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Sligo / Re: Rev. Hugh Montgomery Knox & Family (Sligo)
« on: Friday 27 October 23 16:52 BST (UK)  »
Today - 27 October - marks the centenary of the death of the Rev Knox in 1923. I will raise a small glass to him this evening and any other family members or interested parties are welcome to join me.

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Sligo / Re: Rev. Hugh Montgomery Knox & Family (Sligo)
« on: Saturday 07 October 23 08:42 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for all that information - most interesting and useful. One does wonder how a frugal "man of the cloth" came to have an estate of £655, which was a lot of money in those days!

I hope to submit a short memorial to the local Sligo weekly paper in commemoration of the centenary although, if used, I may never see it!

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Sligo / Re: Rev. Hugh Montgomery Knox & Family (Sligo)
« on: Thursday 05 October 23 20:09 BST (UK)  »
No posts for some time but, if anybody is still tracking this, please note the Rev Hugh Montgomery Knox died 100 years ago on 27 October 1923.

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Sligo / Re: Rev. Hugh Montgomery Knox & Family (Sligo)
« on: Tuesday 04 March 14 11:45 GMT (UK)  »
Greetings to another long-lost Canadian cousin.

The two adults are my parents, Joseph Millar Allen and Janet Allen, nee Knox and daughter of the Rev Hugh. I suspect the photograph is taken at our home, 36 Antrim Road, Lisburn, Co Antrim (NI), which we left in 1973 and was demolished towards the end of 2013. The girl looks like Mary Dorman, daughter of my father' sister who lived then in Armagh.

Contact me direct and I'll provide more information.

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Sligo / Re: Rev. Hugh Montgomery Knox & Family (Sligo)
« on: Friday 16 December 11 17:15 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: aghadowey on Friday 16 December 11 17:08 GMT (UK)
The closest I can see is a Thos. Knox, age 27, going from Liverpool, England to St. Johns, N.B. in 1925 but not sure if it is Thomas Witherow Knox.

Thomas Witherow Knox was 2nd Lt. In Royal Irish Rifles.
http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29755/pages/9122/page.pdf

Could well be and would explain a lot, as this "odd aunt" spent most of her life in Canada but did visit Ireland from time to time, even staying with us in Lisburn once (after a 13 hour flight Toronto - Aldergrove on an Eagle Air Bristol Brittania!) She was a hardy old duck.

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Sligo / Re: Rev. Hugh Montgomery Knox & Family (Sligo)
« on: Friday 16 December 11 16:42 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: aghadowey on Friday 16 December 11 16:09 GMT (UK)
That makes sense. (I'm just back from Jordanstown a few minutes ago)

She remembered a bomb dropping in Whiteabbey on the night of the Belfast blitz - 4-5 May 1941. She certainly talked about Jordanstown, but not (as far as I can recall) living in Finaghy.

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Sligo / Re: Rev. Hugh Montgomery Knox & Family (Sligo)
« on: Friday 16 December 11 16:38 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: aghadowey on Thursday 15 December 11 21:39 GMT (UK)
Looks like Leslie Knox was the tea planter (See www.findmypast.co.uk for full details)
1927 Leslie KNOX age 22 Liverpool to Colombo, Ceylon
1932 Leslie KNOX age 28 Liverpool to Colombo, Ceylon
1937 Leslie KNOX age 33 Liverpool to Cochin, India
1937 Leslie KNOX age 32 Liverpool to Colombo, Ceylon

Also 7 Nov.1936 "Derbyshire" arrived London (embarked at Conchin): Leslie Steven KNOX, age 32, tea planter; wife Annie Elizabeth KNOX, age 30; son, age 1 1/2 (name not posted as we might still be alive). Going to: Lissadell, Grangerville Gardens, Finaghy, Belfast.

28 June 1937 "Amarapoora" arrived London from Rangoon: Leslie Steven KNOX, 32, tea planter; Annie Elizabeth KNOX, 31; son (same as above), 1 11/12. Going to same Belfast address.

21 Mar.1946 "Mantola" arrived Bristol, England from Bombay, India: Leslie Steven KNOX, 41, tea planter; Annie Elizabeth KNOX, 39; son, 10 (same as above); daughter, 6. Going to 1 Lynda Park, Jordanstown, Co. Antrim, N. Ireland. Not sure where this address is- I know Lynda Ave. in Jordanstown (will be there tomorrow) but not sure about a Lynda Park.


Can I ask you to do me a very big favour - can you see if there is any record of a Thomas Witherow Knox (born about 1897) leaving Ireland for Canada? He very probably left from Liverpool rather than direct. It would have been after 1918 as I know he served in the war. There is an odd aunt I recall, but not who she was married to. Many thanks.

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Sligo / Re: Rev. Hugh Montgomery Knox & Family (Sligo)
« on: Friday 16 December 11 11:32 GMT (UK)  »
My mother gives her address as "Jordanstown" in her Marriage Certificate (1946), so it is likely he was going to stay with her.

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Sligo / Re: Rev. Hugh Montgomery Knox & Family (Sligo)
« on: Thursday 15 December 11 20:28 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: shanew147 on Tuesday 23 March 10 18:42 GMT (UK)
found details of the marriage for Jocelyn in Dublin...  but cannot find any children born in Ireland to the couple (up to 1958).

as the marriage relates to possibly living people, I will not go into details here. Let me know if you would like to know more and I'll pm you..



Shane

That may be because both Jocelyn and Leslie spend some time out of Ireland and the UK - I recall my late mother saying one (cannot remember which) was for a time a tea planter in India while the other (and possibly both) spent some years in Canada. Both Leslie and Jocelyn had returned to Northern Ireland by 1952, where they died in the 1950s.

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