Brief Life History of Margaret
When Margaret Knox was born in 1570, in Scotland, her father, Rev. John Knox, was 65 and her mother, Lady Margaret Stewart, was 23. She had at least 2 sons and 1 daughter with Rev Zachray Pont. She died in January 1625, in Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland, at the age of 55, and was buried in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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- Elizabeth Welsh in entry for William Welsh, "England, Middlesex Parish Registers, 1539-1988"
- Margaret Knox in entry for Samuel Pout, "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
- The Knox Family
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Name Meaning
Scottish and English (Northumberland and Durham): from a genitive or plural form of Old English cnocc ‘round-topped hill’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived on a hilltop, or a habitational name from any of the places in Scotland and northern England named with this element, now spelled Knock, in particular one in Renfrewshire.
Scottish: habitational name from any of the places in Scotland named with Gaelic cnoc ‘hill’, for example Knock in Renfrewshire. It is not possibly to disentangle this from the surname derived from the English etymon mentioned in 1 above.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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