On his death in 1689 the 2nd Baronet bequeathed the manor to his 9-year-old step-grandson John Wightwick (his wife's grandson by her first husband), who in accordance with the terms of the bequest adopted the surname and arms of Knightley. The senior line of Knightley was still extant at Fawsley, but the 2nd Baronet quarrelled with his male relatives whom he excluded as his heirs. In 1699, at the age of 19, in Whitehall Chapel, Middlesex, with the consent of his aunt and guardian Mary Wastaney,Joseph Foster, Joseph Lemuel Chester, John Ward Dean, London marriage licences 1521-1869, p.805 John Wightwick Knightley I (born 1680) married 22 year-old Mary Marow (1677-1750),Mary Marow (1677-1750) per her gravestone in the crypt of the Church of St John Baptist, Berkswell, see image a daughter and co-heiress of Sir Samuel Marow, 1st Baronet (c. 1652-c. 1699) of Berkswell Hall, Warwickshire.
