[Ancestor] Knox

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1 M James Knox ¹

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General Notes: Husband - [Ancestor] Knox

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The family name of Knox has a territorial origin, being derived from the Celtic word "Cnoc," signifying a small hill. About the year 1266 Johanne de Cnok is named as a witness in a charter of the lands at Ingleston, Renfrewshire, Scotland. In 1328 two payments from the exchequer of King Robert the Bruce were made to Alamus del Knoc. Those bearing the name of Knox in this day are proud of the fact that they are connected with the family that produced John Knox, the illustrious Scotch reformer, to whom Englishmen are indebted for the Protestant character of their Book of Common Prayer, and Scotchmen for a reformation so thorough as to permanently resist the encroachments of an aggressive sacerdotalism. By three centuries he anticipated the parochial system of education, now the law of England, and by nearly half that period he set forth those principles of civil and religious liberty which culminated in a system of constitutional government. The members of the family in Scotland, Ireland and England are prominent all down the years of recorded happenings in those lands in civil, ecclesiastical and military life. They have held the highest positions in church and state, and in transplanting to America the family lost no portion of their strength, power or prominence.
Major-General Henry Knox, of the Revolution, descended from the Belfast, Ireland, family. Alexander Knox, a powerful and elegant writer, was of the Londonderry, Ireland, family, and was a personal friend of the founder of Methodism, John Wesley. Hugh Knox, of the Scotch family of Ranfuilie, settled in the Parish of Donogheady, Londonderry, Ireland, and had sons and grandsons, prominent as divines. Philander Chase Knox, secretary of state in the cabinet of President Taft, descends from the family of James Knox, of Strathburn, Ireland. The first record of the branch of the Knox family given here is in 1689 when, tradition says, they settled in county Tyrone, Ireland, at Stony Falls, Straburn, whence they had come from Scotland. ²

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 583.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 582.