 years, Miss Mary Ann Knaggs, Church maid.

Sat 22 Aug 1885	Local News
	The Trustees under the will of the late Mr George Trattles Knaggs met on Thursday last, and selected twelve applicants for benefit under such will.

Sat 24 Oct 1885	Marriage
	October 17th at the office of the Superintendent Registrar, Mr William Schofield, miner, to Mary daughter of Mr Thomas Knaggs, labourer, all of Grosmont.

Sat 21 Nov 1885	Whitby Police Court
	Drunk in Licensed Premises - John Knaggs, jet worker, was ordered to pay costs 7s for being drunk on the licensed premises of Mr Thomas Bennison (Golden Lion Inn) on the 16th inst.  He was also fined 5d and costs for assaulting Acting Inspector Wilson, on the same day.

Sat 17 Apr 1886	Death
	April 15th at Raw, Fylingdales, aged 78 years, Mary wife of Mr William Knaggs, farmer.

Sat 19 Jun 1886	Death
	June 14th at Raw, Fylingdales, aged 72 years, Mr William Knaggs, farmer.

Sat 13 Nov 1886	Melancholy Suicide at Fylingdales
	- death of Emma Summons, wife of Mr Isaac Summons, farmer, Ramsdale.
	- witness Alice Knaggs “I am a single woman and live at Fylingdales.  The deceased was my sister, was 61 years old, had been twice married but had no children” - throat cut - razor lying on the floor.	<Died 7 Nov>

Sat1 13 Nov 1886	Death
	November 11th at Egton Bridge, aged 63 years, Mr William Knaggs, carman.

Sat 19 Feb 1887	Death
	February 13th at Castleton, aged 47 years, Mr Charles Knaggs.

Sat 26 Mar 1887	Death
	March 20th at Grape Lane, aged 61 years, Anna widow of Mr Jonathan Knaggs, farmer.

Sat 6 Aug 1887	Death
	August 1st at Thorpe, aged 79 years, Sarah Knaggs.

 Sat 17 Dec 1887	Death
	December 10th at East Barnby, aged 78 years, Alice widow of Mr Robert Knaggs, labourer.

Sat 19 May 1888	Death
	May 16th at Church Street, aged 65 years, Esther Knaggs.

Fri 3 Aug 1888	Death
	August 2nd at the Union Workhouse, age 80, Mr William Knaggs, formerly a publican at Ruswarp.

Fri 28 Sep 1888	Death
	September 26th at Raw, Fylingdales age 4, George son of Mr Richard Knaggs, seaman.

Fri 4 Jan 1889	Marriage
	December 29th (1888) at Christ Church, Ugthorpe, Mr Alfred Morgan, farmer, Wood Hall, Lealholm to Miss Alice Hebron Knaggs, Lealholm.

Fri 1 Feb 1889	Death
	January 25th at Raw, Fylingdales, age 31, Elizabeth wife of Mr Richard Knaggs, joiner.

Fri 20 Sep 1889	Death
	September 17th at the Borough Hospital, Birkenhead age 34 Mr William Knaggs only son of Mrs Mary Sawdon, Lythe.
	<William born mar 1855 to Mary, single woman. >
	<Mary Knaggs married William Sawden in 1863. >

<1890 no Knaggs entries. (Check with Whitby Times)>

Fri 23 Jan 1891	Marriage
	Jan 17th at the Parish Church, Stockton on Tees, Mr Harry Stephen Dobson, Whitby to Hanna Hilda 3rd daughter of Mr Walter Knaggs, White Horse Hotel, Whitby.

Fri 5 June 1891	Death
	June 3rd at Goldsborough aged 87 years Ann Knaggs.

Fri 13 Nov 1891	Marriage
	November 7th at the Register Office, Mr Francis John Fewster, labourer to Elizabeth Knaggs, both of Church Street.

Thu 31st Dec 1891	Marriage
	December 30th at St Mary’s Parish Church, Mr Robert Clifford, formerly joiner, Abbey Terrace to Isabella daughter of Mr Thomas Knaggs, Hinderwell.

<1892 unavailable (conservation) - see Whitby Times>

Fri 23 Jun 1893	Marriage
	June 15th at the Cockburn Temperance Hotel, Glasgow, Robert youngest son of John Knaggs, Raw, Fylingdales to Mary Agnes only daughter of the late I. G. Watson, baker, Gartmore, U. B.

Fri 1 Sep 1893	Death
	August 27th at 191 Cardigan Lane, Headingley, Leeds aged 8 months, Francis Edward (Frank) the beloved son of Harry and Edith Gertrude Knaggs.

Fri 15 Dec 1893	Death
	December 12th at Harwood-Dale, Alice daughter of Thomas Knaggs, aged 14 years and 9 months.  To be interred at Harwood-Dale Church tomorrow (Saturday) at half past two o’clock.

<1894,5 not scanned - see Whitby Times. >

Fri 11 Sep 1896	Death
	September 4th at Arguments Yard, Ann Elizabeth, infant daughter of Mr John Knaggs, jet worker.

Fri 2 Apr 1897	Marriage
	March 29th at the Register Office, Mr George Henry Knaggs, tailor, Cock Mill to Annie daughter of Mr John Parkinson, insurance agent, York.

Fri 2 Apr 1897	Death
	March 28th at Park Terrace, aged 74 years, Elizabeth, wife of Mr John Knaggs, retired master mariner.

Fri 18 Jun 1897	Death
	June 17th at the Mariners’ Tavern, Robin Hoods Bay, aged 2 years 3 months, George, son of Richard Knaggs.  To be interred at Fylingdales Old Churchyard on Saturday afternoon at half past three o’clock.

Fri 16 Jul 1897	Marriage
	July 14th at Glaisdale Parish Church, Mr Thomas Knaggs of Guisborough to Miss Sarah Jane Readman of Oakley Walls, Lealholm.

Fri 17 Sep 1897	Marriage
	September 12th at St Mary’s Parish Church, Mr John Caveney, fireman to Esther Ann, daughter of Mr John Knaggs, jet worker, both of Church Street.

Fri 17 Sep 1898	Death
	September 17th, at Ruswarp, aged 16 months, Gladys May, daughter of Mr George Henry Knaggs, tailor.

Fri 27 Aug 1898	Death
	August 27th, at the Black Bull Inn, Church Street, aged 60 years, Mr Walter Knaggs, innkeeper.

Fri 2 Feb 1900	Death
	January 28th, at George Street, aged 74 years, Mr John Knaggs, master mariner.

Fri 3 Aug 1900	Death
	July 31st, at Hill House Cottage, Lealholmside, aged 56 years, Sarah Ann Knaggs, of Thatched Cottage, Glaisdale, widow of Mr Charles Knaggs.

Fri 28 Dec 1900	Death
	December 20th, at Mariners’ Tavern, Robin Hood’s Bay, age 17 years, Annie, daughter of Mr Richard Knaggs.

Fri 26 Jul 1901	Death
	July 25th, at Westerdale, aged 74 years, Mr Martin William Knaggs, farmer.

Fri 20 Sep 1901	Death
	September 15th, at Robin Hood’s Bay, aged 78 years, Mr John Knaggs, formerly a farmer.

Fri 19 Dec 1902	Death
	December 14th, at Robin Hood’s Bay, aged 52 years, Mr Richard Knaggs, innkeeper.

Fri 9 Jan 1903	Death
	December 29th, at the residence of her son, Robert, at Inverkeithing, Scotland, Mary Carter Knaggs, widow of John Knaggs, of Raw, Fylingdales, aged 79 years. Interred at Fylingdales Old Cemetery, January 1st.

Fri 30 Oct 1903	Death
	October 28th, at Wentworth House, Abbey Terrace, West Cliff, Ann Knaggs, widow of Thomas Knaggs, late of Port Mulgrave, age 85 years. Funeral to leave the house on Saturday October 31 at 1.45 pm.

Fri 15 Jan 1904	Death
	January 7th, at Egton Bridge, aged 83 years, Mr Peter Allan Knaggs.

Fri 16 Dec 1904	Death
	December 10th, at Bolton’s Yard, Church Street, aged 52 years, Mr Joseph Knaggs, butcher.

Fri 20 Oct 1905	Death
	September 26th, drowned at York, Mr William Knaggs, formerly of Robin Hood’s Bay.

			Robin Hood’s Bay Man Drowned at York
	At the North Riding Asylum, York, on Monday morning, Mr A Proctor, Deputy Coroner, held an inquest touching the death of a patient named William Knaggs who had been missing from the Asylum since September 26th, and whose body was taken from the River Ouse on Saturday.
	- pauper patient at the asylum since April 12th 1866
	- imbecile of Robin Hood’s Bay, a tailor
	- no relatives except an uncle R. Harland of Robin Hood’s Bay - never visited
	- owned two watches and a little money
	- employed as an upholsterer - useful man and ready worker
	- feeble minded, with no suicidal tendencies - allowed out, and into the town each evening
	- worried that a new head of the asylum might withdraw this privilege
	- was seen on the river bank as if waiting for someone
	- when fished out of the river, had a watch, some money and four newspapers of the same date
	- verdict “found drowned”

Fri 3 Nov 1905	Death
	October 26th, aged 64 years, Mr W Thomas Knaggs, son of the late Mr Joseph Knaggs, blacksmith, formerly of Sleights.
	< Could this be the previous William? >

Fri 21 Dec 1906	Death
	December 14th, at Clark’s Yard, Church Street, aged 68 years, Mary, wife of Mr William Knaggs, shoemaker.

Fri 3 May 1907	Death
	April 27th, at Kearsbeck Farm, Harwooddale, aged 63 years, Mr Thomas Knaggs.
			Harwooddale
	The death occurred, suddenly, at Harwooddale, on Saturday, of Mr Thomas Knaggs, farmer, brother of Mr John Knaggs, Master of the Staintondale Hounds. Mr Knaggs, who was sixty-three years of age, was in Scarborough only a few days before, though he has been somewhat ill for some time. He was a keen huntsman in his younger days, and had acted as judge at many shows in this district. He leaves a widow and grown-up family. Owing to his decease, the meet of the hounds at Filey on Tuesday was cancelled.

Fri 10 May 1907	Death
	May 6th, at the Union Workhouse, aged 51 years, Esther Jane, widow of Mr Joseph Knaggs, butcher.

Fri 20 Dec 1907	Disturbance in Whitby Market
	(Précis)	Richard Knaggs found guilty of causing a disturbance in Whitby Market, whilst drunk. He was in farm service at Robin Hoods Bay. Fined 5s.

Fri 5 Jun 1908	Death
	June 4th, at 16 Silver Street, John Knaggs, aged 80 years. To be interred at Sleights, Saturday, June 6th, at 2.30 pm.

Fri 30 Oct 1908	Feared Loss of a Hartlepool Vessel
	Lloyd’s Fishing agent intimates that in a report received there states that the British brigantine “Enterprise” of Folkestone and the steamer “Derwent”, Goole for Antwerp were in collision near Hasborough. The former sank. One of the crew, a boy, was saved. The latter proceeded. . .
	Captain George Knaggs, master of the “Enterprise”, belongs to Hartlepool, and is father of a well-known Hartlepool Rovers and ex-Durham County footballer. A brother of Captain Knaggs kept a butcher’s shop in Church Street up to the time of his death a few years ago.
	[George was husband of Elizabeth TROTT]

Fri 27 Nov 1908	Death
	November 14th, at 3 Errol Street, Middlesbrough, Mr William Knaggs, shoemaker, formerly of Church Street, Whitby.

Fri 11 Jun 1909	Death
	June 9th, at Tofts Farm, Marske-by-the-Sea, aged 86 years, Ellen, relict of Joseph Knaggs. Interment on Saturday at Marske-by-the-Sea, leaving residence 3pm.

Fri 8 Apr 1910	Death
	March 24th, at Quarry House, Westerdale, aged 83 years, jane, widow of Mr Martin W Knaggs.

Fri 16 Sep 1910	Death
	September 4th, at Zetland Terrace, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, aged 84 years, Mary Knaggs, late of Castleton

Fri 30 Sep 1910	Death
	September 24th, at Westerdale, aged 71 years, Mr William Knaggs

			Westerdale - Death of Mr W, Knaggs
	It was with genuine sorrow that the inhabitants of Westerdale heard on Saturday night of the rather sudden death of “Willie” Knaggs, one of the oldest residents of the dale. Born in Westerdale, he lived there all the seventy years of his life, and very rarely left it, even for a day. For many years he had acted as parish clerk and had been sexton since the present peal of bells were installed in Westerdale Church. He was - as becomes a dalesman - a good musician, playing several instruments, and was the oldest member of the choir, where no anthem or new music was undertaken without first receiving the hall mark of “Willie’s” approval. No concert or entertainment was complete without him, and to no one was given the same kind reception. He will long be remembered by Westerdale people, for, above everything, he essentially belonged to them. Occasional visitors’ recollections of Westerdale will not be complete with “Willie” absent from the mental picture.

Fri 13 Dec 1912	Marriage
	December 11th at Loftus Parish Church, Mr Thomas Knaggs, Tofts Farm, Marske to Mary Jane Brown, Zetland Terrace, Marske.

Fri 7 Feb 1913	Death
	February 3rd at 8, South Loftus, aged 76 years, Jane Knaggs, late of Barnby.

Fri 4 Jul 1913		Marriage
	June 28th at St Mary’s Parish Church, Thomas, son of Mr William Dawson, Newholm to Hannah Mary, daughter of Mr John Knaggs, Baxtergate, Whitby.

Fri 5 Sep 1913	Death
	September 1st at Boston Spa, in her 94th year, Elizabeth Hannah (Betsy) Knaggs, late of Robin Hoods Bay.

Fri 1 May 1914	Death
	April 26th at Grosmont, Mr Richard Knaggs, in his 81st year, late of Limber Hill, Glaisdale.

Fri 17 Jul 1914	Marriage
	July 4th at St Mary’s Parish Church, Mr William Jordan, labourer to Miss Faith Knaggs, both of Henrietta Street.

Fri 14 Aug 1914	Marriage
	August 3rd at Fylingdales Parish Church, Septimus Charles Allison, engineer, of Hawsker to Hannah Maud Knaggs, of Thorpe, Robin Hoods Bay.

Fri 8 Jan 1915	Birth
	December 30th to Mr and Mrs Thomas Knaggs, Tofts Farm, Marske by the Sea, a daughter.
< This is Catherine. >

Fri 7 Apr 1916	Death
	April 1st at Low Newbiggin, aged 83 years, Jane widow of Mr Richard Knaggs, late of Limber Hill, Glaisdale.

Fri 20 Apr 1916	Death
	April 13th at 24 Zetland Road, Loftus, aged 83 years, John Knaggs (formerly of Rosedale), beloved husband of Sarah Knaggs.  Interred at Loftus Cemetery on the 17th inst.

Fri 13 Apr 1917	Death
	March 31st aged 62 years, Mary Ann, the beloved wife of Thomas Knaggs, 9 Duncan Place, Loftus.  Was interred at Loftus Cemetery on April 3rd.

Fri 20 Apr 1917	Death
	April 7th at King’s Langley, Herts, aged 20 years, Molly, eldest daughter of Robert and Mary Agnes Knaggs of Perthshire, Scotland.
	< This is registered as Mary Agnes W Knaggs. >

Fri 22 Jun 1917	The Fallen Brave
	News has been received by Mr and Mrs John Knaggs, Henrietta Street, Whitby that their fourth son, Private Matthew Knaggs, Yorkshire Regiment, has made the supreme sacrifice for his country’s cause.  A letter from a corporal in the same Regiment states that he was killed in action on the Western front on June 7th.  Private Knaggs, who joined the Army early in the war, had served at the Dardanelles, at Salonica and on the Western Front.  Two brothers, Thomas Knaggs and Joseph Knaggs, are serving in the Royal Field Artillery.

Fri 22 Jun 1917	Whitby Man Wounded
	<Photo - caption “Driver T. Knaggs” >
	In addition to Private Matthew Knaggs, Yorkshire Regiment, fourth son of Mr John Knaggs, Henrietta Street, Whitby chronicled this week amongst the fallen brave, two other sons are serving in the forces.  The third son, Thomas Knaggs, Royal Field Artillery, is in Netley Hospital recovering from an attack of pneumonia after serving on the Western Front.
	<Photo - caption “Driver Joseph Knaggs”>
	Joseph Knaggs, also in the Royal Field Artillery, the fifth son of Mr Knaggs, is home on short leave and returns to duty tomorrow (Saturday).  He is in good health and spirits.

Fri 20 Jul 1917	Roll of Honour
	June 7th, killed in action, aged 26 years, Private Matthew Knaggs, Yorkshire Regiment, fourth son of Mr John Knaggs, jet worker, Henrietta Street, Whitby.

Fri 14 Sep 1917	Marriage
	September 12th at St Mary’s Parish Church, Corporal William Robert Knaggs, field ambulance, R.A.M.C., son of Mr J. Knaggs, 62 Baxtergate to Dora, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs G Gale, 70 Baxtergate, Whitby.

Thu 28 Mar 1918	In Memoriam
	In affectionate memory of my dear mother Mary A Knaggs, who passed away March 31st 1917, at Duncan Place, Loftus.
	<4 line verse>
	Inserted by her sorrowing daughter Ruth, Netherton, Huddersfield.

Fri 28 Jun 1918	War Honours for Local Soldiers
	<Photo - caption “Sergt. W.R.Knaggs (awarded M.M.)”>
	Sergeant William R Knaggs, R.A.M.C., 70 Baxtergate, has been awarded the Military Medal for “conspicuous gallantry in attending to wounded under fire in the field, during recent operations”.  He was for many years an ambulance worker in Whitby, and was largely responsible for the establishment of the Whitby division of the St John Ambulance Brigade in September 1914.  He was ambulance officer when he enlisted as a Private in August 1915, and has been abroad for two years.  Sergeant Knaggs is now in charge of an advanced dressing station.  Since he went on service he has been appointed Superintendent of the Whitby Division.

Fri 23 Aug 1918	Marriage
	August 17th at St Mary’s Parish Church, Joseph Knaggs, labourer, Henrietta Street to Maria, daughter of John Dixon, gas worker, Low Walk, Church Street.

Fri 11 Oct 1918	Death
	October 4th aged 54 years, at Brook House, Thorpe, Mary Agnes Knaggs, wife of Mr Robert Knaggs, a native of Fylingdales, and only daughter of the late Mr Joseph Greig Watson, baker and confectioner, Gartmore, Perthshire, N.B.
Fri 22 Nov 1918	The Fallen Brave
	<Photo - caption “the late Driver T Knaggs”>
	On Wednesday the death occurred at the Convent Hospital, Chubb Hill, from pneumonia following influenza, of Driver Thomas Knaggs, R.F.A., third son of Mr John Knaggs, Henrietta Street.  Driver Knaggs was mobilised at the commencement of the war with the Territorial Artillery and had served abroad since April 1915, came home on leave on November 11, but was so ill on his arrival that he went to bed.  An attack of influenza was followed by pneumonia, and he was removed to the Convent Hospital, where he passed away as stated.  Driver Knaggs was invalided home in June, last year, with an attack of pneumonia, and was for a time in Netley Hospital.  He was 33 years of age and was in the employ of the Scarborough and Whitby Breweries at the time of his enlistment, and had been with the company since he was 14 years of age.  Private Matthew Knaggs, Yorkshire Regiment, fourth son of Mr John Knaggs, fell in action on the Western Front on June 7th, last year.  He had also served in the Dardanelles and at Salonica.  The interment will take place tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon and deceased will be accorded military honours. 

Fri 22 Nov 1918	Roll of Honour
	November 20th at the Convent Hospital, Chubb Hill, aged 33 years, Driver Thomas Knaggs, R.F.A., third and beloved son of John and Mary Jane Knaggs, 16 Henrietta Street.  Interred at Whitby Cemetery tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon.
< Four line verse. >

Fri 29 Nov 1918	Funeral of driver T Knaggs R.F.A.
	The mortal remains of Driver Thomas Knaggs, third son of Mr and Mrs John Knaggs, 16 Henrietta Street, were interred at Whitby Cemetery on Saturday afternoon.  The funeral took place from the Convent Hospital, Chubb Hill, where the deceased passed away on the previous Wednesday.  Driver Knaggs came home on 14 days leave on November 11th, and was not then very well.  He contracted influenza, which was followed by pneumonia, and he was removed to the Convent Hospital, where his illness has a fatal termination.  Driver Knaggs was mobilised with the Whitby Territorials at the commencement of the war and went abroad in April, 1915.  He had had a previous attack of pneumonia in June, last year, when he was sent to England and was for some time at Netley Hospital.  Deceased was 33 years of age, and had been employed by the Scarborough and Whitby Brewery Company since he was 14 years of age.  The funeral was largely attended and was of a semi-military character, and in addition to the members of the deceased’s family and friends, there were a bearer party from the Hunts Regiment in charge of Sergeant Gilbert; a number of patients from the hospital, a detachment of nurses from the hospital under Mr Shepherd; employees of the Scarborough and Whitby Brewery Company, and a number of deceased’s comrades in naval and military uniform.  The coffin, which was covered with the Union Jack, was of polished elm with brass mountings and bore the following inscription: -
Driver Thomas Knaggs,
Royal Field Artillery,
Died Nov 20th, 1913,
Aged 33 years.
	The impressive funeral service was conducted by the Rev. A.Raine, Curate-in-Charge of St Hilda’s Church, the 39th psalm being recited, and 1 Cor. xv., 20, being read as the lesson.  After the coffin had been lowered to its resting place and the committal sentences had been said, the relatives took a long lingering look while from the west came the sound of the “Last Post”, sounded by Lance-Corporal Perkins.
	Messrs Russell Brothers were the undertakers and supplied the Washington car and carriages.

Fri 6 Dec 1918	The Fallen Brave
	News has been received at Bilsdale of the death, from influenza, which took place at the 32nd Casualty Clearing Station, France, of Private Harry Knaggs.  Prior to enlistment, he was in the employ of Mr and Mrs William Allenby, and, whilst in their employ, acted as telegraph messenger.  In that capacity he was frequently called upon to convey messages, often at a late hour, and in all kinds of weather, to isolated homesteads lying away on the hillsides which encircle that dale.  The cheerful discharge of these duties was consistent with the spirit with which he determined to serve his King and Country.  He had served abroad for two and a half years, and had participated in some of the hottest fighting, and had been wounded and gassed.  Private Knaggs had only returned to duty a few days previous to the notice of his death being received, after spending a fortnight’s leave.

Fri 6 Dec 1918	Roll of Honour
	November 14th at a Casualty Clearing Station, France, aged 32 years, Private H. Knaggs, 2nd West Yorkshire Regiment, of Bilsdale.

Fri 31 Jan 1919	Marriage
	January 29th at St Stephen’s Church, Robin Hood’s Bay, Corporal M. I. Cockerill, M. M., Royal Engineers, Gildars Green House, Raw to Mary Alice Knaggs of Thorpe, Robin Hood’s Bay.

Fri 28 Mar 1919	Death
	March 22nd at Ropery Walk, aged 74 years, Alice, widow of Mr John Knaggs, gardener.

Fri 16 May 1919	Death
	May 2nd at Mount Pleasant, Castleton, Margaret Emily, beloved wife of Mr Thomas Knaggs, blacksmith.

Fri 12 Sep 1919	Death
	August 31st at Egton Banks, aged 77 years, Mr John Knaggs, yeoman.
	< This death is not registered. >

Fro 10 Oct 1919	Marriage
	October 1st at St Stephen’s Church, Fylingdales, George William, youngest son of Mr & Mrs W Knaggs, Thorpe, to Gladys Emily, second daughter of Mr & Mrs J E Parnaby, Station House, Robin Hood’s Bay.

Fri 16 Jan 1920	Death
	December 30th (1919) at Fylingdales, aged 89 years, Alice Knaggs (Ailsie).  Interred at the Old Cemetery January 1st.

Fri 19 Mar 1920	Death
	March 18th at 62 Baxtergate, Whitby, after a long and painful illness, John, dearly beloved husband of Emma Knaggs.  Interment at Whitby Cemetery on Monday March 22nd, funeral to leave the house at 2 o’clock.

Fri 30 Jul 1920	Birth
	July 25th at 11a Elgin Street, Whitby, to Mr and Mrs W. R. Knaggs, a son (stillborn).
	< No obvious civil registration for this. >

Fri 13 Aug 1920	Death
	August 6th at Stanley Place, Church Street, Margaret Ann, infant daughter of Mr Joseph Knaggs, labourer.

Fri 7 Jan 1921	Marriage
	January 5th at St Mary’s Parish Church, George Thomas, only son of R & E Knaggs of Brotton to Kate, only daughter of the late Charles & M Thomas, Hope Terrace, Whitby.

Fri 11 Feb 1921	Death
	February 6th at Cameron Hospital, west Hartlepool, aged 42 years, Thomas William, dearly beloved son of Margaret Ann and the late Robinson Knaggs formerly of Goathland.

Fri 10 Feb 1922	Death
	February 6th at 17 Caroline Street, West Hartlepool, aged 68 years, Margaret Ann, widow of the late Robinson Knaggs, formerly of Goathland.

Fri 30 Jun 1922	Death
	June 28th at Harwooddale, aged 52 years, John Parker Knaggs.  To be interred on Saturday July 1st at 2.30 pm, at Harwooddale.

Fri 8 Dec 1922	Birth
	December 5th at 11a Elgin Street, to Mr & Mrs W R Knaggs, a daughter.
	< This is Joyce Dora, daughter of William Robert and Dora Knaggs. >

< 1923 - No Knaggs >

Fri 2 May 1924	Death
	April 26th at 6 Stanley Place, Church Street, Thomas, infant son of Mr Joseph Knaggs, Labourer.

Fri 29 Aug 1924	Death
	August 23rd at 31 East Crescent, Loftus, aged 87 years, Ellen Knaggs.

Fri 10 Oct 1924	Death
	September 30th at 23 Trentham Grove, Dewsbury Road, Leeds, aged 74 years, Ellen, beloved wife of Thomas H Knaggs, late of Staithes and Loftus.

Fri 27 Feb 1925	Goathland - Fancy Dress Ball
	Mr Knaggs (Egton Bridge) Orchestra supplied the music.
	(Also Grosmont - Quoit Club Dance.)

Fri 22 May 1925	Whitby Ambulance Division - Annual meeting
	Mr W R Knaggs, Divisional Superintendent, presided.
	(Also Fro 21 May 1926.)

Fri 22 Jan 1926	Foot and Mouth Disease at Marske - Mr Thomas Knaggs’ Cattle Affected
	< Long article >
	Thirteen of a herd of sixty cattle on the farm of Mr Thomas Knaggs, Tofts Farm, Marske are suffering from foot and mouth disease.  Movement of cattle within 5 miles is prohibited (includes Redcar, Saltburn, Guisborough, Skelton, Brotton and Loftus).  The suspicion falls on a purchase of Irish cattle.

Fri 19 Feb 1926	Death
	February 4th at Henrietta Street, aged 72 years, Mr John Knaggs, jet worker.

Fri 20 Aug 1926	Death
	August 16th at 9 Duncan Place, Loftus, aged 73 years, Thomas, beloved husband of the late Mary Ann Knaggs.  Interred at Loftus Cemetery, yesterday (Thursday).

Fri 14 Oct 1927	Marriage
	October 8th at St Ann’s Roman Catholic Church, Ugthorpe, Joseph William, only son of Mr & Mrs Charles Knaggs, Egton Bridge to Esther (Hettie), eldest daughter of Mr Luke Gallon, Ugthorpe.

Fri 17 Feb 1928	Death
	February 9th at 5 Borough Place, Church Street, aged 85 years, Hannah Margaret Knaggs.

Fri 13 Apr 1928	Death
	April 3rd at Keasbeck Hill Farm, Harwood Dale in her 77th year, Mary Ann Knaggs.  Was interred at Harwood Dale on Saturday, April 7th.

Fri 16 Nov 1928	Death
	November 8th at 23 Trentham Grove, Leeds in his 78th year, Thomas Hattersley Knaggs, beloved husband of the late Ellen Knaggs, late of Loftus.  Was interred at Woodhouse Hill on November 10th.

Fri 25 Jan 1929	Death
	January 15th, at Tofts Farm, Marske-by-the-Sea, Thomas, beloved husband of Mary Jane Knaggs.  Inrterred Thursday January 17th.

Fri 15 Mar 1929	Death
	March 8th at Hawsker, aged 71 years, William Knaggs, late of Raw, Fylingdales.  Was interred at Fylingdales Old Churchyard March 11.

Fri 18 Oct 1929	Death
	October 11th at Cragg Hill Farm, Ravenscar, in her 89th year, Elizabeth widow of Walter Knaggs, late of Whitby.  Was interred at St Hilda’s Parish Church, Ravenscar on Monday October 14th.

Fri 16 May 1930	Marriage
	May 10th at St Mary’s Parish Church, Mr John Knaggs, baker, Ropery Walk, Boulby Bank to Lilian Readman, Brewery Yard, Church Street.

Fri 20 Mar 1931	Death
	March 16th at Poole, Dorsetshire in his 63rd year, Robert, the youngest son of the late John and Mary Knaggs of Raw, Fylingdales.  Interred at Watford Cemetery, Herts today (Friday) at three o’clock.

Fri 12 Jun 1931	Death
	June 5th at Esk Terrace, Egton Bridge aged 61 years, Mary, beloved wife of Charles Knaggs.  Was interred at Egton Churchyard Monday June 8th.  R.I.P.

Fri 27 May 1932	Death
	May 19th at Thorpe, aged 68 years, Hannah Knaggs, wife of the late William Knaggs.  Was interred at Robin Hoods Bay Monday May 23rd.
	May 24th at Turner’s Yard, Church Street, aged 52 years, John Knaggs, labourer.  To be interred today (Friday) at 2 p.m.

Thu 13 Apr 1933	Death
	April 10th at Hawsker, William infant son of Mr John Knaggs.

Fri 8 Sep 1933	Death
	September 4th at Ropery Walk, aged 77 years, Mary Jane, widow of Mr John Knaggs, jet worker.

Fri 9 Mar 1934	Marriage
	March 2nd at St Mary’s Church, Mr George Whisson, marine fireman, Long Steps, Church Street to Ada, daughter of Mr William Knaggs, labourer, 17a Brewery Yard, Church Street, Whitby.

Friday 11 Jan 1935
	Egton Bridge - Goathland Hunt Ball - Dance music supplied by Knaggs’s Orchestra.
	(There were references to this orchestra in several editions.)

Friday 18 Jan 1935
	Whitby Mother’s Union whist drive - consolation prize to Miss E Knaggs

Friday 8 Feb 1935
	St Michael’s Parochial Church Council - Mr W R Knaggs selected (also selected as a sidesman).

Friday 1 Mar 1935
Shocking Fatality at Runswick Bay
Child found dead on beach

	The quiet fishing village of Runswick Bay received unwelcome publicity on Wednesday when it was learned that a male child, apparently about a year old, had been found dead on the beach about noon, and a woman found unconscious about fifty yards from the child at the foot of the cliff.  The woman was seen alighting from a bus at Hinderwell and had carried the child to Runswick Bay and through the village towards the scaur.  At this time of year it is unusual to see visitors on the beach at Runswick, especially after such rough weather as had been experienced at the weekend, and after some time a company of men, which included Messrs R. Taylor, E. Brackley, J. Clark junr & E. Clark set out in search of the woman.  She was found at the foot of the cliff, alive but unconscious by Mr E. Brackley and about fifty yards away, at the edge of the water, the body of the dead child was found, a lady’s handbag being also found near the child’s body.  The infant was removed to Mr Hutton’s joiner’s shop, where artificial respiration was unsuccessfully tried, and the woman was carried to the Royal Hotel (Mrs Lennard) where she was seen by Dr W. L. Brown and Dr Dorothy Brown (Hinderwell).  She recovered after a time and was later removed by the Whitby motor ambulance to the Whitby Institution.
	The identity of the woman was established later.  She is Miss Florence Knaggs, New Skelton.  Yesterday (Thursday)  she was stated to be improving in her condition after treatment for exhaustion at the Institution.  The dead body lies at the Royal Hotel awaiting burial, and the inquest has not yet been held.  The tragedy excited considerable attention, and though the strictest reticence was observed in official circles, the news of the unhappy occurrence soon became known and excited keen sympathy.

Friday 8 Mar 1935
RUNSWICK BAY TRAGEDY
Mother Charged With Murder
Remanded for a week

	A tragic figure in a black waterproof coat and light blue beret, Florence Mary Knaggs (25) of John Street, New Skelton, sat at a table and faced the Whitby Bench on Tuesday morning.  She was charged with the wilful murder of her infant son, Michael Knaggs, at Runswick Bay on February 27th.
	This was the latest development in the chain of events which began after the discovery of the child’s body on the beach at Runswick Bay shortly before noon on Wednesday, last week.  Knaggs was removed to the Whitby Institution Hospital suffering from the effects of exposure, and remained there until she was conveyed to the Whitby Police Station late on Tuesday morning to answer a charge of murder. 
	As Knaggs appeared - a slight, small woman who looked very young and extremely pale - the chairman (Mr W. Ness Walker) instructed that she be provided with a seat.  She seated herself at the table whilst Superintendent Harrison opened the case.
	“This matter is now in the hands of the Director of Public prosecutions” the Superintendent said, addressing the bench.  “This is Florence Mary Knaggs and she is charged with the wilful murder of her infant son Michael Knaggs at Runswick Bay ob the 27th of last month.  On that evidence I have to ask your Worships to remand her in Durham Gaol until Wednesday next week at 11 a.m. when a representative will be sent down from the Office to take the case.”
	Superintendent Harrison added that prisoner was not represented.  The learned clerk would have something to say in that respect.
	The Clerk (addressing Knaggs): Have you any objection to the case being remanded for one week?
	The prisoner answered “No” - quietly, but without emotion, and passed her right hand across her eyes.
	Mr Colin E. Brown said he had been asked to be present when the accused was charged.  His application was for a certificate for legal aid, and he asked for that aid.
	The Chairman: That is certainly granted.  However serious the charge may be, she is entitled to have that.
	Mr Brown: I also apply for a defence certificate, which deals with the defence in another court supposing she reaches another court.  I would also like the opportunity of engaging Counsel here.  Your Worships will agree that this is a very serious charge.
	This application was also granted, and the short proceedings came to an end.  Knaggs was assisted out of court to await removal to Durham Gaol.

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Inquest on Baby Victim Opened
And Adjourned

	The inquest on Michael Knaggs, the eight month old child whose body was found on the beach at Runswick Bay on Wednesday last week, was opened and adjourned after evidence of identification had been taken at the Institution at Runswick Bay on Saturday morning.  Mr H. Barugh, coroner, Guisborough, conducted the inquiry, and sat with a jury of which Mr Isaac Seymour was appointed foreman.
	Henry Knaggs, 25 John Street, New Skelton stated that he was an unemployed steel works labourer.  The child was the illegitimate child of his daughter, Florence Mary Knaggs, and was eight months and a fortnight old.  At about 9.45 a.m. on Wednesday, last week, his daughter left his sister’s home in Grange Street, Brotton, with her little boy.  She said she was going to New Skelton.  He never saw the boy alive again.
	The coroner, announcing that he intended to adjourn the inquest in accordance with the procedure under the new Coroner’s Act, said that in all probability, the services of the jury would not be called upon again in connection with the matter.
	The proceedings lasted less than a quarter of an hour.

Friday 15 March 1935
THE RUNSWICK BAY TRAGEDY
Skelton Mother Committed on Murder Charge
The Question of Responsibility
Absence of Motive Urged in Defence
Exhaustive Hearing by Whitby Magistrates

	Committed for trial on the capital charge, Florence Mary Knaggs was a piteous figure as she was assisted out of the Whitby Police Court, where she had undergone a six hours’ ordeal, on Wednesday. Hour after hour she had sat almost motionless at the solicitors’ table, taking not the slightest interest in the proceedings and the gradual building up of the case for the prosecution, her red-rimmed eyes staring as though unseeingly across the Court. It was only when the clothing of her dead baby was produced, towards the end of the case, that she almost broke down.
	The case against Knaggs – a single woman aged twenty-five years – was that on February 27th she wilfully murdered her eight-months-old son Michael by drowning him in the sea at Runswick Bay. The incidents which led up to the tragic discovery were described in detail, and fourteen witnesses were called for the prosecutor. Mr F. D. Barry (London) appeared for the Director of Public Prosecutions, and Mr Colin E. Brown defended.
	Evidence of a vital nature was offered late in the afternoon by Dr H. H. Raw, when the findings of his post-mortem examination were closely examined by Mr Brown. Dr. Raw explained his reasons for the assertion that the cause of death was drowning and agreed that during its lifetime the baby must have received the greatest care and attention from the accused mother. Women in the body of the Court wept openly when Dr. Raw described the baby as “a very well-developed and well-nourished baby, in fine condition.”
	The Chief Constable of the North Riding (Colonel J. C. Chaytor) was in Court during the whole of the hearing.
	The Magistrates were Mr W. Ness Walker (chairman), Mrs Mitchell, Mr R. Thompson, Mr W. Wilks, Lady Harrowing, Mrs Boyle, Mr F. Barnes, Mr T. K. Smith, and the Rev M. A. Cooper-Horsfall.

THE PROSECUTION’S CASE

In his opening address, Mr Barry said the child was illegitimate, and the woman was accused of drowning it in the sea between Runswick Bay and Port Mulgrave, on February 27th at about 11.30 a.m. The day in question was very cold, with a very strong wind, accompanied by rain and sleet. Before they came to the details of the 27th, it was necessary to turn back to the 25th of February, when a fire occurred at a house where accused lived with her father. Part of the house was used as a fried fish shop, and the business was carried out by accused. The fire occurred at about 7.30 a.m., and accused was the only person downstairs. It was not necessary to go into detail beyond saying that the Police were suspicious. They suspected that accused had set fire to the shop on purpose. Accused suspected that the Police thought this, and she was worried about it. That night – the night of the 25th – accused and her father went and stayed with a sister of accused at Brotton. On the 26th, she visited the house, and was interviewed by the Police on that date. On the following day, accused got up at 8.30 a.m., fed the child, and at 8.45 a.m. left the house with the intention – the expressed intention – of going to Skelton, where the fire had occurred, to light the fires and dry the beds. She never got there – in fact she never started; she went in the entirely opposite direction, and went to Hinderwell by bus. She was seen on the bus, and witnesses would tell the Bench she appeared to be quite normal.
	“At 10.22,” said Mr Barry, “she left the bus at Hinderwell, carrying the child. At 10.40 – a little later – she was seen walking down Runswick Bank. At this time she was still carrying the child, which was screaming. She must have proceeded along the beach, because at eleven o’clock she was seen by a man named Miller, who was walking towards Runswick. She was then walking towards Runswick, and was still carrying the baby, which was screaming, and Miller was so struck by the strangeness of the woman that he hurried to Runswick and returned along the beach to see if he could render any assistance.”
	“He will tell you that he left Runswick Bay at 11.30 a.m. A few minutes later – I suggest about 11.35 – he saw accused leaving the water – without a hat, without a coat, and without the child.”
	He went to her near the foot of the cliffs and asked her where the child was. She replied that she had lost it. The man Miller went to the edge of the water and looked about, but could see no sign of the child. He returned and asked her where she was going, and her reply was “Staithes”. The man was naturally concerned about all these things, and he hurried as quickly as her could to his home, where his wife advised P. C. Charlton. They would hear the evidence of the Police constable.
THE SEARCH
	When Miller got to Runswick, he there met a man named Clark – presumably the man with whom he was doing business – and recounted to him the strange happening. The result was that three men set out to see what they could do. They separated, and one walked along the bottom of the cliff, and another went along the top. The third man walked along the seashore. They had gone a little way when one of them saw the woman lying by a rock. A few moments later one of them espied the body of the child lying about fifty yards nearer the sea. One of the men went to the child, picked it up, put it in a mackintosh, and hurried off to Runswick with it.
	The accused was lying by the rock, fce downwards, and saturated with rain and sleet. They rubbed her, and tried to bring back the circulation, and she was carried to the Royal Hotel at Runswick Bay, where she was examined, and after she had recovered she was sent to the Whitby Poor Law Institution.
	The Chairman: Just one moment. You said the child was found near the sea than the woman. Was the child dead?
	Mr Barry: The child was, presumably, dead. By the time it was examined it was dead.
	“Those,” said Mr Barry, “are, very roughly, the details of the case, evidence of which you will hear from the various witnesses. Accused appears to be very doubtful as to exactly what happened. Maybe you will hear details of that in due course. It is your duty, if you find that there is a case to answer, to send the case for trial with such precautions as you may think fit to take.”
	Wilfred Doran, 8 Belle Vue Terrace, Whitby, stated that he was a professional photographer. He had accompanied Superintendent Harrison to Runswick Bay, where certain positions were indicated by stakes. He took photographs of these to their best advantage. Four of the pictures have been enlarged. He produced a photograph showing the six points indicated by letters. The next photograph he produced indicated five of the six positions, and a third another picture of the same five positions, taken from a different angle. The next photograph showed the approach to the beach from Runswick.
	Arthur Bates, The Mount, Loftus, surveyor, stated that on March 3rd, he accompanied Superintendent Harrison to Runswick Bay. Various positions were indicated to him, and he took measurements, and, later the same day, made a plan (produced).
	ACCUSED’S FATHER IN THE DOCK
	The next witness was Henry Knaggs, 25, John Street, New Skelton, a steelworker’s labourer. He was a widower, and accused was his daughter. She was twenty-five years of age last December (NOTE: This is Florence Mary, born 27 Dec 1909, Skelton). She was a domestic servant for some time, and kept house for him in March 1934. In the following June she gave birth to a child. On February 25th, a fire occurred at his house, and that night he stopped with his sister at Brotton, and, on the next day, his daughter went to New Skelton and returned. That night, they again slept at Brotton, and on the 27th his daughter got up at about half-past seven. She left the house about a quarter to ten. She said she was going to Skelton to light the fires and dry the beds. She took the child with her. He later identified the body of the child at the inquest.
	Mr Colin Brown: Did you ask your daughter on many occasions who was the father of the child, and she refused to tell you? - Yes, sir.
	She bore this trouble all herself? – Yes, sir.
	I believe your daughter went to 25, John Street, New Skelton, in October last? – Yes, sir.
	Up to that time, a Mrs Clark was living there, and was the owner of the fish shop. Your daughter had been helping her? – Yes, sir.
	Mrs Clerk left to to return to her husband, and your daughter took over the business, hoping to provide for the maintenance of the child, yourself, and another daughter? – Yes, sir.
	The whole of the time since the birth of the baby, your daughter has been much attached to the child? – Yes, sir.
	Every possible care that could be taken was taken by her? – Yes, sir.
	I believe I am right in saying that, so far as care and attention are concerned, she was wholly wrapped up in it, and did her level best? – Yes, sir.
	Severel times, when you have asked the name of the father of the child, and she has refused to tell, it has upset her. You got a little angry when she refused? – Yes, sir.
	On the day of the fire, I believe she called to you to come downstairs, and you went down in a state of undress? – She called out twice, and said “Look sharp!” When I got down, one of the pans was on fire.
	Do you know that your daughter had placed some money underneath the counter? – She said about £6.
	And that was burnt in the fire? – Yes. Nothing of her’s was insured against fire. Everything of her’s which was burnt was a dead loss to her.
	Is it true that she was very worried following that fire? – Yes.
	Did she tell you of the visit of the	Sergeant of Police? – She said she had been all but accused of setting fire to the premises. It upset her very much.
	On the 27th, when she left the house, what sort of condition was she in? – She was very upset and shivering, and said she was very cold.
	With regard to the fish shop, do you know that for the past few weeks trade has fallen away, that there were a few debts to meet, and that she was in arrears with her rent? – Yes.
	Is it a fact that the money underneath the counter, which was lost in the fire, was to contribute to the needs, and that your daughter was very worried over its loss? – Yes, she was, very much.
	She loved this child, and did her level best for it? – She did.
	Herbert Henry Gott, Brotton, an employee of the Unites Automobile Services Ltd., said that on February 27th, he was conductor of a bus from Middlesbrough to Whitby. The bus left Brotton station about 9.45 a.m. He recognised accused as a passenger on the bus. She had a baby in her arms, and took a single ticket to Hinderwell. Whilst she was on the bus, as far as he could see, she was quite normal. She left the bus at Hinderwell at 10.22. He had previously seen her on his bus.
	Cross-examined by Mr Brown, witness said there would be three or four passengers in the bus, in addition to accused. It was the duty of a conductor towards a woman passenger with a child to treat her with extra consideration, and for that reason he paid particular attention to her.
	By Mr Brown: I did not notice that the little child continually pulled of its hat. He could not describe the remaining passengers because he had no need to pay attention to them.
“PRACTICALLY NORMAL”
	George Race Hodgson, butcher, “Glenvale”, Staithes, said he went to Runswick Bay on business on February 27th. About 10.40 he walked up Runswick Bank, and met a woman carrying a baby. He identified accused as the woman. The baby was crying.
	Questioned by Mr Brown, Hodgson said he did not observe whether the woman was upset or not. She was certainly looking at the child. As far as he could say, the woman was practically normal when he saw her.
	Herbert Miller, Strawberry Cottage, West End, Hinderwell, crane driver, said that on February 27th he left his home to go to Runswick Bay. When he was walking along, he saw a woman coming towards him from Runswick Bay. She was on the beach right beneath the cliff. He was walking along the edge of the water. There was a very wild westerly wind. It was not raining at the time, though it was “bitter cold”. It struck him as very peculiar that the woman should be walking along the beach. He believed accused was the young lady. The child was crying loudly when he came abreast of her. He went on to Runswick and there he met someone he knew – Edward Clark. He talked to Clark for about twenty minutes and returned home by the beach. It was his usual way home.
	“As I was coming round the corner,” said witness, “and three or four minutes afterI had rounded the corner, I noticed the young woman I had seen before coming from the edge of the water in a zig-zag way. She had not the child with her, and she had neither hat nor coat. She was walking away from me, and went under the cliff, where she sat down. I went up to her and asked her where the little child was. She replied “I’ve lost it.” Her clothing was wet up to the waist. I made a search along the water’s edge and amongst the big rocks. I did not find the child so I went back to the woman and asked her where she was going. She replied: “Staithes.” I said she should hurry up, as the tide was soon coming up.”
	When he got home, he told his wife about the incident and she immediately went down to report the matter to P.C. Charlton. Witness arrived home at about a quarter-past twelve.
	Mr Brown: When you saw the woman, did she appear to be taking any notice of the child, or simply going along in a dazed condition?
	Witness: She was going on, and looking straight ahead.
	As though she did not know the child was crying? – I cannot say. She took no notice of the child.
	I suppose she was in a very distressed condition? – She seemed to be when I got to her.
	Asked how she seemed, witness said she was “in a kind of wildish way, as though she had been struggling with someone.”
SAW A WOMAN
	Edward Clark, Bay View, Rusnwick Bay, fisherman, said that at about 11 a.m. on February 27th he was attending to his crab-pots at the north end of Runswick Bay. He heard the sound of a child crying. He looked through the winow of his shop, and saw a woman with a child. She was standing still. Later on he saw Miller, and he mentioned the woman and the child. He met Ernest Brackley and Jimmy Clark, and later on, Herbert Walker came to them, and they said they were going to try and find the woman, so they had a walk round. They walked along the scaur. When they got to a certain point, they separated. One went by the stones at the water’s edge, and the other two went along the cliff bottom. When they got to a bit of high ground he climbed up until, suddenly, he was a woman. Brackley had pulled the woman from under the rock. Witness looked for the child, and, after a few minutes, he went to the cliff bottom, and, on turning to face the sea, saw the child on the scaur, about ten yards from the water’s edge, as near as he could say. Brackley took the child – he could not speak as to its condition – and on his way back to the woman witness found a black handbag about ten yards nearer the cliff. He went towards the woman, and ran back to Runswick Bay to get assistance. Later, he searched the beach with Superintendent Harrison, and found a brown coat (produced), a pink hat – not very far from each other – some money, and a feeding bottle. They were found nearly forty yards from where the woman was lying.
	Asked if he could identify the woman, witness said, indicating accused: “I should say this is her, though I only saw her back.”
	By Mr Brown: I did not take much notice of the woman when I saw her pass my workshop. I took no notice of the woman’s attitude.
	At the time you heard the child, that was just after dinner, was there any difference in the state of the tide between then and eleven? The tide would be lower, and would not ebb very far in an hour’s time. I should say the tide was ten yards below the child when we found it. The tide would probably recede ten yards in an hour.
	Would you draw the conclusion that the woman had been wandering about? – I cannot say, sir.
	You don’t know what condition she was in when she was found? – I don’t.
POSTMAN’S DISCOVERY
	A further description of the incidents which led to the discovery of the body was given by Ernest S. Brackley, Runswick Bay, an auxiliary postman, who, while he was in the institute, said that he heard that a woman had gone down to the beach. He suggested that they should go and find out if she was all right. On his way to the beach, just after 12.30, he got his raincoat. He went to the beach with Edward Clark and Albert Walker. He had been walking perhaps a quarter of a mile when he saw a woman lying at the foot of the cliff.
	“She was about seventy-five yards away from the water’s edge. I ran to the woman and turned her over to see if I could see the child. I noticed her mouth move. She looked very cold and numb and her face was blue. Her clothes were wet. The accused is the woman. I shouted to Clark and asked him if he could see the child, and he later pointed it out to me, and I left the woman and ran to the child. I picked up the child, and found it very wet and lifeless. I returned to Runswick with the child to get help for the woman.”
	Mr Brown: I suppose it struck you it was a very bad day, and most unlikely for anyone in a normal condition to be there? – Yes, sir.
	Albert Walker, Runswick Bay, said he accompanied Clark and Brackley on to the beach and walked in the direction of Port Mulgrave between 12 and 12.30. He did so because he had heard a woman had gone down to the beach, and it was a wild day. He went down to see if any harm had overtaken her. Clark eventually shouted, and pointed where the woman was, and rendered what assistance he could.
	“I cannot for certain recognise the woman in court.” Said witness, when asked by Mr Barry if he could identify the woman.
	Questioned by Mr Brown, Walker agreed that it was not the sort of day when one expected to find a person going down on to the beach. When he found the woman, she was numb. He could not say for certain whether she was unconscious.
	Police-Constable Alfred Charlton, stationed at Hinderwell, said that as a result of information received he went to Runswick Bay with Sergeant Welburn, arriving there about 12.40. He proceeded by himself to the beach, and met a number of men carrying a woman. She was carried to the Royal Hotel, Runswick, and on examination he found her unconscious and cold. Her clothes were wet. She was dressed in a reddish silk dress, brown stockings, black patent shoes. After about ten to fifteen minutes Dr Brown arrived and attended to the woman. She was then reviving after he had applied artificial respiration. He later accompanied her to Whitby Poor Law Institution.
	In answer to Mr Brown, P.C. Charlton said he was present the whold of the time accused was having attention. She showed signs of revival.
	Did she ask for her child whilst she was in the hotel? – Not to my knowledge.
	Sergeant James Herbert Welburn, stationed at Hinderwell, stated that, as a result of information received on February 27th, he accompanied P.C. Charlton to Runswick Bay, arriving there about 12.40 p.m. He sent the constable on to the beach, and he (witness) was shown the body of a child by the witness Brackley. He noticed it was a male child, apparently about twelve months old. He removed the child to the Royal Hotel and rendered first aid to the child till Dr Brown’s arrival. Dr Brown pronounced the child dead, after examination. He indentified garments produce out of view of accused.
EXTERNAL SIGN OF DROWNING
	Dr Dorothy Brown, Poplar House, Hinderwell, medical practitioner, said that on February 27th, at about 12.50, as a result of a telephone call, she went to the Royal Hotel, Runswick Bay. She there found a woman in a distressed condition and ordered stimulants to be administered. After about half an hour she showed signs of recovery. Witness ordered her removal to Whitby Poor Law Institution. She also examined the body of a child lying in an adjacent room. The child was dead, and was clothed, the clothes being saturated with water. Some fine froth was coming from the nose and the child’s body was cold and pallid. The external appearance was in accordance with death by drowning.
	Mr Brown: Would you agree that an opinion as to the cause of death could be formed as a result of a post-mortem? – Opinion is confirmed or otherwise by post-mortem.
	Mr Brown: Would you expect to find other external appearances? – It depends how long the child was in water.
	Mr Brown: Were there quite sufficient for you to confirm an opinion of death by drowning? – From external appearance.
	Mr Brown: What experience have you had as regards drowning? – None.
	Mr Brown: Did you hear accused say anything? – Yes, she asked “Where is Michael?”
DR. RAW’S IMPORTANT EVIDENCE
	Dr H. H. Raw gave evidence of the results of the post-mortem he conducted on Michael Knaggs on February 27th. He came to the conclusion that the child had met its death by drowning and that death had supervened very rapidly by immersion in icy-cold water, and that this sudden death prevented many of the characteristic signs of death by drowning from being present. The air rubes of the heart (typo for lungs?) were filled with fine froth. There was an entire absence of of signs of any other form of death. He visited the accused in the Whitby Poor Law Institution on the 27th February, and on 1st March. In his visits accused never told him what she was doing at Runswick Bay. She was unable to remember how she got to Runswick Bay. At one interview she said she remembered having gone from Brotton.
	Questioned by Mr Brown, Dr Raw agreed that in cases of drowning there were usually more signs that in the case in question. In the majority of cases there were many signs, more or less imperfect, it was true; but in some cases – a few, he admitted – one found practically none of the usual signs.
	Mr Brown: You agree that great careand attention must have been given to the child during its lifetime?
	Witness: Certainly a very well nourished child. It was very well-developed  and very clean. I consider it well dressed too.
	“This child was up to the very best standard for its age.” Declared Dr Raw, subsequently.
THE ENLARGED GLAND
	He was closely questioned by Mr Brown with regards to the thymus gland and the characteristics noted at the post-mortem. Dr Raw agreed that the normal weight of a thymus gland for a child in the state of development of Michael Knaggs was stated on medical authority to be ten grams. The thymus gland in the body of the child in question weighed 25.6 grams. He was exceedingly careful about that fact, for he weighed it.
	Mr Brown: In view of the fact that the gland was enlarged, is it possible to say that a shock might have produced death suddenly.
	Dr Raw: That makes me more convinced that death was very quick. Children with this enlargement sometimes die suddenly.
	Mr Brown: And my suggestion is that death from exposure would be more likely to happen in the case of this child. You have told us that the only sign of drowning yu found was this fine froth. Surely you expect to find a lot more signs than this? – In the majority of cases, but not always.
	There was no water in the stomach? – No.
	Dr Raw said that when a person met his death by drowning, the tendency was for the person to make convulsive clutches with the hands, and the result was that, frequently, the hands were gripping some object tightly. In this case, he suggested that death supervened even before those convulsive clutches of the hands. He also suggested that that death came before those usual last struggles which caused the stomach to fill with sea water. He still stated that death was the result of drowning.
ACCUSED’S MENTAL CONDITION
	He spent a lot of time testing her mental condition when he visited accused at the Institition. She told him she was unmarried and that she had no maintenance order. No payment at all was made to her in respect of the upkeep of the child. For that reason he understood from his conversations with Knaggs, that she had kept the fish shop at New Skelton.
	Mr Brown: I believe she told you that she had had a fire at the fish shop on the Monday?
	Dr Raw: She told me that the Sergeant of Police had terrified her by accusing her of intentionally starting the fire in the shop.
	Did she often ask for her child? – yes, she asked for her child, and she seemed to be anxious for it.
	Are you convinced that on the first day she had no recollection of what had happened to her child? – She had no recollection. I saw her on Thursday, and again on Friday, and on the latter day I told her that the child was dead. She wept a good deal, and then became more composed – naturally.
	“From my examination and contact with her, I am satisfied that undoubtedly she had a deep regard for the child,” said Dr Raw. “I studied her mental condition, and came to the conclusion that she has not a high degree of intelligence.”
THREE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
	Mr Brown then addressed three questions to witness, emphasising their important relation to the case, and asking that a note be taken on the depositions. The first question was:
	Do you consider that she, at the time of and prior to the commission or omission of the alleged act which resulted in the death of her son, was labouring under such a defect of reason from disease of the mind as not to know the nature and quality of such act or omission, or, if she did know it, did not know what she was doing was wrong?
	After considering for several moments, Dr Raw said: “It is possible.”
	Do you consider, from the same observation of her, that she was conscious that the commission or omission of such alleged act was one which she ought not to do? – It is possible, undoubtedly.
	Further, do you consider that she was, at the time of commission or omission of such alleged act, in such a state of mental disease or natural mental infirmity as to deprive her of the capacity to control her action? – I cannot form an opinion as to this.
	Further examined by Mr Brown, Dr Raw said that, inconversation with Knaggs, she denied ever having suicidal impulses.
	Is it a correct answer to the second of my three questions to say that it is possible then? – Yes, if the first is possible, the second is possible.
THE CLERK AND THE DEPOSITIONS
	Mr Brown: I want these answers entered on the depositions, if you please.
	Mr Buchannan (clerk): The Justices cannot in this case try the issue of the state of mind.
	Mr Brown: I am not suggesting that they should try that issue. I am entitled to have these entered, and it is laid down in case law where there is, and may be some question that the prisoner is not responsible for her actions. In that event it is perfectly proper that to get that information from the witnesses. “With deep respect, I must insist that these questions are proper questions. It is laid down, and consequently the questions and answers are entitled to be on the depositions.”
	Mr Buchannan: I do no like the word ‘insist’ Mr Brown.
	Following a brief discussion with the Clerk, the Chairman said they were all perfectly aware that they could not try the case. They could hear all the evidence, and all the Magistrates had to decide was whether there was a prima facia case or not.
	Mr Brown: Does the learned Clerk advise that these questions cannot be put on the depositions? If so, it is very serious. This is an enquiry into the very serious charge of murder. Does the Clerk say these questions are inadmissible?
	The Clerk said the questions were admissible as evidence, and they were taken on the depositions.
DR RAW COMPLIMENTED
	The chairman congratulated Dr Raw on the way in which he had given evidence, and pointed out that there was a tendency for professional men to be rather difficult to understand in the witness box. Dr Raw had been an outstanding exception, and he thanked him, on behalf of the Magistrates, for the lucid manner in which he had offered his important testimony.
	Mr Barry asked permission to recall Dr Raw a few minutes later and re-examined him with regard to the series of questions put by Mr Brown with reference to the condition of Knaggs. “You said ‘It is possible’,” said Mr Barry. “Would it not be equally right for you to day ‘It might be possible’?”
	Dr Raw: I do not see how I could. The two things are directly contrary.
	Mr Barry: I agree. But could you not say ‘It is possible, but I really could not tell’?”
	Dr Raw: I think I would rather leave it as it was, if you do not mind. You see the question is impossible to answer either by “Yes” or “No”. All I can say is that it is possible, because I have no evidence to show to the opposite.
	When Dr Raw stood down after his long stand in the box, the Clerk referred to the incident of the depositions, and expressed the hope that Mr Brown would not think that he had been endeavouring to place any obstacle in the way of his case. He had no such intention, and had only been insistent that the Bench could not try the issue of the state of mind.
THE FINAL WITNESS
	Superintendent Harrison, the final witness in the case for the prosecution, gave evidence with regard to the scene of the occurrence. He received information of the alleged offence, and went over to Runswick Bay. He conducted a search on the beach, and found the various articles which had been produced. Witness indicated the respective positions of the various articles on the photographs which had played an important part in the case.
	“On March 2nd,” said witness, “I saw Knaggs in the Whitby Institution Hospital. On March 5th I cautioned her. When I read the charge over to her, she replied ‘I can’t say anything’.” He produced the warrant.
	The magistrates then retired, to consider whether there was a case to answer. In a few moments they returned, and the Chairman said he understood Mr Brown had something else to say to the bench.
	Mr Brown: I feel that I had no opportunity of addressing your Worships before you considered whether or not there was a prima facia case to answer.
	“What is the evidence in this case?” asked Mr Brown, in the course of a short final speech for the defence. “The only evidence so far as the girl is concerned, is from her father, a father who says emphatically that she was helping to keep the home going. She took a fried fish shop business to help the common fund. There was a fire which happened to be prior to this Wednesday. Following the fire a Police officer visited the accused, and she was practically accused of having wilfully set fire to the shop. There is no doubt that had upset her very much; indeed, the evidence of the father was that she had been depressed right from the time when her mother died, three years ago.
NO POSSIBLE MOTIVE
	“Nearly every one of the other witnesses had said that it was not the action of a normal person to carry one’s baby on to the beach at Runswick under such conditions. There is no evidence of any description to show how the baby became to be placed on the shale – nothing at all. It might have got there by accident; is it likely that it got there by design? Is it likely, bearing in mind that on every occasion afterwards the mother inquired for her child? She had a very great love for it. I submit there was no possible motive for this happening, and I ask you to say that there is no case to answer.
	During Mr Brown’s speech, accused stirred uneasily, almost the only movement except for periodic fits of slight swaying, during the whole day. Women in the body of the Court were visibly moved and several wept openly.
	After a short interval, the Magistrates returned to Court, and the Chairman announced that the Magistrates were unanimously of the opinion that there was a prima facie case to answer. Accused would therefore be committed for trial.
	Mr Brown applied for sanction to engage two Counsel for the case at the Assizes, and the Chairman said he was under the impression that permission had been granted for the defence at the previous appearance of accused. Mr Brown said he understood that the usual time to apply was at the end of the hearing, and he made formal application for two Counsel.
	The Chairman: Why do you desire two Counsel, Mr Brown?
	Mr Brown: In cases of the capital charge it is the usual thing.
	The application was granted.
	Knaggs was formally charged with the murder of her child, and on her behalf, Mr Brown pleaded “not guilty” and reserved her defence.

Fri 3 May 1935
Australian Farmer’s Broughton Bride

	The marriage took place at St Oswald’s church, Sowerby, of Mr Herbert Knaggs, eldest son of Mr & Mrs Herbert Knaggs of Thirsk and Northallerton and of Miss Dorothy Mary Potter, daughter of the late Mr J W S Potter, Oak Farm, Broughton and Mrs Potter now of Welburn near Castle Howard.
	The Rev D G John, L.T.H. officiated.
	The bride was given away by Mr G W Goodridge of Wakefield, uncle of the bride, and wore a shantung costume and pink Leghorn picture hat.  She carried a sheaf of carnations and roses.  The bridesmaid was Miss Ethel Queenie Knaggs, sister of the bridegroom and she was attired in a brown and fawn silk dress with cape to match.  The best man was Mr Maurice Knaggs, brother of the bridegroom.
	After the ceremony a reception was held at the home of the bridegroom’s parents, Belgrave House, Sowerby and, later, the newly married couple, who received many presents, went on a motoring honeymoon.  On 25th May they will sail for Australia, where the bridegroom has farmed for some years.  Before going to Australia the bridegroom was in farm service at Broughton near Malton.

Friday 11 May 1935		THE RUNSWICK BAY TRAGEDY
Trial at Leeds Assizes
Mother Acquitted on Murder Charge
(by our own reporter)
	The acquittal of Florence Mary Knaggs, the twenty-five-years-old New Skellton woman, charged with the wilful murder of her eight-months-old son Michael, at Runswick Bay, on February 27th, was the dramatic climax to a tragic story unfolded at Leeds Assizes on Friday. The verdict of “Not guilty” was returned at the close of a six-hours hearing in which the prosecution alleged Knaggs had taken her child on the beach at Runswick Bay and caused its death wilfully. Standing between two wardresses, Knaggs pleaded not guilty to the charge in a low, but clear voice. She heard a chain of Crown witnesses almost unmoved, and only revealed undue emotion when her Counsel referred to her deep feeling for the dead child.
	There was a joyful reunion between father and daughter in a corridor outside the Court at the close of the case. As Knaggs left the Town Hall, she was surrounded by women who had followed the case from the public gallery. There was a rush to shake hands as the smiling woman left for the station and her home at New Skelton. A strong speech by defence Counsel, and a masterly summing-up by Mr Justice Porter, were the outstanding features of a tragic case which attracted considerable attention. Mr R.D. Ross M.P., appeared for the Crown, and Mr Willoughby Jardine K.C. and Mr H. Brian Taylor, instructed by Mr Colin E. Brown (Whitby), defended.
CASE FOR THE CROWN
	Mr R.D. Ross, opening for the prosecution, described the events which led up to the tragedy. Knaggs, he said, was away from her home on service, and shortly after she returned to her home at New Skelton, in June, last year, she gave birth to a male child, Michael, the subject of the proceedings that day. She was unmarried. While she was at home with her father, she ran a fried fish shop independently, and on February 25th a fire took place in the shop. Knaggs, her father, and his family then moved to Brotton, to stay temporarily with relatives.

	On the day to which the jury’s attention would be called – February 27th – Knaggs got up at 8’30 a.m., and at 0.45 a.m. she left the house at Brotton, telling her father that she was going back to New Skelton to light the fires. She took the child with her, but instead of going back to New Skelton she took the bus to Hinderwell. In the bus, the conductor noticed nothing unusual about her. She arrived at Hinderwell at twenty-two minutes past ten. A quarter of an hour after that, she was seen close to Runswick Bay, and at that time the baby was crying. He should emphasise that the day in question did not appear to be a day which would be likely to induce any mother to take her child to the sea, because it was a particularly cold and blowy day, with showers of sleet. It was a point which should be considered as to why a woman should take a child of this tender age to a place like that under such circumstances. About 11 a.m., a man named Herbert Miller saw prisoner carrying the child and walking along beneath the cliff. She was at the edge of the water, and the baby was still crying. The net incident in the story was the fact that the same witness, on his return, saw the woman walking in a zig-zag fashion from the direction of the edge of the sea towards the cliff.
	“This man,” said Counsel, “asked her where her child was, and the reply was that she had lost it. He noticed that her clothing was very wet, and carried out a hurried search for the child amongst the boulders and along the seashore, but he was unable to find it. He asked her where she was going, and she answered “Staithes”. Miller hurried home, where he communicated the facts to his wife, who fetched Police constable Charlton. In the meantime, three other men were conducting a search for the woman and the child and eventually, about half way along the beach, they saw Knaggs. She was about seventy-five yards from the water, and lying on the beach. She was wet, cold, and numb, and bluish in the face, but they saw she was living and gave her what assistance they could. At the same time, one of these men found the body of the child lying about ten yards from the water.
DR. RAW’S OPINION ON DEATH
	“You will be told by Dr Raw, who carried out the post mortem, that, in his opinion, the child died from drowning, and very quickly, owing to the bitter cold of the water at that time of the year, and the tender age of the child.”
	Turning to Knaggs, Counsel said that undoubtedly she was in a very distressed condition when she was taken to the Whitby Institution, and there seen by Dr Raw. He found she was very dazed. She had improved considerably from that time, under the care and attention to which she had been subjected.
	Evidence was then called. Wilfred C. Doran, professional photographer, 8 Belle View Terrace, Whitby, stated he was instructed to take photographs of the beach at Runswick Bay, where certain positions were pointed out to him. He made a survey of the beach, and later made a plan, which he produced, together with a number of copies.
	Asked by Mr Justice Porter to indicate the position of the Hinderwell bus stop in relation to the plan, witness said it was directly to the west, and a little wat off the nearest point in the plan. Staithes was to the north, and to the right of the plan.
	Henry Knaggs, 25 John Street, New Skelton, father of the prisoner, described himself as a steelworks labourer. His daughter lived with him, but she had been away for a time in service at Birmingham. In June, last year, she had a child. It was named Michael Knaggs, and it was the child he identified at the inquest. Witness had nothing to do with the management of the fish shop in which the fire occurred. It was run by his daughter in the house in which they lived. On the day of the tragic event, his daughter was cold and shivery when she got up. It was very showery and rough.
	Cross-examined by Mr Jardine, witness said his daughter would not tell him the name of the man responsible for her condition.
	For eight and a half months you know your daughter loved the child? – She thought the world of the child.
	It was your daughter who was in charge of the house: she cared for her baby, and looked after the house? – Yes sir. My wife is dead.
	Referring to the 27th – so far as you know, she certainly had every intention of going back to live at New Skelton with the baby? – Yes sir.
	On that morning, did you think your daughter was ill? – She was very depressed, cold and shivery.
APPEARED TO BE NORMAL
	Herbert Henry Gott, Brrotton, a bus conductor in the employ of the United Automobile Services Ltd., said Knaggs boarded the bus travelling towards Hinderwell at 9.45 a.m. on the 27th. She carried her baby in her arms, and took an 8d ticket, single, to Hinderwell. There was nothing peculiar about her.
	George Race Hodgson, Glenvale, Staithes, a butcher, said he was at Runswick Bay on the 27th. He was going up Runswick Bank at 10.40 a.m. when he saw a woman carrying a baby down the bank. The baby was crying.
	Herbert Miller, crane driver, Hinderwell, said he left his home to go to Runswick Bay that morning. He went along the beach and reached Runswick Bay at about eleven o’clock. He saw Knaggs carrying the baby, walking under the cliffs. The baby was crying loudly. He continued to Runswick on his errand, and there saw a man named Clark. Witness proceeded home along the beach, taking his ordinary course. When he had walked a little way, he saw the young woman coming from the direction of the water’s edge  without the baby. She was walking in a zig-zag fashion, and appeared to be staggering. Her hat and coat were missing, and she walked up the beach towards the old mine shaft, and sat down at the foot of the cliffs. Witness went up to her, and asked where the child had gone, and she replied “I have lost it.” He went down to the water’s edg to search the rocks, but he found no trace of the boy. He had noticed that the Woman’s clothes were wet.
	Mr Jardine cross-examined witness at some length as to the state of the tide.
FINDING OF THE  BODY

	 Edward Clark, Bay View, Runswick Bay, fisherman, described the finding of the dead body of the child. He was mending his crab pots in his house when he heard a child crying. Looking through the window, he saw a woman carrying a child. He could not identify the woman. It was then between eleven and noon. After he had seen Miller, he and Ernest Brackley and another man went along the beach, and when they came to the big boulder they separated. It was a nasty day, with the wind from the south-east. It was fair in the morning, but it rained in the afternoon, and it was blowing hard all the day. Brackley and witness went beneath the cliff, and the other man along the water’s edge. Witness was on higher ground than Brackley, and he saw the woman first. She was lying by a rock. He shouted to Brackley, who went up to her, and witness began to search for the child. He saw it, and pointed its position out to Brackley, who reached it first. Then they found the hat, coat, handbag, some money, and the baby’s bottle. The handbag was a little nearer to the sea than the other articles, and the hat and coat were wet; they were in a pool of water. The tide was on the ebb, probably three and a half hours’ ebb. The child was about ten yards from the edge of the water.
	Mr Jardine: Having regard to the fact that a neap tide ebbs slower than a spring tide, do you think at two hours’ ebb the tide would be just about ten yards further up than it would be at three hours’ ebb? – At two hours’ ebb, the tide would be above the body of the child.
	Do you really think so? – I do.
	Were you not asked this very question at the Whitby Police Court? You know Mr Colin Brown? Did he not ask you how far the tide would ebb in an hour? – I said about ten yards.
	Was your answer in fact “not far” – It may have been. The tide would be ten yards below the child when we found it.
	Ernest Samuel Brackley, Runswick Bay, auxiliary postman, corroborated; and Albert Walker, another Runswick Bay man, stated he was the third man in the party which found the woman and the dead body of the child. Mr Jardine did nt cross-examine these witnesses. P.C. Charlton and Police-Sergeant James H. Welburn gave evidence and again Counsel refrained from questioning them.
FORMED IMPRESSION OF DROWNING
	Dr. Dorothy Brown, Poplar House, Hinderwell, said she was called to the Royal Hotel, Runswick Bay, and there found Knaggs in an exhausted condition, as though she was suffering from cold and exposure. She saw the child. It was dead. From external appearances, she formed the opinion that death was due to drowning.
	Mr Jardine; Was the woman’s first coherent word to ask for Michael? – Yes.
	The only indication you had that the child’s death was due to drowning was that the body was wet? – Yes, a little water came from the mouth.
	Which is a sign of asphyxia? – In conjunction with the wet clothes, water from the mouth is, I should say, a sign of drowning.
	At this stage, Mr Jardine asked permission to recall Brackley. Counsel asked if witness noticed the time when he went down to the beach, and Brackley replied that the Institute clock was at half past twelve.
	Dr H.H. Raw, Whitby, considered the principal witness in the case for the prosecution, was next called by Counsel. Dr Raw said he conducted a post-mortem examination on the day following the child’s death.
	“I came to the conclusion that the child met its death by drowning, and that death ensued very rapidly. It was an exceptionally cold day, with both rain and sleet, and a very cold wind. If the child was immersed in the sea on a day like that, death would be very likely to ensue very rapidly. I found another circumstance which would lead me to believe that death might take place very rapidly, in the fact that the child had a very large thymus gland. We know that children who have a great enlargement of this gland are liable to very sudden death from any shock. I think it is quite probable that water so cold would cause death in a second or two. I could find no signs of any other cause of death. I saw the prisoner on the 27th; she was admitted to the Whitby Poor Law Institution at 3 p.m., and I saw her at 3.30 p.m. She was then in a very dazed condition, and took a long time in answering questions, as though she hardly understood the purport of my questions.”
WHITBY DOCTOR IN WITNESS BOX
	Some questions, continued Dr Raw, Knaggs did not seem to be able to answer at all. She said she could not remember how she got onto the beach at Runswick Bay, and said she did not know whether the baby had fallen over the cliff. He noticed she had a good reaction from the state of collapse in which she had been discovered; her pulse was good, and her skin warm. Witness came to the conclusion that she was not a very intelligent person, but she was so dazed and ill it was not possible to form any very sound opinion of her condition at the moment.
	Mr Jardine: When you examined her, did you find a bruise on the outer side of her left ankle? – Yes, that was two days later, when I made another examination. She was too ill at first. Two day later, I found a series of bruises on the left ankle, the left topia, and the left forearm above the wrist. There was a long abrasion of the skin on the left shoulder. There was a short abrasion on the inner side of the right knee-cap.
	That was at least consistent with a fall on her left side on that rocky beach? – That is right.
	On the first day, she was asking for the child? – I saw the patient n different occasions. I rather doubt whether she asked for the child the first day, but certainly the next day she was fretting, and constantly asking for it.
	Eventually, you had to tell her? – Yes, I had to tell her that the child died.
	Then do you think this girl was deceiving you? – I do not think she knew. I do not think she had any intention of deceiving me.
	With reference to the fire, did she tell you that on Monday she had been to Middlesbrough to see her landlady, that her landlady was insured, and that really it was not a serious business? – That was with a little prompting. I suggested that she seemed to be upset by a small amount of damage.
	She was your patient following the occurrence, and at that time she was described by you as being dazed. Were you able to form an opinion whether the woman knew what she was doing when she was on the beach? – I do not know whether she knew.
	This child had a thymus gland which was two-and-a-half time larger than normal? Quite that. Probably more than three times the average weight. It ought to be seven grammes. This child’s thymus weighed twenty-five-and-a-half grammes.
	The effect of that abnormality on a child is to make it very susceptible to shock? – Very susceptible to shock.
	Immersion in water, either by deliberate drowning or by a fall into a pool would be a serious matter for that child? – Yes.
	Was there conspicuous absence of signs of drowning? – There was not a complete absence. There were signs in the lungs, such as one finds in the case of drowning.
	The lungs in this case were not “ballooned”? – They were not. Only a small quantity of water entered the lungs. It had, apparently, not made many respiratory efforts during drowning.
	There were no signs of external lividity? – The child’s body was pale all over. There were the usual purplish patches, but the body had no general lividity.
	Further cross-examined by Mr Jardine, Dr Raw agreed that clenching of the hands, dilation of the pupils, and open eyes were common signs of drowning. Except for one eye being slightly open, these signs were not present in this case.
	Mr Jardine: I put this to you – this child was dead, and left on the beach. Is it not a true inference from what you say that the child died from the shock of the cold water and the signs of asphyxia were from the struggles which followed? – These could not have caused asphyxia.
	There was nothing to show the extent of the immersion? – Nothing.
	Mr Ross: Did you notice any symptoms of derangement of the mind when you had the girl as your patient? – None.
	Would the evidence of death which you have given have any effect on the symptoms which you afterwards found on the body? – A great effect. The ordinary symptoms would be very slight, and might be completely absent in such a case.
	Mr Justice Porter: Would it be possible for the child to fall into water face downwards and remain so a sufficient time to cause asphyxia?
	Dr Raw: It would be.
	Superintendent Harrison’s evidence of charging Knaggs was next taken, and this completed the chain of witnesses for the Crown. Mr Jardine then said he thought it possible that the Crown might have called the Medical Officer of H.M. Durham Prison. Since they had not called him, he begged leave to do so.
FURTHER MEDICAL EVIDENCE
	Dr Derry stated that when Knaggs came under his observation, early in March, she was a particularly undernourished and anaemic young woman. Her physical condition had improved very much since that time. She was extremely depressed; so much so that he was at times fearful she might have suicidal tendencies. She had attacks of depression at intervals, and it was reported to him that once she contemplated suicide. She stated she could remember nothing from the time she took a bus until she found herself in front of a fire, being given a warm drink. Witness had examined her on several occasions as to the loss of memory, and she had repeatedly told him she had no memory of the events between those times. He had been over the ground again and again, and her loss of memory was always fixed at the same time.
	Mr Jardine: Does she resent your questions? – Not at all. There is no resentment whatever.
	Are you able to form an opinion from your protracted observations sufficiently to tell me whether you think that on the morning of the 27th of February this woman was in a mental condition to know what she was doing? – I think she was not.
	In answer to Mr Ross, witness said there was no time when she was in his care that Knaggs acted in such a manner that he could have certified her.
	In reply to Mr Justice Porter, witness said he formed the opinion that her mental state would be such, on the day of the tragedy, that Knaggs would have no ability to form an intention at all. He agreed that not only would she not know an act was wrong, but that she would not know she was performing the act.
	At this stage, there was an adjournment of one hour for lunch.
COUNSEL’S SUBMISSIONS TO JURY
	In his address to the jury, Mr Ross said they had been faced with a task not agreeable, either to himself or to the jury, but it was his duty to put before them, as best he could, the facts so far as they could be ascertained. In trying to relate what happened, and the happenings which led up to the death of the child, he had no wish to strain the evidence either one way or another, but it was his duty to place before them matters for their judgement as clearly as he could. This was a case in which they had to use their judgement as men of the world, as to what actually happened on this occasion. It was impossible to deal with the case without sympathy with the prisoner, but sympathy must not debar judgement in their proceedings that day. What were the facts?
	“We know of the fire at the shop where this woman lived. We know that the weather on the day of the tragedy was not such as would persuade anyone to go to the seaside, most of all a woman with a very young child, and here one remembers that the woman herself was cold and shivery on that morning. What would make her go down by the sea for any innocent purpose? She got on a bus which went to the opposite direction to New Skelton, and travelled by that bus, apparently quite normal in her manner, with the child. There is no suggestion that she was not fond of the child, but you will remember that sometimes persons will endeavour to put an end to the life of those they love most deeply?
	“She arrives in the neighbourhood of Runswick, and is seen by witnesses. The baby is crying. Do you suppose a woman who is fond of her child – as no doubt the prisoner was – would have persisted in going down to an exposed seashore with this young child continuing to cry. We then hear of her walking under the cliff, the child still crying, and crying loudly. It is a terrible day, with a strong wind blowing from the south-west. My friend will no doubt suggest happenings which he will say have occurred, or may have occurred, during the interval between the times when Miller saw the prisoner first and saw her a second time. I can only suggest to you that these facts I have outlined are significant. We want to know what happened during the time when Miller was away.
	What had they to help them? In this case, they were assisted by a number of photographs. Was it going to be suggested that there was some accidental happening which led to this child’s death? In his submission, that was entirely contrary to the evidence they had heard. They saw on the plan the place where the child’s body was found, also the positions of the handbag, coat, hat and child’s bottle. The child could not have got to that point without the mother’s assistance – that was quite clear. Why should she carry it out in the direction of the sea? What innocent explanation occurred to them – because, frankly, nothing occurred to him – as to why the mother should carry the infant in the direction of the sea, and how she let it be immersed in the sea, because the whole of the doctor’s evidence pointed to its death having been caused through having been dropped into the water.  His original story that the death of the child was caused by its immersion in water was unchanged. What would they think of the hat and coat being left where they were? They would see from the photographs that the hat and coat were far inland from the point where the child’s body was picked up.
IMPORTANCE OF CLOTHING
Perhaps his friend might suggest a reason why a woman having had the great misfortune to drop by accident her baby in water, should place her clothes on the beach. On the other hand, what possible purpose could there be in taking off her hat and coat, and then taking her baby down to the sea? In his submission, whatever the state of mind of the poor girl was at the time, the death of the child could not have come about by any accidental happening. As to the bruises found upon her, whether they would enter into the story or not, he did not know, but they did know that she was found lying upon the beach, and from the photographs he judged that the beach at the point where she was found was a very rocky and stony place. It was feasible to think that the bruises could have been caused by the woman throwing herself down upon the stony beach. The question of her state of mind, of course, was quite a different matter. They had heard the evidence of two doctors who saw her shortly after the events in question, and he must remind them of this fact – if they thought the woman actually caused the death of the child by putting it, or letting it be put into water, then it was for them to be satisfied that she was not responsible at the time.
	“If,”, said Mr Ross, in conclusion “you can accept the situation that she had gone to Runswick Bay innocently, with no intention of drowning the child – Runswick Bay was in the opposite direction to New Skelton – that she had taken off her hat and coat and left them on the beach, and then, through some accident, having carried her child in the direction of the sea, it got in the water – if you think all that was accidental and innocent, then she will be not guilty. If you come to the other conclusion – and I know you will do so with the detachment of the full knowledge of your duties – I submit that your verdict must be that of guilty, whether you think she was at that time sane or not: that is a matter you will settle for yourselves upon the evidence.”
CASE FOR THE DEFENCE,
MR JARDINE ON POSSIBILITIES OF
ACCIDENT
	Rising for the defence, Mr Willoughby Jardine said he ventured to think there were cogent fact for the jury’s consideration. He had to address them in that case asking them to reject a verdict of murder, and, secondly, even a verdict of murder though the murderess was at the time insane – for in his submission, the proof of murder failed. The proof of murder – the law had been re-affirmed by the House of Lords within the last few months – must be evidence of killing with the intention of killing. In this case, the law required evidence that Knaggs killed the child, and intended to kill it. If they were satisfied that she killed the child and intended to kill it, it was murder, and only after that fact had been established did the question of a special verdict arise. What he desired to now was whether, in this case, where the burden of proof was upon the prosecution to prove the killing and the intention of killing, it had been satisfactorily made out, and whether they did not think that the facts, proved from what happened on the beach, were consistent with accident without intention of killing?
	It had been said that an accurate explanation was required as to how she came to be on the beach at all. That was quite true, and it might be that in a different case, where they were dealing with a person about whom no medical evidence had been given, and no evidence relating to her state of mind had been proved, it would have been a terribly cogent argument against the accused. But in this case there was uncontradicted evidence that the woman was distraught; would he be wrong in saying there was uncontradicted evidence that she started the morning ill? The doctor was clearly of the opinion that the jury would be right in believing she would not know what she was doing. He invited them to remember that the whole environment of the case was inimical to killing anything intentionally. He knew perfectly well that, in some cases, it was stated that it was an unwanted baby and a nuisance – a case of a woman burdened with a child.
	“It is not true in this case. The child was eight-and-a-half months old, and there is unchallenged evidence it had eight-and-a-half months of care and attention from its illegitimate mother – the same care as it would have received from a married mother. I can only venture to remind you of the fire, that she treated it quite rationally on the Monday, and went over to see the landlady. It was insured, and the woman agreed that the matter was comparatively trifling. What, I would ask you, is what happened on the beach? What is proved to have happened on the beach? The child was immersed in water – true. Its clothing was wet, and it died from shock. What was the state of the tide? I suggest to you it is critical to know the state of the tide. The photographs are what I really like, and I invite you to say they really tell a story.
STATE OF TIDE CRITICAL
	Miller stated in evidence that the tide was high at 9.39. What was its state at eleven? The tide had been ebbing since the time given by Miller. Where was the woman then? He put it to them that she was in a very extraordinary condition that morning and no one knew where she wandered. He could not help them about that, except by the evidence they had heard. She was not deceiving the doctors when she said she had no recollection of the events of the morning, and they could only go by the evidence of the prosecution. She was seen coming from the direction of the sea – of course she was. Anyone coming over the boulders would quite rightly describe her as coming from the direction of the sea. He put it that what had happened was that she had lost the child at the very edge of the sea.
	“Now we come to the absolutely critical point. Is it proved to your satisfaction that the child was placed in the water, such water as there was at that point? Was it put there deliberately for the purpose of drowning it, by the woman, or is it not quite likely and equally consistent with the evidence that the woman, stumbling about on the beach, stumbled over that very boulder, trying to pick her way along the beach, and in that way went full length on her left side, incurring a series of bruises? I agree there is no proof, but I respectfully submit to you it is as likely an explanation, in view of the facts of this case, and the affection of that girl for her child as the proposition that she went out that morning deliberately for the purpose of drowning her child.
	How could the jury draw an inference from the clothes and their position, and the position of the bottle and handbag? He did not hear them invited to draw any inference from these facts that she intended to kill the child; and he went further, and invited them to say there was no inference of murder to be drawn from those incidents. The only inference he could suggest was that the woman was behaving in a strange manner, quite inconsistent with murder, and more likely to be consistent with accident. He could carry it no further, but he submitted there was uncontradicted evidence more consistent with accident than murder. But if what the prosecution claimed was true, he could only say that there was irrefutable evidence to say that the woman was insane, according to law, at the time.
THE JUDGE’S SUMMING-UP
	Mr Justice Porter occupied half-an-hour in his summing-up. All criminal cases, he told the jury, were matters of supreme importance, but of all criminal cases, those of the most supreme importance were murder cases, even though the proof in murder cases did not differ in the strength required, from the proof required in any criminal case. It was proper and right and inevitable, owing to the seriousness of the crime, that a jury should consider such cases with the greatest possible care before they came to a conclusion.
	“In this case,” he continued, “there are three possible verdicts upon the evidence given before you. The first, of course, is guilty of murder; the second is guilty of murder, but insane at the time when the act was committed; and the third is not guilty. I need not say to you what murder is. For the purpose of this case, of course, it is killing the child, but the mere killing is not necessarily murder. You have to consider the killing, and the circumstances in which the killing takes place. So far as murder is concerned, you will remember that the particular phraseology used is “of malice aforethought”; and in order to have murder you must have malice aforethought. I do not think I need worry you as to the meanings of intention; in this case you can treat it in the ordinary way, as meaning that the person meant to kill. It is only if you establish this fact to your satisfaction that you come to the second verdict possible. If there was killing, and intentional killing, was the person at the time in such a state of mind either that she did not know she was killing, or she did not know that the killing was a perfectly proper thing to do?
	“Therefore, in the first place, you have to have the killing, and be sure that the particular person did it. If I drop something accidentally out of my hand, and it falls on someone’s head and kills them, that is not murder. This is not intentional killing. You have got to have the intention before you get murder. It will not do for murder in this case if what happened was not that the woman either put the baby intentionally into the water, or let it drop intentionally into the water. If what happened was otherwise, such as that the woman, in a distracted state of mind, wandering about on the beach, stumbled, and accidentally let the baby fall, and that caused death, then you have not got the beginnings of murder. 
INTENTIONAL KILLING?
“What you have got to consider is the view you take as to whether this was an intentional killing or not. There are circumstances which the Crown put before you, upon which they say you ought to draw deductions that this killing was intentional killing. They say you have a woman fond of her child – a loving mother – but a woman distracted by illness, and partly by a fire which occurred; in a state of mind that she felt it would be better for the child not to live. They ask you to draw that conclusion from the fact that a mother who says she is going to New Skelton takes a bus in the opposite direction, on a cold day, with wind and rain, and goes to the seaside, to a place where she has never been before. Once there, frightened, and tired of life, she thought it better to put an end to the child’s life. If that was the true reason, and the true conclusion, and that she was not insane at the time, then that would be murder, however much you might pity the person who did the act. Of course, one has to criticise it, and consider what the position actually is.
	“You might very well, if there was no evidence from the doctors as to the woman’s state of mind, say to yourselves that it looks as if the explanation might be, and must be, that the woman thought the child would be better dead. In these matters, though, one ought to take careful consideration. The only medical evidence is that on that day, judged by the condition in which the doctors afterwards found her, she was not in a fit condition to form an intention. For the moment, I am not dealing with the state of mind with regard to insanity. That goes a long way towards disposing of the beach, and the fact that the woman went to Runswick Bay on that day. If you take that view of things, you might well take the view on her part there was no intentional killing of the child, and that she wandered about, falling, as suggested, over a stone, with the child falling into the water. She then staggered up to the side of the cliff.
“ASKED FOR HER CHILD”
	“You ought, when you are dealing with this case, to ask yourself if any deductions can be drawn from the hat, coat, purse and the money upon the beach. You might think that she took off her hat and coat for the purpose of wading into the sea, and for the purpose of drowning the child. On the other hand, if there are any deductions to be drawn, you might well say there is not enough evidence from the mere fact that her hat and coat were found, and that she did not form any intention of drowning the child. Then she would be not guilty of murder. There is some support for this view when you think what happened later. First of all, you remember that afterwards she was asked where the child was, and she said “I have lost it”. What do you think of that? What deduction can you draw? That the woman had just drowned her child, and was completely without knowledge of what she was doing? Ask yourself that question.”
	Reminding the jury that Knaggs asked for her child afterwards, Mr Justice Porter asked them to draw their deductions from that fact. From that fact could they deduce that she was a guilty woman, or did they think she was in such a frame of mind that she had no intention, or that she was incapable of forming ant intention? One thing was certain, the child was not in any depth of water. Drowning was immersion in water for a sufficient length of time to distend the lungs with water; but in this case drowning, in accordance with the medical officer, was a different thing. It meant, perhaps, immersion of the face for a moment which caused shock sufficient to result in death in a second or two. If they came to the conclusion that she did deliberately go to that spot intending to destroy the child, and did so, then they would find her guilty. It was then they had to be satisfied as to the state of her mind. One of the doctors said that she would not know what she was doing at all.
	Giving a final direction to the jury, Mr Justice Porter said “Every criminal, if you have a reasonable doubt, is entitled to the verdict of not guilty, but it is not a question of saying ‘Give them the benefit of the doubt’. It is a verdict of not guilty because the matter is not proved. If you think there is reasonable doubt in your minds the duty of the jury is to say not guilty.”
	The jury retired at 3.38 p.m. They returned at 4.11 p.m., and, in a tense atmosphere, the foreman announced a verdict of “Not guilty”. Knaggs received the fateful verdict without visible impression, and Mr Justice Porter immediately said “Let her be discharged.” He then thanked the jurors for their services, and told them their services would not be required again at the Assizes on that occasion.

Friday 24 May 1935
The Runswick Bay
Drowning Mystery case
No
Open Verdict at Adjourned Inquest

	The final stage in a mystery which has held the attention of the public for some considerable time, was reached on Saturday morning, when the inquest on Michael Knaggs, the eight month old child whose body was found on the beach at Runswick bay on February 27th, was re-opened and finally closed, in the Institute at Runswick Bay.  Mr H. P. Barugh, coroner for the Langbarugh East Division, conducted the inquiry and sat w with a jury.
	Mr Colin E. Brown, solicitor, Whitby, represented Florence Mary Knaggs, John Street, New Skelton, the mother of the dead child.
	The coroner stated that since the finding of the baby, a charge of murder had been made, and a trial had taken place at Leeds Assizes recently.  A verdict of “Not Guilty” was returned.
	Further to the evidence heard before the adjournment in February, Herbert Miller, crane driver, Hinderwell and Edward Clark, fisherman, Runswick, described the finding of the body of the child on the beach, and Dr H. H. Raw gave evidence of his findings at a post mortem examination he conducted on the body on the day following its death.  He stated the cause of death was drowning and added that the extreme coldness of the water and the state of the child, which had an enlarged thymus gland, would result in death very suddenly on immersion in ice-cold water.
	The verdict returned by the jury was “That Michael Knaggs came to his death by drowning on the 27th February, 1935, but there is not sufficient evidence for us to determine by what means he came to be in the water.”

Fri 14 Feb 1936	Death
	February 7th, at 62 Baxtergate, aged 78 years, Emma, the beloved wife of the late John Knaggs.  Was interred at Whitby Cemetery, February 10th.

Fri 18 Dec 1936	Death
	December 13th, in her 94th year, at 24 Zetland Road, Loftus, Sarah, widow of the late John Knaggs, formerly of Rosedale.  Interred at Loftus Cemetery on Wednesday, December 16th.

Fri 10 Jun 1938	Marriage
	June 8th at St Hilda’s Church, Sneaton, Mr Bernard Knaggs, eldest son of Mr & Mrs J T Knaggs, Hawsker to Winifred Mary, only daughter of Councillor & Mrs T C Atkinson, Sea View, Sneaton.

Fri 1 Jul 1938		Silver Wedding
	June 28th 1913 at St Mary’s Parish Church, Whitby, Thomas Dawson of Newholm to Hannah Mary Knaggs, 62 Baxtergate, Whitby.  Present address 5 Victoria Terrace, West Hartlepool, County Durham.

Fri 16 Jun 1939	Death
	June 5th at 16 Fellmere Avenue, Heworth, Gateshead 10, Joseph Henry, beloved husband of Mary Hannah Knaggs, late of Port Mulgrave.  Was interred June 8th at Heworth Cemetery.

Fri 3 Nov 1939	Whitby Police Court - Larceny of Cash Container
	David Peart Pennock (45), 2 Raft Yard and Joseph Knaggs (18) 6 Stanley Place pleaded guilty of stealing an automatic cash container from a public lavatory in the Market Place, valued at £3.	etc.
	Knaggs (a seaman) was bound over for 6 months and ordered to pay costs (7s 6d).
 
Fri 2 May 1941	Marriage
	April 26th at the Hawsker Methodist Church, Mr Richard Rudsdale, of Hollywell Farm, Loftus to Nancy, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs J T Knaggs of Jubilee House, Low Hawsker.

Fri 1 Aug 1941	Marriage
	July 12th, by licence, at St Mary’s Parish Church, Whitby, James Greenwood Leadley, engineer, only son of Mr & Mrs Leadley, 123 Church Street, Whitby to Alice, daughter of Mr & Mrs Knaggs, 17 Brewery Yard, Church Street, Whitby.

Fri 3 Nov 1944	Death
	October 27th at 17a Brewery Yard, Church Street aged 61 years, William Knaggs, beloved husband of Hannah Knaggs.  Was interred at Whitby Cemetery on Tuesday October 31st. - At rest.
	< Plus “in memoriam” Fri 25 Oct 1946 from “all at 60 Helredale Road” >

Fri 6 Apr 1945	Marriage
	March 31st at St Hilda’s Church, West Cliff, Whitby, John Joseph only son of Mr and Mrs J J Boyes, 49 St Peters Road, Whitby to Hilda May, daughter of Mrs and the late Mr W Knaggs, 17a Brewery Yard, Church Street, Whitby.		 < William and Hannah >

Fri 20 Apr 1945	Marriage
	April 11th at St Stephen’s Church, Robin Hoods Bay, by licence, Reginald N F Burnett (Corporal, RAF), only son of Mr & Mrs N Burnett, Highgate Howe near Whitby to Gladys Lesley, elder daughter of Mr & Mrs G Knaggs, Greystones, Robin Hoods Bay.
	< Photograph and write-up on previous page - bridesmaid was Miss Betty Knaggs, sister of the bride - honeymoon in the Lake District. >

Fri 23 Nov 1945	Loss of S.S. “Empire March” - Nine Whitby Families Bereaved
	On January 3rd 1942, the S.S. Empire March was caught by a German raider in the South Atlantic and after being shelled, and hit, she was sunk by torpedo.	- - -
	Mr William Knaggs, son of Mrs H Knaggs, 17a Brewery Yard, Whitby, had served at sea since leaving school, and was continuously employed in Whitby vessels. < Photograph >

Fri 28 Dec 1945	Roll of Honour
	In loving memory of a dear son and brother, William Noble Knaggs, killed in action January 3rd 1942, somewhere at sea.	< verse >	Mother & Family.

Fri 5 Apr 1946	Death
	March 28th at the residence of her daughter and son-in-law Mr & Mrs A Clubley, Lockham Farm, Easington, in her 86th year, Margaret Knaggs.  Was interred at Easington Cemetery on the 3rd ultimo.
	< Plus “in memoriam” Fri 21 Mar 1947 >

Fri 7 Jun 1946	Marriage
	May 29th at Castleton Methodist Church, Tom Barrington, son of Mr and Mrs T Knaggs to Mary Easton, daughter of Mr and Mrs J Codling, both of Castleton.

Fri 10 Jan 1947	Accident
	Mr Wilfred Knaggs, son of Mr John Thomas Knaggs, haulage contractor, Hawsker, was admitted to the Whitby and District War Memorial Cottage Hospital on Monday after an alarming incident, during which a cow he was taking to Ruswarp grading centre smashed the door of the lorry in which he was being conveyed, and they fell on top of Mr Knaggs.  He had collected the cow from Mr W Atkinson, Prospect Farm, and proceeded to Mitten Hill Farm for more stock.  It was there that the cow rushed at the doors, forcing them down on Mr Knaggs, whose right leg was broken.  The animal responsible for the damage was taken to Ruswarp grading centre when the lorry doors were reopened the cow displayed such an ugly temper, and became so threatening, that it was deemed unwise to unload it.  The lorry containing the cow was driven to Egton, and there the animal was shot.  Upon enquiry at the Hospital yesterday (Thursday) Mr Knaggs was reported to be Comfortable and progressing favourably.

Fri 11 Apr 1947	Death
	April 3rd at Castleton, aged 78 years, Thomas Knaggs, blacksmith.

Fri 2 May 1947	Marriage
	April 23rd at Grove Road Methodist Chapel, Harrogate, John Miller, Ruswarp to Olive, only daughter of the late Mr and Mrs Knaggs, Mount Pleasant, Castleton.

Fri 5 Sep 1947	Marriage
	August 27th at St Lawrence’s Church, Bradford, John son of Mrs E A Eagle and the late Mr Eagle, to Nellie, daughter of Mrs H Knaggs and the late Mr Knaggs, 17a Church Street, Whitby.

Fri 5 Mar 1948	Birth
	February 28th at Hillcrest Nursing Home, Whitby, to Mr and Mrs Tom Barrington Knaggs (nee Mary Codling) a daughter.  < Christine M >

Fri 8 Oct 1948	Marriage
	September 11th at St Hilda’s Church, west Cliff, Whitby, John Francis, second son of Mr and Mrs J Cook, “Hollymount”, Helredale Road, Whitby to Martha daughter of Mrs and the late Mr W Knaggs, 17a Church Street, Whitby.

Fri 22 Jul 1949	Marriage
	July 7th at the Parish Church, Robin Hoods Bay, George William son of Mr and Mrs J M Cook, 29 Helredale Road, Whitby to Margaret Jean Elizabeth (Betty) younger daughter of Mr and Mrs George William Knaggs, “Greystones”, Robin Hoods Bay.

Fri 26 Aug 1949	Death
	August 19th at the War Memorial Hospital, Whitby, Emma Jane, daughter of the late John and Emma Knaggs, 62a Baxtergate, Whitby.  Was interred at Whitby Cemetery on Monday after a service at St John’s Church.

Fri 14 Oct 1949	Death
	October 8th at the Whitby and District Cottage Hospital, aged 81 years, Charles Thomas, beloved husband of the late Mary Knaggs of Egton Bridge.  Was interred at Egton on Tuesday - RIP.

Fri 9 Dec 1949	Death
	December 6th at 45 Westbourne Grove, North Ormesby, Middlesbrough, Kate wife of George Knaggs, and dearly loved daughter of the late Charles and Matilda Thomas of Whitby.

Fri 6 Apr 1950	Ambulance Workers Honour Former Officers
	Long article - various mentions of Mr W R Knaggs
	Group photo with no caption
	On Monday Mr W R Knaggs received intimation of a further honour bestowed upon him for his work in the Order.  He was informed that His Majesty the King had been graciously pleased to promote him to the rank of Officer (Brother) of the Order of St John of Jerusalem from March 3rd and that an announcement to this effect will appear in due course in the “LOndon Gazette”.  He is the first man in the Whitby area to be given such an honour.

Fri 13 Oct 1950	Marriage
	October 7th at All Saints Church, Wath upon Dearne, Wilfred Knaggs, of Low Hawsker to Mildred Frances Arrowsmith of Wath upon Dearne.

Fri 20 Jul 1951	Birth
	July 11th at Chubb Hill Nursing Home, Whitby, to Matilda (nee Arrowsmith), wife of Wilfred Knaggs, a son (John).

Fri 15 Mar 1952	Marriage
	February 29th at Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa, James Godfrey, eldest son of Mr and Mrs J C Knaggs, 7 Park Terrace, Whitby to Pamela, only daughter of Mr and Mrs Story of Nairobi.

Fri 9 May 1952	Generous Robin Hood’s Bay Residents
	Long article.  Photo with caption “Mr Alec Spearman presenting Mr Knaggs with the illuminated address”
	Forty years ago Mr George Knaggs of “Greystones”, Thorpe Lane, Robin Hood’s Bay, joined the postal service and, except for three years during the first World War, when he was in the Army, and from 1925 to 1927 when he was in Whitby as a postman, he served the township of Robin Hood’s Bay and the immediate district.  Throughout the years he has been an esteemed figure in the Bay, and when he retired on April 14th - his 64th birthday, the residents decided to show their appreciation.

Fri 23 May 1952	Marriage
	May 17th at St Mary’s Parish Church, Whitby Peter John Neville, younger son of Mr and Mrs J C Knaggs, 7 Park Terrace, Whitby to Margarette, only daughter of Mrs Brown and the late Mr A Rodgers of Newcastle on Tyne.

Fri 30 Jan 1953	 Death
	January 29th at 6 Stanley Place, Church Street, Whitby, aged 59 years, Maria Knaggs, beloved wife of Joseph Knaggs.  To be interred at Whitby Cemetery on Monday at 2 pm.

Fri 27 Mar 1953	Death
	March 19th at Rockcliff View, Carlin How, Richard beloved husband of Lillie Knaggs.  Was interred at Saltburn Parish Church on Monday.

Fri 31 Jul 1953	Death
	July 28th in hospital, aged 74 years, Joseph Knaggs, brother of the late Anthony Knaggs (Cabinet maker, Loftus).  Interred at Loftus Cemetery today (Friday).  service in St Leonard’s church at 2.30 pm.

Fri 11 Dec 1953	Birth
	December 6th at Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa, to Pamela, wife of Assistant Superintendent J G Knaggs, Kenya police, a son. (By cable)

Fri 7 Dec 1956	Mud on the Highway
	A farm worker, Kenneth William Knaggs (25) of Bannial Flat Cottage, Sleights, was charged at Whitby Magistrates Court on Saturday with bringing a motor tractor on to a highway without having removed mud from the wheels.
	And so on.
	Absolute discharge and 4s costs.

Thu 3 Apr 1958	Marriage
	March 29th at St Hilda’s Church, West Cliff, Whitby Clarence William Harland, son of Mr & Mrs Harland of Scarborough to Mary Knaggs, daughter of Mr & Mrs J Knaggs, 23 Helredale Road, Whitby.

Fri 5 Dec 1958	Birth
	December 1st at a Newcastle Nursing Home, to Margarette (Jackie) and Peter Knaggs, the gift of a son, Anthony John.

Fri 8 Jun 1960	Death
	June 8th in a Scarborough hospital, aged 36 years, Kathleen May, most dearly loved wife of Alan Knaggs, 2 Mill View, Hawsker.  Service at Hawsker Methodist Chapel tomorrow (Saturday) at 2.30 pm followed by interment at Whitby cemetery.

Fri 10 Mar 1961	Death
	March 4th at Greystones, Robin Hoods Bay, aged 72 years, George William, dearly loved husband of Gladys E and dear dad of Lesley and Betty.  Was interred at St Stephens Churchyard, Fylingdale, on Tuesday.

Fri 12 Jan 1962	Death
	January 8th aged 73 years, Violet Jane, beloved wife of John Chapman Knaggs, 7 Park Terrace, Whitby.  Service and interment at Whitby cemetery today (Friday) at 1.45 pm.

Fri 28 Sep 1962	Silver Wedding
	September 25th 1937 at St Mary’s Church, Church Fenton, Leslie John elder son of Mr & Mrs J C Gaskin, Chapel Allerton, Leeds to Jessie, daughter of Mr & Mrs H Knaggs of Church Fenton (formerly of Leeds).  Present address: 11 Oakfield Terrace, Headingley, Leeds. 

Fri 7 Jun 1963	Silver Wedding
	June 8th 1938 at St Hilda’s Church, Sneaton, Bernard Knaggs to Winifred M Atkinson.  Present address: West Cote, Low Hawsker.

Fri 1 Nov 1963	Death
	October 25th at Glenbarr, Argyle Road, Whitby, aged 75 years, William Robert, the dearly loved husband of Dora Knaggs and father of Joyce.  Was interred at Whitby Cemetery on Monday following service at St Hilda’s Church, West Cliff.
			Obituary	Mr William R Knaggs
	Long obituary plus photo.  References include St John Ambulance Brigade, wreck of the “Rohilla”, grocer for Wilcock’s Stores for 54 years, Blue Bank disaster of 1925, Order of St John 1928, other decorations, Royal Army Medical Corps, Military Medal June 1918 - Somme.

Fri 12 March 1965	Marriage
	March 6th at Brunswick Methodist Church, Whitby, Alan Knaggs, son of Mr & Mrs J T Knaggs, Jubilee House, Low Hawsker to Mary Dixon S.R.N., S.C.M., only daughter of Mr M Dixon, 2 Dale View, Stainsacre and the late Mr H Dixon of Post Office, High Hawsker.

Fri 19 Nov 1965	Death
	November 13th in a Whitby hospital, aged 72 years, Joseph, dearly loved husband of the late Maria Knaggs, 13 Helredale Gardens, Whitby.  Was interred at Whitby Cemetery yesterday (Thursday) after service at St Michael’s Church.

Fri 8 Jul 1966	Congratulations
July 12th 1941 at St Mary’s Church, Whitby, James Greenwood Leadley to Alice Knaggs.  May all your silver turn to gold.
Love form Jim, Ann and Steven.

Fri 29 Jul 1966	Death
	July 22nd at Glenbarr, 24 Argyle Road, Whitby, Dora, dearly loved wife of the late W R Knaggs and dear mother of Joyce.  Was interred at Whitby Cemetery on Tuesday, following service in St Hilda’s Church, West Cliff, Whitby.

Fri 23 Sep 1966	Marriage
	September 21st at Hawsker Church, John Charles Forster, son of Mr & Mrs Charles Forster, 10 Flowergate, Whitby to Rene W Knaggs, daughter of Mr & Mrs Bernard Knaggs, West Cote, Hawsker.

Fri 31 Mar 1967	Marriage
	March 23rd at St Mary’s Parish Church, Cloughton, Geoffrey Bernard, only son of Mr & Mrs B Knaggs, Low Hawsker, to Wendy Marina, grand-daughter of Mrs H Berridge, Quarry Bank, Burniston.

Fri 11 Apr 1969	GILL-KNAGGS	<photo plus write-up>
	Mr Terence W Gill, electronics technician of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, son of Mr & Mrs W Gill of Hilltop, Ruswarp Lane, Whitby and Miss Lorna Mary Knaggs, youngest daughter of Mr & Mrs B Knaggs of West Cote, Hawsker - married at Hawsker Methodist Chapel. <see next>

Fri 18 Apr 1969	Marriage
	April 5th at Hawsker Methodist Chapel, Terence W Gill, son of Mr & Mrs W Gill, Hilltop, Ruswarp Lane, Whitby to Lorna Mary Knaggs, youngest daughter of Mr & Mrs B Knaggs, West Cote, Hawsker.

Fri 10 Apr 1970	Silver Wedding
	April 11th 1945 at St Stephen’s Church, Robin Hoods Bay, Reginald R N F Burnett, son of Mrs Burnett and the late Mr N Burnett, 11 George Street, Whitby to Gladys Lesley, daughter of Mrs Knaggs and the late Mr G Knaggs, 32 Ingham Close, Sleights, Whitby.

Fri 23 Apr 1970	Death
	April 23rd in a Whitby hospital, aged 82 years, Ann, beloved wife of John Thomas Knaggs, Jubilee House, Low Hawsker, and very dear mother and grandma.  Service at the Methodist Chapel, Hawsker on Monday at 2.20 pm, followed by cremation at Woodlands Crematorium, Scarborough.

Fri 2 Jun 1972	Death
	May 30th at her home, 2 Sandsend Cottages, Egton Bridge, Esther, beloved wife of Joseph Knaggs, and mother of Philomena, Hilda and Mary.  Was received into St Hilda’s Church, Egton Bridge yesterday (Thursday);  Requiem Mass today (Friday) at 11 am, followed by interment at Egton.  R.I.P.
	<Daughters are Lucy P M, Hilda M and Mildred M>

Fri 30 Mar 1973	Marriage
	March 24th at Loftus United Reformed Church, Keith Danby, son of Mrs A Allen and the late Mr H C Danby, 14 Springhead Terrace, Loftus to Barbara Ann Knaggs, daughter of Mr and Mrs K W Knaggs, 5 The Ropery, Green Lane, Whitby.

Fri 5 Oct 1973	Marriage
	September 27th at St Hilda’s Roman Catholic Church, Stephen Paul, son of Mr and Mrs Albert Winspear. 19 Flowergate, Whitby to Jacqueline Carol, daughter of Mrs M Knaggs, 15 Rigg View, Stainsacre.
	<Plus photo and write-up - Kim Knaggs is bride’s sister. >

Fri 19 Apr 1974	Golden Wedding
	April 21st 1924 at St Mary’s Parish Church, Whitby, Arthur, son of the late Mr and Mrs W Jewell, Banks Yard, Church Street, Whitby to Hannah, daughter of the late Mr W Knaggs, Boulby Bank, Church Street, Whitby.  Present address 55 Saxon Road, Whitby.
	< Write-up and photo following week>

Fri 7 Jun 1974	Marriage
	June 1st at St Thomas’s Church, Glaisdale, Alan Donald, son of Mr and Mrs K Knaggs, of 4 St Andrews Road, Whitby to Margaret, daughter of Mr and Mrs J Eddon, of “Highbury”, Glaisdale.
	< Plus photo and write-up - Jacqueline and Judy Knaggs are sisters>

Fri 28 Jun 1974	Birth
	Knaggs - June 20th at Eskdale Hospital, Whitby, to Ronald and Daphnee (née Steele), the welcome gift of a son, Trevor Alan.  Many thanks to Doctors and Nursing Staff.

Fri 20 Sep 1974	Death
	September 14th, in a Whitby hospital, aged 89 years, John Thomas, beloved husband of the late Ann Knaggs, Jubilee House, Low Hawsker, Whitby and a very dear father and granddad.  Service was held at Hawsker Methodist Chapel on Wednesday followed by cremation at Woodland Crematorium, Scarborough.

Fri 10 Oct 1975	Death
	October 5th, suddenly, aged 78 years, Beatrice Emma Knaggs, at her daughter’s residence, Ivyholme, Westerdale.  A very dear mother to Emma and William, and mother-in-law of Sydney and Rene.  Service and cremation took place yesterday, Thursday, at Teesside Crematorium.

Fri 28 May 1976	Marriage
	May 22nd at St Mary’s Parish Church, Whitby, John, son of Mr and Mrs W Knaggs, 2 Mill View, Low Hawsker to Lynda Marie, daughter of Mr and Mrs A E Harvey, 2 Captain Cook Crescent, Whitby

Fri 4 Jun 1976	Married at Whitby
	<Photo and write-up of above wedding>
	Mr John Knaggs - shipping clerk
	Miss Lynda Marie Harvey - an office clerk - father Station Officer, H M Coastguard, Whitby
	To make their home at 6 George Street, Whitby

Fri 18 Jun 1976	Birth
	June 11th at Eskdale Hospital, Whitby to Alan and Margaret (nee Eddon), the gift of a daughter, Joanne.  Thanks to doctors and nursing staff.

Fri 30 Jul 1976	Death
	July 26th in a Scarborough hospital, Bernard, aged 65 years, of West Cote, Low Hawsker, Whitby, dearly loved husband of Winifred Mary, and a very dear dad, granddad and brother.  Service at Hawsker Methodist Church today (Friday) at 2 pm followed by cremation at Woodlands, Scarborough at 3 pm.  No flowers, please, donations if desired to Hawsker Methodist Church or Staithes Fishermen’s Choir.
			Obituary - Mr Bernard Knaggs of Low Hawsker
	A well-known craftsman in the Whitby district, Mr Bernard Knaggs (65) of West Cote, Low Hawsker, died in a Scarborough hospital on Monday.
	For fifty years he worked in the village as a joiner and undertaker.  It was a business that had been in the family for 118 years until Mr Knaggs retired in April last year.
	Mr Knaggs was a member of Hawsker Methodist Church choir from his boyhood days, and in the last four years had derived a lot of pleasure singing with Staithes (Wesley) Fishermen’s Choir.
	He is survived by his wife, a son and two daughters.  There are five grandchildren.
	Cremation takes place at Scarborough today (Friday) following service at Hawsker Methodist Church.

Fri 20 Aug 1976	Marriage
	August 7th at Castleton Methodist Church, george Henry, son of Mr and Mrs George Hebron, of The Larches, Lealholmside, Lealholm to Christine Mary, daughter of Mr and Mrs T B Knaggs, of Prospect House, Castleton.
			Photo and write-up.
	Mr Hebron - electrician
	His bride - a school meals organiser - daughter of Tom Barrington Knaggs
	Miss Pamela Knaggs (bride’s sister), Mrs Barbara Codling and Miss Brenda Knaggs (bride’s cousins) were bridesmaids.

Fri 2 Sep 1977	(Front page)	Her 100th Descendant
	Photo (Mrs Knaggs with baby Paul and Sandra)
	For silver-haired Mrs Hannah Knaggs, who celebrates her 90th birthday this month, Royal Jubilee Year has produced a special bonus - the birth of her 100th descendant.
	This remarkable century comprises her own family of thirteen, eleven of whom are still living, 32 grandchildren, 47 great-grandchildren and 8 great great grandchildren.
	And three further additions are expected later this year.
	The latest came just four weeks ago with the birth of a son, Paul Michael, for her great granddaughter, Mrs Sandra Wood, of John Street.
	Mrs Knaggs, who was born in Church Street, Whitby, lives with her youngest daughter Mrs Jane Kaz and her husband at 44 the Ropery.  She still enjoys quite good health.
	Her husband, William, who died just over thirty years ago, was a Whitby fireman.

Fri 23 Sep 1977	Congratulations
	Knaggs - Congratulations Mother dear on your 90th birthday, September 21st.  Love and best wishes from the (13).

Fri 24 Feb 1978	Death
	February 16th at 44 The Ropery, Whitby, aged 90 years, Hannah, beloved wife of the late William Knaggs, and a very dear mother, gran, great gran and great great gran.  Service took place at St Hilda’s Church, Whitby, on Monday followed by interment at Whitby Cemetery.

Fri 17 Mar 1978	Birth
	Knaggs - March 14th at Eskdale Hospital, Whitby, to Alan and Margaret (nee Eddon) the gift of a son, Stuart.  A brother for Joanne.  Many thanks to nursing staff.

Fri 30 Jun 1978	21st Birthday
	Congratulations, David, on your 21st birthday (2 July).  Lots of love and best wishes for the future.  Mam, Dad and Gwen.

Fri 15 Sep 1978	Engagements
	Mr and Mrs W Smith of 12 Highfield Road, Whitby, are pleased to announce the engagement of their youngest daughter, Julie, to Christopher, only son of Mr and Mrs J F Knaggs of 13 Helredale Gardens, Whitby.  Congratulations from both families.
	< This is John Christopher Knaggs who marries Julie P M Smith jun 1981.  They seem to get divorced as Julie P M Knaggs remarries feb 1990. >

Fri 2 Feb 1979	Birth
	On 27th January 1979, at Scarborough Hospital, to John and Lynda (nee Harvey) the precious gift of a son (Barry John), first grandchild for Mr and Mrs W Knaggs of 2 Mill View, Low Hawsker.  Grateful thanks to all concerned.

			18th Birthday
	Knaggs - Congratulations Gwendoline, on your 18th birthday.  Good health and happiness.  All our love - Dad, Mum and Dave.

Fri 24 Aug 1979	Death
	On 22nd August 1979 (in hospital) of Brooklands Farm, Harwood Dale, Thomas, aged 90 years, beloved husband of Mary Alice, dear father of Margaret and the late Cyril.  Funeral service at Harwood Dale Church on Tuesday (28th August) at 1.30 pm, prior to cremation at Woodland.  Family flowers only please   to Fred Atkinson Ltd, Burniston.  Donations, in lieu, may be made to Harwood Dale Church (plate in church).

			21st Birthday
	Knaggs - Congratulations on your 21st birthday, Jackie (25 August).  Good health and happiness always.  Lots of Love.  Mum, Dad and Julie.
	< also from Steven and family>

Fri 9 May 1980	Golden Wedding
	Four entries for Sat 10 May 1930 (John Knaggs and Lillian Readman) from 1) Ken, Marie Julie 2) Beryl, Tony  3) John, Mary  4) Sylvia, Norman

Fri 6 Jun 1980	21st Birthday
	Several entries for Chris, 5th June - this is John Christopher

Fri 20 Jun 1980	Death
	At Scatness, Shetland, on 8th June 1980, Gladys Emily, aged 92 years, dearly loved wife of the late George William Knaggs, and dearly loved mother of Lesley and Betty.

Fri 5 Sep 1980	Marriage
	On Saturday 30th August 1980, at Whitby Register Office, David Robert, youngest son of the late Mr Robert Vasey and of Mrs Jean Vasey, of 9 Gray Street to Gwendoline, only daughter of Mrs Gwen Knaggs, of 16 Elm Grove, Whitby.

Fri 26 Sep 1980	Redcar Reception	photo plus write-up
	The wedding took place at Guisborough Register Office, of Miss Jacqueline Arbon, youngest daughter of the late Mr W Arbon and Mrs H Arbon, 32 Roseberry Road, Redcar and Mr John William Knaggs, youngest son of the late Mr W H A Knaggs and of Mrs E D Knaggs.
	The bride’s uncle, Mr E Groskrop, gave her away, and she wore a knee length dress of mauve with a spray of roses in her lapel.
	Miss Jenette Willis was matron of honour and best man was Mr Alan Willis.
	A reception was held at the Swan Hotel, Redcar, and the couple spent their honeymoon in Bournemouth.
	They are to make their home in Redcar.

Fri 21 Nov 1980	Wedding	photo plus write-up
	The wedding took place on Saturday at the Brunswick Methodist Church of Miss Jacqueline Knaggs, younger daughter of Mr and Mrs K W Knaggs, 4 St Andrews Road, Mayfield Estate, Whitby and Mr Stephen Keys, eldest son of Mr and Mrs Donald Keys, 48 Helredale Road, Whitby.
	The Rev E C Willis officiated.
	< Dress etc >
	Mr Alan Knaggs, bride’s only brother - a groom.
	The bridegroom is a scaffolder and his bride is a canteen assistant at RAF Fylingdales.
	The couple are to live at 12 Abbey Terrace, Whitby.
	< This is the Jacqueline who married William J LESLIE in jun 1977.
The marriage is registered as LESLIE - divorced? >

Fri 8 May 1981	Marriage
	On 2nd May 1981, at St Hilda’s Church, West Cliff, Christopher, only son of Mr and Mrs J Knaggs, of 13 Helredale Gardens, to Julie, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs W Smith, of 12 Highfield Road, Whitby.
	< plus photo and write-up >
	Bridegroom - assistant herdsman at Bennison House Farm
	Bride - cook at St Hilda’s School, Sneaton Castle
	< This is John Christopher >

Fri 19 Jun 1981	Birthday Greetings
	Knaggs - Congratulations, Ken, on reaching half a century (22 June) - M & A and M & J.
	< This is Kenneth William >

Fri 14 Aug 1981	Pearl Wedding
	Knaggs - congratulations Mam and Dad  from -
		Alan, Margaret, Joanne and Stuart
		Barbara, Keith, Paula and Stuart
		Jackie and Steve
		Julie
	< This is Kenneth William and Marie C B - married sep 1951 >

Fri 14 May 1982	Birth
	Knaggs - To Alan and Margaret (nee Eddon), the welcome gift of a baby girl (Donna Marie) on 6th May 1982 - sister to Joanne and Stuart.  Thanks to all staff at Whitby hospital.

Fri 2 Jul 1982	Engagements
	Mr and Mrs Knaggs (Ken and Marie) take great pleasure in announcing the engagement of their youngest daughter Julie to David, only son of the late Mr J Mellor and Mrs C Mellor of Bowerham, Lancaster.  Congratulations and all our love - Mam and Dad.
	< They marry jun 1983 Leeds >

Fri 17 Sep 1982	21st Birthday
	Knaggs - Congratulations Julie on your 21st birthday (20 September) Mum and Dad.
	Also from Chris, Mary and John, Terry and Peter.

Fri 8 Oct 1982	Birth
	Knaggs - To Tom and Jennie (nee Paylor) on 30th September 1982, the most precious gift of a son (Craig Thomas).
	< No obvious corresponding marriage. >

Fri 12 Nov 1982	21st Birthday
	Knaggs - Congratulations Julie on your 21st birthday (tomorrow 13th November). Wishing you health and happiness always. Mum and Dad.

Fri 25 Mar 1983	Silver Wedding
	Knaggs - Congratulations, Aunty Mary and Uncle John, on your silver wedding (22nd March). Best wishes. Love - Judith, Mike and Michael.

Fri 22 Apr 1983	Wedding	(photo and write-up)
	The wedding took place at Brunswick Methodist Church, Whitby on Saturday of Miss Julie Knaggs, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs K W Knaggs of 4 St Andrews Road, Whitby and Mr David Calland Mellor, only son of the late Mr J C Mellor and Mrs C Mellor of 24 Trafalgar Road, Lancaster.
	Description of dresses etc.
	< This marriage was registered in Leeds! >

Fri 2 Sep 1983	Engagement
	Mr and Mrs J Moore of 25 Birch Crescent, Sleights are pleased to announce the engagement of their only daughter, Pamela, to David Knaggs of Rex Avenue, Whitby.
	<These are married dec 1983. >

Thu 19 Apr 1984	Diamond Wedding
	Jewell - Knaggs	On 21st April 1924, at St Mary’s Parish Church, Whitby, Arthur Calvert to Hannah Jane.  Present address: 21 Marton Court, Whitby.

Fri 11 May 1984	Birth
	Knaggs - To David and Pamela (nee Moore) on 2nd May 1984, the precious gift of a beautiful baby son (Paul Jamie).  Grateful thanks to doctors and nursing staff at Whitby Hospital, also doctors and nurses at Sleights Surgery.

Fri 28 Dec 1984	Birth
	Knaggs - To John and Linda (nee Harvey), on 27th December 1984, a son (Stephen David), a brother for Barry John.  Grateful thanks to staff at Whitby Hospital.

Fri 12 Jul 1985	Birthday Greetings
	Knaggs	Happy 50th, John	from Mary (13 July)
			Dad			from Chris and Julie
	< This is John F Knaggs who married Mary Dring,
	and John Christopher Knaggs who married Julie P M Smith. >

Fri 6 Sep 1985	Birth
	Knaggs - to Tom and Jennie (nee Paylor), on 4th September 1985, a daughter (Hannah Jane), welcome sister for Craig Thomas.  Grateful thanks to doctors and nursing staff at Whitby Hospital.

Fri 28 Dec 1985	Birth
	Knaggs - To David and Pam (nee Moore), on 20th December 1985, the most precious gift of a beautiful baby daughter (Lyndsay Marie), treasured sister for Paul Jamie.  Grateful thanks to all staff at Whitby Hospital and at Sleights Surgery.

Fri 25 Apr 1986	Sliver Wedding
	Knaggs - Congratulations William and Rene on your silver wedding anniversary (29 April) - Sid and Emma.
	< Who is this? >

Fri 30 May 1986	Ruby Wedding
	Knaggs - Congratulations mam and dad on your 40th anniversary (29 May) - Christine, George, Pamela, Stuart and grandchildren Trevor, Stephen, Rebecca and Claire.
	< This is Tom Barrington etc. >

Fri 20 Mar 1987	Death
	Knaggs	Suddenly in Scarborough Hospital, on 17th March 1987, Stanley, aged 72 years, of Jubilee House, Low Hawsker, dearly loved husband of Winifred, and dearly stepfather of Maureen.  Service to be held at Hawsker Methodist Church on Monday (23rd March) at 1.30 pm followed by cremation at Woodlands Crematorium, Scarborough.  Family flowers only please.  Donations in lieu, if desired for South Cleveland Renal Unit (plate in church).
	Knaggs	Stanley, dear brother of Nancy and Alan and the late Bernard, Wiff and Edna.

Fri 18 Dec 1987	Birthday Greeting
	Knaggs	Happy 22nd birthday Mark (24th December) - All my love - Rach XXX

Fri 18 Mar 1988	In memoriam
	Knaggs - treasured memories of my dear husband, Stan, who died 17 March 1987.  Loving thoughts on your birthday, 23rd March - Winifred.

Fri 15 Jul 1988	Death
	Knaggs - Peacefully on the 7th July at his home, 23 Helredale Road, Whitby, John, aged 80 years, dearly loved husband of Lilian, much loved father of Ken, Mary, Sylvia and Beryl, and a very dear father-in-law, grandfather and great grandfather.  Service was held at St John’s Church, Whitby on Thursday 12th July followed by interment at Whitby Cemetery.
	< 12 July was not a Thursday - means Tuesday? >

Fri 23 Sep 1988	Engagement
	Knaggs - Chilton	Congratulations Chris and Kim (24th September).
	<John Christopher Knaggs and Kim A Chilton marry Apr 1991 - two children. >

Fri 16 Dec 1988	Birthday Memories
	Knaggs - Birthday memories of a dearly loved husband John who would have been 81 on the 19th December. Wife Lil.
	< John died 7 Jul 1988. >

Fri 24 Nov 1989	80th Birthday
	Knaggs - Lillian - Happy 80th birthday mam - Marie and Ken.
	< No date given. >

Fri 16 Feb 1990	Acknowledgment
	Knaggs - John and Lynda wish to sincerely thank all relatives, friends and neighbours for the kindness and sympathy shown to them during their recent sad and sudden bereavement.
	< Also thank the police and others. >
	< No corresponding death notice, and no obvious death in database - may be Stephen David. >

Fri 26 Apr 1991	Wedding plus Photo
	Knaggs - Chilton	The marriage took place at St Mary’s Parish Church, Whitby, of Miss Kim Allison Chilton, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs T S Chilton, The Larches, Stainsacre and Mr John Christopher Knaggs, only son of Mr and Mrs J Knaggs, Helredale Gardens, Whitby.
	Details of dresses etc
	Bridesmaid was Lisa Patricia Mary Knaggs
	Groom was herdsman, bride a barmaid.

Fri 3 May 1991	Engagement
	Knaggs - Simister	John and Betty Knaggs are pleased to announce the engagement of their son John to Joanne, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Simister, of Moston, Manchester.
	< They marry Aug 1992, Manchester >

Fri 9 Aug 1991	Ruby Wedding
	Knaggs - Marie and Ken, married 14 August 1951 at Whitby Register Office - Julie and Dave

Fri 25 Nov 1991	Death
	Knaggs - on 25 November, peacefully at home, Tom, beloved husband of Jenny, devoted father of Ronald, David, Gwendoline, Craig and Hannah-Jane, devoted granddad of Trevor, Joanne, Paul, Lyndsey, Robert and Stevan.  Cortege to leave residence today, Friday 29 November, for a 11 am service in St John’s Church, Brunswick Street, prior to interment in Whitby Cemetery.  No flowers by request.  Donations if so desired to R.N.L.I., Whitby branch.  Enquire to H Thompson Funeral Service, Whitby 840370.

Fri 17 Jan 1992	40th Birthday
	Knaggs - Happy big 40 Lynda, 20th January - love Linda, John, Paul, Stuart and David.	< May be Lynda Marie HARVEY >

Fri 31 Jan 1992	Birthday Memories
	Knaggs - Birthday memories, 3rd February, of a special dad, loved and missed so much - Craig Thomas and Hannah Jane.  (This is Tom, who may have married Jennie PAYLOR >

			40th Birthday
	Knaggs (photo) - Happy 40th birthday Alan, 2 Feb 1992 - Sue, John and family.	< This is Allan Donald >

Fri 6 Mar 1992	Birth
	Knaggs - Kim and Charles are delighted to announce the birth of their daughter Rachael, 9lb 2oz on March 2nd in Norwich Hospital.

Fri 19 Jun 1992	18th Birthday
	Knaggs - Congratulations Trevor on your 18th birthday - Dad, Mum, Joanne. < This is Trevor Alan >

Fri 28 Aug 1992	Wedding (photo)
	Married at St Dunstan’s R C Church, Moston, Manchester, were Miss Joane Simister, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs John Simister of Moston and Corporal John Knaggs, only son of Mr and Mrs John Knaggs, West Road, Loftus.
	Plus description of dresses etc.

Fri 11 Sep 1992	Death
	Knaggs - William (Billy) peacefully at West Cliff Nursing Home Friday 4th September.  Loved father of Cath and Derek, granddad of Dawn and Tyrone.

Fri 20 Nov 1992	Death
	Knaggs - On November 14th peacefully in Whitby Hospital, Joseph William aged 91 years of Egton Bridge, husband of the late Esther and dear father of Philomena, Hilda and Mary, a dear father-in-law, granddad and great-granddad.  Requiem mass took place at St Hedda’s Egton Bridge on wednesday 18th at 11 am followed by interment in Egton Church Yard. (A member of the Holy Guild)

Fri 11 Mar 1994	Birth
	Knaggs - Chris and Kim are pleased to announce the safe arrival of Daniel Christopher, 7lb 9oz, on March 3rd.  A brother for Rachel and Liz.  Thanks to Whitby and Scarborough Hospitals.

Fri 10 Jun 1994	18th Birthday
	Joanne Knaggs (photo)	Happy 18th birthday on June 11th.  Love etc Mum, Dad, Stuart and Donna.

Fri 7 Jul 1995		Birthday Greetings
	Knaggs - John (Jack) is 60 today (13.7.95)
		children Chris and Kim
		grandchildren Rachael and Daniel

Fri 17 Nov 1995	Engagement
	Knaggs-Mortimer	Mr and Mrs J Mortimer are pleased to announce the engagement of their youngest daughter Sharon to Trevor, only son of Mr and Mrs R Knaggs. (11.11.95)
	< This must be Trevor Alan, but no marriage registered by 2002 >

Fri 8 Dec 1995	Death
	Knaggs - Suddenly on 1st December in hospital, Tom Barrington (Barry) aged 73 years of Castleton.  Dearly loved husband of Mary and dear dad of Christine and Pamela, father-in-law of George and Stuart, dear granddad of Trevor, Stephen, Rebecca, Suzanne and Claire, a dear brother of Paul, dear brother-in-law and uncle.  Service at Castleton Methodist Church on Saturday 9 December at 2pm followed by interment at Danby Church Yard.  Flowers or donations in lieu to Esk Valley Lifeline, plate in church.

Fri 26 Jul 1996	Death
	Knaggs - Paul (formerly of Castleton) on 21st July, peacefully at Luton and South Beds Hospice, after a long and courageous battle, bravely fought.  Dearly loved husband of Eileen, father of Linda and Brenda, grandfather of Lorraine and Nicola.  Funeral at Castleton Methodist Church on Saturday 27th July at 11 am, followed by interment in Danby churchyard.  Donations only please to Luton and South Beds Hospice, Great Bramingham Lane, Luton LU3 3NT or c/o R Harrison and Sons Glaisdale.

Fri 6 Jun 1997	21st Birthday (plus photo)
	Knaggs - Congratulations Joanne on your 21st birthday, June 11th - Dad, Mam, Stuart and Donna.

Fri 27 Jun 1997	Birthday Greetings (plus photo)
	Knaggs, David 2.7.97 Happy Birthday darling - Pam.

Fri 14 Aug 1998	21st Birthday (plus photo)
	Knaggs - Happy 21st to Joanne - love Trevor and Sharon

Fri 18 Dec 1998	Birthday Greetings (plus photo)
	Lyndsay Marie Knaggs	December 20th
	Happy birthday teenager - mum & dad etc.

< No more copies at the Newspaper Library. >

Online Version

2001	Death
	Knaggs - Peacefully but suddenly in West Cliffe Nursing Home on December 26th, Lillian, aged 92 years, beloved wife of the late Jack, a dear mother, nan, great gran and great great gran. Funeral service to be held at St. John's Church, Whitby on Thursday January 3rd at 12.15pm prior to interment in Whitby Cemetery.

2002	18th Birthday
	PAUL KNAGGS 2nd May Congratulations on your 18th birthday Paul. May all your hopes and dreams come true. All our love always. - Mum and Dad XXX XXX Lyndsay XXX Granny and Grandad XXX XXX Tommy and Sarah XXX XXX Grandma XXX

2002	Birthday Memories
	LILLIAN KNAGGS 25th November Treasured birthday memories of a dear mam and nan. Miss you Mam. Love always. - Beryl and Tony. God bless Nan. - Andrew, Elaine, Paul, Claire, Claire and Harry XX

2002	Engagement
	NATTRASS - KNAGGS John and Betty Knaggs wish to announce the engagement of their daughter Elizabeth to Paul, son of Mr and Mrs B. Nattrass of Llandudno. Congratulations to you both.   (June 17)

2003	21st Birthday
	DONNA KNAGGS 6.5.03 Happy 21st birthday All our love. - Mam, Dad, Joanne, Steve, Stuart and Stuart XXXX Happy birthday Auntie Donna Love. - Eleanor and Jack XX

2003	Death
	KNAGGS. - Suddenly but peacefully at home in Low Hawsker on 3 December, Alan, dearly loved husband and best friend of Mary, a dear brother-in-law, uncle and friend to many. Service to be held at Hawsker Methodist Church on Thursday 11 December at 1pm, followed by interment at Hawsker Churchyard, family flowers only please. Donations in memory if desired will be shared between the Methodist Church and Robin Hoods Bay Surgery (plate provided) or c/o J. Corner Funeral Service

2003	18th Birthday
	LYNDSAY MARIE KNAGGS December 20th Congratulations on your 18th birthday Lyndsay May all your hopes and dreams come true All our love always. - Mum, Dad and Paul XXX XXX XXX Granny, Grandad, XXX XXX Great Grandma XXX XXX Tommy, Sarah and XXX XXX Baby Benjamin XXX XXX

2004 Death
	KNAGGS. - Suddenly but peacefully at home in Low Hawsker on 3 December, Alan, dearly loved husband and best friend of Mary, a dear brother-in-law, uncle and friend to many. Service to be held at Hawsker Methodist Church on Thursday 11 December at 1pm, followed by interment at Hawsker Churchyard, family flowers only please. Donations in memory if desired will be shared between the Methodist Church and Robin Hoods Bay Surgery (plate provided) or c/o J. Corner Funeral Service

2005 Birth
	KNAGGS It is with great pleasure we announce the safe arrival of Finley Thomas born 4th January. A beautiful son for Hannah, first and precious grandchild for Jennie and nephew for Craig

2005 Death
	KNAGGS - John Garnett KNAGGS - John Garnett. Peacefully at home on Wednesday 9th March. John much loved Husband of Betty and dearly loved Father of John and Libby, dear Father-in-Law of Joanne and Paul. Devoted Grandad of Adam and Hannah. Requiem Mass in St. Joseph and St.Cuthberts RC Church, Loftus on Tuesday 15th March at 1.30pm followed by cremation at Teesside Crematorium, St. Hildas Chapel at 2.45pm. Family flowers only please. "Simply the best"

16 Apr 2008 Obituary
	Knaggs Lillian Died peacefully on 12 May aged 85 years. Formerly of the Esplanade and the Harbour Side Art Club. Many happy memories of Scarborough as an artist and as a friend.

Whitby Observer 1870 (2 editions)
	No Knaggs

Whitby Times, and North Yorkshire Advertiser 1869 - 1912 (gaps, partly on film)

<1869-83 not scanned - see Whitby Gazette>

Fri 18 Apr 1884	Accident
	On Saturday morning while Mr John Knaggs was driving from Fylingdales to Whitby, when opposite Mrs Atley’s farm, near Stainsacre, the horse stumbled and the occupants were thrown out, Mr Knaggs’s sister having her arm broken.  Mr Knaggs, himself, escaped serious injury; but a large quantity of market provisions were damaged.  The injured woman was conveyed to the nearest house, and medical aid obtained as soon as possible.

Fri 2 May 1884	Death
	On the 27th ult, at No 4 Esplanade, aged 76 years, George Trattles Knaggs.

Fri 9 May 1884	Marriage
	On the 5th inst, at the office of the Superintendent Registrar, Thomas Devaney, iron worker, Sandgate to Annie Knaggs, Church Street.

Fri 3 Oct 1884	Death
	On the 2nd inst, at Church Street aged 17 months, Harriet Ellen, daughter of Walter Knaggs, Gas Works stoker.

Fri 24 Oct 1884	Whitby Petty Sessions - theft of Coal at Whitehall Shipyard
	Joseph Knaggs, 32, labourer was charged with stealing 4 st and 13 lbs of coal at Whitehall shipyard, belonging to Messrs Thomas Turnbull & Sons, on the 1st.
	<Long extract - wore slippers>
	30s fine or 7 days prison.

Fri 7 Aug 1885	Death
	31st ult at the Union Workhouse, aged 23 years, George Knaggs, labourer.

Fri 21 Aug 1885	Death
	14th inst at Church Street, aged 67 years, Miss Mary Ann Knaggs, verger at the Parish Church.

Fri 28 Aug 1885	Death
	27th inst at York, William Knaggs, master mariner of Whitby, aged 68 years.

Fri 23 Oct 1885	Marriage
	17th inst at the office of the Superintendent Registrar, William Schofield, miner to Mary daughter of Thomas Knaggs, labourer, all of Grosmont.

<1886-91 not scanned - see Whitby Gazette>

Fri 1 Jan 1892	Marriage
	Dec 20th at the Parish Church, Robert Clifford, Abbey Terrace, Whitby to Isabella daughter of Thomas Knaggs, joiner, Hinderwell.

Fri 29 Apr 1892	Marriage
	April 24th at the Parish Church, William George Pattison Frankland, seaman, to Harriet Knaggs, all of Church Street, Whitby.

Fri 10 Jun 1892	Death
	June 5th at Church Street, Frederick Jackson, infant son of Annie Bell Knaggs.

Fri 2 Dec 1892	Death
	November 26th at Thorpe, Fylingdales, Robert infant son of William Knaggs, labourer.

Fri 16 Mar 1894	Marriage
	March 10th at the Parish Church, Whitby, Richard Knaggs, joiner of Fylingdales to Mrs Margaret Irving, daughter of Richard Hogg, sailor, Cliff Street, Whitby.

Fri 30 Mar 1894	Marriage
	March 24th, at the Parish Church, Danby, Thomas Knaggs, blacksmith, Middlesbrough to Emily Margaret, youngest daughter of John Underwood, blacksmith, Castleton.

Fri 12 Oct 1894	Marriage
	October 7th at Saint Bartholomew’s Church, Ruswarp, Charles Edwin Johnson, grocer, York to Annie Knaggs, High Stakesby, Whitby.

Fri 12 Oct 1894	Marriage
	October 3rd at the Parish Church, Scarborough, Robert T Knaggs, Post office clerk to Elizabeth Ann Yorke, both of Scarborough.

<1895-7 not scanned - see Whitby Gazette>

Fri 2 Sep 1898	Death
	August 27th at Black Bull Hotel, Church Street, Walter Knaggs, landlord aged 60 years.

Fri 17 Mar 1899	Marriage
	March 12th at the Presbyterian Church, Whitby, Thomas Edward Thomson, plater, Haggersgate to Mary Elizabeth daughter of the late Walter Knaggs, Church Street.

Fri 25 Jan 1900	Marriage
	January 1st at the Parish Church, Whitby, Andrew Wilson, seaman, Henrietta Street to Mary Amelia, daughter of Joseph Knaggs, butcher, Church Street.

Fri 2 Feb 1900	Death
	January 28th at Grove Street, John Knaggs, master mariner aged 74.

Fri 3 Aug 1900	Death
	July 31st at Lealholmside, Sarah Ann, widow of Charles Knaggs, innkeeper, aged 56 years.

Fri Apr 26 1901	Shorthand
	- obtaining Sir Isaac Pitman & Son’s elementary shorthand certificate -
	William R. Knaggs

Fri May 10 1901	Death
	May 6th at Port Mulgrave, Hinderwell, Thomas Knaggs aged 79 years.

Fri May 31 1901	Marriage
	May 27th at the Parish Church, Whitby, Robert Walker Wormald, labourer, North Ormesby Road, Middlesbrough to Ann, daughter of William Knaggs, shoemaker, Church Street, Whitby.

Fri Sep 27 1901	Death
	September 15th at Robin Hoods Bay, John Knaggs, aged 78 years.

Fri Jan 24 1902	Whitby Petty Sessions
	William Knaggs, landlord of the Fylingdales Inn, Thorpe was summoned for being drunk on licensed premises and Alexander Christian, landlord of the Royal Oak, was summonsed for unlawfully permitting drunkenness on his premises, on January 10th.
	<3 columns of evidence>
	Christian fined £3, Knaggs fined 5s and expenses.

Fri Jun 20 1902	Whitby Petty Sessions
	License of the Fylingdales Inn transferred from Mr William Knaggs to Captain Rymer Parkinson.

Fri Oct 24 1902	Rescue from Drowning
	On Wednesday evening a young woman named Alice Scales fell over the Marine Parade into the harbour and was in imminent danger of drowning when a young fellow, Jack Knaggs, jumped into the water to her assistance, and held her head above water, until assistance was rendered.

Fri Jan 30 1903	Whitby Petty Sessions - Housebreaking at Robin Hoods Bay
	Francis Clifford charged with breaking into the vicarage.
	William Henry Knaggs, labourer, 17 Cliff Street, Skinningrove (employee of vicar) had his mackintosh stolen.

Fri Oct 9 1903	Whitby Petty Sessions - Persistent Cruelty
	William Knaggs, labourer, formerly landlord of the Fylingdales Inn, Thorpe, was charged by Mrs Hannah Knaggs, his wife, with persistent cruelty, and she applied for a separation order.
	- married Oct 1883 - six children between 19 and 12
	- May 1900	turned his wife out of the house late at night
	- March 1901	assaulted her - marks and bruises - left him
	- Sep 1902	turned her and two children out at night in their nightdresses
	etc
	Separation order made - William to contribute 5s per week - wife to take charge of imbecile and youngest child.

Fri Oct 30 1903	Death
	October 28th at Wentworth House, Abbey Terrace, Whitby, Ann Knaggs widow of Thomas Knaggs, late of Port Mulgrave.  Funeral will leave the house on Saturday Oct 31 at 1.45 pm.

Fri Dec 16 1904	Death
	December 10th at Church Street, Joseph Knaggs, butcher, aged 52 years.

Fri Jun 16 1905	Marriage
	June 10th at the Parish Church, Whitby, William Knaggs, labourer, Henrietta Street to Hannah daughter of William Noble, labourer, Church Street.

Fri Jul 7 1905	Death
	June 27th at Church Street, Matilda Knaggs aged 3 1/2 years.

Fri Oct 20 1905	Death
	October 14th, found drowned in the River Ouse, York, William Knaggs, tailor, Robin Hoods Bay, for 40 years an inmate of the North Riding Asylum, Clifton, York.

Fri Dec 21 1906	Death
	December 14th at Clark’s Yard, Church Street, Whitby, Mary wife of William Knaggs, shoemaker aged 68 years.

Fri May 10 1907	Death
	May 5th at the Union House, Esther Jane Knaggs, aged 51 years.

Fri Jun 5 1908	Death
	June 4th at 16 Silver Street, John Knaggs aged 80 years.  To be interred at Sleights, Sat June 6th at 2.30 p.m.

Fri Oct 23 1908	Marriage
	October 20th at the Parish Church, Whitby, Joseph Hodgson, farmer, Baxtergate to Florence May, daughter of John Knaggs, jet worker, Henrietta Street.

Fri Nov 20 1908	Death
	November 14th at 3 Erroll Street, Middlesbrough, William Knaggs, late of Whitby.

Fri Mar 6 1909	Compensation for Hartlepool Widow
	In the London Sheriff’s Court, on Tuesday, before Under-Sheriff Burchell and a special jury, an interesting case was remitted from the High Court for the assessment of damages.  The plaintiff, Elizabeth Knaggs, a widow, of Hartlepool, claimed, on behalf of herself and her children - Ann Knaggs, aged 22; Frances Jane Knaggs, aged 18 years; and Thomas Henry Knaggs, aged 16 years - damages in respect of the death of her late husband George Knaggs.  Knaggs was a master mariner, and captain of the brigantine Enterprise, which was wrecked in the North Sea on October 28th 1908, by, it was alleged, a screw steamer Derwent, belonging to the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, who were the defendants in the action.  The Enterprise was on a voyage from Hartlepool to London, laden with coal at the time, and the whole of the crew of the Enterprise, with the exception of one hand, were drowned.  Mr T G Horridge, K.C. and Mr A E Nelson appeared for plaintiff, and Mr Dawson Miller for the defendant company.  The jury assessed the damages at £910, apportioning the sums at £600 for the widow, £50 for the elder daughter, £100 for the younger daughter and £160 for the son, and judgement was entered accordingly, with costs.

Fri Jun 18 1909	Death
	June 9th at Tofts Farm, Ellen relict of Joseph Knaggs, aged 86 years.

Fri May 20 1910	Marriage
	May 14th at the Brunswick Wesleyan Church, Whitby, John Thomas Knaggs, farmer to Ann Cornforth, both of Hawsker.

Fri Oct 7 1910	Death
	September 24th at Westerdale, William Knaggs aged 71 years.

Fri Jan 19 1912	Marriage
	January 17th at the Wesleyan Church, Marske-by-the-Sea, James Smith Hebron, of Hawnby, Helmsley to Sarah Ann Knaggs, of Hill Cottage, Lealholmside, Grosmont.