Regarding Knapton being cut off. I am glad that Jim has changed his view on this.

I have been trying to show that it was not. The reason for this is a bit a read in a piece by, guess who, Jim Carroll. 'When Walter was growing up, the roads were not made up which meant outside influences were relatively few'. As I said, having read a book on Knapton before encountering this, it struck me as being a little off beam

It would appear that two of Pardon's ancestors went to sea. For above, Jim says his grandfather did.

And in the article I am referring to, the one in the Munnelly memorial book that Jim has mentioned on MUDCAT, Jim states that it was Pardon's great grandfather, the Brown Pardon about whom I have written who went to sea. So if this is true and they both did, we have to rethink all we have read about most of his relatives being farm labourers, as at least two significant ancestors appear to have been sailers.

Thanks you all.