Joseph Carless and Mary Knight - Genealogy and Family History

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Joseph Carless and Mary Knight

Husband Joseph CARLESS
           Born:  - Corbyns Hall, Staff
     Christened: 
           Died: Bef 1748
         Buried: 
       Marriage: 20 Jun 1715 - Saint Alkmund, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England
Wife Mary KNIGHT
           Born: 
     Christened: 3 Jan 1695 - High Ercall, Shropshire, England
           Died: 1750 - Corbinshall, Kingswinford, Staffordshire, England
         Buried: 
         Father: Richard KNIGHT (1659-1745)
         Mother: Elizabeth PAYNE (1671-1754)
Children
1 M Richard CARLESS
           Born: 
     Christened: 2 Apr 1717 - Kingswinford, Stafford, England
           Died: 
         Buried: 23 May 1755 - St Leonards Church, Bllston, Staffordshire, England
         Spouse: Penelope YORK (      -      )
           Marr: 4 May 1745 - Stretford Parish, Hereford, England
2 M Joseph CARLESS
           Born: 
     Christened: 2 May 1718 - Kingswinford, Stafford, England
           Died: After 1748
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Anne PHILLIPS (      -      )
           Marr: 26 Dec 1743 - Stafford, England
3 M Benjamin CARLESS
           Born: 
     Christened: 25 Sep 1719 - Kingswinford, Stafford, England
           Died: 1814 ?
         Buried: 
4 M Robert CARLESS
           Born: 
     Christened: 9 Mar 1720 - Kingswinford, Stafford, England
           Died: 23 Jul 1728
         Buried: 
5 F Elizabeth CARLESS
           Born: 
     Christened: 18 Jul 1722 - Kingswinford, Stafford, England
           Died: After 1748
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Thomas PRATCHET (      -      )
           Marr: 4 May 1750 - Tettenhall, Stafford, England
6 F Mary CARLESS
           Born: 
     Christened: 4 Sep 1724 - Kingswinford, Stafford, England
           Died: After 1748
         Buried: 
7 M Edward CARLESS
           Born: 
     Christened: 22 Apr 1726 - Kingswinford, Stafford, England
           Died: 29 Jan 1754
 Cause of Death: burns
         Buried: 2 Feb 1754 - St Leonards Church, Bilston, Staffordshire, England
         Spouse: Elizabeth TOMKYS (      -      )
8 F Martha CARLESS
           Born: 
     Christened: 18 Jan 1727 - Kingswinford, Stafford, England
           Died: Abt 1781
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Never Married
9 F Ann Or Mary (Ann) CARLESS
           Born: 
     Christened: 3 Apr 1729 - Kingswinford, Stafford, England
           Died: After 1748
         Buried: 
10 M Thomas CARLESS
           Born: 
     Christened: 19 Nov 1730 - Kingswinford, Stafford, England
           Died: 1794 - Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Anna Jane WILLIAMS (      -Abt 1803)
           Marr: 27 Oct 1778 - Saint Phillips, Birmingham, Warwick, England
Medical Notes for Child Edward CARLESS

Note VI by the Rev. Edward Best in the burial register:

1 February 1754 - Death of Edward Carless Gent. One of the Chapel wardens of Bilston for this present year. He was the sixth son of the late Joseph Carless of Corbyns Hall, Esq. by Mary his wife one of the daughters of the late Mr.Richard Knight of Bringwood, the great Iron Master.
Mr.Careless death was occasioned by the following melancholly accident. On Saturday the 19th January; about 2 o'clock in the afternoon he went into his store room, to examine a vessel of spirit varnish that was heating in one of his stoves; & unfortunately, pulling out the cork, the first spirits took fire & with great fury burst over him in flames; and as it was some minutes before he had any assistance, his head, face. neck, breast, shoulders & arms were burnt in a terrible manner. His wounds however digested well & begun to heal in a kind way; but it was supposed that the nerves which come through the sutures of ye head were injured by the fire & that the meninges were inflamed; which brought on a delirium upon the seventh day & upon Tuesday 29th January betwixt six & seven o'clock in ye evening eleven days after he was first burnt, he died, in the 28th year of his age.
As he was my near neighbour, intimate aquaintance & very good friend, I think myself, in justice bound to give ye following short but true Testimony of his character. The principles of Religion & Industry that were carefully instilled into him, when a child by a tender, prudent & good mother, he as carefully improved, as he advanced in years & knowledge; so that he had,in a manner, the acquisitions and advantages of a Hoary Head, almost as soon as he arrived at the Reason of Man. He had quick parts & a sound judgement; and such was his application to business that he would, in a short time (with ye blessing of God on his endeavour) have aquired a plentiful fortune, not by the too common arts of fraud & over reaching, but by ye only justifiable & more certain method of thriving, industry & punctual dealing; which always afford true peace of mind & make riches really a blessing. He had a just abhorrence of gaming, swearing, drunkeness & ye many fashionable vices of ye present age; He constantly attended the publick worship of God, duely frequented ye holy Sacrament, had a deep sense of the obligations of Religion impressed on his mind and not only lived himself in ye practice thereof, but, as far as was in his power, obliged his whole family to do ye same; thereby fullfilling that noble resolution of Joshua, As for me and my House, We will serve the Lord. In short, he was sober, chaste, temperate, frugal, industrious, pious; kind to his dependents, charitable to ye needy, generous to his aquaintance & sincere to his friend.
He married Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of Thomas Tomkys of Nechells, Esq. by whom he has left one son, about 9 months old. I pray God bless him, and cause him to inherit his fathers virtues.