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Compiled from a bundle of receipts 1915-1920 |
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'Rosemount'
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We have recently copied a bundle of receipts that were found still stored on the 'spike' and, although not in best condition, they have provided a wonderful resource for our commerce section, as well as an insight into the property known as 'Rosemount', the home of shoe manufacturer Mr Joseph Knight. |
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Mr Joseph Knight, son of Joseph and Ann, was first married in summer 1878, to Sarah Jane, daughter of David Darnell & his wife Rebecca, and they were both born in 1857. At first they lived in one of the cottages in Orchard Place and Joseph was a shoe worker at his father's factory in Victoria Road. They had no children but they adopted a niece, Rose Annie and, later Lily. Rose was born about 1883, and by 1901 aged 18 she managed the closing department at the shoe manufactory in Victoria Road. In 1905 Joseph built a fine new villa residence and called it ‘Rosemount’, in Irchester Road. Joseph moved to a new modern factory in York Road which he had rebuilt, following a fire, in 1908. Sarah Jane died in 1915 [Clark & Sanders undertook the funeral] and Joseph remarried the following year, in summer 1916 in Edmonton, London to Beatrice Maud Marion Shorley, daughter of Francis & Annie. She was born about 1877 at Wilden in Bedfordshire, and had been brought up in Rushden. Many changes were made at Rosemount following the marriage. |
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From this bundle of invoices it seems they had bought extra piece of ground and started to stock the gardens. They laid out a tennis court and planted roses, flowers, vegetables, and an abundance of fruit trees.
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Joseph and both his wives are commemorated in Rushden Cemetery Grave C23/25. |
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