Research Notes:
We are researching Ann Knowles, wife of Robert Revell.
Knowles was a common name listed on the Darley Dale register. [1]
1586 William Knowles was a servant to Sir Thomas Fitzherbert. [2]
1587 On 21 April, Thomas Knowle, Newbold, was sworn as a guardian [of Chesterfield]. [3]
1633 Robertus Knowles was a freeholder of Spoondon, Derbyshire. [4]
1633 Robert Knowles was a freeholder of Derbyshire - Appletree hundred. [5]
[1] John Sleigh, "The earliest existing register book - Book of St Helen's Church, Darley Dale, Derbyshire," Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 6 (1884), 2, [HathiTrust].
[2] J Charles Cox, "Norbury Manor House and the Troubles of the Fitzherberts," Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 7 (1885), 221-259, at 258, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[3] John Pym Yeatman, Sir Geo. R. Sitwell, and Cecil J. S. Foljambe, The Feudal History of the County of Derby; (chiefly during the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries), Vol. 2 (London: Printed for the author, 1890), 263, [HathiTrust].
[4] S. O. Addy, "A List of the Vills and Freeholders of Derbyshire in 1633," Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 6 (1884), 49-74, at 60, [HathiTrust].
[5] Joseph Tilley, The Old Halls, Manors and Families of Derbyshire, Vol. 2, The Appletree Hundred and the Wapentake of Wirksworth (1893), 318, [InternetArchive].