Hello Heather & Slowhands

I have only just discovered the Forest of Dean website, hence the several years' delay in adding my penn'orth - and asking for help & contact!

The Elizabeth Ayland of the 1861 census entry, quoted as being "sister" in the household of John Knight & family, is one of my direct ancestresses - & if, as I assume, she's John Knight's sister, rather than the servant Harriott Stephens' sister, then I am related to Heather's husband!

So - do either of you know any more about John Knight & his family? Any help & assistance you can give me will be very much appreciated - I am becoming bogged down in the incredible number of Aylands and a branch-out to a different name would be a good break!!

I look forward to hearing from you.