Looking for more info about family of William KNIBB, son of Thomas and Mary Knibb, born at Kettering, Northants on September 7th, 1803. He was a Baptist minister and became became an important antislavery campaigner in Jamaica and in England.
He is connected to my COLLINGS family as Rev William COLLINGS (Baptist minister in Gloucester, UK) and wife Louisa (nee BURROWS) had a son named William Knibb COLLINGS (b 1846 in Surrey)- Baptist missionary in Africa.
There are numerous Jamaica/slavery/baptist/Kettering/West Africa coincidences within my COLLINGS family and I feel certain that William was named after the famous William Knibb. The mystery is whether or not the KNIBB and COLLINGS families were actually related.
I am currently researching a book about the involvement of my COLLINGS family in the anti-slavery movement and would love to solve the 'Knibb' mystery.
Can anyone help?
Claire