Help on reading a surname

[Topham26]

Hi,

Here is yet another spelling riddle to solve (I hope)  This is on Census HO 107 2383.  Grandchildren of Roger Robson and Eleanor Robson nee Turpin.  They have a strange looking surname  It looks like Korax

Ann

[PrueM]

Hi Ann 

Looking at a larger version I think the surname is Knox 

Cheers
Prue

[Topham26]

Hello Prue,

Thanks for the reply.

Yes, it could be Knox   I have had no joy searching for what the enumerator transcribed.  I will now try searching for "Knox" in Newcastle and see what this line turns up for me.

Ann

[LizzieW]

Looking at a larger version I think the surname is Knox

I agree

[Topham26]

Hi Lizzie,

Thanks for the reply   I have just had a quick look on a******y, there are loads of Knox generations born in Newcastle.  This looks like my next search.

Ann

[nickgc]

This should be pretty straightforward.  Look at the 1881 census for Roger Knox in Arkengarthdale, York, England.  The age is about right for your young Roger in 1851, AND he has a son called "Roger Robson Knox".  Dead on I'd say, that his mother was a daughter of the 1851 grandparents who had married a Knox.  A quick search didn't find such a marriage in FreeBMD.

Nick

[Topham26]

Hi Nick,

Thanks for the reply and information.  As far as I know Roger & Eleanor 1851 Census had 2  daughters, Esther born abt 1817 and Mary abt 1819.  Both born at Newcastle. 

I have looked at the 1881 census that you gave me, and it does all appear to add up.  Though I can't find the mother of Roger Knox   The Robson Knox sells it for me as Robson is attached to most of us  Robson Topham, Robson Sneaton etc

As a long shot whilst searching for Esther, I  looked at a Cencus for 1841 in Corbridge HO 107/838/4.  This cencus has an Ester Knox 20 yrs , Robert Knox 25 yrs ( they have both a Roger 5yrs and Eleanor 4 mnths   ages very similar to the 1851 census.

Incidently, there is a William Robson Knox born in Stockton-on-Tees in 1850.

Ann