Philip Knight (1806-1979) was the youngest of eleven children of John and Mary Knight, and born and baptized on Foulness Island. He left the island before the end of the 1820s and worked first as a carpenter and later as a building developer in London - active in developments at Battersea, Stoke Newington and Forest Hill.
When a rich landed proprietor, he settled in Forest Hill. So did his daughter, Eliza, and son-in-law, Edwin Paul Corin. Edwin named his house Shelford. Shelford is presumably the area, with farm and creek of the same name, in the west of Foulness. (Edwin's son Arthur also named a couple of houses in the Sydney suburbs after the same place.)
This seems to suggest some sort of connection between the Knights and Shelford, but they were not freeholders there. What records might show them?
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